MAJs gay bikes [she’s in her fitness era]

i think the grant rivs are close to being gay but they're more metrosexual than gay, kind of like retro mtb basket bikes. veeerrryy metrosexual, not gay. they do not have a sense of mania, a sense of like, panic, sure they're often made from an existential dread, but it's like a dread of not living up to your parents expectations of you, not a dread of like "holy shit i could go another 30 years surviving the gay police and i still would not have felt like i had my belated flirty 20's"

I feel that grant/rivendell is in fact extremely hetrosexual, it gives the same energy as men who collect pocket knives despite working in software development or obsess over boutique flannel shirts.
It's about collecting and owning symbols of traditional masculity (weapons, hand tools, workwear, vintage xyz, rapid rise) as a reaction to mass culture, but in reality is just it's own form of conspicuous consumption which ends up mirroring the culture it wanted to counter. (In this essay I will...)
Very straight.

Anyway, this is going to be great :)