tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post5647034301052320011..comments2024-03-27T07:25:55.115-04:00Comments on Bike Snob NYC: On This Day In History, August 5th: Tullio Campagnolo Invents The Helment MirrorBikeSnobNYChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11256142855437740163noreply@blogger.comBlogger127125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-61298836319008525292013-08-08T23:51:48.656-04:002013-08-08T23:51:48.656-04:00Geared Fixieses!
http://www.biketinker.com/2011/pr...Geared Fixieses!<br />http://www.biketinker.com/2011/projects/s3x-in-the-woods/Bike Tinkerhttp://www.biketinker.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-41002378483066685222013-08-07T15:07:10.806-04:002013-08-07T15:07:10.806-04:00Catching up. Blondie's voice is like broken g...Catching up. Blondie's voice is like broken glass. Definitely the roommate.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-85958043888221980732013-08-07T09:17:59.249-04:002013-08-07T09:17:59.249-04:00I was very pleased to find this site. I wanted to ...I was very pleased to find this site. I wanted to thank you for this great post!! I am definitely enjoying every little bit of it and I have you bookmarked to check out new stuff you post. <a href="http://www.bradencoaching.com" rel="nofollow"> Stop Living Paycheck to Paycheck </a>Stop Living Paycheck to Paycheckhttp://www.bradencoaching.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-86721448217560184812013-08-06T13:32:52.163-04:002013-08-06T13:32:52.163-04:00I told you not to look at me!!!!!
Dennis Hopper
B...I told you not to look at me!!!!!<br /><br />Dennis Hopper<br />Blue VelvetJedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18429339033549581285noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-32245087024989374962013-08-06T12:39:11.755-04:002013-08-06T12:39:11.755-04:00Why are you people engaging with CJ? He's a d...Why are you people engaging with CJ? He's a dipshit who equates the ability to cut and paste with erudition. If we just ignore him, he will eventually get bored and go away. Please, people. Please!!!! <br /><br />150 edbyrgFreddy Murcksnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-46899310728168715472013-08-06T10:39:14.670-04:002013-08-06T10:39:14.670-04:00Anon 10:18, no, we do that after the good posts to...Anon 10:18, no, we do that after the good posts too.cehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506942063484875229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-13346866250499680092013-08-06T10:18:29.553-04:002013-08-06T10:18:29.553-04:00This is what happens when Snob's posts are sho...This is what happens when Snob's posts are shortish and not-too-good. Comments wander off into everyone's version of "look at me."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-72250858700672137852013-08-06T08:52:53.905-04:002013-08-06T08:52:53.905-04:00Nailed it?<a href="http://msnvideo.msn.com/?videoid=5e1e0c4b-e39e-1d85-f3f2-5cb7b4c0dbb8&channelindex=8&from=en-us_msnhpvidmod" rel="nofollow">Nailed it?</a>McFlynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-66221683936761459322013-08-06T08:52:34.490-04:002013-08-06T08:52:34.490-04:00Thanks for the restaurant idea, Leroy, and for the...Thanks for the restaurant idea, Leroy, and for the Hertzberg post. Has he really been associated with the magazine for that long? Yikes! On a NYer podcast last year he traced tension between NYPD and bike riders to Critical Mass activity during the GOP convention, 2004.<br /><br />I wonder if Dubinsky's grandchildren shook their heads whenever "crazy old grandpa" got on his bike. I bought an old Sandy-damaged open-frame Raleigh Sports a few months ago, and I don't think a better city bike has been made. Dubinsky and Kempton and Hertzberg got it right.<br /><br />And the beret... Moishe's Bakery on Grand Street has, or used to have, a senior citizen customer who could be DD's doppelganger, from the description, pushing a shopping cart, sporting a black beret, bantering away in Yiddish. He was exiting the store while I was ordering a few black and white cookies and some chocolate babka and he shouted back at me, "Ya got good taste, kid!"paulbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00749683546064280367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-35919804301362976632013-08-06T08:47:24.762-04:002013-08-06T08:47:24.762-04:00Funny thing about that Bike Lane in Panang is that...Funny thing about that Bike Lane in Panang is that it took 24 hours from when it was proposed to when it was unveiled. Here it takes 24 Years.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-75617967107490361292013-08-06T08:42:38.483-04:002013-08-06T08:42:38.483-04:00BICH SEAT
Just sayin'.BICH SEAT<br /><br />Just sayin'.RoadQueenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02340136040929361717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-28707359387719302742013-08-06T08:42:12.764-04:002013-08-06T08:42:12.764-04:00I'm still chuckling over the fact that someone...I'm still chuckling over the fact that someone "brainstormed" a bicycle bitch seat.<br /><br />I wonder if the guy is a health/environmentally conscious biker? Makes one wonder.<br /><br />Parracy 36RoadQueenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02340136040929361717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-9357900194881434972013-08-06T08:32:26.154-04:002013-08-06T08:32:26.154-04:00BoozyBogan, get out of the bin! There has been wel...BoozyBogan, get out of the bin! There has been well and truly enough talk about football scarves around here lately without you dragging that comment back out. <br /><br />Stay focused people. We are here to discuss scranus and that which relates to scranus - for example, bicycles.<br /><br />Speaking of maintaining high standards, I'd like to see Rocko issue a style diktat, stating all advertisements must feature the image of either Bret or Recumbabe if they are to be considered for inclusion beside the blog. Also, they must all flash obnoxiously... I mean... flamboyantly! Flash flamboyantly, just like Cipo, something, something. You get the idea. <br /><br />Having said all that, I don't rely on advertising revenue to buy food for 17 hungry kids. cehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506942063484875229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-49899793493875610932013-08-06T07:17:29.303-04:002013-08-06T07:17:29.303-04:00Well crap. I was attempting to post a video of a b...Well crap. I was attempting to post a video of a bus crushing the rear wheel of a Magna in Japan/China/Korea/Somewhere in Asia.McFlynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-83954693042058022202013-08-06T07:15:08.829-04:002013-08-06T07:15:08.829-04:00If this was Godzilla he would not be dicking aro...If this was <a href="http://msnvideo.msn.com/?channelindex=8&from=en-us_msnhpvidmod#/video/f3a5c699-bcee-ece7-1aa1-db8e626f7dea" rel="nofollow"> Godzilla </a> he would not be dicking around so much.McFlynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-26811523824459288452013-08-06T03:42:02.970-04:002013-08-06T03:42:02.970-04:00Leroy, you're a super-star. Thank you. xo
CJ...Leroy, you're a super-star. Thank you. xo<br /><br />CJ - your trail of tears is history. We have a highway of tears here and it's still disappearing people.babble onhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08895102832912891306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-60473284413143719822013-08-06T01:42:06.383-04:002013-08-06T01:42:06.383-04:00Then they made me breakfast.Then they made me breakfast.The King of Park Slopenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-84227926851654812812013-08-05T23:53:10.292-04:002013-08-05T23:53:10.292-04:00Screwed up link to Hertzberg article re NYC 1970 b...Screwed up link to Hertzberg article re NYC 1970 bike to work ride.<br /><br />Link should be <a href="http://www.bikereader.com/contributors/hertzberg/biketowork.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>leroyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03489096287266831412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-8712534464578503492013-08-05T23:49:35.452-04:002013-08-05T23:49:35.452-04:00paulb --
Blue Hill Stone Barns.
A little pricey,...paulb --<br /><br />Blue Hill Stone Barns.<br /><br />A little pricey, but worth it.<br /><br />Link <a href="http://www.bluehillfarm.com/food/blue-hill-stone-barns/menu" rel="nofollow">here</a>leroyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03489096287266831412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-52385761351078940092013-08-05T23:42:26.425-04:002013-08-05T23:42:26.425-04:00Mr. Dubinsky appears in Hendrik Hertzberg's 19...Mr. Dubinsky appears in Hendrik Hertzberg's 1970 New Yorker piece about what may be NYC's first bike to work ride in which then Mayor Lindsay participated. Definitely worth a read. Link is <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1982/09/18/obituaries/david-dubinsky-90-dies-led-garment-union.html?pagewanted=1" rel="nofollow">here</a><br /><br />Mr. Dubinksy received his first bike in 1937, a gift from his union. Before that, he rented.<br /><br />leroyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03489096287266831412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-31199465417149965402013-08-05T23:22:19.552-04:002013-08-05T23:22:19.552-04:00I miss gravel driveways. I'm not interested in...I miss gravel driveways. I'm not interested in riding a bike across one. Is there a good restaurant with a quiet rural setting within convenient driving distance of NYC that has a gravel driveway, where at the end of the meal you leave the restaurant into cool night air and crunch across the gravel to the car? Go ahead and make fun of me all you want.paulbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00749683546064280367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-70598695537577022042013-08-05T23:20:23.433-04:002013-08-05T23:20:23.433-04:00From Murray Kempton's The Sorehead, November 1...From Murray Kempton's The Sorehead, November 1952: "The difference between me and the General [Eisenhower] is that I may be just and I may be fair, but I sure ain’t friendly. David Dubinsky can go ahead and call up Winthrop Aldrich any time he chooses."<br /><br />Kempton also rode around NYC on a bike. Maybe he made gefilte fish runs with Dubinsky!paulbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00749683546064280367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-30167130519172611092013-08-05T22:59:10.890-04:002013-08-05T22:59:10.890-04:00Nice slice of NY history, Leroy. Thank you.Nice slice of NY history, Leroy. Thank you.Comment deletedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16079738743211753599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-21420329420236984062013-08-05T22:33:53.574-04:002013-08-05T22:33:53.574-04:00Well as long as we're cutting and pasting, whi...Well as long as we're cutting and pasting, which is after all the intellectual equivalent of scrap-booking, we might as well get back on topic.<br /><br />Mr. Dubinsky, whose bike was stolen while on a gefilte fish run, was the former President of the International Ladies Garment Workers union. He died in 1982 at age 90. He was quite a guy; even his obituary makes me jealous.<br /><br />He was a lifelong cyclist who emigrated to the United States in 1911. He enjoyed riding around NYC at all hours and did not get a drivers' license until age 65.<br /><br />From his NYT obituary:<br /><br />"With extraordinary flair and boundless energy, Mr. Dubinsky was the major force in converting a union that was on the verge of bankruptcy in 1932 into a dynamic organization that had $500 million in assets in 1966, when he became its honorary president.<br /> ...<br /><br />The influence of Mr. Dubinsky, a short man with gray crew-cut hair, extended well beyond his union. He played a major role in the formation of the Committee for Industrial Organization, forerunner of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, in the mid-1930's; he was the first head of an American Federation of Labor union to demand action against organized racketeering in unions; he pushed labor toward greater social responsibility, and he was for many years one of the forces behind the Liberal Party in New York.<br /><br />Mr. Dubinsky, whose personality was once described as ranging from ''that of global statesman to that of a dead-end kid,'' was sometimes captious, sometimes overbearing, but always able to bring high drama into every report and talk.<br /><br />He never lost his Yiddish accent, his tendency to wave his arms at the slightest provocation or his loud voice, which started as a shout and went up from there.<br />...<br /><br />He was proud of his accomplishments, and he would talk about them whether he was bicycle riding around New York wearing a distinctive beret, as he often did, or assaulting huge baskets of onion rolls, highly spiced pickles, marinated herring and pastrami, washed down with Scotch or rum.<br /><br />...<br /><br />His school days ended, however, when he was 13 years old, and the following year he became a master baker in his father's shop, earning 12 rubles a week, about $6. Out of that sum he would take small coins for half-hour bicycle rides in a dusty park area. He was to enjoy bicycle riding all his life and would ride around various parts of the city at all hours. He did not get an automobile driver's license until he was 65. <br /><br />Link to obit <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1982/09/18/obituaries/david-dubinsky-90-dies-led-garment-union.html?pagewanted=1" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Worth a look.leroyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03489096287266831412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-41432037687392989622013-08-05T22:28:16.402-04:002013-08-05T22:28:16.402-04:00Re BoozyBogan @ 10:08 PM
All I can say is:
CARN TH...Re BoozyBogan @ 10:08 PM<br />All I can say is:<br />CARN THE 'PIES!<br /><br />Nacnudnoreply@blogger.com