Re: Anybody read the December Bicycling?


Roger Zoul wrote:
> Gooserider <gooserider@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> :> There is an article in this month's Bicycling about the "invisible
> :> riders"---those people who are of low income and use bicycles as
> :> their sole transportation. The writer, Dan Koeppel, spent time with
> :> the undocumented(read : illegal) workers in Los Angeles. The article
> :> is well written, and gave me an insight into a world I do not see.
> :> That being said, he really hacked me off. There's an incident he
> :> mentions of meeting a rider named Octavio who was riding a steel
> :> Trek with bar end shifters, a Blackburn rack, and a Brooks. Koeppel
> :> deduces the bike is stolen, then says, "Maybe he deserves the
> :> bike."? Huh? Deserves it more than the person who actually paid for
> :> it? What a moron. Am I supposed to feel sympathy for someone who not
> :> only illegally entered the country, but is riding around on a stolen
> :> bicycle?
>
> Dood...you're reading Bicycling, or is it Buycycling? What do you expect?

Actually, while I agree the "deserving the bike" point was VERY poorly
thought out, I was somewhat pleased by the article.

Occasionally - hmmm, make that "rarely", Buycycling puts in an article
that can make a person think. This one, I think, may have made some
people who post here think about their attitudes - like the one that
there are "real cyclists" and there are "POBs," and the latter don't
count at all.

- Frank Krygowski

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