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At all times Up For A Three-Approach – Bike Snob NYC


It’s Friday, which suggests the primary work week in New York Metropolis with congestion pricing is formally drawing to a detailed. So how’s it trying to this point? Effectively, it appears to be trying good…relying on the place you’re going and who you ask:

I’ve been skeptical that congestion pricing will work in a metropolis the place individuals already flood the streets with vehicles regardless of the various tolls and crushing visitors and excessive insurance coverage prices and parking complications all the remainder of it, however I’m very happy to be confirmed unsuitable, so I’ll be watching with curiosity–although admittedly I spend little or no time contained in the congestion zone lately, so I don’t understand how a lot I’ll be seeing firsthand. For awhile there I used to be commuting by bike to and from Brooklyn twice every week, which did take me proper by way of the congestion zone:

[Not Brooklyn, and not inside the congestion zone.]

Effectively, I’m nonetheless commuting to Brooklyn twice every week (sure, I’ve a complete second life nothing about, and whereas I can’t let you know something about it, I’ll neither affirm nor deny rumors that I’m an in-demand beauty surgeon), however I confess I gave up doing it by bike. So why is that? Is it as a result of I’m a “woosie?”

Effectively, yeah, I’m positively a “woosie,” however that’s probably not why. In the end, I simply couldn’t get round the truth that a 35-mile (roughly) spherical journey between the Bronx and Brooklyn most likely value me no less than a further hour a day over the subway. I imply I might most likely beat the subway if I commuted on a race bike in stretchy garments, however then I’d have to vary and all that stuff, which might completely negate any time-savings:

Additionally, as I’ve most likely talked about, whereas I get pleasure from driving bicycles as a lot or greater than absolutely anything else on the earth, I additionally like studying, which is hard to do on a motorbike. By the best way, I requested the AI to create a picture of “Bike Snob NYC Studying A E book Whereas Driving A Rivendell Bicycle In New York Metropolis” and right here’s what it got here up with:

It actually nailed it this time, and I for one welcome our new laptop overlords.

Anyway, driving a motorbike is nice, however sitting in your ass and studying can also be fairly good, too, and now that I’m a subway commuter I’m studying greater than I’ve in years. After all the plastic seat of a subway isn’t essentially the most nice place to take a seat in your ass, and when it’s freezing out prefer it has been this week the subway is filled with much more raving lunatics than it normally is, however total I’m saving time and studying stuff I wouldn’t have an opportunity to in any other case so it’s a reasonably good commerce. And whereas I’ll spare you the rant about all the pieces that’s unsuitable with the subway, I do take into account myself a subway fan. Astute readers might even have observed my transit-themed Christmas sweater in my latest YouTube cameo:

Nerdy sufficient for you?

[My wife picked it out, but still.]

I additionally completely do the Vacation Nostalgia Rides:

Although the group it attracts may be mildly disconcerting. When you assume bike individuals are dorky, practice individuals make bike individuals appear like a bunch of A-list celebrities. They’re like that bizarre child Ralphie meets in “A Christmas Story” once they’re ready on line to fulfill Santa:

So will congestion pricing profit my even nerdier straphanging alter ego? Perhaps so. Within the brief time period I believe one of the simplest ways to enhance the subway system can be to shoot individuals who don’t use headphones. However I’ll attempt to hold an open thoughts.

Luckily, life in New York Metropolis isn’t all cramming your self into subway vehicles, and you can even set your self up fairly good for driving if what you’re doing:

And I do know what I’m doing:

So now that I’ve acquired the Roadini, do I nonetheless even want the very similarly-named Roaduno?

Frankly, I resent the query. I imply take a look at this! How might I not have a Roaduno?

I admit I did discover myself pondering of turning it again into an precise singlespeed now that I’ve acquired the Roadini, however the singlespeed/triplespeed actually is the very best of each worlds:

Okay, I do know what you’re pondering:

However we’ve already established I’m “woosie.” And with a 17-tooth cog within the again and that 42/32/20 MicroDrive up entrance I’m coated for just about all the pieces:

And but, it nonetheless satisfies that singlespeed craving a few of us can by no means fairly shake. Clearly some individuals don’t care about singlespeeds and don’t need them. However in case you are a singlespeed individual, and also you’re utterly trustworthy with your self, you’ll admit that that is the way it works:

  • It’s important to have a singlespeed
  • You like driving your singlespeed a lot you begin wishing it had gears
  • You promote your singlespeed and get one thing else
  • You miss having a singlespeed so that you get one other one and the method begins anew

However by satisfying each the singlespeed and geared craving directly, the Roaduno places an finish to this vicious cycle as soon as and for all:

It’s important for my psychological well being.

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