Additional to Monday’s put up, as professional biking headgear will get extra amusing, so do the headlines:
I had no concept 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 identify 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 features, going through a monetary headwind, Trek will scale back its floor space by 10%:
In response to 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 stated it earlier than and I’ll say it once more, perhaps we must always have informed the Pando Cyclists to fuck off once we had the possibility, and in case you’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 aspect of the bike path throughout that point it makes me sick to my abdomen. As an alternative of serving to them repair flats I ought to have stated, “Welp, appears to be like such as you’re fucked. Have a pleasant journey residence. Perhaps 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 question have replied. “I assumed biking was the brand new golf!”
“Effectively, yeah,” I’d clarify. “It used to be the brand new golf. However then when it grew to become golf, golf grew to become biking, and biking grew to become golf once more. Which suggests you have to be {golfing}, not biking. Do you get it now?” Then I’d clip in and journey away, leaving them stranded and confused.
And that’s the way you mind-fuck somebody out of using a motorcycle.
However there’s a silver lining to all of this–or, in case you want, 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 motorcycle:
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 unhealthy information, bicycle deaths in New York Metropolis are at a 23 year-old excessive:
And many 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 whenever you don’t know the way a lot of the full 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 12 months appears like so much to me. It’s tougher than you’d suppose to seek out whole Citi Bike deaths by 12 months (perhaps that’s by design), but it surely it appears to me that they have been exceedingly uncommon earlier than the newest 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?
In the end, a very powerful conclusion to attract from the article is that it doesn’t matter what you’re using the largest hazard you face out there may be turning vehicles:
Understanding that’s most likely the one most essential a part of staying alive on a motorcycle in New York Metropolis.
