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@Maj
jan might not be bike daddy we want, but he is the one we deserve.
if men were not so suseptable to having another man quantify things in hyper technical, almost schematic like phrasing we would have a better caliber of bike tat salesperson. as it stands tho, the only way someone can shift niche gear in the patriarchal hetronormative hellscape which is the cycling community is if they follow this framework
the clientele who sits at their desk 360 days a year and rides their bike 5 days a year have no time to ride their bike, but have a lot of time to read about their bike, to look at pictures of their bike, hell even argue about their bike. if you can infiltrate that time with pictures of you on the bike, testing the bike, reviewing the bike the lowley desk jocky fells right there with you. when you show pictures of tyres in a caliper and nonsensical anecdata arguments the person almost feels as if they themselves are doing these things (they're actually getting shouted out in a RCA and hiding behind their laptop screen).
until said men deconstruct the frame work of their own trapping, and become more happy with arguments from people such as "it had the vibe" and "i dunno i think it just looks pretty :>". till they are free of the need to justify the almost psychosexual feeling they get from the correct piece of steel, aluminum or carbon between their legs as if it were an equasion to be solved, rather than a joy of whimsical beauty and seduction, we will forever have a jan heine barking at us.