Dude just buy it
If you don’t like it take it back. It’s REI right?
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Nah, Moosejaw. Not sure they take bike returns. Search XR is available at a local shop—gonna check it out tomorrow hopefully.
Family friend had her spec ruby stolen and is looking for recommendations for the absolute most stack available in like a 54 for under 2.5bongs. And she will still probably have a stem extension and boner stem installed.
I tried telling her it’s time for a hybrid, but they gotta be on “road bikes” because all their friends are on “road bikes” just like theirs.
Send her to Rodriguez, they’ll put all the stack on a frame for her. Looks like a basic custom road bike complete starts at $2.4 bongs, but that’s gonna be very basic parts spec.
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Failing that, a soma something or other that takes a quill
What about an elliptigo
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She just texted me 'I just found a 105 synapse in my size, can we talk (for an hour) about it (so I can ignore all your advise again)? ’
“good bike, go try it”
I’ll send her a link to Rodriguez and let her go crazy.
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just a reminder that women can have tall hip bones which means relative their hip joint, their sit bones (and therefore saddle) are lower and the base of their spine (and everything that follows on the way to the handlebar) are going to be higher. Added together it can result in needing bars much higher than the saddle.
This whole family rides stem risers and boner stems. They’re kooks.
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We have a family like that here. I just shake my head once and ignore it.
I have a friend who has been asking me the same bike question and ignoring the same bike advice for the past three years. I stopped responding 2.9 years too late.
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When wanting a bike, my next door neighbour did the right thing and just went to a bike shop and bought a hybrid.
My previous next door neighbour spent months asking me questions about road bikes and sizing then went and bought one that was too big cos it was the last one in the shop and he got a deal.
Be more like the new neighbour.
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I’m so done going down the rabbit hole with friends, coworkers, etc. I just tell them to go to a few bike shops, pick the one where the people are nicest to them, test ride the bikes they can afford and buy the one they like the most. Everyone I know who does that ends up pretty happy with their bike.
The goddamn software engineers, though, just want to be the smartest fucking guy and go buy something online and then invent a million solutions to problems they imagine they have or will have and sink six times what they saved buying online into bad ideas they can’t be talked out of because they’re so smart that they have to reinvent the wheel on…bicycle lights or whatever the fuck.
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So when are they all joining tarck?
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This particular person I’m helping needs the help. I don’t know how but so far I’ve stopped her from buying a di2 race bike, then a cyclocross bike, then a Roubaix that was two sizes too small. I haven’t heard anything back since telling her to check out the synapse and sending a link to Rodriguez.
Oh wow, this is getting even better. I asked her to send me a picture of her old bike and fit sheet from when she was fitted for that bike. Somehow she tried to email it to an old email address that I stopped using before I ever even met them. And in that email was a link to a bike she didn’t like the color of asking me if she can repaint it.
“We’re making the world a better place through
Paxos algorithms for consensus protocolsairless tyres that don’t need tubes or sealant
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for a year or so there half of them bought Diamondback Haanjos “on prodeal” to use as their canvas for constant re-accessorization
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Among my coworkers, the trend has been buying a Canyon in the right size +/- 1, then discovering novel ways of mounting flashlights to the bars using shitty mounts from Amazon because bike lights are so expensive compared to what you get in flashlights.
And then breaking the mounts and losing their flashlights and buying stronger mounts and better flashlights.
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When you think your hobby is bikes, but actually your hobby is buying things.
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i feel seen
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