While Ireland is in the grip of the longest cold spell we’ve seen for a generation there are only the bravest out on their bikes. When living in Scandinavia, we routinely cycled round town in temperatures well below -20, but the difference was that it was compacted snow, not thawing and freezing ice we cycled on.

So while we wait for the big thaw, I thought I’d point you towards one of the best bike blogs, the NY bike snob, who reminds us all not to take the whole bike love affair too seriously. His favourite targets are the NYC fixie fashionistas, pro cycle teams, Liz Hatch’s ‘talents’ (below) and of course the righteous cycle advocacy groups.

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This post on cycling advocacy and the cycle chic movement will give you a taster..

The NY Times interviewed him back in July.