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Exhausting-Pressed Or Hardly Pressed? – Bike Snob NYC


Spare a thought for the hard-pressed Germans:

Pressured to purchase lowly bicycles as an alternative of vehicles:

Oh, the humanity!

In the meantime within the Netherlands they’ve perfected biking for people so now they’re shifting on to canine:

“If a canine might design a motorbike seat, that is what it will seem like,” claims the narrator:

That is utterly unfaithful, and I’ve a schematic for a motorbike seat drawn by an precise canine to show it:

[It just clamps onto the handlebars if you’re wondering.]

Canines prioritize meals, consolation, and waging everlasting conflict towards their sworn enemy the cat, in that order. Sadly this product by no means made it into manufacturing, although it did get the canine a job as an engineer at Lockheed Martin.

As for america, a.ok.a. Canada’s furry canine mattress, not like these hard-pressed Germans we soft-middled People at all times discover cash within the couch cushions to spend on vehicles:

And in contrast to the Dutch we’re probably not snug biking with our pets as a result of we’re too preoccupied with helmets–for them:

Canine entry to high quality bicycle helmets has lengthy been one of many greatest issues dealing with our society, if not your entire world, however our greatest and brightest are exhausting at work on fixing the issue:

Within the meantime, luckily cat helmets are available:

The everlasting conflict between canine and cats has taken an infinite toll in lives however has additionally yielded some great technological developments.

Talking of bicycle equipment, when the hell was somebody going to inform me the Rev-X is again?!?

And it even has an ACTIVE TURBULATOR!!!

“What the hell is an lively tuburlator?,” you’re in all probability questioning.

Properly, it’s this:

So mainly some bumps. This may increasingly or will not be the identical idea as these Zipp wheels that used “biomimicry” and had been modeled after a humpback whale’s pectoral fins:

Biking could also be a terrestrial exercise, however greater than another aspect–even gravel–cyclists are obsessive about air. Both we’re making an attempt to get our bikes to cross via it as easily as doable, or else we’re fretting over how a lot of it we have now in our tires. So we trip round on whale fin wheels with self-inflation methods:

The machine known as the GRAVAA:

And I’m positive I’m not the one one who thinks it’s about time somebody invented a pair of wheels it’s a must to cost:

Between this and your energy meter and your electrical drivetrain and your electrical dropper submit you’ll want to hold a listing of all of the batteries and charging ports in your bike as a result of there’s no approach you’ll keep in mind all of them. It’s like making an attempt to recollect the place you set all of the roach baits in your kitchen.

If we might work out a method to channel the air circulate across the rim straight into the valve then we’d actually be onto one thing.

Lastly, I’m a agency believer in free speech, however I’m now not positive it ought to apply to bike opinions:

There actually should be a legislation, as a result of no language deserves this kind of abuse, not even English:

Oh, the humanity.

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