Do they? Also I wouldn’t agree that being a furry is a kink for many, its just an identity or an interest, like being really into bikes. Sure, someone made that bike/cheesecake/softcore porno site back in the fixie days, and some people have chainring tattoos, but most of us just like bikes. Some people just like pretending to be a wolf, or drawing themselves as dogs. I’m not trying to soapbox here but that comic is cool and not sexual, as well as being bike related. So idk.
Also how many of us have more than $2500 invested in bikes and would rather be wearing whatever we wear on a ride to work than whatever our work makes us wear? Its just a stigmatized interest. No one thinks its ok to call a roadie in lycra grabbing a coffee mid ride something derogatory, I don’t think its that different.
The All Gas No Brakes guy did an interview on Yeah But Still where he was talking about doing his thing at the furry convention, and it being like the only time he felt bad about sort of being in these peoples’ safe space, when it was clear that the rest of the world had just relentless mocked them even before they were furries. Like for the most part, they were extremely introverted outcasts who had finally found this community that accepted them.
i generally consider myself pretty open, inclusive, tolerant, and accepting, but for some reason have generally been open to accepting people being given shit for this particular aberration.
always good to get a reminder and a check. thanks friend
You might know, if you’re read the fine print, that we’re working on a opposite-action rear derailer, Shimano has made them before, called RapidRise by Shimano, and “low-normal” as a generic name, referring to them relaxing under the large (low gear) cog. They’re better, but none of the big derailer-makers makes them now–the market rejected them, and way to go, y’ dumb market…
Anyway, making a derailer in America is simple in theory, hard in real life. A good one is harder, and a competitive one is harder than winning a boxing match with King Kong.
You can still get a reverso derailer in China, or from China, but you need a key to the inner ciircle, or more accurately, you need to know someobdy who knows somebody who has the key, and we do. Here’s one of those RapidRise copies:
Dang it’s not here in time for this BLAHG.
Ours will cost $80 to $150, depending on our costs, which won’t even include R&D time and expensive prototyping. Out the window with that.
Why spend that much? Good question. You just never know.
