[HardtailHack]

Are we making fun of people for their bicycling fashion? Or making fun of people who make fun of people for their bicycling fashion? Maybe both.

I own these, I have worn them three times and felt like a super douche each time.
The last time I wore them a nice lady giggled at me, and rightly so, coz fuck they look dumb!

 

[sunringlerider]

I own these, I have worn them three times and felt like a super douche each time.
The last time I wore them a nice lady giggled at me, and rightly so, coz fuck they look dumb!
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Bra, totally low key into the vibe of those. So enduro, I bet you flow and slap turns with those.

 

[HardtailHack]

Bra, totally low key into the vibe of those. So enduro, I bet you flow and slap turns with those.

Yeah, all of that.
Should have bought these, they look less douchey-

 

[eric strt6]

So let's build you a hardtail singlespeed, get you to pedal that thing to the top. And I will follow you down and film you "pretty much coasting into town" because that will be some of the most entertaining footage I own.

You better bring a lot of camera batteries. I didn't say go down fast although back in the day we rode that route with a pro female rider last name of Donovan who snapped her chain on her hard tail and we were on long travel full suspension bikes and coasting she still kicked our asses down that route. And I never said I could do it at my current age. Mid 80s yeah, at age 66 now no way in hell

 

[eric strt6]

I remember Zonic Man. I have been here that long.

you would fuck up my morning by dredging him up

 

[slyfink]

I own these, I have worn them three times and felt like a super douche each time.
The last time I wore them a nice lady giggled at me, and rightly so, coz fuck they look dumb!
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what are they? they look like they could be good for night riding in the fall...

 

[stevew]

The example I used was specifically a long 14 mile shuttle descent. And again, the discussion was not about ebikes.

So no, that's not what I meant.

"the sport" is full of people new to mountainbiking, riding down things they would have never though possible, don't have any institutional history to draw from, and are being told the only reason that's happening is because of the hellahella new capable enduro bike they just bought. And they believe it.

The ebike discussion is something different and is not what I was talking about.

print this pic out in business card size...heay paper...matte finish....hand out to such idiots

 

[AngryMetalsmith]

print this pic out in business card size...heay paper...matte finish....hand out to such idiots

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Maaan, I remember having that issue of BMX Action. It was yellow and used a motocross shock. He and his friends would bomb down old fire roads at 50+mph several years before mountain bikes were available to the masses.

 

[MonkeyGut]

Then came the Bushido...
http://mombatbicycles.com/MOMBAT/BikeHistoryPages/Bushido.html

Man, 'drivetrain' components are fixed gear to 21 speeds...was 7 speed available in 87? Fixt-wheel-fully would be way ahead of it's hipster times.

 

[kidwoo]

back in the day we rode that route with a pro female rider last name of Donovan who snapped her chain on her hard tail and we were on long travel full suspension bikes and coasting she still kicked our asses down that route. And I never said I could do it at my current age. Mid 80s yeah, at age 66 now no way in hell

I wouldn't admit that outloud

 

[SkaredShtles]

You better bring a lot of camera batteries. I didn't say go down fast although back in the day we rode that route with a pro female rider last name of Donovan who snapped her chain on her hard tail and we were on long travel full suspension bikes and coasting she still kicked our asses down that route. And I never said I could do it at my current age. Mid 80s yeah, at age 66 now no way in hell

I don't know how you think you're gonna be able to do that on your mid-80's when you can't do it when you're in your mid-60's.

 

[eric strt6]

I don't know how you think you're gonna be able to do that on your mid-80's when you can't do it when you're in your mid-60's.

Mid 80s as in 1980s you dork

 

[SkaredShtles]

Mid 80s as in 1980s you dork

I knew what you meant, you deranged old codger.

 

[eric strt6]

I knew what you meant, you deranged old codger.

 

[rideit]

Mid 80's is about as hot as I can do that. Any hotter and I crawl into the basement for a nap.