Originally Posted by
I-Like-To-Bike
You only earn your "hip" credentials if by using your phone you get the impression that it somehow makes you more modern or intelligent than those who do not; hip merit badge can also be met by repeatedly boasting about your "smarts" on this subject.
Sorry, but you have it completely and utterly backwards. First, a person is hip and then by their very hipness, they define the requirements for
being hip. There is not a set of standards to become hip; we already
are hip and just do what we do. Then other wanna-bes and whiners attempt in their cute, pathetic little way to become what we already are.
We, as cyclists, are already hip - no matter how we "bank".
Lock up and walk in the bank? Hip. Use a smartphone to bank? Hip. Ride through the drive-thru? Hip. Write checks and mail them in? Yep, still hip. It's the bike, man, the bike.