Further to yesterday’s post, consider the following quote from the recent New Yorker article about Grant Petersen:
“Bikes are turning ugly,” Petersen recently wrote. “I personally have more respect, tons of respect, for somebody who rides around town, to work, for shopping, and for fun, than somebody who does front-flips on handrails with a fifty-foot dropoff on one side.”
What? Ridiculous!!! Cycling isn’t about fun or about usefulness, it’s about performing death-defying stunts on bicycles of limited utility in order to promote overpriced clothing and overcaffeinated swill at the same time:
Here’s the video:
Eh, frankly when it comes to action-packed videos that combine bikes and trains I prefer ones that feature Bromptons:
Now that’s what I call suspense.
Sometimes you screw the watermelon:
And other times it screws you.
Speaking of everyday cycling, the smuggies are really pushing the idea that e-bike share trips need to be cheaper, and now a city councilmember is introducing a bill that would cap the cost of an e-Citi Bike trip:
I’m all for Citi Bike, and it’s a good thing that people have the option to choose electric ones, but I have not changed my opinion, which is that NOBODY OWES YOU A CHEAP RIDE ON A GODDAMN E-CITI BIKE. Who the hell cares what they cost? E-Citi Bikes didn’t even exist until about six years ago. Now suddenly they’re a basic human right and we need a law so that they cost the same as the subway? Well, here’s what the councilperson has to say:
