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

ok so i've drunk a coffee and just boshed out a first round [REDACTED]

cannot stop thinking about this bike, riding it too and from the bikeshop has left me actually wanting to ride bikes again?

it's a steel bike with 26'' wheels!!

it's really all there is to it!!

i think my enthusiasm comes from how important it can be to have a bike which fits.

yes a bike which fits your measurements, but also a bike which fits your needs. the fact i can carry it up and down stairs, the fact my bones don't get shaken to dust, the fact the gearing keeps me feeling confident getting up any hill i approach, the fact it makes your brain release a feel good chemical in amongst a bleak, sun starved winter.

All of these are important and to have them fulfilled is so transformative.

while these things can be had for most people easily, or relatively easily. the more your body breaks and decays, the more you find yourself outside the vision of bike designers, your needs and fit underserved. the more magical these feelings are when your needs are finally met.

i'm the first to side eye a custom bike, but now i have two! i cannot stress enough, how good it feels to have no guilt about that, to know the choice i made was right for me!

i wish more than anything that more people could experience this feeling of being catered too without having to spend thousands, that bikes were designed to fit lifestyles of yuppie queers, aged out local dirt jump riders, families needing to collect the kids and an ikea order, people needing to get to the club in vintage comme des garcon, people who need to get home from the pub, those who have achey bones and tender muscles,

we have enough bikes for people to ride fast away from their emotions and stresses of life, to cosplay as their favourite lycra fascist. maybe we can try making bikes for all the other people.

i look forward to riding this bike more and more

and i hope everyone finds a bike which fits at some point in their life