Does anyone else love good bike stuff but hate how much moralizing has gone into what bike parts/standards are socially acceptable to use?I miss the good old days when the most controversial thing in cycling was not am I a mean judgmental asshole for having something even $1 more than the worst possible piece of shit death trap BSO, but rather, whether you should eat bananas before you ride, or how much water you should be drinking. Can you imagine how much better things would be if we focused on things that matter like whether it's stolen valor for a 50 year old cyclist to date a 25 year old cyclist? Most of all I want misguided luddites to fuck off to the netherlands and stop shitting up a perfectly good thing. There is literally nothing wrong with dicks, crabon, aero wheels, lycra, extremely bright lights that blink, and stuff like that.And furthermore you aren't making things better for cyclists by performatively hating people who enjoy cycling. You're always going to be the annoying faggot who should get off the road (or get off the sidewalk for some of you). Even if you scream how much you hate Castelli gear as you bleed out on the pavement underneath some karen in her SUV.
Riding a fast bike? Uh no. That's a hate crime
Cycling is about dressing up like a fun toddler with doodles on your body riding at 10mph to drink beer and smoke weed with some lgbtqts
>>2080148i wosh i was so wealthy that buying a pinion bike would be no faffbut holy shit 5200 is too much to drop on a gearbox mtb
>>2079298Killing 26" and 27.5" are like AMD and Intel just killing the long tail and refusing to sell cut chips, just because holding that inventory is too expensive. Refusing to compete against their own old product with pure marketing because the legacy stuff didn't dump itself into the ocean. Capitalism is just Socialism for Capital. Meanwhile China steers their cycle production for National Socialist efficiencies. 32" will be faster and let larger people podium. Maybe they are building bikes for Nephilim now. The business of the (western) world is serving Jews, Nephilim, and their giant bastards.>>2079122GenX survivorship bias is astronomical. They did so well they all still vote Democrat.
>>2083198I got banned for being too specific last time, but I'll say it again: Don't capitalize that disgusting word.
The most masculine white from of transport is a handcrafted 2-stroke bicycle.The fuel crisis and subsequent collapse will separate the wheat from the chaff once and for all.>b-b-but the government says they're dirty!NGMI. I bet you got the jab, too.
>>2083130I think boomers actually like that shit since they grew up doing that, the ones who get triggered are the ones who had a shit childhood or didn't have a dadKarens get triggered because "that's dangerous/illegal!" And Tylers get triggered because "just ride a motorcycle/drive a car bro, what are you? poor lmao"
>>2083117for once the discord is better
>>2082833>discoblow up moped riders with bad maintenance schedules
>>2083108fun bikes are smalleri have a motorized bicycle, a Grom, and a sportbike
>>2082825>Mentions armpit hair>Open picture>No armpit hairMy disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.
Cycling isn’t a game, it’s a sport.
Imagine unironically believing that rail trails are flat. Stay mad and bald while I stay fucking Everesting.Where is your KOM btw? Oh you have never KOMed hmm looks like you're a literal retard and probably a faggot! Go back to r*ddit.
>>2083065what is the name of this alleged rail trail?
>>2083065bro you can everest in Atlanta as an example not even in the mountainsdon't ask me why uwt races bother going in the mountains, they still dont bother going to Timbuktu thougheverbeit
>>2083065BASED
Ordered my 3rd box of 100 Rema patches since 2014. I ran out a while ago and have been cutting wide patches in half the last few repairs.I did waste quite a few patches from previous boxes in futile attempts to stretch extra life out of failing tires. Once the tread on Schwalbe winter tires wears down a bit the studs start getting forced through the casing and causing flats.
usecase?realistic reliability and chances of failure?
>>2079137Faputa is my daughterfu along with Nanachi.
>>2079304lol
>>2079145I... kind of like this?
>>2079147if they'd just make something to mount it on the front end of the hood, it'd actually be nice. they make ones like that for old downtube shift levers, so it obviously can be done
>>2083192The biggest problem is that it uses two cables to shift gears
fuck electronic drive trainsfuck ebikesfuck 32"fuck >26" on mtbsfuck 25mm+ on road bikes (unless riding cobbles or gravel)fuck droppersfuck tubelessfuck constant new bb standards, in fact fuck all threadless bbsfuck boa shoesfuck mixing carbon fork with steel framefuck power metersfuck the industryfuck you if you disagreeliterally the ONLY good changes/trends/etc of the last 30 years are fat bikes and disc brakes, and disc brakes mostly only belong on mountain bikesthanks for listening
>>2082886good
>>2082566these fucks are incapable of not speedinf and being recklessi dont want technical limitationsthat is just govenmental tyranny against all because of the fewI want speed limits and forved confiscations (and auctioning) of offenders vehiclesThis has proven extremely effective against retards abusing and being reckless with e-scooters in Austria and Switzerland respectively
>>2082884yeah, fuck sram gxp especiallybearings got gritty and craky after under a year when i replaced that expensive piece of shit with an oem partfuck you srami will never buy something from sram again and will have no lack of disdain for shimano eitherthe chinks arent better eother necaise its chinsy shit (even worse than sram/shimano at times, buyer beware)the only thing one can do is simply stubbornly going a few yeats behind amy trends and using old and proven tech
>>2079641>steel poverty bike unc brake take I bet you look that too
>>2079641fuck carbon anything
First day of a one year bicycle trip.Let's play a game. I'll regularly post, in this thread, pictures of the bike in different places, use your OSINT skills to pinpoint where i'm at.Rules :- Find out the street name in a city or a town name in the countryside ans I'll post boobs.- I'll rarely use another mean of transportation, but when I do I'll only mention the type and duration.- I'll always leave the correct timedate in the filename.- maybe some more rules later.
>>2083145I've seen multiple (two) instances of people going on long rides on drop bar bikes and coming home with the bars flipped upside down. Can't find photos, one of them had big flared gravel bars that baisically became cruiser bars, they looked really slick wrapped in brown bartape.
>>2083164>going on long rides on drop bar bikes and coming home with the bars flipped upside downlel
why do you keep posting ultra endurance racers? you can also go in F1 car on your camping trip.
how dare you use gay curly bars for your trip instead of a 50kg steel POS with city bike flat bars that give you hand numbness after a few hours? Don't you know that real long distance tourers only do 20km a day?
>>2083145the girl from universewithme has toured the entire planet on drops near saddle height, which is what this guy has.
/bqg/ - Bike Questions Generalhttps://www.sheldonbrown.com/https://www.parktool.com/en-us/blog/repair-help/http://topnigger.ueuo.com/>>2080737
>>2083124Resident troll trying new material
Is the difference between a ball bearing and a industrial bearing front hub noticable for a normal non-ebike?
>>2083178No, as long as the cup/cone bearing's preloead is correct and is packed with grease they will last, that being said if it does fuck up you're SOL.Also those vlechtservice hubs are overpriced to fuck and back.
>>2083178Cup and cone is based and the newer shimano hubs are super easy to clean and adjust
>>2083178I got my first cartridge bearing hub a couple years ago for my fast bike. my other bike, and a lifetime of previous bikes, has cup and cone hubs.I have not detected any difference, no.cup and cone is not really the hassle they're made out to be. there is some care involved setting them up but afterwards you can forget about them for a long, long time. apparently they consume less watts, too, but you're not capable of noticing the difference without scientific measurements.
Why do they use flexi-posts in bike paths? Why not actual fixed metal ones designed to stop drivers trying to kill you?
>>2082245i wasnt talking about funding though, i was talking about willingness of an individual officer to run over a flexipost. even in da hood police occasionally exist. otherwise we wouldnt have so many hilarious Suspect Decentralization videos
>>2081397>Why do they use flexi-posts in bike paths?Besides the need to allow emergency vehicles to move if the road is blocked, the presence of hard metal posts would cause serious injury accidents to the bicyclists who are NOT inside of a nice automobile that protects passengers' legs from being scraped by a metal post.
>>2082142>i've never seen a cyclist do anything wrong or unexpectedHilarious. I've seen them blow through lights many times, even when it's separate lights just for the cycle lane, I've seen them riding in the cycle lane that's clearly marked for cycles going in the other direction and much more. Seen it in a bunch of countries as well. I figured they'd be better in Holland where there's a massive culture around cycling - nope, they're even worse there.
>>2082173Also, you've personally witnessed multiple fatal traffic collisions? Doubtful.
>>2083185>I've seen them blow through lights many timesBut do the bikers put their shoulder down and shove the pedestrian out of the way?
Why did bi-level vehicles go out of style?
probably accessibility requirements made them illegal
>>2069068>Why did bi-level vehicles go out of style?They become forced to use only a few routes due to overhead obstacles such as:-- pedestrian walkways-- roadway overpasses-- plaza exchangesThey also require right turn modifications in USA cities or else the bus, which has no hinge in the middle, will sweep people standing curbside. With all these problems, it's far easier and cheaper to just not have these buses around.
>>2082167Why would double deckers cut the corner more than a normal bus you utter retard
>>2069068
>>2069068>Why did bi-level vehicles go out of style?Too many overhead obstacles existing in cities. And any city with electric buses or light rail will have low-hanging electric lines that these double-decker buses would run into.
Hear me out, we need one of these.
>>2042017depends of the gf tho.speaking from experience, if she's a normie basic chick, then yeah, she's typically more annoying than worth it.but if you've never had a gf, the first few months/years will be very exciting, later on, you'll get over the lovey dovey comfort bullshit and you'll want a better chick, a smarter and less annoying one or no chick at all, just pump and dump.>>2042053you're mostly correct, I can tell you've seen that most women aren't actually worth hanging out with. this all comes to men after some time when they get over the initial excitement of having a woman. when the red-tinted glasses fall away with time, you being to see that most women are simply too basic and boring (just like most men; modern society in general). there are gems but are rare.
>>2060616reminds me of the flood of AI bike memes we had in /sfg/, all because of one (1) photo of a lady biking along the road to the Starship pad
>>2077213classic. some cousins had a poster of an all nude start of a bike race, probably from the same era.
>>2081184it's almost certainly the fold-out from the Queen "Bicycle" record. google it .
>>2081192indeed it was!this whole thread, and nobody has talked about "the area", the exposed part of the back you get from shirt riding up and normal pants riding down when bent forward riding a bike. Closest is this:>>2042955
>virtual group ride with the GOATFishboy could never.
>>2083139>t.
>>2083141>911I thank God everyday i was born in a first world country with a functioning public transport network. It's like winning the birth lottery.
>>2083141>in america if you dont have an iphone you cant get emergency servicesBased.
>>2083136mywhoosh kinda sucks tho ngl. At least its free
>>2083162I use it for ERG workouts. For the price it's alright.
holy shit you bike fags literally put preparation h on your bibs?AHAHHAHAHAHHGAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKAHAHHHAmy sides are gone.
>2083175bait thread
How do these large cargo backpacks compare with a bicycle trailer? I need to haul 100kg of cargo on a bicycle
>>1957712Thank You for Your Service
>>1964713if it makes u feel better this photo made me mald for being a amercuck
>>1957568>bicycle trailerwhat are they like?
>>2046395delusional pedonigger lmao
>>1957568I know what he's reffering to. I know exactly what the fuck he's making a reference about. there was this debate on some british news broadcast and some dumbfuck retarded woman say that delivery vans and all vehicles for that matter, iirc, had to be banned out of Britain because "muh net zero, muh decarbonization"and the two men were so fucking flustered about the dismal fucking display of absurd retardation got them stunlocked for a whole 5 minute on air. shit was typical British On-Air Woman retardation.
GPS used to be fancy, and is now affordableCarbon frames used to be fancy, and are now affordableCarbon aero wheels used to be fancy, and are now affordableHydraulic brakes used to be fancy, and are now affordableWireless shifting used to be fancy, and is now affordableGood tires used to not even exist, and are now available albeit a little expensiveLighting used to be heavy and annoying, now it clips to anything and you can light up the road with something the size of your thumbWide range cassettes used to be unimaginable, now some lazy people are even going 1x because they got filtered by 2x It seems like it's all been done. Seriously, what's left. What else is there to improve? We even got bonuses like thru-axle, 3d printed saddles, internal routed everything, and aero frames/cockpits, which let's be honest, you weren't really expecting were you?Can the cycling industry outdo itself or is it now a plateau of stagnation?
i have a 70s steel road bike and the only thing I wish I had is disc brakes and standardized parts who cares about allat other nerd shit
>>2021297your saddle could transdermally give you estrogen
>>2021297>>2080005someone now needs to make a gooner comic featuring a feminization bike
The bike everyone needs but it's all stuff that isn't made anymore: Long Reach drop barsSuntour Ratcheting barconsV brakesAlloy frame, steel fork2x9Pinned flatsFull fenders700x35 tires That's it. Can't buy anything like this anymore. The cycling industry is a meme
>>2020833>What else is there to improve?electric motors for the lazy
Anyone else feels like absolute shit after crashing? it's not even the pain of it it's just the faith in your ability slowly dying inside. When I was younger it was whatever but now it feels like someone chipped away a chunk of confidence.
>>2046153Based optimist. I believe in you.
>>2079139Well he wrote crashes plural so it's safe to assume it's 365 days a year. Probably keeps a crash journal>>2080201You walked for like 4h with broken ribs? What was it like? (besides painful and depressing)
A few days ago I got hit for the first time in a decade of riding, a few tens of thousands of miles and it was a pathetic collision>riding down a hill on a right shoulder bike lane>levels out and there's some houses on the right>line of traffic barely moving>I get to the evened out area>suddenly car turns right a few feet in front of me, I guess one of the houses was theirs>I yell and try to turn wheel so I don't hit head on>some woman, omg I didnt see you etc>i scuffed up her car a few spots>bike fine>the top joint in my left pinky is definitely hurt in some way, its bruised up and hurts, probably sprained or something>form makeshift splint out of stick and tape it to my ring finger, the hell im going to a medical facility and paying a shitload for scans or whatever
>>2045580A helmet would have probably stopped you from even getting a concussion at all in your case. That's lifelong brain damage that could have been easily avoided.
>>2045580>Risk can't totally be eliminated, but it can be mitigated....>nd I still don't wear a helmet now. I figure when it's my time to die, it's my time to die. A helmet isn't going to change that. SIs this bait?
