I guess I never considered 'unracer' to be equivalent to 'anti-racer'. I've never been a racer, but I'm a long-time fan of events like the Classics, BORAF, etc. I find the 'Unracer' label useful as a means of educating those people I know who can't divorce the notion of 'bicycling' from 'sport'. 'Racing' and 'Bicycling' have become so synonymous in America that I know people who quit riding bikes because they 'can't compete' or won't start riding bikes because they think it's too strenuous and competitive. The racing bias (again, I have NOTHING against racing or those who do it) has a chilling effect on the widespread adoption of bicycling as a mode of transportation in America, and regardless of how you feel about labels it's worthwhile to have way of talking about bicycles outside of the dominant paradigm. 'Just Ride' works, too; but to me it doesn't say 'there's more to bicycling than racing' as concisely as 'unracer' does.
On Wednesday, May 29, 2013 7:31:07 AM UTC-7, Mike wrote: > > I was poking around the RBW site last night and noticed there are some new > small items--Unracer pins, key fobs and magnets. I love the product > description which isn't so much a product description as an Unracering > battle cry. I don't think it's entirely serious but I like it. I'm sure > there are those who will get all fussy about it. Oh well. Check it out: > > http://www.rivbike.com/product-p/pr71pin.htm > > mike > -- 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 http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
