I'll start with two
"Road bikes wear out faster than MTBs"
"Will seal holes up to 1/4 inch"
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Cycling myths
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"Flat pedals are better for downhill mtbing"
"Carbon is the ultimate frame material"Posted 10 months ago # -
carbon composite won't make you faster but will make you poorer
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Body armour can't prevent injuries, it'll only stop bruises and scrapes
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Mythy Giove?
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An aluminium frame will beat you to death.
Carbon frames are really delicate.
A titanium bike is a bike for life.
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Riser bars and a flat stem perform better than an inclined stem and flat bars.
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Most professional cyclists are clean.
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*insert wheel size* is better than any other because......
fully boingy bikes are skill compensators
the STW forum demographic is mainly made up of balding, fat, IT geeks and nerds who wouldn't know a berm if it danced through their room with a marching band, singing "la la la I'm a berm" and accompanying itself on a kazoo......oh hang on you said myth
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Singletrack magazine is full of quality journalism
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SS ruins your knees
roadies never say hello
I dropped a roadie on my MTB
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Roadies are grumpy
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I don't need any more bikes.
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SS makes you fitter.
SS are slow.
More travel=more fun.
You can 'buy' yourself better.Posted 10 months ago # -
chicks dig scars...they don't, they just think you're a clumsy tool
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If you are not falling off, you are not trying hard enough.
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that a bit of an elastic band, some sticky tape and the end of a felt tip pen, will somehow make a ghetto tubeless system and if it fails it means all tubeless systems are gash and don't work
That tyres magically fly off stans rims when there were "just pumped up a bit"
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Stuff breaks whilst "just riding along".
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SS makes you fitter.
but that's true! I couldn't push a bike uphill anywhere near as fast as I can now thanks to singlespeedering
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If something breaks, just warranty it.
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"Road bikes wear out faster than MTBs"
I've never heard that one"You won't look stoopid in those flash bibshorts - you're not even overweight" (well, at least they were cheap
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tubeless tyres never puncture
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Rorschach - Member
Stuff breaks whilst "just riding along".
My Hemlock totally did! Just rolling gently along an easy pentlands forest floor path. Course it's entirely a coincidence that I took it Inexpert Downhilling at fort william shortly before.
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Squeeze the lever, tighten the bolts, and the caliper will be perfectly aligned.
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that a more expensive bike is always better than a cheaper one.
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Swans are monogamous.
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That everything superstar components sells is going to break and take a child's face off
That everything 'this year' is better than previous years
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High pressures make tyres roll better.
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Benji speaks the truth...
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(as heard at Mayhem this year)
"You need XT or better to make it round this course"
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An aluminium frame will beat you to death.
Carbon frames are really delicate.
A titanium bike is a bike for life.
Ain't dat da troof!!
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There is a difference between the way steel, alu and carbon hardtail frames ride (other than weight/design differences) - steel is more compliant
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"You need XT or better to make it round this course"
OMG! seriously?? Don't know whether to be amused or despair!
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"Red bikes are not the fastest"
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