Thursday, December 17, 2009

Naked Intent: What Lies Beneath

Of all the words in the English language, there are seven that you do not want to hear used together under any circumstances. No, I'm not referring to the words, "That wasn't chamois cream, that was mayonnaise." I'm referring to the phrase "Anne Hathaway Involved in Accident with Cyclist." Unfortunately, as I went about my morning routine of slathering the crotch of my bib shorts with Hellmann's and checking my email, those were just the words I read:

Fortunately, it appears as though nobody was seriously injured. Here's the cyclist appreciating his "tarck" bike, and here's Anne Hathaway like reflecting on how totally crazy that was:

Here's a closer look at the aftermath:

TMZ says that the cyclist was at fault, but accidents like this are seldom clear cut, and until the "nonplussed onlooker" weighs in we cannot know for sure. What is clear is that the cyclist has a penchant for purple and an aversion to foot retention. He was also "palping" a brake. While the impact was not sufficient to shatter either one of his Aerospokes, his u-lock was nonetheless ejected from the rear pocket of his girl pants and thrown clear. Hathaway, it should be noted, was not driving, and should be commended for immediately trying to administer some sort of celebrity-powered faith healing to the cyclist's left knee. However, Hathaway should also be rebuked for not wearing a helmet!

Perhaps the most telling piece of evidence is the car's broken passenger side mirror, which you will note is hanging limply like the ear of a Bassett Hound. TMZ says "the cyclist rammed into the car as it was turning," and the damage indicates a classic car-going-right, bike-going-straight scenario. This is a very common type of accident, and it usually happens in two ways: 1) the driver is turning right, and the cyclist, who is going straight and is an idiot, attempts to pass; or 2) the cyclist is going straight, and the driver, who is going right and is an idiot, attempts to pass and then cuts the cyclist off.

At this point, we do not know for sure who the idiot was, but either way it's hard to expect drivers and cyclists in Los Angeles to interact comfortably. On the spectrum of bike friendliness, cities like Copenhagen and Portland lie on the "very friendly" end, while Los Angeles lies more on the "hostile" end, just next to the surface of the planet Mercury. Consequently, drivers don't know how to share the road with cyclists, and cyclists are so marginalized they're not sure how to behave. It's an unfortunate situation, but rest assured the city of Los Angeles is planning to do something about it by increasing the number of white people there:

Yes, once Los Angeles can reduce the pesky racial diversity that somehow prevents them from being bike friendly, they can finally start developing a bikeway. From the sound of things, this whitewashing of the population should take about 20 years, though Mowery does not specify if this will involve importing more white people or else simply asking all the non-white people to leave.

Meanwhile, here in Brooklyn, the "Hipster vs. Hasidim" conflict continues to escalate (by "escalate" I mean "get more stupider") and this Sunday, the "hipster" hissy fit will officially move into its naked phase:

Whereas some activists fashion themselves after people like Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mohandas Gandhi, organizer Heather Loop works in the tradition of the segregationalists. Says she, "If you can't handle scantily clad women...live in a place where you can have our own sanctuary, like upstate." While this isn't quite the same as saying "Go back to where you came from," it's close, and with an attitude like that Loop will soon find herself being tapped by the city of Los Angeles to help implement the "final solution" to their cycling problem. Personally, I plan to forego the tempting opportunity to see Ms. Loop naked, but please do wake me for the cross burning.

Speaking of cycling and nudity, I recently visited Bonktown (I'm hoping to snag a Primal Wear Pink Floyd jersey at a deep discount) and noticed the following question:

Actually, I'm pretty sure that it is, since judging from these Kama Sutra temple carvings the ancient Indians clearly knew how to get aero:

Plus, they even practiced a variation of "Mongolian cyclocross:"

Obviously the "cyclocross remount" has been considerably refined over the centuries.

But passions aren't the only thing aflame at the moment in the world of cycling. In fact, commenter "Ant1" informs me that the Bianchi warehouse is in flames too:

I was relieved to read that nobody had been hurt, but was dismayed to learn that "some important inventory has been lost." If you've got a Bianchi road bike on order from your LBS you can expect a long wait, but in the meantime you will at least probably be able to pick up a cheap and "lightly-singed" Pista on Craigslist or eBay soon. Or, you could just buy this Lapierre road bike instead:





Racing bike - 2009 la pierre s-lite 300 - $1250 (Williamsburg)
Date: 2009-12-14, 3:24PM EST
Reply to: [deleted]

I recently bought a 2009 La Pierre S-Lite 300 to get make my midtown commute faster, but it turned out to be too small for me (52cm, I'm 6ft tall). I bought it through a friend's bike shop, and it was the last of its model so I didn't get to try it out.

Full ultegra components, mavic race wheels, fully carbon frame and fork, brand new eggbeater c's, etc etc.

If you don't know about La Pierre - check it out here: http://www.lapierrebikes.us/lapierre/road-bike/2009/S-LITE-300-FDJ-TRIPLE

I literally rode this bike twice. Never crashed, never gotten wet. The only wear is a little blue on the white saddle from where my jeans rubbed against it.

Bike wholesales for 1600, so this is a steal.

Price firm, cash only, local pickup only.

Frame : CARBON T3 HR DESIGN FRANCAISE DES JEUX
Fork : EASTON EC70 CARBON / ALLOY
Headset : ALUMINIUM INTEGRATED 1.1 / 8
Bottom Bracket : SHIMANO EXTERNAL BEARINGS
Crankset : SHIMANO ULTEGRA SL 30X39X52
Stem : RITCHEY PRO 31.8
Seatpost : RITCHEY PRO V2 27.2X300
Handlesbars : RITCHEY ROAD PRO 31.8
Front derailleur : SHIMANO ULTEGRA SL
Rear derailleur : SHIMANO ULTEGRA SL
Brakes : SHIMANO ULTEGRA SL
Shifters : SHIMANO ULTEGRA SL
Saddle : SELLE ITALIA XO SPECIAL EDITION WHITE
Wheel : MAVIC AKSIUM RACE BLACK M10
Sprocket : 10S SHIMANO CS-5600 12X25
Tires : HUTCHINSON EQUINOXE TS FDJ 700X23
Weight : 8.2 KG


I was amazed to read that the seller actually bought this carbon fiber road bike specifically to "make my midtown commute faster." While I've certainly been raced by other commuters while commuting myself, I always assumed that they were simply overzealous NĂ¼-Fred who had temporarily surrendered themselves to the new and novel excitement of riding a bicycle in traffic. It never occurred to me that this behavior was actually premeditated, or that they were equipping themselves to such an extravagant degree specifically for this purpose. Almost as amazing is the fact that a person six feet tall would honestly think he could ride a 52cm bicycle comfortably. I wish I had gotten to hear the conversation he had with his friend at the bike shop. I bet his friend told him the bike would be "flickable" in traffic.

But not all cyclists want to go fast, and if this describes you then you might prefer a "secret 3 speed" instead:




Looks like a Fixed Gear- But its a secret 3 Speed - Beautiful &Unique! - $475 (Upper West Side)
Date: 2009-12-15, 2:50PM EST
Reply to: [deleted]

The bike is called a Swobo Otis. Swobo is a very cool Santa Cruz, CA based bike company specializing in Urban Bikes. The bike has barely been ridden and I have the original bill of sale from A Bicyle Shop on west 22nd street. Brand new its value is $800, so this is a steal! Im movong to LA and would love to pass it off before I go. The bike is gorgeous and very unique. Like i said in the title it appears to be a fixed gear but it is actually a hub based 3 speed, which is super convenient to have at your disposal. Its light and fast and super sleek. Its a beautiful Matte Black all aluminum frame complete with a front mounted disc brake(looks super bad!), and a signature swobo saddle with a bottle opener built in underneath - need I say more... There are too many options to list, so check out the link - http://www.swobo.com/catalog/product_info_b.php?cPath=201_207 Your going to love this bike! Call or text me if your interested 818-749-[deleted].


Interestingly, the seller is moving to Los Angeles. I suppose this means the Great White Cyclist Migration has already begun.

125 comments:

Anonymous said...

first?

Anonymous said...

Po...podium?

bikramyoganj said...

2nd!

bikramyoganj said...

ok 3rd and 4th

sandcrab said...

4th?

Fierce Panties said...

There is only One Lone Wolf

mander said...

Mand1st

Adam Fajardo said...

top ten!

Anonymous said...

Top ten!

Anonymous said...

I'm still out of breath, (finger bangs all around)...the hipster that hit the Goddess' car looks like he's on his cell phone. "Hey, Mom, guess who I ran into?"

hillbilly said...

Bad Lawyer, way to go!!!!

and ant1, what can I say....nice! c'mon son!

Fierce Panties said...

Bad Lawyer,
I was on your wheel until some idiot cut me off with an indicator-free right hook.

Fuck LA

Fierce Panties said...

Ant1st,

Cracker Pu-leeze!

Fierce Panties said...

It look like a simple case of The Devil Wears Prada vs The Dumbass Wears Purple.

mlliu said...

"Secret 3 speed" sounds like the name of a band.

Regardless of whether or not L.A. needs more white people, it is already the land of the 3-hour bike commute for some people:

"The men who pedal the streets at daybreak with Francisco are invisible in so many ways. Some are here without permission and must hide from the official world. They are not noticed by the cars and buses that roar past, sometimes to tragic effect. They're not even seen by those of us who claim to love cycling. We'll pick out a sleek Italian racing bike from across an intersection, but a dozen day laborers on Huffys dissolve into the streets." --"Invisible Riders," Dan Koeppel

Pennsylvania workers compensation lawyer said...

The fashionista fixter, he had the whole package, anybody know what he fixed gear gallery entry number was.

Anonymous said...

Pale rider, pale (Bianchi) horse...

Fierce Panties said...

The only thing worse than the HAC, hipster asscrack, is the ASWWNH, antisemitic white waify naked hipster.

rezado said...

WHTE POWR
PINK PEDL
SHIT ONLA

rezado said...

The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire... we dont need no water let those fucking pistas burn!

Anonymous said...

A baby seal walked into a club

Anonymous said...

first time in top 10? 11?
JB

Anonymous said...

crap. I read the article first.
JB

Anonymous said...

Start wearing purple, wearing pourple!
ladadadada
Start wearing purple for me now
All your sanity and wits they will all vanish
I promise
It's just a matter of time

Unknown said...

26th!!!!

Bobby said...

Here's some background on the dude with the purple bike courtesy of Midnight Ridazz.com

Okay. So that's this dude Freddie. Been living car-free in LA and riding fixed since 2003. That's before MR or LAfixed or any of that before you all drop the H bomb. The purple bike and white aerospokes are the colors of his favorite soccer team. He's okay, but I havent talked with him directly cause his phone is missing. He's a super rad guy and a skilled rider so I'm guessing right-hook but I have no evidence of this.
He's also over 30 and XvX which is so fucking rare I feel the need to mention it.

g said...

OK... I'll ask, WTF is XvX? I don't feel too bad asking since it's so fucking rare, but still.

Fierce Panties said...

Thanks Bobby,
We were trying to track down that one white person in LA who rocks it car-free.

hillbilly said...

I really, really hate it when people start a paragraph with "Okay." I think it was snob who mentioned this as well one time, as if we were all beating down this guys fucking door for a comment.

hillbilly said...

g, that wasn't directed at you, your use of ok makes perfect sense, it was the midnight whateverthefucks guy

Disgruntl Ed. said...

XvX is about the 23rd chromosome. "He" is neither man nor woman, though more womanly than manly. "He" is something special.

Snob, you added a typo with "inportant."

Thanks for the rest. I love it when people literally do things such as ride their bicycles twice. I literally rode my bike to work this morning. It was amazing!

innerlighter said...

I believe "The Purple Hipster" is to blame for the accident with Miss Hathaway. A close inspection will reveal the mis-adjustment of his bars to the left of center. Although, this may have been done on the advice from his friend at a bike shop. "...makes the bike more flickable...", especially into traffic it would seem.
I certainly don't think it was caused by the impact, because clearly every fixter worth his salt (organic Himalayan Sea Salt if you live in Portland) only specs "bomber" parts on his whip.


meh

Strayhorn said...

Jeeze, I'm still laughing at the Mongolian cyclocross statue - the dude in back with his hands over his eyes looks like every spectator at a cyclocross event. Props to the ancient sculptor for anticipating this.

And as for the guy getting ready to get a Beej from the horse: Dude, they got big teeth . . .

Disgruntl Ed. said...

Or perhaps it means this:

XvX.

ant1 said...

ant1st!

Pontius Pilate said...

HAIL CSZR

My chariot flatted again today. That's two chariot flats in one Roman week. Dang it.

-P.P.

Astroluc (Find me on Tumblr and Instagram @Astroluc) said...

Can't believe I'm the one to get this after almost 40 comments...

the Aerospoke retains it's integrity

wishiwasmerckx said...

For years, I have been telling Bianchi that it needed to move it's warehouse from Telgate-Bergamo to Reggio di Calabria, or perhaps Campobasso, but they didn't listen. Now look. Who's listening now, huh?

wishiwasmerckx said...

Grammer scolds, can someone tell the Swobo owner that something cannot be "very unique?" It is either unique or it is not; the word neither requires nor tolerates embellishment.

esau bin necker said...

coperhagen lots of beer bikes babes burkas and blizzards of snow hot damm

Anonymous said...

Cyclocross Nationals Gear. Everything must go!

Bikepathlete said...

just try to catch me bitch! you will be owned!

g said...

Disgruntl Ed.,
Not sure which is worse.

Does anyone think the horse is really interested in being fingercuffed?

kale said...

Bobby:

Okay, so apparently in LA 'hipster' (via H-bomb) is a taboo word now? Don't get me wrong here, but isn't this the perfect example?

I'm a firm believer in the (non racist) use of the term 'let's call a spade a spade'. I mean, you don't hit a woman. Damn son!

Let me add, Anne Hathaway is a stand up chick. She's been riding shotgun for like 25 years or so and can do some dope shit if she wanted to.

Anonymous said...

All they need to do is make rain more and get colder, then all of L.A.'s minority issues will be solved

ant1 said...

woohoo! i finally got a submission into a post.

also, looking at the wiki XvX page:
"Not to be confused with Straightedge, the tool."

golden.

MINGUStheMECHANIC said...

In my three+ decades of riding I've only been cut off or threatened by white drivers.
In three decades I have never been cut off by an hispanic, jew,hispanic jew,african, african jew, african american, african jewish american, british african , French african , italian african, asian, african asian, indian, african indian, its always white people, so thats some bullshit.

CommieCanuck said...

We all know what's coming with Hathaway...that guy was actually a boyfriend, she's been sleeping with 13 other guys, she's been treated by a Canadian doctor under arrest by the FBI...She loses her Nike sponsorship, because Nike doesn't like to be associated with a philanderer or car crasher, just slave owners and child labor exploiters.

Unknown said...

how about a boobs ride?

Ian MacKaye said...

straightedge is soooo boring nowadays.

kale said...

Mingus,

I've noticed it's usually black towncars that try to hit me.

(joke)

Disgruntl Ed. said...

WIWM, that "very unique" fight is going to be epic, more epic even than the last epic burrito you ate.

Grammar?

How can I have missed that apostrophe?

Anonymous said...

Mingus:

I wish I could say that -- do you live in some gentrified area or what?!

Not to sound racist or sexist, but the majority of drivers who have cut me off (deliberately or otherwise) have been Asian or Middle Eastern women.

To be fair, there have been a fair share of white business types in their German autos as well as white college girls on the phone.

CommieCanuck said...

mingus...I concur.

Although I was once side-swiped by a one-eyed lesbian from Ethiopia with a lisp, who may have been jewish.

White guys are just so pent up with rage that we are riding on roads supported by their tax dollars, that's why they vote Republican, to cut taxes and make roads only usable of a fee-for-service basis.

Everyone else is just afraid of the white guys, especially the white guys on bikes.

God Shaped Hole said...

Dude should-a gone orange: http://tinyurl.com/yc7dbcq

rezado said...

Since 2003? How long is that in hipster years? XvX? So, he was sober enough to pink pedal his ass to his interior design job? He obviosly should have gotten the app that lets you find your lost two hundred dollar phone not the one that helps you find gay people

Anonymous said...

Whoa, check out this bike that was on the italian fixie site with the BOOB RIDE
GRANT PETERSON DOES NOT APPROVE

possibly vacuous said...

I have a crush on the purple bike. Don't care who says what.

Anonymous said...

I am a little worried the Opiniated Cyclist might try to hurt himself....

esau bin necker said...

i aint saying rikim never fucked a horse but i seen him once give a goat a foaming beef enema

ant1 said...

anon 2:35 - i'm afraid you're the only person worrying about that.

rural 14 said...

ant 2nd!
That's sad about Williamsburg. Henry Miller is rolling and laughing in his grave.

Unknown said...

of course the guy that bought the Lapierre will go slower on this bike, it's roughly 2-3 sizes too small. I'm surprised he didn't phuk his knees up from hitting himself in the face.....he needs to find a new LBS or burn the one down that sold him this....pathetic

Anonymous said...

As long as the OC doesn't put any more hookers in the back of his trunk, drive to a nearby lake, and drive the whole kitnkaboodle into it to drown everyone...

ervgopwr said...

Ms. Hathaway was in an indcident with a HOBO (TM), Hipster On Bicycle (Occaisionally). Since we know that manily they walk the machines.

It's an off-shoot of the distinction I created for collisions when the person is labeled a "cyclist".

Would a "cyclist" palp pink pedals? No a "cyclist" would rub some pink SpeedPlays.

Also some times these accidents happen to "Person on Bike" because the circumstances you know would never happen to a "cyclist", (salmoning especially).

A cyclist would say your ruining the race/commute for everyone.

So lets call a spade a spade and this hipster a HOBO.

ervgopwr said...

we can debate someones manilyness,

but I meant mainly

just sayin'

samh said...

Nice work, Ant1.

bikesgonewild said...

...hmmm...hathaway...hathaway...

...hey, wasn't she the chick on the beverly hillbillies...mr drysdale's secretary, i believe...

...lately, reality & the make-believe have been overlapping, so i'm not quite always sure who's who or what's what...

Unknown said...

I live in LA and used to be car-free until two cars crashed into me as I was waiting at a traffic light on Halloween and left me with a broken back and a cerebral bleed. Now I have an old Merc to shuffle my broken limbs around in. I guess the moral of the story is that I should have been palping a costume to avoid combustion. If I was one of the Portland minority majority I surely wouldn't have made this mistake. Bring on the migration.

leroy said...

Oh sure, a naked bike ride in Williamsburg on Sunday.

Honestly, this sounds like just another Bust Magazine hoax.

The weather forecast on Sunday predicts a chance of snow flurries.

A naked ride sounds loopy ro me.

Unless it's indoors on rollers. I read in Bicycling that a lot of folks do that to avoid having to do laundry.

Or maybe I'm just remembering a recent column about shirtless riders, headphones and vertical bar-ends. The author seemed certain you wouldn't see anything like that this time of year.

bikesgonewild said...

...quote from the bsnyc/rtms twitter thingy - "Awoke to a tremendous honor--I have been cited by the International Center for Bathroom Etiquette."...

...i always knew there was a lotta crap on this site but, damn...now you're being honored for it ???...

...hey, props, i guess...just sayin'...

Anonymous said...

BGW-->Anne Hathaway was Mrs. Will Shakespeare.

hillbilly said...

story gets even better, he was papparazzi. (palparazi)

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ii5VJ4Tik6MGB1CNmzuWoD2maWbwD9CL9F1O0

Whoami Whereami said...

I got a catapult to make my midtown commute faster. Now I just need to work on my "dismount" as I like to refer to it. I think the ambulance driver called it something else, but I was palping morphine-induced colorways at that moment.

chlomo said...

67th? I don't believe it!

sufferist said...

"inportant" is not a typo. If you have ever seen Martin Short in the Three Amigos, he explained it as follows,

Dusty: "What does that mean? Infamous?"
Ned: "Ah, Dusty! Infamous is when you're more than famous! This guy El Guapo is not just famous, he's IN-famous!"

reference link

So by the same reasoning, this person is so portant that he's inportant.

g said...

Okay. So that's this dude Freddie. Been living film-free in LA and shooting digital since 2003. That's before Sony or Canon or any of that before you all drop the D bomb. The 300mm lens and Canon D10 are the tools of his trade. He's okay, but I havent talked with him directly cause his camera phone is missing. He's a super rad guy and a skilled photographer so I'm guessing f-stop of about 6 but I have no evidence of this.
He's also over 30 and hermaphroditic which is so fucking rare I feel the need to mention it.

bikesgonewild said...

...wow, bad lawyer, good call...on both this & 'first?'...

...& doesn't she look remarkably good for her age ???...that's the entertainment field for ya...nip n' tuck...but damn, 400 years of it ???...

Unknown said...

I didn't know who Anne Hathaway was. I had to Google her, here's what I found: http://server5.uploadit.org/files/theDUD3-AnneHathaway.jpg SOme one with tits like that can surely get a free pass, right?

Jethro said...

So Miss Jane is allright, though?

Disgruntl Ed. said...

Would that be ductive reasoning, sufferist?

sufferist said...

I think it's non-ductive or a-ductive

Anonymous said...

Ann Hathaway couldn't have been at fault, her breasts are too big.

ant1 said...

i don't know about getting hit by hathaway, but i would definitely hit that. shit, if one could lead to the other, i'd take the hit.

Fierce Panties said...

Anthony S.
I googled you. Nice man-boobs.

Fred said...

I always assumed that they were simply overzealous NĂ¼-Fred

So the plural of Fred is Fred, in the same way there is no plural of "folk"?

I like it. Using the "australian plural" is very fred.

honkybucket said...

I kinda think the whole XvX may be shorthand for vegan & straightedge.

I'm both vegan & straightedge, by the way -- except I get drunk pretty much daily & eat a lot of fried chicken, cheeseburgers and sausages.

Anonymous said...

As a white guy living car-free in LA with dozens of car-free friends, many of whom also happen to be Caucasian, I couldn't help but be riled by some of the comments here.

Hipster has achieved the status of something like a racial epithet here over the past couple years, so careful how you drop that h-bomb with angelinos.

Finally, while I've been nearly killed by all races, creeds, ages and genders, it's only the middle-aged, affluent, white & black males who get out of their cars and attempt to assault me following traffic altercations and exchanges of words. After many near-misses in this vein, I had my nose broken by one after getting rear-ended on my bike just this past summer.

TRB said...

So I rode up Bedford tonight through the now in-famous battle zone (I usually avoid Bedford like a hipster avoids conformity, no wait...). I honestly don't see what all the stink is about. The city removed only one of the bike lane stripes; the one closer to the curb. The stripe closer to traffic remains, pushing traffic away from the parked cars. The bike lane, in others words, is effectively still there.

flynn said...

I would trade my Swobo Championship T shirt and socks (my 2 favorite articles of organic clothing) for a chance to get hit by Hathaway. What a tremendous babe

Anonymous said...

Anon 7:21 - you live with dozens of car-free friends? Is this some sort of post-liberal arts school commune? I'm also impressed that you know the social strata of your attackers.

TRB said...

Hey anon 7:21, ain't it tough being the 'man' these days?

CommieCanuck said...

ahhh..los three Amigos, best worst film ever made...

J"efe: I have put many beautiful pinatas in the storeroom, each of them filled with little suprises.
El Guapo: Many pinatas?
Jefe: Oh yes, many!
El Guapo: Would you say I have a plethora of pinatas?
Jefe: A what?
El Guapo: A *plethora*.
Jefe: Oh yes, you have a plethora.
El Guapo: Jefe, what is a plethora?
Jefe: Why, El Guapo?
El Guapo: Well, you told me I have a plethora. And I just would like to know if you know what a plethora is. I would not like to think that a person would tell someone he has a plethora, and then find out that that person has *no idea* what it means to have a plethora.
Jefe: Forgive me, El Guapo. I know that I, Jefe, do not have your superior intellect and education. But could it be that once again, you are angry at something else, and are looking to take it out on me? "

TheRubb said...

I think the AP fired all their fact-checkers, as did midnight ridazzz. The cyclist is not a paparazzo, I helped him get his phone back hours after the incident, and he currently palps a free-wheel single speed. Since I was not a witness, and most are dumbasses, i'll leave it to the parties involved to assign blame

Orestes Munn said...

Accident is covered by Rule 18.2 of the CRS (cycling rules of sailing): cyclist had inside overlap and rights at the corner.

Anonymous said...

Anon 7:21- sounds like you're just a pussy (which most hipsters are) who's never been in a fight with a stranger and doesn't know how to stick up for yourself. race is always going to be an issue in the us (insert college diversity class here) blah blah. get over yourself and LA.

you and your white bike friends (as you identify yourself openly) can only perceive these 'changes' because your privileges associated with your race are disappearing. you have to keep in mind that these things are not material, and as your favorite band's lyrics state:

I don't mean to seem like I
Care about material things,
Like a social status

Unknown said...

"Fierce Panties said...

Anthony S.
I googled you. Nice man-boobs."

Too bad I can't Google you Fierce Panties. Anonymous posters are pussies.

Anonymous said...

dah

ken e. said...

dumb!

Anonymous said...

Los Angeles Times is also reporting the FHG (Fixed-Gear Hipster) is also paparazzo. Though they are attributing AP, and AP is attributing the LA County Sheriff spokesperson. So who the hell knows what the truth is.
LA Times

Fierce Panties said...

It sounds like I owe you an apology. I haven't been called a "pussy" since like 7th grade.

I didn't really google you.

ken e. said...

be safe out there kids, it's everybody that's trying to run you down. everybody, and that cloud of idiocy.

FRZN TNGS
RNME DNAN
CRSS BRGN

Jaye said...

lol 'secret 3speed'

the bike dork said...

I got hit on the way to work the other day by a white male driving a black SUV in Santa Monica. I am sure glad that Ann was not there as I might now be be the laughing stock of you all. I am a total dork and even though my bike has a brake for both front and rear wheels, I am sure that my outfit that day was all wrong. In fact I know it was. When I asked the man who hit me what he was thinking about, he said "Sorry mate, I didn't see you.". (this being said with an englishish accent) So any how, had the pictures come out online, it would have sucked for me because you guys would hate me as I dress bad and have a bad bike. Don't hate me. I ride a lot. Every day to work. Lots of miles. Ouch it hurts just think of the thoughts...

PCLA said...

Actually West Hollywood is much more Homogeneous White than Los Angeles. Wait, what does homogeneous mean?

Anyway as a burrito lover I am against L.A. becoming all whited out.

Unknown said...

BSNYC, your blog rocks but, man, most of your commenters FAIL, especially Mr. Internet Tough Guy at December 17, 2009 9:58 PM

chlomo said...

Hm hm, pink car bike parking?
No need I allready have a pink car, Renault and Ford made it, mixing the Clio and the Taurus.... named the clitaurus. Even average male bike thief won't find it even if he was told where it was.

Chlomo said...

white homogenized creamy burrito

Fierce Panties said...

FAIL

paprzzi_palper said...

snob-

shame on you for misreporting facts about mrs. hathaways occurence.

clearly, "His road bike was a Viola 24-speed, authorities said."

tsk,tsk

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/12/pedalpowered-paparrazo-plows-into-car-carrying-anne-hathaway.html

Anonymous said...

must be palping an inthub 8 with one of dem schlumpf bottom brackets 3 (great name)

8x3=24 FTW

grog said...

Four-tooth chainring.
What a square!

Anonymous said...

that Rossin aero bike has its wheels on backwards.

homophonograph said...

RITE HOOK

Fun DMC said...

did anybody notice that the naked bike ride is on SATURDAY. everyone in south williamsburg will be PRAYING

(K) said...

Antagonize the opposition.
That's a great strategy for conflict resolution.

And perhaps the religious bike-lane haters will realize that bike lanes don't make lust happen, the beholder does.

Not that I'm anti-modesty, but really... if you want that protection, then perhaps an American city is not a great place to spend time in public places.

I may be offended by their attire and tonsorial practices, but hey... that's what you get if you live there.

said...

NOSM IDSY

Stop Smidsy said...

Preview... feh!

Anonymous said...

Manifixed Destiny.

BG said...

I'm still confused about the "secret" 3-speed. The pictures aren't clear enough to help. What gives?

Eric Lowe said...

It's just a 3-speed hub. Not very secret.

Nishant said...

Top ten!

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Philadelphia medical malpractice lawyer said...

A lack of foot retention was the egregious error, the car mirror not so much.

kanishk said...

.the hipster that hit the Goddess' car looks like he's on his cell phone

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