I can't ride my mom's beach cruiser. It feels like riding a damn couch

riding damn couch better than riding damn fence rail :D

Confucius say....

Only idiots would go racist when there was absolutely no racism implied. I was meaning hipsters in general, which this fellow certainly appears to emulate. As far as being illiterate, I apologize, I wasn't aware of this being English class.

BTW, an ellipsis is "real punctuation." Just ask my students - we covered ellipses in class today. I'd be interested where you can find me a run-on sentence in this:

Let's break it down, shall we? An ellipsis is an intentional omission of information. With internet speak, it is used to show that one is trailing off, or is making a rather long pause. As most write as they speak here on the handy dandy internet, this is considered appropriate by most. In my case, I was using the ellipses properly - the first one was where I left out "you hipster smart alecks," while the second is where I left out "like a car, or a bike that actually has normal-sized handlebars."

I suppose you're correct. For the sentence to look appropriate, without these ellipses, it would have to look something like this:

You see though, even with the ellipses, the sentence works. Just because there is a multitude of commas in both sentences does not make a run-on sentence. As there are technically two lists in the second sentence, each comma is used to separate the items of the lists. The only ones that do not work to this (both sentences inclusive) would be the ones after or, preferably, and all three. These commas work as either conjunctions to combine two dependent clauses ("or,"), to provide emphasis ("preferably,"), or as parenthetical phrasing ("all three,").

Were you to make a single complaint about that sentence that might actually be feasible, it would be that I left the fourth period off of the second ellipsis. This would be necessary, as it was the end of the sentence.

Of course, feel free to correct my grammar, Oh Great One Of The Many Numbered Screen Name....

tl;dr

NEVER argue with an English teacher ... :lol: :D (or tell one they used improper punctuation.) :lol:

Doesn't matter if the punctuation is correct, when the rest of the sentence still doesn't make sense.:lol:

I do believe that "for" should be "with" - unless of course he meant that one should compensate for a big, fast, loud "little one".

Which is hilarious, but nonsensical.

Stop feeding the troll.

Every time cold weather hits, the troll threads multiply.

So, you only start threads when its cold then?

This thread is an epic :trainwreck: from multiple directions. I can't stop reading, even though I know I should.

I know this is going to sound really lame, so forgive me. I think for the purposes of this forum, whether your bike counts depends on what your reasons are for having it. Do you like it for the simplicity of the drive train? Do you feel like it's one-speed-ness is fundamental to your enjoyment of it? If so, I say it's good enough. I think the reasons why there aren't many beach cruisers in this forum is because they are generally clunky and inefficient. clunky and inefficient =/= cheap and low quality. There are plenty of people in this forum, including myself, who are riding very inexpensive bikes. And by that, I mean bikes that cost something like "99 to 120" bikes to put together. Just because we're on a road bike frame doesn't mean we're snobs or spent more money on it. I love the look of old cruisers, but the fact of the matter is that they are much slower, much heavier, and don't have the sort of potential I demand out of my bikes. I say this as somebody who has rarely paid over 30 dollars for a bike.

Hear hear! Why are so many cyclists trying to look gay these days? Don't they know that just encourages the ***** to ride bikes too?

Great thread all around, btw.

homophobe?

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:D :D

Mine cost around 300 bikes.

I ride a bike that has wheels, but you elitist *******s would probably judge me for that. I don't care, I like having wheels on my bike.

That doesn't really contradict my argument. All I'm saying is that there ARE people on this forum with budget bikes. I didn't suggest that everyone fit that description, or that they had to. My current bike cost me about 120 bucks to build. My next one will probably cost several times that.

how is this even a thread?

i ride what would probably be considered a jackass bike. but i don't care what people think, i'll ride it just the same.

thank you OP for trying to prove yourself that you can ride a cheap bike. good for you. want a ****ing cookie?

Gee, I'd like to see that - a jackass bike being ridden by a jackass. What's your problem? Wife/boyfriend cut you off again? drunk? stoned?

I'll pass on the ****ing cookie, thanks for asking though.

So do you actually want to talk about your single speed bike or what?

my problem?

i don't get what the hell you're talking about. you want to know if a bike with one gear is considered a single speed?

that's the single stupidest question i've heard here in a long time. keep in mind this is bfssfg and a lot of stupid **** is spewed here every day. In addition to my track bike I ride a lynskey Ti road bike and a raleigh hi-ten 5 speed. hold on while i go over to road bikes and make a thread asking if my raleigh is a road bike because people don't talk about riding hi-tensile steel there.

wait no i won't because that's too stupid even for bikeforums. i'd rather be a jackass riding a jackass bike than a dumbass looking at my beach cruiser wondering if it's a single speed. holy hell.

Worst thread EVER!!

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I wish this was on a bumper sticker, or a T shirt. I'd wear it to jury duty.

I bet you have "tires" on your wheels... poser.

Tireless is where its at

See what I mean?