Bike parts you hate.

best thread in ages

http://www.tritalk.co.uk/forums/userpix/4499_Shimano_WHR540_wheelset_1.jpg

http://www.boomtime.it/Portals/0/Rolf_Prima_Ares8%20(1).jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lZYl3ZeG3nQ/TGuBoFEu7UI/AAAAAAAAAgk/2nQFHohKPDw/s1600/Bontrager+SSR+700C+Wheetset.jpg

http://ancillary.edinburghbicycle.com/image-cache/00014919/00016067/extra-large/mpart-wheel-quick-release-skewers.jpg

Conversions

It was made for gears you fuckers!

^ agreed

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Also this frame and any other canondale track copies. Also starting to go off the real cannodale track.

If we're talking about biking terms you hate, then nothing gets me riled quite like 'miler'.

If you hear it, you can almost be 100% certain that it's some god awful, Bike Radar reading nodder MAMIL boasting about that 'cheeky 30 miler' he put in on Sunday. The ride was probably used to evaluate the vertical compliance of his new bottle and the lateral stiffness of the new giant saddlebag he just got from Evans or something.

I've never heard it once used by someone I would consider a decent rider or attached to a number that would be considered anything other than tame by anyone that spends any time at all on a bike.

I say miler sometimes - on the Weekend Ride thread for instance. I'm not usually testing the vertical compliance of anything, least not my wind chill affected manhood which probably retreated towards where my nuts were last seen about 5 hours previous. I would never claim to be anything approaching a "decent rider" but even if I was I wouldn't be about to adjust my terminology because of chippy elitism such as this.

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Nonsense - they perpetuate the myth that as cyclists it is our responsibility to do drivers seeing for them and that if they fail to spot us in normal conditions we are somehow at fault for not looking like a fucking bellend.

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No you are.

I make myself visible - I just manage it without dressing up like a fucking site contractor.

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Stop starting it in the wrong thread then.

I don't, I make myself visible by riding in a good position and using lights at night. High vis is shit in the dark anyway, you need reflective crap at night if you want to go down that route.

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I hate those jackets too.
And these

What about mountain biking?

"mtb biking" is the best

best thread in ages

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lZYl3ZeG3nQ/TGuBoFEu7UI/AAAAAAAAAgk/2nQFHohKPDw/s1600/Bontrager+SSR+700C+Wheetset.jpg

Anything Bontrager make to be honest.

Anything Bontrager make to be honest.

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Conversions

It was made for gears you fuckers!

harsh. because finding a track frame in my size is infinetly harder than finding a road frame in my size which is infinitely harder than finding a road/track frame in a 52/54/56/58

harsh. because finding a track frame in my size is infinetly harder than finding a road frame in my size which is infinitely harder than finding a road/track frame in a 52/54/56/58

I'll let you off because you're twice my size.