I'm with you. 99% of my rides are by myself. But it's hard to sell bikes that way. We already know what a social, make friends anywhere butterfly I am.Avoiding human contact is way easier when you avoid all things "organized"...
This is what's wrong with The Industry™
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Part of my "thing" here is that a huge amount of industry people are there anyway. They have to be there. At a huge bicycle event. With lots of good riding.ride bikes fast because it stimulates teh adrenalines, etc. fuck paying money to do so. fuck wasting time for “practice runs,” “seeding runs,” etc. that money and time could have been better spent riding bikes, buying beer, drinking beer. that being said, teh monkey sez:
And so many don't even ride.
Plus, if you're selling stuff to racers......
Oh true, I'm not likely to beat anyone. Hell given my physical condition and age difference, I consider finishing remotely close to my friends as good enough.
As for the beers, I was so focussed on those at the end of the TransNZ that I crossed the finish, got straight into the beers and completely forgot to scan out my timing chip. I had to email the organisers the next day to get them to download my times when I realised.
If you're thinking when you're racing, I think you're doing it wrong.
This from he.who.does.not.race...If you're thinking when you're racing, I think you're doing it wrong.
After doing exactly zero races last year, a buddy and I are talking about doing an enduro or two this year, both on hardtails. As long as we're both comparably hungover, should be pretty even footing
Well I NEVER said I was doing it right. And these days.....well. I do think too much. Last year at Sea Otter, on a particular washboard section, my base model xfusion fork was making my vision blur.If you're thinking when you're racing, I think you're doing it wrong.
i had to THINK for a sec. And remember there was nothing in the way worth seeing anyway......
Did I mention it was my first race in over 10 yrs.
And that I hit fuckin*!@#$%^%&&#%@%$@@$ 60 last year
Damn. Good on ya. I was starting to feel like the oldest guy in the room. Now I just feel old.
wanna race?
always helps me race......
I've done the VT50 race once ... and I'll never do it again. I'd rather be hucking and eating shit 24 hours non-stop than climbing stupid jeep roads and then go down even stupider gravel roads, fall line up, fall line down, while avoiding entitled runners who don't comprehend the physics of fast going bikes. 
Sounds like user errorI've done the VT50 race once ... and I'll never do it again. I'd rather be hucking and eating shit 24 hours non-stop than climbing stupid jeep roads and then go down even stupider gravel roads, fall line up, fall line down, while avoiding entitled runners who don't comprehend the physics of fast going bikes.
You mean the kind who can't tell right from left or understand basic language, such as "pass" or "stop"? We have a ton of those down here, I could probably export a few ones to preserve the species if you guys are short on supply up there...
VT50 is two races in one - runners and MTBers. At some point, they two packs merge and you deal with running racers who refuse to acknowledge that there are bikes on the same race track, sometimes going 30+MPH faster than the runners.
wait a second.......is racing what's wrong with the industry??
I like the fact that some people try to improve the resistance to puncture if our tires. Other than that, I agree that they could try better!
Holy shite. This is serious. If you never here from me again, you'll know why.
I just got this email. no bullshit. The conspiracy is deeper than we ever though:
This is to officially inform Tantrum Cycles that a total of $3Million (Three Million United States Dollar has been donated to you by Halliburton Company.The Halliburton Company, an American multinational corporation, is one of the world's largest oil field service companies, with operations in more than 80 countries. You have been selected as one of the STAR prize winner. Kindly contact Ray Hendricks via email for more Information, Email: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxx.com Send your Name, Tel:, Address. Awaiting your reply.
I just got this email. no bullshit. The conspiracy is deeper than we ever though:
This is to officially inform Tantrum Cycles that a total of $3Million (Three Million United States Dollar has been donated to you by Halliburton Company.The Halliburton Company, an American multinational corporation, is one of the world's largest oil field service companies, with operations in more than 80 countries. You have been selected as one of the STAR prize winner. Kindly contact Ray Hendricks via email for more Information, Email: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxx.com Send your Name, Tel:, Address. Awaiting your reply.
Fuck yeah, and don't let pedaling ruin your fun either. #EbikesForLife
E-bikes are the new downhill bikes.
No. Nigerian princes need that.
Halliburton doesn't need anything.
They know stuff.
dick cheney logged into the NSA. they know your favorite pizza toppings and everything.
A got a thumbs down?? Halliburton DOES know stuff
The problem is that I am a USAF Vietnam era, central Nevada test range top secret security clearance medical experiment guinea pig VA hospital abused vet. They track my DNA.
I tried to hide in auto racing, out of the country. It worked for awhile....until we (racing) became the first non-military users of carbon. They started to track me down.
So I escaped into bicycles. That worked for a looonnnggg time. Until we started using carbon.....
See a trend here? CARBON is what's wrong with the bike industry...
I might have to escape permanently into the last realm, music. The nightlife ain't no good life, but it's my life......and I like it
But I still do love the smell of napalm in the morning. And methanol
Start making knifes or BBQ grills, they both lack crabonz and you'd be still dealing with metal.
Grills burn carbon and knives are made of steel (carbon) but not crabon fibre.
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are carbon fiber dildos a thing?
apparently they are. 