Couldn’t Have Said it Better Myself

Couldn’t Have Said it Better Myself

April 27, 2010, 10:24 am
Filed under: Bicycles, Missouri, St. Louis, Transit | Tags: Bicycles, Missouri, St. Louis, Transit

First off, apologies for the crappy editing — WordPress is being a bitch today.

Ignatius J. Reilly’s comment on St. Louis Post Dispatch Columnist Kevin Horrigan’s article, Noise in LaHood, serves as a near perfect summary of Horrigan’s absurd and asinine logic.

First, Horrigan’s type cast of bicyclists :

We bike guys (I owned one, before I started looking like a bear in a circus when I rode it) own the high moral ground. Never mind that we don’t pay gasoline taxes to build roads. We don’t pollute. We are close to nature. Our lungs are pure, our calves are firm, we look good in day-glo Spandex, and we have the same right to the roads as you.

And Reilly’s response:

My word, this portly pundit has shown his penchant for gross generalizations and… the firm calves of cyclists. But with respect to the former, the rotund writer fails to acknowledge the other 85 percent of cyclists who fall outside his stereotypical misconception: children riding to school, adults commuting to work, underserved populations with no transportation alternatives, etc.

I wonder if cyclists stereotype newspaper columnists as grumpy, overweight, old white men with an ax to grind with this radical, changing world.

The only thing I would add is that bicyclist are not just guys. We’re also gals.

Meghan, Samantha and Me: Bike Gals

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