see what happens when we let gingers roam freely?
coldcut12.16.09 - 7:48 pm
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As long as it wasn't a car, Anne Hathaway could hit me any day of the week.
Raaawwwwrr!!
bentstrider12.16.09 - 7:48 pm
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and he had brakes too! so sad...
sklank12.16.09 - 7:50 pm
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"Law enforcement sources tell TMZ Hathaway was riding shotgun this afternoon in West Hollywood when the cyclist rammed into the car as it was turning onto Santa Monica Blvd.
The cyclist -- who we're told was at fault -- refused medical treatment and was able to pink-pedal away from the "minor incident."
Ugh. It sounds like it was a right hook. Of course the cops would say the cyclist was at fault.
danya12.16.09 - 7:55 pm
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Who is that hipster?
I MUST KNOW
TheDude12.16.09 - 8:05 pm
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That bike is precious!
sexy12.16.09 - 8:57 pm
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Okay. So that's this dude Freddie. Been living car-free in LA and riding fixed since 2003. That's before MR or LAfixed or any of that before you all drop the H bomb. The purple bike and white aerospokes are the colors of his favorite soccer team. He's okay, but I havent talked with him directly cause his phone is missing. He's a super rad guy and a skilled rider so I'm guessing right-hook but I have no evidence of this.
He's also over 30 and XvX which is so fucking rare I feel the need to mention it.
bike punk12.16.09 - 9:53 pm
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Yeah we better lock up all those gingers before Coldcut gets to them himself!
@bikepunk
What's XvX?
imachynna12.16.09 - 10:02 pm
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hahaha. kick a ginger day!
i'm assuming it means straight edge vegan?
coldcut responding to a
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12.16.09 - 10:08 pm
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don't get me wrong Matt. I'm not hatin on the bike, it is just so pretty!
sexy12.16.09 - 10:13 pm
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If "kick" is the new word for "molest," sure.
Straight edge vegan, you're probably right.
imachynna responding to a
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12.16.09 - 11:21 pm
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Haha, what?? It's not my fault you have a fancy for them! Hahaha.
imachynna responding to a
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12.17.09 - 12:27 am
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She was probably trying to gun him down for that cute widdle bike!
Joe Borfo12.17.09 - 1:58 am
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time to overwhelm that thread with knowledge.
et12.17.09 - 8:26 am
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BikesnobNYC has a funny take on this, plus the LA being unfriendly to bikes debate and cities lame planning for bikes. As usual he hits it on the head with his snarky style.
Bike snob
Foldie12.17.09 - 10:19 am
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"Law enforcement sources tell TMZ Hathaway was
riding shotgun this afternoon in West Hollywood when the cyclist rammed into the car as it was turning onto Santa Monica Blvd."
dude!
if we can get enough starlets to ride "shotgun" in motor vehicles in LA.
Non fatal car on bike accidents will be reported every time.
Problem fucking solved.
next...
trickmilla12.17.09 - 10:44 am
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THAT AEROSPOKE SAVED HIS LIFE!
66612.17.09 - 11:53 am
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after looking a bike snobs blog... I see that guy who got hit all the time in hollywood .... Hollywood and Highland area
OsnapsonJC12.17.09 - 12:13 pm
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Wow this shit has blown up. Freddy is less than stoked.
bike punk12.17.09 - 4:52 pm
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is he really a "paparazzo"? as ALL the news stories are suggesting?
does he really have a camera with a "big lens" and does that qualify him as a celebrity stalker?
trickmilla responding to a
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12.17.09 - 5:36 pm
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That means he was able to keep up with an Audi on his fixie. Represent!
outerspace12.18.09 - 1:30 am
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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/12/pedalpowered-paparrazo-plows-into-car-carrying-anne-hathaway.html
Wtf is a Viola 24-speed? Are they just making shit up?
dusky12.18.09 - 12:55 pm
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Cops always lie.
They are just protecting her. The car probably even hit him.
If you are on a bike, you are nothing but a troublemaker.
Fuck the pigs, fuck the media.
Joe Borfo12.18.09 - 1:20 pm
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Anything else you care to share?
FBI responding to a
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12.18.09 - 1:22 pm
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im right there with you man, im just glad that i have these forums to keep me sane during the day!
rub_my_crank responding to a
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12.18.09 - 1:24 pm
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No question about it, the LA Times has gone to shit. No fact checking or real journalism to speak of. Soon the corrections column will fill an entire page.
mr rollers responding to a
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12.18.09 - 1:34 pm
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1/2 the time i'm sure they don't even bother.
That's valuable ad space!
trickmilla responding to a
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12.18.09 - 1:37 pm
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"viola 24 speed"
the latest in fashionable fixed gear technology. dslr with telephoto lens included.
coldcut12.18.09 - 1:50 pm
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I commented on the LA Times blog piece by Andrew Blankstein. I doubt it will be posted.
here it is though:
What the hell is going on here?!? Talk about poor reporting and shoddy investigative work.
Of course he's a paparazzo, he had a high end camera in his bag!! DUH! Really, Mr. Whitmore?? Really, AP?? Obviously Whitmore didn't know what he was talking about and you still published it. He made some illogical statement about being a paparazzo or an avid birdwatcher...and you actually chose to print that line!!?? WOW.
Did anybody fact check this alleged "Viola 24-speed" road bike according to the "authorities" ? I couldn't find such a bike anywhere. Abici makes a purple bike called a Viola that happens to be purple, but it's a single speed? I dunno about you, but the picture from TMZ looks like it only has one gear and aside from the color looks nothing like the Abici bike.
These are the same people that concluded the collision was the cyclist's fault????
Andrew Blankstein, please learn to cover your own stories and not just copy off someone else's crappy work.
Thanks for the misinformation though.
DJwheels12.18.09 - 1:58 pm
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From TMZ I can handle such crap, but not a city paper!
I wish I were a celebrity so I could ram my bike into hummers and have the cops and media blame it all on them.
Joe Borfo responding to a
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12.18.09 - 2:08 pm
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HA they published my sub-literate comments .. and yours. And a comment from somebody named "Boe Jorfo" who appears to have plagiarized Mr. Roller's comment in full.
for the record here is my dijointed comment as it appears in the LA TImes Blog
"Do you fact check?
What is a Viola 24-Speed?
Its clear from the photos that the bike was a "fixed gear" bicycle.
If you don't even know the basic facts that are available to anybody who see the photos of the accident scene.
If you do a google for Viola 24-Speed bicycle all the searches refer back to this story.
Are there any facts in this story that have been checked against what the police have said?
Or do you just ...
The Cops Said it
We wrote it
That settles it."
trickmilla responding to a
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12.18.09 - 2:09 pm
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I have been pissed at the LA Times for a while now for their crappy journalism. (Although I think their printed articles are still higher quality, the poop they spew online is useless faux-investigative BS.) I wanted to send the moderators a letter as well, because they have been allowing very negative, inflammatory, nonconstructive comments to be posted to a lot of articles slamming cyclists, but I knew they would never read a letter from me. They do have to read comments to moderate them, though. So I wrote my letter to the moderators in the form of an article comment. Mysteriously never got posted. At least they read it!
outerspace12.18.09 - 2:11 pm
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Boe wasn't "plagiarizing" Rollers, he just agreed with the sentiment and shared it with the masses...
Joe Borfo responding to a
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12.18.09 - 2:16 pm
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On further "investigation" of my own, this article wasn't published by the LA Times. It is a post on a "journalist blog" on the latimes.com domain.
I don't know how significant that is, if at all. It is still on the LA Times website and carries the LA Times banner, so I think they should take some responsibility for the material posted there. But it's not as if they actually published this themselves.
outerspace12.18.09 - 2:18 pm
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The same basic story is all over, via various blogs and the AP story.
I think the reason why it moved so quickly is that people in general despise the paparazzi as people (even though they have no problem consuming their work).
trickmilla responding to a
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12.18.09 - 3:03 pm
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For the record, I am happy to have "BoeJorfo" share or plagiarize my comments whenever he wants to. Although I see he felt the need to substitute the word "crap".
Also, for what it's worth, the very same article appears in the print edition of today's LA Times.
mr rollers responding to a
comment by Joe Borfo
12.18.09 - 4:10 pm
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Boe is sorry. He meant to quote.
Joe Borfo responding to a
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12.18.09 - 4:19 pm
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OMG! No foot retention...
MAXX12.18.09 - 6:41 pm
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If the same article appeared in print, then I retract my benefit of the doubt.
outerspace responding to a
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12.19.09 - 2:43 am
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Ridazz Roulette!
For good measure
That's true.