Sunday, April 20, 2025

Cease The Cycle Of Rebirth, I Need To Get Off – Bike Snob NYC


Pleased Judeo-Christian Vernal Ritual Interval! Sure, it’s that point of 12 months after we do bizarre stuff like nibble on giant unleavened crackers and paint hard-boiled eggs, relying on our respective faithways. However regardless of which staff we experience for, there’s one commandment we might all do effectively to comply with, and it’s “Don’t Fuck With The Easter Bunny:”

Hey, I believed we banned DIA, what offers?

Talking of the season of rebirth, a extremely astute reader was sort sufficient to remind us all of the next:

Superb! It looks as if solely yesterday that the game {of professional} biking was actually going to destroy the world:

I admit I do relate to local weather protesters, however solely as a result of they’re precisely like me after I threaten my youngsters:

“Do [thing] proper now otherwise you’re gonna be in hassle!”

[Kid doesn’t do thing.]

“OK, you’re in hassle now!”

[Thing still doesn’t get done, we all forget about it, and the world continues to turn.]

In the meantime, yesterday I discussed Bentonville and the Wahlberg household:

[The Wahlberg Family: Marky, Donnie, Debbie, Michelle, Marky, Joey, Dee-Dee, and, uh, Pip-Squeak]

Anyway, the Wahlbergs are additionally behind bicycle producer Allied Cycle Works, which I point out not as a result of I care the place they make their frames…

…however solely due to this:

I’m sufficiently old to recollect when with the ability to change your stem rise while not having to re-cable your bike was true of BASICALLY EVERY FREAKING BICYCLE.

Is that this picture sufficiently old that we are able to begin utilizing it once more?

By the best way, right here’s that stem:

So easy! So elegant! And far, a lot simpler than flipping an everyday threadless stem or [gasp] elevating or reducing a quill stem.

Simply be sure you use an internal tube inflatable tubeless tire insert when you’re at it:

Spring actually is the season of rebirth.

As for me, I’m profiting from the season by commuting by way of bicycle, since in New York spring represents the 2 or three weeks in between freezing your ass off and sweating your ass off:

Ours is a metropolis of bridges:

And by sheer coincidence the Homer’s hues match the Manhattan Bridge virtually completely:

There’s additionally adequate daylight to see me all the best way house:

And as a lot as I complain about this metropolis, the brand new bike path over the Henry Hudson Bridge is nearly sufficient to make me forgive it for, effectively, all the things else:

Not a nasty view:

Not unhealthy in any respect.

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