5d ago

Why am I still faster than you?

E: Let's all talk about what bikes should or shoudn't cost

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Pro-tip: buy a £350 bike every 3 years, if you live in the city.
Cons:
slightly ratchet
Pros:
can leave it anywhere and it won't get stolen
can treat it like shit and it will still keep going
still beat more than half the spandex babies commuting because they're afraid to accelerate in case it stretches their chain.
not afraid to scratch it or take turns at extreme angles.
no stress when it eventually falls apart
- can leave it anywhere and it won’t get stolen
  Sadly a £350 bike will also get stolen. Happend to me twice for bikes worth even less 😢
  
  See, your mistake was treating your bike well. The secret is to cover it in grime and piss to the point that even you're not sure if you want to ride it
  
  Most cities I've lived in any bike not locked up will be stolen pretty quickly.
  
  oh no, I mean definitely lock it up. Just expect a lock to do nothing on an expensive bike. A cheap bike? Someone's coming back for it, it's not up for grabs, but maybe it's not worth grabbing
- Pro-tip: buy a bike once. It's not as if they expire or something! There is no good reason a bike shouldn't last decades and decades, as long as you keep it maintained. My utility bike was manufactured circa 1990, and it works just fine.
  (Well, unless it has an aluminum frame, anyway -- those really do wear out eventually because aluminum has no fatigue limit.)
  
  They don't expire, but they do get stolen. Especially if you're using it to commute.
  
  Depends on what kind of storage infrastructure is available to you. When commuting, I can lock my bike inside a bike room at both ends, which requires a badge to open. The chance of my bike getting stolen on a commute is very slim.
  
  That's the thing, a back frame bent even just by 3 degrees becomes unsalvageable, and if you're riding a bike such that you're not testing the frame to some degree then I'd argue that you're not riding at all :-P
  
  Steel is real.
  
  I have two bent steel frames from beautiful French bikes that I had to sadly say bye bye to
  
  Every Dutch person in this thread: what the fuck is testing your frame?
  
  going off the road, popping wheelies, carrying heavy parts, cornering at extreme angles with a heavy load, that kind of thing
  
  Bent in which way?
  Rear triangle on a steel bike can be straightened out if you are careful.
  Front triangle shouldn't have issues unless it's bad from the start. (that requires a table and skill)
  Only bike I have straightened was a steel huffy (not worth working on)
  It had a head tube that was twisted so wasn't fixable... Rear was easy enough to align though.
  
  Front triangle I just swap out the stem, but back triangle there's nothing I can do to fix that without weakening the frame even more
- My approach to laptop computers
  
  My approach to phones too

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