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Comfypants spacers as social faux pas?
Wrong!
Big headtubes blow. Why lose adjustability? So you can pretend you're not a world champ desk-jockey with immobile hip-flexors? Such insecurity. Touch your fucking toes.
Spacers are the thinking person's 'endurance' geo. A spacer or three just shows the world "I'm chilling right now. Getting flexy? Maybe I will, maybe I wont" 💅🏼
miro_o-
A spacer or three
Yeah, but not three inches/feet/metres/furlongs
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Totally agree
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i feel for you, i do, we were all there once, holding onto our last pair of 316 slim straight jeans hoping we'd one day fit back into them, recapture those youthful days.
but alas, we have to accept who we are.
"yeah 30mm of spacers is nothing"
"yeah i can take them off any time i want for the club run"
"oh not today, i need to be out of the house"
the eternal belief you will one day "remove a spacer", when you're back at "your summers best" or when "cross season starts"
much like that fine crafted japanese denim you hold onto, a refusal to accept the spacer height is the true height, if anything, it's only going to get higher as you're in your 30's now, and backs are not known for getting stronger with age.
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I’m not entirely sure what point I’m making or why this seems relevant but....
hippy
acinq
Maj
Big_Ted
being comfortable with excess spacers is like wearing sweatpants everywhere, yeah it's comfortable, practical, once you do it it's hard to even consider going back.
but you also tell the world "i have given up", "i simply do not have the time to compare 2029023 bike frames with clearance for more than 700x45c", "the world has left me behind and that's ok"
you know when you're out shopping people give you weird looks, parents out riding with their children shuffle along a little quicker murmuring "don't look jessica, i dont want you getting any ideas about spacers". yeah sure it's a more comfortable world, but it's a lonelier one.
You should have just stumped up the cash for that 853 custom fit cx bike and sold your van