The bikes have won, and it's not a terrible thing.
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The bikes have won, and it's not a terrible thing.
Read the full article here:
https://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...538343738.html
That's the beauty of a bike, a simple machine with two wheels and zero ideology. When you can turn a pedal and feel safe, it's fun and makes sense.
And anyone can ride. There have been cheesy distortions of cycling as a trendy, elite activity—to link bike paths to ongoing gentrification, and claim the city is catering to a hipster fringe.
You want to see what a fraud that argument is? Get on a bike and ride. For every Spandexed obsessive tucked on a $3,000 carbon fiber frame you'll see 100 people of every imaginable background just trying to get to work, do their job, have fun with their kids, safely spin from A to B.
Bikes are New York fringe? Email your friends. Ask how many of them own bikes. Then ask how many of them own cars. If more of them say they own cars, look out the window. You live in Connecticut.
https://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...538343738.html
That's the beauty of a bike, a simple machine with two wheels and zero ideology. When you can turn a pedal and feel safe, it's fun and makes sense.
And anyone can ride. There have been cheesy distortions of cycling as a trendy, elite activity—to link bike paths to ongoing gentrification, and claim the city is catering to a hipster fringe.
You want to see what a fraud that argument is? Get on a bike and ride. For every Spandexed obsessive tucked on a $3,000 carbon fiber frame you'll see 100 people of every imaginable background just trying to get to work, do their job, have fun with their kids, safely spin from A to B.
Bikes are New York fringe? Email your friends. Ask how many of them own bikes. Then ask how many of them own cars. If more of them say they own cars, look out the window. You live in Connecticut.
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"Zero ideology?" OK, perhaps the bike doesn't have any, but that certainly doesn't hold true for the cyclist.
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two for the price of one.....
I love cycling and I love the WSJ, so the article was a double whammy.
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"...You know the traffic nightmare of getting across town at 4:30 p.m.? Can't get a cab; subway doesn't go there; it's too far to walk. Imagine paying a couple bucks to hop on a bike, and pedal safely through the gridlock to get there in five minutes. "
Best bike advocacy ever.
Paul
Best bike advocacy ever.
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Yet the article had to fling the typical BS
Spandexed obsessive
haughty biker
without a helmet
haughty biker
without a helmet
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Its a fantastic article.
..."Hyperbolic worries that the city was transforming to an effete Euro village... Transportation commissioner Janette Sadik-Kahn would open a leg shaving station in Union Square."
Hilarious too. As good as the deft craftings of bike whimsy by Bike Snob NYC.
..."Hyperbolic worries that the city was transforming to an effete Euro village... Transportation commissioner Janette Sadik-Kahn would open a leg shaving station in Union Square."
Hilarious too. As good as the deft craftings of bike whimsy by Bike Snob NYC.
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"...You know the traffic nightmare of getting across town at 4:30 p.m.? Can't get a cab; subway doesn't go there; it's too far to walk. Imagine paying a couple bucks to hop on a bike, and pedal safely through the gridlock to get there in five minutes. "
Best bike advocacy ever.
Paul
Best bike advocacy ever.
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Read the full article here:
https://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...538343738.html
That's the beauty of a bike, a simple machine with two wheels and zero ideology. When you can turn a pedal and feel safe, it's fun and makes sense.
https://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...538343738.html
That's the beauty of a bike, a simple machine with two wheels and zero ideology. When you can turn a pedal and feel safe, it's fun and makes sense.
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The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it's everywhere. The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.
Still, WSJ does have some style to it.
Bikes are New York fringe? Email your friends. Ask how many of them own bikes. Then ask how many of them own cars. If more of them say they own cars, look out the window. You live in Connecticut.
Cars are unsustainable as commuting machines. Motorcycles for fast distance commute or bicycles for quick short distance commute. Cars are for passengers and freight.
Edit: Also the comments.
Now if we can just riders off the sidewalks. Hey Delivery Guy! You CAN ride in the street. Your mom said it's okay!
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resonates much better and with more honesty than that tawdry PJ O'ROurke piece from the WSJ in April of this year. what a disappointment.
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