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THIS POST IS UNDER MEDIA EMBARGO – Bike Snob NYC

SandJack TV — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 14:42:00 +0000

rewrite this content and keep HTML tags As a once-relevant bike blogger whose email address is still lingering on the mailing lists of certain PR people who haven’t gotten around to removing it yet, I occasionally receive notice of EXCITING NEW BICYCLES that are SO EXCITING they’re UNDER MEDIA EMBARGO. Now, I’d never run afoul […]

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Wanna Bet? – Bike Snob NYC

SandJack TV — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 12:37:00 +0000

rewrite this content and keep HTML tags So what’s threatening to ruin pro cycling this week? Doping? Protests? Weird rules about handlebar width and gear ratios? No, it’s gambling: That would be a real shame, seeing as how far the sport has come: UCI president David Lappartient told Het Laatste Nieuws raised the specter of illegal betting in […]

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Follow The Brick Road – Bike Snob NYC

SandJack TV — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 12:42:00 +0000

rewrite this content and keep HTML tags Is it peak foliage yet!?! Let’s check the foliage report! I don’t know what that means. Is peak foliage when it gets to 100%? Well it doesn’t really matter, because peak or no peak, I will say the colors this weekend did not…leaf me disappointed: That’s a foliage […]

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Things That Make You Go Hmmmm…. – Bike Snob NYC

SandJack TV — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 12:40:00 +0000

rewrite this content and keep HTML tags How To Be A Successful Cycling YouTuber Step 1: Put your finger on your lips and look perplexed: “Bizarre stuff at Canyon! Weird things happening in vans! LeBron James is standing behind me! Is he wearing any pants? Click and watch to find out!” To be honest I […]

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Remembrance Of Bikes Past – Bike Snob NYC

SandJack TV — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 12:01:00 +0000

rewrite this content and keep HTML tags You know how your photo apps do that creepy thing where they put together little themed albums for you? Sure you do. Well, pretty much all of my themed photo albums feature bicycles, because I’m a huge dork who constantly takes pictures of them. (Certain bike websites loftily […]

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Winners And Losers – Bike Snob NYC

SandJack TV — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 12:50:00 +0000

rewrite this content and keep HTML tags Further to yesterday’s post, here’s what’s going on with that cassette: To review, it’s a 7-speed hub, and an 8-speed Hyperglide cassette, yet it lacks a lockring. As some of you pointed out, there was a brief time where Shimano hubs had both the outer threads portion for […]

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Under My Thumb – Bike Snob NYC

SandJack TV — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 11:53:00 +0000

rewrite this content and keep HTML tags Yesterday I enjoyed an early morning ride through the suburbs, where I took in the Halloween decorations: I wonder if when Dad gathered the family to admire his handiwork anybody pointed out to him how disturbing this is: He should at least put some pants on that thing. […]

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Commuting Sentences – Bike Snob NYC

SandJack TV — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 11:21:00 +0000

rewrite this content and keep HTML tags Not only is fall a good time for what used to be called “mountain biking,” but it’s also a good time for commuting by bicycle, which I don’t think I’ve done since May when some brigand raided my Sackville: If you’re gonna drain my sack at least buy […]

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Where There’s A Quill There’s A Way – Bike Snob NYC

SandJack TV — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 14:35:00 +0000

rewrite this content and keep HTML tags Greetings from down here in New York State’s perineum: Where we’ve recently emerged from the rather piratey-sounding weather phenomenon known as a “nor’easter:” I asked the AI to create an image for “A pirate spotting a nor’easter approaching towards the starboard bow” and instead I got Max Cavalera […]

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Still Trying To Get A Handle On Things – Bike Snob NYC

SandJack TV — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 13:37:00 +0000

rewrite this content and keep HTML tags Pity the modern bicycle consumer, who must somehow choose from among thousands upon thousands of nearly identical gravel bikes, the newest one being the oddly-named yet otherwise thrillingly generic Ari Shafer: I’m glad the Ari Shafer has answers, because I have a question: Are you the same Ari […]

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