As I mentioned on Wednesday, we have a winner of The Contest: Sponsored by The Lube: And all he had to do was lose all his bikes in a Japanese inferno. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Op2BhFES9M Actually, as readers pointed out, some of the bikes (or at least frames) may be salvageable: Still, that's a lotta patina, and at... Continue Reading →

When I think of new products that the world needs, yet another plastic road bike is roughly the 17,000,000,000th item on the list--and yet, here we are: Four decades ago, a musician named Prince told us all what it sounds like when doves cry: Today, this is what it looks like when a media embargo... Continue Reading →

Contest... Dumonde Tech... You know the rest. So you wanted a winner, right? Well, remember this bike? A real beauty and a true contender, though some of you felt it was a bit too clean. But I doubt you'd feel that way now: Here's what happened: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Op2BhFES9M The fire broke out in a neighboring house... Continue Reading →

It's now been a month since I launched the Meh-roica Pageant: Sponsored by Dumonde Tech, the world's greatest lubricant:* *[...for your bike. I cannot officially sanction any off-label use--especially for, shall we say, intimate purposes.] Anyway, the deadline passed on October 16th, and since then I've been doing a lot of soul-searching. Well, I'm pleased... Continue Reading →

How was everybody's Halloween? This guy probably had a rough one: [Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Cheater] Mine, however, was quite lovely, and I'm pleased to report my Ilhan Omar's Alleged Brother-Husband costume went over extremely well: It also works equally well as an Alt Cyclist costume. In fact he looks like he's ready for the Nutmeg... Continue Reading →

Huh? What? Oh, nothing, just window-shopping the Farbmans, that's all: https://www.instagram.com/p/DfE0zoEFUW5/?exln=MXF3NWN4OGllN2N5NA%3D%3D Wait, hold on, what the hell is this!?!? Well I'll be, someone stole my goddamn name. I mean that's the only logical explanation, since I'd never even consider riding a road bike without dick breaks... No, I'd take something classy like this over a... Continue Reading →

Now that it is time to announce the winner of the Meh-Roica contest... Sponsored by Dumonde Tech, the spa day in a bottle for your chain... ...I find myself paralyzed by indecision--or, more accurately, laziness. So for inspiration I headed out upon my own Meh-roica bike: And I'm pleased to report that in doing so... Continue Reading →

Gravel bikes GRVL BKS. They're ruining everything. EVERYTHING. Oh, sure, I know. "Gravel bikes are actually a good thing because now people can choose more stable and versatile bikes with wider tires and rack and fender mounts." Sorry, but that's a load of crap. We had that already! It was called a "touring bike." We... Continue Reading →

Little did I know that when I announced the Great Tan Tenovo Meh-roica Bike Pageantry Pageant... Sponsored by Dumonde Tech, the anointing oil* of bicycle lubricants... *[Now with more frankincense!] ...that I'd be undertaking one of the greatest challenges of my blogular career, if not my entire life. And if you think that means blogging... Continue Reading →

Fall is a delightful time to engage in the riding of bicycles just as long as you can keep yourself from contemplating the fact that those beautiful bursts of color are really the death throes of summer and very soon the landscape will be transformed into a frozen wind-swept wasteland: Like this: https://videopress.com/v/cNaQRMf2?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&posterUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fbikesnobnyc.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2026%2F02%2Fimg_1567_mov_dvd.original.jpg&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true Though maybe... Continue Reading →