Posts Tagged ‘bikesnobnyc’

Summary: BikeSnobNYC’s first jump from new media to old falls flat in an attempt to create an intro to cycling book with an edge. Rating: 2/5 Price: $16.95 In the world of bike bloggers, there are the earnest and the snarky. Usually the twain never meet, but BikeSnobNYC has become one of the rock stars [...]

Thursday I recieved the May issue of Bicycling Magazine – or at least I think I did. Sure, it had the same old cover showing a muscled, smiling racer that this Marketeer of everything carbon and spandex usually features (in fact I think all Bicycling covers feature the same racer, or at least it seems [...]

The Dumbest Product of the Week has taken a detour in the last month away from cycling specific products into some generally inane offerings. While that’s completely within my vision of this series, we are a bicycle site so I do not want to go too long before dissecting silly bike products. This week’s nominee [...]

I’m pretty miffed at BikeSnobNYC for stealing the thunder of my original Dumbest Product of the Week for this week, the titanium commuter bike called the CoMooter from Moots. He artfully muses on the the stupidity of an almost $9000 commuter bike as well as the rampant inflation plaguing the high end bike market these [...]

Last week, I started a series I hope to bring you each week highlighting the silly, useless things being brought to you, the American consumer, in a fleeting chance that we might all think about what we are doing before we buy one more thing. If I don’t accomplish that, at the least this is [...]

I’m currently working on a post to go over best practices in locking your bike. I happen to come across bikesnobnyc’s post about preparing yourself for the inevitable moment when you realize your bike has been stolen. I especially like the four tips at the end. Also linked in this post was YouTube video about [...]