I'm pleased to announce I've teamed up with/infiltrated/been abducted by the smugness mafia over at Transportation Alternatives, and together we're bringing you a new site called...
Here's the email that went out this morning:
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Dear Wildcat Rock Machine,
I am Eben Weiss, a.k.a Bike Snob NYC.
Since 2007, I've been publishing the BikeSnobNYC blog, my lovingly sarcastic take on the cycling world. Now, with Transportation Alternatives, I'm embarking on a new project:
Drivers and straphangers can always find local media reports on traffic jams and transit delays. But what if you ride a bike?
Bike Snob’s Forecast is your answer -- a daily digest for #BikeNYC. Every morning, I’ll update you on the weather and provide you with all the information you need to ride your bike that day.
Citi Bike down? Snow in the bike lane? NYPD ticket blitz? Before you drag your bike out of the house, check out Bike Snob’s Forecast.
Besides the weather, I’ll keep you up to date on the cycling zeitgeist with news from New York and beyond -- whether it's London's £770m investment in cycling initiatives or the xenophobic community board member blocking a new bike lane in Queens.
And periodically, I will share longer features on cycling in New York City -- from ride guides to in-depth mockery -- to remind you of the many ways in which this great city is best experienced by bike.
Bike Snob’s Forecast is a resource built exclusively for New York City and people who ride bikes here. Check it out, and let me know what you think at bikesnob@transalt.org.
Eben Weiss
Bike Snob NYC (and TransAlt's newest blogger)
P.S. Excited about Bike Snob’s Forecast? You can help support this project with a tax-deductible donation to Transportation Alternatives. Donate now to support Bike Snob’s Forecast.
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I'm looking forward to this for many reasons, not least of which because it gives me a great excuse to get out on the bike and ride around the city.
Jimmy Breslin is rolling in his grave.
Anyway, the Bike Forecast will be updated daily, if you need me this week that's where I'll be.
I love you,
--Wildcat Rock Machine
PS: No, don't worry, this blog isn't going away. It's like the chewing gum in your spokes: impossible to get out.
90 comments:
First! Good morning everyone.
Nothing like waking up way late and checking to see if the Snob posted on a Monday morning and to find that he has!
NH keeping Ted off the podium...
Ok, I'll stop now.
Crap, now is this page abandoned to the weather forecast?
224. The people who rise to positions of power in leftist movements tend to be leftists of the most power- hungry type, because power-hungry people are those who strive hardest to get into positions of power. Once the power-hungry types have captured control of the movement, there are many leftists of a gentler breed who inwardly disapprove of many of the actions of the leaders, but cannot bring themselves to oppose them. They NEED their faith in the movement, and because they cannot give up this faith they go along with the leaders. True, SOME leftists do have the guts to oppose the totalitarian tendencies that emerge, but they generally lose, because the power-hungry types are better organized, are more ruthless and Machiavellian and have taken care to build themselves a strong power base.
Cool - congrats on the new venture! Before you know it, you will be THE bicycle authority in the whole of the USA
I hope you get enough $$ to do your reporting by helicopter. All good traffic reports are done this way. Often wonder who's listening and watching these since the jams are always present.
Will there be hats?
Wish you success with the new column. Maybe I'll read your forecast to see if any storms are coming my way. It's got to be better than that other forecast source that gives names to all the rain clouds.
Gum in the spokes! Ugh! That is the worst...
Weather and traffic reports, bike lane updates, NYPD ticket blitz warnings plus...shrimp news!
"I hope you get enough $$ to do your reporting by helicopter. "
So long as it is a
pedal powered Helicopter, I'm up with it.
Top 24rd!
vsk said ...
The Snob Report.
Helicopters are cliche, everyone's using drones now!
vsk
Awesome Snob --- love the new reporter beat on the street!
I read that NY Governor Cuomo just kicked off a $1,800,000,000 project to build and improve freeways in the South Bronx. Motivations for the project include: facilitating automobile access to a small public park for Bronx residents, and to reduce the pollution from all the trucks which visit a nearby produce market each day. The news story indicated that local residents suffer from a disproportionate amount of respiratory diseases caused by the truck traffic.
All of that is going to be solved by a new freeway. And funded via high taxes.
Dear Snob,
How are you possibly going to be able to find the time to continue your blog with your new forecrasting, Brooks schmoozing, numerous book signings at every bike venue, oh and as if I could forget, your 17 feral children running amucked? Sounds like an order in the tallest of realms.
Yours,
The original "Venge/Schmenge" owner
Another Monday and another weekend of golf at Mar-a-Lago in the books. Not counting inauguration weekend, that's all but one. FORE! FORE! FORE! FORE! FORE! FORE! FORE!
Chazu-
I think the gov was talking about getting rid of an interstate spur:
Cuomo Plots Demise of the Bronx's Unloved Sheridan Expressway
how does donating to the Transportational Alternativings, get funneled to the BikeSnobbingForecasting(tm)? oh wait, i forgot, i am in atlanta, doesn't matter anyway. but still...?
I go look at the SnobCast, just out of not wanting to work, and I discover it goes back to January. So if you had a bad ride one day, now you can go back and blame the His Snobness.
Are you going to give a Portland, OR bike forecast also? We are Americas greatest cycling city with the best bike shops, the strongest racers and commuters, and the best cyclocross series in the world.
Who the hell cares about Noo Yawk? We come here for snarky comments, not the freakin' weather or bicycle traffic conditions in some huge city with far too many people. Straighten up Snobby or I'll quit paying to read your blog. Oh, wait...
The Donald actually believes the Gettysburg Address begins "Fore score and seven holes ago..."
I live in an open-carry state, but it was still quite the shock this morning to see the bike commuter with the pistol and holster prominently on display on his hip.
Bet aggressive motorists give him wide berth.
I still hate gun nuts, and kinda secretly hope he crashes and accidentally shoots himself in the buttocks in the process.
Respect is earned through good words, deeds and thoughts, and not at the point of a gun.
Anonymous Portlander at 1:54. Give it a break. Everyone is special. If you want a Portland bike forecast, start one of your own.
Captcha: "Select images with Bicycle". Easy Peasy.
Was Ted K's post about Hillary?
Just realized I forgot to say we also have the best handcrafted bikes, local eats, and microbrews.
Sorry Snob, but Trump's budget cuts will compromise your forecast.
http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2017/03/how-would-trump-administrations.html?m=1
I hope the new site is just as cynical.
micro bruise
Wow, for the first time ever I kinda wish I lived in NYC. Loving the SnobCast!
So wait, does "Dear WCRM," refer to the collective "we"? Or just the NYC "we". I always thought of it as the singular BSNYC, but the bloggular machine requires readership. Or did you write yourself a letter? Or maybe it was just poorly proofread.
Sincerely,
Bieks
Lesser Rock Machine
Amehrica's Unswept Carcap
I'll have to check that out
Congratulations on the new gig!
Can you take you forecasts to video? Maybe you could just write the copy and have it read by someone that has physical attributes that me and Mario C. could appreciate?
BTW, I announcing right now, in this blog, the release of my new bottom bracket standard - BB404. The axle is elliptical in cross section with a maximum dimension of 34mm which is phased with the highest torque point in the pedalling cycle (for maXxX stiffness!). The design also incorporates press fit design for manufacturers' needs for ease of assembly. The novel use of a polymer material called, styrofoam is unique in its sonic attributes. Once the newstandard takes hold I think we'll be seeing a lot more bike sales.
I think we'd rather have a blonde weather babe in a tight sweater. At least you won't be Al Roker. I guess that's a good thing.
Is this new enterprise going to be co-authored by Carlos Danger on the same laptop his estranged wife shared with him?
Anonymous at 2:48 PM
We also have the best loss of affordable living, the best unfriendly bike scene, the best stagnant, smug, still-crappy cycling infrastructure, the best IT/Nike/Adidas douchebags funding the handmade bike/pointless microbrew/ridiculous coffee culture.
Yes, we're the best!
To comment on the new blogging venture, you need to log in. What's up with that?
I'm a long way from NYC; maybe it doesn't matter. But on principle, I hate log in only comment sections.
So is today the official rollout of the BikeSnobNY forecast? Were the forecasts for January 18 through March 17 like a Beta test for select focus groups? I didn't get to be one of those. Brooks Cambium C17 testers either. Maybe you could get a helper monkey to curate comments relevant to the day's NYC cycling on the forecast.
I hear that the default bikesnob forecast is "you suck".
Will BSNYC team up with Nate Silver and the New York Times to publish some flashy bicycle traffic infographics?
"To comment on the new blogging venture, you need to log in. What's up with that?
Have you read the comments on this blog?
You forgot to mention "America's Whitest City"
For those with little or no capacity for respect a solid dose of fear is the best we can hope for
Anon 2:01 the NYC in BSNYC means New York City? What the fa...all this time I thought it meant No Yucky Cars!
Well this explains why my dog asked me for a copy of my curriculum vitae to append to a foreign correspondent application.
Jokes on him though.
He's been telling me I'm not going anywhere for years.
I'm not gonna start now.
I'm so confused...
Are you gonna forecast the podiums of the spring classics on the new site?
This blog isn't going away...it just stepped out to buy a pack of cigarettes
I sure hope at some point in the weather blog, you work in the "chili today, hot tamale" joke. That shit's a classic!
Also, I assume that your reports include forecasted scranuler conditions? That would be wicked useful when trying to decide which diaper pad to wear.
Heh. Yep, that shit's a classic, and it's a classic shit, too.
oops
Thought this was a blog
It feels like Snob invited us to meet his "other" family. Now it's time to accept that those are the good kids and we're the misfits.
It's like third grade all over again.
If we're the misfits, then I'm gonna' go over to that other place and punch those nerds right in the scranus!
A blog, A detergent & A Mouthwash
Tonight's forecast is dark....with scattered light towards dawn
vsk said ...
So, no podium race today?
Time to flip the bars upright and hang out someplace for a little while and lament "progress" .
They paved Snobby's paradise and put up a log in blog.
vsk
Looks like WRM is busy with Transportation Alternatives. We miss him!
And so he walked out of our lives forever...
Scranus.
"Heh. Yep, that shit's a classic, and it's a classic shit, too."
Wilbur Mills to The Argentine Firecracker: Let me attach some amendments to those large appropriations of yours.
Fannie Fox, aka The Argentine Firecracker: Caramba Wilbur!
What, is this some kind of joke?
What is this, some kind of joke?
...JLRB, was thinking the same thing just now... we're 10 days away from April 01... sheesh.
And in the dead of night the Titanic slipped under the waves.
I'm so deflated by this news.
I wouldn't belong to a blog that would have me log in.
So Ted will have to log in, seems like poetic justice.
I wanted to holler "mechanical", but I'm really just having trouble keepin' up.
Babble declares herself chaste for 24 hours as a form of moaning, err, I mean, mourning.
I'm going through Cipollini withdrawal.
No regrets!
Left us without so much as a quiz, the indignity.
Can' t wait until he forecasts Gowanus Canal Water as being the Elixir of Life.
I refuse to log in, too much government surveillance these days.
Couldn't find the new site, could you just post the posts here too?
Does anybody else feel lost?
I don't like change.
I don't like change.
What a coincidence - I just pulled one out to the weatherwoman
I give no quater.
quarter
@anonymous 8:07 AM
Go to a Trump rally and look around. Or turn on Fox News.
That will pretty much expose the hypocrisy of Christianity.
Commenters: Whatever I am, he made me! I was adorable once, young and full of hope. And now look at me! I'm this short, fat, insecure, middle-aged THING!
Snob: I made you short?
Friends, Cyclists and Commenters, lend me your eyes; I come to delete the old blog, and to praise it; the joy that Snobbers do lives after him (even if he's not dead)...
I guess we'll have to call you Willard Snob from now on.congrats on your new venture at transportation alternatives.wifey and I,on the other hand,are moving to a southern state,and am going to change my name,accordingly.perhaps,when the next edition of the Gran Fondon't is scheduled, I'll attempt to attend.
Left us without so much as a quiz, has this society no shame? No wait, this society elected Donald Trump, so no, this society has no shame.
I did not realize you were blind
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