Confess your sins, /n/.

i pity reply to shitty tertiary threads

>>1985790 (OP)

>>1986113
"biking" gets through

I mod 1chan.

>>1986204
thanks bro, fixed

I haven't had sex in 5 years

>>1985790 (OP)
I will use a taxi instead of public transport if I have to transfer 2 or more times to my destination

i keep spending retard money to polish 90s mtbs

bb been ticking for about 2 years now

>>1986113
Hey man you do you

>>1986522
eh, that's fair

>>1986113
Honestly bretty cool that /n/iggers from all sorts of persuasions all get along: cyclists, plane spotters, urbanists, train autists.

I post in /mtg/ having not lain hoof on a boat, let alone a ship

>>1985790 (OP)
I used to not remove my bag when there was a lot of people in trains, busses and the subway, now I do It but before I'd be certain It wouldn't change anything so I wouldn't and I used to be scared of thieves too. Bag was packed btw.

>>1985790 (OP)
Im a roadie but hate every other roadie.
Like 95% of them are just pure assholes.

My new Shimano HG chain was one link too short so I extended it with a SRAM link I had laying around

>>1986745
I must be an asshole because I like roadies and I hate most other "tribes" of cyclists

I only come here for the maritime and tractor threads, I dont care about bikes or urbanism

I only come here for bicycles. I don't like urbanism and am neutral to boats, and tractors.
I don't like flying

>>1985790 (OP)
I own a bike but i've only ridden it twice.
I haven't used public transit in four years.

>>1985790 (OP)
I tell myself I'll bike to the store if I need to grab something quick or start commuting to work but I'm too afraid of the rush-hour drivers in my city plus the winter conditions to follow through with it

I ride both a fixed gear with no real brakes AND a superpowered ebike that goes 50mph, the worse of both worlds, pissing off normie cyclists around me. And no helmet.

I've been using the smallest gear for climbing because I thought it was the "easy" or first gear. I'm such a fucking retard. I kept wondering what are the larger gears for and such. I never felt this stupid in my life.

I will refuse to cycle somewhere if I need to go uphill at all at any point. I live in a very flat city, but even before I moved here, cycling uphill was an unreasonable pile of shit.

>>1987307
Genuinely, and unironically, lmao

>>1987307
that's hilarious. love it.
so, hill climbing must be super easy now that you're legs were built up from mashing the shit out of the hardest gear, though, right?

>>1987307
lmao

I don’t know why this board is under “Japanese culture”

>>1987381
>>1987398
I'm sorry. I don't know anything about cycling and gears. I kept researching but they always kept saying use the easiest gear without explicitly pointing which one is which.

>>1987396
yes. I kept thinking to myself, "Wow these cyclists must squat a shit ton to climb these hills and mountains!"

>>1987425
Couldn't you just try them out on flat terrain? You didn't notice the difference in effort?

>>1987307
your gearing system isn't numbered?

>>1987427
Again, I'm really fucking retarded looking back at it.
"Wow how can these cyclists use the large gears? They must be really pedalling really fast!"

>>1987439
n-no?

>>1987408
>bicycles
95% Shimano manufactured parts
>trains
highest ridership and coolest train variety country is Japan

>>1985790 (OP)
I occasionally disagree with the /n/ hivemind and jannies don't like it.

>>1987307
Based retard

>>1987408
/n/ for "noritetsu", btw :)

I hate cyclists and urbanists. Scum of the transportation world in the same category as britbong rail unions.

Also the class 37 is an overrated pile of shite.

I own five cars and they're all for fun

>>1985790 (OP)
I drive a car

I farted in a bus

I'm 32 and have never driven a car on my own before. At 26 I took 3-4 driving lessons, then took the test and got my license, and I never got in the driver's seat of a car since then. I am afraid to drive. I get everywhere with a combination of my bike and the subway in my area, and occasionally carpooing with people to the hobbies we share.

I'm absolutely humiliated and ashamed about this but I just have zero motivation whatsoever to get a car considering there isn't really much I would use it for and because of my limited social experiences, it would really just be a complete waste of initial cost plus gas plus insurance.

>>1989829
>3-4 driving lessons, then took the test and got my license,
>I never got in the driver's seat of a car since
Good decision.

>>1989850
no its not a good decision. i dont even know how to drive a car if i had to in an emergency or for any other reason. but obviously to regularly drive a car, i would need to own one, and because im such a loser there really isnt much reason for me TO own one.

I ride the subway every weekday for work. I started fare evading on April 1, 2020 so I've been doing it for over 4 years. And I've never jumped over a faregate to do it, my main method is hanging around until a gate gets stuck open and then I walk through it pretending to scan my card, or going through behind people using the wide bicycle/luggage faregate since it stays open for a few seconds longer.

There are some times where I do pay, like when I have my bicycle with me, or if it's the weekend or a late weeknight ride after commute times because there will be less of a chance to get a stuck gate, or sometimes I do have to scan in and I'll just go to the next station and scan out to pay the minimum fare but then go back up onto the next train.

But I try to do whatever I can to make it look as inconspicuous as possible because even if the agent at the gate knows I'm doing it, I haven't gotten in trouble. I see the same agents every single day and wear the same thing every day so they could easily tell the cops at my home station what time to come in the morning/afternoon and that I fare evade every day and they could arrest me, but they haven't

I don't really give a shit about train models and think most foamers are usually car driving boomers that only like autistically obsessing over trains but would protest like a nimby against more train lines (unless they were steam of course)

>>1985790 (OP)
I despise all trains except commuter/metro EMUs and american psr doublestack megatrains. Steam trains are the worst offenders.

>>1985790 (OP)
I used to be a hardcore /o/tist, car and motorcycle. The last 10 years I've been a car-free, motorcycle-free, "oil-free" eco-radical urba/n/ist. I turned 34 this year and mid-life crisis is hitting hard, I want a motorcycle again. The Algorithm picked up on this and is finding ways to get me to convince myself to increase my budget until "fuck... if I'm going to buy a $15k motorcycle, I might as well get a car" and then I start car shopping, only to realize, I don't "need" a car. Cycle, repeat. I might end up actually buying a car

>>1989966
a single car is useful especially if it's small, used and reliable, you can not feel bad about letting it sit for weeks for the few times you need it.

>>1989967
I mean, you're not wrong but the times I would need it are so rare it would be a waste of space and resources. I live in a city where there's enough alternative transportation options that it's not a problem.

I once tried to deal with a stretched seat tube collar on a 90’s giant iguana by using carbon assembly compound.
Like, you got the right seatpost, but no clamping keeps it solid. So even if I got a sleeve and narrower seatpost, it would never be the right size or grab correctly.
So I slipped the thing in there with the assembly compound on it, and then was never able to take it back out. And then that was just the end of that project.

I was planning to get winter tires for my bicycle this year and cycle throughout winter
I got lazy and took the bus instead

>>1985790 (OP)
i like giant cassettes and tiny chainrings
gimmie a 52t to 22t any day i WILL make it to the top of any hill im not upset that it takes me all day because it took me almost no effort

>>1985790 (OP)
im a massive car truck and motorcycle fag as much as i agree they are a flawed concept and would actually rather be on a train or bike (as should we all rly) i just cant let them go and feel sad when i think that one day all the pretty vintage cars and bikes i grew up obsessed with will all be gone soon
im genuinely not proud of it but god damn are there some pretty and fascinating vehicles out there
/o/ used to be my main board lol
>>1986525
thats a blessing not a sin
90s mtbs are peak bike and anyone working to save them from scrap heaps is doing gods work

I'm going to take my bike to the shop to get new bar tape. I've done my own the last ~10 times I needed new tape and it never comes out to my satisfaction. I give up. I'm just not good at this and I'd rather have my bar tape look good.

Wishame.

>>1985790 (OP)
I brake check every Toyota I see when I am riding my bicycle.

>>1985790 (OP)
i cant fix my flat tires I'm just gonna take it to the bike shop and get it fixed

>>1989979
So it's just stuck in your anus forever?

>>1985790 (OP)
Forgive me father, for it has been seven years since I set foot on a bus.

I cant ride in the drops without looking like quasimodo

>>1990845
kek

It's cloudy and gusting to 30mph today and I'm just going to not ride because I'd rather just sit inside and read books and drink gallons of shui xian wuyi oolong while wearing a big baggy hoodie and pajama pants. I know I could ride, and a harder man would, but I am not a hard man.

I might even open an app and pay obscene amounts of app ecosystem markup to bring me authentic southern-style buttermilk biscuits and white gravy (made by a Black-owned business so it cancels out the social harm).

Verification not required.

I just tossed 5 bike tires. 2 were 2+decades old and had sidewall bubbles that scare me.
The other 3 I got used cheap.... and lost. 2 had sidewall cuts the tubes were trying to poke out off. Another had a bulge on the tread, which means delamination.
Maybe I could have rode 10-15mph and be okay but with the hills I go 30mph+ and I don't want to risk it. So into the trash they went.
It's going to pour today and I am going to just lift weights instead of ride.

>>1989829
Sounds like you have nothing to be ashamed of. You passed a competency test and have a license and dont seem to want a car.

Dont feel bad about driving anxiety. Its entirely a function of miles behind the wheel. Once you do your first 25000 miles you stop feeling like its anything unusual.

Thats why they encourage kids in farm states to get their licences at 15. By the time theyre a senior in hs theyve got 25k of riding moms minivan around the town.

>>1987307
this can't be real. can we see your bike?

>>1985790 (OP)
I stole my first bike.

I really oughta get new tires, but I'm too much of a cheap bastard.

>>1986623

Cycling is fine. Being a lycra warrior is not. It just so happens that 98% or those that are into cycling end up in the faggotry category.

i time my morning walk so i can sniff the papergirls saddle when she's in the shop getting her papers, it's still warm and smalls of soap. once i arrived a few seconds later than usual and managed to get a quick sniff in, only to see a boy emerge from the shop and take the bike. i found out from the shopkeeper that the usual girl was sick and so her brother was doing her round.

I shouted at my wife when i got home i was so angry, i had to sniff her dirty knickers for several minutes just to flush the boys ass stench out of my nostrils.

am i going to hell?

I like bicycles, but I treat the ones I own like appliances and disposables. I suck at wrenching, I can only do the most basic stuff, half of which involves zip ties, I don't bother with maintenance or cleaning other than airing tires back up and adding more lube to the chain grime, as a consequence I can't bring myself to ever buy anything actually nice because I fear I'll neglect it as well.

>>1985790 (OP)
I keep buying up ophraned bike wheels with no bikes to put them on

>>1991808
>>am i going to hell?
You're already living there

>>1985790 (OP)
I don't believe induced demand is real.
If you build a bridge with 12 lanes between Ass-end-of-fuck-all and Nowheresville, Kansas, those 6 lanes each way won't magically fill up with people who don't need to go to either place. 50 lane freeways would literally fix traffic.

>>1991993
We shouldn't make cagies comfortable, that's the whole point. If using a car is a pain the ass then more people will opt to alternatives.

>>1991993
yeah, the demand already exists before a highway expansion project. expanding the road is getting it's capacity closer to the already existing demand

bros, I think I hate cycling now
It's supposed to be freedom, but between the hills, heat, sweat, chafing and uncomfortableness I just really loathe it

>>1992271
you're a weak little bitch. maybe you should take up ice skating or interpretive dance. something more your speed.

>>1992273
btw i'm eating potato chips and have only ridden 12 miles this week

>>1992273
I've been cycling daily since I was about 6 years old lil nigga

I don't own a bike.

>>1992273
Figure skaters are made of tougher stuff than you, much tougher.

>>1992273
you've never actually met a professional dancer and it shows. even an amateur would break you in half

ive been riding my road bike as my main form of transportation for years, maybe 8 at this point, and i still dont know jack shit about repairing it or anything else. pretty much the only maintenance i do is oiling the chain and repairing flats. i also changed the cassette once. but anything else i would have no clue how to fix, like any cable repairs, or deraileur, or anything else.

ive been lucky in that ive really never had to do any big repairs on it. my rear deraileur cable did snap a year ago and took it to my local bike shop. but i dont really have a way to learn repairs anyway, since i only own this one bike.

I used to be a big fan of vintage bikes, liked to "underbike," and posed as a retrogrouch. Turns out I was really just a poor fox and fancy modern bikes are delicious grapes.

>>1985790 (OP)
i like cars

I "invested" in a quite expensive dynamo setup with all Son, but I don't really enjoy using it. My old shimano+b&m setup worked perfectly fine and seeing those cheap but dependable parts light my way made me feel the type of warmth I am afraid the Son setup may never bring. In general I don't really like riding my new expensive things, I always feel much more at home on my older and less luxurious equipment.

>>1985790 (OP)
I’m three years into an urban planning degree, am I fucked career-wise?

>>1985790 (OP)
Ugh. I moved to a location with excellent public transportation 2.5 years ago and have driven my pickup truck to work every day since.

>>1992987
how are they any better than vintage bikes?
i don't want no disc brakes and don't mind shifters on the frame. Why would shitty aluminium frame would be better than sturdy steel?
i don't get why some aluminium bike is $1k when you can get some really decent bike from the 80s for max $200

Whenever I have an extremely basic maintenance task on my bike that anyone who calls himself a cyclist should do at home, I coincidentally suspect there's a really complex problem that I wouldn't feel bad about asking for help on, and I wheel it into the shop.

The shop guys poke and spin and prod and go "it's fine, anything else?", so I go "well, since I'm already here, sigh.... I was gonna do it myself but why the hell not, I guess _____, so knock yourself out man, ha ha, I'm here right? might as well!"

I'm pretty sure they see through my ruse but I'll bet I'm not the only guy with a fragile ego who walks in with a basic bitch maintenance request, and their labor rates are higher than some shops so I don't even feel guilty, but I'm 100% sure this makes me a shit cyclist who should kms immediately, no wonder I'm slow. But faster guys pass me really close so thats a compliment right?

I wear the same bibs for like a week

>>1990326
>/o/ used to be my main board lol
i feel you breh
I still have quite a few but I'll probably sell most of them this summer

>>1991123
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd7q-um6nHw no sweat

>>1991803
cry more

>>1995260
I don't know about shitty aluminum, but good aluminum is pretty nice, and late 90s/early 2000s CAADs and aluminum Treks are $300-$400 all day near me. Really, older shit isn't much cheaper because muh vintage or whatever. But it's heavier, has fewer gears and usually a tighter range, flexier, and I personally like brifters a hell of a lot better than downtube shifters. If you're happy with what you got, though, keep on rockin.

>>1995263
based and saddlesorepilled
I've done 3 days on tours, but they were some damn long days.

I am considering buying a car. Been driving the same car for 17 years and need to make an upgrade because I moved back to my car-dependent hometown last year.

>>1989963
What does the acronym EMU represent?

>>1995473
electric multiple unit. passenger carriages with the motors, transformers etc within the railcar, no locomotive needed.

>>1993150
I know that feel...

It's when you are tricked into upgrading and it has no appreciable increase in performance or satisfaction. My only advice is to roll with it (pun intended), and you'll be like "fuck it, it works."

The other thing is that you haven't seen "cheaper" parts fail because you likely take care of them, so they work/last long. Given the son28, it'll last a life time, so I'd just sell your previous hub and not look back.

The one thing that does bother me is that if bad shit happens ... Well then it's a problem. By bad shit, I mean catastrophic failure or theft. Then those losses hurt a lot more.

>>1993150
SON belongs on touring bikes being put to extremes
fancy gear doesn't feel silly when you're riding it hard enough

that $5000 bike in the city looks stupid but in the mountains looks awesome

It's the same as wearing lycra.

I use any and all opportunity to vent my disdain for skin-tight lycra fags but I would probably wear it too if I was fit

>>1995262
Same here desu. All my other hobbies I'm fine with doing stuff like that on my own - repairing guitars, tweaking them, soldering wires and electronics.

But bikes? Fuck it its all gremlins and invisible force fields that prevent me from understanding the real issue. Flat tire? Changed the tube but somehow I apparently put the wheel back WRONG and now it's not straight and waggles instead. Because there is a magical amount of tightness you need and a 1/100th milimeter precision of where the wheel sits in the frame socket.

Forget calibrating breaks and derailers.

>>1995263
I don't know about a whole week but if shit is in the laundry bin and I don't have a clean one, I won't think twice about reusing it, I mean I'm gonna sweat again anyway. Who gives a shit.

>>1998122
I don't understand, you hate "lycra fags", but you wear dirty lycra?

I went through a phase of being into cycling years ago but was completely put off by the expense when I started looking to get a road bike and all the stuff that comes with it.

>>1998146
It's like pretty cheap to ride on a used bike bro. Get a bike, an air pump, and ride.
Then if you enjoy it get a helmet, gloves, and padded shorts(or not).
Progress from there.

After turning from /o/tist to bicycle e/n/joyer and refusing to use, let alone pilot any motorized or motor assisted vehicle I gradually sold all my cars. All but one. Its sitting and hasn't gotten its bianual inspection in ages and while I'm determined to never use it I don't want to let that one go either.

>>1998147
Mate I had a bike and rode it a lot, and I wanted to get a road bike but they're so expensive it really didn't seem worth it. I have no interest in cycling now, I have other hobbies and no time for it, I also moved to a region with no hills whatsoever.

>>1998150
All good. Some people don't know, or couldn't find used bikes so it may have been expensive to you. For me cycling is one of, if not the cheapest thing to get into once you have a bike.
No hills just means you go for speed, or that's what florida man does.
>>1998149
6 dollars a gallon has dampened my enthusiasm for cruising, that's for sure.

>>1998155
For some reason when I looked at used road bikes they were either
>cheapo ones that were shit brand new
>£3000 carbon fibre ones
>mostly for manlets and never my frame size
I do like cycling but it's a very expensive hobby to properly get into, the 'just buy a used bike bro' shit is misleading. As I said I'm not interested now so I don't care.

>>1998156
>I do like cycling but it's a very expensive hobby to properly get into, the 'just buy a used bike bro' shit is misleading. As I said I'm not interested now so I don't care.
That's because your version of cycling was racing in a group or being competitive at an event. Do whatever you want like train watching or flying but the only reason your cycling was expensive was your choices to make it like that.

>>1998163
I'm sorry but you're wrong. When you get into a hobby it's normal to progress with equipment. You may start off on a £100 guitar when learning but you'll want to progress to something else, and you're here saying
>Just carry on using the old one bro, you don't need a new one
Sure I could have carried on using my old bike, but I fancied getting a better one as I was doing longer rides and getting uncomfortable on the hybrid with flat handlebars. The issue with cycling is there is a large financial gap between 'use any old bike' to 'a road bike'.

People will buy a $2000 muffler for their shitbox but an entry level giant is exclusive and elitist, this is your brain on 'merica

>>1985790 (OP)
I got a clown horn for my bike and I love it, it makes cagies seethe and other bikers laugh

>>1998170
Maybe you were buying in 2020-2022 or something. I am the opposite. I buy older things I find interesting and enjoy riding them. I don't want new since I know it wouldn't be as helpful as training more or losing weight.

When you get MOGGED by dudes on 1000usd (used) or less bikes in a race you learn pretty quick it's the rider, not the bike.

You just didn't want, or have the time to save up and buy something nicer. It is what it is. Your ego wanted a nicer bike you couldn't cash.
>>1998177
I went to a bike swap, got a yoshimura muffler for 10 bucks, modified my oem header and spent another 100 or so in pipes.

>>1998192
based

>>1998193
I don't race but every single guy who "mogs" me in my daily riding is doing one of two things:

1. Being an inconsiderate psycho in an area where nobody should be riding that fast, or

2. If it's somewhere that riding fast is ok, it's someone on a really very nice bike (RC if Scott, SLX if Canyon, stuff like that)

4chan would have me believe that the world is full of guys on shitters with world tour tier physiology but I have yet to see it, I think most of it is just neckbeards on BSOs who blew a red light thus passing someone on a slightly nicer bike and decided they could totally be a pro if they applied themselves

>>1998198
For road I ride on the bike trail and I tend to mog half of the people since they don't take it seriously. Serious riders I can pass some of them on the flats, but I am 40 years younger, riding a 40 year old bike.

On the mtb I get wrekt when they climb faster then me. I have ridden on nicer bikes and it doesn't help as much as you think unless it has a motor, or you are actually riding bsos.
Something like a current 3k usd bike for sale at 2k would be plenty good. Or a used high spec bike from the 2000's found for under 500 can be damn fast.

>>1998200
You know how they say it's not the bike it's the engine? In practice there is no meaningful difference, nobody is putting a ferrari v12 into a pontiac aztek. If you see a geriatric riding a very expensive bike it's invariably either something weird like a calfee, or increasingly these days, it's just an ebike with some superficial "real bike" features like a bottle cage and maybe drop bars.

>>1998198
>the world is full of guys on shitters with world tour tier physiology
>he doesn't know

>>1998204
>one guy

>>1998198
LMAO. If you commute and have at least some sort of mindset actually reality rather play put like this:
When spring comes around you start gapping lycrafags on crabon BSOs en masse on your coaster hub commuter with panniers. At the next light fred will catch up and blow the light only to be gapped again a few hundret meters down the road. Then theres police constantly harrassing you, searching for imaginary motors and dropping comments after not finding any.

>>1985790 (OP)
I'm only bikepacking in tainwind that will turn into headwind by the next day when I ride back home

>>1998198
You are absolutely right, but it would be nice sometimes to see a racer climb some 8-10%

>>1998248
I have never had or seen a police interaction involving a bicycle in my city

I'm in my early 30s and have never driven a car on my own. My only experience driving was taking a handful of driving lessons in my mid 20s, got my license, and never got behind the wheel again. So it's not bad enough to not own a car, but I can't even drive one if someone needed me to.

My bicycle (a mid-2000s aluminum road bike, not even a cool e-bike) is my main source of transport in conjunction with the subway, and occasionally carpooling with some people to activities. I know people here would say how great that is not having to deal with a car, and it's definitely nice not dealing with the burden and horrendous expenses that having a car entails (especially here in California with ridiculous gas prices and insurance), but it's a major red flag and an indicator of being such a pathetic loser to be this age and not only not having a car but basically not knowing how to drive one. It's such a humiliation.

>>1999288
I've had one interaction with police on my bicycle. At a 4 way intersection stop lights, the crossing lane was clear so I decided to go out to the island crosswalk and a cop was in a lane behind me somewhere and got on his megaphone to say HEY BICYCLIST THE RED LIGHT APPLIES TO YOU TOO so I just gave a thumbs up. I was terrified I was gonna get a ticket.

>>1999294
I started driving at 29 and it's great (barring rush hour). You should go for it regardless of costs if it's tormenting you this much

>>1999366
>>1999294
I'm 36, and I don't have a license.

i don't really care much about cycling but my only friend is really into it and i want to mog the fucking shit outta him. he kept making fun of me all throughout high school and ever since then it's been my mission to completely demolish him in everything he loves.

2 days ago I was mtbing and on the road ride back home I scared a couple walking. Passed on the right since they were walking doublewide in the left lane as they are supposed to, but I guess my tires whirring by them at 15-20mph spooked them and I feel bad about.

Will slow down next time. Have been better about this on the road bike.

>>1985790 (OP)
I can take the subway to work but I drive half the time

>>1999366
The simple answer is obviously to just do it, but for me it’s like what’s the point? I learn to drive again, then buy a car, then buy insurance, but I don’t really have anything to drive for. Most of my daily activities are fulfilled using a bicycle and public transportation. It’s not like I have some bustling social life or family life where I need the freedom and convenience of a car to be able to go anywhere at any time, and buying a car isn’t suddenly going to make me start meeting all these people and doing tons of things like teenagers who desperately want a car to have freedom. I buy a car, and it’s likely sitting on the street unused. I’m not gonna just drive around aimlessly doing nothing just to drive; I already do that with a bicycle to get outside.

I know it’s a self fulfilling prophecy where you want to learn and know how to drive but if you don’t get a car you can’t do but I just can’t see a point.

>>1999631
have you succeeded at all?

>>1985790 (OP)
Riding the subway is more comfy than riding my bike. Driving to the middle of nowhere is more comfy than waiting 1 hour for the changeover and 1 hour for the train on the side track (in that amount of time I could bike there with an ebike, or a real bike from the nearest city).
I'm too fucking lazy to bike, and I don't deserve my bike.

> cOvId pAsSenGer
I rode exclusively in the early '10s. I got lazy.

>>1985790 (OP)
I'm so GASed that I'll go to /dbt/ on /o/ when /n/ is too slow, even though I have no interest in motorbikes.

>>1991394
Did you sell it afterwards? If not, based.

>>1991813
Literally me. I negligently destroy everything I love.

I don't have Allen tools, so I use Torx ones.

>>1995461
Which models are on your wishlist?

>>1998177
"But-but-but... muh Civic!!!!!"

>>1990324
Whatever hill you climb in 22/52 I will climb in 52/22 faggot

I fucking hate other bikers I'm only on this board to get information on bikes.

>>1985790 (OP)
I stayed way too long on this God forsaken website.
I also forgot real people existed behind the posts.

>>1991394
>>1999572
/n/igger

>>1985790 (OP)
I find rolling coal videos to be so funny I can't stop laughing when I watch them.

>>2008813
this is your brain on oil addiction

>>2007710
Acting like a real person yourself might help.

After I stopped working at the bike shop, my miles began to decrease. I wasn't going on group rides anymore or getting out just to test new stuff.

I haven't ridden at all in two years. I've got a killer mountain bike I only used for one season sitting in my basement, mocking my lack of stamina. I've been avoiding /n/ because I feel guilty about stopping the one good habit I'd developed.

>>2008913
Update

I took the bike out today and did a couple of miles of easy trail. It kicked my ass, but it felt great to be riding again.

Thanks /n/

>>1985790 (OP)
I once took a fat dump at a train station. I just couldn't hold it in.

Thankfully no one found out.

I can't ride a bicycle and I never had a driver's licence. I rely entirely on mass transit and planes to travel.

On July 5, 2023 at 9:08 AM EST in the vicinity of Cabrini Boulevard and West 181st Street, in the confines of the 34th Precinct, a female cyclist between the ages of 25 and 35 who witnesses said looked sort of like Puck Moonen complimented my shoes, and I have not forgotten that moment. It was one of the greatest moments of my cycling life. No, one of the greatest moments of my life, period. No wonder women are reluctant to be nice to men. Those men might be like me.

I ride a MTB primarily for commuter purposes. I have never once taken it to the mountains.

>>2009597

I'd ride that high and win paris-roubaix on the glowup watts

>>2009686
that's fine as long as you put road slicks on it

I don't like cycling as a commute

I'm just a poor bum and can't even afford public transit

>>2009772
i dont particularly like bicycling for commute either, specifically because i live on the top of a massive hill, and then its further downhill over a total of 5 miles just to get into downtown where any amenities are. the big problem is obviously the ride back as chugging back uphill, i mean its great to every day have a huge biking workout but it makes it pretty untenable to do something like grocery shopping

but at this point ive been doing this so long that i honestly cant even imagine what it would be like to be driving a car for a commute rather than just a bike or bike+subway

>>2009372
>I can't ride a bicycle and I never had a driver's licence. I rely entirely on mass transit and planes to travel.
are you lucky enoguh to have mass transit pass right in front of your front door? i dont even ride planes because i have nowhere to go on trips to, at least you have that.

>>2009831
what's your low gear?

Started wearing Lycra so I can be accepted into the cult and get a get a Lycra gf. Preferably an Asian one

>>1985790 (OP)
I leave my bike gears down in the rain

>>2011510
Amen, bacon. Ride on

>>2009831
Hills don't exist though

t. unracer who doesn't ride (inb4 rent free)

I will probably never be wealthy enough to actually build a model railroad. I will just vicariously enjoy others' layouts and participate in discussions from the standpoint of what I would do if I ever could.

>>1989966
>I turned 34 this year and mid-life crisis is hitting hard,
34 isn't midlife.

>>1985790 (OP)
15+ years ago I was gifted what I think was a fairly expensive custom made bike and I never rode it.

>>2014975
32-42 is midlife
37 the middle
male life expectancy in the USA is 74

>>1985790 (OP)
None, I'm a noob cyclist, I lurk and try to learn.
I globally appreciate the board.
You see that post there? >>1986623 I like it.
Small boards feel so comfy, not gonna lie.

>>1992273
kek

When I see a Cyclists Dismount sign, I don't .

>>2005155
That guy was a faggot

>>1992479
>>1992505
C'mon man those guys are gay. I don't fear any figure skater or dancer.

>>1998198
There's a tall dude on my route that rides a fixed gear. No helmet, long hair, no foot retention, wears street clothes. That dude is impossible to catch on a headwind. We are trying to catch him and he doesn't even know. He's not even trying riding 20+ mph against the wind.

There's real freaks out there man ..

>>1992981
watch RJ the bike guy replace a cable and go for it yourself. You will be more motivated to get it working since it is your only bike. Even for a first timer it should be doable in less than an afternoon. You got this, anon

>>1989963
>>1998046
Desu I find multiple units (diesel and electric) to be soulless and boring. Locomotives break up the visual design up

I unironically love kickscootering and thinking about upgrading to a kickbike so I can ride in the rain and on dirt.

I have and make tons of use out of my normal bicycle but it's just a utility object to me. I don't actually enjoy riding it like I do riding a kick scooter. I also hate maintaining my bike, doing so is always a chore I do reluctantly as a means to keep it functional.

I also have a second bike with a moterized bike kit that I haven't gotten around to fully assembling for months due to procrastination and some of the parts being broken so having to slowly order replacements. I am in too deep to fully give up but feel zero motivation left to sit down and finish it.

>>1985790 (OP)
I never pay for group bike rides for charity I just pull up to the start line and start riding.

I'll stop at their stations occasionally and take a piss. It's kinda cheap but bicycling on my towns road on my bike should be free.

>>2015166
Wait, where's this? The carriages look like early german twindecks, but I've never seen that locomotive type before.

>>1989963
For thyne sins, thou shalt be banished to the backshop.

>>2015166
Locomotive-hauled commuter train supremacy.

>>2009597
post pics of said shoes

>>1985790 (OP)
I'm flying to Japan on a Boeing

>>1985790 (OP)
Ive been using an e-bike as much as possible and my ass disappeared. I'm

>>2018739
You'll be fine as long as it isn't a 787

Unracer bros my faith in the shit bike cope wavered today as a I peddled furiously to keep up with a guy who was coasting downhill, the whirr of his expensive rear hub adding insult to injury

When a train passes by on the local train crossing and I am outside, I like to do a low hum that harmonizes with the rumble of the train because it feels nice.

I am aware of how autistic it is and thus only do it when alone.

>>1985790 (OP)
My 90's mtb has been three quarters 'rebuilt' for ten (10) years, I can't even look at it now.

>>1989829
Do a rally driving course, or advanced driving course. More training will give you confidence. If youre genuinely fearful that is..

>>2005134
Either a nissan pulsar or an alfa156

I chase roadies on my steel fixie I bought on craigslist for 100 bucks.

>>2019637
That's encouraged since it ups both your competitiveness+fitness and theirs.
>>2019621
156 obviously.
>>2018827
You are supposed to buy ancient nice bikes that are deemed as "shitbikes" due to age. However the campy record hubs will always outroll whatever other wheels you encounter. Big issue is aero and weight, so if you aren't in a tuck and the dude has 50lbs on you..... you won't win that battle.

>>2019613
I have a sweet 90s mtb in cherry condition. the problem being that the first owner stored it for 30years without riding it at all and all the grease has turned into hardened shit. I know because the shifters had factory grease that was hardened so it wouldn't shift, which I fixed but obviously every bearing must now be overhauled and I've been focusing on rebuilding my fast bike so the mtb has been sitting for quite a few years. I am getting the (hopefully) last parts for the fast bike this weekend so I'll probably start on the mtb soonish. probably.

I was getting handjob on an italian IC train but she was caught cock handed by the ticket guy when he unexpectedly opened the door.
She didnt finish. Embarrassing.

i have a very intricate routine of how i fare evade on the subway every day. i never jump over faregates but i do a lot of other ridiculous methods to do it that i feel are inconspicuous just because theyve never reported me, but maybe they know what im doing the whole time and just dont care

>>2019904
Hell yeah bacon getting a fresh tuneup and some rubber

my bike has 3 wheels

I just spent 9600 bucks on a bicycle, no test ride
behold, the biggest asshole on the planet walks among you

>>1985790 (OP)
/n/ fags are insufferable and turn people away from better city planning by being obnoxious

>>1986765
I agree, roadies around here tend to be chill nerds while mountain bikers and “gravelistas” (death literally cannot come fast enough for these cretins) are insufferable and are offended that you even dare to ride the same trail as them. And god forbid you want to pass them as they creep uphill at 1mph

I’m a snob who only rides bike with campy components and I give all kinds of reasons for it but the truth is I just think they look better and I’m used to shifting up with the thumb lever.

I don't search the catalog before I make a thread.
Also, I alternate searches for gay porn and Dura-ace to train the algorithm into building a connection between the two.

I got dropped by a bunch of middleage+ guys on a group ride.
I cope by saying they have been riding longer then I have been alive

>>2018576
Im not sure though it looks a bit like a DR Class V180 - which tracks with the bi-levels being German

>>1987307
I'm calling bullshit on this. Are you seriously saying you never changed to the other cogs and realised a difference? If so, how do manage to feed yourself?

I'm buying many versions of same bike part, because I'm too lazy to actually do my research and then I find out the part doesn't fit my bike, so I buy another.

>>1989829
Relax. You worry too much. I only took (and passed) my driving test when I left a major metropolis, to live in a country town at 52 years old.

>>1986208
why is the server down?

>>2018576
early 00's Poland
locomotive is HCP 301D, better known by its class name SU45
and yes those are Gorlitz-built double deckers, Poland supplemented their domestic passenger wagonworks with german imports

I went high speeds on sidewalks in fancy upper class areas dressed as a gopnik today. Grandmas yelled at me and i yelled back. I had this edgy mania

>>2023360
lmao based

>>2009258
Good. Keep on it.

>>2014997
Slow, forgotten boards are the best part of 4chins. I wish /mu/ and /ck/ (my other interests) were more like /n/.

>>2018528
I don't think you should feel bad about that.

I clean night trains for a living; my duties mostly involve taking out the dirty sheets and trash and putting in clean sheets for the bed-maker shift, but I also end up making the beds a fair bit myself. I've been doing this for three years and really gotten jaded to it all to the point of slipping on quality standards that, somewhere in the back of my head, I know I should be holding to for the sake of the passengers
>sometimes the blankets end up slightly bunched up on one end when I make the beds; even when I have time to fix it, I don't always fix it because I can't really give a shit
>sometimes I forget to wash my hands or change out my gloves between handling dirty sheets / trash and putting out the clean sheets; instead of throwing out those clean sheets, washing my hands, and starting over, I just keep going for a little while because we don't really have the time to start over every time that happens
>when I make the beds, sometimes the sweat from my head drips onto the clean sheets a bit. I try to avoid this, but I also just keep going when that happens, thinking "lol it's just a few drops of sweat, it'll absorb into the sheets and the passengers won't even notice"; I know this is wrong, rationally, but again, I can't always give a shit
>we're not supposed to let people cross the rails to head to the supermarket on the other side, but I don't care enough to stop them
>this one time when I was in charge, a co-worker said she had to leave early to pick up her kid from daycare, but I missed that because I wasn't listening carefully enough; shit happened and she ended up being late to that, which I should've planned for

am I a piece of shit? yes. do I deserve to have this job if I can't even do it right? no. but it's all I've got at the moment, so I'm too selfish to quit!

I've never used the 52 t
I wait till 1000 km to replace my chains

>>2023740
I replaced the 50t with a 48t on my old commuter and it was one of the best upgrades I've ever made, also what do you mean wait til 1000km, to replace the entire chain?

>>2023541
Corona and numtottism killed this board

>>2023360
devilish

>>2028528
(You) killed this board

An old guy driving a minivan passed me so unnecessarily close to me during a time with no traffic and I mentally snapped some reason so the next light I caught up to him and blocked his car for 3 traffic light rotations while sticking up my middle finger telling profanities and telling him to slow down I'll block his lane longer. I enjoyed watching him lose his mind and his interior struggle with wanting to murder me with his car. I didn't make it 4 light rotations because he looked defeated and I was getting bored

>>2028882
I did that once and it felt pretty good in the moment but I was ashamed of myself later for acting like a child. I'm still torn as to whether it's the right move or not. It sure feels good, but am I really better than them if I indulge in that kind of thing?

>>2028883
It's not about being better, it's about sending a message

>>2028884
that must have looked pretty funny to bystanders

>>1986208
*Shrug*

One day it just went down and we never heard back on mike. No further communications were made, I guess it was clear for everyone that it was time to go.

It was on life support for so long and and no-one had the skills to fix it. Like you see what 4chan has to do to be able to continue doing the chan thing, manual approval was all we could muster. Like there were days when 50% of content was "the smoking lady and the sad children".

>>2031824
It was a response to >>2023334

1524 signing off! I tried to do my part and obviusly also did Mike, Tex and GE, but as a whole it simply was not enough and 1chan is no more!

I’m 33 and I’ve never owned a car, nor driven one on my own. In fact I haven’t been behind the wheel since the driving test when I got my license 7 years ago. I’ve never even pumped gas.

I exclusively use the subway and my bicycle to get around. And another confession with that, I don’t know how to do any major bike repairs despite being a daily rider for a decade. I’ve never gotten in any major accident or had to do any major repairs on my bike outside of the usual brake pads, tires, tubes, changing the chain and cassette. I made a friend in my town who’s an older guy who has multiple bikes and an entire bike tool shop so I might try to learn some stuff from him, but if we don’t have a broken bike, how am I supposed to work on it?

>>1985828

>>1989944
N

>>1989966
Urbanism is for basedmen, troons, and weak doughy manchildren who went to Amsterdam once to get legal weed.

>>1991994
Quit trying to make other people do things they don’t want to do for your fever dreams.

>>1985790 (OP)
I dont have an license

I just purchased my first ever on-frame pump for my road bike. I got the topeak road morph g (the one that basically transforms into a floor pump when you fold it out) because it went like new on amazon for $26. I ride an average of 3,000 miles a year for the past 7-8 years and have never had an on-frame pump before.

It's insane how idiotic I have been but also how lucky. I almost never get flats, and if I do, it's usually either finding it flat at home, or in town and I can get picked up by someone if necessary. I will never be this big of a retard again. But this is also why I've always just used memeskin tires

>>2034619
I don't understand what the second paragraph has to do with the first paragraph

O wow this thread is 1 year old tomorrow.

>>2032164
>Urbanism is for basedmen
Nice

I just spent the last few weeks autistically rearranging my positions including converting a non-trivial amount of big tech stock to physical stocks of PMs to prepare for the worst recession in generations, and now I'm completely obsessed with a specific bike I saw on a huge markdown sale that is only $3000 and in my head I'm rationalizing how buying a THIRD bike that "only" costs $3000 is the smartest most frugal move in the world, financially. How do I stop being such a fucking r-slur about bike stuff, all my rationality goes out the window when I see a shiny

In fairly short amount of time I've steadily become a fair-weather cyclist. If it won't be consistently over 50 degrees for at least a few hours I don't go out.

>>2037333
Easy answer? Hi out and justride™ the bikes you currently have. Hard answer? Just Ride™

I bonk on every ride

Ever since i started commuting to work by bicycle I ride and enjoy cycling less in my free time

>>2037333
>wants to prepare for recession
>buys a bike that costs 10 okay used bikes
you are still a dumb consumer

I passed a cyclist whose bike broke down and I didn't really stay to help.
I stopped for a second, but it was a bolt-on wheel. I figured I can't do anything here without tools so I wished him luck and I moved on. I didn't ask if he was okay, like did he crash or anything. I had stuff on my mind at the time so I couldn't think clearly.

Later on I thought I could've done something, like at least help him carry his bike to nearby bus stop or ask if he was ok.

I hope he's okay

I haven't gone on a ride in at least 3 months. Got back into working out and it's been great, but I miss riding with the vintage bois so tomorrow this autobot will roll out.
>>2037393
I believe in you anon.

>>1995263
I only own one pair…. A week between washes is rather typical for me. Sometimes more.

>>1995263
>>2037411
how is your ass not covered in pimples and nasty boils and shit

>>1985790 (OP)
I rode my bike in the second lowest gear and never changed it because I didn't understand what speeds do. Rode this bike for 6 years and fucked up the whole drivetrain because I was also cross chaining. I watched a GCN video which mentioned one of those things last week and realized I am retarded

>>1989904
Nah bro, dont worry about it; if you dont need it then there's no worry. As long as you can put a roof over your head and some food, you're good

when I get caught behind a girl cyclist I attack and go sanic for the next couple of miles and they probably think it's "toxic masculinity" but actually I just don't wanna be a creepy wheelsuck dude staring at the woman's ass in lycra, and if you pass, you're obligated to sustain a faster pace

I somewhat resent them for putting me in that position too, I want my safe space back

>>2041867
Bro what. Just silently admire the ass, maybe ponder the SMELL and SWEAT TASTE like a normal gooner. ur suffering for no reason

nobody is looking at you least of all the girl in front

>>2041881
>nobody is looking at you least of all the girl in front
but she knows I'm staring at her ass, her lookback says she knows. Worst of all, God knows I creep on a redheads who ride bikes, I can't help it, I was indoctrinated to like redheads

>>2041906
Well where do i find a girl cyclist that isn’t someone’s auntie. I don’t worry about this because all the female cyclists i have ever seen here are over 45 and im only counting legit ones not randoms on ebikes, they are even older.
The only one i ever saw close to my age was clearly with her boyfriend and yeah i fuckin dropped the both of them the sad part is he dropped her trying not to get dropped i just know her pussy was wet as fuck thinking about how aerodynamic i am

I dont ride enough
Its not that i am lazy, i get some sort of anxiety about going outside in general and if it doesn’t feel like the perfect moment to go ride, i overthink and dont go

I frequently climb the nearest hill on my fixie (I painstakingly planned out the only route with no >10% inclines so I can get it up without getting off), then smugly hope for one of the E-MTB riders at the top to notice my drivetrain.

>>2041926
>expecting clueless ebike "people" to have enough awareness to look at and identify a bicycle let alone its drivetrain let alone understand how it's relevant to the immediate surroundings
you have a strangely high opinion of these people and that is very kind of you

>>2041914
kek I wish someone drew or animated this guy’s post

>>1987307
>anon pulling on the handlebars with all his might while straining to push down the pedals for another revolution

>>2023330
I did see this behavior once and after explanation just not switching gears in time and then struggling

>>1985790 (OP)
I refuse to get on a plane.
I make plane hate posts here and the mods keep banning me.

My car got towed due to a one day temporary parking prohibition, which got set up like 3 days before

Now the towing company uses a mickey mouse picture for one of the employees on their "meet our team" page, and I snitched on them to disney, and I hope they get a hefty cease and desist letter which can cost them 5-10k where I live

>>2045001
Disney isn't actually going to give a shit and you sound like a schizo

>>1987580
gesundheit

>>2045015
We'll see

I mean, the lawyer firm I've forwarded it to literally specializes in sending out c&d letters all day for disneys IP violations

And I gave them a way to make 1.5 grand in half an hour so they'd be stupid not to do it

I may sound schizo but next time, they will think twice before towing my white honda

>>1987307
>>1987425
unironically hill sprints on a high gear is the best quad exercise i've ever tried. i take my single speed bike up a short but steep hill as fast as possible and that shit destroys my quads more than any leg press or squat.
you are retarded though

After completely rebuilding and modifying my old GT 90s frame to a gravel bike, I’m scared to death to try riding a modern, purpose built gravel bike with drop bars only to find it much better than what I have.

I’m really happy with my build and enjoy it a lot, but what if.

>>2045040
I doubt you're doing full ROM on your hill grinds
leg press machines are garbage
you're doing your squats wrong

>have to borrow younger brothers cycling shorts one time
>realize the difference between mens and womens is where the padding stops
>clit is riding unprotected for the first time, just the thinnest layer of lycra
>steal shorts after the ride
I still use them on shorter rides and gravel

>>2045166
This is NOT real there are no based horny girl cyclists on /n/
i know there are girls on other boards i have kissed some of them but here? I don’t believe it

I buyed a motorcycle, I couldn't live the /o/il free dream, gomenasai /n/orimono

>>2045186
I think it's the viet femboy actually

>>1991803
>it's fine until they actually get into their hobby
so it's not fine

>>2037419
wash your ass after every shit and rinse the bib after every ride

I've been fare evading on the subway almost every single weekday for my work commute for the past 5 years. I would still use the subway with some regularity on the weekends but I would pay then. I wasn't the usual "jumps the turnstile at home then at destination", I never did that once, but I don't even want to get into how autistically and neurotically I would fare evade to avoid detection.

Unfortunately, the subway system has been replacing all their old faregates with new tall ones that have significantly curbed fare evasion and it finally got to my home station. So I think I'm going to have to quit my job with nothing lined up, because the amount I am paid isn't worth the subway fare to go there.