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Bike Snob NYC
By spokesman | October 15, 2008
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The anonymously written Bike Snob NYC website is one of the most popular biking related blogs. The other night I mistyped www.bikesnobnyc.blogspot.comand wound up at www.bikesnobnyc.blogpsot.com, which is an “easy to navigate mega-site of Bible, Christian, church and religious information, sermons and studies.”
Websites with names based on the misspelling of popular websites try to take advantage of the traffic meant for the real website. In this case I would expect to be directed to a bicycling related site. The BikeSnob had a recent post that mentioned sites trading on the names of popular sites. He discussed TheFixedGearGallery.com, a site that tries to piggy-back on the fame of the FixedGearGallery.com. While this isn’t the most honorable approach to build a website, at least the devious web publisher gets relevant traffic.
However for the BikeSnob case, why the religious site? Well, there is a patron saint of cycling and dedicated church in Italy - the Madonna Del Ghisallo, but it was not mentioned on the site. I scanned the site for cycling related topics and found a few candidates including Drinking, Drugs and Swearing (this could be a commentary on peloton behavior), sunglasses (I want to know - what shades would Jesus wear?) and 666 (perhaps a new wheel size).
Maybe this site gives us a clue to the secret identity of the BikeSnob and his reason for blogging. His website and snobbery is just a ploy to attract snobs and steer us towards a religious epiphany where cycle-snobbery and religion converge. I believe that I found a picture of the BikeSnob with his co-conspirators. Is that the BikeSnob (wearing the brown jacket) in the photo below with the Pope?
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Topics: Bicycle Websites, Bicycle Culture |
October 16th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
Funny, I always wondered about the bikesnob, now it makes much more sense
October 17th, 2008 at 7:24 am
I discovered your blog through Bikesnobnyc and just subscribed to your rss feed. Keep up the good work. The Italy posts are great - I plan to go next May
January 20th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
[…] As a bicycle blogger, these are the moments you live for, yet sadly I was sans camera. Verily, it was the theological equivalent of an “All You Haters Suck My Balls” ride, and I missed my opportunity to capture it in pixels. Also, it was doubly significant in that it very well could be a sign of the dreaded Fixed Gear Apocalypse. For later on I also learned from a fellow blogger of the existence of an alternate version of this very blog: […]