tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post6539168117435710656..comments2024-03-27T07:25:55.115-04:00Comments on Bike Snob NYC: What's Your Damages?BikeSnobNYChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11256142855437740163noreply@blogger.comBlogger74125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-47167340457161344892017-05-20T10:04:27.103-04:002017-05-20T10:04:27.103-04:00Hey guy! Check out this amazing offer. Take a look...Hey guy! Check out this amazing offer. Take a look @ this CHAIN LOCK & HYDRATION SET. I will strongly encourage everyone on here to include it in their cart pending when you will be need. <br /><br />http://amzn.to/2pOoDl6<br /><br />http://amzn.to/2qkE7Aq<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12984602810897359663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-45179174651911304112017-05-20T09:59:43.356-04:002017-05-20T09:59:43.356-04:00Nice one!Nice one!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12984602810897359663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-82430436102309652232017-05-20T02:33:21.986-04:002017-05-20T02:33:21.986-04:00@Very Slim Pickens: whatever happened to Babble? H...@Very Slim Pickens: whatever happened to Babble? Haven't seen her posting for a long time.brooksby1971https://www.blogger.com/profile/03652170830982307289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-18040345234619025112017-05-19T21:38:46.383-04:002017-05-19T21:38:46.383-04:00...and helmets wouldn't have helped....and helmets wouldn't have helped.bad boy of the soothnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-36065701807853595542017-05-19T21:37:09.863-04:002017-05-19T21:37:09.863-04:00I saw the video of the carnage in times Square,th...I saw the video of the carnage in times Square,this morning.horrible,just horrible.r.i.p. to the young woman who passed and get well to those injured.<br />bad boy of the soothnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-50253633012004092982017-05-19T12:34:34.719-04:002017-05-19T12:34:34.719-04:00I'm surprised you can understand my comments. ...I'm surprised you can understand my comments. I truly hate the Macs they have me use at work. I hate how, when I type something wrong, which is guaranteed because I only use three fingers, Macs don't give you some red squiggly lines you can come back and check, they guess what you were trying to type and just "fix" it for you. It's worse than Clippy.janinedmnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-4108184904973920352017-05-19T11:42:57.792-04:002017-05-19T11:42:57.792-04:00Internal combustion car on fire?
Don't tell H...Internal combustion car on fire?<br /><br />Don't tell House of Rep member Darrel Issa, Neanderthal Party. Every time an electric car burns he sends out propaganda warning how unsafe they are. He totally ignores the hundreds of thousands of combustion engine car fires.Only You Can Prevent Gas Powered Car Firesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-35138322618636242942017-05-19T11:38:45.557-04:002017-05-19T11:38:45.557-04:00Thunderous applause for Jeanine.
I remember the d...Thunderous applause for Jeanine.<br /><br />I remember the days when Ms. Babble would have expressed nearly identical thoughts. Very Slim Pickensnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-8843934414587177322017-05-19T11:32:33.680-04:002017-05-19T11:32:33.680-04:00"6 mistakes you're making with your oatme..."6 mistakes you're making with your oatmeal:"<br /><br />Next month: "6 mistakes you're making with your Bike Snob Quiz"<br />Mr. Peabodynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-69472454015032116702017-05-19T11:19:38.478-04:002017-05-19T11:19:38.478-04:00*starts slow clap for Janine*
*starts slow clap for Janine*<br /><br /><br /><br />N/Ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14710395292374599493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-60812888332608966062017-05-19T11:00:30.304-04:002017-05-19T11:00:30.304-04:00I'm considering dumping my helmets, the lack o...I'm considering dumping my helmets, the lack of reading comprehension here makes me worry that they may cause some sort of progressive mental decline that makes reading comprehension more difficult. Perhaps it's head heat or styrofoam leaking or a combination of the two.<br /><br />Since we're sharing unpopular opinions, why be so smug and pedantic and self satisfied and <i>anonymous</i>? If you're to only voice of reason among a bunch of numbness danger monkeys, why not stand behind your opinions? <br /><br />Another hot take, I think the vehemence/high-handedness of the tone people take is inversely proportional to miles/year. I have never met a long time cyclist who rides often, who it that much into the business of others. If I hear another person who just rides in the 5 boro bike tour and most summer weekends talk down to me about commuting in the city... Well, I'll do what i always do: roll my eyes. This is why, while I know Dulcie socially, i could never join her when she sends me her bike advocacy event invites. I don't think most people's opinions count and I don't want to hear them. Even if I have the same or similar opinions, I think most people who simply own bikes instead of really ride them should shut up. If I had Twilight Zone powers, NY would be filled with panicking mouthless faces. There I said it. janinedmnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-68665114123301522602017-05-19T10:36:09.411-04:002017-05-19T10:36:09.411-04:00>KellyAnn - as has been pointed out above. The ...>KellyAnn - as has been pointed out above. The issue is about insurance, law enforcement officials etc. putting the blame on cyclists when they're not wearing a helmet.<br /><br />That has happened in the past, yes. But it is not what happened in this case. Rather there was a very clear-headed division of factors - the cyclists lack of headgear had nothing to do with the fact that there was an accident. But plenty of reasonable people could for very sound reasons be convinced that it played a small contributing role in the severity of the injury head injury that resulted.<br /><br />>Helmets are for a very specific issue - they are designed to protect for falls from around a meter and a half at low speeds, essentially falling off your bike at 12 mph.<br /><br />>They will provide minimal protection when involved in a collision with a vehicle. There is also the added statistic that people who are involved in accidents while cycling are no more at danger of head injuries than pedestrians or drivers.<br /><br />An instant before you're going to be hit by a speeding car, your deity of choice freezes time to offer you a foam hat to wear during the impact. Are you saying the chance of marginal benefit is so low that you would decline?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-4469646503759076632017-05-19T09:50:48.361-04:002017-05-19T09:50:48.361-04:00bike month? maybe make your own signs in the bikel...<a href="https://imgur.com/a/s2c8I" rel="nofollow"> bike month? maybe make your own signs in the bikelane</a>dancesonpedalshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00164303442656489828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-14906834247008980982017-05-19T09:41:01.082-04:002017-05-19T09:41:01.082-04:00It's bike to work day (aka bike nerd day) here...It's bike to work day (aka bike nerd day) here in the nation's shitstorm central. Like St Patrick's Day and New Years Eve - I usually avoid it, but today was a glorious morning for using legs to turn cranks that make wheels go round and round. And good thing I helmented myself - otherwise I would not have had anything to carry all the swag (being a nerd means never having enough free crap).<br /><br />Even the eBike cyclist that passed this morning slowed, ring-a-linged his bell and passed when it was safe.<br /><br />Life = Good<br /><br />RIP the pedestrians taken out in yesterday's carnage.JLRBnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-73406829652531532202017-05-19T06:31:03.005-04:002017-05-19T06:31:03.005-04:00Six mistakes with my oatmeal?? Oh Dog, how have I ...Six mistakes with my oatmeal?? Oh Dog, how have I lived this long????sunfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07519059925695858233noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-53627151369381002392017-05-19T04:44:58.456-04:002017-05-19T04:44:58.456-04:00KellyAnn - as has been pointed out above. The issu...KellyAnn - as has been pointed out above. The issue is about insurance, law enforcement officials etc. putting the blame on cyclists when they're not wearing a helmet.<br /><br />Helmets are for a very specific issue - they are designed to protect for falls from around a meter and a half at low speeds, essentially falling off your bike at 12 mph.<br /><br />They will provide minimal protection when involved in a collision with a vehicle. There is also the added statistic that people who are involved in accidents while cycling are no more at danger of head injuries than pedestrians or drivers.<br /><br />So the insistence of some people, groups and officials that wearing a helmet is essential is demonstrably false, and they fail to look at the actual measures that keep people safe while on bikes. These are an increase in the number of people cycling and decent segregated infrastructure.<br /><br />The helmet debate is pointless, and a distraction from the real safety debate that transportation and law enforcement officials should be having.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-16673040624578952432017-05-19T00:56:04.230-04:002017-05-19T00:56:04.230-04:00By all means, BSNYC, let's advocate getting ri...By all means, BSNYC, let's advocate getting rid of *all* safety aids -- helmets, lights, bright clothes, brakes, bike lanes, rules of the road -- just so we can assert we're not responsible when drivers fuck up.KellyAnnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-8753016950750339842017-05-19T00:43:09.536-04:002017-05-19T00:43:09.536-04:00What if one were to wear a helmet like a codpiece?...What if one were to wear a helmet like a codpiece? Would that count as 'wearing a helmet'?Package Dealnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-18675098351973742842017-05-18T23:22:12.678-04:002017-05-18T23:22:12.678-04:00It took a while to unsnap my helmet and man the co...It took a while to unsnap my helmet and man the comments here are getting long and silly. I helmet cause I like it. Drockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15394480972258253747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-2273765925674939942017-05-18T23:11:55.133-04:002017-05-18T23:11:55.133-04:00Youinz hear about Nicky Hayden (2006 MOTOGP Champ....Youinz hear about Nicky Hayden (2006 MOTOGP Champ...its a BIG deal) got smashed hard cycling by a car in Rimini Italy. Coma. Bad. McFlynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-67362448360073937042017-05-18T19:34:05.589-04:002017-05-18T19:34:05.589-04:00I wondered why my dog gave me his Bill de Blasio V...I wondered why my dog gave me his <a href="https://www.transalt.org/bike-forecast/2017/17/may-18th-2017-citywide-citi-bike" rel="nofollow">Bill de Blasio Vision Zero spoke card this morning.</a><br /><br />After today's events, I might give it back. <br /><br />Most evenings, my commute takes me past the corner where the car in Times Square was pictured on its side on fire. This morning, I came through Times Square about an hour before the drunk driver ran three blocks up the sidewalk mowing down 20 people.<br /><br />Remember op-ed contributor Myron Magnet in the WSJ a few days ago who suggested that lowered speed limits, bike lanes, and plazas create lawless drivers and therefore we should, among other things, rip up the Times Square pedestrian plaza? <br /><br />Fuck him.<br /><br />I'm heading home now. I'll be riding west on 45th & crossing Broadway like I do most evenings. Assuming it isn't closed for blood removal (I know it won't closed as a crime scene. It's just an "accident.")<br /><br /><br />leroyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03489096287266831412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-40672809696060967842017-05-18T18:25:26.144-04:002017-05-18T18:25:26.144-04:00" BikeSnobNYC said...
Anonymous 3:38pm,
..." BikeSnobNYC said...<br /><br /> Anonymous 3:38pm,<br /><br /> What cycling advocate thinks cyclists should be liable for a percentage of their own injuries based on pure speculation after they've been hit by an unlicensed driver? "<br /><br />...<br /><br />Here in Australia, a frightening number of them.<br /><br />They may not say precisely the same thing or express as explicitly as you have, but more than one of our cutesy-pie advocacy groups, rather than actually advocating for actual cycling stuff like actual improved infrastructure and shit, seem to expend more energy extolling the virtues of obeying road rules (however onerous and punitive toward cycling they may be), deferring to (as opposed to respecting) other road users and yes, dogmatically acclaiming the benefits of helmets citing all the flawed data every other moron does. <br /><br />A few years ago, one Melbourne group even took great pride in advocating for increased fines for cycling offences (their idea of improving conditions for cyclists being to compel compliance under threat of penalty) and strutted around in the their spandex costumes like rock stars when they succeeded.<br /><br />Their motivation for being such fucknuts seems incomprehensible, but you don't have to endure too much of their outpourings before the question of buying membership to their supposedly preeminent advocacy group arises — a package that just happens to include... insurance.<br /><br />They're hucksters and spivs and deeply compromised bullshit artistes who use the same obscurantist language of the religious zealot and bunnies like "Anonymous 3:38pm".<br /><br />It's probably overstating it to say they're trolls or have a hidden agenda, but they do bear the same hallmarks and to avoid our dire fate, you need to give these pricks much shorter shrift than you have here lest they flower into the fully fledged despotic autocrats that make our cycling lives such a misery.Your dystopian futurenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-3199119562048606452017-05-18T18:03:58.712-04:002017-05-18T18:03:58.712-04:00Wow, that was pathetic, again
Thanks, vsk. The oth...Wow, that was pathetic, again<br />Thanks, vsk. The other guy got it worse. He took the full brunt of 250 lb me at 17mph. Blessedly, no bike damage. It was wearing a helmet.Pathetic Old Cyclisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17679288563142001686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-77936663301732759282017-05-18T18:02:06.041-04:002017-05-18T18:02:06.041-04:00Thanks, bsk. The other guu got it worse. He took...Thanks, bsk. The other guu got it worse. He took the full brunt of wt0 lb me at 17mph. Blessedly, no bike damage. It was wearing a helmet.Pathetic Old Cyclisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17679288563142001686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-69693246280881041682017-05-18T17:47:49.335-04:002017-05-18T17:47:49.335-04:00A cup and a half of Mc Cann's steel cut Irish ...A cup and a half of Mc Cann's steel cut Irish oatmeal: Boil three cups of water! Not milk, FORFUCK'sSAKE!!! Doothnoreply@blogger.com