People who like black suffer from lack of imagination and inability to commit.
Pretty sure they hate puppies and small children as well.
Is it ok if that’s what they’re going for? Asking for a friend.
It’s ethically OK. Though ideally they live their life as a recuse with a shroud of shame hanging over them.
Mobility is a made up term to keep physical therapy offices in business, and create an alternative market for weightlifting gear.
NEW bikes/component designs, related products and “standards” are actually GOOD things.
Grease is not an appropriate substitute for anti-seize.
That’s more of an “unknown” rather than unpopular. If you know, you know… sort of thing, where some people need to get burned by the mistake to really learn the lesson.
And that person is usually a second hand owner after the last person used the wrong compound
Me every time I work on my bike:
Man past Justin was an idiot.
5 minutes later: “eh that’s good enough.”
I. LIKE. BLACK. BIKES.
And I cannot lie.
You other brothers can’t deny…
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Most of TR forum users don’t truly need a bike fit. They simply want one.
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Lot of people talk about how “a saddle 0.5 cm too low” or “alloy rims” decrease their performance. Reality is: they need more strength and mobility workouts. But they will prefer to say that they have “a specific body/injury and workouts won’t solve the problem”.
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Trainer Road and other specific program planners are mainly marketing things for a lot of recreative people. Basic base/build training would be enough from a performance perspective without any AI or 250 different workouts.
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Ekoi clothes are pretty bad quality for their price. Even Decathlon’s ones are more comfy and solid.
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The main reason why you’re not improving as expected is not because of some plateauing or “genetic limit”. It’s your bad nutrition. Trash food and undereating mainly.
Not a problem here
Beer (alcohol) is the worst.
The ideal triathlon bike colourway is “something hideous enough that I can easily find it in transition.”
I don’t care what won the TdF this year, get yourself a black Carvelo and you’re going to cede about 250 years playing the bike equivalent of Where’s Waldo and desperately hoping you don’t ride off on something 3 sizes too big. Pink saddle doesn’t work, everyone else already thought of that.
Distantly related: Real-life applicability aside, the pointy sperm helmet is still cool.
This is so true I’m so many respects. The youth MTB team parents are always asking me “is this a good price for this used bike?” And I tell them “depends on if it is clapped out or well maintained”. I would feel guilty selling some of the bikes I have had because of the neglect/malpractice I did from a maintenance perspective.
I do like black, and I do avoid commitment and small children, but puppies are okay.
I was bummed when the Purple Sunset bike I bought was actually out of stock but they gave me $500 to accept Five Black. I tried to be colorful. It would have matched my helmet well.
Give me 36cm bars or give me death