[quote=drwelby]Anyway, back to on topic:
1.5W vs 3W for usb charging duties? Somebody do the math…[/quote]
Only for charging and no lights? Do you already have a 1.5W hub kicking around?
It should work with almost all chargers at around half the current. Not worth the small savings and not able to use lights at the same time.
TC: i’d been considering a 1.5w dynamo to put on a bob yak with only a secula and a charging unit but idk wtf lol
Why not a 3w? Price difference is negligible at best.
sometimes they’re on superdiscount
[quote=fix]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.[/quote]
Yeah, there’s a combination of a bit thirsty, which encouraged a bit more ribbing, the single-speed fetish, which caused a bit more ribbing than usual, and defensiveness instead of learning to laugh it off.
Max, if you’re still reading, ‘supgirl’ is a thing, but some of us have ‘supdudes’ too, and it’s all terms of endearment for someone you personally say ‘hey what’s up’ to because you are attracted to them, and we call them 'sup as a compliment to your taste in relationship material. It’s not objectifying, it’s a bunch of shorthand that developed over years.
And several of us were banned from bikeforums for calling out the casual sexism and racism. We don’t play the crude midwestern humor game here. We only gargle the finest quality jars of dicks, available in carnivore and vegan options.
Ok, well, since we’re all getting all mushy and have cooler heads (mostly talking about me)
Time for my Truest of TC’s:
The “Ladies” joke was wrong. It was stupid. I don’t talk like that in real life. Let me contextualize.
I’m on the autism spectrum but I am HIGHLY high functioning. If you met me, you would think I’m just a regular dude, I just happen to have kind of a wasteland of a childhood because I just could not, for the life of me, make friends. I got beat up a lot. I carry a little bit of that around with me.
My life has been so different from that for so long. I led an outdoors club in college, I’ve worked in journalism for a while, now I’m teaching undergrads and doing my Ph.D. I’m doing fine, I’m not a victim of my circumstances and this isn’t an excuse for my behavior. But, it’s part of who I am. I’m always going to have the challenge of navigating social situations, thanks to Asperger’s. This is doubly or triply true over text, because I have no visual signals from people’s expressions to go off of.
Maybe this contextualizes how hard it is for me to navigate sarcasm, and how impossible it feels to me to figure out how to be “cool” when there’s a macho-power-dynamic thing happening. I was really trying to establish myself here because I like the way you guys talk about bikes and I wanted to talk, too. I was super eager, super thirsty, take that as a compliment to this place.
I should have just been myself. But instead I’m trying to be as cool as Face, Wintage, NOVELTY, etc. and I don’t have the same finesse, I’m just a fucking dork. Look at my website, I am always happy, always in a pretty good mood, completely immune to common sense occasionally, and goofy. I do stupid things with bikes. I’m not especially talented. I like to think I’m genuine.
I should have just been myself. Instead I defaulted to the tough-guy-casually-misogynist version of me I pushed in freshman year of high school, before I met my actual friends. I should have known better but, honestly, social situations are really challenging sometimes. By trying to be “cool” I just embarrassed myself.
So all that said, I live in the P.C. capital of the world, Western Massachusetts, where Northampton, MA is the #1 town for the LGBTQ community and that’s by choice. I love this place. But, I will never be perfect and it’s hard growing up with one culture and intentionally switching it. I am always trying, and my actions will always be on firm moral grounds, but I did fuck up and use “ladies” as a pejorative and I did make a “safe space” joke. I apologize, I take full responsibility, and this is a good lesson for me about not trying to be tough by being an idiot. I’m not perfect, but I can do better and want to, so I will. But I was definitely wrong, and I want to recognize that as firmly as I can so there’s no doubt in anyone’s mind - I was a fucking idiot.
Please understand that my defensiveness came from a place of profound embarrassment, frustration, and hurt feelings and is not reflective of my actual remorse over the situation.
This is an interesting corner of the web. I’m glad Tarck is as forward-thinking as it is. But, this whole situation has taken a big toll on me and I am in a hellish semester. I have to focus on my students, focus on eating well (I keep forgetting), take care of my fiance and our housemates, etc. I think I might be happier not trying to figure out what exactly I should be doing here, I think I just need to be in a good place elsewhere. BikeForums sucks, but the reddit Fixed Gear sub isn’t bad so I’ll go talk about bikes there and on Prolly’s site and keep it low-stress. Navigating how I should act here is hard, just being myself seems like it won’t work. I don’t think you guys would like me very much, you’d just be annoyed.
Thanks for not being dicks. Sorry this blew up. Go talk about bikes again.
we’re all nerds + dorks here. being yourself is cool + good.
thanks for the apologies. now let stalk about bikes
Yeah, I’m sorry the ribbing took a mental-health turn, even a little bit. It was uncool.
The neat thing about tarck is that it doesn’t actually matter how dumb anybody thinks your bikes are. Everyone knows this: see, people constantly shitting on Mig for one reason or another, troll name changes, etc. We don’t have power over your ability to ride. You obviously ride fucks out of your herd of singlespeeds and nobody here wants to change that. But this is a place full of very opinionated people, and when you ask for advice on broad topics, you’re gonna get a lot of people giving you variously hard-headed advice (which mostly is the result of real-world use, in depth materials science knowledge, and many, many miles of testing). You have to be ok with people telling you your idea kinda sucks, but it certainly doesn’t mean that you can’t just say “fuck all y’all” and do it anyway. For better responses, it’s better to ask specific questions “what do you guys think about x light vs y light” etc. also, there’s a lot of arcane info buried in various threads; you can get tons of stuff from this place without even needing to participate.
There are all stripes here; take a gander at the OT forum sometime for evidence of that. Plenty of folks post exclusively in there. You definitely don’t need to worry about annoying people. But i certainly understand how dumb it feels to have an online community take such a big toll on your mental health, and don’t blame you for doing what you need to do. We’ll be around, and I’ll still follow you on instagram. Hope to tarckup someday.
I don’t have a big problem with criticism of my bikes. I actually need it a lot of the time, it’s helpful.
Getting called stupid in 15 different ways, 5 times a day is the part that got hard to put up with. It put me in that place of trying to make myself fit whatever it was that I was so obviously missing. It’s kind of hard to explain, but it sucked. BUT, maybe now that I’m not trying to cool my way into the club, it’s irrelevant. I definitely don’t want anyone to pull punches with me or something because it’s worse. The thing I love most about the people around me is that they don’t treat me any differently.
Do you guys actually think there’s room for me? I don’t have to be a member of every social group on the planet, I can go where my style fits better. I don’t have any animosity towards you guys wanting me gone. I don’t want this to turn into some guilt trip thing.
Also, how the hell am I gonna live this shit DOWN
I don’t think anyone actually wants you gone. We just want you to build a sw8 bike with gears, that’s all.
Oh, also, don’t worry about the TarckDB thing. Like I said, you grow up with the casual use of “insane” for 20 years before figuring out how you actually want to think about mental health, but nobody’s perfect and stuff slips out.
no
That’s OK too
[quote=mdilthey]
Also, how the hell am I gonna live this shit DOWN[/quote]
beat in or sexed in
aka
strava account
or
low trail disc brake fat tire 650b shimano 11speed nerd crank
10 speed dead enders club
The only reason I’m sort of tolerated around here is cuz I started this stupid place. If I had joined at any point after the Great Migration I’m pretty sure I would have been run out of town quick. My bikes suck, my interests are mostly stupid, my questions are dumb, and I’m certainly not cool.
The new guy hazing started to bother me a long time ago and I stopped joining in but I still get wrapped up in…
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OK NOW YOU’RE REALLY TRYING MY PATIENCE.
j/k hugs and all that. Stick around all you want, don’t let us tell you how to live.
No hotdog avatar: ban
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this kids got moxy
but folks, what if he builds the dream 650b babbyshoe low-trail dynamo fixie fop chariot of all of our dreams??
If it makes you feel any better dude they named the dumb questions thread after me like 2 years ago and changed it once for like twenty minutes