tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post1616265532839919557..comments2024-03-27T07:25:55.115-04:00Comments on Bike Snob NYC: BSNYC Friday No Quiz But One Of These Days I'm Gonna Drop One On You When You Least Expect ItBikeSnobNYChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11256142855437740163noreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-54249083168769963332017-10-24T14:27:50.644-04:002017-10-24T14:27:50.644-04:00The Pinkbike Brigade loves walking their DH/AM rig...The Pinkbike Brigade loves walking their DH/AM rigs up any moderate incline anyway. They should consider hiking as a more productive activity ... but you can't make sik "edits" ... wait. Maybe they can slide down washouts or power hike through rock gardens in slow-mo. Hmm maybe onto something here.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-31372076232963263882017-10-23T07:26:27.874-04:002017-10-23T07:26:27.874-04:00OK I rode a Sp*cialized Fuse and a Salsa Woodsmoke...OK I rode a Sp*cialized Fuse and a Salsa Woodsmoke in a Fatty Demo and I'll be damned if I don't have the 3.0 bug now. Both bikes had forks but our terrain here is considerably rough and I am considerably old. McFlynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-84458376585562536252017-10-22T22:53:49.447-04:002017-10-22T22:53:49.447-04:00Anon on October 20, 2017 at 4:43 PM said:
"D...Anon on October 20, 2017 at 4:43 PM said:<br /><br />"During my four years of secondary school (way back before seat belt laws)...."<br /><br />Seat belt laws, like mandatory bike helmet laws, brought to you by Australia!Persianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-20723720508724762852017-10-22T22:44:25.905-04:002017-10-22T22:44:25.905-04:00Dear WCRM, I've had totally the same journey.....Dear WCRM, I've had totally the same journey... I used to be indifferent to cars. I always thought having kids would make me like cars (or at least resign to them) but not so. Now I actively hate the fucking things. Having kids makes you realize just how much the auto industry has stolen from us. Our freedom, our independence, our community, and our kids right to get around safely. I feel like I'm actively abusing my kids by not moving away from the motorized shithole my city has become.hcdrnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-1141850258143633702017-10-22T16:17:03.841-04:002017-10-22T16:17:03.841-04:00I rode the beautiful Tour de Bronx along Jerome Av...I rode the beautiful Tour de Bronx along Jerome Avenue for a couple of blocks...in a golf cart, because I can; anyway, I was admiring the diversity of riders and their bikes when I noticed one participant having a mechanical issue. A dropped chain. I fixed it, greasing my hands in the process. My fingernails are dirty. At least my armpits are clean!Doothnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-44886295550977860772017-10-22T12:11:01.849-04:002017-10-22T12:11:01.849-04:00No Quiz = We don't need no education.No Quiz = We don't need no education.The Wallnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-76404603016723334122017-10-22T11:11:42.537-04:002017-10-22T11:11:42.537-04:00wishiwasmerckx… (6:56 PM, 10/20)
Those statistics ...wishiwasmerckx… (6:56 PM, 10/20)<br />Those statistics are startling. Something else to consider, which I just now looked up: 9,107 of the killed died in accidents. We can be sure some of those were vehicular.<br />--Anon 4:43<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-50476977858457838032017-10-21T20:39:38.871-04:002017-10-21T20:39:38.871-04:00Bike more. Car less
Oh and don't be a jerk.....Bike more. Car less<br /><br />Oh and don't be a jerk... Sad how that needs to be said (drivers, PB, etc...)Diefreenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-639719293009562492017-10-21T20:20:49.680-04:002017-10-21T20:20:49.680-04:00Wifey and I were at the walkway over the hudson on...Wifey and I were at the walkway over the hudson on grand opening day.been there many times thereafter.yep,they need to extend the trail into New paltz.eh, what's money?bad boy of the southnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-34901256113940319292017-10-21T17:46:53.466-04:002017-10-21T17:46:53.466-04:00Driving the other day (can't do everything via...Driving the other day (can't do everything via bike) I came upon a cyclist cycling down the road in front of me. Had to slow down for as many as 10 seconds to get around her. So now I can comprehend why drivers get so annoyed. TEN WHOLE SECONDS - SO OUTRAGEOUS. Road Rage Over Whatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-88794863351277339442017-10-21T13:28:34.177-04:002017-10-21T13:28:34.177-04:00She may have a point about Pinkbike. https://www.p...She may have a point about Pinkbike. https://www.pinkbike.com/forum/listcomments/?threadid=144719&pagenum=1456Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-44988030017022816512017-10-21T12:05:51.094-04:002017-10-21T12:05:51.094-04:00Outside bit two thumbs-up.
I had been stewing yes...Outside bit two thumbs-up.<br /><br />I had been stewing yesterday morning after receiving an email from the kid's school that they had organized a "trunk-or-treat" event since it's "safer than crossing the road." The lack of logic there falls squarely to the brainwashed argument and all the more sad to fall on the nation's biggest single pedestrian fest and sugar hoedown.<br /><br />While I want to address the school directly, like not yelling at the motorist, I'll bite my tongue and just organize a kid's ride on the next teacher-in-service half day. But, I will circulate the Outside piece among some (along with that video of Groningen).<br /><br />As for pinkbike: what kind of industry shills are they? Wouldn't they want me to buy both a rigid and squish bike? And I would too if I lived where the doped dogs roam-- along with a Yuba Spicey Curry Bosch just to try- if only money and storage space wasn't so limited in a tight expensive city. Sadly with my limited resources, it's just one beater urban utility bike and one rigid trail bike for me (and then the rest of the family's bikes and the one car the bank doesn't own because when you buy one used car every 10 years that mostly just sits there you can actually pay for it in cash.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-89812580255729894352017-10-21T11:49:30.431-04:002017-10-21T11:49:30.431-04:00Did Black Mountain in Pisgah on a razor scooter wi...Did Black Mountain in Pisgah on a razor scooter with 98mm wheels and no seat....<br />people with rigid bikes are pansies.<br /><br />Haters will say its photoshopped.<br /><br />~from teh webzAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05097364513073311436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-25624851179699415612017-10-21T11:48:27.650-04:002017-10-21T11:48:27.650-04:00Did Black Mountain in Pisgah on a razor scooter wi...Did Black Mountain in Pisgah on a razor scooter with 98mm wheels and no seat....<br />people with rigid bikes are pansies.<br /><br />Haters will say its photoshopped.<br /><br />~from the interwebsAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05097364513073311436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-36520627413128056522017-10-21T10:36:45.167-04:002017-10-21T10:36:45.167-04:00TIL:
There's a thing called pinkbike
and it&#...TIL:<br /><br />There's a thing called pinkbike<br />and it's a thing.<br />OMG<br />the bro,<br />wow.<br /><br />I wish I didn't L this.<br />not today<br />not ever<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-42384152133379031732017-10-21T10:26:29.269-04:002017-10-21T10:26:29.269-04:00Love the essay. I commute every day by train to a ...Love the essay. I commute every day by train to a big military installation. Most other people commute there by single-driver, no-passenger car. The pain they put themselves through to find parking is unreal. They complain non-stop about a problem of their own making. It's just sad to see the tragedy of the commons played out in front me in real time.bobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-52036763985481878952017-10-21T09:37:01.896-04:002017-10-21T09:37:01.896-04:00Dear Erastus Corning:
I am not a bike blogger of ...Dear Erastus Corning:<br /><br />I am not a bike blogger of any sort but I dearly love the Walkway Over the Hudson, which I have used many times to ride between Poughkeepsie and New Paltz in order to visit a nephew at SUNY there. I await the extension of the trail west from where it ends now at Tony Williams park. My only suggestion for improvement would be convert the trail from asphalt to crushed gravel (like a Har-tru tennis court).paulbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00749683546064280367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-83690327607762992532017-10-21T06:14:55.194-04:002017-10-21T06:14:55.194-04:00Seems that you have as many fans as detractors ove...Seems that you have as many fans as detractors over at Pink Wank, Mr Snob. Man, that Vernon (who the fuck is he exactly???) is a squeaky little follow-the-corporate-status-quo weenie.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-68658625085890086652017-10-21T02:49:22.372-04:002017-10-21T02:49:22.372-04:00Standing on the corner of busy six-lane intersecti...Standing on the corner of busy six-lane intersection waiting for light to change to permit crossing, eyeing what lanes I need to watch out for... I arrive at truth on foot, on the bus, inside my apartment at midnight as the waves of auto noise roll past. A loud tailpipe shakes me from the inklings of a dream.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-51655471311396115732017-10-20T22:47:05.080-04:002017-10-20T22:47:05.080-04:00Really appreciated the clarity of the essay too, S...Really appreciated the clarity of the essay too, Snob. Thinking about Anonymous 4:23's comment, though, i don't believe the issue is a lack of understanding from motorists. They know cars are dangerous and they're pissed that because we're not driving one too they have to be careful. If only we would wrap ourselves up in metal everyone would be equal and everyone could get back to texting in peace, but oh no, this selfish cyclist has to pedal all vulnerable next to me... The example from the essay is perfect because of the driver's disdain: we're perverts to drivers like that. Questioning the supremacy of cars is like a crime against nature for them.<br /><br />But somehow riding stays fun even in the face of that... wild!der blaue Reiternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-75325610134158320012017-10-20T21:28:50.909-04:002017-10-20T21:28:50.909-04:00I agree completely, but in same day tit for tat ab...I agree completely, but in same day tit for tat about cyclist entitlement here in the US's frozen snow cone, here's fatuous comment from Vancouver (imagine that!) from someone who works for the Canadian Broadcorping Castration (OMG!): https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/vancouver-cyclists-are-reaching-peak-entitlement/article36680763/<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10781919473700259685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-81804128985262872682017-10-20T21:24:25.786-04:002017-10-20T21:24:25.786-04:00What kinda projectile can be used against a projec...What kinda projectile can be used against a projectile like a motor vehicle?bad boy of the southnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-6725717550757853722017-10-20T20:32:05.317-04:002017-10-20T20:32:05.317-04:00Leroy,enjoy the marshalling.or is that marshmallow...Leroy,enjoy the marshalling.or is that marshmallow?does your dog get to wear a safety cone hat while helping you?bad boy of the southnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-12503264673611365052017-10-20T20:26:02.504-04:002017-10-20T20:26:02.504-04:00WCRM,really good piece you've written inside o...WCRM,really good piece you've written inside outside.bad boy of the southnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-35514367574662917772017-10-20T19:38:08.692-04:002017-10-20T19:38:08.692-04:00Dear Anon @4:23 - Not eating cat shit is one of th...Dear Anon @4:23 - Not eating cat shit is one of the areas on which my dog and I agree.<br /><br />Ride safe all!<br /><br />(If you are near Fort Greene and the Navy Yard in Brooklyn in the next few weeks, stop by Red Lantern Bicycles at 345 Myrtle Ave. (between Carlton and Adelphi) for coffee or bikes and parts. It's a nice shop that, sadly, will be closing at the end of November. It seems the rent is just getting too high.)leroyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03489096287266831412noreply@blogger.com