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[roadrunnertwice]

Link-wander resulted in rediscovering JWZ's epically bitchy bike advice post from '08, so I'm sharing. Fun game: send it to a friend and try to guess how much of it they'll violently disagree with!

(I actually quite like the post, except for the part about riding on sidewalks. An oft-overlooked virtue of the abrasive geek textual aesthetic is its implicit assertion that the problem at hand is a: knowable and b: not too many levels harder than whatever else you have to deal with on a regular basis. It's reassuring, if that's what you're wired for.)

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[jld]

Also, what is it with everyone dissing the spandex? These days I am riding 20 to 50 miles a day

That might be why. For people who aren't riding hours at a time, normal pants can work just fine, and utility is maximized by not buying and managing and taking the time to change into and out of special-purpose clothes.

[ell]

I tend to forget that most people on bikes aren't doing what I do. Optimism, I guess. But when I commute the 6 miles to work, especially in the summer, I also tend to wear the spandex as I have to change anyway when I get to work (live in the south) because it's 98 degrees and 98% humidity by 8 am for 3 months out of the year.