<![CDATA['Monocle' Sells Chic Two-Wheeling Lifestyle - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA['Monocle' Sells Chic Two-Wheeling Lifestyle - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA['Monocle' Sells Chic Two-Wheeling Lifestyle]]> Wow, beautiful bike. I saw a girl riding a bike exactly like this last summer in Central Park. I've always wished I'd asked her where she got it. Now I know.
-thanks
Kate

KatherineB

]]> <![CDATA['Monocle' Sells Chic Two-Wheeling Lifestyle]]> Wait, did you get this link from Plasticbag?

Anyway, yes, brûlé(e) in French does take both those accents. Check le Grand Dictionnaire. English bastardizations (Cf. résumé/résume/resumé/resume) don't count.

And stop picking on Tyler! He's sui generis! Or at least his magazines are.

http://blog.fawny.org/2007/04/27/monocular/

Joe Clark

]]> <![CDATA['Monocle' Sells Chic Two-Wheeling Lifestyle]]> @yetimike: Agreed - I was thinking you could get a used Raleigh just like that for 75 bucks.

Christ, what sort of goofball would buy that thing? Nobody that had earned the $1200 themselves, I can tell ya that.

zibby

]]> <![CDATA['Monocle' Sells Chic Two-Wheeling Lifestyle]]> @bacon-yum, @Clevertrousers: Actually, I'd vastly prefer "1920's grifter" over "dude wearing girl jeans with visible junk." At least in the twenties crotch bulges weren't in fashion.

FaceMeetsFist

]]> <![CDATA['Monocle' Sells Chic Two-Wheeling Lifestyle]]> @bacon-yum: Would hipsters appreciate the Prisoner reference?

PikachuMcHeidegger

]]> <![CDATA['Monocle' Sells Chic Two-Wheeling Lifestyle]]> Those bikes are not good. They're beyond not good. The entire issue is bike themed, but shows a pronounced lack of understanding the first thing about bikes and bike culture, unless you mean as accessories -- you know, Bikes do Furnish a Room (or hanging in Jerry Seinfeld's back room). With all the amazing, well-designed and interesting bike makers out there today, they pick the cheesy idiots who make bikes designed to adorn a Prada store. Then there was the atrocity run in the Sunday City section. Lordy, it's enough to make a man go back to gasoline.

Stanley

]]> <![CDATA['Monocle' Sells Chic Two-Wheeling Lifestyle]]> that's a $120 bike though -- did they get the price wrong or are rich retarded people actually THAT rich and retarded???

yetimike

]]> <![CDATA['Monocle' Sells Chic Two-Wheeling Lifestyle]]> @bacon-yum: "you might as well grow a handlebar mustache, put on a bowler hat and start cycling around on one of those antique big-wheel-in-the-front bicycles."

Don't give them any more bad ideas - they've already got the moustaches for fuck's sake!

Clevertrousers

]]> <![CDATA['Monocle' Sells Chic Two-Wheeling Lifestyle]]> @Otto-Reimer: But God, how funny would that be? Next up on Cobrasnake, corsets and syphilitic mouth sores.

bacon-yum

]]> <![CDATA['Monocle' Sells Chic Two-Wheeling Lifestyle]]> 'heavy irony'

You did that on purpose, didn't you?

Elle Menopi

]]> <![CDATA['Monocle' Sells Chic Two-Wheeling Lifestyle]]> @bacon-yum: Please, for the love of God, do NOT give them any ideaas.

I now expect to see bowler hats and handlebar mustaches in McCarren next weekend on their heavy irony bikes.

Otto-Reimer

]]> <![CDATA['Monocle' Sells Chic Two-Wheeling Lifestyle]]> This so-called Tyler Brûlé's got a sweet gig: self-appointed arbiter of taste, selling shitbox-looking, throwback Soviet-era-looking bicycles for 1,200 clams.

And I call bullshit on the spelling of his last name: not even the crème brulée kind has two accents in 'brulé'...

josh speed

]]> <![CDATA['Monocle' Sells Chic Two-Wheeling Lifestyle]]> @bacon-yum: I was going to say how much I like it but you made me hate it. I just picture a pretty girl on the bike and then it's not so bad. Anways, funny - yes.

ekates

]]> <![CDATA['Monocle' Sells Chic Two-Wheeling Lifestyle]]> Am I the only one who upon seeing someone on one of those pansy-ass hipster bikes, has to fight the urge to clothesline the invariably sallow and tubercular manorexic riding it? It's the 21st Century, for fuck's sake, you might as well grow a handlebar mustache, put on a bowler hat and start cycling around on one of those antique big-wheel-in-the-front bicycles.

bacon-yum

]]> <![CDATA['Monocle' Sells Chic Two-Wheeling Lifestyle]]> Great. Now I'll never get that Queen song out of my head.

The Real JR

]]> <![CDATA['Monocle' Sells Chic Two-Wheeling Lifestyle]]> Do they make a men's version?

H.L.Manneqin

]]> <![CDATA['Monocle' Sells Chic Two-Wheeling Lifestyle]]> Wot's all this then?

Creepmouse

]]> <![CDATA['Monocle' Sells Chic Two-Wheeling Lifestyle]]> What you don't see in the photos is that, in the right light, it glows like Marsellus Wallace's suitcase.

TheDes

]]> <![CDATA['Monocle' Sells Chic Two-Wheeling Lifestyle]]> Good luck hauling that hunk of iron up to your third-floor walk-up every night.

backslider

]]> <![CDATA['Monocle' Sells Chic Two-Wheeling Lifestyle]]> aw. That's sweet. It comes with a little basket for Toto, too.

BadUncle

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