Additional to yesterday’s put up, think about the next quote from the current New Yorker article about Grant Petersen:
“Bikes are turning ugly,” Petersen not too long ago wrote. “I personally have extra respect, tons of respect, for any person who rides round city, to work, for purchasing, and for enjoyable, than any person who does front-flips on handrails with a fifty-foot dropoff on one facet.”
What? Ridiculous!!! Biking isn’t about enjoyable or about usefulness, it’s about performing death-defying stunts on bicycles of restricted utility so as to promote overpriced clothes and overcaffeinated swill on the identical time:
Right here’s the video:
Eh, frankly with regards to action-packed movies that mix bikes and trains I desire ones that function Bromptons:
Now that’s what I name suspense.
Generally you screw the watermelon:
And different instances it screws you.
Talking of on a regular basis biking, the smuggies are actually pushing the concept e-bike share journeys should be cheaper, and now a metropolis councilmember is introducing a invoice that will cap the price of an e-Citi Bike journey:
I’m all for Citi Bike, and it’s a great factor that individuals have the choice to decide on electrical ones, however I’ve not modified my opinion, which is that NOBODY OWES YOU A CHEAP RIDE ON A GODDAMN E-CITI BIKE. Who the hell cares what they value? E-Citi Bikes didn’t even exist till about six years in the past. Now instantly they’re a primary human proper and we want a regulation in order that they value the identical because the subway? Effectively, right here’s what the councilperson has to say:
I promise you that completely no person in New York Metropolis is making their main life selections primarily based fully on Citi Bikes, electrical or in any other case, although I do suspect Lincoln Restler is complicated the best way regular individuals stay with the comedian subplots of ’90s sitcoms:
I additionally promise you that they don’t seem to be changing automobile journeys in any significant manner:
Actually, satirically, e-Citi Bikes are inflicting extra visitors as a result of they require a fleet of drivers to service them:
After all in Restler’s sitcom universe capping the worth of Citi Bike will magically consequence within the pricey development of an unlimited underground electrical system that may change the van fleet. This magic is named “public funding,” and it’ll repair every thing. Don’t consider it? Simply take a look at what nice form the MTA is in! It’s doing so splendidly these identical smuggies are telling us that it could possibly’t operate with out congestion pricing:
I get that it’s modern to consider in a future wherein drivers paradoxically abandon their automobiles and but someway fund a motor vehicle-free transportation utopia with their tolls, however I’m starting to surprise if the relative lack of public funding the system receives is the one factor that’s saving it.
Within the meantime, should you’re on the lookout for an inexpensive e-Citi Bike simply come to the Bronx and assist your self, they’re completely all over the place:
Simply make certain to convey a spoke wrench.
Talking of mixing purchasing and enjoyable, I did simply that yesterday, and on considered one of Outdated Man Petersen’s bikes in addition:
Driving the paths in a populous space usually requires you to share the path with people who find themselves strolling canines:
Or, much less usually, birds:
I suppose he simply needs to present it some recent air, but when something it appears needlessly merciless, like marching a prisoner by means of the city sq.:
Positive, typically after I’m using a motorbike on this city I too really feel like a caged fowl:
However at the least it’s simple to park.
