Peter Flax
@pflax1.bsky.social
Into riding, writing and complex carbohydrates.
Every opinion stated here is mine—and mine alone.
Every opinion stated here is mine—and mine alone.
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NEW: Rad Power Bikes has told employees it will go out of business in January without new funding.
The company said in a staff email that it had a "very promising" option to stay alive, but whatever that was, it fell apart.
Story with @kirstenkorosec.bsky.social
techcrunch.com/2025/11/10/r...
The company said in a staff email that it had a "very promising" option to stay alive, but whatever that was, it fell apart.
Story with @kirstenkorosec.bsky.social
techcrunch.com/2025/11/10/r...
Rad Power Bikes faces shutdown in January without new funding | TechCrunch
The company is "still fighting to find ways to continue" according to an email viewed by TechCrunch.
techcrunch.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Just as the graft and lawlessness and weaponized bigotry need to face consequences, the repeated capitulation and silence needs to have consequences, too.
November 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Just as the graft and lawlessness and weaponized bigotry need to face consequences, the repeated capitulation and silence needs to have consequences, too.
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American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
March 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
I find it exhausting to watch elite cyclocross. If you understand how hard they are pushing watts, it's hard to ignore the suffering involved.
November 9, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I find it exhausting to watch elite cyclocross. If you understand how hard they are pushing watts, it's hard to ignore the suffering involved.
The carnage caused by FAA cutbacks cast a spotlight on the massive public subsidies required to have air travel function in the US. People think spending money on bike lanes and rail is socialism while TRILLIONS have been spent to prop up the airline industry and to build and maintain roadways.
November 9, 2025 at 1:39 PM
The carnage caused by FAA cutbacks cast a spotlight on the massive public subsidies required to have air travel function in the US. People think spending money on bike lanes and rail is socialism while TRILLIONS have been spent to prop up the airline industry and to build and maintain roadways.
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Richest nation in human history
November 7, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Richest nation in human history
I was very very fortunate to spend my day yesterday making content and memories with one of the best human beings in pro cycling.
Photo by the incomparable Joe Pugliese
Photo by the incomparable Joe Pugliese
November 7, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I was very very fortunate to spend my day yesterday making content and memories with one of the best human beings in pro cycling.
Photo by the incomparable Joe Pugliese
Photo by the incomparable Joe Pugliese
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"I unequivocally reject identity politics" i scream, right before selecting my five gallon cowboy hat for my Fox Business interview.
November 6, 2025 at 9:25 PM
"I unequivocally reject identity politics" i scream, right before selecting my five gallon cowboy hat for my Fox Business interview.
This is just so beautiful and I think anyone who has a problem with this should be flushed out of power in the America most of us want.
Cities thrive not on fear but empathy, on cooperation not division.
That's the NYC we know and love. It has found expression in this movement. And it is rising up at the ballot box today.
Polls close at 9pm: zohranfornyc.com/vote
That's the NYC we know and love. It has found expression in this movement. And it is rising up at the ballot box today.
Polls close at 9pm: zohranfornyc.com/vote
November 4, 2025 at 5:17 PM
This is just so beautiful and I think anyone who has a problem with this should be flushed out of power in the America most of us want.
As someone who has lived considerable stretches in LA and San Diego, I am bemused by the extremely heated discourse about whether a community within Chicago city limits can be called a suburb. But on the bright side, I learned that this qualifies as a massive insult in at least one city.
November 4, 2025 at 3:34 PM
As someone who has lived considerable stretches in LA and San Diego, I am bemused by the extremely heated discourse about whether a community within Chicago city limits can be called a suburb. But on the bright side, I learned that this qualifies as a massive insult in at least one city.
Just remember that even if people insist on writing dumb things about Dick Cheney, you don't have to read them or talk about them.
November 4, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Just remember that even if people insist on writing dumb things about Dick Cheney, you don't have to read them or talk about them.
Someone should immediately start selling ALOOF WIFE t shirts because there is major money to be made there.
November 4, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Someone should immediately start selling ALOOF WIFE t shirts because there is major money to be made there.
In a era of AI slop, social-optimized highlights and poorly edited news summaries of big sporting events, it's wonderful to read a longform piece of sports reporting about a special moment like last night's game 7. In another era this was common; now, sadly rare.
www.joeposnanski.com/p/the-greate...
www.joeposnanski.com/p/the-greate...
The Greatest Game I've Ever Seen?
Trying to make sense of Game Seven as I sit among the fog and ghosts in Cooperstown.
www.joeposnanski.com
November 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM
In a era of AI slop, social-optimized highlights and poorly edited news summaries of big sporting events, it's wonderful to read a longform piece of sports reporting about a special moment like last night's game 7. In another era this was common; now, sadly rare.
www.joeposnanski.com/p/the-greate...
www.joeposnanski.com/p/the-greate...
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Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
November 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
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When you see Mamdani looking all normal doing normal person things—petting bodega cats, riding public transport—you realize just how bizarre and estranged our average candidate for public office is. Rich martians in flesh suits
November 2, 2025 at 2:26 PM
When you see Mamdani looking all normal doing normal person things—petting bodega cats, riding public transport—you realize just how bizarre and estranged our average candidate for public office is. Rich martians in flesh suits
As if the World Series game 7 drama wasn’t stressful enough.
November 2, 2025 at 4:17 PM
As if the World Series game 7 drama wasn’t stressful enough.
Incredible podium performances in the women's field at the NYC Marathon, destroying the course record. A reminder of what elite women can do if they can compete with equal TV time, prize money, and opportunities. That is probably the number one way to uplift women in sports.
November 2, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Incredible podium performances in the women's field at the NYC Marathon, destroying the course record. A reminder of what elite women can do if they can compete with equal TV time, prize money, and opportunities. That is probably the number one way to uplift women in sports.
My #1 NYC Marathon memory—one year I led a Runner's World video at the start about how runners can avoid tying granny knots and then got a seat on a bus with Bloomberg that got a police escort from the Verrazano to Tavern on the Green in like 19 minutes. Only truly effective NYC drive of my life.
November 2, 2025 at 1:23 PM
My #1 NYC Marathon memory—one year I led a Runner's World video at the start about how runners can avoid tying granny knots and then got a seat on a bus with Bloomberg that got a police escort from the Verrazano to Tavern on the Green in like 19 minutes. Only truly effective NYC drive of my life.
Just imagine if Clayton Kershaw wound up winning game 7 with the final pitch of his professional career.
November 2, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Just imagine if Clayton Kershaw wound up winning game 7 with the final pitch of his professional career.
It would be fitting if this game ends at 2:01 am ET on the one night a year where it is 2:01 am twice.
November 2, 2025 at 3:57 AM
It would be fitting if this game ends at 2:01 am ET on the one night a year where it is 2:01 am twice.
This game is like Space Mountain—a roller coaster in total darkness.
November 2, 2025 at 3:38 AM
This game is like Space Mountain—a roller coaster in total darkness.
Maybe they should just play best of 9
November 2, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Maybe they should just play best of 9
I am not very emotionally involved in who wins the series but I am definitely emotionally involved in the series.
November 2, 2025 at 3:05 AM
I am not very emotionally involved in who wins the series but I am definitely emotionally involved in the series.
I am begging Hollywood to make this a movie.
A French cyclist survived for three days after a horrendous 130-foot fall into a ravine, kept alive by the bottles of red wine he had in his shopping bag, police said.
Cyclist falls down 130-foot ravine in France, survives 3 days by drinking wine he had in shopping bag
A helicopter airlifted him to hospital, with a rescue doctor calling his survival "a miracle."
cbsn.ws
October 31, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I am begging Hollywood to make this a movie.