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Cycling Zeitgeist: Performance or Fashion

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

Most people are cyclists by necessity.   It's much more efficient to ride a bike than to walk and so on.  However, for those serious cyclists who take themselves seriously, it is much more than that.   Cycling is a fashion with a myriad of sub-cultures each of which considers ...

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Whither Alleycats

Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

One thing I miss about cycling in New York are the informal messenger races called alleycats.   Basically, alleycats used to be - before the messenger scene was polluted by the hipsters - anywhere from 10 to 30 messengers meeting somewhere in the city for a race. Someone would have mapped ...

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