Yes, May is National Bike Month, that puzzling time of year during which we're supposed to celebrate cycling even though motorists are trying to kill us just as assiduously as they do during the rest of the year. (I guess to them "Bike Month" means "run down cyclists" in the same way that "rabbit season" means "shoot at rabbits.") Also, the "mainstream media" likes to feign interest in cycling during Bike Month, which is why I'll be appearing on the NPR radio show "On Point" (or "On Pernt" in old-timey Brooklynese) this very morning at 11:00am (ET):
I honestly have no idea what we're talking about, but judging from my fellow guests and the fact that it's Bike Month I assume it will have something to do with cycling. Furthermore, the photos would indicate that we're going to focus on "fixies" and bicycles adorned with MetroCards. I must admit that I'm a bit nervous about appearing on this show--not because I'll be speaking live to literally dozens of people, but because one member of the "Twitteroni" says that the show's host, Tom Ashbrook, is a "total tool:"
Then again, I'm also a tool (inasmuch as a "douche bag" can be considered a kind of tool) so it could be an excellent fit. Hopefully I do not expunge my bag of douche completely in the course of this appearance and have at least some bloviation left in me for this evening's "Bike Culture Summit."
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Speaking of NPR, you may recall that yesterday I mentioned the quote "These fools be swerving, and they be doing their little texting thing," and then expressed a wish to hear it in song form. Well, it just so happens that one esteemed reader of this blog makes music under the name "The Abrahammer:"
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And I was ecstatic when he sent me his latest work, entitled "These Fools Be Swervin' (The Abrahammer Remix.)" I'm not exaggerating when I say that having played just a small role in this production is one of the high points of my blogging career. For best results, consume some "purple drank" and listen to it while staring at the mesmerizing visage of the Nonplussed Journalist:
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Now that is what I call "bike culture."
Speaking of so-called "bike culture," an essential part of it is slavering over handmade bicycles and getting really excited about things like lugs and welds. However, a new film called "Of Steel," featuring renowned builder Dario Pegoretti, is about to drop, and the preview indicates that looking at bikes is out and smelling them is in:
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And I was ecstatic when he sent me his latest work, entitled "These Fools Be Swervin' (The Abrahammer Remix.)" I'm not exaggerating when I say that having played just a small role in this production is one of the high points of my blogging career. For best results, consume some "purple drank" and listen to it while staring at the mesmerizing visage of the Nonplussed Journalist:
Now that is what I call "bike culture."
Speaking of so-called "bike culture," an essential part of it is slavering over handmade bicycles and getting really excited about things like lugs and welds. However, a new film called "Of Steel," featuring renowned builder Dario Pegoretti, is about to drop, and the preview indicates that looking at bikes is out and smelling them is in:
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Speaking of mystical properties, on Tuesday I mentioned the "Burrito Project," and at least some viewers of that video detected a religious undercurrent. Well, a reader has forwarded me another video by the same filmmaker in which the "spiritual" content is far more overt:
1 CORINTHIANS 9:22-23 from Jon Chou on Vimeo.
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140 comments:
pod?
second?
Just off the podium...I hope doping infractions will retroactively improve my placing though...
These Fools Be Swervin cost me the podium.
top ten... #3 second podium... what the hell is it so early for? ;)
Early post - thanks Snobby.
Oh my good gravy. Top ten
ich liebe Purpur trank
damn foiled again
Snob, you're not a douche. You're my adenoidal hero.
Steel is very real!
BL
worrying about what "place" you are in response to a bog is gay
I like the smell of steel early in the morning.
the early bird...
sooper early
Can you smell what Pegoretti is cookin'????
HAIL CSZR
-P.P.
Phone it in and you got street cred lower than the PistaDex.
WTF with the way early post....perhaps a multi today?
I stand by my tool assessment of Ashbrook, and if Snob is a douche bag, then Ashbrook is the plastic tampon applicator of NPR.
Damn, my DS and my soigneur failed to tell me about the early start time for today. When's the next rest day?
That's early!
It amazes me when christians, covered in their largess of materialism, pontificate about how in step with giving they are. He will walk away from that experience, never look back, and consider himself absolved in his "god's" eyes. Merchants, retailers, and stock brokers. Soul snatchers extraordinaire.
CRIS TFIX
RGHT WING
MORE MON!
You switched from "inasmuch" to "in as much." What gives?
why does everyone have to be so bizarre to ride a freakin' bike nowadays? And making the bicycle into some odd & frankly ugly contraption.
Is being high on god's love a form of doping? I like to think it is, for no reason other than it massages my own smug theist-teetotalitarianism.
In fact, I Propose to the UCI, here and now, a new theological passport taking into account minor fluctuations in divinity vales.
Good.
You're up.
Now get out and ride.
I saw God once on my bike, briefly....but the bike stayed upright, I didn't crash and die after all, and now I can't remember what He looked like.
Finished safely in the pack.
"he'll" Snob?
Shouldn't it be "He'll" when referring to God?
Nah,
It should be "he'll"
@Anon 10:40
Welcome to World 2.0 where being the same is all about looking as different as possible. The more outlandish your appearance, the more mediocre you really are. Think David Clinger.
Religious people are such self-congratulatory delusional assholes. Larry David says it best: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BDj7GIo6Yg
Holy crap! What is up with all the helmet nonsense the callers are spouting? They don't save lives. They lessen bumps on your head. The last part of your body you are likely to injure. Ease up folks.
I didn't realize NPR had programs other than Car Talk.
Helmets are not a nonsense. Helmets themselves obviously don't make you safe, but they are added insurance. You can pretty much lose any kind of limb or organ, but if you hit your head on concrete falling off a bike (the speed at which you are riding is pretty much irrelevant) the effects might be devastating or even fatal. So no matter how careful you are, why not get that added insurance? It might speak to the hubris (or lack of understanding of head injuries) of some cyclists that they feel like they don't need a helmet. As with any insurance, you're fine 99% of the time, but you will regret not having it when something happens.
EW is early because he's busy on NPR talking about bikes or some other nonsense. Or maybe his intern has taken over and is just more efficient.
What's with the post unrevealing name coverup? Is it a form of self-deprecation, thinking that those of us who read your blog, don't care enough to read news stories about the blog?
What's with the post unrevealing name coverup? Is it a form of self-deprecation, thinking that those of us who read your blog, don't care enough to read news stories about the blog?
I just listened to the show. Amazing how folks say that for a cyclist to be safe among cars they need to obey traffic laws, be polite... and wear a helmet. Good job, expecially explaining fixies.
PLZ SNOB
TWOA DAY?
You seem to demean people who ride recumbent bicycles. At least that's how it sounded on NPR this morning. You might consider that for some people that is the only kind of bike they are able to ride. My husband had disabilities associated with a stroke, and his recumbent bike was a great way for him to get around and be free. I thought 'snob' was just a clever blog name.....maybe not.
NPR? Ugh..wait, I get it.Your next show on NPR you are going to totally pull a Jonny Rotten and smash the smug bitches to next week. Give that jerk the ReSkin Salute for me haha...
Wow, a post at 6:28 Pacific Daylight Time! No west-coasters on the podium today. No matter hov dedicated you are to avoiding your real job by foffing off on this site, there is no way you are gonna catch a 6:28 a.m. posting.
WOW did i just find heaven or what?
thanks tom.
Giro d'Italia
can't wait.
wish i could post a picture of my track bike i just got. so sexy, stripped down in black.
guess what, i ride my bicycle with my golf clubs on my back to the golf course every day. 8 mile round trip in boulder. totally seamless bike path, not one light or car.
people snarl at me and literally stare with mean faces. what have i done to you†
pfuck you, if you say i am stupid to not wear a helmet. i came out of the hairnet era. mine was patent leather, though. still have it.
"Fixionary". I love it.
www.lifebyrich.blogspot.com
Speaking of smugness, today is the National Day of Prayer. Earlier people were blasting tepid praise music outside of my office as some sort of psychological.
Unfortunately, no one was doing an epic track-stand to Praise the Lord.
oops blew my load too soon and didn't complete my sentence. Meant to say psychological warfare.
The Dario Pegoretti quote "it's its own smell" succinctly illustrates the exception to the apostrophe rule.
back of the pack. i knew i should have used a reskin as i read the post today.
Anon @ May 6, 2010 12:20 PM
BSNYC addressed this issue ages ago. You should go to the archives and start reading from the beginning. If I recall, he expressed that recumbents are OK for folks that have medical issues. The rest are dorks. Recumbents seem to be popular with Boeing engineers.
Macadam!
I just ordered a steel road frame. Can I expect a new frame smell, like a new car smell? If I add non-steel components (like the seat), will I lose the steel smell?
I smell of remorse.
If on your journey, you should encounter God, God will have a brakeless fixie.
a recent altercation with a steel steertube reminded me how pleasant liquid wrench smells too. however, it leaves a bitter taste in the mouth (or maybe that was from licking the flea medicine off the cat).
worrying about what "place" you are in response to a bog is gay
Commenting about it is even gayer. On a scale, it's 10 milliEltons versus about 200 milliEltons, The Elton being the universal standardized measure of gayness. The most gay you can be is one Elton.
Pegoretti is just responding to the "steel is real" idiots by trying to actually come up with a reason why steel is any good for a bike frame. We all know the smell of steel, if we've ever had a gun barrel shoved up our nose for failing to pay a bookie. Aluminum? smells exactly like a Boeing 747's toilet. Crabon smells like pencils. We have to go by smell, as all three frame materials taste exactly like chicken.
First!
Praise the lord! I owe all my success to jebus... oh wait, what?
hate being late and having to solo to catch up.
-Anon 12:20 Throughout history people have mocked and ridiculed that which they do not understand.
This explains the Boeing engineer connection.
-And Tony, You've seen the pictures- with that epic beardway it's obvious God rides a recumbent. Probably that boy of his too.
Xyxax, which lasts longer, the new car smell, the new steel frame smell or the new wife smell?
hillbilly, don't feel bad, I'm getting yelled at by the team car.
mikeweb - enough with the chit chatting at the back of the peloton already. get those bottles to the front ASAP!
You've seen the pictures- with that epic beardway it's obvious God rides a recumbent.
or he drinks a lot of beer.
Besides, everyone knows god drives a Hummer with 22" spinners, good for trollin' da hood and Smitin'.
Steel... Smeeel ...I need to curate an epic buritto, to fix my monster Cinco d whatever hangover. Where are those hipsters when u need one? An another thing, what's with the early sprint today, I never blog post race before 2, especially after a Mexican holiday. Damn it!! Going back to sleep now...
Ok, sorry I'm done now. Thanks.
I HATE PEOPLE WHO WEAR BEANIES LIKE THAT
I love this blog and have been a reader for some time. With that being said, I've done the burrito project before and despite their religious affiliation or their mode of transportation, these guys are just trying help some people out. I didn't think anybody can hate on that, but I guess you can. I'm just glad the Bike Snob can admit he's a douche bag. Apparently a douche bag writer will attract douche bag readers (myself included). I guess everybody on this blog just needs more hugs "karate hands".
You cannot smell metal, instead; you are smelling the reactions of a persons body oils with metal.
http://www.bioedonline.org/news/news.cfm?art=2879
The only reason the recumbent is not the prevalent frame style, is that that those damn Frenchie Industrialists making the triangle frame, didn't like the fact that the 'bents were faster. They banned recumbents from racing in the Tour, thus killing any hope of widespread adoption. The same BS continues today, with silly rules about frame weight etc.
(The Industrialists then went on to make Citrons, and you know how popular they are in North America...)
Thanks Snobbie,
No more morning wood for me.
Now it's morning steel.
Love the smell.
ayhsmS
Henry Ford started to manufacture bicycles, stealing the design of the Frenchies. He couldn't be bothered coming up with a design of his own, because he had more sinister plans.
when life gives you citrons, make citroens.
Anon 2:10 --
I believe your views and Signore Pegoretti's are consistent.
Indeed, they both illustrate the axiom "He who smelt it dealt it."
WIWM,
until the first punch in the nose.
"citron"
citroen
Xyxax, is that you, Lawrence Taylor?
wiwm, take 2:
the new wife smell lasts...
meh today.
Snobbers, one of the funniest ever, many thanks. Fixiejeebus will be upset if he reads it, but once he gains wisdom he will know you were right.
...smells don't trickle, they waft...
...thus 'waft' is nonplussedly introduced into the daily cycling lexicon...
...just sayin'...
Yes, it's me.
Something smells like prison food.
Let us all join together in prayer now.
Hey Lord PSSSST! Can you hear me?
Lord I want you to provide for me, to gimme some money. I know it sounds kind of crazy but I'm a good white family kid, not the kind of guy who spends his days putting together Crunk tracks and sending them over the internets.
haha "old timey brooklynese" that's how my parents speak. I recently saw a post on craigslist looking for people who are fluent in "brooklynese" but can also speak properly. it seems they need interpreters for out of towners who have trouble understanding local folk. hahahahahahaaaaaaa.
"yaseedat! ma' day needs intoipitas tundastanges"
Doh!
And that Interweb thingy right in friggin'front of me, too...
No poly voo francis...
Damn Frenchie names, anyways...
(I guess to them "Bike Month" means "run down cyclists" in the same way that "rabbit season" means "shoot at rabbits.")
on point!
Abrahammer you are the SHIZZNIT!!!!
Pojum, again!
If a bike butt makes a smell and there's no one there to sniff it, does it still have anything to do with bean burritos? Seriously. I cannot ride until this issue is resolved.
"citron"
"citroen"
Ah, try "Citroën", perhaps?
What's the French word for Umlaut, and why's it hanging out over an "e", anyway?
My, my. Is there a full moon today, or something?
Sir Pedro-
I'm the resident hugger.
Come here..
michael b-
You sound smart.
I wish I could be more like you.
I'm guessing you've never been behind a recumbent while climbing a hill, though.
What's the French word for Umlaut, and why's it hanging out over an "e", anyway?
C'est une tréma.
It's to pronounce the "e" as in citro-enne.
It's also there to piss-off Americans in retaliation for bastardizing French all over the country with mispronunciation of Beloit, Detroit, and foyer.
Posted by a guy...-
MISSED YOU!!!!!!!!
I'm guessing you've never been behind a recumbent while climbing a hill, though.
It's hilarious when they fall over, like Arti Johnson in the yellow raincoat on the tricycle in the old "Laugh-in" show.
Recumbents, the U-Hauls of the cycling world.
Commie-
Laugh In. Love it!
It's a good day, after all.
...thanks, salty seattle...
bgw...what's judi's blog url? i can't find it anywhere on DC. love the jersey, btw.
Looks left, looks right...
Zips up jesrsey...and...100th!
Podium for a New Century?
To be clear: I was the punchee.
Anyway, the new wife smell is soon overpowered by the old husband smell, which is a combination of socks worn to bed and the sofa cushion in front of the teevee.
One ringy-dingy.
Sofa cushion suffused with beer farts!
as I said before. All these fixed gear wannabee's need to continue sucking giant cock like they did before they found fixed gear bikes
...http://milesandmadness.blogspot.com/ is judi's personal site & as you've prob'ly figured, she's now a part of the regular rotation @ drunkcyclist.com these days...
thanks bgw, and happy birthday. i hope i look that good and still ride when i reach your experience level.
One hundred and four comments, and only ONE gives props to the Abrahammer. A work of genius.
..."experience level"...nice...best euphemism appropriate to the situation...
CC:milliEltons
Fuck that metric crap. How much is that in American?
I listened to the NPR show and I really enjoyed your comments Bike Snob. I purchased your book.
-Adam
Uh oh, I'm stuttering.
...
...& i'm lookin' forward to having bsnyc/rtms sign my 'advance' copy of the good book...mwaha, don't ask...
..now i gotta get back to work...
...
...looking forward to having bsnyc/rtms sign my 'advance' copy of his book when he gets to sf...mwaha, don't ask...
...now, i gotta get back to work...
...
Miss ol' BGW.
You do know that he was actually communicating with extraterrestrials through morse code, when all we suspected was ellipsis abuse. I have long suspected that we do not hear from him anymore because he was abducted by aliens.
This comment board is lessened by his absence.
happy bday bgw!!!!!
dotdotdot, just sayin'...
WIWM-
Yes.
Happy Bday, BGW!
May we all be so lucky.
Wrun you wraskal wrabbits... wrun.
-B
I'll raise a glass to you at Peggys Cove bgw.
-B
Wow! Aliens and Morse Code! You guys are weird. Bikes Gone Wild. Glad that mystery is solved.
Snob,
God would not create a bicycle because he has already created one.
And If you have to sniff a frame at least you don't have to swish it around your mouth and swallow, roll your eyes, put your finger to your temple and say, Dario Pegoretti 2006... but with a fork hint of 2007.
-B
I wonder if jesus rocked a pista concept?
ant 2nd!
I want cake and candles but would that add to the crabon foot print of this site
All Your Heds Spin My Booty
that he gave his only begotten son
Kill the Wabbits
testing
I knew something was up with the Burrito project.You have some asian kids from U.C irvine LOAD up and DRIVE their fixies and unload their fixies only to cycle around handing out homemade mexican food to homeless white guys in Santa Ana.The irony of globalism is astonishing.Call me a douche but theres something fishy.Maybe its the religous motive?Maybe religion inadvertently enabled these people to be homeless because "god works in mysterious ways"and "god has a plan for all of us" and "only god can judge me". I know Im a cynical prick.But Im usually right.Dont judge me only god can do that.
Smell the steel,Wasnt that a Rob Halford album?
I thought Clinger was vastly more attrative with those face iguana tattoo things.
They drove from Irvine to Santa Ana? What a load. I have chronic fatigue so bad some days I cant even clip out of the pedals - and my ride is the same distance!!
Plus Im about 15 years older.
AND there are NO HILLS THERE.
But nice one feeding the homeless. Wish I had thought of that at that age.
Tell drivers not to run you down in May:
http://www.ShareTheDamnRoad.com
Sully-Maybe you are thinking of Spinal Tap's "Smell the Glove"??? An album which could be none more black.
"Fixed gear conversion"...Priceless
A bit late, but substituting the words "Fixie" or "Hipster" for "Religious" in "Religious people are such self-congratulatory delusional assholes" would also be pretty accurate.
Listened to the NPR interview...
... yep, Tom's a tool.
H
LAST! Where's today's post? It's past noon. You're getting lazy or something...
Jesus, Beezus!
Sweet post
There are Asians at UC Irvine?
Happy to share your blog1
great article!I like it very much!
Smell?I didn't smell
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i like the rainbow gif.
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