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
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.
It’s only kind of dumb, at least this way you get pretty neat gear at relatively low prices.
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 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.
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)
If he was really serious about it he wouldn’t have shaved - he would have waxed.
deglove
Don’t be silly, your skin is smoother than your muscles
Hmm true… must go deeper
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!
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
Didn’t even slam that stem. What a douchenozzle.
I peed before riding and only carried one water bottle.
I zipped up my jersey.
I drove the other direction, which is with the wind and downhill
"Me, I’ve got a secret motor in the bottom bracket powered by batteries in the shaft
Are we still talking about bikes?
Bikes?
Bring back steel bikes 🙌
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?
if they were successful they would have been a thing instead of not being one. they were supposed to be like 20 bucks and technically as light as the super high end bikes. At that price I figure you could just not lock it up but I figure a token lock like what connects projectors in a classroom would be prudent. This is the one I was thinking of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardboard_bicycle#Izhar_Gafni’s_prototype
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.
More like Fast and Furless
New kink unlocked.
Totally worth it.
That other guy’s gonna be miles behind by the end of the race.
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 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.
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.
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.
Ooohhhh, chest ticklies!!
Truly the most MintyFresh comment of all time lol.
I had to double take while reading haha.
$2,600
Former phreaker detected
don’t forget this glorious wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamil
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.
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)
