In what might go down as essentially the most devastating blow to aggrieved city bicycling content material since Gersh Kuntzman left Twitter, British broadcaster and aggrieved city bicyclist Jeremy Vine will now not be producing his aggrieved bicycling movies:
The explanation? Individuals need him to die:
Jeremy Vine is totally proper that getting “crushed beneath a truck” is in truth a “very actual hazard” to cyclists, which he so successfully illustrated when he deliberately positioned himself in precisely the correct place to get crushed beneath a truck:
I give Jeremy Vine two weeks earlier than he misses the eye and begins importing movies once more, identical to Gersh Kuntzman introduced to Twitter that he’s “actually not right here very a lot anymore…”
…but nonetheless appears to tweet one thing a minimum of as soon as a day:
This isn’t to suggest that as cyclists we don’t have motive to be aggrieved or that our lives aren’t topic to the whims of drivers whose heedlessness is exceeded solely by their obliviousness; it’s simply that the extra you hunt down the poor habits of others the extra possible you’re to seek out it, and I definitely know that the extra deeply I immersed myself on this planet of advocacy the extra irritable I grew to become. And whereas Jeremy Vine’s movies might provoke the fleeting ire of people that hate bicyclists (most of them most likely simply hate bicyclists for the 30 seconds it takes to answer angrily to one in every of his posts, then they return to not enthusiastic about bikes in any respect), I believe what they actually do is provoke a extra lasting and pernicious ire in bicyclists, in that whenever you experience round with the Vine Mentality you too turn out to be indignant and defensive and experience round in a heightened state of aggrievement akin to psychoactive substance-induced paranoia which does nothing however gasoline a Vicious Cycle of Aggrievement.
Clearly this doesn’t imply it is best to utterly ignore all of the stupidity and the recklessness, for the easy motive that when you do that you just die. Nevertheless, it does imply that the one method you’ll be able to maintain your love of bicycling in the long run is when you learn to deprioritize the stupidity and the recklessness considerably except it threatens you straight. Driving round with a digital camera in your head for the specific objective of documenting all of it is the precise reverse of that, and maybe that is the conclusion Vine has lastly reached.
Anyway, it’s a lot simpler and extra amusing to be aggrieved over issues that make no distinction by any means, like watching each single discarded technological “innovation” of the final 40 years come again from the lifeless in gravel kind:
This time, it’s elastomers:
Although it’s comforting to know I can nonetheless get elastomers for the suspension fork on the Y-Foil:
George was so forward of his time…
Lastly, talking of aggrieved folks, I’ve watched Path Much less Pedaled man’s replace on the Growtac shifters and whereas earlier than I used to be merely skeptical I’m now starting to consider they often is the most needlessly difficult shifting system ever invented:
They appear to have engineered all of the simplicity and sturdiness utterly out of friction shifting, nice job.
