Bear in mind VanMoof? I believed they have been bankrupt, however apparently they’ve obtained some kind of futuristic area bike popping out:
In the meantime, the corporate’s co-founders have designed a brand new bike for Raleigh:
Solely within the Netherlands within the media staking out the homes of motorcycle designers for spy pictures:
Varied prototypes of the brand-less e-bike have been noticed in and across the metropolis over the past yr — generally close by the house of one of many brothers. The prototypes match pictures of a Raleigh-branded e-bike that just lately leaked. These pictures have been inadvertently made public (and later eliminated) by Amsterdam-based Uni_verse Studio, the digital manufacturing home that lists VanMoof as a consumer.
The VanMoof’s stage prime tube however, clearly the bar for superstar could be very low over there (get it?) within the Low International locations. Then once more, who may resist the charismatic attract of the Carlier brothers, who’re famend throughout Benelux because the Mongolfier brothers of the e-bike?
By the way in which, is Taco a standard title over there?
I had the Taco Ties at TGI Fridays as soon as, they have been unbelievable and I extremely suggest.
[The AI’s best shot at “A food special at TGI Friday’s restaurant called ‘Taco Ties.’” Not bad, though I was thinking more a hard taco in the shape of a pretzel somehow…not that I know how that would work, but I bet the food geniuses at TGI Fridays could pull it off. Also, the apostrophe in TGI Fridays was completely my fault.]
Elsewhere within the media, I learn this story by an Austin race promoter with moderate-to-high curiosity:
The bit about racers pestering him for race outcomes actually resonated with me as a result of I do know from private expertise that newbie bike racers–particularly the awful low-category ones–are completely terrible about that and have to know that they obtained twenty sixth place within the Cat 4 subject instantly. (I wish to state for the document that I used to be by no means considered one of these riders and that I all the time knew that I sucked, so the very last thing I wished or wanted was my numerical inserting to verify that.) However then the story takes an surprising flip:
One week after George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, was murdered by police in Minneapolis, a biking web site referred to as the Radavist printed an op-ed titled, Bike Racing, White Privilege and the Coronavirus. The article precisely assessed the inequity and structural racism that’s inherent in newbie bike racing, and scrutinized my resolution to placed on mass-start occasions because the virus disproportionately ravaged marginalized communities.
Oddly he appears chastened and grateful, although he acquired demise threats consequently:
With the world seemingly in flames, I started receiving dozens of demise threats on-line. Folks wrote that they hoped me and my household obtained COVID and died. My daughter, who was a young person, noticed among the feedback on social media and have become upset. Our sponsors obtained tagged in most of the adverse posts and feedback, and it wasn’t lengthy earlier than Life Time discontinued its sponsorship. Ultimately, Kelley and I made a decision to finish the mini-series early.
Right here’s a quote from that Desert Hipster story by the way in which.
Folks of coloration are dying, they don’t have medical health insurance, they don’t have a security web and it is a direct results of years of oppression attributable to structural inequality ingrained in our society. Most cyclists straight profit from structural inequality and it’s the similar software getting used towards folks of coloration. Will you personally be contributing to that oppression when you select to take part in a luxurious optionally available occasion the place you unnecessarily expose your self to lots of of attainable carriers of Covid 19? YES.
Yikes.
I’m positive I’m not supposed to speak abut this, however to me “white privilege” seems to be much less like taking part in a bicycle race and extra like Lucas Brunelle lecturing a black police officer after getting stopped for working a lightweight:
By the way in which, the above picture just isn’t the AI’s tackle “white privilege,” however it would possibly as properly be.
Lastly, in additional bike media information, Path Much less Pedaled Man blows the lid off “The Greatest Shimano Drivetrain No One Talks About:”
And right here it’s:
REALLY, NOBODY TALKS ABOUT IT???
What am I, liver that has been chopped!?!
Look, I don’t imply to get indignant right here, however with regards to mouthing off on the Web I did all the things first. EVERYTHING. Not solely did I invent making enjoyable of fixies, however I used to be additionally complaining about gravel bikes since at the least 2013:
It was true then, and it’s true now:
Besides that $129 Nashbar body, fairly positive that isn’t a factor anymore.
These have been the times…
