Wednesday notebook
Sep 30
2009
2009
- » Lakefront path users should expect a minor detour at the Chicago River for the next month or so. Here’s an update from Active Trans.
» David Byrne (Talking Heads) is a brave, brave man: He rides the lakefront without a helmet.
» Someone on NY Velocity has quietly outed the Bike Snob as Eben Weiss (GS Gotham), literary agent.
» Also on NY Velocity, Dave Zabriskie (Garmin-Slipstream) reminisces about some fun times with our own Kenny Labbe.
» Some riders with local ties did well at collegiate track nationals this weekend. Matt Fox (RPM/Hayes Brake) earned silver in the kilo and sprint and bronze in the omnium, riding for Midwestern State. Riding for Lees-McRae, Jennifer Greenberg earned bronze in the 3km pursuit and silver in the team pursuit. The Illinois Institute of Technology’s Elena Dorr reeled in three top 5’s and a 4th in the individual omnium, helping IIT place 5th in the D2 omnium. And ABD star Josh Carter, now enrolled at Midwestern State, pulled in a handful of top 10’s.
» Chicago learns on Friday whether it gets the 2016 Paralympic Games. Universal Sports will broadcast and stream the cities’ final presentations. Chicago is first at 1:45 a.m., with the announcement coming at 11:30 a.m.
» It’s all over: Mainstream media discovers cyclocross.
Sep 30
2009
10:37 am
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Bike Snob outed: I should have guessed; the cadence, allusions, and snarkiness of the text indicate a publishing professional, for certain. The industry is rampant with this style of critique, even in water cooler conversation. Good sleuthing! But has this unveiling changed anything? I think not - the work is enjoyable and it is the text we should celebrate, not the creator. If anonymity was merely Bike Snob’s inner plea to be noticed, his mystery like a calling card, making up for the less entertaining, duller and tedious entries that inevitably populate the blog, we should not reward him with recognition. Leave it at Bike Snob, and let the Eben be consumed in shadow.