Fun times with the paper of record

[roadrunnertwice]

This seems really alien and forced and out of touch. Yes, cyclists tend to tribe up, let me show you my colors, but I think this either was beamed in from another planet or is just totally dumbass. Should I just ignore it as some NYC nonsense that doesn't have anything to do with me, is it actually as stupid as it seems, or am I just being an ass for feeling offended? :/

Comments

[daedala]

The New York Times trend articles are notoriously off, regardless of topic.

[roadrunnertwice]

Haha, well, that's good to know. I don't usually venture to that area of the thing, but the bike-news angle made me click.

[sara]

It is pretty stupid, but I am always really happy to see a Bike Friday in a national paper. *G*

I dunno, I have been reading back numbers of Bicycling magazine this weekend and thinking about how much of it seems really disconnected from my experiences and trying to sort out why that is...I don't know that I'd call it tribalism but it is weird.

[roadrunnertwice]

Yeah, Bicycling is definitely not of my tribe. Or something. (It IS my dad's tribe, though, so it doesn't seem like it's from Mars or anything.)

[sara]

It seems pretty Martian to me -- but then it'll have one or two really interesting things an issue (which makes it worth reading from the library, sometimes, but not worth buying).

[vlion]

Huh.

I guess I'm not in touch?

I just bike to school and back and have aspirations of bigger bikes with my girlfriend. I don't really Culturally Identify, I just use it. :o

[darkemeralds]

I'm always glad to see bicycling highlighted in a major (non-cycle-specific) publication, and I don't have any real problem with the attempt to sort out bike-riding's many faces. I spent a couple of months before buying Clyde last summer trying to figure out what was making the prospect so daunting for me. I knew that I didn't fit into the type of bike-riding my sister does--she's an avid and somewhat competitive sport cyclist. I had no idea which bike shop to go to, but I knew that not being like my sister would mean I probably wouldn't get the kind of service or treatment I needed in order to make a start.

An article like that one, as silly as it seems on its face, would have actually been something of a help to me, especially seeing the 62 year old, not-slim woman in the mix.