# TAF, JA, or just WTH?
**URL:** https://tarck.cc/t/taf-ja-or-just-wth/21654
**Category:** Bikes
**Created:** [August 7, 2018, 1:03pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/taf-ja-or-just-wth/21654 "2018-08-07T13:03:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 67
### Author:  [@JUGE\_FREDD](https://tarck.cc/u/JUGE_FREDD)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2019, 10:36pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/taf-ja-or-just-wth/21654/1324 "2019-07-11T22:36:23Z")
> [@LASER\_BEIGE](#):
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> The sort of guy that wears a Showers Pass drysuit indoors
fixed that for PNW
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### Author:  [@Emor\_please](https://tarck.cc/u/Emor_please)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2019, 1:28am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/taf-ja-or-just-wth/21654/1325 "2019-07-12T01:28:07Z")
Is it for trike testing at a trike shop?
Trikes are the awfulest version of recumbent so I would expect that guy to be a pathetic degenerate
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### Author:  [@turpentine](https://tarck.cc/u/turpentine)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2019, 2:00am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/taf-ja-or-just-wth/21654/1326 "2019-07-12T02:00:49Z")
or to have back problems.
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### Author:  [@Master\_Stabby](https://tarck.cc/u/Master_Stabby)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2019, 2:11am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/taf-ja-or-just-wth/21654/1327 "2019-07-12T02:11:08Z")
Why not both?
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### Author:  [@BEEutiful\_Wednesday\_DDS](https://tarck.cc/u/BEEutiful_Wednesday_DDS)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2019, 2:27am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/taf-ja-or-just-wth/21654/1328 "2019-07-12T02:27:15Z")
Of course he has back problems, he’s lying down on a strangely shaped object and kicking his feet in front of him all day
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### Author:  [@drwelby](https://tarck.cc/u/drwelby)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2019, 5:01pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/taf-ja-or-just-wth/21654/1329 "2019-07-15T17:01:52Z")
“Electric Cargo Bike”
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### Author:  [@yonderboy](https://tarck.cc/u/yonderboy)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2019, 6:27pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/taf-ja-or-just-wth/21654/1330 "2019-07-15T18:27:39Z")
Is that a cat box?
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### Author:  [@Blakey](https://tarck.cc/u/Blakey)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2019, 11:10pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/taf-ja-or-just-wth/21654/1331 "2019-07-15T23:10:41Z")
that’s kind of great.
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### Author:  [@igor](https://tarck.cc/u/igor)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2019, 2:21am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/taf-ja-or-just-wth/21654/1332 "2019-07-16T02:21:47Z")
#rackspotting Ok this thing was a trip. The ridiculous tiger/lava paintjb, looptail rearend, pinched and welded seatstays, cheapo fork, and scrapped from the bottom of the barrel components.
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### Author:  [@Timarchylime](https://tarck.cc/u/Timarchylime)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2019, 4:49am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/taf-ja-or-just-wth/21654/1333 "2019-07-18T04:49:21Z")
WTH
Why is the…
Oh
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### Author:  [@adem](https://tarck.cc/u/adem)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2019, 5:28am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/taf-ja-or-just-wth/21654/1334 "2019-07-18T05:28:11Z")
I can’t get over the fact that it costs as much as a brand new Honda Fit
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### Author:  [@wickedwagon](https://tarck.cc/u/wickedwagon)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2019, 6:13am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/taf-ja-or-just-wth/21654/1335 "2019-07-18T06:13:45Z")
I’m cool with rich folk now making my for dope egravgrav/currenttrendbike down the road cheaper.
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### Author:  [@schultzor](https://tarck.cc/u/schultzor)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2019, 11:09am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/taf-ja-or-just-wth/21654/1336 "2019-07-18T11:09:20Z")
Boomers on e-bikes are the industry’s sugar mamas and papas, if the bike paths around here are any indication.
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### Author:  [@EndpointBraden](https://tarck.cc/u/EndpointBraden)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2019, 12:22pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/taf-ja-or-just-wth/21654/1337 "2019-07-18T12:22:06Z")
It’s also a bubble that’s destined to burst and further screw up an already dysfunctional industry. Can’t wait.
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### Author:  [@iwillbe](https://tarck.cc/u/iwillbe)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2019, 1:08pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/taf-ja-or-just-wth/21654/1338 "2019-07-18T13:08:17Z")
I don’t get why these people don’t just go to the “sports medicine clinic” in their nearest strip mall. It’s cheaper to just get injected with stem cells from racehorses or some meth or whatever.
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### Author:  [@russ](https://tarck.cc/u/russ)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2019, 1:22pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/taf-ja-or-just-wth/21654/1339 "2019-07-18T13:22:18Z")
> [@EndpointBraden](#):
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> It’s also a bubble that’s destined to burst and further screw up an already dysfunctional industry. Can’t wait
DQ how so?
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### Author:  [@iwillbe](https://tarck.cc/u/iwillbe)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2019, 1:29pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/taf-ja-or-just-wth/21654/1340 "2019-07-18T13:29:51Z")
There’s a popular theory that the US bike industry has basically been chasing boomer bucks for the last 40 years. Given that nobody’s figured out a tacky, overpriced cure for human mortality, it looks like they’re going to be shuffling off to the big sunbelt in the sky pretty soon.
addendum: this is why I’m interested in the current crop of cheap but cool-seeming road bikes. They might be a hedge against not being able to sell $11k vanity bikes to 63 year olds anymore.
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### Author:  [@schultzor](https://tarck.cc/u/schultzor)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2019, 1:32pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/taf-ja-or-just-wth/21654/1341 "2019-07-18T13:32:01Z")
this is the only reason that makes sense for the widespread ever-upwards price creep of top-end bikes, what other market segment can drop $12k on an electrified Roubaix in any quantity? there can’t be that many dentists out there
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### Author:  [@iwillbe](https://tarck.cc/u/iwillbe)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2019, 2:30pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/taf-ja-or-just-wth/21654/1342 "2019-07-18T14:30:13Z")
I don’t know anything serious about this, but I suspect that keeping a few very very expensive bikes in your lineup makes the cheaper bikes seem nicer by association and more reasonably priced. If a Dogma2xx Select Edition SL costs $15k and a Dogma with Ultegra costs $6k, the latter seems like a real bargain! And it has the same name and general shape as the really really expensive one!
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### Author:  [@LASER\_BEIGE](https://tarck.cc/u/LASER_BEIGE)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2019, 2:46pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/taf-ja-or-just-wth/21654/1343 "2019-07-18T14:46:44Z")
Tc: can’t wait to pick up some cheap af garage neglected ebike parts
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