Didn’t even slam that stem. What a douchenozzle.
He opened his mouth tho and that slowed him down a little. The cyclist next to him turned his head tho which made him slower. Hmmm
If he was really serious about it he wouldn’t have shaved - he would have waxed.
deglove
I don’t think there’s a rule against it.
$2,600
Former phreaker detected
I knew a guy with one of those bike, and he had special towels in the garage because the tires couldn’t touch the ground
Same dude swapped frames every year cause the manufacturer rolled out upgrades like Apple does iphones. One beam at a time, they went from round carbon fiber to triangular. He dare not be spotted on last year’s model!
More like Fast and Furless
New kink unlocked.
The most hilarious mod I’ve ever seen is people who remove three of the six screws holding the front chain ring in place – while being easily 50 pounds overweight.
Yeah it’s dumb. I bought my used mountain bike from a entusiaist. The bike was in really good shape with some of the best components money could buy at the time. Out of curiosity i asked him why he would sell the bike. He said he really liked it a lot, but it was just too heavy for long uphill rides. He then showed me the bike he replaced it with. A brand spanking new high end mountain bike. When i was home, i just had to know and compared the specs roughly from what i knew. My calculations said that his new bike was like 50 to 100gramms lighter. The guy wasn’t really a featherweight either. Eating less would’ve saved him like 5k
It’s only kind of dumb, at least this way you get pretty neat gear at relatively low prices.
How much is the total weight of one the bikes ? 100 grams is insane. Their stool probably weighs as much, they should’ve just poop !
I weighed my bike at 16.5 kg
That was my exact thought. If you pee before your ride you lose like 300g. Of course there is a difference between unsprung weight and stuff, but still… Same with carbon rims for mountain bikes. The prices are insane and they are pretty flimsy compared to just an alloy wheel.
Totally worth it.
That other guy’s gonna be miles behind by the end of the race.
These sort of people crack me up, because every one of them hates e-bikes because they’re ”cheating". Like, dudes, we’re not racing. There are a lot of hills by my house and I would literally never ride a bike if I didn’t have some help going up them.
I don’t see how having a motor to help you out and spending a few grand on a carbon fiber frame are much different. It’s all just making it easier for you.
I ride fixed distances (25 and 50 miles). Any improvements to the efficiency of my bikes means I’ll just get less of a workout each time. Why pay (so much) more just to get less exercise?
If you’re asking why pay for an ebike to get less of a workout, i think the framing of the question is wrong: you get an ebike because less exercise vs a normal bike is still more exercise than driving
I’m not talking about e-bikes, I’m talking about insanely expensive regular bikes where you pay extra thousands of $$$ to shave grams off the bike’s weight.
Ahhhh okay yeah that makes more sense.
Tbh i don’t get it either, unless you’re doing Olympic training why does it matter
It doesn’t matter, it’s a sport. All sport/games are about overcoming unnecessary obstacles within some arbitrary rules. They’re not training for the Olympics but they’re playing the same game: electric motors aren’t allowed in the Olympics so they don’t use them.
As for why they get annoyed at others using electric motors I have no idea: It’s like if a chess player got annoyed if they saw someone playing checkers 😅
I agree, that’s why I stopped lubing my bike chain and leave my tires 30 psi low (well that’s for glass and nails, but h workout is a free bonus)
I don’t see how having a motor to help you out and spending a few grand on a carbon fiber frame are much different.
Some people cycle as a sport, and races don’t let you have e-bikes. Plus, putting in all the work to climb a hill under your own power and getting to ride down is rewarding. Sure, getting a carbon fiber bike makes the work a bit lighter, but you’re still the one putting in all the work, which isn’t the case with e-bikes.
While the people in your example are failing to understand that people habe different motives for cycling, you’re doing the exact same thing here.
Bring back steel bikes 🙌
They’ve never gone away, I ride mine almost every day.
I know this would be one rebuttal. Yes, you can still ride your steel bicycle, but the manufacturers left are few and premium-priced.
I wish the cardboard ones became a thing. would love to lock up my bike with a luggage lock and some thin wire
Can you redirect me to a showdown of successful cardboard bikes?
Stupid bullshit like this is part of why I hate cyclists. Especially the kind that ride in the middle of the road instead of sticking to the bike lake.
If it’s unsafe to go into the other lane to overtake, it’s probably unsafe to overtake them anyway.
Lots of cyclists hold the lane when they feel unsafe being overtaken as it makes drivers think twice before trying.
Yesterday, my group got overtaken while there was an oncoming car because the driver thought they could get through, horrible position to be in.
Cyclists ride in the middle of the road because it’s safer and it’s what’s recommended to them to do via the highway code (in the UK).
This is so that drivers don’t miscalculate the amount of space needed to give the cyclist they don’t clip their handlebars with the wing mirrors and potentially kill a guy.
As well as making the act of overtaking a more conscious effort. You ain’t going to chance it if you have to fully go into oncoming lane to do so.
Meanwhile I own the world’s heaviest bike ever, and love it. I love the way my chest hair flows in the spring wind as I peddle in my baggy sweats. Nothing more freeing.
Work it
don’t forget this glorious wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamil
Grown man with expensive bicycle and tight-fitting clothes
Funniest non-vandalism caption (I seem to recall they didn’t like the monkey who masticates while others watch—wasn’t me but suppose would be in the logs from 10-20yr back)
Buying an expensive road bicycle has been described as a more healthy and affordable response to a midlife crisis than buying an expensive sports car.
Ah, Posers then. But yes at least it’s a healthier response. There’s worse things.
Latchkey kids: I was born in it, molded by it. I didn’t get a ride to school until high school.
That’s great
"Me, I’ve got a secret motor in the bottom bracket powered by batteries in the shaft
Are we still talking about bikes?
Bikes?
I’m slightly convinced that for everyone under pro levels this is all just placebo. But I still shave my legs and if I had the money I would buy all the cool stuff.
It absolutely is, but as with any hobby spending money on new things is part of what keeps it fresh. The issue is that cyclists get really insecure about this. I am a commuter who does a solid 200 miles per week and can drop most of our local bike club on my steel commuter bike while wearing a tshirt and baggy shorts. I honestly don’t judge though, whatever makes you happy, but I do occasionally run into people who are like “you can’t join the group ride without proper equipment” because I don’t wear a skin suit or use the clipclop shoes. Whatever bro, let’s see if your $800 padded onesie can beat my 8 year old gap Khakis.
I absolutely do judge, because it doesn’t make them happy. At no point during their run on the approval-seeking treadmill of ‘gotta shave off another 0.3 seconds from my time, no wait, 0.4 seconds, no wait…’ do they actually have the briefest of moments where they can feel like they are just okay to be who they are. It’s painful for them to chase the carrot on a stick, vicariously painful for others to watch, and readily turns them into toxic people when they can’t get their fix.
Most amateurs have signifcantly more time they can cut by training better and harder than spending thousands or tens of thousands on better components.
Its a very small list of amateurs who train to the same level as a pro who has a good chance of winning any of the big competitions.
Stick that under 30s pro on a cheap bike geared the same as a midlife crisis amater 45 year old gear head on an ultra expensive bike and guess who wins?
If you want to buy wins enter an amateur car racing event, those are mostly reflective of money spent given a base level of talent and training (which costs far more money per hour than training for cycling).
Yeah, I’m doing nothing but running right now, adjusting my workout, training often. That’s it. When I see a long plateau, then I’ll consider looking to other things, but right now I know there’s room in my purse running training for improvement, so there’s no point in messing around with other shit.
I’m doing nothing but running right now,
that was me when i was younger. now reading that makes my knees hurt.
I’m assuming you’re older than me, but I’m on my way to 39. New shoes have really done a lot for some of the aches and pains associated with running, though if the damage is done I think it’s moot.
the damage is done and i’m a recumbent cyclist now. i highly recommend recumbent cycling it is so fun. slapped a motor on and now i basically have one of these but in real life
Recumbent cycling absolutely appeals to me.
mine isn’t this one, but she’s pretty close. she’s at the shop right now (don’t get me started on my inability to keep my front right tire unpopped) but i’ll post an image on the dull men’s club when i get her back. i usually have my seat more reclined than that, a big orange flag, headlight, taillight, a crate, and mirrors. and a speaker because i can’t exist without music
there are a lot of used recumbents in great shape on craigslist. the tadpoles (2 wheels in front) are a lot more sturdy then the deltas (2 wheels in back) probably because your center of mass is lower, probably other reasons i am not qualified to comment on
It will make you go faster. It only makes any difference at all if you are competing for something, whatever level you are.
But if you like cool bike stuff, great, go get it.
For me it is also any advantage I can get to keep up with my boyfriend. No competition, just hoping he feels slightly out of breath when I am panting for air. Unfortunately he is the weaker one in a group of bike friends too, so he also tries to optimize as much as possible.
Pros just cheat. See Icarus and all that.
True, but not eating 2 family sized pizzas a week would probably help my performance more than shaving my legs.
Or, eat the pizzas, then do some combo of Ozempic + PEDs…winning!
Ozempic works by making you not want to eat the pizzas. It’ll never be a performance enhancing drug for sports because the top levels already have nutrition habits indistinguishable from eating disorders.
