Hey Aqua - BIKE ALERT
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I semi pro cyclist and excellent runner told me about cycling on some ride near San Francisco. He came up on a woman cyclist who wore a corset and floppy hat and could ride like the wind. She enjoyed trashing the macho kit dressed guys with her clearly non-cyclist fashion statement.
@kluurs said in Hey Aqua - BIKE ALERT:
I semi pro cyclist and excellent runner told me about cycling on some ride near San Francisco. He came up on a woman cyclist who wore a corset and floppy hat and could ride like the wind. She enjoyed trashing the macho kit dressed guys with her clearly non-cyclist fashion statement.
There's a seriously eccentric motherfucker I see every weekend morning here. He looks like James May if he lost 50 lbs and rides a Bianchi that I think is older than me. He always wears a t-shirt, bathing trunks and birks. He's got no saddle bag on him, no helmet, nothing at all except eagle feathers he put behind his saddle.
He rides in from Richmond, which is 110 miles away.
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The local guy has mostly trail stuff but he did have this Trek FX2, somewhere between hybrid and gravel. Lighter than my current trek, thinner tires but not too thin. I think he’s asking 770.
Thoughts?
@jon-nyc said in Hey Aqua - BIKE ALERT:
The local guy has mostly trail stuff but he did have this Trek FX2, somewhere between hybrid and gravel. Lighter than my current trek, thinner tires but not too thin. I think he’s asking 770.
Thoughts?
The FX series almost single-handedly kept the lights on at one of the shops I worked in. We'd have scads of them and they'd fly off the shelves in the summer. They used to call them "fitness hybrids." In my opinion, they don't make bad ones.
$770 sounds reasonable. Is it fun and comfortable?
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It was fun until I turned around and went uphill.
Comfortable enough. Have to see what it does to my ass around mile 15
@jon-nyc said in Hey Aqua - BIKE ALERT:
It was fun until I turned around and went uphill.
Comfortable enough. Have to see what it does to my ass around mile 15
The ass thing gets better after you (1) adjust it (ask them to do it, almost certainly they will and no that's not at all a weird request) and (2) you get some miles in.
There's always a chamois and butt butter. Ask these other guys about that, though.
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@jon-nyc said in Hey Aqua - BIKE ALERT:
It was fun until I turned around and went uphill.
Comfortable enough. Have to see what it does to my ass around mile 15
The ass thing gets better after you (1) adjust it (ask them to do it, almost certainly they will and no that's not at all a weird request) and (2) you get some miles in.
There's always a chamois and butt butter. Ask these other guys about that, though.
@Aqua-Letifer “these guys” indeed. I was riding a bloody $400 Schwinn before I got my Emonda (since my wife gave away my old Reynolds framed bike from yesteryear). The main reason I upgraded was because I lost all feeling in my hands after an hour, and then it kind of escalated to duck shoes and 80’s heavy metal pants
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@mark said in Hey Aqua - BIKE ALERT:
@Aqua-Letifer said in Hey Aqua - BIKE ALERT:
@Doctor-Phibes said in Hey Aqua - BIKE ALERT:
Pretty much everybody says 'I'm never wearing that shit', when they buy a decent bike.
Some folks are inherently more stubborn than others. Who could possibly have predicted that Aqua would be the outlier?
I do wear lycra—when I do 'cross races. Every time. Because having heavy, muddy, cold and wet clothes flapping in the breeze is terribly uncomfortable. And that's if your t-shirt doesn't just rip.
It's too practical not to then, but I don't otherwise because I don't like being associated with the kind of asshole personalities you find in lycra suits. Y'know, the kind of people who say you have to wear lycra once you get to a certain level of performance that I obviously haven't reached yet.
I have never met anyone who thinks like that.
Roll up in a t-shirt and jeans one day and get back to me on how they treat you.
@Aqua-Letifer said in Hey Aqua - BIKE ALERT:
@mark said in Hey Aqua - BIKE ALERT:
@Aqua-Letifer said in Hey Aqua - BIKE ALERT:
@Doctor-Phibes said in Hey Aqua - BIKE ALERT:
Pretty much everybody says 'I'm never wearing that shit', when they buy a decent bike.
Some folks are inherently more stubborn than others. Who could possibly have predicted that Aqua would be the outlier?
I do wear lycra—when I do 'cross races. Every time. Because having heavy, muddy, cold and wet clothes flapping in the breeze is terribly uncomfortable. And that's if your t-shirt doesn't just rip.
It's too practical not to then, but I don't otherwise because I don't like being associated with the kind of asshole personalities you find in lycra suits. Y'know, the kind of people who say you have to wear lycra once you get to a certain level of performance that I obviously haven't reached yet.
I have never met anyone who thinks like that.
Roll up in a t-shirt and jeans one day and get back to me on how they treat you.
You've obviously had some bad experiences and are now determined to forever aggressively hate everything and everyone that has anything to do with road bike culture.
Some road bikers are nice guys, some are assholes, just as in all other areas of life. I for one have yet to meet anyone who fits to the stereotype you hate so passionately.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in Hey Aqua - BIKE ALERT:
@mark said in Hey Aqua - BIKE ALERT:
@Aqua-Letifer said in Hey Aqua - BIKE ALERT:
@Doctor-Phibes said in Hey Aqua - BIKE ALERT:
Pretty much everybody says 'I'm never wearing that shit', when they buy a decent bike.
Some folks are inherently more stubborn than others. Who could possibly have predicted that Aqua would be the outlier?
I do wear lycra—when I do 'cross races. Every time. Because having heavy, muddy, cold and wet clothes flapping in the breeze is terribly uncomfortable. And that's if your t-shirt doesn't just rip.
It's too practical not to then, but I don't otherwise because I don't like being associated with the kind of asshole personalities you find in lycra suits. Y'know, the kind of people who say you have to wear lycra once you get to a certain level of performance that I obviously haven't reached yet.
I have never met anyone who thinks like that.
Roll up in a t-shirt and jeans one day and get back to me on how they treat you.
You've obviously had some bad experiences and are now determined to forever aggressively hate everything and everyone that has anything to do with road bike culture.
Some road bikers are nice guys, some are assholes, just as in all other areas of life. I for one have yet to meet anyone who fits to the stereotype you hate so passionately.
@Klaus said in Hey Aqua - BIKE ALERT:
@Aqua-Letifer said in Hey Aqua - BIKE ALERT:
@mark said in Hey Aqua - BIKE ALERT:
@Aqua-Letifer said in Hey Aqua - BIKE ALERT:
@Doctor-Phibes said in Hey Aqua - BIKE ALERT:
Pretty much everybody says 'I'm never wearing that shit', when they buy a decent bike.
Some folks are inherently more stubborn than others. Who could possibly have predicted that Aqua would be the outlier?
I do wear lycra—when I do 'cross races. Every time. Because having heavy, muddy, cold and wet clothes flapping in the breeze is terribly uncomfortable. And that's if your t-shirt doesn't just rip.
It's too practical not to then, but I don't otherwise because I don't like being associated with the kind of asshole personalities you find in lycra suits. Y'know, the kind of people who say you have to wear lycra once you get to a certain level of performance that I obviously haven't reached yet.
I have never met anyone who thinks like that.
Roll up in a t-shirt and jeans one day and get back to me on how they treat you.
You've obviously had some bad experiences and are now determined to forever aggressively hate everything and everyone that has anything to do with road bike culture.
Some road bikers are nice guys, some are assholes, just as in all other areas of life. I for one have yet to meet anyone who fits to the stereotype you hate so passionately.
Yeah but a classical music snob like you would think that.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in Hey Aqua - BIKE ALERT:
@mark said in Hey Aqua - BIKE ALERT:
@Aqua-Letifer said in Hey Aqua - BIKE ALERT:
@Doctor-Phibes said in Hey Aqua - BIKE ALERT:
Pretty much everybody says 'I'm never wearing that shit', when they buy a decent bike.
Some folks are inherently more stubborn than others. Who could possibly have predicted that Aqua would be the outlier?
I do wear lycra—when I do 'cross races. Every time. Because having heavy, muddy, cold and wet clothes flapping in the breeze is terribly uncomfortable. And that's if your t-shirt doesn't just rip.
It's too practical not to then, but I don't otherwise because I don't like being associated with the kind of asshole personalities you find in lycra suits. Y'know, the kind of people who say you have to wear lycra once you get to a certain level of performance that I obviously haven't reached yet.
I have never met anyone who thinks like that.
Roll up in a t-shirt and jeans one day and get back to me on how they treat you.
You've obviously had some bad experiences and are now determined to forever aggressively hate everything and everyone that has anything to do with road bike culture.
Some road bikers are nice guys, some are assholes, just as in all other areas of life. I for one have yet to meet anyone who fits to the stereotype you hate so passionately.
@Klaus said in Hey Aqua - BIKE ALERT:
@Aqua-Letifer said in Hey Aqua - BIKE ALERT:
@mark said in Hey Aqua - BIKE ALERT:
@Aqua-Letifer said in Hey Aqua - BIKE ALERT:
@Doctor-Phibes said in Hey Aqua - BIKE ALERT:
Pretty much everybody says 'I'm never wearing that shit', when they buy a decent bike.
Some folks are inherently more stubborn than others. Who could possibly have predicted that Aqua would be the outlier?
I do wear lycra—when I do 'cross races. Every time. Because having heavy, muddy, cold and wet clothes flapping in the breeze is terribly uncomfortable. And that's if your t-shirt doesn't just rip.
It's too practical not to then, but I don't otherwise because I don't like being associated with the kind of asshole personalities you find in lycra suits. Y'know, the kind of people who say you have to wear lycra once you get to a certain level of performance that I obviously haven't reached yet.
I have never met anyone who thinks like that.
Roll up in a t-shirt and jeans one day and get back to me on how they treat you.
You've obviously had some bad experiences and are now determined to forever aggressively hate everything and everyone that has anything to do with road bike culture.
It's a shit culture.
Some road bikers are nice guys, some are assholes, just as in all other areas of life. I for one have yet to meet anyone who fits to the stereotype you hate so passionately.
That's great.
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@Klaus said in Hey Aqua - BIKE ALERT:
@Aqua-Letifer said in Hey Aqua - BIKE ALERT:
@mark said in Hey Aqua - BIKE ALERT:
@Aqua-Letifer said in Hey Aqua - BIKE ALERT:
@Doctor-Phibes said in Hey Aqua - BIKE ALERT:
Pretty much everybody says 'I'm never wearing that shit', when they buy a decent bike.
Some folks are inherently more stubborn than others. Who could possibly have predicted that Aqua would be the outlier?
I do wear lycra—when I do 'cross races. Every time. Because having heavy, muddy, cold and wet clothes flapping in the breeze is terribly uncomfortable. And that's if your t-shirt doesn't just rip.
It's too practical not to then, but I don't otherwise because I don't like being associated with the kind of asshole personalities you find in lycra suits. Y'know, the kind of people who say you have to wear lycra once you get to a certain level of performance that I obviously haven't reached yet.
I have never met anyone who thinks like that.
Roll up in a t-shirt and jeans one day and get back to me on how they treat you.
You've obviously had some bad experiences and are now determined to forever aggressively hate everything and everyone that has anything to do with road bike culture.
It's a shit culture.
Some road bikers are nice guys, some are assholes, just as in all other areas of life. I for one have yet to meet anyone who fits to the stereotype you hate so passionately.
That's great.
I think maybe it’s a bit more extreme in the US. Where I grew up in the North of England there were cycling clubs everywhere and the asshole was much less of a thing . Ribble Cycles started as a local bike store in my hometown
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The local guy has mostly trail stuff but he did have this Trek FX2, somewhere between hybrid and gravel. Lighter than my current trek, thinner tires but not too thin. I think he’s asking 770.
Thoughts?
@jon-nyc said in Hey Aqua - BIKE ALERT:
The local guy has mostly trail stuff but he did have this Trek FX2, somewhere between hybrid and gravel. Lighter than my current trek, thinner tires but not too thin. I think he’s asking 770.
Thoughts?
Those look like the pathfinder tires I have. Smooth on the edge/tip for roads, wider/grip when you hit gravel/dirt. What happens to your ass after 15 miles? Ask Aqua's sister.
