Anti-Veloism: Weird, Creepy Bike Hate
In this case, the anti-veloism took the form of a skit on a WJJ0 99.4 radio program. Basically, some guy with a goofy Harry Shearer radio voice says he's sick of bicyclists, or "spandex cowboys." He then segues into some skit which is a parody of a hunting show, in which the host goes to the "Wisconsin Bicycle Trail of Death," where he kills bicycles instead of deer "because we feel they're flamers and they should be shot at!" He then launches into some weird homoerotic reverie in which he positions himself near someplace "gay and retarded" because that's where cyclists like to congregate. Once he spies some effeminate male cyclists, he then shoots them and excitedly declares that he "bagged me a nancy boy!" Then the host comes back and says that "if motorcyclists...if we did what bicyclists do we'd be in jail and our bikes impounded." Then they go to commercial. A link to a MP3 recording of the radio show can be found here: <a href="http://www.madvelocity.com/article.php/Don-t-Hate-Me-Because-I-m-a-Bicyclist">http://www.madvelocity.com/article.php/Don-t-Hate-Me-Because-I-m-a-Bicyclist</a>
An interesting come back from a cyclist to the leather clad motorcycling radio shock jock calling cyclists garb "gay": <a href="http://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/2009/03/anti-veloism-weird-creepy-bike-hate.html">http://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/2009/03/anti-veloism-weird-creepy-bike-hate.html</a>
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