So much resistance to change
01-12-23, 01:13 PM
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01-12-23, 01:16 PM
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My daughter (currently 18yo) and I spent a LOT of time over a lot of years in the car together traveling for her softball events. I made the conscious decision to be open to the kind of music she was into. Some I didn't like, and some I was indifferent to, but there is a lot that really enjoy. Likewise, I introduced my daughter to music that I like (old and new). Her reactions were the same. In my mid-50's, I'm still finding new music that excites me, including entire genres that I didn't really enjoy very much in the past. There is some stuff that I strongly dislike, but that's the thing about music. There is something for everyone!
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01-12-23, 01:36 PM
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My t**** has disc brakes, and has approx 12,000 miles on it, and I have yet to change the pads. And----------------in all of those miles, I have not had to fuss with them much at all. They are just there, and they work great, and they are not even a high end brand name.
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01-12-23, 03:05 PM
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Bicycles have changed a great deal in the 50+ years I've been riding. If there was resistance to change, it was rather unsuccessful.
But the thread got a lot of posts and that was the apparent goal.
But the thread got a lot of posts and that was the apparent goal.
01-12-23, 03:17 PM
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Discovering new music is often wonderful and enlightening, but I don't find it "sad" that some embrace only their own known music. Take classic 1920s-1960s jazz. There are lifetimes of recordings that one can absorb, discover and rediscover. If that's your passion, that's not "sad" at all. That's to be celebrated.
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01-12-23, 03:21 PM
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Bicycle racing isn't really about who has the best technology.
Who actually is saying this? Anyway, people can claim all sorts of things. You don't have to listen to them.
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01-12-23, 03:22 PM
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Discovering new music is often wonderful and enlightening, but I don't find it "sad" that some embrace only their own known music. Take classic 1920s-1960s jazz. There are lifetimes of recordings that one can absorb, discover and rediscover. If that's your passion, that's not "sad" at all. That's to be celebrated.
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01-12-23, 03:30 PM
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01-12-23, 03:37 PM
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Discovering new music is often wonderful and enlightening, but I don't find it "sad" that some embrace only their own known music. Take classic 1920s-1960s jazz. There are lifetimes of recordings that one can absorb, discover and rediscover. If that's your passion, that's not "sad" at all. That's to be celebrated.
A friend turned me on to jazz in high school, more than 50 years ago now and I will always be grateful for that. I also like to hear new stuff and listen to a station here which plays local bands.
There is music I hate, but I'm not going to tell people who like it that it isn't music.
01-12-23, 03:38 PM
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You and that wolf kid keep making this ludicrous assertion, yet neither of you can ever point to an example of it actually occurring. Are you guys a pair of socks or are you having some kind of mutual hallucination?
01-12-23, 04:03 PM
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01-12-23, 04:17 PM
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Carbon frame, Ti or modern steel
Disc brakes
Ultegra level or above and or electronic shifting
How much does that add up to? On top of that, most don't like the stock wheelsets, so they get an upgrade there. Add all that up and 5k could be close. I'm not saying it is, but it could be.
01-12-23, 04:34 PM
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Looks like a cut and paste job from an explanation of hard shifting on a motorcycle, whose transmission does have shift forks.
01-12-23, 05:07 PM
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Based on other posts by the same user, and the profile link to a YouTube channel with the same type of nonsense, it appears to be some sort of bot.
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01-12-23, 05:26 PM
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He might not be that far off. I'd have to check the prices, but if a person has to have:
Carbon frame, Ti or modern steel
Disc brakes
Ultegra level or above and or electronic shifting
How much does that add up to? On top of that, most don't like the stock wheelsets, so they get an upgrade there. Add all that up and 5k could be close. I'm not saying it is, but it could be.
Carbon frame, Ti or modern steel
Disc brakes
Ultegra level or above and or electronic shifting
How much does that add up to? On top of that, most don't like the stock wheelsets, so they get an upgrade there. Add all that up and 5k could be close. I'm not saying it is, but it could be.
No one is saying people can't spend $5,000.
Look at what I was replying to more carefully:
01-12-23, 05:56 PM
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The general tones of the threads in the road section, this thread and particularly the keeping my rim brake thread is that you do need/have to have the things I mentioned to be taken seriously. Will 5k even get you those things in one purchase?
01-12-23, 07:54 PM
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To be taken seriously? First, if someone says you have to buy something at a certain price point to be taken seriously why would you take that person seriously?
01-12-23, 08:05 PM
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