My guess is Vorbau which I know as stem (frau only knows bike parts in English) and she confirms is slang for Brüsts. She can’t confirm it refers to front porch but anything built (bau) in the front (vor) should be good to go.
I don’t see many front porches in this city.
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no no no. gotta be fallen parts exclusively. for ethics and all
what in the actual
maybe we can come up with a word salad and get a radavist spread.
Someone have access to GPT-3? Feed it Lurvly Velocipede and Radishfist to generate waxy word velosalad.
I too love WEEN
I ran a really basic GPT-3 for the moonshiner to create ad copy with just a few tags for input - fat bike, camp and go slow, wright brothers. The fake ad copy sounds vastly better than what is being offered tbh.
EDIT: if folks want to compile a bunch of shitty nubike ad copy (thinking all of tanglefoots website, the radavsist, the analog stuff, crust stuff etc) into one doc,I can try to train some more basic machine learning models on it and we can have some fun.
Moonshiner
Tanglefoot Bikes Moonshiner is a fat tire bikepacking bike designed for long-distance adventures. The frame is made of Columbus Spirit tubing, which has a great balance between stiffness and comfort. It is a steel frame that allows you to enjoy the supple life. The bike is equipped with a Rohloff 14-speed hub, which is the best hub for high-capacity touring bikes. It offers a wide range of gears with a simple twist of the left grip. It will handle any terrain you come across, whether it be up or down. The rear rack is from Tubus, a company which has become known for their high-quality racks. The rack can carry up to 70 kg of weight. It will make it possible to carry all your long-distance equipment. The tires are 47 mm wide and 2.3” thick. They are extremely durable and offer maximum comfort while riding. They are equipped with soft, puncture resistant Schwalbe G-One Performance tires.
LOL I didn’t even see the Ween reference. I stole the text from Carcoat Damphands, used car expert.
Ok fuck it, Im well on the way to getting GPT-2 spun up in a docker container, and I have a fully tricked out data science machine I can throw at it for a few hours. I need a better training dataset - I grabbed all the text from the tanglefoot radavist article and threw it in to a collaborative pastebin page, but I could use another 20k words or so of really juicy ad copy. Does anyone have any interest in grabbing some of the best bits from the radavist/ Analog/ Crust etc and adding them in here? Linkode You can just paste at the bottom and it will create a new revision of the pastebin.
GPT-2 will honestly be a bit more authentic - its certainly goofier than GPT-3. But not really any different than actual tanglefoot ad copy:
We are awash in the lurid excess of the new. Culture produces without knowing the reason for production. The headlong rush for the new ignores lessons learned in the past, leading to repeated failures and waste. Education is the only weapon against such waste. By knowing the past we can understand our current and future needs clearly. If we only look forward, we are blind. The CATALOG seeks to educate and illuminate a path forward. Tools that aid this process are presented in the following pages.
Today’s bsnyc makes fun of the very article we’re currently dunking on (scroll down it’s long) But he wrecked it imho by snarking on land acknowledgement. In my view prollys increased wokeness is pretty good.
I was going to mention that but was afraid to let on that I still read that blog.
tbh I love this
I wish they had really committed and said “illuminate a path backward”
Edit: shit forgot to hit save. I’ll drop these back in later this evening.
Added both bike-specific copy and the “about” page copy for:
Simworks
Mone
Stooge
curve
44Bikes
Hunt
I tried to add to the Linkode, but it said the content was too large.
Busted. We’re more into what the rest of that collective producing, but “folks want options”.
I signed up as a dealer for the lolz
Figure if one person calls about those bikes and we can sell em anything its a win
Toss in a couple chapters from Ivan Illich, “Hell’s Angels”, and maybe some Castaneda to make things interesting
