Chain Failure. Eating it. Singlespeeds.

[Aqua Letifer]

@klaus said in Chain Failure. Eating it. Singlespeeds.:

@aqua-letifer said in Chain Failure. Eating it. Singlespeeds.:

Not anymore as I give no fuck about road bikes anymore. One was a Felt, I remember that.

Lowest rider weight limit of any Felt bike is 275 lbs.

https://help.feltbicycles.com/knowledge/what-is-the-rider-weight-limit-of-my-felt-bike

I'm about the same size as you, and I know of no bike model that I couldn't get in my size (current general supply shortages in the bike industry notwithstanding).

It's completely fine that you don't give a fuck about road bikes, but I'm not sure whether your reasons for that are (still) sound.

Klaus knows how to use the internet! Very good, Klaus! What was the wheelset I was using, can you Google that for me? A lot of 'em have a weight limit of 80-90 kg or so. Would you like me to find examples of that or would you like to Google that, too? I've already started, so let me know if you'd like some links.

[Doctor Phibes]

Glad you're ok, Aqua. That could have been well nasty.

I love my road bike (capacity ~250 lbs), and to be honest I love my Lycra despite the vast amounts of shit my family give me, and I really love my PROPER CYCLING SHOES. I don't think I've owned a pair of sandles since I was 12.

I probably need to replace my chain.

[Aqua Letifer]

@doctor-phibes said in Chain Failure. Eating it. Singlespeeds.:

Glad you're ok, Aqua. That could have been well nasty.

I love my road bike (capacity ~250 lbs), and to be honest I love my Lycra despite the vast amounts of shit my family give me, and I love my PROPER CYCLING SHOES. I don't think I've owned a pair of sandles since I was 12.

Fair enough. I suppose I should clarify that a person who rides a road bike and does the lycra thing doesn't bother me at all. Riding bikes is good. I just really dislike the road cycling community, which is not the same thing.

[George K]

Oh, man....

[Horace]

This thread is good without pics

[Doctor Phibes]

@horace said in Chain Failure. Eating it. Singlespeeds.:

This thread is good without pics

You're right. Nobody needs to see fucking sandals.

[Doctor Phibes]

@aqua-letifer said in Chain Failure. Eating it. Singlespeeds.:

@doctor-phibes said in Chain Failure. Eating it. Singlespeeds.:

Glad you're ok, Aqua. That could have been well nasty.

I love my road bike (capacity ~250 lbs), and to be honest I love my Lycra despite the vast amounts of shit my family give me, and I love my PROPER CYCLING SHOES. I don't think I've owned a pair of sandles since I was 12.

Fair enough. I suppose I should clarify that a person who rides a road bike and does the lycra thing doesn't bother me at all. Riding bikes is good. I just really dislike the road cycling community, which is not the same thing.

I don't really like people, so I definitely don't belong to the road cycling community. I have been tempted to go out on an 'intermediate' bike ride organized by the local bike store, but I'm a little concerned that people might show up with triathlon handlebars and try and break me on the hills or something. Not that that would be particularly difficult.

[Klaus]

@aqua-letifer said in Chain Failure. Eating it. Singlespeeds.:

@klaus said in Chain Failure. Eating it. Singlespeeds.:

@aqua-letifer said in Chain Failure. Eating it. Singlespeeds.:

Not anymore as I give no fuck about road bikes anymore. One was a Felt, I remember that.

Lowest rider weight limit of any Felt bike is 275 lbs.

https://help.feltbicycles.com/knowledge/what-is-the-rider-weight-limit-of-my-felt-bike

I'm about the same size as you, and I know of no bike model that I couldn't get in my size (current general supply shortages in the bike industry notwithstanding).

It's completely fine that you don't give a fuck about road bikes, but I'm not sure whether your reasons for that are (still) sound.

Klaus knows how to use the internet! Very good, Klaus! What was the wheelset I was using, can you Google that for me? A lot of 'em have a weight limit of 80-90 kg or so. Would you like me to find examples of that or would you like to Google that, too? I've already started, so let me know if you'd like some links.

No, actually not "a lot of'em have weight limit of 80-90 kg". Why do you say that?

[Aqua Letifer]

@doctor-phibes said in Chain Failure. Eating it. Singlespeeds.:

I don't really like people, so I definitely don't belong to the road cycling community. I have been tempted to go out on an 'intermediate' bike ride organized by the local bike store, but I'm a little concerned that people might show up with triathlon handlebars and try and break me on the hills or something. Not that that would be particularly difficult.

My experience with LBS rides is that they vary quite a lot, so might as well give it a try? Might work out!

[Aqua Letifer]

@klaus said in Chain Failure. Eating it. Singlespeeds.:

@aqua-letifer said in Chain Failure. Eating it. Singlespeeds.:

@klaus said in Chain Failure. Eating it. Singlespeeds.:

@aqua-letifer said in Chain Failure. Eating it. Singlespeeds.:

Not anymore as I give no fuck about road bikes anymore. One was a Felt, I remember that.

Lowest rider weight limit of any Felt bike is 275 lbs.

https://help.feltbicycles.com/knowledge/what-is-the-rider-weight-limit-of-my-felt-bike

I'm about the same size as you, and I know of no bike model that I couldn't get in my size (current general supply shortages in the bike industry notwithstanding).

It's completely fine that you don't give a fuck about road bikes, but I'm not sure whether your reasons for that are (still) sound.

Klaus knows how to use the internet! Very good, Klaus! What was the wheelset I was using, can you Google that for me? A lot of 'em have a weight limit of 80-90 kg or so. Would you like me to find examples of that or would you like to Google that, too? I've already started, so let me know if you'd like some links.

No, actually not "a lot of'em have weight limit of 80-90 kg". Why do you say that?

No let's go back to you disproving a conversation I personally had with a Google search, that's exactly what I want to do this afternoon.

[Klaus]

@aqua-letifer said in Chain Failure. Eating it. Singlespeeds.:

@klaus said in Chain Failure. Eating it. Singlespeeds.:

@aqua-letifer said in Chain Failure. Eating it. Singlespeeds.:

@klaus said in Chain Failure. Eating it. Singlespeeds.:

@aqua-letifer said in Chain Failure. Eating it. Singlespeeds.:

Not anymore as I give no fuck about road bikes anymore. One was a Felt, I remember that.

Lowest rider weight limit of any Felt bike is 275 lbs.

https://help.feltbicycles.com/knowledge/what-is-the-rider-weight-limit-of-my-felt-bike

I'm about the same size as you, and I know of no bike model that I couldn't get in my size (current general supply shortages in the bike industry notwithstanding).

It's completely fine that you don't give a fuck about road bikes, but I'm not sure whether your reasons for that are (still) sound.

Klaus knows how to use the internet! Very good, Klaus! What was the wheelset I was using, can you Google that for me? A lot of 'em have a weight limit of 80-90 kg or so. Would you like me to find examples of that or would you like to Google that, too? I've already started, so let me know if you'd like some links.

No, actually not "a lot of'em have weight limit of 80-90 kg". Why do you say that?

No let's go back to you disproving a conversation I personally had with a Google search, that's exactly what I want to do this afternoon.

I don't doubt your conversation. They didn't have a frame in your size. So what?

But you talked about bikes with a weight limit of 180lbs as a common case, then shifted to wheels, and claimed that the whole bike industry is "prejudiced over large and tall people", citing your size and weight as an example. I think that part of your statement isn't true, have given you some evidence that it is in fact not true, and still wonder why you'd make those absurd claims.

[Aqua Letifer]

@klaus said in Chain Failure. Eating it. Singlespeeds.:

I don't doubt your conversation. They didn't have a frame in your size. So what?

That's a very narrow interpretation of the conversation. The "so what" is everything else.

But you talked about bikes with a weight limit of 180lbs as a common case, then shifted to wheels,

I didn't "shift to wheels," bikes have wheels. They can be a reason why there is a lower weight limit on some bikes.

I'll allow that I could be conflating the bike industry/the people in it/its customers with the bikes they make and ride. Maybe it's not the bikes. Sure.

claimed that the whole bike industry is "prejudiced over large and tall people",

I have a lot I could talk about on this particular front, but I'm not going to with you. It wouldn't be an open conversation, your agenda is to take my personal experiences, and compare it against a Google search to prove how absurd I'm being.

You've never worked in the bike industry. You don't know the people I used to know. I didn't decide to get offended or quit jobs because of one conversation, or out of some arbitrary desire to pull some kind of bullshit victim card. I really don't care what you think about my personal experiences and I have nothing I need to prove to you. Write me off as being absurd.

[Doctor Phibes]

...and I thought the most awkward thing about this thread was going to be the thought of me in Lycra.

[Loki]

@klaus said in Chain Failure. Eating it. Singlespeeds.:

@aqua-letifer said in Chain Failure. Eating it. Singlespeeds.:

@klaus said in Chain Failure. Eating it. Singlespeeds.:

@aqua-letifer said in Chain Failure. Eating it. Singlespeeds.:

@klaus said in Chain Failure. Eating it. Singlespeeds.:

@aqua-letifer said in Chain Failure. Eating it. Singlespeeds.:

Not anymore as I give no fuck about road bikes anymore. One was a Felt, I remember that.

Lowest rider weight limit of any Felt bike is 275 lbs.

https://help.feltbicycles.com/knowledge/what-is-the-rider-weight-limit-of-my-felt-bike

I'm about the same size as you, and I know of no bike model that I couldn't get in my size (current general supply shortages in the bike industry notwithstanding).

It's completely fine that you don't give a fuck about road bikes, but I'm not sure whether your reasons for that are (still) sound.

Klaus knows how to use the internet! Very good, Klaus! What was the wheelset I was using, can you Google that for me? A lot of 'em have a weight limit of 80-90 kg or so. Would you like me to find examples of that or would you like to Google that, too? I've already started, so let me know if you'd like some links.

No, actually not "a lot of'em have weight limit of 80-90 kg". Why do you say that?

No let's go back to you disproving a conversation I personally had with a Google search, that's exactly what I want to do this afternoon.

I don't doubt your conversation. They didn't have a frame in your size. So what?

But you talked about bikes with a weight limit of 180lbs as a common case, then shifted to wheels, and claimed that the whole bike industry is "prejudiced over large and tall people", citing your size and weight as an example. I think that part of your statement isn't true, have given you some evidence that it is in fact not true, and still wonder why you'd make those absurd claims.

I can’t think of any good runners, professional or in my peer community who are over 180 pounds.

[Doctor Phibes]

@loki said in Chain Failure. Eating it. Singlespeeds.:

@klaus said in Chain Failure. Eating it. Singlespeeds.:

@aqua-letifer said in Chain Failure. Eating it. Singlespeeds.:

@klaus said in Chain Failure. Eating it. Singlespeeds.:

@aqua-letifer said in Chain Failure. Eating it. Singlespeeds.:

@klaus said in Chain Failure. Eating it. Singlespeeds.:

@aqua-letifer said in Chain Failure. Eating it. Singlespeeds.:

Not anymore as I give no fuck about road bikes anymore. One was a Felt, I remember that.

Lowest rider weight limit of any Felt bike is 275 lbs.

https://help.feltbicycles.com/knowledge/what-is-the-rider-weight-limit-of-my-felt-bike

I'm about the same size as you, and I know of no bike model that I couldn't get in my size (current general supply shortages in the bike industry notwithstanding).

It's completely fine that you don't give a fuck about road bikes, but I'm not sure whether your reasons for that are (still) sound.

Klaus knows how to use the internet! Very good, Klaus! What was the wheelset I was using, can you Google that for me? A lot of 'em have a weight limit of 80-90 kg or so. Would you like me to find examples of that or would you like to Google that, too? I've already started, so let me know if you'd like some links.

No, actually not "a lot of'em have weight limit of 80-90 kg". Why do you say that?

No let's go back to you disproving a conversation I personally had with a Google search, that's exactly what I want to do this afternoon.

I don't doubt your conversation. They didn't have a frame in your size. So what?

But you talked about bikes with a weight limit of 180lbs as a common case, then shifted to wheels, and claimed that the whole bike industry is "prejudiced over large and tall people", citing your size and weight as an example. I think that part of your statement isn't true, have given you some evidence that it is in fact not true, and still wonder why you'd make those absurd claims.

I can’t think of any good runners, professional or in my peer community who are over 180 pounds.

I they fitted wheels to them you might. They'd be deadly going down hills.

[Horace]

At a certain level, to get better at an endurance sport you lose or redistribute weight on your body. Cardiovascular fitness is for newbs.

[89th]

@aqua-letifer said in Chain Failure. Eating it. Singlespeeds.:

So I got Aniki, my single speed out.
He needed his tires pumped up. That's it. No rust, cables are fine, wheels are still nearly perfectly true, quiet as a mouse. I absolutely love singlespeeds. Aniki is the shit.

Dude I remember riding it one time, it was SO awesome.

Also, glad you didn't die today. That too.

[brenda]

@89th said in Chain Failure. Eating it. Singlespeeds.:

Also, glad you didn't die today. That too.

+1 Yikes! Glad it wasn't any worse. A cold compress to help?

[89th]

@brenda said in Chain Failure. Eating it. Singlespeeds.:

@89th said in Chain Failure. Eating it. Singlespeeds.:

Also, glad you didn't die today. That too.

+1 Yikes! Glad it wasn't any worse. A cold compress beer to help?

FIFY

[Klaus]

@doctor-phibes said in Chain Failure. Eating it. Singlespeeds.:

...and I thought the most awkward thing about this thread was going to be the thought of me in Lycra.

It would be too boring to not take irrelevant issues of irrelevant hobbies way too seriously...