My take on this book (I purchased his first, and I think second, or maybe I borrowed that one) is it recycles some of his familiar themes, such as types of cyclists and their attitudes. It also takes fairly standard advice--shop for a bicycle in the winter, when business is slow and you can get more attention--and spices it up with humorous asides. Ultimately, I think he is at his ripping, take-no-prisoners best when commenting daily on various goings-on in the world that touch in some way on cycling. The books, by their nature, tend to be Bike Snob lite. When I was first getting back into cycling, no doubt I would have enjoyed the Ultimate Guide. His next book should be a satirical roman a clef about the "bike world"--racing, boutique builders, advocacy, etc. I'll drop him a note...
Curious what kind of questions. Do you recall an example or two? Along the nature of What do you think of bike lanes? On Tuesday, June 21, 2016 at 12:11:32 AM UTC-4, dstein wrote: > > > I've read another of his books but not really his blogs so wasn't too > familiar with him. His presentation thing was fine, pretty funny. The Q&A I > thought was weird, the questions kind of put Eben in a weird position of > being bike ambassador of the world, and he really just didn't know how to > answer the questions (which I don't blame him at all), but still had a good > sense of humor about it. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
