Comments on: As The World’s Most Authoritative Bike-Related Blogging Voice, I Answer Readers’ Email

By: Tom Stormcrowe

Tom Stormcrowe — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 22:50:49 +0000

It got me curious, Fatty, and I looked up my blogs on Technorati, and it appears I am the leading authority on BEING FAT! What a thing! I’m not kidding either! Post has the link on my blog now!

By: Juliet

Juliet — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 20:16:43 +0000

LOL!!! great response to grumpy/crochety aussie dudeMy peals of laughter and incessant giggling are (I’m afraid) starting to attract the attention of my coworkers.Luckily – my real job which currently involves reading daily dispatches from a certain international conference in Hong Kong are providing me with as much comic relief – I have an alibi for now.

By: Unknown

Unknown — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 20:15:55 +0000

I should disclose that I don’t tend to leave my block.And that I think you are fantastico.

By: Unknown

Unknown — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 20:14:11 +0000

I, like Stephen, am in the NYC metro area (as opposed to the NYC farmland) and have seen but 60 cyclists, 23% of whom carried pizzas rendering them merely motors for the food industry and thus not really cyclists.My word against his.

By: Unknown

Unknown — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 17:36:49 +0000

Fatty,Congratulations. Now that you are an icon, you might want to revisit your dietary habits as millions of children now look up to you for inspiration and behavior modeling, and we can’t have our kiddies glorping gu can we? Thank goodness your grammar has always been up to snuff so you can concentrate on the important stuff of celebrity like leaving your wife and scoring a trophy rock starlet. Yes, it is a weighty thing that has been thrust upon your broad shoulders. Try to feign humility at all costs no matter how dreary and fawning your fan base is or becomes. Remember that 87.65% of all statistics are made up on the spot. Try to wear clean socks. Be nice to your sisters. Occassionally, try and recall fondly us little people who saw the gleaming of your brilliance before the rest of the world did. We hardly knew ye, Fatster.

By: Unknown

Unknown — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 14:20:28 +0000

from the latin: fatticus headius cyclismoa fat headed cyclist. really, i looked it up.nice post, get me the address of the aussie dude and my old sneakers will be in the mail faster then dug can crack wise

By: Unknown

Unknown — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 12:02:45 +0000

Actually, the Angry Aussie guy is just an avatar for a drunken, disgruntled Mike Myers, who fell into a drunken rage upon hearing that his plans for Austin Powers XVII were so self-parodic that they collapsed in on themselves creating a small black hole in his mind where his originality and genius used to be. So now he just sits at home in his underwear, drunk on Alexander Keith’s Ale purchased at The Beer Store and driven down from Canada in tiny bike trailers by a team of bearded, granola-fueled recumbant cyclists from the University of Oregon. Unable to let go of his moderately successful past, he spends his days trolling random weblogs and emailing hapless, self-important bloggers (oops, redundancy there, sorry) while assuming the persona of characters he used to play to modest acclaim. That email was obviously based on the Scottish Shop, where if it’s not Scottish, "IT"S CRAAAP!" Good thing for you, Fatty, he wasn’t in caveman lawyer persona. /sAl- Who in real life is actually Lothar of the Hill Climbing People

By: Unknown

Unknown — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 01:11:48 +0000

One has to be so careful with those made up statistics these days… because of the serious numbers of people who actually don’t read the blog but simply look for something to pounce on. I suspect it’s an attention-getting device. There must be at least 6,419 attention-getting devices by now, slightly more than the number of cyclists.Congratulations on your authoritativenessicity! I coulda toldya but it’s nice to make it official! And if they say it on Technorati, it must be official, right?Hugs,MuMo

By: Christina

Christina — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 23:51:09 +0000

Ma Bob. This is your new acronym for your title as the foremost blogging authority on bikes. "Most Authoritative Blogger On Bikes" is how you put it… Ma Bob. It’s kind of hillbilly/Walton Mountain-esque. Did the Waltons mountain bike on their mountain? Why do you collect dry erase markers?-BM

By: Christina

Christina — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 23:45:03 +0000

MABOB/FC, Why do you collect other people’s whiteboard erasers? How many do you have exactly? I (inadvertently) "collect" other people’s cheap pens. I have about 6,876 so far. What does this have to do w/ your biking expertise? Nothing. I’ve just been meaning to ask about the eraser comment for a while. -Beast MomBTW, a blog on bike repair stands would be supremely helpful. I’m trying to buy one for my husband for xmas and have no idea which is best and why. ~BEAST MOM