Friday, June 23, 2017

BSNYC Friday No Quiz!

This morning, your instructor had to attend to some urgent bicycle-related business:


Therefore, consider this a reprieve from the punishing weekly testing schedule to which you are ordinarily subjected.

However, there's always more me over at the Bike Forecast, and I would be remiss if I did not send you off into the weekend without homework, so here's some assigned reading in the form of my most recent essay for Reclaim:


Please prepare a 1,500 word critical response for Monday and submit it via my online portal here.

And finally, here are some Dutch people exuding a smug sense of superiority which is entirely warranted:


With that, class is hereby dismissed.

See you next week!

Ride safe,


--Wildcat Rock Machine


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29 comments:

  1. JoeJune 23, 2017 at 1:50 PM

    Podium!

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  2. AnonymousJune 23, 2017 at 1:51 PM

    Podium!

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  3. cdinvbJune 23, 2017 at 1:51 PM

    Too late in the day for me. I'm taking the rest off. After I step outside. Mr Musk might fire a rocket.

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  4. Serial RetrogrouchJune 23, 2017 at 2:02 PM

    NO pod

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  5. Serial RetrogrouchJune 23, 2017 at 2:03 PM

    ...do I have to type-write my response to your essay? and... does my name go on the top-right corner or top-left corner of the page?

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  6. Serial RetrogrouchJune 23, 2017 at 2:04 PM

    ...Here's a quick response for now: you should feel a smug sense of superiority, which is completely warranted, about your insightful essay.

    ...golf clap!

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  7. BikeSnobNYCJune 23, 2017 at 2:04 PM

    Serial Retrogrouch,

    #whatmarginyourunning?

    --Wildcat Rock Machine

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  8. AnonymousJune 23, 2017 at 2:05 PM

    Top 10nd

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  9. Paul BunionJune 23, 2017 at 2:09 PM

    "had to attend to some urgent bicycle-related business"

    Nice work with the chain saw.

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  10. dancesonpedalsJune 23, 2017 at 2:16 PM

    Tenth...possibly an omen for the sleepy hollow tri Sunday (usually only 6 in my age group)

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  11. recumbent conspiracy theoristJune 23, 2017 at 2:43 PM

    If there was a quiz I'm sure it woulda been just a bunch of shitty questions.

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  12. GreySpokeJune 23, 2017 at 2:59 PM

    Wow, a subway car that carries up to five people at a time.
    Now that’s progress.

    Love it!

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  13. McFlyJune 23, 2017 at 3:04 PM

    I want to make a Uranus joke but it's been played.

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  14. We Are DoomedJune 23, 2017 at 3:43 PM

    "And all that stuff on the other side of the windshield? It’s a potholed wasteland, a mess that has to be made great, and which must always accommodate our wheeled Americas."

    A lot of people are pretty cynical about the potholed wasteland being improved much by any infrastucture plan, which in the short term would turn Ameri-car into a construction zone/ still-mostly-potholed wasteland.

    So SUV sales are way up to smooth out the ride. But they increase the wear and tear on the infrastructure.

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  15. They Call Me The Bike Rider of FreedomJune 23, 2017 at 4:20 PM

    It's still tough out there for the lowly cyclist, but times they are a changin'. In the past twenty years, bikes have gone from a toy for kids and a fixation of weird eurocentric people, to a viable means of transportation. The car culture as we know it is non sustainable and therefore doomed. We will eventually triumph.

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  16. leroyJune 23, 2017 at 4:37 PM

    My dog insists that I ask if spelling conts.

    Ryed sayf awl.

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  17. Lieutenant ObliviousJune 23, 2017 at 4:55 PM

    Read it late and still top twenty? Vision zero means zero pedestrians and cyclists on the streets so cars can't kill!

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  18. M. smithii infused JLRBJune 23, 2017 at 5:18 PM

    Saving the essay for later reading.

    Quitting Time!

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  19. Hee Haw the Barista's uncle BarneyJune 23, 2017 at 7:19 PM

    Slacker.

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  20. Olle NilssonJune 23, 2017 at 9:01 PM

    Blogged shitless.

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  21. SchistheadJune 24, 2017 at 12:15 PM

    I have no extensive dissertation on your essay, although I would like to point out that if you could somehow superimpose that Dylan Superbowl commercial over it, I feel that would be the ultimate contemporary post-truth mixed media composition. And it would even fit in most people's attention spans!

    Liked it. Not as much as they Dylan commercial.
    But only because it was too serious to be quite as much fun as that.

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  22. AnonymousJune 24, 2017 at 5:05 PM

    That article Snobby composed: absolutely dead on right.

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  23. AnonymousJune 24, 2017 at 5:21 PM

    Anyone have a guess if the Putnam Trail will have dried out enough from early Saturday's rain to be able to get around the muddy spots late Sunday morning?

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  24. wishiwasmerckxJune 25, 2017 at 1:02 AM

    Nice Natural Born Killers reference by the Dutchman.

    That is actually a profound observation:

    They are as comfortable on a bike as we are with a gun...

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  25. ClemensJune 25, 2017 at 8:52 AM

    Essay is on point, but it requires a reading level way above the capabilities of the knucklehead drivers. Dumb down the hifalutin literary stylings and hit 'em over the head with plain language.

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  26. BamaPhredJune 25, 2017 at 8:16 PM

    Is the Giro over yet? Asking for a friend.

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  27. Wyatt's GhostJune 26, 2017 at 9:39 AM

    I went looking for America and couldn't find it. But then, I was on a motorcycle.

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  28. JLRBJune 26, 2017 at 1:18 PM

    My essay response is a song "In Cars". Enjoy the eat worm

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  29. UnknownJune 30, 2017 at 4:42 AM

    Woa, This is so cool. I want to have one.
    - twitter search

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