Thread 2018683

>wears a rolex daytona while driving, just like paul newman
Fine
>wears a rain coat when it's raining, just like gene kelly
Fine
>wears gym shorts at the gym, just like wilt chamberlain
Fine
>wears aviators just because, just like val kilmer in top gun
Fine
>wears tacticool ballistic nylon cargo pants when working, just like steven seagal in under siege
Fine
>wears cycling shorts when cycling
Whoa wait WHAT NOOOOO YOU CAN'T DO THAT YOU TRYHARD WHAT IF SOMEONE THINKS YOU'RE LANCE ARMSTRONG AND YOU WOULD HAVE TO TELL THEM YOU'RE NOT A PROFESSIONAL RACING CYCLIST THEN THE UNIVERSE WOULD EXPLODE NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

that's a nice custom bike
funny to think how uncomfortable that guy would be on most standard setups

his bars are insanely high but he could still get reasonably aero with bent arms in the drops

>>2018685
Walton had a bad back im shocked he didnt ride with a riser stem.

>>2018686
that's the custom frame version of a riser stem
he's running his custom 0° stem upside down, which looks wierd

Still, the bars are levelish with the saddle which imo is a good default position for many riders.
>had a bad back
who doesn't ?

Stop taking people who say stupid shit seriously.

watch thread? hell yeah

>>2018686
>Walton
ah ok it all makes sense now

He's a big guy

>>2018722
Yes he is a big guy for me as well

head tube taller than me jfc

>>2018683 (OP)
rent free

>>2018683 (OP)
Its enough to make me want to go win the tour de france in cargo shorts just to kill the industry

>>2018752
you should try it, let us know how it goes

>>2018683 (OP)
>Whoa wait WHAT NOOOOO YOU CAN'T DO THAT YOU TRYHARD
90% cope from dorks that are afraid to wear lycra for whatever reason and 10% memes from dorks on 4chan dabbing on dorks that are afraid to wear lycra.
as a fat guy that wears lycra: if you're looking at my dick or my fat ass in my riding bibs thats on you, fag. enjoy the show.

>>2018686
>Walton had a bad back
>look at his pro pictures
>all his bikes are normal sized
looks like he fucked himself

>>2018685
>his bars are insanely high
No they're not. They're on a perfectly reasonable level. Your standards are insane.

>>2018753
I second this motion.

>>2019066
how did you get the impression that i think his setup is unreasonable or bad?

i said it looks comfy and aero, learn to read context for hyperbole

>>2020839
4 u?

>>2018743
That usually happens when the front wheel is smaller than the rear

>wear a raincoat while it's raining
>this is clearly because of gene kelly and not the rain

>>2018753
>>2019068
Fresh from Reddit, I see.

>>2023389
just own it you larper, everyone knows you're only wearing it because you want to be le dancing dapper gentleman

>>2018752
>"what is the alt tour?"

>>2018683 (OP)
>>wears a rolex daytona while driving, just like paul newman
goddamn thats a nice watch

>>2023198
'four ewe' ya dingus

>>2026771
>dingus
good morning saar

>>2026772
if i were indian i'd probably have a better job

>>2018743
Puck is so unbelievably hot

>>2026838
Really makes you wish you had known about hormones earlier right?

>>2018685
his seat isn't very high, I think he could size down

>>2026770
nah they're pretty shit they just have great marketing. I set my quartz watch twice a year at daylight savings, those Rolexes need set once a month at the very latest and need full services as often as a quartz watch needs a $2 battery

>>2026869
yeah but how far off is your watch when you do it twice a year? unless you've got thermocompensated or something like that you're probably off by 2-3 minutes

>>2026870
nope never been more than 20 seconds. I wear it at night, if it was on a bedstand it might go off

>>2026871
that's not bad for non-TC but your watch is an outlier

>>2026869
>>2026870
>>2026871
>>2026873

I never understood mechanical watches. We have a superior system. Plus you can just buy a new $300 quartz watch every few years for the fashion and look way better than some clunky, dorky grandpa Rolex.

>>2026873
yeah I don't know why it's so accurate, one time it was like 2 seconds off, obviously some months it will gain a few and some lose but it averages out to fuck all
>>2026926
It was a marketing thing the Swiss companies had to do to survive. Swiss companies used quartz until Japan could make them really cheap

>>2026926
>I never understood [...]
it's about wearing $50K-100K on your wrist, rather than anything you just said

>>2027032
most "watch guys" aren't wearing anything near that expensive. go on the average watch discussion online and see, it's mostly neckbeards who feel very smug about their ebay frankenfake HMT with "omega" crudely stamped over the original dial markers) that they pretend is actually in the same class as an original george daniels and therefore they're morally superior to any kind of timepiece that's actually accurate and usable in real life conditions. it's the watch version of the steel is real guys who convinced themselves that their gaspipe bso with a bent derailleur hanger and brakes that don't work has more "character" than an entry level allez or a domane that actually and you don't have to dismount every 3 miles and fish the chain out of the spokes

Cyclists who wear lycra are like that kid who turns up for a kickabout in full football kit, including studs and shin pads. Except they're adults so the cringe is multiplied by 1,000,000.

imagine you're going to take the car out for a spin, and you dressed up like Ayrton Senna on race day, even if you had a Ferrari everyone would know that you're a cunt.

>>2027032
Bill Gates wears Casio and Steve Jobs wore a quartz Seiko. Peacocking with wrist jewelry is "pick me!" girl behavior lol

>>2028747
Lol that hits so close to home. In my 20s I had a Sgt who was really into futbol (and probably tistic), so he later ordered PT (exercise) was going to be futbol. Mfer showed up in full cleats and shins while all of us were in standard issue PT gear. The other Sgts were so fucking mad they didn't let him organize a PT session for a long time lmao

>>2018683 (OP)
bike shorts look fucking gay

>>2028748
"pick me" is wearing the casio so that the old money thinks you "have nothing to prove" and therefore must be one of them so they'll take pity on you and give you free money

>>2028850
>still doesn't understand that a watch is a tool, not a fashion statement

>>2028853
>I'm going to eat mcdonalds every day until warren buffett acknowledges me as a temporarily embarrassed millionaire
ok good luck with that

>>2028747
this
Lycra is larping, cosplay for grown ups and that's why most people find it cringe and creepy, it's grown men playing dress up.

>>2018754
you are fat because you cycle. pick a real sport that actually burns calories

>>2018743
I recognize that bulge

>>2028747
Sums up my feelings whenever I see lycra in the wild. It's a man-child thing. Very Millennial and pure cringe.

>>2028747
>find thing you don't like
>make an AI image of a bald guy doing thing
>thing is LE BAD!!!!

>>2031243
>t. picrel

>>2018683 (OP)
why are his wheels so small

>>2031235
lycra in the city looks gay
lycra way out on a mountain or something looks based

>>2033876
t. drives his MTB to the play park in a motor vehicle

>>2033878
no, i don't like drive + ride and try to avoid it

>>2033879
so what do you do, carry your bibs in a backpack while wearing jeans until you get to the mountain and change when you see the first grizzly bear eating a moose?

>>2033881
no i just feel retarded for about 20 minutes at the start and end of long road rides and when i see other roadies in the city looking gay i have to remind myself they've probably just come back from looking cool

>>2033889
I think I got over that feeling my first 6 months wearing lycra. how long you been doing this?

>>2033894
first kit was about 15 years ago

>>2026870
My guy, 2 or 3 minutes is what a Daytona would get in a couple weeks, not in 6 months.
>b-but muh superlative chro-
O/+5 s/day out the factory or service workshop, expect it to drop over time.
Also the Sneedmaster, Type XX and Navitimer are nicer chronos that don't require the entire chronograph counter geartrain to be replaced during service.

>>2034509
>Sneedmaster

>>2034658
It could be worse and larpier.
It could be the Monaco.

>>2034667
I'll stick with my AQ4030

>watch autists has entered the chat
Real time travelers like me wear two watches, one radio watch that syncs itself to the atomic clock daily for relative time and another basic bitch timex weekender to measure how much time I've dilated since epoch because I cycle so much I curve spacetime

>>2028687
Lol. My first bike is allez. And I'm taking the steel. Purely for the looks, not your nonsense.

>>2036903
A generic weekender with a commodity grade 32.768khz XO is good for about +-30spm, which is a roughly 1000 mile per second speed difference over the course of one month.

Since I doubt you can sustain such a cadence at your level of physical conditioning, I might suggest you are better served by a Symmetricom CSAC SA.45s such as the Hoptroff No.16. This would enable you to get a relatively (ha ha get it?) accurate time dilation readout without requiring an unreasonably large chainring or dangerous levels of EPO in your blood.

>>2018689
>0° stem
>upside down
wat

What really gets on my nerves is how walkists can have a big ass northface logo on everything, runners can have whatever the fuck runners are into wearing now (brooks?) but my tiny tiny castelli scorpion in my crotch where no one can even see it is OMG RIDING IN TEAM KIT SPAMMED WITH LOGOOOOOOS WTF DO YOU THINK YOU'RE SPONSORED LOSER FUCKING KILL YOURSELF STUPID FRED and this kind of behavior is encouraged by karens in the so-called cycling activist community, sorry for not spending the extra $200 for a "minimalist" product that does the exact same thing but doesn't have a logo?

>>2037618
this has never happened to anyone

>>2037973
Go into any cycling or cycling-adjacent internet space anywhere that's not purely limited to freds like weightweenies, that's how it is any time someone talks about cycling apparel

just get a casioak

>>2018683 (OP)
only the raincoat stuff is kinda fine

>>2031235
>>2028747
what about people wearing lycra to ride mtbs on streets
what do you make of that

>>2018754
yaas queen

>>2033876
don't think so anon it's fine on race courses

>>2031235
>very millennial
You're one of those teenagers who can't tell the difference between a 40 year old and a 60 year old aren't you

>>2018683 (OP)

Where I live, basically everyone on the trail is in full kit. I feel like the one standing out by not doing that.

>>2042754
you don't have to wear full kit but if you do, that includes the shoes. if you are in bibs and sneakers you look like a fool

>>2033876
other way around though, why would you bother putting on lycra for the ski lift, then the other fatties at the mtb park will just see how fat you are

>>2028748
zuck wears a de bethune though and bezos a ulysse nardin. ellison a richard mille. are you calling them girls? choose your next words carefully, pleb.

>>2018743
she looks hot who is this

>>2047735
Ella Hollywood

>>2047739
kek I unironically love ella/jean/whatever when they arent doing the weirdo gimp video and are just being a qt scene chick

what are they up to these days I wonder

>>2018683 (OP)
who the fuck are those people

>>2047760
total zoomer death

>>2018683 (OP)
>wears a rolex daytona
buddy, the average person here can barely afford a Casio let alone a Rolex, who do you think we are?

>>2047778
I know there's people with money here, there's a guy who rides gokiso wheels and full dura ace

>>2047762
sorry, I just don't watch twitch streamers

>>2047778
If you're fredding out, which many here are, or keepbuilding and rebuilding your mtb differently because you have five forks and ten groupsets to swap out, you can afford a mechanical watch.
Not a Memetona because it's the most overrated and overpriced watch on the secondary market, but a Recuded Speedmaster or a TAG Carrera or even an old BP Leman chrono if you're lucky costs less than plenty of road bikes do now.
>t. looking for one of the reeditions of the Tissot Janeiro to keep it /n/
>even though it would be completely impossible to read while /n/ogging out

>>2047800
The 4channers who rebuild their 90s "MTB" every week will tell you that a Seiko 5 is actually better than a Rolex because it shows you're not a consoomer or something

>>2047759
Pretty sure she completely quit porn and stopped being "ella" due to getting the worst postnut clarity in history after the piss gangbang video

>>2047805
rent fuckin free

>>2018683 (OP)
Why is he on tiny wheels?

>>2047805
>will tell you that a Seiko 5 is actually better than a Rolex because it shows you're not a consoomer or something
I'm wearing a Seiko 5 right now as I type this and they're solid watches for the money but I just have one because I'm poor. Although if I weren't poor I probably wouldn't get a Rolex, I have my sights set on a Hamilton

>>2053060
late '00s early '10s citizen chronomasters in near mint condition go for around the same price as a new hammy and are objectively far better watches in every way including "watch guy cred"

>>2053060
You use a watch to show off your wealth because you're poor, tbqh.

>>2055945
That's what people did in the 90s, yeah

Things are different now, you use a watch to show the poors that they're poor

>>2018743
they don't make 'em like they used to