On Friday, The New York Post published an article involving the Hasidic Jewish Community and cycling. The article does not exactly fit into Oy Velo’s celebration of Jewish cycling, but it’s tangentially related in that Judaism and cycling are mentioned in the same article. That’s good enough for a website didicated to such an obscure theme.
The New York City Bike Snob drafted a blog referencing this article. In his blog, the NYC Bike Snob, who is anonymous, denies being Jewish. However, Oy Velo’s Jewdar says otherwise. He is a sarcastic writer living in New York City and I don’t think he’s Stephen Colbert. By process of elimination, he is Jewish.
The Bike Snob is def. Jewsih. “Hipsterim”? Only a yid would be hip to the Hebrew pluralization. And as for the Chasid’im? Let ‘em either go back to 18th-century Poland or make Aliyah to Bnei Brak or Me’ah Sharim. Bike lanes make life safer for cyclist, and no cyclist should be endangered to ride on unsafe roads because the Chasid’im are out-of-date and out-of-touch with contemporary Brooklyn (though I hear their real gripe is with hipster fixie trendoids who mix bright green Velocity wheels with Brooks brown leather saddles and put riser bars on poor, defenseles 80s Colnago track bikes).