15 responses so far ↓

• 1 Ghost Rider // Aug 21, 2008 at 4:54 pm

  I guess you didn’t catch too much Tour de France coverage on Versus…this was number two in the most-often-run commercials during Tour coverage (right behind those mind-numbingly repetitive Saab commercials). How insulting is THAT?!?

  “Watch some bike racing, but remember — when you grow up, get a damn car already and quit acting like a child.”

• 2 Russ Roca // Aug 21, 2008 at 5:05 pm

  No…I don’t have cable

• 3 Drew // Aug 21, 2008 at 5:08 pm

  People come to my auto parts store (not Auto Zone) all the time, but it is usually because that is how they choose to get around. I wonder how some of my regular customers would react if they knew I was wearing my cars-r-coffins socks behind the counter?

• 4 Iron_Man // Aug 21, 2008 at 5:26 pm

  We have O’Riellys headquartered here in Springfield, and the owners are rather ardent cyclists. They are active both physically and with their pocket books.

• 5 Marrock // Aug 21, 2008 at 6:30 pm

  I haven’t had my TV on in so long I didn’t even know the olympics had started till I read something online about how the chinese had faked large chunks of the opening ceremonies.

  …are they over with yet…?

• 6 Shek // Aug 21, 2008 at 7:09 pm

  The ad is silly. Complete misrepresentation of bicycle commuting..and people are going to buy that…

• 7 Stuart M. // Aug 21, 2008 at 10:40 pm

  Let’s see, if it took the kid all summer to fix that jalopy, how much money did he spend? How did he get the title to the car? I bet if he shows up at the car owner’s house to claim it, the owner will say, “Hey, thanks for fixing my car, now hand over the keys and beat it.”

• 8 Tom // Aug 22, 2008 at 2:52 am

  Thats funny when i saw this I thought the same thing. They should show how he all overweight and broke like two months later lol.

• 9 tadster // Aug 22, 2008 at 7:23 am

  I thought it was kinda funny. Besides, I go to the auto parts store a lot but I don’t stop bike commuting. (I bought parts to fix up our second car and then we sold it).

• 10 Val // Aug 22, 2008 at 9:22 am

  As I mentined over at Copenhagenize ( http://www.copenhagenize.com/ ), the message that I choose to take away from this ad is that if you’re going to use a car, you’ll need a bike for backup. I always try to carry one on the increasingly rare occasions when I drive.

• 11 Rolling Resistance // Aug 22, 2008 at 2:01 pm

  There needs to be a follow up, a few years later:

  He’s gained a bunch of weight, he’s stuck in traffic, the car still doesn’t run all that well, and he’s paying $4 a gallon for gas on top of insurance and the still steady flow of repairs the car continues to require.

  To his right, a bicyclist passes him, and all the other traffic, and he starts to remember why the bike was so great in the first place.

• 12 Mike Myers // Aug 23, 2008 at 4:54 am

  Geez, guys. It’s hard to get laid on a bike. Try to remember when YOU were 16. LOL!! Boy needs a car….

• 13 Tom // Aug 23, 2008 at 9:13 am

  good point mike

• 14 Paul // Aug 23, 2008 at 1:47 pm

  I’m single and in my 40s, women haven’t outgrown that “Boy needs car…” crap. Even recently dated a woman who loves to bike, owns a minivan, and was making fun of past relationships with guys who didn’t own a car… right in front of me. I don’t own a car and dumped her soon after that!

• 15 Val // Aug 25, 2008 at 9:50 am

  Mike: When I was 16, I was riding a bike, and had decided that motor vehicles were for chumps - way too expensive, way too dangerous, and usually unnecessary. It took a lot ot thought and soul searching, inspired somewhat by the aftermath of a freind’s death in a car crach, but I stuck with that decision; when I moved away from home and went to college, I specifically told my parents that I did not want to own a car. Now I do, but that’s another story.

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