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Bike Porn: Addendum

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Bike Porn: Save Us

I would like to join Rebecca in a last ditch effort to pull the blog out of a downward spiral. I present you with this assortment of bike porn, featuring varying degrees of plausibility.

I'm working on an expose that should come out (with my shame) later this week (month). Until I or another writer manages to squeeze one out, we'll be sure to keep our eyes peeled for pleasing media to shamefully steal. (The above images were complied by a frequent poster on the [shudder] craigslist bicycle forum.) If your're interested in more sordid cycle shots check out this mocking this

Advice, State of the Blog Address, ETC.

I am excited to report that we -- as a blogging unit -- are closing in on Launch Time (LT).

As LT nears, Rob and I (and probably to a lesser extent Lauren, and to maybe no extent at all Jackie--who has yet to publish anything and hasn't even been approved by Rob anyway), ahem, Rob and I realize that we have no idea how to execute said LT.

We plan on changing the name to provide for a more inclusive future. Likely candidates include PREMIUMLIFESTYLEBLOG.BLOGSPOT.COM .
We are welcome for suggestion.

As we creep along with around 6 visitors a day (give or take), and as our 1 cent of ad revenue accrues interests somewhere deep in the vast coffers of google, it's hard not to wonder where we are going to find people who want to read crap like we blog.

What I'm saying is, we're a little short of ideas (personalized-matches?). But if you have a great idea about how we should execute LT, let us know by leaving a comment. Please be detailed and send diagrams if possible.

ALSO ADVICE I've recently come into an exciting new concept for a monthly advice column. Now that I have the formula for sure-fire success, all I need is advice seekers. Please submit your quandaries in the form of a comment and prepare to be amazed by the wisdom I'm about to tap into for y'all.

Now, for my finale, behold the P-FARR dude in period dress/facial hair surrounded by dirty hipster girls!@ Penny farthings are clearly hussy magnates, too bad they're so damn expensive. You'd have to ride in like every parade ever to afford to pay one off, leaving no time with the ladies.

The Bicycle: A freedom-machine for women?

Since girls with bikes is going to be a primary, unspoken theme of my posts on this blog, I figure I should address it early on to head-off any confustion.

American Susan B. Anthony said in a New York World interview on February 2, 1896: "Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel...the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood."
---wp





Santa Clara County, California Supervisor Ken Yeager, is an outspoken advocate of the role of bicycles in emergency disaster type situations:

If the power is knocked out for an extended period of time, as it was in New Orleans, no one will be able to use credit or debit cards to purchase gasoline, and the gas pumps wouldn’t work without electricity anyway. Even if your car has a full tank of gas, the roads may be severely cracked or shattered, and sections of freeways could collapse, making it impossible to drive to a safer location.

This leaves the bicycle as the most reliable mode of transportation. A bicycle is narrower and much more maneuverable than a car, so it would be easier to guide down damaged roads.

Bicyclists wouldn’t have to worry about finding cash for gasoline or searching for working gas pumps. Flat bike tires are also easy to repair on the road.

I hope many of you will add a bicycle to your list of items for emergency preparedness. It never hurts to be ready.
---http://kenbikes.blogspot.com/search/label/emergency%20preparedness

I Think we can probably all agree with our friend Yeager, and as soon as I get a chance I'm going to upgrade my emergence preparedness kit:

I suggest you all do the same.

Grant: "Don't get me wrong, I'm a Lance fan." Sheldon: "Oh my god, who isn't?!"

In the above linked to audio-file, bicycle-personalities Grant Petersen and Sheldon Brown jerk each other off while discussing the state of bike culture in the United States. Very interesting.