PVD has hard “elon musk of the bike industry” vibes. Absolutely wants to be the industry bad ass that just “isnt afraid to speak the truth” and ends up coming off as world’s biggest dork.
I’ll stop hate-following once it stops being fun to hate-follow.
I know this is such a trademark of stoner profundity but when I had the “not everything is for me and that’s ok” realization life got a lot better.
not everything is for me and that’s ok. but PVD wants to tell me that the things that are for me are not good for me and that’s not ok.
I was recommended a video on YT of a WGN news clip showcasing this Instagram account. Not sure if others have seen or heard of it but I’d imagine Tarck would have some Chicago people that could be interviewed.
did chicaoers see the video of the guy on the bike riding by portnoy filming and calling him a douchebag?
Can I say that I hate it when the word “bike” is used a verb? Like “I biked here” or “I’ll bike there”
You don’t car your car, you don’t kayak your kayak, so why would you bike your bike?
Yeah I know mountain bike is a thing, and I know it’s probably grammatically correct either way but I still hate it.
I am a biker.
I do a biking.
sir, I will propel my velocipede by means of my legs to your present location forthwith!
i planed my fly bike to lakeshore drive
Yeah, we don’t use bike as a verb on Prison Island. It grates me slightly when I see it used thusly but I’ve come to accept it as a quirk of american english.
Whoah whoah whoah… let’s not get carried away.
Huh. How do you feel about bussing downtown, or skating over to a friend’s house?
It’s even easier than that - just bring back the Atlantis with 440mm chain stays and throw in a Hunq 2 for good measure for the ATB buyers.
I will admit I use “cycling” more often than I use “biking” but I am generally kind of insufferable a lot
no
580mm chainstays are great
you can buy a crosscheck from anyone
i have made peace with biking. i don’t like it but it’s not my choice to make.
language is dynamic and changes all the time (shout out waywithwords @waywordradio). i think it is inelegant (if that’s even a fucking word- look at me go here) and just doesn’t feel right, but i think you and i (and maybe some other people on the website that is a misspelled word that has entered and dominated our lexicon…) are in the minority.
the only way languages get so bizarre as to be interesting is by people who speak them doing every single thing they can to fuck it up.
i do really wonder if there are parallel forums out there in this solar system where they have things like katus. i bet car stance bros have a denomination of money equivalent to either a specific oil pan or the average cost of an oil pan for a breed of cars
There’s a lot of things that are fucky with language. At some point in the last decade everyone started saying “gifting” and “gifted” instead of “giving” and “given”. It grates my gears, but language changes all the time skibidi toilet ohio rizz.
‘biking’ is fine, just don’t like the sound of it. Same with fixie
I remember driving somewhere out near rainier when some little motel had a sign that said “Bicyclers welcome”. Bicyclers has completely replaced cyclist or biker in the household lexicon.
Those are fine atmo
I never said it was a rational hate
I also hate when people say like “come by my work” for some reason