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Confess your sins, /n/.
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i pity reply to shitty tertiary threads
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>>1985790
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>>1986113
"biking" gets through
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I mod 1chan.
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>>1986204
thanks bro, fixed
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I haven't had sex in 5 years
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>>1985790
I will use a taxi instead of public transport if I have to transfer 2 or more times to my destination
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i keep spending retard money to polish 90s mtbs
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bb been ticking for about 2 years now

>>1986113
Hey man you do you
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>>1986522
eh, that's fair
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>>1986113
Honestly bretty cool that /n/iggers from all sorts of persuasions all get along: cyclists, plane spotters, urbanists, train autists.
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I post in /mtg/ having not lain hoof on a boat, let alone a ship
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>>1986522
I use taxis if I anticipate there being niggers on the train
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>>1985790
I used to not remove my bag when there was a lot of people in trains, busses and the subway, now I do It but before I'd be certain It wouldn't change anything so I wouldn't and I used to be scared of thieves too. Bag was packed btw.
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>>1985790
Im a roadie but hate every other roadie.
Like 95% of them are just pure assholes.
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My new Shimano HG chain was one link too short so I extended it with a SRAM link I had laying around
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>>1986745
I must be an asshole because I like roadies and I hate most other "tribes" of cyclists
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I only come here for the maritime and tractor threads, I dont care about bikes or urbanism
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I only come here for bicycles. I don't like urbanism and am neutral to boats, and tractors.
I don't like flying
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>>1985790
I own a bike but i've only ridden it twice.
I haven't used public transit in four years.
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>>1985790
I tell myself I'll bike to the store if I need to grab something quick or start commuting to work but I'm too afraid of the rush-hour drivers in my city plus the winter conditions to follow through with it
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I ride both a fixed gear with no real brakes AND a superpowered ebike that goes 50mph, the worse of both worlds, pissing off normie cyclists around me. And no helmet.
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I've been using the smallest gear for climbing because I thought it was the "easy" or first gear. I'm such a fucking retard. I kept wondering what are the larger gears for and such. I never felt this stupid in my life.
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I will refuse to cycle somewhere if I need to go uphill at all at any point. I live in a very flat city, but even before I moved here, cycling uphill was an unreasonable pile of shit.

>>1987307
Genuinely, and unironically, lmao
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>>1987307
that's hilarious. love it.
so, hill climbing must be super easy now that you're legs were built up from mashing the shit out of the hardest gear, though, right?
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>>1987307
lmao
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I don’t know why this board is under “Japanese culture”
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>>1987398
I'm sorry. I don't know anything about cycling and gears. I kept researching but they always kept saying use the easiest gear without explicitly pointing which one is which.

>>1987396
yes. I kept thinking to myself, "Wow these cyclists must squat a shit ton to climb these hills and mountains!"
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>>1987425
Couldn't you just try them out on flat terrain? You didn't notice the difference in effort?
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>>1987307
your gearing system isn't numbered?
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>>1987427
Again, I'm really fucking retarded looking back at it.
"Wow how can these cyclists use the large gears? They must be really pedalling really fast!"

>>1987439
n-no?
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>>1987408
>bicycles
95% Shimano manufactured parts
>trains
highest ridership and coolest train variety country is Japan
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>>1985790
I occasionally disagree with the /n/ hivemind and jannies don't like it.
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>>1987307
Based retard
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>>1987408
/n/ for "noritetsu", btw :)
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I hate cyclists and urbanists. Scum of the transportation world in the same category as britbong rail unions.

Also the class 37 is an overrated pile of shite.
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I own five cars and they're all for fun
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>>1985790
I drive a car
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I farted in a bus
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I'm 32 and have never driven a car on my own before. At 26 I took 3-4 driving lessons, then took the test and got my license, and I never got in the driver's seat of a car since then. I am afraid to drive. I get everywhere with a combination of my bike and the subway in my area, and occasionally carpooing with people to the hobbies we share.

I'm absolutely humiliated and ashamed about this but I just have zero motivation whatsoever to get a car considering there isn't really much I would use it for and because of my limited social experiences, it would really just be a complete waste of initial cost plus gas plus insurance.
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>>1989829
>3-4 driving lessons, then took the test and got my license,
>I never got in the driver's seat of a car since
Good decision.
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>>1989850
no its not a good decision. i dont even know how to drive a car if i had to in an emergency or for any other reason. but obviously to regularly drive a car, i would need to own one, and because im such a loser there really isnt much reason for me TO own one.
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I ride the subway every weekday for work. I started fare evading on April 1, 2020 so I've been doing it for over 4 years. And I've never jumped over a faregate to do it, my main method is hanging around until a gate gets stuck open and then I walk through it pretending to scan my card, or going through behind people using the wide bicycle/luggage faregate since it stays open for a few seconds longer.

There are some times where I do pay, like when I have my bicycle with me, or if it's the weekend or a late weeknight ride after commute times because there will be less of a chance to get a stuck gate, or sometimes I do have to scan in and I'll just go to the next station and scan out to pay the minimum fare but then go back up onto the next train.

But I try to do whatever I can to make it look as inconspicuous as possible because even if the agent at the gate knows I'm doing it, I haven't gotten in trouble. I see the same agents every single day and wear the same thing every day so they could easily tell the cops at my home station what time to come in the morning/afternoon and that I fare evade every day and they could arrest me, but they haven't
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I don't really give a shit about train models and think most foamers are usually car driving boomers that only like autistically obsessing over trains but would protest like a nimby against more train lines (unless they were steam of course)
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>>1985790
I despise all trains except commuter/metro EMUs and american psr doublestack megatrains. Steam trains are the worst offenders.
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>>1985790
I used to be a hardcore /o/tist, car and motorcycle. The last 10 years I've been a car-free, motorcycle-free, "oil-free" eco-radical urba/n/ist. I turned 34 this year and mid-life crisis is hitting hard, I want a motorcycle again. The Algorithm picked up on this and is finding ways to get me to convince myself to increase my budget until "fuck... if I'm going to buy a $15k motorcycle, I might as well get a car" and then I start car shopping, only to realize, I don't "need" a car. Cycle, repeat. I might end up actually buying a car
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>>1989966
a single car is useful especially if it's small, used and reliable, you can not feel bad about letting it sit for weeks for the few times you need it.
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>>1989967
I mean, you're not wrong but the times I would need it are so rare it would be a waste of space and resources. I live in a city where there's enough alternative transportation options that it's not a problem.
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I once tried to deal with a stretched seat tube collar on a 90’s giant iguana by using carbon assembly compound.
Like, you got the right seatpost, but no clamping keeps it solid. So even if I got a sleeve and narrower seatpost, it would never be the right size or grab correctly.
So I slipped the thing in there with the assembly compound on it, and then was never able to take it back out. And then that was just the end of that project.
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I was planning to get winter tires for my bicycle this year and cycle throughout winter
I got lazy and took the bus instead
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>>1985790
i like giant cassettes and tiny chainrings
gimmie a 52t to 22t any day i WILL make it to the top of any hill im not upset that it takes me all day because it took me almost no effort
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>>1985790
im a massive car truck and motorcycle fag as much as i agree they are a flawed concept and would actually rather be on a train or bike (as should we all rly) i just cant let them go and feel sad when i think that one day all the pretty vintage cars and bikes i grew up obsessed with will all be gone soon
im genuinely not proud of it but god damn are there some pretty and fascinating vehicles out there
/o/ used to be my main board lol
>>1986525
thats a blessing not a sin
90s mtbs are peak bike and anyone working to save them from scrap heaps is doing gods work
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I'm going to take my bike to the shop to get new bar tape. I've done my own the last ~10 times I needed new tape and it never comes out to my satisfaction. I give up. I'm just not good at this and I'd rather have my bar tape look good.
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Wishame.
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>>1985790
I brake check every Toyota I see when I am riding my bicycle.
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>>1985790
i cant fix my flat tires I'm just gonna take it to the bike shop and get it fixed
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>>1989979
So it's just stuck in your anus forever?
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>>1985790
Forgive me father, for it has been seven years since I set foot on a bus.
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I cant ride in the drops without looking like quasimodo
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>>1990845
kek
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It's cloudy and gusting to 30mph today and I'm just going to not ride because I'd rather just sit inside and read books and drink gallons of shui xian wuyi oolong while wearing a big baggy hoodie and pajama pants. I know I could ride, and a harder man would, but I am not a hard man.

I might even open an app and pay obscene amounts of app ecosystem markup to bring me authentic southern-style buttermilk biscuits and white gravy (made by a Black-owned business so it cancels out the social harm).

Verification not required.
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I just tossed 5 bike tires. 2 were 2+decades old and had sidewall bubbles that scare me.
The other 3 I got used cheap.... and lost. 2 had sidewall cuts the tubes were trying to poke out off. Another had a bulge on the tread, which means delamination.
Maybe I could have rode 10-15mph and be okay but with the hills I go 30mph+ and I don't want to risk it. So into the trash they went.
It's going to pour today and I am going to just lift weights instead of ride.
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>>1989829
Sounds like you have nothing to be ashamed of. You passed a competency test and have a license and dont seem to want a car.

Dont feel bad about driving anxiety. Its entirely a function of miles behind the wheel. Once you do your first 25000 miles you stop feeling like its anything unusual.

Thats why they encourage kids in farm states to get their licences at 15. By the time theyre a senior in hs theyve got 25k of riding moms minivan around the town.
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>>1987307
this can't be real. can we see your bike?
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>>1985790
I stole my first bike.
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I really oughta get new tires, but I'm too much of a cheap bastard.
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>>1986623

Cycling is fine. Being a lycra warrior is not. It just so happens that 98% or those that are into cycling end up in the faggotry category.
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i time my morning walk so i can sniff the papergirls saddle when she's in the shop getting her papers, it's still warm and smalls of soap. once i arrived a few seconds later than usual and managed to get a quick sniff in, only to see a boy emerge from the shop and take the bike. i found out from the shopkeeper that the usual girl was sick and so her brother was doing her round.

I shouted at my wife when i got home i was so angry, i had to sniff her dirty knickers for several minutes just to flush the boys ass stench out of my nostrils.

am i going to hell?
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I like bicycles, but I treat the ones I own like appliances and disposables. I suck at wrenching, I can only do the most basic stuff, half of which involves zip ties, I don't bother with maintenance or cleaning other than airing tires back up and adding more lube to the chain grime, as a consequence I can't bring myself to ever buy anything actually nice because I fear I'll neglect it as well.
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>>1985790
I keep buying up ophraned bike wheels with no bikes to put them on
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>>1991808
>>am i going to hell?
You're already living there
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>>1985790
I don't believe induced demand is real.
If you build a bridge with 12 lanes between Ass-end-of-fuck-all and Nowheresville, Kansas, those 6 lanes each way won't magically fill up with people who don't need to go to either place. 50 lane freeways would literally fix traffic.
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>>1991993
We shouldn't make cagies comfortable, that's the whole point. If using a car is a pain the ass then more people will opt to alternatives.
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>>1991993
yeah, the demand already exists before a highway expansion project. expanding the road is getting it's capacity closer to the already existing demand
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bros, I think I hate cycling now
It's supposed to be freedom, but between the hills, heat, sweat, chafing and uncomfortableness I just really loathe it
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>>1992271
you're a weak little bitch. maybe you should take up ice skating or interpretive dance. something more your speed.
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>>1992273
btw i'm eating potato chips and have only ridden 12 miles this week
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>>1992273
I've been cycling daily since I was about 6 years old lil nigga
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I don't own a bike.
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>>1992273
Figure skaters are made of tougher stuff than you, much tougher.
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>>1992273
you've never actually met a professional dancer and it shows. even an amateur would break you in half
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ive been riding my road bike as my main form of transportation for years, maybe 8 at this point, and i still dont know jack shit about repairing it or anything else. pretty much the only maintenance i do is oiling the chain and repairing flats. i also changed the cassette once. but anything else i would have no clue how to fix, like any cable repairs, or deraileur, or anything else.

ive been lucky in that ive really never had to do any big repairs on it. my rear deraileur cable did snap a year ago and took it to my local bike shop. but i dont really have a way to learn repairs anyway, since i only own this one bike.
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I used to be a big fan of vintage bikes, liked to "underbike," and posed as a retrogrouch. Turns out I was really just a poor fox and fancy modern bikes are delicious grapes.
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>>1985790
i like cars
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I "invested" in a quite expensive dynamo setup with all Son, but I don't really enjoy using it. My old shimano+b&m setup worked perfectly fine and seeing those cheap but dependable parts light my way made me feel the type of warmth I am afraid the Son setup may never bring. In general I don't really like riding my new expensive things, I always feel much more at home on my older and less luxurious equipment.
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>>1985790
I’m three years into an urban planning degree, am I fucked career-wise?
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>>1985790
Ugh. I moved to a location with excellent public transportation 2.5 years ago and have driven my pickup truck to work every day since.
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>>1992987
how are they any better than vintage bikes?
i don't want no disc brakes and don't mind shifters on the frame. Why would shitty aluminium frame would be better than sturdy steel?
i don't get why some aluminium bike is $1k when you can get some really decent bike from the 80s for max $200
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Whenever I have an extremely basic maintenance task on my bike that anyone who calls himself a cyclist should do at home, I coincidentally suspect there's a really complex problem that I wouldn't feel bad about asking for help on, and I wheel it into the shop.

The shop guys poke and spin and prod and go "it's fine, anything else?", so I go "well, since I'm already here, sigh.... I was gonna do it myself but why the hell not, I guess _____, so knock yourself out man, ha ha, I'm here right? might as well!"

I'm pretty sure they see through my ruse but I'll bet I'm not the only guy with a fragile ego who walks in with a basic bitch maintenance request, and their labor rates are higher than some shops so I don't even feel guilty, but I'm 100% sure this makes me a shit cyclist who should kms immediately, no wonder I'm slow. But faster guys pass me really close so thats a compliment right?
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I wear the same bibs for like a week
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>>1990326
>/o/ used to be my main board lol
i feel you breh
I still have quite a few but I'll probably sell most of them this summer

>>1991123
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd7q-um6nHw no sweat

>>1991803
cry more

>>1995260
I don't know about shitty aluminum, but good aluminum is pretty nice, and late 90s/early 2000s CAADs and aluminum Treks are $300-$400 all day near me. Really, older shit isn't much cheaper because muh vintage or whatever. But it's heavier, has fewer gears and usually a tighter range, flexier, and I personally like brifters a hell of a lot better than downtube shifters. If you're happy with what you got, though, keep on rockin.

>>1995263
based and saddlesorepilled
I've done 3 days on tours, but they were some damn long days.
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I am considering buying a car. Been driving the same car for 17 years and need to make an upgrade because I moved back to my car-dependent hometown last year.
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>>1989963
What does the acronym EMU represent?
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>>1995473
electric multiple unit. passenger carriages with the motors, transformers etc within the railcar, no locomotive needed.
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>>1993150
I know that feel...

It's when you are tricked into upgrading and it has no appreciable increase in performance or satisfaction. My only advice is to roll with it (pun intended), and you'll be like "fuck it, it works."

The other thing is that you haven't seen "cheaper" parts fail because you likely take care of them, so they work/last long. Given the son28, it'll last a life time, so I'd just sell your previous hub and not look back.

The one thing that does bother me is that if bad shit happens ... Well then it's a problem. By bad shit, I mean catastrophic failure or theft. Then those losses hurt a lot more.
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>>1993150
SON belongs on touring bikes being put to extremes
fancy gear doesn't feel silly when you're riding it hard enough

that $5000 bike in the city looks stupid but in the mountains looks awesome

It's the same as wearing lycra.
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I use any and all opportunity to vent my disdain for skin-tight lycra fags but I would probably wear it too if I was fit

>>1995262
Same here desu. All my other hobbies I'm fine with doing stuff like that on my own - repairing guitars, tweaking them, soldering wires and electronics.

But bikes? Fuck it its all gremlins and invisible force fields that prevent me from understanding the real issue. Flat tire? Changed the tube but somehow I apparently put the wheel back WRONG and now it's not straight and waggles instead. Because there is a magical amount of tightness you need and a 1/100th milimeter precision of where the wheel sits in the frame socket.

Forget calibrating breaks and derailers.

>>1995263
I don't know about a whole week but if shit is in the laundry bin and I don't have a clean one, I won't think twice about reusing it, I mean I'm gonna sweat again anyway. Who gives a shit.
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>>1998122
I don't understand, you hate "lycra fags", but you wear dirty lycra?
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I went through a phase of being into cycling years ago but was completely put off by the expense when I started looking to get a road bike and all the stuff that comes with it.
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>>1998146
It's like pretty cheap to ride on a used bike bro. Get a bike, an air pump, and ride.
Then if you enjoy it get a helmet, gloves, and padded shorts(or not).
Progress from there.
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After turning from /o/tist to bicycle e/n/joyer and refusing to use, let alone pilot any motorized or motor assisted vehicle I gradually sold all my cars. All but one. Its sitting and hasn't gotten its bianual inspection in ages and while I'm determined to never use it I don't want to let that one go either.
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>>1998147
Mate I had a bike and rode it a lot, and I wanted to get a road bike but they're so expensive it really didn't seem worth it. I have no interest in cycling now, I have other hobbies and no time for it, I also moved to a region with no hills whatsoever.
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>>1998150
All good. Some people don't know, or couldn't find used bikes so it may have been expensive to you. For me cycling is one of, if not the cheapest thing to get into once you have a bike.
No hills just means you go for speed, or that's what florida man does.
>>1998149
6 dollars a gallon has dampened my enthusiasm for cruising, that's for sure.
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>>1998155
For some reason when I looked at used road bikes they were either
>cheapo ones that were shit brand new
>£3000 carbon fibre ones
>mostly for manlets and never my frame size
I do like cycling but it's a very expensive hobby to properly get into, the 'just buy a used bike bro' shit is misleading. As I said I'm not interested now so I don't care.
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>>1998156
>I do like cycling but it's a very expensive hobby to properly get into, the 'just buy a used bike bro' shit is misleading. As I said I'm not interested now so I don't care.
That's because your version of cycling was racing in a group or being competitive at an event. Do whatever you want like train watching or flying but the only reason your cycling was expensive was your choices to make it like that.
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>>1998163
I'm sorry but you're wrong. When you get into a hobby it's normal to progress with equipment. You may start off on a £100 guitar when learning but you'll want to progress to something else, and you're here saying
>Just carry on using the old one bro, you don't need a new one
Sure I could have carried on using my old bike, but I fancied getting a better one as I was doing longer rides and getting uncomfortable on the hybrid with flat handlebars. The issue with cycling is there is a large financial gap between 'use any old bike' to 'a road bike'.
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People will buy a $2000 muffler for their shitbox but an entry level giant is exclusive and elitist, this is your brain on 'merica
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>>1985790
I got a clown horn for my bike and I love it, it makes cagies seethe and other bikers laugh
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>>1998170
Maybe you were buying in 2020-2022 or something. I am the opposite. I buy older things I find interesting and enjoy riding them. I don't want new since I know it wouldn't be as helpful as training more or losing weight.

When you get MOGGED by dudes on 1000usd (used) or less bikes in a race you learn pretty quick it's the rider, not the bike.

You just didn't want, or have the time to save up and buy something nicer. It is what it is. Your ego wanted a nicer bike you couldn't cash.
>>1998177
I went to a bike swap, got a yoshimura muffler for 10 bucks, modified my oem header and spent another 100 or so in pipes.

>>1998192
based
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>>1998193
I don't race but every single guy who "mogs" me in my daily riding is doing one of two things:

1. Being an inconsiderate psycho in an area where nobody should be riding that fast, or

2. If it's somewhere that riding fast is ok, it's someone on a really very nice bike (RC if Scott, SLX if Canyon, stuff like that)

4chan would have me believe that the world is full of guys on shitters with world tour tier physiology but I have yet to see it, I think most of it is just neckbeards on BSOs who blew a red light thus passing someone on a slightly nicer bike and decided they could totally be a pro if they applied themselves
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>>1998198
For road I ride on the bike trail and I tend to mog half of the people since they don't take it seriously. Serious riders I can pass some of them on the flats, but I am 40 years younger, riding a 40 year old bike.

On the mtb I get wrekt when they climb faster then me. I have ridden on nicer bikes and it doesn't help as much as you think unless it has a motor, or you are actually riding bsos.
Something like a current 3k usd bike for sale at 2k would be plenty good. Or a used high spec bike from the 2000's found for under 500 can be damn fast.
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>>1998200
You know how they say it's not the bike it's the engine? In practice there is no meaningful difference, nobody is putting a ferrari v12 into a pontiac aztek. If you see a geriatric riding a very expensive bike it's invariably either something weird like a calfee, or increasingly these days, it's just an ebike with some superficial "real bike" features like a bottle cage and maybe drop bars.
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>>1998198
>the world is full of guys on shitters with world tour tier physiology
>he doesn't know
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>>1998204
>one guy
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>>1998198
LMAO. If you commute and have at least some sort of mindset actually reality rather play put like this:
When spring comes around you start gapping lycrafags on crabon BSOs en masse on your coaster hub commuter with panniers. At the next light fred will catch up and blow the light only to be gapped again a few hundret meters down the road. Then theres police constantly harrassing you, searching for imaginary motors and dropping comments after not finding any.
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>>1985790
I'm only bikepacking in tainwind that will turn into headwind by the next day when I ride back home
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>>1998198
You are absolutely right, but it would be nice sometimes to see a racer climb some 8-10%
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>>1998248
I have never had or seen a police interaction involving a bicycle in my city
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I'm in my early 30s and have never driven a car on my own. My only experience driving was taking a handful of driving lessons in my mid 20s, got my license, and never got behind the wheel again. So it's not bad enough to not own a car, but I can't even drive one if someone needed me to.

My bicycle (a mid-2000s aluminum road bike, not even a cool e-bike) is my main source of transport in conjunction with the subway, and occasionally carpooling with some people to activities. I know people here would say how great that is not having to deal with a car, and it's definitely nice not dealing with the burden and horrendous expenses that having a car entails (especially here in California with ridiculous gas prices and insurance), but it's a major red flag and an indicator of being such a pathetic loser to be this age and not only not having a car but basically not knowing how to drive one. It's such a humiliation.
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>>1999288
I've had one interaction with police on my bicycle. At a 4 way intersection stop lights, the crossing lane was clear so I decided to go out to the island crosswalk and a cop was in a lane behind me somewhere and got on his megaphone to say HEY BICYCLIST THE RED LIGHT APPLIES TO YOU TOO so I just gave a thumbs up. I was terrified I was gonna get a ticket.
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>>1999294
I started driving at 29 and it's great (barring rush hour). You should go for it regardless of costs if it's tormenting you this much
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>>1991394
nigger
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>>1999366
>>1999294
I'm 36, and I don't have a license.
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i don't really care much about cycling but my only friend is really into it and i want to mog the fucking shit outta him. he kept making fun of me all throughout high school and ever since then it's been my mission to completely demolish him in everything he loves.
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2 days ago I was mtbing and on the road ride back home I scared a couple walking. Passed on the right since they were walking doublewide in the left lane as they are supposed to, but I guess my tires whirring by them at 15-20mph spooked them and I feel bad about.

Will slow down next time. Have been better about this on the road bike.
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>>1985790
I can take the subway to work but I drive half the time
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>>1999366
The simple answer is obviously to just do it, but for me it’s like what’s the point? I learn to drive again, then buy a car, then buy insurance, but I don’t really have anything to drive for. Most of my daily activities are fulfilled using a bicycle and public transportation. It’s not like I have some bustling social life or family life where I need the freedom and convenience of a car to be able to go anywhere at any time, and buying a car isn’t suddenly going to make me start meeting all these people and doing tons of things like teenagers who desperately want a car to have freedom. I buy a car, and it’s likely sitting on the street unused. I’m not gonna just drive around aimlessly doing nothing just to drive; I already do that with a bicycle to get outside.

I know it’s a self fulfilling prophecy where you want to learn and know how to drive but if you don’t get a car you can’t do but I just can’t see a point.
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>>1999631
have you succeeded at all?
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>>1985790
Riding the subway is more comfy than riding my bike. Driving to the middle of nowhere is more comfy than waiting 1 hour for the changeover and 1 hour for the train on the side track (in that amount of time I could bike there with an ebike, or a real bike from the nearest city).
I'm too fucking lazy to bike, and I don't deserve my bike.

> cOvId pAsSenGer
I rode exclusively in the early '10s. I got lazy.
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>>1985790
I'm so GASed that I'll go to /dbt/ on /o/ when /n/ is too slow, even though I have no interest in motorbikes.

>>1991394
Did you sell it afterwards? If not, based.
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>>1991813
Literally me. I negligently destroy everything I love.
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I don't have Allen tools, so I use Torx ones.
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>>1995461
Which models are on your wishlist?
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>>1998177
"But-but-but... muh Civic!!!!!"
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>>1990324
Whatever hill you climb in 22/52 I will climb in 52/22 faggot



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