Word On The Street – Bike Snob NYC

Nice information, everyone! I discovered it! Behold, probably the most ironically-named avenue in America:

Critically, it’s known as “Independence” and also you’re not even allowed to journey a bicycle there? Getting a ticket for driving a bicycle on a avenue known as “Independence” can be much more ironic than getting busted for prostitution on the nook of Seaman and Cumming:

So why had been bicycles banned on Independence Road in Shamokin, PA, within the first place? Effectively, I suppose they had been afraid somebody would possibly discover their method there on a bicycle and store:

However that was then, and now it sounds just like the cyclists could also be a little bit too independently-minded:

Wait, he clotheslined a child?!” They actually buried the lede there! That’s a juicy little bit of gossip to say the least, but I appeared up “Councilman Mike Duganitz Clotheslines Space Youth” and obtained no outcomes.

Plus, it will get much more ironic as a result of Independence Road intersects with Liberty Road:

Granted, I haven’t truly been to Shamokin, however I did take a little bit digital cruise down Independence Road and I didn’t get the sense that bicycles would precisely plunge it into chaos:

Like, wouldn’t it actually be so dangerous if somebody obtained a wild hair and determined to journey a motorbike to The Enjoyable Zone?

Or Coney Island Lunch?

Or the Verilife hashish dispensary?

Wait a minute.

Somebody opened a hashish dispensary in Shamokin, PA and didn’t name it Smokin’ Shamokin?!?

That may be just like the native pizza joint not promoting Shamokin Sizzling Wings–which, fortunately, they do:

Whew, I used to be beginning to fear.

Oh, and what Shamokin means?

Effectively in case you guessed “Place of Eels” you’re appropriate:

My horizons have already broadened significantly and I haven’t even left the sofa.

Talking of Hungary, I discussed it briefly in yesterday’s put up, which obtained me occupied with customized bikes once more:

This in flip prompted a spherical of introspection. Whereas all of us might have had an excellent snort, there however for the grace of Lob go I, and what’s the distinction between ordering a customized Mosaic full with mildly invasive becoming session and, say, shopping for a Rivendell? Effectively, in a single sense, there’s not likely a distinction in any respect. For instance, in each circumstances you’re going to wind up with a chunk of wooden between your legs:

Additionally, is there actually a significant distinction between this…

…and this?

Positive, to us bike dorks there’s, however to the typical individual the 2 middle-aged hobbyists above are utterly interchangeable and equally self-indulgent, and regular persons are considering (or often even shouting) the very same obscenities at each of us after they see us from behind the wheel of their Hyundais.

Effectively, okay, effective, I suppose there’s one minor distinction, but it surely solely quantities to MANY THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS. The worth on that Mosiac was nicely over $17,000 enjoyable tickets (he mentioned they “blew the unique whole funds of £14,000 out of the water”), which implies you could possibly purchase your self 4 Rivendae as a substitute and stroll away with change:

Not that any person who desires a customized Mosaic goes to vary their thoughts and get a Rivendell as a substitute, but it surely does put issues in perspective.