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Bike Snob NYC
Personal blog · bikesnobnyc.blogspot.comculture
Bike Snob NYC is a personal blog at bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com about culture. Since 2009, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (12) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Bike Snob NYC for funny takes on cycling and minimalism, such as its replies to minimalist lifestyle writers and its posts on bike theft, jaywalking and bike gear.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 12 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Systematically and mercilessly disassembling, flushing, greasing, and re-packing the cycling culture.
Most-linked posts?
- /2011/12/2011-year-walls-kept-closing-in.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-01-16
What Hacker News says?
http://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/2008/04/victim-complex-copin... You are victim blaming! Bikers who leave their bike unlocked do NOT deserve those bikes to be stolen! They made a mistake. But the criminal remains a criminal. A thief who steals an unlocked bike has committed a crime JUST as heinous as a criminal who steals a locked bike. The level of effort is much lower, but the crime is one and the same. Similarly,…
Comment linking /2008/04/victim-complex-coping-with-bike-theft.html
on “Is This Justice? Charging an Eighth Grader with a Felony for “Hacking””Submitted In response to: " Is it okay to kill cyclists" as a story · 15 points
HN discussionFor anyone that's interested in the subject, Hunter Oatman-Stanford wrote a rather more comprehensive article[1] with a much snappier title on the topic roughly four years ago, and Eben Weiss (aka Bike Snob NYC) responded with one of his charmingly vitriolic hot-takes[2] shortly thereafter. [1] https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/murder-machines/ [2] https://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/2014/03/bsnyc-no-friday-fun…
Comment linking /2014/03/bsnyc-no-friday-fun-quiz-instead-friday.html
on “How Automakers Invented the Crime of “Jaywalking””For a funnier and lighter response to Graham Hill, I highly recommend this piece from bike snob: http://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/2011/12/2011-year-walls-kept... "Sure, life can be a bit easier if you trim the proverbial fat now and again, but this is hardly a revelation to anybody except a minimalist like Graham Hill, for whom even the basic mechanics of life are all transcendent."
Comment linking /2011/12/2011-year-walls-kept-closing-in.html
on “Wealth, risk, and stuff”Ahh yes, I wondered if this was the same gentlemen who was the subject of so much fantastic BSNYC lampooning earlier this year. It's worth noting that he hasn't stopped. http://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/2011/12/2011-year-walls-kept... is quite excellent, with such lines as, "So, being the good minimalist that he is, he immediately paid way too much for almost nothing." I think the truth is somewhere between the two h…
Comment linking /2011/12/2011-year-walls-kept-closing-in.html
on “Extreme Minimalism: this guy owns just 15 things”Absolutely... the spirit of reducing waste and consumerism is admirable, but this guy is being ridiculous by claiming that he only owns "15 things". Not only is he missing the point, but his hyperbole is out of control. A toiletry kit is 1 item? Right. Bike Snob NYC has a hilarious post on Hyde if you haven't seen it: http://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/2011/05/paring-down-and-pair...
Comment linking /2011/05/paring-down-and-pairing-up-its-not-size.html
on “Extreme Minimalism: this guy owns just 15 things”I found a sequence of updates from the guy if anyone is interested: https://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/2017/11/bsnyc-field-trip-20... https://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/2017/11/would-that-i-could.... https://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/2017/11/this-title-is-100-f... https://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/2018/06/wood-bike-status-up... https://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/2018/01/sawdust-in-wind.htm... read for yourself
Comment linking /2018/01/sawdust-in-wind.html
on “Wooden bikes”The few possessions I don't use regularly also happen to be the ones that are the easiest to move. Not to mention these sorts of things tend to already be in a box in my closet, practically packed and ready to go. Aside from the negligible space they take up, they certainly aren't having a negative effect on my everyday life, so removing them would have no tangible benefit. In fact, their loss would deprive me of th…
Comment linking /2010/08/new-smugness-keeping-it-to-minimum.html
on “Minimalism: It Works”Don't forget the Chris King Headset Composite Index: http://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/2008/10/no-getting-around-it...
Comment linking /2008/10/no-getting-around-it-cycling-and.html
on “The Fixie Bike Index”Same topic but with more funny - http://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/2010/09/minimizing-windows-j...
Comment linking /2010/09/minimizing-windows-just-call-me-aimless.html
on “A minimalist lifestyle does not make you a better person”That's because every KoM award I've ever heard of involved going up the hill(s). (Note: I know very little about MTB racing, maybe they have one for going down.) The downhill Strava segments strike me, and maybe this is a little mean or judgmental, as something to strive for if you're a Cat 6 [0] racer who can't climb. The first person described in the article was a mid-packer in an actual climbing competition. But…
Comment linking /2011/05/probing-for-answers-cat-6-racing-boom.html
on “The Strava Files”http://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/2018/06/shoal-me-money.html?...
Comment linking /2018/06/shoal-me-money.html?m=1
on “RadTrike Electric Tricycle”It's a lame skate helmet with a hat on top. http://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/2009/08/slow-and-steady-tort...
Comment linking /2009/08/slow-and-steady-tortoise-and-helmet.html
on “NYC Helmet, I’m Giddy With Excitement”