Commuter bikes are the nerds of the bicycle world
07-28-10, 09:34 PM
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Commuter bikes are the nerds of the bicycle world
Consider these bicycles (both mine). This one:
is the school track star. Lean, sleek, fast, not an extraneous ounce of fat. Guys want to be him, girls want to be with him.
This one:
is the kid in your math class with taped up coke bottle glasses and a pocket protector in his polyester shirt with the top button done up. Smart, practical, will probably have a well-paying job someday, but he ain't dating a cheerleader.
Discuss.
is the school track star. Lean, sleek, fast, not an extraneous ounce of fat. Guys want to be him, girls want to be with him.
This one:
is the kid in your math class with taped up coke bottle glasses and a pocket protector in his polyester shirt with the top button done up. Smart, practical, will probably have a well-paying job someday, but he ain't dating a cheerleader.
Discuss.
07-28-10, 09:45 PM
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Didn't those guys on Revenge of the Nerds end up with the last laugh? But seriously, a rigid fork with a longer steering tube and a less severely-angled stem would cut down on the nerdiness factor of that Raleigh. Nice Bianchi, BTW!
07-28-10, 09:55 PM
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Well, I don't get people who think that your bike has to be ugly to commute on it. If I were you I'd just commute on the friggin' Bianchi!
07-28-10, 10:40 PM
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The short kid...
07-28-10, 10:44 PM
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I'm sorry, Sixty Fiver, but somehow that Twenty is just too cool to be considered nerdy.
07-28-10, 11:04 PM
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Weak. Neither bike is nerdy. The green Bianchi screams "check it out retro!" and the other bike says "stealth utility commuter."
Nerdy bikes are the ones that are ridden by nerds. Who would never be caught on either of your two bikes.
Nice rides, though!
Nerdy bikes are the ones that are ridden by nerds. Who would never be caught on either of your two bikes.
Nice rides, though!
07-28-10, 11:13 PM
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tri bikes are far nerdier.. i mean come on, the helmet, the "rpg laucher" water bottles on the back and those aerobars! 
The whole thing screams nerd.
PLUS tri bike riders can't ride, so like the nerd stereotype they are un co-ordinated...
The whole thing screams nerd.
PLUS tri bike riders can't ride, so like the nerd stereotype they are un co-ordinated...
07-28-10, 11:58 PM
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Ten years later, the hybrid still goes hiking on the weekends and is generally just concerned with having a good time, even though he's got a good-paying job he actually enjoys. Coincidentally, he ended up getting a lot more chicks in college than that d-bag former track star road bike who kept starting fights whenever he got drunk.
07-29-10, 12:04 AM
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The Bianchi is a track star and the Raleigh is the linebacker on the school football team that just rolls through everything.
07-29-10, 12:10 AM
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This is the kid in the math class with the taped up glasses and pocket protector...
Who gets excellent grades and becomes very wealthy and by which is then able to attract the hot chicks who never gave him the time of day while he was in school...
Who gets excellent grades and becomes very wealthy and by which is then able to attract the hot chicks who never gave him the time of day while he was in school...
07-29-10, 05:50 AM
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Raleigh: Nerdy.
Twenty: Nerdy.
Schwinn: Not Nerdy.
That being said, Nerdy ≠ Not Cool. The Raleigh is neither nerdy nor cool, the Twenty nerdy but cool, so too the Schwinn.
Also, put me in the camp that believes that commuter needn't be nerdy. It's fender-ed up and such, but I don't think mine's nerdy...is it?
Twenty: Nerdy.
Schwinn: Not Nerdy.
That being said, Nerdy ≠ Not Cool. The Raleigh is neither nerdy nor cool, the Twenty nerdy but cool, so too the Schwinn.
Also, put me in the camp that believes that commuter needn't be nerdy. It's fender-ed up and such, but I don't think mine's nerdy...is it?
07-29-10, 07:42 AM
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07-29-10, 08:17 AM
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and alt-bikes are the goth chicks (or, back in my day, the Sinead O'Connor wannabes).
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I thrive on being different, so it doesn't matter to me. Nerdier bikes get more love around my house.
07-29-10, 08:22 AM
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Riding like its 1990
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How's this:
07-29-10, 08:52 AM
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Riding like its 1990
07-29-10, 08:56 AM
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