Just a short note to a cyber masked-man who calls himself the “NYC Bike Snob.” I just read your post in Outside magazine about the SSWC’s and was less than impressed. Anybody with eyes could have written that. Maybe you should just be a photographer? Less than impressed mostly because you call yourself the “Undisputed King Of Cycling Blogs” with ZERO competition. Undisputed? Consider yourself challenged effective yesterday. There’s a new smell out there these days oozing from Bmore that in due time will become a new addiction to many and an old habit to a few.
See, Luv cycles riders are MOUNTAIN BIKER’s. We gladly trade skin and bones for muscle and heart. We don’t drink fancy endurance drinks, we drink dark beer to get the nutrients we need. We don’t lean over on aero bars when we’re tired, we use our balance and strength to roll 29 inch wheels over rocks that you walk around on your Sunday hikes. And we do it in pink-n-plaid my friend.
I write about what MOUNTAIN BIKER’S think about. I am the socket of soul that they plug there energy into. I am their voice. So the next time Outside magazine or anyone else for that matter calls you to write about MOUNTAIN BIKING you may want to have them get onto luvcycles.com and have Luvroc do it. You may be the queen of little NYC “green-girly” bikes but king of MOUNTAIN BIKE blogs, you are not. Read my posts…study…repeat. When you can tap into our soul and not just our internet come get some LUV…and when you do? We’ll be here waiting…come get us.
On behalf of those who keep it dirty,
Luvroc.
Mountain biker and Baltimore proud. I finally convinced my bike to let me construct my own "about the author" directly after a carbon induced anodized love making session. These posts are intended to entertain (even if only me), annoy (you know who you are), occasionally plagiarize (thanks!), and critique the weak. I often don't care if I spell incorrectly nor do I really know how to use apostrophe's...here fixy, fixy. 
Agree…NY Bike Snob is obnoxious. Glad to see the SSWC09 get some publicity though…I know two guys fr Balto that are participating in the race this year in Durango. Single speed mtn biking w/ridgid fork is really a blast…Luv Cycle team should give it a try.
SSWC’s looks pretty cool I will agree with that for sure. Rod is riding SS rigid currently and I’m gonna build a SS as well…not sure if it will be fully rigid but SS nonetheless. DJ and Ez will be SSing in a few weeks I’m sure. That puts most of the Luv boys on a SS at some point. You’re the dedicated SS guy that responded to my Merriman’s post right?
Taking on the snob, eh Roc? Looking forward to reading more on this….
bsnyc didn’t call himself that; the mag did, dude. he just wrote the story. it was funny and good. I’ve been riding mtn bikes since 1987. p.s. there are hundreds if not thousands of bike blogs. nobody touches that dude numberswise.
Doood…Thanks for checking out our site and I hope you continue to visit/post. Even IF Outside magazine called him that he’s the one who has to carry that torch and quite frankly he’s got more ash than flame. The bsnyc writes with a weak pen. Not really that funny, not really that good. He states facts…like a SS has no gears. He writes from his eyes and not his heart. However, he is numero uno as far as bike blogs go…that is fact. Nothing wrong with the new kids on the block kickin’ up dust. He holds the high-ground now but Luv is on the climb. Talk to ya soon.
Luvroc.
Alright, let’s get some shit straight here. First of all, BSNYC is not the undisputed king, he’s more like the populist hero, a Che figure. The crown sits on the head of Stevil Kinevil, and the line of succession in this monarchy goes him, Fatty, Skip from Surly, and then after that either Loudass selects someone by fiat or Grant Peterson dukes it out with Chris Kulczycki in a monkey knife fight.
Second, I didn’t know that Baltimore was where they take mountain biking as seriously as they take CX in Boulder. FYI, while you guys were standing around in the woods at 241 feet above sea level packing your one hitter and talking about how you never would have cleaned that epic section on your 26″ bike, you were letting hot garbage like Shop Gentei sprout up right there in your front yard like a poisonous mushroom in cowshit. So yeah, before you go out there and have your epic playground fight with the Bike Snob how about you get warmed up by cleaning up the the fashionista douchebag infestation in your own town? Young knights, if you want the love and adoration of the people you gotta go slay a dragon.
HAhahahahah. Ahahahaha. hahahaha. Haha hahahaha. Hahahaha… Ahhhahahahah!
Oh boy, lamb to the slaughter. Good luck, LR. Firstly, I’d change the “about the author” bit. That’s kinda bad for you. Then, I’d stuff some things up your butt, to sniff later.
Man, you are going to get your misguided ass flamed.
@Hammer – It’s a fair point about Stevil. He’s the King.
Agreed re: “about the author”. You wrote that description of your bike so adoringly that one might wonder if you actually ride it in between lovemaking sessions.
The author of this blog is a bicycle? How is no one bothered by a literate piece of machinery? You read the ramblings of a pre-Terminator Terminator and have no concerns? Did you even watch Terminator? Do you remember what happened to Bill Paxton? Do you?
“There’s a new smell out there these days oozing from Bmore”
I think you said it all right there.
p.s. Stevil Kinevil is the undisputed king of ass hair
Bike Snob NYC’s main contribution to cycling is his/her tenacious and satirical deconstruction of the pretensions that often muddle and obscure the act of cycling in itself. As such, Bike Snob NYC is to cycling culture what Sheldon Brown was to cycling technology.
Challenging Bike Snob NYC’s supremacy is a vacuous pursuit because it assumes that Bike Snob NYC will care. Bike Snob NYC, by maintaining anonymity, implies that he/she writes for entertainment rather than celebrity, and his/her vast readership is a response to the quality and content of his/her writing.
What a sad little pebble you are throwing. Sure, the snob is an ass but he is a funny, self-effacing ass. Your half-riffs about dark beer and manliness are dull and cliche. Also, if you are going to write in a public forum you might also want to use possessives and plurals correctly (surely they must have have those in Baldymore). With the apostrophe you make a possessive, as in ‘this keg of cat urine belongs to mountain biker’(you can imagine how interesting a cat urine hording fella with a name like that might be). If you leave out the apostrophe out you make a proper plural, as in “I am dim-witted enough to think that I can speak for all mountainbikers.” (you can imagine how uninteresting someone like that might be).
anyone with eyes knows the difference between their and there. not a good start. if bsnyc could ride a mountain bike he might be a threat. oh wait.
uh oh….it’s the Boulder douchebags. West Coast Homers…..East Coast Haters….whatever you want to call yourselves. Funny….I can actually smell the ignorance a couple thousand miles away. Amazing how anyone from the west coast immediately trashes east coast riding, while most of you clips have never even been here. We don’t take XC seriously? Two words: Chris Eatough. 6 time 24 hour solo world champion. He trains on the same trails we ride every day. This is a blog about mountain biking….don’t come here looking for info on that sweet new pair of Capri pants you were hoping to save up for. It’s also very entertaining the way you slurp all the bike blogs and name drop like a teenager. I don’t know for sure, but I’d bet my house you were in the band, but always talked trash about how great your football team was.
Love the Luv guys but saw this one coming. Snob’s a tough act to follow let alone call out. His house is very much in order….
Ease up on the hateorade there big fella. It’s just a bicycle. Get over yourself.
Well, I found this blog from Stevil, and I live in Baltimore … so he is looking pretty regal right about now. But of all the commentators “Hammer O’Reality” has a pretty sharp keyboard stroke:
“FYI, while you guys were standing around in the woods at 241 feet above sea level packing your one hitter and talking about how you never would have cleaned that epic section on your 26″ bike”
The guy at the headshop told me that one hitter was really discreet. I am returning that shit ASAP.
As far as my homeboy Oliver’s “Shop Gentei” … Motorcycles are cooler than bikes you have to pedal. So I think that dragon might have slayed itself for you.
I think I will add “luvcycles” to the ol’ google reader and see what happens, though I have doubts it will make me belly laugh like BSNYC.
Josh…good to hear from a Baltimore rider. Do you ride Loch Raven (or Merrimans)? I’m sure you are aware of the ticketing an so on that’s going on up there on the single-track. REI in Timonium at 7pm is the town hall to save the Raven. Pass along the info and hope to see you there.
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I’m going to coat-tail on what “Very Evolved” said… The way you connect to your audience is… Know who you are writing to. You need to pick a Target Audience and stick to them. You wouldn’t write to an audience of 14yr olds the same way you would write to an audience of 60yr olds.