Can we also start a "stupid people" thread? And make it a sticky?

Remember when you'd kill all those buffallos and you couldn't lug them back to the wagon. Hahah!!!

PS - How can I play the old Apple IIe version on my PC?

naw, man, the best thing about killing buffalos was those things would run so slow and bulky, but then as soon as you hit them PLOP they just flip over dead in their tracks with their feet in the air. didn't they? is this a stupid question?

that sounds like fun!

Will you make fun of me if I say I like mincemeat?

Remember when you were new to all this stuff and totally appreciative of having people to answer your stupid questions?

If I buy a ridiculously expensive track bike with my kryptonite U-lock in my back pocket and ride it around on the street with no brakes and no helmet, but wear my messenger bag with a stash pocket that can hold 2 orders of pie while wearing a cool t-shirt that sports a cool slogan while learning how to skid and stop with a 53x11 gear and Adidas Sambas and metal toe clips and manpris and one of those top tube protectors on my top tube and keirin grips on my bars and spoke cards in my spokes and a naked pic of me on the FGE and a pic of my bike on the fixed gear gallery........can I call myself a hipster?

I asked terror out for a date once, which in hindsight seemed like a pretty stupid question.

Okay, not really, but I would.

more of a paradox, almost. it's a big issue for social researchers, that anyone who observes a group's behavior invariably influences the group.

i don't use the word "stupid" very often. there's a difference between simple questions that have been asked and answered before, and questions that are ambiguous or unclear in some way. if you are weary of these things, you needn't reply to either type. if you want to be helpful, in the former case you simply answer the question, whereas in the latter case you have to ask for more information.

[geek] Isn't that a violation of the prime directive [/geek]

I humbly submit myself for inclusion in the stupid people thread.

I just find it funny that people shorten Bianchi Pista to just Pista, when pista is Italian for "track." So in effect, when someone says, "Should I buy a pista?" they are saying, "Should I buy a track [bike]?"

i find it funny that a perfectly good bicycle made by a perfetly respectable company and specced with perfectly decent parts, priced perfectly, is the object of such derision to a bunch of people who should really know better

Yes, it is a stupid question. The answer is clearly HELL NO!


Off to the stupid people thread!
Okay, not really

Agree with Ken. If it wasn't for "stupid questions", BF SS / FG would just be two stickies devoted to the inclusive (and hence boring) chats between the regular lurkers.

"In the beginner's mind, there are many possibilities. In the expert's mind, there are few." - Suzuki Roshi

what did Bill Murray say to scarlett johansen when they're huggin at the end of "Lost in Translation?"

Being one of those who has recently asked a 'stupid question' I'll say this - I can think back to the first time I went into a bike shop as an adult (about 3 years ago to be sorta accurate) and was trying to find out what had changed in the 10 years I had been away from the sport. The guy was a dick. He didn't want to answer questions and expected me to have all the answers to my own questions. Ultimately, I walked away and plopped down my first $800 for a bike elsewhere. Now, nobody here is paid to answer questions, and that wasn't why I walked away from that first bike shop.

I walked away because I felt like an outsider already, and that my interest in bicycling in general was not worth this guy's time. So, when someone asks what you think is a stupid question, realize you might actually be forcing someone who is interested in the concept of riding a fixed gear to go away as opposed to eating a nice steamie pile of **** for their interest. I can only assume its on par with beating the crap outta freshmen at football camp (or worse) simply to make them prove through pain, degradation and humiliation that they wanted to participate. Maybe that is the point ultimately I was too stupid to go google up the entire history of fixed gear bicycling, and midranged track bikes that were designed for street use as well as doing a full search on track cogs, lock rings and virtually everything I knew nothing about in the first place (so, consequently, I would not have known what they were to look up)- hell if I know - thanks for the paradox!

My stupid question:

If the answer is always 42, how does that correlate to fixed wheel biking?

how this?
http://www.bikeforums.net/forumdisplay.php?f=178

Oh I get it... because we're all stupid. That's a good one.

I'm learning so many awesome things today. Thanks for being so helpful, everyone.

PS - I miss MERTON

Sometimes I get a little pang for the "good old days" myself. Apparently some of the kids these days just inherently know everything about their bicycle and cycling culture. Lucky them.

Like Ken Cox stated, I think the tendency in online forums is for the most knowledgable people to kind of sit back, and not waste time responding to the beginner questions. The people who have an intermediate amount of knowledge chime in more. I think that's a good system, certainly better than mocking the newcomers just because they don't know a darn thing about fixed-gear or are curious about the "culture". The fact is that most people, even a lot of serious cyclists, don't really understand fixed-gear, mechanically or otherwise.

Maybe I'm losing my sense of humor and am reading this thread a bit too seriously.

anyway,
OK OK, IS THIS WORTH $425??? 1979 Schwinn Continental fixed-gear conversion (like track bike!), geared 39x19, flipped and chopped road bars, comes with awesome Weinmann front brake. Missing left chainstay.

I miss 53-11's wealth of knowledge. Seriously.

There are no stupid questions. Sometimes, there are stupid answers.
Robert

you mean like this one?:

http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...562#post985562

For real. Where's Merton? Is he still mowing lawns while wearing a Chrome bag?

displayed on my jeoperdy screen: "if i have a 16t rear and live in a moderatly hilly place and dont mind spinning a bit... what would be my ideal front chainring size be?"