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Did World’s Angriest Press-Hungry Messenger Ruin Monstertrack?

Mike Dee in action / Joe Fornabaio for The New York Times

Although organizers are citing safety concerns for canceling Monstertrack, we’re pretty sure this article in the New York Times certainly didn’t help any. The subject of the piece, Mike Dee—who even among his peers is known as a big mouth—blabbed to the Gray Lady about the notoriously illegal fixed-gear only alley-cat that’s been going on for over a decade. And not that we’re claiming to be experts when in comes to organizing illegal bike races through traffic, common sense dictates that bragging about it, to the paper of record, probably wasn’t the smartest thing to do. So much for that code of the streets.