communications manager for Tesla Motors, the Peninsula-based maker of hot-rod
electric cars, revealed to a cycling-oriented podcast that she's a
member of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, and a participant
in Critical Mass.
and in fact, I've participated in many Critical Masses, which are
awesome, awesome wonderful events in San Francisco Fridays once a
month, and they are a time for bicyclists to pull a critical mass on
the cars," she said. "So they completely take over the streets, and
cars have to wait for hordes of cyclists to pass by. It's so much fun," we quoted Konrad as saying.
Just six weeks later, the company is scheduled on Oct. 30 to open its next outlet in the city that serves as home to the bicycle racing journal Velo News, first
Yank Tour de France stage winner Davis Phinney, and a downtown that
features dozens of bike shops within stumbling distance of one another.
stealing our original content and making money from it," wrote Bronstein. "It doesn't
really help our case if we're raiding closets and borrowing outfits
from members of our own fraternity without at least asking."
By the way, Bronstein's accusation of "borrowing" is just a passive-aggressive way of calling out the Times for sloppiness at best and plagiarism at worst. It's a big deal. And, in the end, it turns out to be hilarious -- because on Aug. 12, a week before the Chron story Bronstein referenced, Batts told the same anecdote to the Long Beach Press Telegram (though they did not lead with it, like the Times and Chron). If the Press Telegram's "editor at large" wrote a bombastic column
about the Chron "borrowing" his paper's material -- well, we missed it. Meanwhile, it seems Batts is a man who likes to repeat his anecdotes to anyone with a notepad or microphone. Let's all make a note of this.
