Keep in mind VanMoof? I assumed they had been bankrupt, however apparently they’ve obtained some type of futuristic house bike popping out:
In the meantime, the corporate’s co-founders have designed a brand new bike for Raleigh:
Solely within the Netherlands within the media staking out the homes of motorcycle designers for spy pictures:
Varied prototypes of the brand-less e-bike have been noticed in and across the metropolis over the past 12 months — generally close by the house of one of many brothers. The prototypes match pictures of a Raleigh-branded e-bike that lately leaked. These pictures had been inadvertently made public (and later eliminated) by Amsterdam-based Uni_verse Studio, the digital manufacturing home that lists VanMoof as a consumer.
The VanMoof’s stage prime tube however, clearly the bar for movie star may be very low over there (get it?) within the Low International locations. Then once more, who may resist the charismatic attract of the Carlier brothers, who’re famend throughout Benelux because the Mongolfier brothers of the e-bike?
By the best way, is Taco a typical identify over there?
I had the Taco Ties at TGI Fridays as soon as, they had been unbelievable and I extremely advocate.
[The AI’s best shot at “A food special at TGI Friday’s restaurant called ‘Taco Ties.’” Not bad, though I was thinking more a hard taco in the shape of a pretzel somehow…not that I know how that would work, but I bet the food geniuses at TGI Fridays could pull it off. Also, the apostrophe in TGI Fridays was completely my fault.]
Elsewhere within the media, I learn this story by an Austin race promoter with moderate-to-high curiosity:
The bit about racers pestering him for race outcomes actually resonated with me as a result of I do know from private expertise that beginner bike racers–particularly the awful low-category ones–are completely terrible about that and must know that they obtained twenty sixth place within the Cat 4 subject instantly. (I want to state for the report that I used to be by no means one among these riders and that I at all times knew that I sucked, so the very last thing I needed or wanted was my numerical inserting to verify that.) However then the story takes an sudden flip:
One week after George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, was murdered by police in Minneapolis, a biking web site known as the Radavist printed an op-ed titled, Bike Racing, White Privilege and the Coronavirus. The article precisely assessed the inequity and structural racism that’s inherent in beginner bike racing, and scrutinized my resolution to placed on mass-start occasions because the virus disproportionately ravaged marginalized communities.
Oddly he appears chastened and grateful, despite the fact that he acquired dying threats in consequence:
With the world seemingly in flames, I started receiving dozens of dying threats on-line. Folks wrote that they hoped me and my household obtained COVID and died. My daughter, who was a youngster, noticed a few of the feedback on social media and have become upset. Our sponsors obtained tagged in lots of the destructive posts and feedback, and it wasn’t lengthy earlier than Life Time discontinued its sponsorship. Finally, Kelley and I made a decision to finish the mini-series early.
Right here’s a quote from that Desert Hipster story by the best way.
Folks of shade are dying, they don’t have medical health insurance, they don’t have a security web and it is a direct results of years of oppression brought on by structural inequality ingrained in our society. Most cyclists straight profit from structural inequality and it’s the similar instrument getting used towards folks of shade. Will you personally be contributing to that oppression when you select to take part in a luxurious non-compulsory occasion the place you unnecessarily expose your self to a whole lot of potential carriers of Covid 19? YES.
Yikes.
I’m certain I’m not supposed to speak abut this, however to me “white privilege” appears much less like taking part in a bicycle race and extra like Lucas Brunelle lecturing a black police officer after getting stopped for working a light-weight:
By the best way, the above picture is not the AI’s tackle “white privilege,” but it surely would possibly as nicely be.
Lastly, in additional bike media information, Path Much less Pedaled Man blows the lid off “The Greatest Shimano Drivetrain No One Talks About:”
And right here it’s:
REALLY, NOBODY TALKS ABOUT IT???
What am I, liver that has been chopped!?!
Look, I don’t imply to get indignant right here, however on the subject of mouthing off on the Web I did every thing first. EVERYTHING. Not solely did I invent making enjoyable of fixies, however I used to be additionally complaining about gravel bikes since at the least 2013:
It was true then, and it’s true now:
Besides that $129 Nashbar body, fairly certain that isn’t a factor anymore.
These had been the times…
