"It's impossible to feel like a grown-up when you're on a bicycle"

There's a wonderful article by P. J. O'rourke on the Wall Street Journal. Thanks to @carltonreid for the pointer.

Not everyone who has commented seems to realise that the author is a satirist. In other words, his job is to use irony and wit to expose human folly.

Like this:

"Bicycles are the perfect way to go nowhere while carrying nothing"
"The reason it took mankind 5,000 years to get the idea for the bicycle is that it was a bad idea"
"You can walk up three flights of stairs carrying one end of a sofa. Try that on a bicycle"
"You can't decrease traffic congestion by putting things in the way of traffic"

Those are jokes, not statements of his core beliefs.

I don't know whether P. J. O'Rourke cycles or not. I suspect he might. This isn't his first foray into similar territory. And when he says "It's impossible to feel like a grown-up when you're on a bicycle" he get pretty close to part of the appeal.