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03-02-11, 03:39 PM
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03-02-11, 03:42 PM
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03-02-11, 03:45 PM
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03-02-11, 03:54 PM
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03-02-11, 03:55 PM
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Since I don't remember where the paranoia conversation was I'll post here.
To all of the Gravity's Rainbow fans.
"A screaming comes across the sky..."
https://www.themodernword.com/gr/default.htm
To all of the Gravity's Rainbow fans.
"A screaming comes across the sky..."
https://www.themodernword.com/gr/default.htm
03-02-11, 03:56 PM
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+100 on the black. I had white for 2 years. bike looked like shlitz. Black for the past yr. Much better
03-02-11, 04:07 PM
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Black tape and crank BLR.
I think our Trek T1 has the same fork.
I think our Trek T1 has the same fork.
03-02-11, 04:07 PM
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I had about 700 miles on my white Fizik tape and it never got dirty. A quick wipe with some simple green always cleaned it right up.
I think I'll compromise and get the black tape with the white logos.
I think I'll compromise and get the black tape with the white logos.
03-02-11, 04:09 PM
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eff that's gray logo isn't it
03-02-11, 04:16 PM
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Despite telling LBS guy I wanted black bar tape he took it upon himself to give me what he felt was best and put on white. I now have tan bar tap, it's quite grungy and no longer matches my bike. I'm going to leave it until people make comments on the gross factor, I think it will need to be a color of carp brown for that to happen.
03-02-11, 04:17 PM
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03-02-11, 04:19 PM
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03-02-11, 04:21 PM
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Despite telling LBS guy I wanted black bar tape he took it upon himself to give me what he felt was best and put on white. I now have tan bar tap, it's quite grungy and no longer matches my bike. I'm going to leave it until people make comments on the gross factor, I think it will need to be a color of carp brown for that to happen.
03-02-11, 04:22 PM
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03-02-11, 04:26 PM
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03-02-11, 04:27 PM
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Despite telling LBS guy I wanted black bar tape he took it upon himself to give me what he felt was best and put on white. I now have tan bar tap, it's quite grungy and no longer matches my bike. I'm going to leave it until people make comments on the gross factor, I think it will need to be a color of carp brown for that to happen.
03-02-11, 04:28 PM
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03-02-11, 04:34 PM
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03-02-11, 04:44 PM
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Nothing like wading through a landslide in the cold and continuing your ride in wet clothes. That's MUP dedication right thur
03-02-11, 04:54 PM
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Riding in the basement seems so much more appealing now thanks to that tard.
03-02-11, 04:57 PM
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That helmet thread is freaking astonishing. I like the guy who wrote "actually, helmets don't work." Never mind the original poster's story about the helmet actually ****ing working.
03-02-11, 05:02 PM
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03-02-11, 05:10 PM
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Did user "meanwhile" come up on the scene? He's my favorite gruff, British "helmets don't work and actually do more harm than good" dude.
03-02-11, 05:12 PM
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03-02-11, 05:16 PM
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for obvious reasons. IMO a helmet "doesnt work" in a serious high speed crash - only a motorcycle helmet would help in those, and even then, the protection is limited. A low speed bump is what they are designed for. I figure its a good thing anytime energy is being absorbed that was going to your skull.
Helmets work -- work to create brain injury that is. Picture this: you're traveling downhill at about 30-mph through an "S-curve"... through some series of irrelevant events, you find yourself falling over. Your helmeted head hits the ground and immediately upon contact the soft foam grabs onto the rough asphalt and applies a mighty torsion, wrenching your brain and causing you to pass out... whereas, an unhelmeted head would have bounced and slid with far less of the damaging torsion to the brain...