27 Jul

Dumb Luck – Bike Snob NYC

It’s talked about that fortune favors the daring, nevertheless further normally it normally seems to decide on the ignorant and/or unwitting, like when any person who doesn’t know one thing about bikes finds a pleasing one at a thrift retailer:

[Link to story is here, but the website’s kinda weird, and you’re better of just reading the Reddit thread on which the story is based.]

So what’s the bike? It’s a Kestrel 4000, the very same model upon which I bravely traversed the Swiss Alps:

And freegans all over rejoiced over this miracle:

I would like I too may uncover inspiration on this serendipitous discovery, nevertheless to me it’s merely proof that we dwell in an chilly and arbitrary universe by which the hapless are rewarded by random probability and individuals who try to be righteous ought to endure the trials of Job–or, to put it one different means, WHERE’S MY $35 KESTREL??? These bikes have good significance in my non-public cosmology, and I’m possibly the one bicycle proprietor left within the full world who actually appreciates them, and however I despatched the one I was utilizing once more to Fundamental Cycle in a virtuous act of self-denial:

Oh, sure, I’ve loads of completely different bikes. And positive, basic freeway bikes do precisely current up at my doorstep. Oh, and okay, any person even offered me a free Kestrel 4000 physique, though it’s a measurement too huge so I’ve been loath to say it. Even so, I implore the Good Lobster On Extreme, “Why hast thou fosaken me?”

By the easiest way, I’ve been worshipping a Lobster God since December of 2009, nevertheless now I’ve to stop, because of any person’s taken that from me too:

[I wouldn’t recommend visiting the site, but if you insist feel free to utilize an Internet search engine.]

For 15 years I’ve been spiritual, and now proper right here come these false prophets with their crass commercialism and their “save the planet” crap: