>be me>be femanon>riding my rigid 90s steel mountain bike>dressed casually, no cycling specific clothes (unless a helmet counts)>on a paved bike path>enjoying the nice spring weather>begin to come up on someone from behind>a fat guy>wearing full cycling kit>including Air Attack helmet>on an S-Works road bike>he hears me approaching and looks back>he quickly looks forward and starts pedaling as hard as he can>I'm keeping pace with him without even trying>he keeps looking back at me>literally every 5 seconds he looks back>looks visibly distressed, as if afraid that he is going to be passed by a girl on a mountain bike>he keeps looking back every 5 seconds or so and this goes on for several minutes>we get to a climb>he slows down to an excruciatingly slow pace so I pass him immediately>when I get to the top of the hill I look back out of curiosity, he is only a third of the way up at best>a few minutes later, stop at one of my favorite rest stops, a nice park overlooking a lake>about ten minutes later, fat guy passes by>stares at me as he passes>a few minutes later, get back on my bike and resume my ride>not long before I've caught up to fatty again>he looks back and sees me>he immediately stops, gets off his bike, turns it upside down, and starts spinning the wheel as if inspecting it>clearly pretending to have mechanical issues to justify stopping, when really he just doesn't want to be passed by a girl on a mountain bike>ask him if he is okay or needs help with his bike>"yes I'm fine thanx. just having a bit of a rest"Pic related, looks almost exactly like him.
>>2083362>be femanonpost thigh gap
Where 2 cop rigid mtb gf
>>2083362>be femanonstopped reading right here.
>>2083362That's cool and all, but you couldn't pass me.
>>2083376post ftp
You would have to absolutely sprinting to keep up with a road bike on a 90s mtb even if the guy was just cruising @70-80rpm It seems like most /n/ posters have never actually ridden a bicycle
>>2083379>implying fatty wasn't doing 55rpm in 34/28 on flat
>>2083379If you have good city tires you can easily keep up with a struggling fat roadie in top gear
>>2083362And then the world clapped.But really, sounds like the guy felt insecure and ashamed to be passed by someone else who is more conditioned, when it's not the case. No shame, at least fatso did something most americans refuse to even do. Based, I suppose.
how many years has it been now5? 10?
>>2083442few weeks
>>2083443What?
>>2083362 (OP)>punching down on a fatty for trying to trying to get healthy and being competitive. not cool. imagine if you had to lug an extra 150lbs everywhere you cycled.
>>2083640>imagine if you had to lug an extra 150lbs everywhere you cycled.Well I don't because I'm not a fat fuck
>>2083379Why would the decade matter?
>>208369090s mtbs are completely different from modern mtbs. Modern mtbs are often worse than 90s mtbs though, 90s mtbs are basically hybrids between modern mtbs and road/city bikes.
>>2083695You mentioned speed. What would make them slower compared to a bike this year of equal weight?
>>2083697I am >>2083695 but not the other guy you replied to. I think a modern mountain bike would actually be slower on road because its more likely to have suspension and more offroad optimized geometry. However a modern bike with quality lockout might beat a 90s bike with shitty suspension
>>2083701Hmm
>>208369090s mtbs typically came with a triple and a 44T big ring A modern mtb isn't even worth considering in this scenario they max out at 38T
>>2083397all these newfags acting like they've never seen this before
>>2083724Ah interesting. Thanks
>>2083724>maxing out at 38fuck the industry
>>2083724The effective gearing between a a 26er running a 44 tooth chainring and a 29er running a 38 is almost the same.
>>2083732>muh effective gearingcope
>>2083733No one will care when you finally kill yourself
>>208373238 on a road bike is a climbing gear
>>2083736Ok? It's a mountain bike, it's for climbing. The point I'm making is the gearing for an mtb hasn't really changed all that much like it is being implied here >>2083724
>>2083734Why would you say something so mean? Just butthurt and coping bc you ride woman gears?
>>2083732Very rare to have a 38t on a mtb tho That's like purely for xc racing only or pseudo gravel bikes
>>2083819What do mtbs usually have these days? I have never ridden a 2020s bike
>>2083362>as if afraid that he is going to be passed by a girl on a mountain bike>as if inspecting it>really he just doesn't want to be passed by a girl on a mountain bikeall women are bullies
>>2083827Not only that but every single one of those is a narcissistic assumption. Being fat alone is humiliating. It could have just as easily by assumption been the case that he didn’t want to be passed by a mountain bike with a casually clothed rider and had nothing to do with gender.
>>2083820Like a 32T and a 10-51T is the most common
>>2083832It really pisses me off that 2x on an mtb isn't standard. What if I want to be able to hammer it downhill where I know I won't risk a pedal strike. No instead you just get climbing gears
>>2083831or the fat man in this creative writing exercise may not have been thinking about her at all, and simply happened to speed up after looking back by sheer coincidence
>>2083832>max gear is 32/10how the fuck is the (((industry))) this fucking retarded and why the fuck do consoomers just go with it?>>2083835this, fuck 1x (other than maybe for dh bikes used purely for lift accessed dh)
>>2083846It's so you can run 3inch tires
>be femanondon't care, post tits and ass or GTFO.
>>2083362Old copypasta but the fat man will be faster than her downhill and slower uphill. Not that it actually happened.
>>2083912>b-b-but faster downhill!!!holy fucking fat cope KEK
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>>2083362>be meNo shit
>>2083379Why do you think a mountain bike isn't fast? It's full rigid just like a road bike. The tires are thicker but they are smaller so the weight difference is not as great as you think and if this person commutes they probably have commuter tires on. It's not the bike. The bike only matters at the highest levels of performance. It is you who is ignorant
this also happened to me recently
>>2083397>>2083729
>>2083362post tits or gtfo
>>2084593nice
>>2084599And yet even the "oldfags" are too new for the "yes I'm fine thanx" reference
>>2084610even the 'oldfags' are newfags.
>>2084618>tfw been on /n/ since like 2012
>>2084610just having a rest
>>2084625based oldfag
>>2083362>>be me>>be femanonStopped reading right there.
>>2084619>mfw>
>>2083362heh but im the fat fuck that keeps up even with the e gays with my cheap basic bike. fatties have strong legs as they need to carry more weight than skellies
>>2084692?
