Micromobility aside, in cycling and in life it's important to have ambitions and to always keep moving forward and all that stuff, though it's just as important to remember that, fundamentally, you totally suck.
Pretty sure the Dalai Lama said that.
Friday, March 1, 2019
New Outside Column!
After reading the umpteenth tweet about how ordinary doofuses (doofi?) can't be trusted on bike share, scooters, etc. I went ahead and wrote a column about it:
Micromobility aside, in cycling and in life it's important to have ambitions and to always keep moving forward and all that stuff, though it's just as important to remember that, fundamentally, you totally suck.
Pretty sure the Dalai Lama said that.
Micromobility aside, in cycling and in life it's important to have ambitions and to always keep moving forward and all that stuff, though it's just as important to remember that, fundamentally, you totally suck.
Pretty sure the Dalai Lama said that.
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Huhuh
Podium?
Most excellent Outside column! Still amusing and informative after all these years and I'm sure I speak for at least 8 or 10 other readers.
No, no, no. The Dalai Lama said, “You should totally huck.”
Anyone know when and where that photo was taken? Looks a lot like an old photo of Mile 444 on the Natchez Trace Parkway. Or maybe it is Mile 0.
Big Robot told me to identify the traffic lights.
I believe falling off of a log ranks as easier than the bike and park things. Ironically it's also the activity where having a helment on makes the most sense.
Friday's Scranus has no Scranus
Weed. ;)
riding a bike is like a walk along a golf course. fore...
Not only are Freds doping, but now bridge players too. And there's testing too!
I'm sure there are very good reasons for having "not performance enhancing" drugs on the banned list, if only for the players' safety. I'm sure it includes cyanide, mercury, and lead.
Not sure what the reason is for a man taking both testosterone and a female fertility drug.
And were as the photo for your Outside column taken?
Snobby, as you well know, everything has become sooo serious, especially in the world of expensive kids' sports (think alpine skiing). I dodged being a ski racer parent because I couldn't afford it but also because I was loath to stand around a hill all day watching youngsters in head to toe expensive racing suits skid by me as I listened to some other parents talk about how little Franz was going to be the next biggest thing since, well, you know, older Franz.
"Safety" has become too serious, too, but that's another rant.
Keep up the good work, et Bon Weekend!
Last podium spot?
What happens when too many of us take our cycling too seriously is it fosters the delusion that other people couldn’t possibly do what we’re doing...
So - is this wrong? ...
I'm bicycling down the street. Some wanna-be macho man comes roaring past in his jacked up F350 Super-Duty Turbo Powerstroke Crew Cab Dually (or whatever), and I think to myself, "I could do what he's doing, but he probably couldn't do what I'm doing. In fact, my 90-year-old MOTHER could do what he's doing..."
Regarding E-scooters (which the Snob seems to be defending as enthusiastically as he condemns helmets - haha):
Us elite cyclists mistakenly feel that novices... couldn’t possibly handle traveling short distances on tiny scooters. Never mind the millions of toddlers who successfully do so every single day.
Most toddlers are propelling themselves at their own maximum velocity, NOT cruising on powered scooters at 15mph, weaving through pedestrians or motorists or cyclists, and with a Starbucks in one hand and a "smart phone" in the other hand.
I'm all for E-scooterers! Darwin will sort 'em out. (But I hope that I, or a loved one, doesn't become collateral damage.)
Laugh, I almost cried! So you think with a leader such as the Orange Sphincter that flowers shall bloom for the rest of your life? That has to be the new definition of optimist...
All summer to ride 2000 miles with a full compliment of feed and drink stations, masseurs and hotels and they call themselves athletes. As a student I ran out of cash so rode home well over 400 miles in three days powered by a few candy bars and bananas. Have bike, can travel anywhere.
Bikeboy,
You haven't seen my kid.
BTW the invocation of Darwinism with regard to tiny scooters is rather amusing.
(And if anything people riding scooters are at an evolutionary advantage, it's the drivers who are dying out.)
--Tan Tenovo
Great Outside Column, Mr Snob. Even though I'm a 70 year old retired lay-about, I still love to get in some "solid saddle time". It usually manifests itself as I'm chugging along in the bike lane on my Indy Fab. I see a person on a bike in front of me and all of a sudden the "Cat 6" in me comes to the surface. So I race ahead to catch this person on a bicycle and as I fly by I realize that I was racing a person on Lime Bike. I'm embarrassed and out of breath as the nice person on the Lime Bike smiles and waves at me. Well as the old saying goes, "Bicycles can be used for many purposes but you can never control who uses them."
Riding a bike on a Sunday morning is even double easy.
Your best Outside column yet,
Thanks Snob
If you want more people to visit golf courses, have a cyclocross race there.
More than 28,000 Americans died of synthetic opioid overdoses in 2017, the last year for which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides a report.
Eggcellent perspective! (Still catching up on back issues - now that they are half off)
Riding a bike is easy. Daily commutes through frozen rain and crazy headwinds in from upper Manhattan to midtown and back is less so. Plus it keeps the weight down and the cardio up...
Agreed...tech decided to make it easy for idiots to smoke and tweet at 15 MPH in the bike lane.
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