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Literally Lewis Hamilton posted:I just crashed mtbs repeatedly in the woods, does this count? yes, but adults don't bounce as reliably as kids do so the downtime between learning events is longer
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serious gaylord posted:My friend drafted a bus for half a mile and still laughs about his KOM. my only kom before i deleted strava was a 4am urban downhill while i was late for work. i caught all the greens and was basically pushing at my aerobic limit in the top ring the whole time. it was one of the most terrifying things i've ever done
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:spraying greasy poo poo on my pants and getting wet title for the bike maintainance thread
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:Seeing people in this thread talk about waiting years for groupset components makes me paranoid as gently caress about maintaining our bikes. the earth is littered with bike components; the JIT chain for new ones is the only part that's disrupted. it may keep you off a specific bike, but it won't keep you off bikes in general
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junan_paalla posted:I got my first big boy bike yesterday and drat it's fun to ride (and boy does my rear end hurt after riding it an hour home from the shop). Super happy to get back into it after years of having no/poo poo bikes, brings back memories of long childhood summers. hell yeah
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Stuff like that is why I like volunteering at my local co-op. hell yeah
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to be clear too, those things are potentially fine on a used bike, but they're old standards and so indicate cheapness when buying a new bike
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yeah you're deffo going to get a much nicer bike for the money at any price point if you skip the ebike
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Nooner posted:That is the sense i needed talked into me. Thank you guys 
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FWIW if you want basic gps ride tracking on your phone without all the superfluous gamifying, Fitmeter is pretty solid. Also their privacy policy as described in the iOS app store is significantly less invasive than strava or mapmyfitness e: and if you plop the $5 for premium the privacy policy is basically as uninvasive as is possible for a phone app. nearly everything invasive in the free version is related to advertising, and the $5 version is ad-free Cactus Ghost fucked around with this message at 15:17 on May 28, 2022 |
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Shadowhand00 posted:I have several segments in Japan that were recorded on the bullet train that have yet to be flagged. lmao this guy's out here breakin the human-powered land speed record
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Dog Case posted:Even the supposed "nice" ones that always have busy parking lots i mean, if i need something to fence that's where i'm going shopping
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OMGVBFLOL posted:lmao this guy's out here breakin the human-powered land speed record this prompted me to look up what the land speed record for a bicycle is and solo with fairing it's 85mph, which is already nuts, but the motor-paced record is 183 miles per hour. so only the fastest shinkansen lines would actually top it. that's bananas
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i've ridden with clipless, clips, and flats, and found I generally prefer strapped clips, but not enough to be arsed to changing any of my various pedals
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strapped clips, besides being significantly cheaper than clipless, also allow you to ride in whatever shoes you already ride in, while getting a lot of the benefits of clipless. with the straps medium snug they're as easy to get in and out of as clipless, and if you're on a long ride you can cinch the straps down and get almost as secure a connection as clipless. it's a happy medium that i'm partial to. my bike with clipless pedals got stolen years ago and i haven't bothered with replacing them, even though i have the shoes and cleats around here somewhere and if you already have the standard and ubiquitous boxy metal flats, you probably have pedals that clips will bolt to
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It was a Friday. Fridays are usually good days because you have a lot of teenagers drinking and driving, plus a lot of people who are in a bad mood and in a hurry to get home from work. The factories usually pay on Friday, so you get a fair number of beer-commercial types cruising around in their 4X4s looking for some butt to kick while they're knocking back a few brews. A cyclist's paradise. I stuck a full mag in my MAC-10 and put another one under the saddle. The gun fits into the water bottle cage pretty well, and it's fairy light. I stuffed a couple of grenades in my jersey pockets and slipped my Rambo-knife into its sheath on the front fork. Just for good measure, I grabbed a thermite grenade and dropped it into the remaining jersey pocket. This is a little more weight than I usually carry, but it was Friday night after all. I caught the first one just a mile from home. It was a type-A, businessman-yuppie-semipsychotic in a BMW, who didn't like the fact that I was occupying two feet of the lane in front of him. He let me know with his horn and his middle finger. It's pretty hard to hit a moving car from a moving bike, even with a machine gun. I must have fired four bursts before I put one in the gas tank and the "Bimmer" erupted into flame. Fortunately, this bozo managed to get the car off on the shoulder before it blew up, so I didn't have to find a detour around the fire. The next one didn't come along for another five or six miles. This was a couple of punks in an old Camaro. They pulled alongside me and the passenger barked out of the window like a dog. Then the driver floored it and screeched off in a cloud of burnt-oil smoke. I got lucky for once. The punks got caught at a stoplight, so I didn't need the gun. I pulled into the center of the road so I would pass the driver. As I rolled past, he started talking some punk talk. I don't know what he said, because he stopped in mid-sentence when he saw the grenade go through his open window into the back seat. I caught a glimpse of both of them frantically scrambling after it just as it went off. It looked like some of the glass and shrapnel did some damage to the car ahead of them, but it couldn't be helped. Every war claims some innocent victims. I'd had enough of the city traffic, so I headed out into farm country. As I went past a barnyard, two enormous dobermans took off on an intercept course. I dropped them both with one burst, and put a couple of rounds through the farmhouse windows to remind the farmer about the leash laws in effect everywhere in the county. A short time later, I heard the roar of knobby tires behind me. I looked back to see a huge Ford pickup truck, one of those jacked-up monstrosities with the undercarriage about three feet off the road. As it pulled closer, I heard loud country music blaring over the din of the tires. There were two men in the cab. They both wore Stetsons, and they were both drinking beer from cans. An archetypical redneckmobile. I felt like just blasting them right then and there, but I waited to see what they had planned. Sometimes these guys just pass you without giving you a hard time. Not this pair, though. The guy in the passenger seat had a styrofoam cooler full of icy water, which he was preparing to dump out the window on yours truly. That was all I needed. As soon as the truck pulled even with me and the guy started to toss the water, I put a burst through the window. This brought trouble, though, because the cab was so high that I didn't get the driver. The truck continued down the road, and I tried to finish them off through the blood-spattered back window, but wouldn't you know it, the mag was empty. I couldn't reload while I was rolling, and the driver of the pickup had by now stopped the truck and was turning around to come after me. I had, maybe, two seconds to make up my mind what to do. I reached into a jersey pocket and pulled out the other grenade. Then I did a time-trial turn, pulled the pin, and looked over my shoulder at the truck which was now speeding towards me. This would have to be timed just right. I let go of the handle and dropped the grenade, then sprinted for everything I was worth. I heard the blast and felt something graze my right arm. Turning around, I saw the truck in flames and out of control. It did a spectacular flip as it went into the ditch, then overturned. There was a second explosion as the gas tank went up. I decided to cut my ride short, since my arm was bleeding. The wound was superficial, but it was nasty enough to cause a lot of discomfort. I thought back to the ammo I'd wasted on that turkey in the BMW, and regretted it. One of these days, I'd have to get some tracer bullets for the MAC to help me aim. Oh, well. I reloaded the gun since I was bound to come accross a few drunks and punks on the way home. A few miles passed and I heard a siren behind me. I decided to play it cool, hoping they weren't after me. I was disappointed. The sheriff's car slowed behind me and I heard an amplified voice telling me to get off the bike and lie face down on the ground. drat. I hated the thought of wasting a cop, but if they'd go out and do their jobs, I wouldn't have to ride around doing my part to rid the area of its rat population. But I had an idea. I still had a thermite grenade. I yanked it out of my pocket and tossed it on the hood of the patrol car. I'd hoped for the element of surprise and got it; the two deputies inside the car were too startled to shoot at me. The grenade went off and started burning its way through the engine compartment. The deputies managed to stop the car, and by the time they got out, I was a good quarter mile down the road. I heard shots behind me, but they'd never hit me at this range with .38 Smith and Wessons. My escape was short-lived, though. I saw two more sheriff's cars up ahead with riflemen crouched behind them. I heard more sirens from behind. This was it. I pulled out the MAC and fired wildly at the roadblock, crouching to make a smaller target. If I had to go, I was going to take some of them with me. It had been a good life. I'd had some good times. I just regretted that they were getting the wrong guy. I felt something hot tug at my shoulder. I reached up, expecting to pull my hand away bloody, and found my office-mate's hand instead. "Bob..Bob!.. Wake up! You fell asleep at your desk! C'mon, it's Friday afternoon. Time to go home!" I went home, firmly resolved never to eat that cafeteria chili again. Copyright (c) 1989 by Robert Fishell
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some dude's old usenet posts, copypasta before there was a word for it http://liegeradtouren.kontakt-mit-linsen.com/spikebike.html seemed appropriate
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kimbo305 posted:Smart adaptation of the Quick Haul e-bike, except for keeping the same gearing. Cargo bikes should have 1:1 for their granny gear, which limits your gear range on an 8-speed 11-34t. i live in an area hilly enough that 1:1 is like bare minimum for any bike that you want to be able to go anywhere with, i can't imagine trying to hurf a cargo bike anywhere here without substantial underdrive
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tubes are so cheap and the margins on new bikes are so small that i don't ever see that status quo changing
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i rode my bike today, in the Greatest City In America For Cycling riding around davis always really highlights how goddamn low that bar is lol
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VacaGrande posted:Next stop, the Mountain Biking Capital of the World! it may have originated in Marin but there's no way it was going to stay there. The ozarks make sense.
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i bent an axle once jumping off a muni platform onto street level, but that was on a lovely potmetal department store bike
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i love my lovely old torn vynil seats with the foam showing, i never have to worry about them getting stolen
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i mean, short of unbolting it myself and leaving it on the ground i'm not sure how much more cavalier i could have been over the last fifteen years in the #2 city in the US for bike theft
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TobinHatesYou posted:I suspect your wheel isn’t seated all the way in the dropout as it was before. that was my first thought too; it would be prudent to check that before getting further into the weeds
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:I just shriek at the top of my lungs when I want to pass. yeah, a bell is just one more thing i have to take off and put in my bag when i get where im going
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Slavvy posted:Caffeine is terrible and bad for you and coffee tastes like burnt poo poo, I look forward to my probe/ban i, too, am a big babby who wants him pacifier
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buddy, they don't even let me slime the tires
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thats a derail, you horses rear end
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Salt Fish posted:Here's the fleet six bikes, all 1x setups: jocks will buy six bikes instead of running a front derailleur
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Salt Fish posted:I had schwalbe marathons and not only did I never get a single flat I couldn't cut the tires up with shears when I threw them out. There were indestructible. Weren't the most fun tire to actually ride on, but pretty crazy how well they worked at preventing flats. +1 to this. the demo videos where they ride through a bunch of spilled thumbtacks aren't kidding. the only way you get better flat protection is with a solid tire. that's also the only way you get a worse ride! you definitely pay some for it with rolling resistance and weight. the fuckers weigh like two pounds each iirc. i'd only recommend them if you're truly riding in a situation where even the occasional flat is too many. i was doing food delivery and commuting to a job i could not be late to, so any flat immediately put me in deep poo poo. as soon as i was back to primarily riding for fun i swapped them out
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wooger posted:Schwalbe Marathon plus are overkill except for short commutes across broken glass, and they will rob you of joy if they’re on your only bike. thats what i said
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