# Bike blerg thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Bikes\ **Created:** [August 25, 2018, 3:07pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blerg-thread/21793 "2018-08-25T15:07:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![anon24974279](https://static.tarck.cc/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@anon24974279](https://tarck.cc/u/anon24974279)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2018, 5:09pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blerg-thread/21793/61 "2018-09-01T17:09:58Z")
I think the point of a lot of this stuff is that it doesn’t matter if you personally care about it. ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Stabby](https://static.tarck.cc/user_avatar/tarck.cc/master_stabby/32/39791_2.png) [@Master\_Stabby](https://tarck.cc/u/Master_Stabby)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2018, 5:32pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blerg-thread/21793/62 "2018-09-01T17:32:32Z")
Of all the great shit in Marin county they could have naned their shred sled after, they picked the state pen. Fuck 'em. ---
**Author:** ![LASER\_BEIGE](https://static.tarck.cc/user_avatar/tarck.cc/laser_beige/32/152421_2.png) [@LASER\_BEIGE](https://tarck.cc/u/LASER_BEIGE)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2018, 5:38pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blerg-thread/21793/63 "2018-09-01T17:38:42Z")
something something prison industrial complex ---
**Author:** ![goose\_value\_69](https://static.tarck.cc/user_avatar/tarck.cc/goose_value_69/32/169983_2.png) [@goose\_value\_69](https://tarck.cc/u/goose_value_69)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2018, 8:20pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blerg-thread/21793/64 "2018-09-01T20:20:43Z")
Had an alu TCX once, that I bought frame only. I wound up tracking down a Cannondale Caadx fork that was also 1 1/4. ---
**Author:** ![cheese](https://static.tarck.cc/user_avatar/tarck.cc/cheese/32/182_2.png) [@cheese](https://tarck.cc/u/cheese)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2018, 8:25pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blerg-thread/21793/65 "2018-09-01T20:25:11Z")
> [@turpentine](#): > > I think there are better things to be angry about. Especially right now, culturally and politically, we have bigger fish to fry than this tasteless bike model name. ---
**Author:** ![Timarchylime](https://static.tarck.cc/user_avatar/tarck.cc/timarchylime/32/61940_2.png) [@Timarchylime](https://tarck.cc/u/Timarchylime)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2018, 8:57pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blerg-thread/21793/66 "2018-09-01T20:57:22Z")
> [@goose\_value\_69](#): > > Had an alu TCX once, that I bought frame only. I wound up tracking down a Cannondale Caadx fork that was also 1 1/4. Dang. If you’d only told me that 5 years ago I could have passed in on to him. I may still let him know. I think he’s still got the bike. ---
**Author:** ![nevernotnuts](https://static.tarck.cc/user_avatar/tarck.cc/nevernotnuts/32/2269_2.png) [@nevernotnuts](https://tarck.cc/u/nevernotnuts)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2018, 11:37pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blerg-thread/21793/67 "2018-09-01T23:37:32Z")
> [@Face](#): > > > [@tehschkott](#): > > > > I don’t care if they name it after prisons. Whatever. > > I’m in this camp. My dudes, the perpetuation of this type of branding as okay/status quo/I don’t care is super problematic. ---
**Author:** ![nevernotnuts](https://static.tarck.cc/user_avatar/tarck.cc/nevernotnuts/32/2269_2.png) [@nevernotnuts](https://tarck.cc/u/nevernotnuts)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2018, 11:39pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blerg-thread/21793/68 "2018-09-01T23:39:48Z")
Is this not the right thread to complain about tasteless bike (whatever) in? > [@cheese](#): > > > [@turpentine](#): > > > > I think there are better things to be angry about. > > Especially right now, culturally and politically, we have bigger fish to fry than this tasteless bike model name. ---
**Author:** ![Face](https://static.tarck.cc/user_avatar/tarck.cc/face/32/77523_2.png) [@Face](https://tarck.cc/u/Face)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2018, 1:58am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blerg-thread/21793/69 "2018-09-02T01:58:15Z")
> [@nevernotnuts](#): > > My dudes, the perpetuation of this type of branding as okay/status quo/I don’t care is super problematic. I know. I don’t know what to do about it so I’m not losing any sleep over it. There are many other causes I will fully get behind, but this is not one of them. ---
**Author:** ![EndpointBraden](https://static.tarck.cc/user_avatar/tarck.cc/endpointbraden/32/22101_2.png) [@EndpointBraden](https://tarck.cc/u/EndpointBraden)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2018, 2:01am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blerg-thread/21793/70 "2018-09-02T02:01:30Z")
> [@nevernotnuts](#): > > Is this not the right thread to complain about tasteless bike (whatever) in? Personally, I think the branding is more offensive in how clumsy it is then how offensive it is in meaning… but she’s got a point. ---
**Author:** ![anon24974279](https://static.tarck.cc/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@anon24974279](https://tarck.cc/u/anon24974279)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2018, 2:09am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blerg-thread/21793/71 "2018-09-02T02:09:12Z")
theres a big difference between losing sleep and saying i dont care, whatever personally taking something on as a cause vs just validating something as being real to others ---
**Author:** ![cheese](https://static.tarck.cc/user_avatar/tarck.cc/cheese/32/182_2.png) [@cheese](https://tarck.cc/u/cheese)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2018, 3:10am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blerg-thread/21793/72 "2018-09-02T03:10:16Z")
Actually, you’re right, this is the right thread for this. My fault. ---
**Author:** ![Dickason\_Daniel](https://static.tarck.cc/user_avatar/tarck.cc/dickason_daniel/32/13099_2.png) [@Dickason\_Daniel](https://tarck.cc/u/Dickason_Daniel)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2018, 3:12am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blerg-thread/21793/73 "2018-09-02T03:12:22Z")
I think Marin is trying to Cash in on Johnny cred (dad joke) more than somehow make money off the prison industrial complex, BUT I would still be happy if they were pressured to donate like a bong to prison libraries or whatever. ---
**Author:** ![nevernotnuts](https://static.tarck.cc/user_avatar/tarck.cc/nevernotnuts/32/2269_2.png) [@nevernotnuts](https://tarck.cc/u/nevernotnuts)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2018, 4:32am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blerg-thread/21793/74 "2018-09-02T04:32:47Z")
> [@Dickason\_Daniel](#): > > I think Marin is trying to Cash in on Johnny cred (dad joke) more than somehow make money off the prison industrial complex, BUT I would still be happy if they were pressured to donate like a bong to prison libraries or whatever. Here’s the thing… regardless of the intentions of Marin Bikes, systemic racism measurably impacts the health, wealth, life expectancy, infant mortality, incarceration rates, etc. of millions of POC. That is real whether white folx care to acknowledge it or not. When we see shit like this and for whatever reason, defend these actions or even say “hey, it’s no big deal,” it’s perpetuating centuries old beliefs and systems of oppression that are literally killing people of color. I’m really just here to talk about bikes and get rad but as a public servant benefitting from white privilege, I can’t not speak up. ---
**Author:** ![Dickason\_Daniel](https://static.tarck.cc/user_avatar/tarck.cc/dickason_daniel/32/13099_2.png) [@Dickason\_Daniel](https://tarck.cc/u/Dickason_Daniel)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2018, 4:36am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blerg-thread/21793/75 "2018-09-02T04:36:33Z")
I feel like the fight should be against the prison system and the judicial system that feeds into it, not a bike company who makes a poor marketing decision. ---
**Author:** ![plutarck](https://static.tarck.cc/user_avatar/tarck.cc/plutarck/32/205_2.png) [@plutarck](https://tarck.cc/u/plutarck)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2018, 5:17am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blerg-thread/21793/76 "2018-09-02T05:17:32Z")
You can react to and push back against both atmo. ---
**Author:** ![Straws](https://static.tarck.cc/user_avatar/tarck.cc/straws/32/147_2.png) [@Straws](https://tarck.cc/u/Straws)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2018, 5:39am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blerg-thread/21793/77 "2018-09-02T05:39:01Z")
I mean I wasn’t really planning on buying a marin in the first place. I guess I can be doubly sure I won’t now. ---
**Author:** ![Face](https://static.tarck.cc/user_avatar/tarck.cc/face/32/77523_2.png) [@Face](https://tarck.cc/u/Face)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2018, 3:02pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blerg-thread/21793/78 "2018-09-02T15:02:42Z")
I’ll leave my personal life out of this for the most part. The prison system and all its feeders are a huge problem and have effected my life and my family’s life more than I’ll ever know. Millions of lives effected, billions of dollars made and then spent protecting it. No arguing the system needs to be completely dismantled. Marin bikes marketing department made a mistake, one that could easily be pointed out to them and remedied in the future. Making them aware of this is probably the most powerful thing anyone here can do. Who’s contacted them about this so they’re able to learn? Who will go beyond posting about this in an obscure fixie forum from 2008? ---
**Author:** ![nevernotnuts](https://static.tarck.cc/user_avatar/tarck.cc/nevernotnuts/32/2269_2.png) [@nevernotnuts](https://tarck.cc/u/nevernotnuts)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2018, 5:39pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blerg-thread/21793/79 "2018-09-02T17:39:13Z")
> [@Face](#): > > Marin bikes marketing department made a mistake, one that could easily be pointed out to them and remedied in the future. **Making them aware of this is probably the most powerful thing anyone here can do.** Who’s contacted them about this so they’re able to learn? Who will go beyond posting about this in an obscure fixie forum from 2008? Exactly. I contacted Marin months ago and… crickets. To me, it felt like making Tarck aware and getting more males voice on board could be a powerful tool. Given the reception, I don’t expect that many folks here will take action (maybe some Femme/Trans/Non-Binary/Women/Tender Dude lurkers will step up? I see you.) but hopefully the discussion will have planted some seeds of awareness. I mean, no one has to lose sleep or put your life on the line or discount any of the other bullshit that’s happening in our world but if you’re in a position to do so, reaching out to Marin a pretty easy action step to take. ---
**Author:** ![Petr5](https://static.tarck.cc/user_avatar/tarck.cc/petr5/32/51786_2.png) [@Petr5](https://tarck.cc/u/Petr5)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2018, 9:34pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blerg-thread/21793/80 "2018-09-02T21:34:55Z")
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