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#26
jack of one or two trades
Joined: Jun 2005
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From: Suburbia, CT
Bikes: Old-ass gearie hardtail MTB, fix-converted Centurion LeMans commuter, SS hardtail monster MTB
This isn't exactly news... but it is funny how these guys have been going for months whereas the Skidstrong folks (now Fisso) had to change it after a few weeks. Ho-hum.
Cosmo star hit the nail on the head. It's Urban-Outfitters pseudo-ironic consumerism. Buy this to fit in with the people who are making fun of people who buy stuff to fit in.
Now it kind of reminds me of the Church of the Subgenius... https://www.subgenius.com/
Cosmo star hit the nail on the head. It's Urban-Outfitters pseudo-ironic consumerism. Buy this to fit in with the people who are making fun of people who buy stuff to fit in.
Now it kind of reminds me of the Church of the Subgenius... https://www.subgenius.com/
#27
Shiftless bum

Joined: Apr 2004
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From: Ottawa, Ontario
Bikes: Apollo fixed winter bike, Gazelle Cross, Baboe Cargo bike, Linskey Rouleur Road, Bridgestone Picnica, Tern C7, 2nd gen Strida
Originally Posted by slopvehicle
It's a secret admission of yuppitude-- visual handshake of sorts that says "I, too, am dealing with a midlife crisis (and an insatiable urge to bang Sheryl Crow)."
#28
Shiftless bum

Joined: Apr 2004
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From: Ottawa, Ontario
Bikes: Apollo fixed winter bike, Gazelle Cross, Baboe Cargo bike, Linskey Rouleur Road, Bridgestone Picnica, Tern C7, 2nd gen Strida
Originally Posted by slopvehicle
It's a secret admission of yuppitude-- visual handshake of sorts that says "I, too, am dealing with a midlife crisis (and an insatiable urge to bang Sheryl Crow)."
#29
Meow!
Joined: Sep 2004
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From: Riverside, California
Bikes: Trek 2100 Road Bike, Full DA10, Cervelo P2K TT bike, Full DA10, Giant Boulder Steel Commuter
If I am going to wear a braclet it better have diamonds all around...
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#30
Sweetened with Splenda

Joined: Sep 2003
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From: Brooklyn, Alabama
Bikes: Too many 80s roadbikes!
Originally Posted by chicagoamdream
My place o' employment got these blue bracelets made as part of a fundraiser for one of our foundations. Believe it or not, this is MY wrist in the picture. I kid you not. I didn't even get to keep the bracelet.
That's a weird photo - your wrist clearly looks like a neck, and your forearm looks like the back of a head wearing a stripey hat.
#32
Meow!
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From: Riverside, California
Bikes: Trek 2100 Road Bike, Full DA10, Cervelo P2K TT bike, Full DA10, Giant Boulder Steel Commuter
Oh no, another rubber device that would be better suited as a rubber band to fling at someone...
If I want a bracelet it better have diamonds on the perimeter...!
If I want a bracelet it better have diamonds on the perimeter...!
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#33
Junior Member
Joined: Jan 2006
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From: chicago
Bikes: kona roast, ss converted rockhopper, fixie, BMX
Originally Posted by slopvehicle
I'm under the impression that people buy the Livestrong bracelets because they feel the need to conform. Sure, funding cancer research is great, but it's not about that...it's about being the only guy in your bike club, gym or office without one.
It's a secret admission of yuppitude-- visual handshake of sorts that says "I, too, am dealing with a midlife crisis (and an insatiable urge to bang Sheryl Crow)."
Perhaps "LIVEWRONG" is more about mocking mortality than seeking some sorta lame-o camaraderie about the sinking ship of your personal fleshbucket.
It's a secret admission of yuppitude-- visual handshake of sorts that says "I, too, am dealing with a midlife crisis (and an insatiable urge to bang Sheryl Crow)."
Perhaps "LIVEWRONG" is more about mocking mortality than seeking some sorta lame-o camaraderie about the sinking ship of your personal fleshbucket.
so, before you pass judgement, make sure you have all the facts, everything out there has it's true believers, but it also has it's tag alongs.
#34
Originally Posted by Doctor Who
The Livewrong bracelets are a fundraiser/profit-maker for the website www.drunkcyclist.com
Pretty swell blog, I guess. I bought one of the "Che Merckx" t-shirts from him a few months ago. It's a hot shirt - but then again, anything with Merckx's face on it is gonna be pretty hot.
Pretty swell blog, I guess. I bought one of the "Che Merckx" t-shirts from him a few months ago. It's a hot shirt - but then again, anything with Merckx's face on it is gonna be pretty hot.
and he sells one of the better track bike teeshirts out there.
#35
Originally Posted by hyperRevue
There seems to be a lot of anti-Lance sentiment floating around the SS/FG forum - not specifically this thread - and honestly I don't understand.
Seriously, can someone enlighten me to some of the common gripes people have?
Seriously, can someone enlighten me to some of the common gripes people have?
there. that's my lance rant. when it comes down to it, i don't really care about him one way or another, but i hate it when people assume that i'm lance's biggest fan when they learn that i ride my bike all of the time.
#40
Originally Posted by slopvehicle
(and an insatiable urge to bang Sheryl Crow)."
#41
Thread Starter
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Originally Posted by slopvehicle
I'm under the impression that people buy the Livestrong bracelets because they feel the need to conform. Sure, funding cancer research is great, but it's not about that...it's about being the only guy in your bike club, gym or office without one.
It's a secret admission of yuppitude-- visual handshake of sorts that says "I, too, am dealing with a midlife crisis (and an insatiable urge to bang Sheryl Crow)."
Perhaps "LIVEWRONG" is more about mocking mortality than seeking some sorta lame-o camaraderie about the sinking ship of your personal fleshbucket.
It's a secret admission of yuppitude-- visual handshake of sorts that says "I, too, am dealing with a midlife crisis (and an insatiable urge to bang Sheryl Crow)."
Perhaps "LIVEWRONG" is more about mocking mortality than seeking some sorta lame-o camaraderie about the sinking ship of your personal fleshbucket.
#45
The TechnoHippyBiker
Joined: Oct 2005
Posts: 78
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From: Chicago, IL
Bikes: mtn ss, fixed road
Those Livewrong bracelets started as a way to make money for a family that lost someone. The Drunkcyclist helped promote it cause he knew the family and wished to help them raise money for their bills. Then the money from the cause was moved to that cycling group there in AZ.
I think they're great if not just because when I see one I know I am talking to someone who I have something in common. We might visit the same site, discuss on the same forums, and probably both enjoy riding bikes.
Take it easy.
I think they're great if not just because when I see one I know I am talking to someone who I have something in common. We might visit the same site, discuss on the same forums, and probably both enjoy riding bikes.
Take it easy.
#48
Bike jocks ar still jocks
Joined: Sep 2005
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From: Portland, OR
Bikes: 1970 peugeot PX-10 fixie, 2002 Team Fuji road bike
Originally Posted by MLPROJECT
**** if its for drunk cyclist, that makes it even worse. what a ****hole ****rag of a website
Seriously, what the **** is that? someone mentioned a cool Merckx jersey there but all I could find were 10 billion links to cheesy porn. The whole thing was ****ing impossible to read and seemed to have more to do with porn ads than biking.
#49
i've had a couple livewrong bracelets for a year or so now...
i got it when i regularly trying to talk about bikes with people wearing livestrong ones and they had no idea what i was talking about... the majority of them didn't even know what the livestrong thing was about, just that everyone else was wearing one...
i got it when i regularly trying to talk about bikes with people wearing livestrong ones and they had no idea what i was talking about... the majority of them didn't even know what the livestrong thing was about, just that everyone else was wearing one...




