Comments on In Bed With the Bike Lobby

Those fat cats from Big Bicycling will be the first against the wall.

Not to worry, elenchos, I took their spare tube.

A bunch of reps from the bike industry, and not a single hideous flourescent riding jacket in sight. Thank God for small miracles, I guess.

When the rest of you are stuck in the suburbs or unable to leave Capitol Hill for lack of gasoline, we bicyclists will take over the world. And Obama fucking KNOWS it.

A houseful of bikers...with 2300 bucks each?!? That's a lot of pints at The Canterbury, kids...

gurldoggie: I'm pretty sure that, by the standards of the bicycling proletariat, most of those folks would be categorized as "counter-revolutionaries."

There's biking as a means of transit, and biking as an expensive hobby for people who love to pretend their trek through the I-90 bike tunnel is a leg of the Tour de France. I'm sure these cycling industry chaps know where the "real" money is.

At first I thought Erica posted this...then I remembered "Obama did something that Hillary never would have done..." and noticed it wasn't Erica.

Cycle with Obama!!!!

I'll be impressed with Obama only if he shows up at Daley Plaza in Chicago at 5:30pm on the last Friday of any month between now and election day.

stinkbug @8, congratulations on taking single-issue voterness to an absurd new low.

What's up with no drive-in windows for cyclists in this town, anyway?

We pay taxes too!

Not only do cyclists have lobbyists, there is also a Congressional Bike Caucus, headed by Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Portland, OR). This morning NPR did a story on old Earl's cycling habits. Be sure to check out his lapel pin, a TRUE patriot!

@6 Bikes Belong is pretty far over on the "utility cycling" side of the spectrum - hardly a bunch of racer wanna-bees..