Completely satisfied Judeo-Christian Vernal Ritual Interval! Sure, it’s that point of 12 months once we do bizarre stuff like nibble on giant unleavened crackers and paint hard-boiled eggs, relying on our respective faithways. However irrespective of which crew we journey for, there’s one commandment we might all do nicely to observe, and it’s “Don’t Fuck With The Easter Bunny:”

Hey, I assumed we banned DIA, what provides?

Talking of the season of rebirth, a extremely astute reader was type sufficient to remind us all of the next:

Wonderful! It looks like solely yesterday that the game {of professional} biking was actually going to destroy the world:

I admit I do relate to local weather protesters, however solely as a result of they’re precisely like me after I threaten my youngsters:

“Do [thing] proper now otherwise you’re gonna be in hassle!”

[Kid doesn’t do thing.]

“OK, you’re in hassle now!”

[Thing still doesn’t get done, we all forget about it, and the world continues to turn.]

In the meantime, yesterday I discussed Bentonville and the Wahlberg household:

[The Wahlberg Family: Marky, Donnie, Debbie, Michelle, Marky, Joey, Dee-Dee, and, uh, Pip-Squeak]

Anyway, the Wahlbergs are additionally behind bicycle producer Allied Cycle Works, which I point out not as a result of I care the place they make their frames…

…however solely due to this:

I’m sufficiently old to recollect when having the ability to change your stem rise while not having to re-cable your bike was true of BASICALLY EVERY FREAKING BICYCLE.

Is that this picture sufficiently old that we will begin utilizing it once more?

By the best way, right here’s that stem:

So easy! So elegant! And far, a lot simpler than flipping a daily threadless stem or [gasp] elevating or reducing a quill stem.

Simply be sure you use an interior tube inflatable tubeless tire insert whilst you’re at it:

Spring really is the season of rebirth.

As for me, I’m benefiting from the season by commuting by way of bicycle, since in New York spring represents the 2 or three weeks in between freezing your ass off and sweating your ass off:

Ours is a metropolis of bridges:

And by sheer coincidence the Homer’s hues match the Manhattan Bridge nearly completely:

There’s additionally adequate daylight to see me all the best way house:

And as a lot as I complain about this metropolis, the brand new bike path over the Henry Hudson Bridge is sort of sufficient to make me forgive it for, nicely, the whole lot else:

Not a foul view:

Not dangerous in any respect.