Apologies for the graphic, I had to repurpose one because American Thanksgiving is so obscure.
So yeah, next Thursday is American Thanksgiving, which means two things:
1) Our president will pardon a turkey, even though technically he already did;
2) I'll be taking my leave of this blog until Monday, November 27th, at which point I will resume regular updates. (Though of course if an Outside column should appear before that I'll pop in here to let you know.)
As for the Bike Forecast, I'll continue to update that through Wednesday November 22nd for the poor commuter schmucks.
Suckers.
Suckers.
Speaking of being absent, I'd like to address a comment I received yesterday because it raises an important point:
How many of these lately start with you apologizing for being late, forgetting the day, or some other excuse... followed by a plug for something else you’re doing that’s obviously more important? Why not just stick a fork in it and move on?
November 16, 2017 at 11:18 PM
Firstly, in regard to the second question, the answer to that is obviously "Go fuck yourself." And I don't mean that in a nasty way, I mean it in a totally matter-of-fact that's-a-stupid-question-so-go-right-ahead-and-fuck-yourself way. No offense intended. By the way, blogging is a compulsion for me at this point, so like it or not I'll probably be blogging until the moment I die--in fact, I'll probably die blogging once I set up my dedicated blogging bike:
Secondly, yes, being a one-person operation who manages to do the work of at least .75 people there are times when I must type fewer words into this blog than I'd like. And while I'm honored that my absence bothers you, I'd argue that on balance it's a good thing, since there's too goddamn much of of me as it is. Indeed, if I'm not typing words into this blog I'm probably typing them someplace else. Seriously, I have what, like fourteen blogs already? Also, I'm my own tech department, which means I have to prepare and ride wooden bicycles and Jones bars and Brooks Cambium All Weather Saddles and all the rest of it. Do you think I like receiving all this exotica and then on top of everything having to take mid-week rides on them while the rest of you are working? Of course not!
It's a hard life is all I'm saying, and hardly a day goes by where you can't find some fresh bullshit from me somewhere online, so cut me some slack.
Speaking of the indignities of product testing, I've got the Jones bars and the Cambium All Weather saddle on Ol' Piney now:
And this morning I finally managed to take the whole package out for a decent ride, i.e. my usual all-terrain loop:
And yes, I do feel like a gigantic douchebag for embedding my Strava data in this blog, but I'm way too old and over it to care.
Anyway, rest assured a thorough accounting of these bars will follow in the not-too-distant future, but for now I'll just say that so far I really like them and I think they'll succeed in turning Ol' Piney into the all-day bike it really wants to be.
And with that I bid you a-duh. Enjoy your Thanksgiving if applicable, ride safe, and I'll see you back here on Monday, November 27th if not almost certainly before.
I Love You,
--Wildcat Rock Machine
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