Bike blog thread

amy · May 25, 2011, 4:28am

[quote=Buffalo Bill]On Sentimentality and Retiring Old Bikes

Lol, she thinks this frame doesn’t fit her because the top tube is too short:
[/quote]

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME

obnoxious_child · May 25, 2011, 4:33am

Also what’s up with italicized brifter all the time? I wanna go over to her and how her how to work my “brifter”

Toast · May 25, 2011, 4:36am

fuck! awesome!

JUGE_FREDD · May 25, 2011, 5:14am

so pathetic coz it’s probably the only bike she has that would actually fit her

(all her “loop frame” bikes don’t count, they ‘fit’ everybody)

bexley · May 25, 2011, 6:57am

fuck! awesome![/quote]

Cadence · May 25, 2011, 7:15am

FIXIE STAR:

[quote=coppi][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”[/quote]
Aaaaand /thread.

Timarchylime · May 25, 2011, 11:45am

Y’all need to chill on the sexual references. There’s a point at which she starts to be right about the sexism and misogyny towards female cyclists.

cookietruck · May 25, 2011, 12:14pm

Y’all need to chill on the sexual references. There’s a point at which she starts to be right about the sexism and misogyny towards female cyclists.[/quote]

cookietruck · May 25, 2011, 12:15pm

[quote=aerobear][quote=Buffalo Bill]On Sentimentality and Retiring Old Bikes

Lol, she thinks this frame doesn’t fit her because the top tube is too short:
[/quote]

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME[/quote]

whoa. i was wondering what frame that stubby excuse for a stem was on.

Timarchylime · May 25, 2011, 12:52pm

She probably can’t get the proper leg extension without exposing the post past the Rivendell minimum insertion limit, which is 6cm from the saddle clamp.

obnoxious_child · May 25, 2011, 1:12pm

Girls can’t ride bikes zomg sexual girl bike reference is real reference

timberland_boots · May 25, 2011, 1:32pm

Stop being an idiot

Russell · May 25, 2011, 1:37pm

tell the ocean to stop being so salty.

to quote aek on something else stupid you said,

Timarchylime · May 25, 2011, 2:36pm

Trying to find some jackass stuff from our other favorite blogs (prolly and CWMD). Prolly seems to be laying low after his rando bike disaster and CWMD is just selling all his jackass stuff.

Bearpants · May 25, 2011, 3:27pm

I seriously can’t imagine that we’ve made fun of girls more than boys with regard to anything. We joke on Prolly and WMD and, fuck, like 90% of the guys we see on bikes.

Hey Lovely Bicycle!, all things being equal if you were a guy we would have joked on you just as hard. If it weren’t for the incessant italics and misinformation then we probably wouldn’t have ever given a fuck.

You seem nice and enthusiastic, but this is in teh interwebz and people who know you’re wrong will find out and make it known. Given all of this, the correct response from you still would have been AYHSMB.

Monocle, you’re an asshole and an idiot. GTFO.

Timarchylime · May 25, 2011, 3:42pm

Today, Velouria discovers that everyone who told her that a rivendell is not good for fast group rides was right. Honestly, her learning curve is quite steep. I fully expect her to be ashamed of her own blog within 6 months.

Ashes_Dust · May 25, 2011, 3:48pm

I’m waiting for the Prolly meltdown when the Fed’s squeeze around Armstrong gets even tighter.

NOVELTYNAME · May 25, 2011, 4:06pm

=98%of the internet

Fergie · May 25, 2011, 4:13pm

This is the most awesome thing I’ve read all week

cookietruck · May 25, 2011, 4:17pm

just wait til weapon of cycling mass destruction actaully stars building frames
that’s what he’s selling all his shit for right…frame building toolz?

can’t wait to see some extremely jackass fraem designs from him
can we predict maybe even a touring bike with track geo and track drops?
LULZ