Additional to yesterday’s put up about drivers working into individuals, a reader informs me that Subaru has launched a brand new cyclist-coddling airbag:
Doesn’t that look comfortable? Now hitting a bicycle owner shall be much less like vehicular assault and extra like placing a child down for a nap:
I look ahead to the up to date model that performs soothing music and deploys a blanket to maintain the sufferer cozy till first responders arrive.
And but clearly the airbag division and the physique design division at Subaru don’t work together with one another in any respect, as a result of on the similar time they appear to be redesigning the entrance ends of their vehicles to maximise cyclist-battering functionality:
See how a lot flatter the grill is getting?
What good is that doggy mattress airbag should you don’t wind up on it within the first place?
Anyway, wanna see a sleek entrance finish? Now this can be a sleek entrance finish:
With the climate as pleasant because it’s been lately I couldn’t resist commuting by bicycle yesterday, and the spring hues have been sufficient to make you wanna puke:
As have been the numerous different individuals having fun with themselves:
There’s nothing I hate greater than seeing individuals having fun with themselves.
Whereas today I’ve grow to be a kind of “woosie” occasional fair-weather bicycle commuters, it’s essential to keep in mind that I singlehandedly invented just about your complete city biking lexicon:
Whereas this in itself is ironic, what’s doubly ironic is that there’s a typical false impression that shoaling is yet one more cultural instance of males asserting their dominance over girls:
Nonsense. As each a person and the one that coined the time period I can guarantee you that gender has nothing to do with it and that girls shoal me on a regular basis:
Although I used to be driving the Homer, and possibly there’s simply one thing quaint and endearing a few Rivendell that screams “shoal me.”
Sure, some issues in New York by no means change. Certainly one of them is shoaling, and one other is the Holland Tunnel site visitors on Varick Road, which has as soon as once more been clumpy and thick regardless of congestion pricing:
The result’s blocked crosswalks when the sunshine adjustments:
That’s just about the Doge meme in actual life, and it’s even in a Tesla for max poignancy:
Clearly the canine and the pedestrian really feel fairly in a different way concerning the state of affairs:
And at last, talking of my contributions to society, I’m happy to announce I’ve succeeded in utterly bending the narrative round each the Trek Y-Foil and George Plimpton to my will:
And after I say utterly, I do imply utterly:
They are saying historical past is written by the victors, however I think it’s principally written by the wiseasses.
