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is often the reason they don’t find it. Really, we’re all just a bunch of fifth graders, and between the Leibowitzes and the Ferbers and even the earnest pawn with a half-baked anti-litter agenda, it’s hard to know what to do. I mean, we all want to go to Great Adventure, and there’s nothing wrong with that. The big question is, who’s going to take us there? Well, some people will give you sales pitches, and others will give you helpful advice, but the catch is in the end you’ve got to just get on the bike and figure it out for yourself.

Don’t be afraid to try, because you will figure it out. And you can get there by bike if you want.

Acknowledgments

Thanks to the people responsible for this book: Jeremy Katz, Emily Haynes, Brooke Johnson, Gregory Klein, and Christopher Koelle. You are pros, and I appreciate your doing all the work at the front while an amateur sat in with you. Thanks to the Gotham Bikes crew, for being great friends and great riding partners. Thanks to Danny Weiss, Pat Weiss, and Spencer Weiss, for everything. Thanks to my wife Sara Goodman, who has the good sense I don’t. Thanks most of all to the people who read my blog, for teaching me how to write and being patient with me while I try to learn.

About Bike Snob NYC

Bike Snob Nyc is the blogger behind bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com. A frequent racer, daily commuter, and former bike messenger, he has been published and profiled in numerous publications, including the New York Times, Outside, and Bicycling.

“As any avid biker will attest, cycling isn’t just a form of transportation. It’s a complicated culture with its own slang, taxonomy, and preferred tat styles. If you haven’t read Bike Snob, you should consider reattaching those training wheels to your overpriced fixie.”

—Robert Lanham, author of The Hipster Handbook

“As wise as a great philosopher, as fearless as a stand-up comedian, and as keenly observant about human behavior as a top-notch anthropologist, the Snob has written the finest, funniest, most instructive book about cycling in the history of the sport.”

—Mike Magnuson, author of Heft on Wheels

“First you’ll think the Snob is funny. Then you’ll think he’s smart. Eventually you’ll probably think that he’s seen far too many movies for his own good. At some point during this book, however, you’re going to say to yourself: ‘Holy crap. He is right.’ Believe me, that is one disconcerting moment.”

—Elden “Fatty” Nelson, fatcyclist.com

Copyright

Text copyright © 2010 by Eben Weiss

Illustrations copyright © 2010 by Christopher Koelle

All rights reserved.

No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher.

eISBN: 978-0-8118-4160-3

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Library of Congress

Cataloging-in-Publication Data:

Weiss, Eben.

Bike snob : systematically and mercilessly realigning the world of cycling By Eben Weiss.

p. cm.

ISBN 978-0-8118-6998-0 (pbk.)

1. Cycling. I. Title.

GV1041.W46 2010

796.6--dc22

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

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