# 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:** 3
### Author:  [@FIXIE\_STAR](https://tarck.cc/u/FIXIE_STAR)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2011, 7:54pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blog-thread/19001/41 "2011-05-23T19:54:14Z")
kaiko is p much good in my book.
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### Author:  [@Rusty\_Piton](https://tarck.cc/u/Rusty_Piton)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2011, 7:57pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blog-thread/19001/42 "2011-05-23T19:57:53Z")
COME ON!
Also, how has no one mentioned that every one of her stupid bicycles has a stupid name like Rodney or Suzanne or Francisco?
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### Author:  [@NOVELTYNAME](https://tarck.cc/u/NOVELTYNAME)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2011, 7:55pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blog-thread/19001/43 "2011-05-23T19:55:50Z")
> [@FIXIE STAR](#):
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> 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
so much this
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> but then I just go on the internet and look at hot chick tumblers and fall asleep.
even more this tho
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### Author:  [@Dickason\_Daniel](https://tarck.cc/u/Dickason_Daniel)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2011, 10:54pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blog-thread/19001/44 "2011-05-23T22:54:22Z")
[quote=Altoid]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… But sometimes experimenting with vintage until you find a good frame can be more expensive than buying new.[/quote]
there’s actually good advice being dispensed here, even if it is framed as the disillusioned opinions of the co-habitant.
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### Author:  [@curiousincident](https://tarck.cc/u/curiousincident)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2011, 11:02pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blog-thread/19001/45 "2011-05-23T23:02:48Z")
i’d ask if she could just use a less cumbersome term like ‘partner’ but it really kind of fits in perfectly with everything else she’s got going with that blog.
really though when she writes co-habitant i can’t shake the feeling that she also gives it a french pronunciation and it is really terrible.
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### Author:  [@dougtruck](https://tarck.cc/u/dougtruck)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2011, 11:07pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blog-thread/19001/46 "2011-05-23T23:07:38Z")
it makes me think she treats sex like elaine from the contraceptive sponge episode
schedules and forms and shit
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### Author:  [@NOVELTYNAME](https://tarck.cc/u/NOVELTYNAME)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2011, 11:27pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blog-thread/19001/47 "2011-05-23T23:27:23Z")
hate chix like that
spontaneous or gtfo
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### Author:  [@coppi](https://tarck.cc/u/coppi)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2011, 1:07am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blog-thread/19001/48 "2011-05-24T01:07:14Z")
> [@](#):
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> This approach tends to evoke polarised reactions. On the one hand, I’ve noticed that beginners - and particularly female readers who are just getting into cycling - respond to blogs written by other beginners more than they do to blogs written by experts. On the other hand, there is a great deal of scorn aimed at such blogs in some internet circles - mainly on male-dominated cycling forums. The other day I received a link to a venomous thread where the forum members basically take turns quoting snippets from my posts and mocking my writing. It might have upset me, if I hadn’t witnessed a near-identical thread attacking another woman’s blog on a different cycling forum several months earlier. The bashing we get from these guys is predictable: We are silly, we are consumerist, we know nothing about cycling yet presume to advise others, and our writing is annoying. Whether they have a point is not for me to judge, and it’s useless to defend myself against grown men who get off on mocking other human beings. But I’d like to explore the question of why a beginner’s writing about cycling can be more compelling to some audiences than that of an expert.
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### Author:  [@Timarchylime](https://tarck.cc/u/Timarchylime)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2011, 1:28am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blog-thread/19001/49 "2011-05-24T01:28:26Z")
Of course beginners writing about their experiences is good for other beginners to read. A lot of the stuff she goes on to say is valid. But the key here is writing about experiences. Not making baseless claims about aluminum being painful to ride or that modern fat tired cross bikes would be less agile than a 30 year old bike boom 10spd. A lot of the beginners blogs are little more than accumulations of bikeforums-style"knowledge". Then, as the years pass, the writer dispels myth after myth (rarely taking the time to revisit previous posts and point out their own incorrect assumptions) as they ride more and learn.
I think she is on the verge of learning a very important lesson. And it is this:
There is a reason that they don’t make bikes like they used to. There’s a reason that most beginning riders are better off on something more modern. It’s because most old bikes just suck compared to their modern counterparts. Old bikes are still good. They get you from place to place just as well as they did in the 60’s. But modern bikes are just better at it.
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### Author:  [@tjayk](https://tarck.cc/u/tjayk)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2011, 3:04am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blog-thread/19001/50 "2011-05-24T03:04:06Z")
can we talk about stevil kinevil or something? you guys have an unhealthy obsesson with lovely bicycle.
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### Author:  [@Timarchylime](https://tarck.cc/u/Timarchylime)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2011, 11:46am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blog-thread/19001/51 "2011-05-24T11:46:54Z")
I haven’t read Stevil’s blog since it was whatever name is was two years ago. I got tired of reading about beer and burritos and people doing stupid shit.
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### Author:  [@jr1](https://tarck.cc/u/jr1)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2011, 12:20pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blog-thread/19001/52 "2011-05-24T12:20:04Z")
Speaking of Stevil and doing stupid shit, I actually bought one of those Bandit jackets for my brother’s next birthday. He’s gonna be stupid stoked:
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### Author:  [@Dickason\_Daniel](https://tarck.cc/u/Dickason_Daniel)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2011, 12:27pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blog-thread/19001/53 "2011-05-24T12:27:58Z")
> [@TimLOKOed](#):
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> I haven’t read Stevil’s blog since it was whatever name is was two years ago. I got tired of reading about beer and burritos and people doing stupid shit.
guys who cut their own bummer lives short
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### Author:  [@Timarchylime](https://tarck.cc/u/Timarchylime)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2011, 12:43pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blog-thread/19001/54 "2011-05-24T12:43:22Z")
I think it was the bummer life thing last time I saw it.
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### Author:  [@bexley](https://tarck.cc/u/bexley)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2011, 12:58pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blog-thread/19001/55 "2011-05-24T12:58:42Z")
This is the first I’ve heard of this blog, but I can’t stand it already. What a circle jerk that blog’s comments are, not to mention the articles themselves. What horribly misplaced sentimentality–which doesn’t have to be based on knowledge, but it shouldn’t be based on ignorance. What cringe-inducing attempts at clever prose.
I should’ve stopped reading at the exclamation mark, the first sign that something dumb was afoot.
But possibly the worst of all is the incessant, pointless use of “vintage”.
> [@](#):
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> Consequently I have some very high-mileage bikes that i have owned for many years and have no need or reason ever to get rid of -one of them being a 1990-vintage Cannondale tourer that took me on a 10,000 mile solo trek around Australia 15 years ago and the other a Thorn eXp expedition tourer (vintage 2000) that has carried me all over East Africa, Asia minor, Europe and Britain and still does about 8,000 to 10,000 miles a year on the lanes of Sussex and Kent.
To be fair, this poor commenter has ostensibly ridden ~100 times the average Lovely Bicycle? [sic] reader’s lifetime mileage, and was probably encouraged by the dozen-or-so instances of that word in the article.
In the end, that post is just to stroke his/her vintage cock in the e-company of some novices.
ps. I hope a certain blogger gets a real hard-on from my pointed use of penis terminology.
pps. I just wasted my time.
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### Author:  [@FIXIE\_STAR](https://tarck.cc/u/FIXIE_STAR)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2011, 8:26pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blog-thread/19001/56 "2011-05-24T20:26:10Z")
> [@coppi](#):
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> [quote]This approach tends to evoke polarised reactions. On the one hand, I’ve noticed that beginners - and particularly female readers who are just getting into cycling - respond to blogs written by other beginners more than they do to blogs written by experts. On the other hand, there is a great deal of scorn aimed at such blogs in some internet circles - mainly on male-dominated cycling forums. The other day I received a link to a venomous thread where the forum members basically take turns quoting snippets from my posts and mocking my writing. It might have upset me, if I hadn’t witnessed a near-identical thread attacking another woman’s blog on a different cycling forum several months earlier. The bashing we get from these guys is predictable: We are silly, we are consumerist, we know nothing about cycling yet presume to advise others, and our writing is annoying. Whether they have a point is not for me to judge, and it’s useless to defend myself against grown men who get off on mocking other human beings. But I’d like to explore the question of why a beginner’s writing about cycling can be more compelling to some audiences than that of an expert.[/quote]
she could’ve saved a lot of time if she just said “BAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW”
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### Author:  [@bexley](https://tarck.cc/u/bexley)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2011, 10:07pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blog-thread/19001/57 "2011-05-24T22:07:48Z")
> [@](#):
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> Whether they have a point is not for me to judge, and it’s useless to defend myself against grown men who get off on mocking other human beings.
Ah, whether we have a point in saying that her writing is asinine is somehow not for her to judge, but the second part is totally her domain.
And way to discredit those who think you’re an idiot with the great big sexist brush that you can’t even wield.
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### Author:  [@NOVELTYNAME](https://tarck.cc/u/NOVELTYNAME)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2011, 10:47pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blog-thread/19001/58 "2011-05-24T22:47:24Z")
when’s lovelybike gonna offer a counterpoint?
when
when
when
when
when
when
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### Author:  [@Altoid](https://tarck.cc/u/Altoid)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2011, 11:10pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blog-thread/19001/59 "2011-05-24T23:10:19Z")
She’ll just show us up by getting involved in randonneuring, only to discover to her surprise that despite the pleasant lilt of the word it is less about gently twirling down to a local inn to fill a basket with warm bread than about middle aged hard men on crabon bikes vomiting and bragging about not being able to open doors.
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### Author:  [@obnoxious\_child](https://tarck.cc/u/obnoxious_child)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2011, 4:23am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blog-thread/19001/60 "2011-05-25T04:23:31Z")
Whens lovely bike gonna post nude? Dat ass
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