Additional to yesterday’s submit, contemplate the next quote from the current New Yorker article about Grant Petersen:
“Bikes are turning ugly,” Petersen lately wrote. “I personally have extra respect, tons of respect, for any person who rides round city, to work, for buying, and for enjoyable, than any person who does front-flips on handrails with a fifty-foot dropoff on one aspect.”
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 on the subject of 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 occasions it screws you.
Talking of on a regular basis biking, the smuggies are actually pushing the concept that e-bike share journeys should be cheaper, and now a metropolis councilmember is introducing a invoice that may cap the price of an e-Citi Bike journey:
I’m all for Citi Bike, and it’s 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 out of the blue they’re a primary human proper and we’d like a regulation in order that they value the identical because the subway? Nicely, right here’s what the councilperson has to say:
I promise you that completely no one in New York Metropolis is making their main life choices primarily based totally on Citi Bikes, electrical or in any other case, although I do suspect Lincoln Restler is complicated the best way regular folks dwell with the comedian subplots of ’90s sitcoms:
I additionally promise you that they aren’t changing automobile journeys in any significant approach:
In reality, 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 building of an enormous underground electrical system that may exchange the van fleet. This magic is known as “public funding,” and it’ll repair all the things. Don’t imagine 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 actually’t operate with out congestion pricing:
I get that it’s trendy to imagine in a future by which drivers paradoxically abandon their vehicles and but one way or the other fund a motor vehicle-free transportation utopia with their tolls, however I’m starting to marvel if the relative lack of public funding the system receives is the one factor that’s saving it.
Within the meantime, in case you’re on the lookout for an inexpensive e-Citi Bike simply come to the Bronx and assist your self, they’re completely in all places:
Simply make certain to carry a spoke wrench.
Talking of mixing buying and enjoyable, I did simply that yesterday, and on one among Previous Man Petersen’s bikes as well:
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 provide it some recent air, but when something it appears needlessly merciless, like marching a prisoner by way of the city sq.:
Positive, typically once I’m using a motorcycle on this city I too really feel like a caged fowl:
However at the very least it’s straightforward to park.
