As a long-time Gothamist reader I was grateful for the opportunity to write this, and I'm uncharacteristically pleased with the results. Furthermore, as someone who's been writing about bikes on the Internet for 10 years now, believe me when I tell you that last week I typed up what I thought the comments on this post would be, mailed them to myself, and when I opened the envelope just now the contents matched the actual comments on the post word-for-word.
Helmet commentary that predictable.
[I should also point out that my oft-used intentional misspelling of helmet as "helment" indeed has its origins in a Gothamist post, so my blogging career has come full circle yet again, which would explain why I never feel like I'm getting anywhere.]
And now back to your regularly-scheduled hiatus. See you back here on Monday, January 23rd!
Ride safe,
--Wildcat Rock Machine
PS: Notice I didn't even mention once how the inauguration is tomorrow and we're all doomed.
Podioooooo!
ReplyDelete202. It would be hopeless for revolutionaries to try to attack the system without using SOME modern technology. If nothing else they must use the communications media to spread their message. But they should use modern technology for only ONE purpose: to attack the technological system.
ReplyDeleteHelment Schmelment!
ReplyDeleteAnd go fuck a dead dog, Ted K.
Top 5, nice.
ReplyDeleteAnd FTR, that pic of you has #smuglord written all over it.
whoo-hoo, already rode too!
ReplyDelete-illegitimate ken e.
Does your barber approve of that beard neckline?
ReplyDeleteI AM here....
ReplyDeleteNice, Wildcat.
ReplyDeleteI predict an increase in mortality, nothing to do with helments, as the US population gives up the will to live through the Trump Tranny. You poor sods...
ReplyDeleteHell, I do not care, T-1000
Vsk said...
ReplyDeleteI came here via Ms. Babble's twitter bird wings.
Vsk
My Lob, Ted got top 3. How many podiums has got his ass on to? Speaking of the ass. I can't help but wonder if the Donald gets the greatest hemorrhoids.
ReplyDeleteThey're YUuuuuuge!
DeleteButt the Richard Gere gerbil wore a helment.
ReplyDeleteTurd-teeth on the last day of Obama-dom!
ReplyDeleteTop Twenty, Trumpets! WTF, Ted. Don't you have anything better to do? Well, I guess you USED to.
ReplyDeleteTed K will want to know how long the dog has been dead.
ReplyDeleteTop twenty! I should retire now.
ReplyDeleteSunny days are ahead for all the citizens of the U.S.A.
ReplyDeleteThere is no sun in a nuclear winter. Um, and I thought Terd Was the DEad DoG.
ReplyDeletesnuck this one in,eh?
ReplyDeleteWe're not your crazy ex-girlfriend. You can't just show back up for a quick BJ and expect everything to be the same. OK.....just this once. BUT WE AIN'T GONNA SWAL.....
ReplyDeleteNice one on Gothamist, Snob.
ReplyDeleteComments predictable yes, but give them a gold star for highlighting "Alex's" comment in form of PSA that automobile drivers should be helmeted. (They do that in NASCAR, right?)
Speaking of helments ---- a True Story from the Streets of Brooklyn, circa last week: I got doored riding down Lexington in Bed Stuy. For those of you who know that street, it's one-way & fairly wide, so there was nobody more surprised than me to find myself at the receiving end of a box truck door, careening toward the pavement.
I hit my head. I was wearing my fucking styrofoam beanie. I was completely okay.
Now maybe I would have been completely okay hitting my head without the helmet. Can't (nor do I want to) re-run that experiment sans plastic hat.
I am glad I had it on.
ALSO: I do still plan to ride from time to time without the helmet.
AND: I pretty much agree with you all the way on this one, Snob.
Finally to the Fake Ted K --- what they said above. Go fuck a dead dog. Just stop flogging the dead horse.
It's still timely advice
DeleteWhoa, shit ton of comments on G., but there's only two, actually, used over and over. Personally, I'm putting on my Trumpnet today and I'm not taking it off for four years at least, so, yeah, I'm on the WHERE THE HELMNENT side of the argument for now.
ReplyDeleteWho is that in the picture? Do you have their permission to post such up close head shot? Oh wait the first of your 37 children is all grown up, I see now.
ReplyDeletemaybe ted k. is uh,uh...dj..oh never mind.
ReplyDeleteFAKE NEWS..that knit cap he's wearing is high modulus crabon fiber. Horizontally compliant for large egos.
ReplyDeleteDonald Trump gets the nuclear launch code today. Fuck me.
ReplyDeleteSo, by sunday, we all know the pass code will be "passcode".
CommieCanuck,
ReplyDeleteMy guess is 12345, a la "Spaceballs."
--Wildcat Rock Machine
Lob help us all!
ReplyDeleteNo!
ReplyDeleteIf I was handy with the hyperlinky I would. But I'm not so you'll have to google this if you think it's fake news.
United States patent number 1,294,863, filed Sept 4, 1918 entitled "Soldier's Headwear" says, on the text page, right column, lines 48-49 "the outer portion of the helment is comprised of a concavo-convex element."
Agent Orange @ 1050 "Sunny days are ahead for all the citizens of the U.S.A."
ReplyDelete1945, Berlin, the Thousand Year Reich was days from concluding it's 12 year run. Down in Hitler's Bunker Joseph Goebbels had this to say on the fate of the German People: "I don't pity them. I repeat, I don't pity them. The people called this upon themselves. We didn't force the people. They gave us a mandate. And now their paying for it."
"I'm not here..I just popped in"
ReplyDeleteThat's what one's wife usually says when she needs to get something out of the bathroom while you're on the crapper.
Johnnyflame 1:30 Yesterday
ReplyDeleteDid Martin Amis write that for you?
CC @ 11:37 The President gets to change the passcode to something it's easy for him to remember. In this case it could be Trump Tower, or Billion Dollar Loss, or Pussy, or Fake News, or Millions of Illegal Voters, or Vladimir, or (I could go on and on like this)...
ReplyDeleteGet a grip, people, the Chief Cheeto's password is MAGA
ReplyDeleteSnobby, what happened? You look happy, daresay positively radiant!
ReplyDeleteSnob, you vastly overestimate the IQ of world leaders.
ReplyDeleteMy guess is 12345, a la "Spaceballs."
ReplyDeleteWait, lemme try that, ...let me know if anything happens in the next 20 minutes.
Thanks for pushing back on the helmet freaks. American's have grown so soft. I support common sense - which, for me, translates into, don't ride above the level of what your head can absorb should you wipe out.
ReplyDeleteOk, protestor was gassed carrying a sign, "YUGE MISTAKE". That was funny (the sign, not the gas, I have concerns about a populist right-wing leader who wants to round up one ethnicity from house-to-house searches, and now uses gas).
ReplyDeleteWERE FCKD
Snobby, what happened? You look happy, daresay positively radiant!
ReplyDeleteYou been under a rock? America is Grate again.
Groundhog Day, I think even Joseph Goebbels said they're paying for it. We are the ones about which someone in the future will say their paying four it.
ReplyDeletespeaking of hitler & goebbels, the 'protesters' rampage today in DC was kind of Kristallnacht-ish. oh wait, those are the inclusive ones.
ReplyDeleteI would worry less about Trump pushing the nuclear button than one of the rogue stateless peoples.
ReplyDeleteWatching Dr Strangelove, again, trying to nap. Peter Sellers, his dysfunctional arm giving the salute, and Mein Furher I can walk always crack me up. Wondering who is Trumps' Dr Strangelove?
I survived the Cold War, living next to the Fulda Gap when Kennedy was assassinated, Vietnam, and all the other BS this country has dished out since then. I can't remember any of that helping me or you.
I think I'm gonna survive Trump too.
Yeah, I'm helmented. Its a habit I can't break. But I do wear a Snob hat under my healment. Keeps the chromedome from getting sunburned.
Carry on. It's always entertaining in here.
Scranus.
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ReplyDeleteactually bama i'm surprised that trump derangement syndrome is as light here as it is. it's worse here in snobbie's hemorrhoids and from the relatives in brooklyn, it appears to be getting hysterical as you nearer to the trumpeting towers.
frankly i'm thinking this is highly entertaining and will be crestfallen if it falls away in a day or two.
Wildcat is keeping all hush-hush about the Trumpster because he doesn't want to spill the beans that he's been appointed by His Prezidente to a newly-developed role as Director of Velocipedical Transportational Logistics in the department of Suburban Conveyance Relations And National Usage of Streets.
ReplyDeletewhat kind of speech was that that djt gave?
ReplyDeleteoh yeah,before I forget...snob,really nice article in the "gothamist".
ReplyDeletejohhnyflame=troll,
ReplyDeleteDon't think that just because someone thinks trump is a bloated pile of narcissistic turd that they support the democraps. I think that anybody who believes trump is looking out for them is a rube, just like those that bought Hillary's line of bullshit. "Snowflake" is played out and pithy. I know a lot of old punks who can see trump for what he is and used to fight the skinheads regularly. I don't think anybody would have called Joe Strummer a snowflake and walked away. Well, maybe if they were safely behind a keyboard.
By the way, I'm both repulsed and awed by Cipo. He seems like a tool, but I kind of wish I was him.
vsk said ...
ReplyDeletewhat kind of speech was that that djt gave?
- It was great, it was yuuuge, it was terrific, not overrated.
No one's going to be going around rounding up anyone.
But your papers expired 2 weeks ago ...
vsk
Are you seriously suggesting theRichard Gere gerbil incident never happened?!?!?!?!?!?!
ReplyDeleteAny of you been raped by a Mexican today?
ReplyDeleteHuh?
I thought not.
You've got Trump to thank for that one my friend.
Wow, You really are Inspector Gadget!
ReplyDeleteAnd now back to our regularly scheduled programming of dick pics, onanism, and Scranal unguents
ReplyDeleteJust when I was "losing hope", you "come back"... with "controversy to stir". Well done, Bike Snob.
ReplyDeleteNational network of protected bike lanes! Woo hoo! Yay infrastructure spending!
ReplyDeleteGreat man! Keep it up!
ReplyDeleteThat grinning mug of a picture of our Wildcat is not an expression of happiness but, like in a newborn baby, a sign of excessive gas.
ReplyDeleteWell I rode outdoors yesterday and today and was disappointed to see that all the bad roads haven't been fixed yet!
ReplyDeleteWhat ever happened to the Air Force vet who got the helment ticket? We need a where are they now follow up...
ReplyDeletei'm just anxious and excited to see what pearls snobbie has in store for us on the morrow. i guess i could finally click over and reed the column he is hawking.
ReplyDelete'course i know snobs will wait until i'm out at the grocery store before posting so there's no chance of garnering a jersey tomorrow.
Do we start feeding the crops Gatorade now?
ReplyDeleteBike jailed for 10 years?
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/adamjohnsonNYC/status/822525478116478977
Please post alt-facts about alt-facts to bring the circle to close
ReplyDeleteI am not here. I just pooped.
ReplyDeleteI should have worn a full downhill helment
ReplyDeleteI just wanted to pop in and say that I am here. I'm all atwitter with anticipation for Wildcat's triumphant return from the Mall parking lot.
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ReplyDeletesneaked out to the grocery store early to avoid rain-magedon and pleasantly surprised to find i actually have a prayer of losing the podi today.
ReplyDeleteprops to N/A on garnering the prized '69' comment slot
What does that jersey look like, I wonder?
ReplyDeleteOrwell,just another alternative day in Orangeman's alternative world.
ReplyDeleteWTF?....Were you giving us "alternative facts" when you said that you wouldn't be back here until today?......Do you have a position under our new fearless leader????
ReplyDeleteDick Pound.
ReplyDeleteGlad you're back wildcat...
ReplyDeleteI would have thought the Soofa was a solar-powered parts degreasing station if you hadn't told us.
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