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Last week, debate about gym etiquette went to a new level after news of a spin class altercation. When one spinning class member was too loud (war-whooping, hollering, grunting), another member threw him and his bike against a wall at an Upper East Side Equinox location. The grunting member, 48-year-old hedge fund manager Stuart Sugarman, suffered a concussion and spinal injuries and now he tells the Post about the latest injustice he's suffered.
Apparently Equinox left a cell phone message for him, telling him his membership was canceled. Sugarman "had been in Lenox Hill Hospital preparing for neck surgery when he received the 'bizarre' cellphone message." This is good to know: Acting really over-the-top during an Equinox class can get your membership canceled - as will having sex having at the gym.
Sugarman's angry fellow spin class member Christopher Carter is being charged with assault by the Manahttan DA's office. Of course, Sugarman has retained a lawyer who says that Christopher Carter had "spin rage" and plans to sue Carter and Equinox. (Apparently Carter had complained about Sugarman's behavior during the class to the instructor who did nothing.) Carter's lawyer simply says Sugarman is "exaggerating his injuries." Well, the Post does have a picture of Sugarman in his neck brace.
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I run up and down Riverside Park for exercise or play tennis or basketball. The most high-tech I get is getting on a bike and going for a ride.
Can someone please explain to me what the hell a "spin class" is?
Not necessarily trying to put it down, genuinely curious.
Very intense stationary biking. I believe the goal is a very high cadence which, in layman's terms, is how many times you pedal in a minute.
This story is hilarious. Spin class fights? Neck braces? Someone make a pilot out of this.
i loves me some "sex having", especially at the guime.
HA, look at that faggy spin bike.
even has a water bottle cage and ancient toe clips.
Sounds like a good way to get out of those draconian membership rules.
"... having sex having at the gym." ? WTF? Jen Chung, get an editor. Proofread. That said, nice rack.
This has Ben Stiller movie written all over it!
I think the lawyer should be disbarred for creating the concept of "spin rage."
If Sugarman really got back on his bike for forty minutes after being knocked off, then I think he easily could have aggravated whatever injuries he allegedly suffered.
Where can we go to contribute to Carter's defense fund?
I'm not justifying it and I have no sympathy for the attacker, but an UES hedge fund manager in a spin class who is "war-whooping, hollering, grunting" would piss me off, too. Sounds like the type of guy who puts motivational posters on his walls, watches Wall Street for ideas and treats waiters like shit.
Ok, enough uncalled for generalizing. I'm sorry.
The loud, inconsiderate guy was a hedge fund manager? I'm shocked. SHOCKED.
this has gay---gay---gay written all over it.
Apparently Sugarman was a 'farter' in addition to being a 'hedge fund ass-hat'.
lol@13
while i don't advocate violence if anyone was asking to be decked it was this guy. hahaha
spinning = gay
Yo, I'm a brutha on the down-low, and I was wondering how the action be at Equinox. Are there other bruthas like myself and are there little white boys who want a whoopin?
I swear I did a double take: I worked with a Stuart Sugarman and Christopher Carter!
Man, with a giant forehead like that it's hard to tell if his hairline is really receding..
luv that cutting edge journalism by cbs, using cl to track down sources! half those fags circle jerking in nysc are married guys stepping out on the mrs.
A few of these commenters could use a good slam against the wall.
Any man who takes a spin class at the gym should forfeit his right to use a urinal for the next 30 days.
Real men go to gyms to lift heavy stuff and hit things. Not to take spin classes.
Aside from the guy who manages a hedge fund suing anyone for anything, you macho boys need to get a grip. You can bench as much as you want to bench... spinning is about raising your heart rate to its highest level without suffering a heart attack. Not sissy stuff. By the way, the last time I walked through Chelsea, those gay guys are way more built than most straight guys.
I'll say it again,
look at that faggy pimped out spin bike, the only thing more fagger is the instructor yelling out encouragement on their hands free headset.
spinning = teh ghey
Real men go to gyms to lift heavy stuff and hit things
you Jane me Tarzan. Me eat sleep go poo poo. Me real man.
First, Lance Armstrong is pretty manly and I'm sure he would jump on a spin bike.
Also, FYI - the war-whooping, hollering, and grunting is sometimes part of the class.
Regardless of how annoying the hedge fund manager was, he didn't deserve to physically attacked. You're such a bunch of hypocrits.
I'll bet Al Sharpton would make a press appearance in spandex on behalf of the hedge fund manager if he was black and you idiots would be stroking your chins saying "yes, how tragic, this black guy overcame adversity to become a hedge fund manager and then this horrible hate crime was commiteed in spin class".
But because he's a rich white metrosexual, albeit most likely an obnoxious one, he deserved it.
To all the idiots proclaiming spinning to be gay, have you actually ever taken a spinning class? It's a high intensity cardio workout that can burn as much as 600 calories per class. I have witnessed many a "tough muscle guy" like yourselves walk out in the middle of class sweat drenched and with nauseous expressions. Sounds like your a little intimidated by the "faggy bikes". So stick to your weights, your clogged arteries will thank you.
#25 is ghey spin biker. he wants armstrong to jump on his junk.
you spelled hypocrite wrong, it's hippokrit.
that's the second time you did that, ghey boi.
Are you even American? or an immigrant? surely you're not born in America.
#25: Yes. And your point is...?
Sugarman got what he deserved. Somebody should give Carter a medal for pulling the plug on that idiot.