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Bikesnob has a BRA (Book Related Appearance)

As a blogger you sometimes feel compelled to do certain things. This list may include; talking about things you like, taking pictures of things and posting them, doing product reviews, talking about new music, and attending events and doing some quasi journalistic type write ups. It is the aforementioned thing that I am least comfortable with, mostly because it involves writing. At least I’ve got the photo part covered. However doing a write up about a BSNYC event makes me feel even more uncomfortable because it helps to highlight my writing inadequacies.

But alas I attended the event and I feel obligated to share it with all you out there that couldn’t make it. So first off I added some captions to the photo I posted yesterday. I did this mostly to underscore the fact that buying his books / tea-shirts / extra copies of bycling magazine (on top of the two subscriptions that are already being inexplicably sent to my house simultaneously) and the occasionally issue of Outside magazine. You are not only supporting Bikesnob, but also his wife, his baby on the way and his unpaid ironic intern.

Ok so now on with the show, Bikesnob began the event by giving away various knog themed prizeways and BSNYC tea shirts. Winners included the person who traveled the farthest (Finland), the only person with a bicycle themed tattoo, and who ever really wanted one. A guy from London also got a tea shirt as a consolation prize for being the farthest runner up. Also if you had arrived on either a bike with an intact pie plate or a recumbent you would have been granted a gift, however no one did. This was all happened in the beginning in oder to kill time because the projector was not functioning, which I should point out falls solely on the shoulders of the Powerhouse Arena.

And then without warning the projector sprung into action and projected in plain view Bikesnob's neat, tidy, organized, and well kept computer desktop. To which Bikesnob responded, "Yah, your not supposed to see that". The photo bellow reveals where the "magic happens"

He then began the slide show and took out his 3-foot tall BMX trophy he won sometime during the 1980s, and which he brought with him strictly as a confidence-boosting totem. This slide show is pretty self explanatory and was comprised mostly of images of himself from "way back in the day" If your interested in seeing more you can go here. After the slide show was finished he answered some of our questions but I can't recall any of them so they must not have been very good. We were then directed to the register where they gave us books and T-shirts and took our money. Good times

Lets just say it was a busy weekend

I met Bikesnob & his ironic intern, saw hippies dancing in the street, ran into Shepard Fairey, rode my bike on a Manhattan freeway, and got a hell of a sunburn. I'll be post more on each of these subjects (ok maybe not the sunburn) as soon as I mentally and physically unpack. Here's a taste.