October 22, 1865, Ansonia, Connecticut: Pierre Lallement introduces the bicycle to America

[taterguy]

Yet another reason to hate the French: They're responsible for the mobs of sanctimonious Lycra-clad Lance Wannabes clogging up our scenic backroads.

[Dennis Donovan]

1. Then, there's us cyclists that refuse to wear the silly Lycra garb...

...and are ambivelant towards Juicin' Lance Armstrong. Sorry about clogging your backroad with my bike. ;-)

[taterguy]

2. For God's sake, pull over

You're doing 20 mph and I've got places I need to be.

[Dennis Donovan]

4. I usually try to, but soemtimes there's just nowhere to go....

;-)

[taterguy]

6. There's always somewhere to go

Unless you're biking across a bridge.

[Saving Hawaii]

16. You can always ride off the bridge and into the drink.

Get off my road you damn cyclists.

[taterguy]

17. Not if the bridge is over a gorge

Or if it's something like the Bonner Bridge.

One where the fall is significantly higher than the depth of the water below.

[HereSince1628]

3. It's a reaction to the hegemony over the 1% we who live in rural America

we only get to occupy that space under the tolerant will of the 99% who live in urban and suburban areas.

They don't want to pay us to maintain the views and they expect us to pay the property taxes to maintain the roads that give them access, but they want to control our homes and fields, trapping us inside poverty and preventing development (other than the cell towers they need to keep their BFFs updated re pedal counts) of what they see as _their_ pastoral views.

:sarcasm:

[taterguy]

5. Could you translate that please?

It's as indecipherable as French to me.

[alfredo]

7. It also helped liberate women.

"Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world." Susan B. Anthony

[taterguy]

8. Couldn't there be a way to liberate women that didn't involve inconveniencing me?

[alfredo]

9. Nope

[taterguy]

11. Damn

[alfredo]

12. Life is cruel.

[madinmaryland]

10. Sheesh, Francis. There are no more bicycles in Connecticut, anymore. I lived there

for 20 years and only a dumbass would try and ride a bike on those shitty roads. It's asking for death trying that.

:wtf:

[taterguy]

15. A quick Google search found over 20 bicyle shops in Connecticut

What the hell are those places selling?

Go :wtf: yourself.

[surrealAmerican]

13. There's no blaming the French for this.

Lycra was "co-invented in 1959 by chemists C. L. Sandquist and Joseph Shivers at DuPont's Benger Laboratory in Waynesboro, Virginia."


You'll just have to be another self-hating American now.

[taterguy]

14. DuPont?

My OP was about the introduction of bicycles in America.

I didn't know they were responsible for lycra too.