Comments on: Best Cruiser Ever

By: rpg

rpg — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:27:17 +0000

Ahh, another brilliant post, and, unsurprisingly, left anonymously. Jackass.

By: hey

hey — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:21:40 +0000

you suck dude don’t post shit about cruising go away. far far away

By: rpg

rpg — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:00:32 +0000

Excellent spelling and grammar there, “Sexy”, and late to the party, to boot.

By: SweetSexyBurner

SweetSexyBurner — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:26:39 +0000

Jeeze, your kind of an ass.

By: Jimmy S

Jimmy S — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 21:12:27 +0000

Jeez guys, I only drop in here from time to time because Rob writes good stuff about flying. What the hell’s a cruise anyway?

Hey Rob! Go soaring and write about that. I bet it will leave a better taste in your mouth.

Keep smilin’

By: Amy (AEC)

Amy (AEC) — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:55:18 +0000

Love this post… and all that went along with it. Entertaining read…

By: Steve Z

Steve Z — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 21:42:44 +0000

Hey glad you like my cruiser. I’m hoping to get one myself, but Ellsworth is a ‘funny’ company. Enough said on that.

As far as the Cruiser ride goes, there are many ways to point fingers and lay blame and call names. There is a lot of shit that has gone wrong, but there have also been a lot of good times. The thing to focus on now is how to move forward.

The problems with the cruise are 1) that it got to big to fit in one intersection at one time and 2) that it began to attract people with the ‘drunken mob mentality’.

We need a change of thinking. We need to promote Boulder Cruiser Night. Everyone cruising around town in groups of 5 to 50, hitting all the hot spots. Between Scott Carpenter and Eben G Fine on the creek path. Between downtown and North boulder Park on 13th. Parking Garages. Everyone cruising around wherever they want, with whoever they want. Groups come together and split apart. No one can complain that the Ride isn’t going the way they want, too fast, too slow, too many stops too little stops, because it is THEIR CRUISE. Cruise wherever you want and have fun. Boulder can handle thousands of cruisers every thursday as long as everyone doesn’t have to be in the same place at the same time.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:24:43 +0000

YHOMTB…you are correct. It is a shame that those that “get it” are being excluded. That was never the intent. I’m sure it’ll all work out eventually. Unfortunately the small element of “bad eggs” ruined the ride experience for many of us and something drastic had to be done or the ride as we know it would have been over soon. Believe me—we tried to educate and accomodate them, but some people are just assholes that don’t get it I guess—they just want to hang with their small group of friends and cause trouble for the rest of us. Rob G sounds like a good guy overall, but I don’t really think he sees the extent of the problem the group faced.

By: YHOMTB

YHOMTB — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:44:20 +0000

I see that from an outsider’s (and some insiders’) perspective it appears that the cruisers have become the epitomy of Boulder elitism. The “ending” of the cruiser ride met their needs of ridding of the bad eggs but, unfortunately, many of the “cool” people they wish to hold on to have been lost. Fortunately by consequence, Thursdays have now become Thursday Boulder Bike Night. If you cruise around Boulder on Thursday nights you will find 5-10 smaller cruiser factions riding bikes of all kinds shouting, “Happy Thursday”. So the core group may have isolated themselves but cruiser spirit continues on Thursday nights. And Bob is right. Your Ellsworth Cruiser was designed by a local (ex)cruiser (Steve-z.com)

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:38:34 +0000

Holy cow. RPG, looks like your blog got to the cruiser police and they are not happy (all posts yesterday around 7pm). I’m down with PeachyKeen here. I like the cruiser ride. I had a good time every week I rode it. Most others felt the same way, however it looks like the “leaders” of the ride sure have their power trip in order.

I’d have thought the flower-power cruisers would have taken more of a 60’s-peace response instead of coming at you with a knife. I think the true colors are coming out and they sure look bloody red. (I hope I don’t get jumped tonight for these comments)