Pet Peeves
 

This is the time to let your elitisism shine. What are you guys' pet peeves about fixed gear bikes? What amkes you turn your nose up at a bike? Everyone has them, lets hear it...my personal ones are when people convert really good road frames. There are enough old road frames to convert without ruining ones that deserve gears. Also lately I've been a little elitist about Nitto bars wrapped all the way up. Why spend $50 on NJS bars and then mess them up...just buy cheap track drops if you're gonna do that.

People who advertise stuff for sale in their sig because they aren't allowed in the "For Sale" subforum, then, instead of deleting the sig after it's been sold, they put "SOLD" after it.

oooooooooooooohh thats cold!

that was cold...someone's bitter...

Yeah, I was just being a dick.

-people *****ing about things.
-conversions.
-drops w/rising stem.
-drops w/really short stem.
-drops w/anything but a neg.rise stem between
100-120mm
-anything on a track bike that destroys the simplicity
that makes a track bike a track bike.
-radial laced high-flange hubs.
-people who can't stop *****ing.
-chains with no slack.
-chains with too much slack.
-drivetrains with no chains.
-people who insist on a front and rear brake.
-brakes.
-drops.
-conversions.
-redundancy.
-krispistoferson.

sssssssssssssssNAP!

big frames, when people use the same knife for jelly and peanut butter and leave little crystals of jelly sugars in the peanut butter, brakes, bikes that are clean, drop bars, period correct restorations, people with money and/or class, having one of my roommates knock my bike over

Yeesh, some of you drama queens and art school-kids need a sense of humor.

maybe you shouldn't sound like such an ass...

and what does being in art school have to do with anything?

Maybe I shouldn't.

bickering is a big pet peeve

Yup.

Really, why the eff don't you remove a no-longer-relevant ad frrom your sig, rvabiker??? WTF does writing "sold" after it achieve?

ON: I absolutely hate tt brake levers installed on moustache or other backwards-curving bars, and other idiotic "original" brake lever setups like BMX lever one guy had pointing inwards so that the cable made a big loop outwards wider than the handlebar. Also, saddles tilted way down (on any bike).

BTW, there was a thread exactly like this one a couple of months back and it degenerated into bickering exactly like this one...

-Chopped brooks saddles
-track bars on street bikes
-brake levers on track drops
-the color green
-people *****ing about other people's taste

People that set there crappy conversions up like a track bike, yes there are a few exceptions, but most conversions are crappy so save the money you spent on njs parts for a decent track frame.

People who ride brakeless, but can’t skip or skid. You gotta crawl before you walk, put that brake on at least until you’ve learned some valuable skills!

Brakeless bikes with platform pedals, especially those with high gearing. I don’t trust people that ride such bikes!

People who criticize how other people set up their own bikes ;)

Hmm...

i ****ing hate all of you.

bikeforums

jackpot.

I can't stand beautiful old bikes stripped of their Nuovo Record brakes, derailleurs and shifters in order to make a "beater" conversion that'll have a host of dings, scratches and duct-tape on it in a matter of months. Sure, it's great to get a bike back on the road and use it, but it sometimes seems like a sacrilege to see a vintage geared Colnago or Bianchi converted into a fixed-gear, especially if someone does a lousy job in the conversion and builds it up with junk.

I'm currently rollin' on a sweet Merckx conversion.
No one's sayin' sh*t to me.

•*people who claim bike culture as their own creation
• people who have bikes but dont ride them
•*people who worry about other peoples business

bravo ostro kurwa mac!