How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Hate the Car - BSNYC in Outside Mag

[dmurphey]

Even his name is satire.

We should raise our drinks in cheer to the front line of a culture war on the US byraods and highways. Bike Snob has been duking it out with freakin GREAT writing for a long time, a decade. He takes equal time to ridicule short women in big SUV's, hammerhead roadies, and the novice bikers with bar extensions. T is vaudeville for our times, applied to our passion, trying to ride our GDamn bikes in big cities!

Go BSNYC, Go!

[Burnette]

Originally Posted by 54ny77

Yep. That's about right. And then he got sorta kissy kissy with Lance, which was ironic.

That aside, what is amazing is that he comes up with something every day (or however often he posts) for so darned long, which would seem impossible in bike land. That in and of itself is impressive. But, it's the same schtick and in my opinion only, its tired.
Funny thing is, we had a small handful of his books we tried to sell (my wife has a retail store and one section contains books), placed prominently in the mens gift section among other sports-themed books. Didn't sell a single one. I gave one away and if I recall we just ate the loss & recycled the rest. I would venture a guess that even if I had offered em up here free other than postage (which I hadn't thought about until now), few, if anyone, would care.

So yes, you might say I'm pretty familiar with his stuff.

Yeah, his tank gets empty quite a bit and true, his shtick is tired. The funny part is how some take it for serious journalism and argue using it. It's satire folks. And this particular example was a poorly written piece.

[cetuximab]

Originally Posted by FlashUNC

Those are all his points in the article.

And, uh, he's not wrong about the jaywalking thing, that's accurate:

http://muse.jhu.edu/article/215409

"children at play belonged in the street"

"most city people viewed"..."streets as a public space."

[Drmojo]

reading this thread
kinda like BSNYC posts after the first few