Additional to yesterday’s publish, 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 anyone who rides round city, to work, for buying, and for enjoyable, than anyone 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 with a purpose to promote overpriced clothes and overcaffeinated swill on the similar time:
Right here’s the video:
Eh, frankly with regards to action-packed movies that mix bikes and trains I choose ones that function Bromptons:
Now that’s what I name suspense.
Generally you screw the watermelon:
And different instances 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 might cap the price of an e-Citi Bike journey:
I’m all for Citi Bike, and it’s factor that folks 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 price? E-Citi Bikes didn’t even exist till about six years in the past. Now out of the blue they’re a fundamental human proper and we want a legislation in order that they price 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 fully on Citi Bikes, electrical or in any other case, although I do suspect Lincoln Restler is complicated the best way regular folks reside with the comedian subplots of ’90s sitcoms:
I additionally promise you that they aren’t changing automobile journeys in any significant manner:
The truth is, satirically, e-Citi Bikes are inflicting extra site visitors as a result of they require a fleet of drivers to service them:
In fact 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 can substitute the van fleet. This magic is named “public funding,” and it’ll repair every part. Don’t consider it? Simply have a look at what nice form the MTA is in! It’s doing so splendidly these similar smuggies are telling us that it may’t operate with out congestion pricing:
I get that it’s modern to consider in a future by which drivers paradoxically abandon their vehicles and but someway 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, when you’re on the lookout for an inexpensive e-Citi Bike simply come to the Bronx and assist your self, they’re completely in every single place:
Simply be sure that to convey a spoke wrench.
Talking of mixing buying and enjoyable, I did simply that yesterday, and on certainly one of Outdated Man Petersen’s bikes as well:
Using the paths in a populous space typically requires you to share the path with people who find themselves strolling canines:
Or, much less typically, birds:
I suppose he simply desires to provide it some recent air, but when something it appears needlessly merciless, like marching a prisoner by the city sq.:
Positive, typically after I’m using a motorbike on this city I too really feel like a caged fowl:
However at the very least it’s straightforward to park.
