http://oyvelo.com/blog/2008/09/13/a-clash-between-judaism-and-cycling/ The Chosen Blog For The Chosen Cyclists Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:34:55 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://oyvelo.com/blog/2008/09/13/a-clash-between-judaism-and-cycling/comment-page-1/#comment-432 Jason Pearlman Mon, 15 Sep 2008 03:19:25 +0000 http://oyvelo.com/blog/2008/09/13/a-clash-between-judaism-and-cycling/#comment-432 The Bike Snob is def. Jewsih. "Hipsterim"? Only a yid would be hip to the Hebrew pluralization. And as for the Chasid'im? Let 'em either go back to 18th-century Poland or make Aliyah to Bnei Brak or Me'ah Sharim. Bike lanes make life safer for cyclist, and no cyclist should be endangered to ride on unsafe roads because the Chasid'im are out-of-date and out-of-touch with contemporary Brooklyn (though I hear their real gripe is with hipster fixie trendoids who mix bright green Velocity wheels with Brooks brown leather saddles and put riser bars on poor, defenseles 80s Colnago track bikes). The Bike Snob is def. Jewsih. “Hipsterim”? Only a yid would be hip to the Hebrew pluralization. And as for the Chasid’im? Let ‘em either go back to 18th-century Poland or make Aliyah to Bnei Brak or Me’ah Sharim. Bike lanes make life safer for cyclist, and no cyclist should be endangered to ride on unsafe roads because the Chasid’im are out-of-date and out-of-touch with contemporary Brooklyn (though I hear their real gripe is with hipster fixie trendoids who mix bright green Velocity wheels with Brooks brown leather saddles and put riser bars on poor, defenseles 80s Colnago track bikes).

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