Comments on: Oil Crisis?

By: Brent

Brent — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 04:17:24 +0000

Lucas, I drive on Mondays and take lunch and clothing for three days then drive on Friday. # days on the bike is better than none.

By: Lucas Wold

Lucas Wold — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:21:11 +0000

Does anyone have any good ways for keeping a suit wrinkle- and sweat-free when riding to work?

By: Wolfy

Wolfy — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:14:30 +0000

I’d recommend against splintering your content too much Jeff. Though this post may represent a minority topic, it’s still a bike related post. If you splinter your content too much you risk diluting your message and cluttering up the blog-o-sphere with a bunch of useless blogs, forums, articles, websites that you’ll never use. (You better believe I’m talking from experience!). If Marcus and others are saying they don’t want to read your political rants, the solution is to not rear the political rants. The thing that determines whether a post is editorially appropriate to the forum is the intended audience. From what I’ve read, this wouldn’t fit on Alternate Realities.

It’s about cycling, and carson city. Seems like a good fit to me. At most you should add a “rants” or “politics” category. But limiting your content to singletrack and happhapyjoyjoy singalongs won’t make people read, think and discuss as they so clearly do now.

-M

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By: Jeff Moser

Jeff Moser — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 04:09:52 +0000

I’ve been writing a bike blog for 4 years now (formerly Facility Bike Club), and I receive input and advice all the time.

“Jeff, you need to be more positive.” “Jeff, you sold out!” “You’re so politically correct now.” “I miss the old blog.” “I love the new blog”.

I listen to other people’s input with an open mind, but in the end, I just go with what feels right to me. And I think it’s been working pretty well. Readership continues to grow. When people stop reading, I’ll go do something else. I’ve tried writing for other people elsewhere on the internet, and it didn’t work out.

But good idea 6dogs. Alternate Realities may be read HERE.

By: 6dogs

6dogs — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:44:31 +0000

I have an idea that may make everybody happy. Jeff, it’s obvious you need a fair and balanced approach to your blog posts. So my idea is this: create another blog. Call it…. ah… lets say… Alternate Realities. When you publish a post on Bike Carson, and the topic is, for example, “Oil Crisis?”
On the Alternate Realities blog the topic would be: “What Oil Crisis?”
You could write about how oil is plentiful, there are no annoying sidewalks, or crosswalks for that matter. No bike lanes, bike paths, or irritating stop signs. Just one paved mass of earth with a petrol station on every corner. Life is good.
WWJD on the Alternate Realities blog? Depends on his mood, it’s a toss up between the Hummer and the Excursion.

By: Not Mike

Not Mike — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 01:43:11 +0000

Dearest Jeff,
Yes it’s me. You got to love it! I really do enjoy your work.
See you out there.
I kind of like the Not Mike name.
Simple things for simple minds.
Thanks again.

By: Jeff Moser

Jeff Moser — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 01:28:10 +0000

Dear person that is not Mike. I’m glad you’re not mad, because I’m not either. I don’t believe I’ve referred to you or mentioned you in any of my above comments. Let me check real quick…nope, I didn’t. I know your name, your email address, and your IP address, and that your name resembles this one guy that builds cool singletrack. But other than that, I really have no idea who you are, who you have been, who you will be, what you do, where you work, your hopes, your dreams, your greatest fear, whether you’re a boxer or brief guy, etc, so it’s unlikely that I would’ve been referring to you in the above comments. In fact, I don’t really care what you do as long as you are happy. I don’t expect any daily status reports from you either. Unless you want to of course, and then I’d be honored. And yes, being aware of facts before making statements is sound advice. I will take this into consideration should I ever decide to label. You never know when this may be required. It wasn’t required in this post, but you never know… I still don’t care for racing though. Not against it, it just doesn’t interest me. I’m a slow rider, and I’d lose horribly. I’m better suited for slow rolling and taking photos. I also think it’s simply fabulous that we got 21 comments on a post than nobody is interested in or even cares about.

But I really do wonder if the walrus dreams in corduroy as it slides through the lush slippery meadows of Aunt Jean’s back 40. It does get me to thinking though that I carry around way too much dog hair in my wallet. This tends to offend our friends in the southern regions of Scandinavia; hard workers though they are, they just will never master the precise art of hot, liquidy, ubiquitous midwifery. But I feel it needs to be said that squids eating dough from polyethylene bags are fast and bulbous. Got me?!?

By: 6dogs

6dogs — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 01:25:52 +0000

J-Mo, thanks for another well written post. Your controversial topics and the eventual friendly debate, not to mention the smart ass remarks, are one of the reasons your blog is so good. Keep them coming.

Not Mike & Marcus- Be easy on Moser. After reading his last comment I think he has gone Postal.

Tank- Jesus is a single-speeder.

Of all the comments regarding this post, Marcus is the only one who answered Jeff’s question: “Who out there is breaking the oil addiction? What have you been doing to ween yourself off the stuff?”
My answer: Not enough.

By: Not Mike

Not Mike — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:34:46 +0000

My Dearest Jeff,
I am not mad you frikin’ ….
Seriously, I was just kidding about the above line. I am in no way MAD or OFFENDED about your topic. I thank you for letting me write my opinions on your blog. Which I truly enjoy as matter of fact.
You have no idea what my cycling history is, was, and will be. I don’t believe that I should notify everybody that I was riding, and racing, since the early 70’s, and that cycling, and commuting, were a huge part of my growing up in the L. A. area long before commuting was enviromentaly correct. Also, if it would make you feel better towards me, I will let you know every time that I ride to work in Reno from Carson. And I also used to ride from Tahoe to Reno when I lived up there. Maybe then you will believe that people who like to race are also people who just like to ride, (and commute)!!!!!
Love and Kisses,
Not Mike
p.s. One of the biggest bike projects in Carson started from a close family member, so be aware of your facts about commuting and community involvement before labelling as just a singletrack rider.
More Love and More Kisses,
Not Mike