I knew before checking the link that the "obscure old bike website" could only be Sheldon Brown. He has no equal. 

As a long time reader of Jezebel and a skater I gotta say this is a disappointing take. Skate culture has traditionally been for the weirdos and the people that don’t fit in anywhere. It’s mostly driven by a DIY ethos and eschews corporate involvement. For as many hard partying goofballs there are in the culture,…

Adult women shouldn’t write op-eds about skateboarding. Let’s try that again with a caveat: Adult women 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑑𝑜𝑛’𝑡 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑠𝑘𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑏𝑜𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 shouldn’t write op-eds about skateboarding. Here’s a few reasons why not:

I got a skateboard at 44. My teenagers, my 71-year-old dad and I take turns pushing it around the local park. We suck, but it's good to suck at stuff and keep doing it until you suck less.

Maria,

Ok Boomer

This post is really judgmental and self centered. Skateboarding is now an Olympic sport, and anyone, no matter what age, race or sex shoul be able to enjoy it. This kind of rant doesn’t talk about any real issues and is what’s childish in my opinion.

Ever heard of skateparks?

How about stick to things you know about. This is ignorant garbage. 

I also think Maria could use a viewing of The Lords of Dogtown regarding the origins of real skateboarding. Plus it features Heath Ledger’s most underrated and hilarious film role, hello.

Tony Hawk lives in my north-of-San-Diego neighborhood, and I’m just going to say that he’s not the only old guy around here who still skates. This is probably an opinion you’re going to want to keep to yourself if you happen to visit.

They should go full-on fixie and offer this beast in ironic tattoo livery, with interior scents of PBR, cigarettes and body odor.  

249mph still isn’t fast enough to outrun all that ugly. 

I guess you’re right - just getting him a new job is not gonna throw anybody off the trail. That picture looks like the guy you’d see running the Skittles Cartel in the gritty Candyland reboot.

this pun will go criminally underrated.

I’d totally watch a show where you solved auto-related mysteries. Call it Encyclopedia Brown Manual Wagon.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to our GREAT @USArmy. America loves you!

plus dont forget that fresh can burn you get when you crack it open and guzzle half of it

Obviously this article was written to instigate a fight but I’m going to fall for it anyway and stand firm in my belief that LaCroix is actually good. Some of us want something that is very lightly flavored because it’s more refreshing and I don’t like the sweeter stuff. Also, I think the decline is probably heavily du…

Yeah, I mean paying lip service to minority and progressive constituents to ensure their votes without actually delivering anything other than perpetual “be patient, change will come” platitudes all so party leaders can continue to congratulate themselves on leaning center to appeal to the increasingly mythical…