Re: [RBW] Re: Grant coached Bike Snob on today's blog post

Well, I'd read hemorrhoid cream ads if you wrote them. Since discovering Rivendell online I have soaked up all your words on websites, Readers, books, wherever they were. I cannot wait for the next book, and chances are there's a whole lot of other folks who feel exactly as I do. Self-promote

Re: [RBW] Re: Grant coached Bike Snob on today's blog post

It's an option, but it would require more self-promotion than I'm comfortable with. The original book plan has been modified, and there's bike content for sure. I probably won't say much about it, to avoid a major public belly flop...but *I *think it'll be a good one. It's taking forever because

[RBW] Re: Grant coached Bike Snob on today's blog post

These days even established authors such as yourself/Grant are self-publishing. It seems to me you could do well down that path. Unless your new book is doomer fiction or a children's book with no bicycle in it or something crazy like that. But you've thought of this already. On Friday, March

[RBW] Re: Grant coached Bike Snob on today's blog post

BSNYC *was* much-needed and still is. Humor is subjective, but heck--he's pretty funny. He cusses, but in the big picture and certainly now, that's a small deal--and this from somebody who didn't swear once until he was 19, and then only because I trout I'd been working on all evening took the

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To me, it seems obvious that pretty much the entire blog is tongue in cheek. He does seem to take advocacy seriously though, which is nice. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving

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I thought the smiley face guy gave it away Bill. Sky in new west -- 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

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I read Bike Snob every day (actually I read the whole week on Saturday). He's very funny and almost as merciless on himself as he is on "Freds" and "tridorks." I've read all but his latest book, although I don't enjoy them nearly as much as his blog. He gives some neat NYC history too. And I

Re: [RBW] Re: Grant coached Bike Snob on today's blog post

Let me Wikipedia that for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fop Olof's got an excuse: "Fop", as a somewhat pejorative term for a fashion-conscious dandy/dilettante, appears to be a primarily English language term. A "fop chariot", obviously, is a vehicle used to convey a fop around. Back in

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coached Bike Snob on today's blog post Hi Olof, Here's a google link to mentions of "fop chariot" on Bike Snob: site:bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com "fop chariot" (https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Abikesnobnyc.blogspot.com+%22fop+chariot%22) I can't sort by date to f

Re: [RBW] Re: Grant coached Bike Snob on today's blog post

Ok, read the link. Still don't know what a "fop chariot" is. Enlighten the clueless among you. On Wednesday, March 29, 2017 at 2:25:14 PM UTC-4, Philip Williamson wrote: > > Hi Olof, > > Here's a google link to mentions of "fop chariot" on Bike Snob: > *site:bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com

Re: [RBW] Re: Grant coached Bike Snob on today's blog post

Hi Olof, Here's a google link to mentions of "fop chariot" on Bike Snob: *site:bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com "fop chariot"* ( https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Abikesnobnyc.blogspot.com+%22fop+chariot%22 ) I can't sort by date to find the seminal post, but you can get an idea of how it's used.

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"We don't carry Dapper Dan. We carry FOP." It amuses me greatly to refer to my "fop chariot:" Quickbeam, Brooks, painted to match fenders and stem. It's apt. “For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?” I quit Bike Snob cold turkey about six

RE: [RBW] Re: Grant coached Bike Snob on today's blog post

Fop chariot? Please educate a foreigner. Only thing I´ve found on the net is Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva which most certainly doesn´t seem attractive. Also some kind of police union? Curious Olof Stroh Uppsala Sweden -- You received this message because you are

Re: [RBW] Re: Grant coached Bike Snob on today's blog post

Fop chariot is a pretty ridiculous insult; I've taken to calling my handbuilt frames (and the machines I built around them) "bespoke fop chariot(tm)"s (and a frame I replaced the rear triangle on as a sem-bespoke fop chariot) as a tip of the hat to the snob.Admittedly, I don't go quite

Re: [RBW] Re: Grant coached Bike Snob on today's blog post

I've read his books and have read his blogs on occasion. He can be witty. One of his rant topics doesn't sit well with me so I don't seek him out. Plenty of other authors to follow. On Wednesday, March 29, 2017 at 1:48:20 AM UTC-4, Ian A wrote: > > "I vote this for Riv's next headbadge" >

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"I vote this for Riv's next headbadge" As long as it says 'Free of Petrolatum", I agree. On Tuesday, March 28, 2017 at 4:44:34 PM UTC-6, Patrick Moore wrote: > > I vote this for Riv's next headbadge. > > Patrick "wink wink" Moore, who just cut his shoulder length hair to short > enough to

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I vote this for Riv's next headbadge. Patrick "wink wink" Moore, who just cut his shoulder length hair to short enough to require this sort of stuff. On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 4:41 PM, Eric Norris wrote: > Me, I’m a Dapper Dan man. > > --Eric Norris > campyonly...@me.com >

Re: [RBW] Re: Grant coached Bike Snob on today's blog post

Me, I’m a Dapper Dan man. --Eric Norris campyonly...@me.com @CampyOnlyguy (Twitter/Instagram) > On Mar 28, 2017, at 3:35 PM, Patrick Moore wrote: > > I like it! > > On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 3:22 PM, Ian A > wrote: > > >

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I *like* it! On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 3:22 PM, Ian A wrote: > [image: FOP Pomade] > > -- 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

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[image: FOP Pomade] On Tuesday, March 28, 2017 at 2:30:18 PM UTC-6, Patrick Moore wrote: > > "Fop chariot." I like that one. Will have to use it! > > Patrick Moore, who just rode his 2003 fop chariot on our bosque's dirt > paths in rainy, foppish, ABQ, NM. > > On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 2:28 PM,

Re: [RBW] Re: Grant coached Bike Snob on today's blog post

"Fop chariot." I like that one. Will have to use it! Patrick Moore, who just rode his 2003 fop chariot on our bosque's dirt paths in rainy, foppish, ABQ, NM. On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 2:28 PM, Steve Palincsar wrote: > > > On 03/28/2017 02:13 PM, Bill Lindsay wrote: > >> Bob B

Re: [RBW] Re: Grant coached Bike Snob on today's blog post

On 03/28/2017 02:13 PM, Bill Lindsay wrote: Bob B disagreed with me and Bob K stated that he's with Patrick and Bob B I think the two Bobs might have misunderstood my post. I think Eben Weiss is a very talented writer, is very funny, and I think BSNYC is a great blog. In my post, I was

[RBW] Re: Grant coached Bike Snob on today's blog post

Bob B disagreed with me and Bob K stated that he's with Patrick and Bob B I think the two Bobs might have misunderstood my post. I think Eben Weiss is a very talented writer, is very funny, and I think BSNYC is a great blog. In my post, I was poking fun at those OTHER people who claim to

[RBW] Re: Grant coached Bike Snob on today's blog post

HAA!!! Great read. 60% of the time, Eban is funny every time. I've had that carbon conversation with customers oh I don't knowseveral hundred times? On Monday, March 27, 2017 at 12:01:21 PM UTC-4, Patrick Moore wrote: > > I know many of you don't read BSNYC because of the profanity, sexual

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BSNYC/Eban Weiss is faltering; it has been 10 years and he has done well to keep the blog as interesting and humorous, generally, as he has done. But I can't see him continuing more or less daily for much longer. Still, while he can obviously be a jerk, he is also in general mordantly funny, and

[RBW] Re: Grant coached Bike Snob on today's blog post

I'm with Patrick and Bob B. here. I think the Snob's hilarious and read the blog daily. Today's post got a few chuckles out of me. Luckily I didn't have a class at the time or my students would've given me strange looks--even more so than usual. Bob K. in Baltimore -- You received this

[RBW] Re: Grant coached Bike Snob on today's blog post

I would respectfully disagree, Bill. I'm a daily reader (though I don't bother with the commenting; by the way, the dumb podium "FIRST" thing is not unique to his blog, but is rather common on blogs with lots of followers and active commenters). Most of what's amusing about the blog is his

[RBW] Re: Grant coached Bike Snob on today's blog post

Patrick Moore observes: "I know many of you don't read BSNYC because of" Most people who "don't read him" use the truly Yogi Berra - esque justification: "I never read Bike Snob, because Bike Snob is never funny" [image: Image result for thinking emoji] Bill Lindsay El Cerrito, CA --