BIKEPGH MESSAGE BOARD ARCHIVE

I feel like "yuppie hipster" is kind of an oxymoron.

Wait, I know that bike seats are rough on certain parts of the body, but I didn't know that every cyclist was childless. Dang.

Geez, Frank. What's RAELLY on your mind...

Wow. I don't know where to start. Just glad, for all of our issues here, that I live on this side of the state.

i love when people say that a cities like philly "weren't designed for bikes," as if they were designed for cars.

Pittsburgh definitely wasn't designed for cars. Just throwin' that out there.

That. Is. Phenomenal.

An abbreviated version. Ehem.

Something something kidless something something no-kid-having something something uphill both ways something something lack of children something something I'm old.

@greenbike: agreed. It was designed for Sherpas.

@robjdlc: the editorial is the written-word version of the old fart in every neighborhood that stands by the curb shaking his fist at (insert annoyance here).

Also, I imagined the voice of grampa from the Simpsons reading it.

My favorite sentence: "Most of these people don't live the typical family life, with kids and all the other stuff."

I'll remember that next time I'm pedaling home to my husband and son ... looking forward to the dinner I put together in the crockpot that morning, thinking that I need to make sure my son finishes his homework before I drive him to his Boy Scout meeting.

Yes, that really does describe my alternative, hipster life.

Mary, all that before you settle down in your tight jeans and v-neck t-shirt to enjoy a PBR?

I actually think this anti-hipster diatribe was ironically penned by a hipster. After all, those who deride hipsters are, most often, themselves hipsters

To be fair, he did say "most"... I think that's technically accurate, especially in his neighborhood.

Mary's PBR was sitting on the steps while she was out scrubbing them. Frank didn't see that because he was out shaking his fist at (insert annoyance here).

i think this letter is just backlash from the way italians were portrayed in the film Breaking Away.

those "ities" WERE real assholes though.

Always annoyed by the people who think that because you ride a bike that you don't have a job, have no kids, don't contribute to society or all of the above.

The last time I was in center city was on a Friday night and the streets were grid locked with people driving. The status quo failed!

The last time I was in center city on a Friday night, there was a child riding a bicycle with her parents.

I have a strange urge to coin the phrase "steaming pile of carbon footprint."