Okay, since I offered up this tidbit, allow me to explicate. So, Bike Snob is talking about retro grouches, their love of hand built wheels with sensible spoke counts, distrust of recent technology, etc. He then goes on to say (and I should have done a better job loosely quoting him) that randonneuring and touring are retro-grouchery in action (putting beliefs into practice.) THEN, he makes the comparison to nerds attending Star Trek conventions, as well as Buddhists making pilgrimages to the Bodhi tree, or some such. The point is that it's not a direct, one to one comparison of retro grouches (or randonneurs!) to nerds. Instead, it's a typical example of Bike Snob's use of wildly unrelated, pop culture references to make his points while having some fun. I get the impression he has a healthy respect for the curmudgeonly RG getting the job done with 36 spokes.
That said, this certainly took us on an entertaining detour! On Jun 9, 7:59 am, Steve Palincsar <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 05:54 -0700, JoelMatthews wrote: > > > Or are you saying BSNYC's audience for the joke was not Rando owners > > but rather people too dense to understand both the Rando concept or > > the many levels Star Trek failed to get things right? > > Sounds about right to me. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
