What happened to them anyway? They still post on the gram.[/quote]
i bet it’s a ny resolution - no nerd forums. i txtd doug a while ago and he txtd back.
I’m dying. You guys reduce all women to “supgirl” and “supwife” across the entire forum. I’m a sociopath for saying “ladies” in a bad joke and apologizing. The real issue was me losing the cool kids popularity contest, not a social politics gaff. I don’t think it’s possible to ride bikes and spend time in the woods and have anything but love for other people.
tarckshoop plz make an image with a hot dog facepalming and eating a shoe
tarck is a place you bring things to.
you dont just take and take and take and expect everyone to congratulate your idiocy (of riding all single speed everything, of denying the life changing benefits of dynamos, etc).
do you have something valuable to add? do you have unique experience that you might be able to provide insight? most people on tarck actually do things - like race bikes fast, like try out different geometries, like know how to operate all the fancy bike computer shit, like put in thousands of kms a year, like ride the tires you havent yet.
but you already know this shit. youre going to be made fun of until you admit you know nothing.
[quote=NOVELTYNAME]tarck is a place you bring things to.
you dont just take and take and take and expect everyone to congratulate your idiocy (of riding all single speed everything, of denying the life changing benefits of dynamos, etc).
do you have something valuable to add? do you have unique experience that you might be able to provide insight? most people on tarck actually do things - like race bikes fast, like try out different geometries, like know how to operate all the fancy bike computer shit, like put in thousands of kms a year, like ride the tires you havent yet.
but you already know this shit. youre going to be made fun of until you admit you know nothing.[/quote]
I know nothing. I don’t want anything. I just wanted to talk about bikes. But we are all pretty solid and clear that this is not my forum for that. I’ll go hang out somewhere else. Thank you for at least giving me the dignity of an explanation. I am pretty sure I get it and I am damn sure you guys are sure about me getting TF out of here.
At the 100% certainty of this being spun as my fifth exit or something, THANK YOU guys for helping me with the stem thing and teaching me about decaleurs and dynamos and fender setup, and I’m VERY sorry that I gaffed (twice) trying to play the “macho” tough guy cool kid popularity game that I very clearly suck intensely at. I got all defensive (and I still don’t really know what to say) because people thinking I’m sexist is horrific to me and it makes me feel sick. Ultimately I’m SORRY that I annoyed everyone. Be well, peace out.
Personally I think you guys are being overly harsh, but then I see new guy wants to obstinately build another 1 speed bike.
New guy, you are in the middle of some great riding. Now go try one of the D2R2 loops, (not the 40k one by the river) on your singlespeed Pugsley. Report back.
WTH / HY:
Last night the dangler on my univega got completely asploded somehow. Ended up having to actually get a ride home for the first time in 2 years. WTH because that really sucked, HY because now I have a legit reason to upgrade this thing into the fire-road pukebacker that it always was meant to be. Was thinking about getting those prebuilt shimano dynowheels from bike24 (the inexpensive ones) and finally go from 3x5 to 2x10 on this thing. Assuming that they’re 36 spoke they ought to hold up to some middleweight weekend jaunts. Here’s hoping, anyway.
Also to jump on the new-guy-opinion bandwagon, I also think that he might be getting the shit end of the stick here. I mean, a lot of the razmatazz is deserved but wow.
New guy quit, then rejoined to edit his post?
tarck is pretty shitty lately. How about everyone just fucking walk it back like 2 pages. Who knew dyanmo chat could get people so snarky.
Let’s all just focus on reviewing underwear for the D A T A B A S E instead of fussing and fighting.
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woah
New guy can ride single speed. it’s ok.
New guy can ride his pugs everywhere, I’m cool with it.
New guy can blog, I wish I could sit and write some stuff down.
i thought the new guy was ok. he took his ribbing pretty well. here is what bothered me.
mig called him out for saying “ladies” in a pretty chill way (colbert face)
dude got MAD
someone else said “just apologize”
dude apologized, but with the huge BUT YOU GUYS ALL SUCK hanging on the end of his apology. it read like “i’m sorry you were offended”. it’s not that hard to just say “sorry, shit, didn’t mean it like that and will try not to do it again” without whining
before that, we were just giving him shit about sweeping assumptions re dynamos
new guy, if you’re reading this, it seems like most of us are ok if you stick around. but the apologies have to be sincere and not a facade for talking shit.
Sure, that exchange was wack, but I’m also not impressed that a forum that has a lot of support and positivity for mental health issues is calling Max crazy on the TarckDB.
Anyway, back to on topic:
1.5W vs 3W for usb charging duties? Somebody do the math…
stick around new guy. methinks everyone involved in whatever transpired are being overly sensitive.
or fuck off, either way you really need to get with the program and get a god damn geared bike though.
Stick around only if you quit gaslighting folks
ladies as a pejorative?
ban[/quote]
i blame prison island