Tis the season for watching out for more riders now that winter has taken a break.
Tags:
what's great is lots of people on bicycles.
And this.
Are you supposed to chuckle, pat yourself on the back, and ride off with a smug grin to go blog about it when you see someone on a bike go down?
Peenworm Grubologist said:
A knucklehead on a bike still poses barely one octillionth of the danger that knucklehead would be in a car. The whole fredsnobbage thing makes me bristle.
Okay, first off, what is a "Nu-Fred"?
And this.
Are you supposed to chuckle, pat yourself on the back, and ride off with a smug grin to go blog about it when you see someone on a bike go down?
Peenworm Grubologist said:A knucklehead on a bike still poses barely one octillionth of the danger that knucklehead would be in a car. The whole fredsnobbage thing makes me bristle.
I thought a Nu-Fred was a person who buys into bike messenger culture the way a regular Fred buys into bike racing culture. But money can't buy skill or experience, only parts and accessories.
S said:
A Fred is a term used by road cyclists for those cyclists that have more money than brains or fitness. Basically think of the guys you see on the LFP on 7k bikes and decked out in the full kit of some pro team or ralpha or something similar. Usually it's someone that just started cycling seriously as well. A Nu-Fred is a recently minted Fred.
Fred Noinaj said:Okay, first off, what is a "Nu-Fred"?
People are taught to drive a car? It's hard to tell.
Perhaps they are. Public schools also teach English, History, and Math -and we all see how well that knowledge sinks in.
notoriousDUG said:
It's a shame that people are taught to drive a car but no one ever feels the need to impress upon them how to safely ride a bike...
I don't chuckle and blog about it but it is annoying that the within the last 3 days I have almost been wiped out by another cyclist twice, been crowded out on the road and at intersections by people with very poor 'bike lane etiquette,' watched numerous folk pull really stupid moves at intersections in greater number than I have in the last 3 months and seen a massive increase in the number of helmetless night riders in dark clothing with no lights. Having more people on bikes is a dandy thing but there is no way around the fact that many 'fair weather' cyclists are terribly annoying to be on the street with. It's a shame that people are taught to drive a car but no one ever feels the need to impress upon them how to safely ride a bike...
H3N3 said:
And this.
Are you supposed to chuckle, pat yourself on the back, and ride off with a smug grin to go blog about it when you see someone on a bike go down?
Peenworm Grubologist said:A knucklehead on a bike still poses barely one octillionth of the danger that knucklehead would be in a car. The whole fredsnobbage thing makes me bristle.
Ah—I found the video! The pedestrian was not as old as I remember but the definitional clip of the Nu-Fred in action is still worth watching.
http://www.upvideo.com/upvideo_video.aspx?sr=1&vid=Mh7mwzaj6kSL...
203 members
118 members
262 members
269 members
63 members