Additional to Monday’s put up, as professional biking headgear will get extra amusing, so do the headlines:
I had no thought there was even such a factor as a “Head Sock,” and now it’s been banned:
Specialised is upset:
Although the plain resolution is for all Specialised-sponsored riders to transform to Islam. Then Specialised can change the title from Head Sock to Aero Hijab and problem the ban on the grounds that it constitutes spiritual discrimination:
Hookless rims, head socks…what a time to be alive.
Talking of huge bike corporations and aero positive aspects, going through a monetary headwind, Trek will cut back its floor space by 10%:
In line with Burke, the bike market is in “chaos:”
For all my mockery of the bike business, I take no pleasure in any of this and need everybody concerned within the making, promoting, and using of bikes to flourish. I mentioned it earlier than and I’ll say it once more, possibly we should always have instructed the Pando Cyclists to fuck off once we had the possibility, and for those who’re a sufferer of all this bike business “proper sizing” I apologize for no matter function I could have performed in serving to to inflate the bubble:
Frankly, after I consider all of the beginner cyclists I helped on the facet of the bike path throughout that point it makes me sick to my abdomen. As a substitute of serving to them repair flats I ought to have mentioned, “Welp, seems to be such as you’re fucked. Have a pleasant experience dwelling. Possibly using bikes isn’t for you. Have you ever regarded into {golfing}? They are saying it’s the brand new biking.”
“However wait,” they’d little doubt have replied. “I believed biking was the brand new golf!”
“Properly, yeah,” I’d clarify. “It used to be the brand new golf. However then when it turned golf, golf turned biking, and biking turned golf once more. Which suggests you ought to be {golfing}, not biking. Do you get it now?” Then I’d clip in and experience away, leaving them stranded and confused.
And that’s the way you mind-fuck somebody out of using a motorbike.
However there’s a silver lining to all of this–or, for those who favor, a wind-cheating head sock beneath this helmet of despair–as a result of retailers are actually providing unprecedented reductions and incentives, which implies there’s by no means been a greater time to purchase a motorbike:
I can’t let you know who the “semi-famous cyclebrity” is, and I’ll neither verify nor deny rumors that it’s the late George Plimpton:
Simply kidding, everybody is aware of he rode a Y-Foil:
Simply kidding.
Although bringing again the Y-Foil might be precisely the testosterone patch on the perineum Trek wants proper now:
From the paint scheme to the plentiful spacers to the shifters mounted over the bar tape, this child is perfection from stem to stern.
Lastly, in case you wanted extra dangerous information, bicycle deaths in New York Metropolis are at a 23 year-old excessive:
And a lot of the riders who died have been utilizing e-bikes:
As I’ve famous earlier than, it’s troublesome to attract significant conclusions from this if you don’t know the way a lot of the whole ridership is now utilizing e-bikes…although in keeping with the DOT the proliferation of e-bikes is “not solely” the rationale for the rise:
I dunno, 4 electrical Citi Bike deaths in a yr appears like rather a lot to me. It’s more durable than you’d suppose to search out whole Citi Bike deaths by yr (possibly that’s by design), nevertheless it it appears to me that they have been exceedingly uncommon earlier than the most recent gray e-Citi Bikes arrived. Then once more, the system has additionally grown significantly through the years…although there have been additionally far fewer bike lanes when Citi Bike debuted, so who who is aware of?
Finally, an important conclusion to attract from the article is that it doesn’t matter what you’re using the most important hazard you face out there’s turning vehicles:
Understanding that’s most likely the only most essential a part of staying alive on a motorbike in New York Metropolis.
