I just quite like the cycling, bit of road, bit of cx, bit of mtb, bit of tandem and a bit of commuting. Moderation in all things - as long as I can accompany it with either something shiny, errr, or matt black.
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Bike stuff you just don't *get*
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i don't get why CRC advertise goods for a certain (usually exceptionally low) price, only to click the link and find it refers only to some stupid obscure size that no one would want to buy. the part that fits your bike is three times the price...
well, i guess i do get it, but i don't like it!
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scottw - Member
I don't get this thread.
+1
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I don't get where all the colour has gone from MTBs. Yes, anodised purple and the Judy yellow/red fads were a bit silly. But all this black or white is just plain dull, which is much, much worse.
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People who don't get the need for 6"+ bikes for UK riding, claiming that for 90% of UK riding nobody needs more than $MY_TRAVEL on $MY_BIKE.
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I will add long travel HT's to the list, utterly pointless!
Only good for the "oh look at me, I've got 140mm forks on my HT, aren't I rad!" brigade.
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I don't get flat pedals
Seriously?
I've seen plenty of SPD riders make a mess of things purely because they were clipped in.
I will add long travel HT's to the list, utterly pointless!
Have you tried one? They are FUN which is what a lot of people seem to be missing on this thread.
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need for a 6" + travel all mountain bike for riding 90% of the stuff in the UK just extra weight for no added benefit
Since when did "need" have anything to do with it?
People don't have to justify their bikes to anyone.
I like seeing people having fun on the hills (trailcentre or not) and could not GAF what bike they're riding.Posted 1 year ago # -
If you don't get it, accept it or try to understand it. Failing that, ignore it )
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geoffj has pwned you all. This is the biggest pwn since the leet haxorz did STW mk I for teh lulz.
Why?
He asked you for instances of bike stuff you just don't get. Then gave his example as a unicycle.
Now, call me old fashioned, but where I'm from the word 'bike' derives from the the word 'bicycle'. Which is greek or german or something for 'two-icicles' - commonly translated into 'two wheeled steed'...not a freaking unicycle (trans. one-icle...or one wheeled monomono)
He done you all up like greasy old kippers. Can't believe we're on page 3 and no one has noticed this obvious troll.
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I am in trouble here! As out riding today my: all anodised black, rigid, single speed, (cheap! cost £200 ish all in - bits from here) 29ner whilst wearing Ron Hills and with two dogs!! Good job nobody saw me......
And I had a go on (or is it in?) a Windcheeter, recumbent trike - huge fun, jet fighter like turns, sliding the back out on a roundabout, it is like a Lotus 7 of the pedal world.
And wish I could ride a unicycle...
I think I get nearly all bike stuff just feel a long way from BMX parks and their tricks, and packs of bright roadies (look mostly middle-aged, prob the only ones that can afford) on expensive carbon bikes.
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People who don't get the need for 6"+ bikes for UK riding, claiming that for 90% of UK riding nobody needs more than $MY_TRAVEL on $MY_BIKE.
well considering the question was "bike stuff you just don't get" I think I answered it very well from a personal perspective you complete and utter knobend.
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Now, call me old fashioned, but where I'm from the word 'bike' derives from the the word 'bicycle'. Which is greek or german or something for 'two-icicles' - commonly translated into 'two wheeled steed'...not a freaking unicycle (trans. one-icle...or one wheeled monomono)
He done you all up like greasy old kippers. Can't believe we're on page 3 and no one has noticed this obvious troll.
From page 1..
uplink - Member
<pedantry>
Technically, a unicycle isn't a bike [short for bicycle] so an invalid as as 'Bike stuff you hate'
</pedantry>
Consider yourself pwned.
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Can't believe we're on page 3 and no one has noticed this
Noted on page 1.
+1 for Lefties, just plain wrong.
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Noted on page 1.
Oh yeah. That'll learn me.
In that case, I hate red bikes.
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Ha ha, 140mm isn't long travel on a hard tail! 160 is where it's at and the really cool kids are on Ragleys with 180mm upfront. My 456C with Lyriks is absoloutely brilliant.
This links onto a couple of posts above; biking isn't about efficiency, it's about having fun. Most of the time anyway. So I'll ride a bike with one gear up and down big hills because it makes the 2-3 hours I can ride in an evening a better workout and with less faff and cleaning afterwards. And I'll ride my DH bike up and down mountains occasionally, because I'm in no rush to get the ride done and it's fun to ride different bikes.
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i love riding my bike, if other people look like they're having fun on their bikes then the worlds a happier place. who cares what they look like or what they're riding? surely what matters is what you ride and that you enjoy doing so?
your eyes should be picking the line you're going to ride not who to hate next
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[/quote]your eyes should be picking the line you're going to ride not who to hate next[quote]
god dam hippies get everywhere....go and hug a tree man
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Lefty forks:
I can't accept that in my own poor understanding of engineering the extra material needed to make them as rigid as a normal fork doesn't negate the weight saved by removing a leg
Ah hah.. right.
The point about lefties (and headshocks) is that the telescopic bit is actually two square section tubes running on roller bearings, so it's really really smooth. However it's heavy to build this into a fork, so to cut the weight they made two forks where you only had to build it once - the lefty and the headshock.
So it's saving the weight that their design would have had, bringing it down to the level of a normal fork.
He asked you for instances of bike stuff you just don't get. Then gave his example as a unicycle.
I noticed this but didn't comment, because no-one really gives a F.
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Cannondale headtubes. What is the point of 1.56 inch? Is it just to make sure that the 'system integration' sticker's sole function is to make the manufacturers giggle? Integrated with precisely naff all if you try and find a sealed headset on their zero stack bikes has been my experience. Feel better now.
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Why would you molgrips. You're too busy being an internet hero.
Let's be safe out there.
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You're too busy being an internet hero
Wherever there is misconception, I'll be there
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Word to you holmes.
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I didn't say who was doing the misconceiving..
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It's inconceivable...
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[tazzymtb] well considering the question was "bike stuff you just don't get" I think I answered it very well from a personal perspective you complete and utter knobend.
Grown men who take internet forums seriously
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Actually, I tell you another thing I just don't get.
People who bang on about how ugly or otherwise a bike looks. WGAF? You're going to ride it not take it out on a date FFS.
It's a bike. Two wheels, bars, saddle, you know - bike. There are some lovely stylish design statements and then there's bikes, the kind that we ride, get tired on, get covered in mud and hose off in the driveway.
I honestly can't see anything in an Orange 5 other than an engineering solution. Or any other common bike.
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So wait, I rode my new (to me) Summer Season (with flats, a long cage, 3x9 ultra-niche gear set, black anodised bars, stem and seat post), round a trail centre for the first time and had the time of my life, throwing it bravely into jumps and corners (and failing spectacularly, but learning all the time), and you're telling me I forgot to pack my jaded cynicism?
Damn!
I'll take it next time!
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Grown men who take internet forums seriously
never have and never will, so there.
and grown men are not "bike stuff" unless you are riding in a very different way to me
Posted 1 year ago # -
+1 philconsequence (I'm not just agreeing with you because I've actually met you!). It's all good.
Personally I wouldn't touch a carbon frame because I'm not exactly light and dainty but that doesn't make it bad / something someone else shouldn't have, it's just my choice, rational or not.
As someone else said, we should encourage all varieties and forms of bike. In my opinion.
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Cannondale headtubes. What is the point of 1.56 inch?
Actually... the Cannondale headtube size came long before the 1.5 standard so it's not like they intentionally shunned an existing technology. And it's the *inner* diameter of the bearing that makes it that, you can easily fit 1.5 headsets to their tubes and vice versa (insertion depths permitting etc.)
but I agreee .56 is a bit bonkers, I can only assume its the metric version of some imperial yank measure...
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EDIT - or even imperial version of a metric measure...
but then 1.56inch in mm is 39.6mm so actually you're right, totally bonkers
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more digging (not sure why, but it was bugging me..)
it is actually 1.5625 or 1 9/16 inch so it's defo using a standard imperial size rather than making stuff up for the fun of it
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all mud guards look shit
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all mud guards look shit
absolutely irrefutable
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