Bike blerg thread

[iwillbe]

I mean if the word “enormity” was in that dude’s vocabulary he’d definitely use it a lot and totally incorrectly. I’m going to guess that “Lovecraftian” just means “big and kinda gnarly, like the squid guy from atlantis”

[yonderboy]

@Lovecraftian Masshole

Mad or sane, metamorphosed or merely relieved, the chances were that Akeley had actually encountered some stupendous change of perspective in his hazardous research; some change at once diminishing his danger—real or fancied—and opening dizzy new vistas of cosmic and superhuman knowledge. My own zeal for the unknown flared up to meet his, and I felt myself touched by the contagion of the morbid barrier-breaking. To shake off the maddening and wearying limitations of time and space and natural law—to be linked with the vast outside —to come close to the nighted and abysmal secrets of the infinite and the ultimate—surely such a thing was worth the risk of one’s life, soul, and sanity! And Akeley had said there was no longer any peril—he had invited me to visit him instead of warning me away as before.

And then they fly through space in a rented, brainless body.

[todd_bonzalez]

@drwelby

:

insurmountable obstacles really bring out the truest human condition, that Lovecraftian urge to get out and test one’s limits.

huh

lol wtf. You know, famous adventurer and definitely not racist shut-in Lovecraft

God he is so dumb

[drwelby]

Sorry, I like this passage, but I’m skeptical that this is what he had in mind here.

[Master_Stabby]

Of course prolly loves Lovecraft. Prolly produces purple prose.

[joyofvaping]

Oregon poopback guy keeps getting roasted on Instagram for pricing his chinook too high and complaining about it not selling:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B5G7YhdHATm/?igshid=9ij1x9v38nfm

[Emor_please]

I’m sorry but I laughed when I read “needless to say”

What is this, a high school essay?

Dude should stick to cameras and have his cooler friends write the words

I guess I can understand what he’s trying say with lovecraftian, but that word already has a very specific meaning and context so he can’t just choose to have a different one for his bike ride essay

[yonderboy]

@drwelby

Sorry, I like this passage, but I’m skeptical that this is what he had in mind here.

I would also accept that he confused Lovecraft with Charles Stross and is referring to the aliens that eat people’s tongues and turn them into mindless devotees.

[drwelby]

My first thought was “does he have Lovecraft confused with Jack London”?

[Shiny_squid_green]

Riv ig claims 2.8 compatible bike

Ughhhhhhhh

[LASER_BEIGE]

Grant, we like what you’ve done. We don’t like what you’re doing!

[adem]

#whatrims

I feel like even a Cliffhanger or a RhynoLite XL would be on the narrow side for a 2.8" tire, and those are both heavy slugs.

[Andrew_Andeson]

@drwelby

My first thought was “does he have Lovecraft confused with Jack London”?

Atmo

Just another prolly brainfart, trying to mAke it make sense leads only to spiralling cosmic horror

[Andrew_Andeson]

I read the post. Fuck what a doofus.

[iwillbe]

Huh.

Lauf to develop its leaf spring technology for full-suspension gravel bike...

[Jacobell]

2.8 with rim brake on a cliffhanger makes me really anxious and sweaty

[cousinmosquito]

Pretty sure is was Pubed a few days back.

[turpentine]

there is an argument to be made that rim brakes are nice on road bikes. They are. But ones that wrap around a 2.8" tire like orangutan arms they no longer are cool and are just actually trash garbage.

[anon24974279]

The whole idea of that bike makes no sense to me. Maybe they’ll use cantis like those early pugsleys?

[Shiny_squid_green]

The riv dorks keep trying to engage me in that post, arguing linear pull blah blah blah.

I’m just not going to engage, probably not worth it.