Now That’s A Stretch – Bike Snob NYC


The Web is filled with individuals criticizing issues they know nothing about. I do know this higher than most, as a result of 90% of this weblog is me criticizing issues I do know nothing about. So I’ve determined to vary that by studying all about electrical mountain bikes:

Okay, let’s see, there’s the “battery:”

And the “motor:”

Yeah, I feel I received it.

Now that I’m an knowledgeable I can get again to criticizing them. Whew!

Oh, and simply keep in mind:


Pedalling help may also help riders with accidents, disabilities or well being issues get out on the paths, or much less match riders sustain with sportier pals/companions.


You recognize, riders like this man:

We want mountain bikes with motors as a result of these watermelons aren’t going to assist themselves.

In the meantime, in the UK, an innocuous “Share The Highway” marketing campaign is tearing town of Hull aside like an iceberg of smugness shredding an ocean liner’s, uh, hull:

Principally it’s simply the standard stuff about how cyclists don’t watch the place there going and the way drivers kill individuals, although this query did stand out in its sheer profundity:


Paula questioned why cyclists, lots of whom additionally drove vehicles, behaved in a different way “as quickly as they slip on their Lycra”.


Nice query, Paula! Why certainly?

Nicely, I don’t suppose anyone can reply that query conclusively, although there’s simply one thing about clothes constructed from Lycra that makes you wish to dance:

And sing:

And infrequently pummel the shit out of any person:

And these are only a few of the great issues you are able to do in Lycra.

Oh, and do you know Lance wasn’t the one Armstrong to put on Lycra?

This message has been delivered to you by LYCRA®, the official material of F-U-N!

Oh, and fuck cotton.

(Sure, as anybody who purchased their first highway bike 9 months in the past and discovered the right way to use clipless pedals six months in the past will inform you, by no means, ever experience a motorcycle whereas carrying cotton.)

By the best way, since LYCRA® is in fact a globally acknowledged trademark, I’ll discuss with it within the correct vogue (“LYCRA®”) going ahead:

Although if the individuals at LYCRA® are so involved they need to actually go in spite of everything these bike-haters who’re all the time railing towards individuals in “Lycra.”

It appears to me that the way by which individuals have turned the LYCRA® trademark right into a byword for irresponsible cyclists (after they don’t even know for positive whether or not the irresponsible cyclists in query are even carrying correct LYCRA®-brand stretchy shorts!) is grounds for a lawsuit. Actually with all its billions of {dollars} from a long time of constructing underpants for astronauts and activewear for for individuals who do half-assed exercises within the suburbs LYCRA® may interact a dream workforce of attorneys to not solely restore some dignity to the identify but additionally get rid of anti-cyclist slander as soon as and for all.

Although I assume that would backfire on us and so they may simply resolve to go after the cyclists as a substitute.

Neglect I stated something.

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