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I like bikes and I don't care who knows. I name them all and give them hugs and kisses. Ugh trash snipe. https://youtu.be/7ZmJtYaUTa0
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about to ride my bike ~20 miles =]
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Chinatown posted:about to ride my bike ~20 miles =] pick me up some weed!
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Im cycling in more meats into my diet
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I like bikes
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The radio this morning said the ferry would be open this summer for "bikelists"
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I've commuted to work by train, bus, car, and my own two feet, but the bicycle beats em all Best is working from home of course, but the lack of cycling makes me fat
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No. 6 posted:I didn't see a megathread, so please point me the way if I missed. why do we need a megathread?
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I rode a Raleigh 21 speed cheap MTB from Ouahigouya to Bobo Dialaasou.
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:why do we need a megathread? because you got to set your goals and make your carbs and eat your personal best seriously try picking up my bike
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Twigand Berries posted:because you got to set your goals and make your carbs and eat your personal best seriously try picking up my bike I try ha ha!
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Chinatown posted:about to ride my bike ~20 miles =] im back. time to smoke weed
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Chinatown posted:im back. time to smoke weed Chinatown, you are the best dude
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Bikes do rule. I was a bike mechanic for about 10 years and I used to really like mountain biking and used to have a ton of knowledge about that part of the hobby and had some really nice bikes I built up. Recently I tried getting rad while clipped in and going really fast and broke my spine and my neck and a bunch of ribs, lol. I still like to ride, but find I am pretty timid now, and also the recovery has made me chunky and slower than I used to be. My current MTB is a low specced 27.5+ hardtail, but it still rules to go out and ride on it. I get the appeal of road biking but I like being in nature and off paved paths, so I picked up a gravel bike this this year and am excited for the snow to clear off the trails so I can get out there. I've also discovered how fun winter mountain biking is, but it's very condition dependent and this year either the trail conditions sucked or it was -30 outside. I can't stand anything colder than -20, so I missed most of the season. A cool thing about cycling is that you can go an ride by yourself and have a ton of fun, or you can go roll with people who you enjoy the sport with. If you find you're outpaced by your peers and aren't having fun, you can go by yourself and train and make steady improvements while still have a blast. I've met lots of cool people through this hobby (and lots of really lame people) and am happy to see it steadily becoming more inclusive and popular over the past decade.
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:Chinatown, you are the best dude I made scrumbled cheezy eggs and bacon for dinner afterwards.
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Chinatown posted:I made scrumbled cheezy eggs and bacon for dinner afterwards. 
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Padical posted:Bikes do rule. Walk into traffic, bike with traffic can sometimes be a load of horse poo poo depending on where you live. The out door style is nice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6t5eDe5gUE
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Zeluth posted:Walk into traffic, bike with traffic can sometimes be a load of horse poo poo depending on where you live. The out door style is nice. My city has pretty good bicycle infrastructure through a large part of it, and a massive network of river valley trails so I am lucky there. The man in that video has both insane bicycle skills and trust in his own abilities.
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theres a direct relationship between time spent on a bike and how numb your junk gets i love bicycling
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Bikes are great…but wear a helmet. I learned that one the hard way back in 2016 when a lady hit me head on with her Civic. Concussion, TBI, exposed skull (I am still shocked at how the plastic surgeon made me look….passably normal) Took me three years to get back on a bike after that. Good news though, I just took delivery yesterday of a new bike trailer for my soon to be one year old daughter, so I am getting back out there and I want her to enjoy it too.
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My aunt taught me how to bicycle in a mellow field. She just kept pushing me until I fell fell over no more.
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Juando290 posted:Bikes are great…but wear a helmet. I learned that one the hard way back in 2016 when a lady hit me head on with her Civic. Concussion, TBI, exposed skull (I am still shocked at how the plastic surgeon made me look….passably normal) Glad to hear you're recovery is going well  Also, yes to helmets. When I had my big crash I was out cold for about 15 seconds. The first thing I saw when I came to was the remains of my expensive new helmet on the ground next to me. It looked like someone had taken a sledgehammer to it. As far as my injuries went, I somehow escaped without a concussion or any other brain injuries. Without the helmet, I would have died instantly.
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I’m the serious cyclist riding 5mph up a winding mountain road in a $5000 bike in full spandex with a line of 50 cars behind me. I ride in the middle of the lane and refuse to let cars pass for 20 miles and I become enraged should they try to.
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Padical posted:Bikes do rule. I was a bike mechanic for about 10 years Lmbo ya thats cool, i was a skateboard mechanic for a while myself 
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Nooner posted:Lmbo ya thats cool, i was a skateboard mechanic for a while myself Somebody wants to wheel land chopping. Careful, I will break your ankle with my kickout.
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Sophy Wackles posted:I’m the serious cyclist riding 5mph up a winding mountain road in a $5000 bike in full spandex with a line of 50 cars behind me. I ride in the middle of the lane and refuse to let cars pass for 20 miles and I become enraged should they try to. I was a bike commuter for years and some of the entitled bullshit I saw other cyclists pull blew my mind. Luckily I live in an area where drivers are pretty cycle-conscious despite bad behavior idiots so i never had any murder attempts and only one driver tried to fight me.
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The fact that $3-4000 is what you'll shell out for a "lovely" road bike or mountain bike is insanely depressing. Funny though, I was given a 15 years old specialized hard tail and hit the Alum Creek black diamond trail in Ohio and had the most fun I've had in over a decade since riding the mean streets of Philly. The electronic suspensions and e mountain bikes are really fuckin cool, but at the same time like let's just take all the fun out of the sport. Like yea I'm gonna go real hard on this sick rear end trail and totally risk sending my $15,000 setup into a tree. Still have my 56cm Fuji track comp with gold velocity deep v's(discontinued) if anyone wants to make me an offer!
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Torquemada posted:Unfortunately I live in London, and despite the hellworld we currently inhabit, I’m not ready for death quite yet. London cycling is actually pretty good once you learn where the protected routes are. It's pretty bad for exercising your legal right to cycle in traffic though... except for shithole tory west london lol sudonim posted:I was a bike commuter for years and some of the entitled bullshit I saw other cyclists pull blew my mind. Luckily I live in an area where drivers are pretty cycle-conscious despite bad behavior idiots so i never had any murder attempts and only one driver tried to fight me. Honestly the London cycling reddit (yes I know serves me right for even looking at it) is like 5% discussion of cycling and 95% furious rage at perceived slights from drivers. The literally had a thread arguing that it's safer for cyclists to jump red lights and cut up pedestrians so they should be allowed to do whatever they want. Cycling culture is cancer IMO Strategic Tea fucked around with this message at 15:07 on Mar 24, 2022 |
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Nooner posted:Lmbo ya thats cool, i was a skateboard mechanic for a while myself Lol what the gently caress is this reply even trying to say. I'm sorry for sharing my love of and involvement in this hobby?
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Strategic Tea posted:London cycling is actually pretty good once you learn where the protected routes are. It's pretty bad for exercising your legal right to cycle in traffic though... what is cycling culture exactly and how is it cancer??
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Or you could just take the bus like a regular person
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gleebster posted:Or you could just take the bus like a regular person With a bike. It is OK to do both.
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I used to do a 70km round trip to work and back for a couple of years. Probably my favourite experience in my whole life. Nothing like arriving at work fully energised and looking forward to the ride home. Used to wear spandex and cycle in all weather. Owned. Would commute again.
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mite ride my cervelo r5 tonite
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Yaldabaoth posted:I learned from the schadenfreude thread that the worst cyclists are almost always the ones wearing spandex. It's like a red flag that says "This person takes cycling way too seriously". MAMILs. Middle Aged Men In Lycra. They usually are terrible in my experience. I’ve been bike commuting mostly year round for like 12 years because I’ve never figured out how not to be broke so I’ve got a hundred comments for this thread. WEAR A loving HELMET. My worst crash ever happened while entering a turn at the bottom of a hill going like 20-30mph. My chain derailed and wrapped the back tire. Before I even knew what was happening I was in a crocodile death roll down the street. Took out a huge chunk of skin on my shoulder and would have done the same for my scalp without the helmet. Point is tho, it was out of my control and out of nowhere. I’ve heard the “I trust my control of the bike” argument by so many vane shitheads who refuse to put a helmet on. Both my siblings have been hit by cars biking in DC. The drivers were at fault both times. Always assume every car you see is going to do the stupidest thing they could do at any given time. Also they will 90% the time drive away from the scene. Also I’m gonna be that guy, but if you just wanna commute, a fixed gear on a steel frame is the way to go. You can usually get the frame cheap if you look in the right places, and there’s like next to nothing to break or take much care of. The frame can be re welded if needed unlike most modern bikes. At any rate cycling loving sucks and I hate it but so does spending money and public transit so here we are.
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The city where I live is probably the most bike friendly place in Canada, but people, in cars or otherwise, just don't give a gently caress and navigate their lives like loving lemmings. I ride a lot and have only been in one major incident where a car pulled out in front of me on a bike lane, I went flying and got a sweet concussion. My $5k race bike was totaled and crunched under the guy's Audi. Lawsuit still pending 3+ years later. Cycling rules but I feel like some cities are actively aggressive and not in the fun way like NYC or something but in the "you will literally die if you try to commute by bike" kind of way.
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The reason pros shave isn't for aero its because you crash constantly and get hair all gummed up in the road rash and then it leaves scars and heals worse.
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Salt Fish posted:The reason pros shave isn't for aero its because you crash constantly and get hair all gummed up in the road rash and then it leaves scars and heals worse.
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