Runners in cycling lane: Ltr to NYRR Pres. Steinfeld et al.

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Dennis (not verified)

thanks....I was thinking it might be a rash decision to not re-new,but after reading your long winded postings you convinced me whole heartedly,...but word of mouth goes a long way Dick, and if anyone is looking for a pretentous, egotistical snobbish bore,i'll point him your way

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Richard Rosenthal (not verified)
If you don't like Bush, is the entire country bad?

"A sincere tip of my helmet to you, Dennis, for using your name. (See, everybody else? You can come out. That didn't hurt, Dennis, did it?)

But, Dennis, not that the club needs you as a member any more than it needs me or anyone else, but aren't you being prejudiced not to mention utterly irrational in generalizing about the club based on me? Aren't you being prejudiced to tar the entire club because I'm pretentious, egotistical, snobbish, and a bore? The club isn't that. Nor is the club responsible for my being that. And it's powerless to affect my being that. Dennis, I'm not sure you understand: it's a bicycle club.

I've been in it for c. twenty years and haven't undergone a personality change. So when did the club no longer warrant your membership?

OK, everyone, listen up: the one person in the club I've long esteemed for his understanding of Things in General and Things NYCC in particular has persuaded me of the utter futility of trying to get through to you inattentive readers who have so assiduously beleaguered me, persuading me it's a wholly useless and pointless undertaking. So—I know, I know—to a general sigh of relief, do I retire from this thread. And you are now free to support the continued unregulated, chaotic and confused use of the park road without my opposition here. Those with long memories will recall that's how this all began.

(Of course, there will now ensue some number of posts celebrating this in peurile form. If the point of your post is to have me read them, you would do better to send them to me directly at the above e-address. But I assume your point is to gain stature with others so I also assume you'll post them here. I'll probably look back in on this in a week or two. Or three. But, as I said, have a go at it now since your objective isn't to communicate with me.)

I do have two other threads in mind—one possibly a deconstruction/investigation of and speculation about the Death by Driver of Jerome Allen—that may appear in the future: then I'll pay full honor to my admired Seer and Understander and leave you to, as that character on SNL said, ""talk among yourselves."""

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No-Drag Shrdlu (not verified)
"You would have to ""drag"" me into this!"

"I was perfectly happy to be an amused bystander on this one. Hey, it's all old news about New York allowing unelected private interests (from the Central Park Conservancy to NYRRC) to virtually own the park and push the rest of us around.

That's exactly what I complained about years ago during the NY Marathon. Forget it. Runners are like cockroaches. There are too many of those disgusting creatures and you really can't stop them. I've learned to live with them (although I carry some concentrated ammonia solution in one of my water bottles, just in case.)

Some of you insulted Richard Rosenthal. I figured I'd sit that one out, too. He's used to it. He's a big boy. He's surely aware by now that if you stand up on a soap box, somebody will try to kick it out from under you.

Some of you ride and also bike — athletic hermaphrodites, on both sides of the issue. Another big deal.

But when you gratuitously yank my name into this argument and accuse me of going about in drag....I've effin' had it!

I won't put one of my powerful curses on any of you....this time. Just know that I can. My curse can harden your bicycle saddle, unravel your handlebar tape, drop your chain, flatten your tires, pretzel your front wheel and leave you stranded in Poughkeepsie without a Metro North pass. As for you runners, I can put a hole in your sneaker the size of a manhole cover, or have you step on a nail the size of a crowbar, or simply put a pebble in your shoe five miles into the next marathon..

But luckily for you, I'm in a good mood today. So I'm not going to do that to you, at least for now. Instead, I will simply make a few modest proposals.

Here's what I propose:

1. Tattoo artists shall stand at the entrance to the park and tattoo the rules of the road on each entrant. The tattoo artists shall be a division of, oh, Halliburton, and shall charge a hefty fee for their work. If you can't pay, nuts to you! Stay out of the park, you stinking pauper!

2. The tattoo artists shall also scratch the rules of the road on all automobiles entering the park. The drivers would of course be charged for this, too.

3. Persons violating the rules of the park shall be hanged from trees by overly long dog leashes, along with the dogs. (Uh oh! Here come the cruelty to animals people in their leather shoes.)

4. Tom Paine's name and works shall be relegated back to Grove Street in Greenwich Village, where he once lived. (Barrow Street was once named ""Reason Street"" after Paine's pamphlet, but the name got changed after the good elders of Trinity Church, which once owned nearly all of the West Village -- and may still, for all I know -- discovered that Paine was an atheist. He was also the inspiration of America's founding fathers, which is why all this talk about the need for religiosity in government is a crock.) But I digress.

5. Cops on motorscooters shall all be promoted to squad cars, so they can sit in them with the windows rolled up and sleep, thus not enforcing the laws even better than they don't enforce them today.

6. Muggers and bicycle harassers of all kinds shall be required to apply for licenses at the Central Park Precinct. Mugging doesn't happen often, but from time to time cyclists have serious problems with unlicensed muggers, and frequent problems with unlicensed harassers. This has got to stop.

""Democracy is a wonderful thing. It encourages small thinkers to talk big and small crooks to steal big. ""
--Rabodan Djilovac

Oh, and one more thing to the you-know-what-hole who decided to conjure up the image of me in drag: In your dreams, pre-vert!

Your Pal,
Etoain"

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Banana Guy (not verified)
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