Digital Water Cooler

Submitted by adammyerson on Thu, 02/19/2009 - 20:00

I'd just like to say thanks to all the people who've started commenting on the blog recently. If I can turn this into a place where grumpy old punk rockers who also like riding bikes hard can come to grouse with each other, then I will have finally accomplished something noble with Cycle-Smart.

Comments

Submitted by NathanielWard (not verified) on Thu, 02/19/2009 - 23:13.
We're here, we're grumpy. Ain't the blogosphere grand?
Submitted by josh (not verified) on Fri, 02/20/2009 - 10:06.
the earth is flat, Adam.
Submitted by chrisb. (not verified) on Fri, 02/20/2009 - 11:21.
Right on! "I was a surfer, I had a skateboard, I was so heavy man I lived on the strand."
Submitted by Lane (not verified) on Fri, 02/20/2009 - 15:15.
My wife describes me as more "crotchety" than grumpy...
Submitted by yesterlenium (not verified) on Fri, 02/20/2009 - 19:30.
Keep write and folks will stay read!
Submitted by bsegal (not verified) on Sun, 02/22/2009 - 15:59.
if only you were using your powers for good instead of corralling every red faced gray haired punk in the blogosphere in a space like this. now if there was a way that these people(me included) could only be on this site you would be helping humanity. I quote your new prophet Geddy Lee when I say "be cool or be cast out" damn this is entertaining. forget that earlier rubbish. press on son
Submitted by Elk (not verified) on Sun, 02/22/2009 - 17:41.
More Belgian beer posts, please.
Submitted by Adam Myerson (not verified) on Sun, 02/22/2009 - 22:48.
Sorry about the lack of beer posts. But when you're doing 600 miles/week, it's hard to get any beering in. I did have a $14 Dogfish Head 120 Minute IPA this week, though!
Submitted by Lane (not verified) on Tue, 02/24/2009 - 22:54.
Holy crap! Awright, how was the 120? Even I have not thrown down for that yet, although I am enjoying a Chouffe IPA (V-day gift from my other half). Pretty smooth compared to most, the hops are there, but pretty subtle, probably esp. compared to a lot of the Dogfish stuff, though it ranks among my faves... Next step is that we start tallying "punk points", a favorite past-time of mine "back in the day"... Uh, do I have to say "yo" after that?
Submitted by startfinishbike (not verified) on Mon, 03/02/2009 - 23:38.
I would like to join your group of crotchety old punks who enjoy fine beer. Oh wait, that isn't very punk is it? Anyway, as I have matured my tastes in music have progressed/regressed to an earlier time and I have found that old rockabilly, as personified by Johnny Cash in his prime, has a lot of the same spirit as punk did, just with less distortion. I find it more interesting than what is currently passed off as punk in the mainstream although there is probably plenty of good new stuff I'm just too old to know about now. As for the beer, you can't go wrong with anything from the Unibroue people in Canada. Their La Fin du Monde and Maudite are first class belgian-style beers and cost a lot less ($7 for 750 ml at my local).
Submitted by RMM (not verified) on Tue, 03/03/2009 - 10:36.
Green Day killed punk rock. Or, more accurately, Green Day's success killed the punk rock scene by bloating it, similarly to the way that a goose is forcibly stuffed to death with cornmeal when the French turn its liver into foie gras. I am not sure what killed skateboarding, as I left that scene before it really bloated. The detonation of my two formative activities causes me to ask the question: is bicycle racing heading for a similar bloat and destruction by the masses. There may be signs of the apocalypse, the BSNYC jokingly refers to the fixed gear apocalypse. Could the same thing happen to competitive cycling?