# Bike blog thread
**URL:** https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blog-thread/19001
**Category:** Bikes
**Created:** [May 23, 2011, 12:48am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blog-thread/19001 "2011-05-23T00:48:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@Ashes\_Dust](https://tarck.cc/u/Ashes_Dust)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2011, 2:57pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blog-thread/19001/21 "2011-05-23T14:57:04Z")
> [@TimLOKOed](#):
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> “new rider with too much money”.
This was me a little over a year ago. Being out of work for so long changed that.
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### Author:  [@Rusty\_Piton](https://tarck.cc/u/Rusty_Piton)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2011, 3:03pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blog-thread/19001/22 "2011-05-23T15:03:11Z")
^fixed both problems, I imagine.
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### Author:  [@Ashes\_Dust](https://tarck.cc/u/Ashes_Dust)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2011, 3:11pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blog-thread/19001/23 "2011-05-23T15:11:00Z")
That it did. Although, I still consider myself a newer rider. I mean, I’ve only been cycling for a few years.
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### Author:  [@Larry\_Winget](https://tarck.cc/u/Larry_Winget)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2011, 3:30pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blog-thread/19001/24 "2011-05-23T15:30:14Z")
> [@Altoid](#):
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> So leaving Lovely Bicycle aside and just speaking in generalities, one thing that actively irritates me about these twine-and-shellac blogs is that they discredit Grant Peterson’s good work with all their more Catholic than the pope bullshit. Obviously the man believes in his product and thinks that people should ride Rivendells and lugged scooters, but he is not really all that dogmatic a fellow and if you actually read the Reader he is constantly pimping solid cheap bikes like the LHT, Bianchi San Jose and such. It is really kind of a shame that people read his website and the takeaway is twine plus lugs make the bike ride better.
Truth. He usually expresses his approval for such bikes in the form of a backhanded compliment, but yeah.
I think the internet is largely to blame for this phenomenon. There are plenty of people who just ride their bikes without taking pictures when there is a light mist rising from the canal, or when buying an artisinal baguette at the farmers’ market, but the bikes belonging to those people are not the ones you see.
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### Author:  [@Timarchylime](https://tarck.cc/u/Timarchylime)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2011, 3:32pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blog-thread/19001/25 "2011-05-23T15:32:04Z")
> [@Ashes Dust](#):
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> That it did. Although, I still consider myself a newer rider. I mean, I’ve only been cycling for a few years.
And you don’t have a blog yet? How do you get people to send you free stuff to review?
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### Author:  [@amy](https://tarck.cc/u/amy)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2011, 3:35pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blog-thread/19001/26 "2011-05-23T15:35:58Z")
T/C I kinda want to start a blog, but don’t have the patience or time to deal with the bullshit aspects like posing for photos and rambling on for 5 pages giving excruciating and unnecessary details about everything I do.
Fact of the matter is, I like the idea of sharing experiences and imparting knowledge - but most people who do this do it in such a bullshit way that I can’t get past the bullshit enough to join their ranks.
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### Author:  [@pixieshatintruck](https://tarck.cc/u/pixieshatintruck)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2011, 3:37pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blog-thread/19001/27 "2011-05-23T15:37:25Z")
TC if amy had a blog i would read it and i am positive it would be better than lovelybike
TC also i might make fun of you too if you posted some bullshit…but i know you can take it
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### Author:  [@Timarchylime](https://tarck.cc/u/Timarchylime)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2011, 3:45pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blog-thread/19001/28 "2011-05-23T15:45:31Z")
Maintaining a blog requires a deep, inalienable sense somewhere within you that everyone in the world needs to know what you think. Not everyone is cut out for it Amy. Some of us, however unfortunately, possess the qualities of shame and humility.
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### Author:  [@dougtruck](https://tarck.cc/u/dougtruck)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2011, 3:49pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blog-thread/19001/29 "2011-05-23T15:49:41Z")
^this guy gets me
> **[thegravelempyrean](https://thegravelempyrean.wordpress.com/)**
>
> Just another WordPress.com site
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### Author:  [@Ashes\_Dust](https://tarck.cc/u/Ashes_Dust)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2011, 3:52pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blog-thread/19001/30 "2011-05-23T15:52:52Z")
True confession: I had a blog in 2005. It was during a pretty low time in my life and writing helped me sort out some shit. I killed it when it ceased to be theraputic and I started to be overwhelmingly concerned about what the readers were thinking about me. I still have a copy of it on my hard drive.
I did meet some really great people through it. People I still keep in contact with.
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### Author:  [@obnoxious\_child](https://tarck.cc/u/obnoxious_child)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2011, 4:18pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blog-thread/19001/31 "2011-05-23T16:18:02Z")
Days that end word press is a great bike blog
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### Author:  [@JUGE\_FREDD](https://tarck.cc/u/JUGE_FREDD)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2011, 5:14pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blog-thread/19001/32 "2011-05-23T17:14:29Z")
[quote=TimLOKOed]On the other side of the “new rider with too much money” equation, check out [this blog.](http://www.pedal-strike.com/?p=1305)
Somehow I just feel like she gets it.[/quote]
she mad: [http://www.pedal-strike.com/?p=1310](http://www.pedal-strike.com/?p=1310)
[http://torm.cc/](http://torm.cc/) actually looks pretty sweet and reasonably priced
“After a period of not selling any jerseys we are now back in the jersey business. We have been in dispute with another manufacturer and we made a pragmatic decision to alter our current stock of jerseys.” — assume it was Rapha being the bully?
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### Author:  [@jimmythefly](https://tarck.cc/u/jimmythefly)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2011, 5:14pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blog-thread/19001/33 "2011-05-23T17:14:41Z")
> [@tarckeemoon](#):
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> There are plenty of people who just ride their bikes without taking pictures when there is a light mist rising from the canal, or when buying an artisinal baguette at the farmers’ market, but the bikes belonging to those people are not the ones you see.
I know this guy who rides rando-distances all the time, camps out, explores gravel forest service roads, etc. He’ll take his tele skis on his bike up into the mountains and ski for a day, camp, ride home the next morning.
You’ve never heard of him. You’ve probably never seen pictures of him.
It’s crazy how I can think of all these bad-ass adventurers and these rando hard-men. And then, like something out of a movie this guy could show up at a ride or event or story-telling hour and one-up them all. The internet almost gives this false sense of information overload, where if I haven’t heard about it here it doesn’t exist, but there are all these people and things that exist outside the web and who couldn’t care less about posting about what they do or if anyone else ever knows about them.
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### Author:  [@NOVELTYNAME](https://tarck.cc/u/NOVELTYNAME)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2011, 6:22pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blog-thread/19001/34 "2011-05-23T18:22:54Z")
new rider with too much money = NRWTMM
i feel like im not that guy, but i also think i am.
also, i got a pretty great domain name and i’ll have a blog soon. idgaf what you guys think about nothing im an artist and successful artists have to document everything or they are just weird people.
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### Author:  [@Eric\_Estlund](https://tarck.cc/u/Eric_Estlund)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2011, 6:25pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blog-thread/19001/35 "2011-05-23T18:25:26Z")
As a guy who works alone and has to actively take part in his own “social media campaign” I’m always a little humbled that folks out in the world take the time to stop by and read what I’m on about. So- big thanks for that, and in a shameless moment of self promotion I’ll say I have added another [post](http://www.winterbicycles.com/2011/05/winter-bicycle-featured-in-bicycle-times.html) this morning.
I’m just excited people are happy enough about bikes to take the time to write about it. I have enough stuff to be angry about- enthusiastic enthusiasts isn’t one of them.
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### Author:  [@pixieshatintruck](https://tarck.cc/u/pixieshatintruck)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2011, 7:13pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blog-thread/19001/36 "2011-05-23T19:13:34Z")
sheeeeeeeeeit that heart rack is dope
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### Author:  [@JUGE\_FREDD](https://tarck.cc/u/JUGE_FREDD)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2011, 7:26pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blog-thread/19001/37 "2011-05-23T19:26:51Z")
> **[On Sentimentality and Retiring Old Bikes](http://lovelybike.blogspot.com/2011/05/on-sentimentality-and-retiring-old.html)**
>
> When we got the Co-Habitant's Surly Cross-Check frame , it was supposed to be an off-road-capable supplement to his vintage roadbike , not ...
Lol, she thinks this frame doesn’t fit her because the top tube is too short:
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### Author:  [@Altoid](https://tarck.cc/u/Altoid)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2011, 7:37pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blog-thread/19001/38 "2011-05-23T19:37:17Z")
Ha, I liked this:
> [@](#):
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> The Co-Habitant is a wee bit disillusioned in vintage bikes at the moment. All the lugs and “patina” in the world are not worth it to him, if a reasonably priced, good quality new TIG-welded frame fitted with decent components offers a better ride.
It is almost as if there have been significant advances in cycling technology in the last 40 years. Also:
> [@](#):
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> I am interested in the history, geometry and aesthetics of various vintage bikes and not just in finding the ultimate bike. For him… he just wants to ride
Forget her, this guy should sign up here. 🐻
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### Author:  [@FIXIE\_STAR](https://tarck.cc/u/FIXIE_STAR)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2011, 7:43pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blog-thread/19001/39 "2011-05-23T19:43:35Z")
Sometimes I have this urge to start up a cycling blog about the trials and tribulations of being as a lazy, high category hobby bicycle racer that has a sense of humor about it but then I just go on the internet and look at hot chick tumblers and fall asleep.
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### Author:  [@pixieshatintruck](https://tarck.cc/u/pixieshatintruck)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2011, 7:44pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blog-thread/19001/40 "2011-05-23T19:44:20Z")
if she would get some clipless pedals no more pedal strike
also pedal strike i’ve gotten it on my track bike
it happens
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