"Charlatans all. Including of course the plebeian aspiring surf stars who whore themselves out to the lowest bidder."
Nina Dobrev, the longtime actress girlfriend of snowboard spectacular Shaun White is currently receiving care in a hospital after suffering a gruesome accident on an electric bicycle. The Canadian, who made a name for herself on The Vampire Diaries, had shared a self portrait straddling the machine, cheekily penning “How it started vs how it’s going” underneath.
The next slide should have included a trigger warning. The 35-year-old is lying on a hospital bed, possibly emergency room, with a neck brace, knee brace and maybe bicep brace.
While not explaining what led to the accident, fans were quick to point out that she wasn’t wearing a helmet though her head does seem to be in working condition. Others, more famous like Sophia Bush, who recently came out as queer, wrote, “Nooooo! You poor babe,” while Dancing with the Stars’ Julianne Hough added, “That’s my girl! 🫠 Obviously wouldn’t make jokes if you were not ok…”
It was not necessarily obvious to those who know neither starlet.
BeachGrit readers will recall the e-bike furor that engulfed our surfing world two years ago when shaper Tyler Warren circulated a petition to have them banned at Lower Trestles. Andy St Onge, author, responded, “The recreational integrity of surfing has been so hopelessly degraded by the combined compounded impact of unrestrained commercialism with hordes of par venu kooks and their endless gear fetishes. Charlatans all. Including of course the plebeian aspiring surf stars who whore themselves out to the lowest bidder. Rabble kook scum one and all.”
BeachGrit readers will also recall when conservative longboard firebrand Joel Tudor posted a video of e-bikes becoming washed away and declared it, “the greatest moment in rewind history.”
So, after the latest Dobrev dustup, where do you stand on e-bikes? Still the future of transportation or a grave menace?
More as the story develops.
Hope she’s all White!
A blight on humanity—with Electronics already taking over the world—and everybody, and especially the youth glued to a keyboard— one saving grace I think was, when you wanted to go for a bike ride and clear your mind or to try and enjoy a ride—you at least got some healthy exercise and an endorphin bump from the bike ride.
Gone now, when you get home, your probably as grumpy as when you left..
No idea who she is.
Shaun is the super ginger who did too much coke smashed his lambo bought another one cash and sent his drummer dick pics to celebrate. Him? Legend.
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Hey Andy St Onge: Don’t use a big word provided that a diminutive morpheme can be evoked to suffice.
I can wheely my stark varg forever. She must have been doing something super Rad!?
one thing in Cali but at least there’s some relatively open space. The real ebike danger zone is NYC – nearly been killed there multiple times in last few months stepping off sidewalks when suddenly one appears out of nowhere at top speed. Beware!!
Menace, obviously.
I wonder if she was following standard Ebike protocol- Jeans 3x your normal size, hooded sweatshirt 2x your normal size, no helmet, on your phone, with a buddy hanging off the back.
I see you have been to Cardiff, Encinitas, Carlsbad, San Clemente, etc, etc… and have witnessed the eBike Mafia in full force.
If your town/city has removed all free parking for metered or paid parking lots is it okay to ride an e-bike for a surf? Asking for a friend.
No
Not even Del Mar has 24/7 meter payment required, and that city is the worst. Arrive Early, Leave Early.
Sometimes gravity demands you hug the earth and leave an offering of flesh.
Probably barely anything wrong with her. I filled my water bottle with ice and vodka and was bombing Mt Tam. Hit a big boulder with toe clips on and ate shit.
Didn’t go to the doctor for days and just kept drinking to numb the pain. Tore all the ligaments in my ankle and broke my foot. Ankle has never been the same.
Spray some WD-40 on it, and get back out there CHAMP!!
You do know what “champ “means in priz vernacular yeah? Sorta like calling someone a good cunt in S.A.
(FACE PALM!) I’m only good at offending,….not apologizing.