The Colour Of Memory

June 27, 2008

Velo-Mencken

Filed under: Blogs, Cycling — Tags: — rottenhat @ 4:11 pm

Bike Snob NYC on scooters:

At first it sounds like someone’s mixing a margarita or firing up a vibrator in a convertible or something—then you realize you’re not in a Van Halen video and it’s actually the diminutive whirr of yet another dandy on a neutercycle.

and on real cycling:

If you haven’t experienced the thrill of hitting the base of the Manhattan Bridge bike lane at a blistering 15 MPH with an elite group consisting of a young guy on a Bianchi Pista with chopped flat bars, a middle-aged gentleman on an dayglo mountain bike with thumbshifters and a chipped and yellowed pie plate, and a woman on a Bianchi Volpe with fully-loaded panniers and a blinky light on the back of her helmet, then you don’t know what a real shot of adrenaline feels like.

Read the whole post – the man warms up slowly but he hits a mighty pace on the finishing stretch.  Then read his entire archive.

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