She looks like the kind of whiny little girl who cries about every stupid thing and ruins everyone's good time.

All of those are probably true, but in fairness she looks a bit young in that photo.

this is relevant to my interests

Isn't that how we like our girls? Hey-o! Just kidding...

http://t.qkme.me/5ys9.jpg

Jeez, I'm away for a few days and BFSSFG turns into a boys club. Where's mashtofu, shouldn't she be keeping you guys in line?

Simmer down, boys!

Confession: Last night I got drunk and left a u-lock on the subway.

bonner is spelled with a b and two nnnnnnnnnnnnnns

i watched her new girl pilot because my friends were talking **** and i figured why not. i don't think she's acting in that show. and if she is she's a good actress. it was enjoyable. not good, but enjoyable. not bad either just... you know what i'm going to say.











enjoyable.


also, had a pretty good day for spending zero dollars. put townie bars and wald rack on the townie and am going to not buy rando parts for it because rando parts are stupid expensive and i need to save money.

forgive me father for I have sinned

confession #1: I measure then remeasure then remeasure myself and still ordered a frame that was too big for me
confession #2: I'm looking for a new frame and I find myself drawn to aluminum frame after aluminum frame (cinelli, low, leader).
confession #3: I let a guy ride my bike today and he made me look like a 3 year old by comparison, despite the bike being way too big for him. kind of funny to ask to ride my bike to show me how cool you are on it, but I was still impressed.

Confession: the only reason I bought a "Titanium" membership was for the larger avatar.

ive had a titanium but had a picture with the stock dimensions uploaded. [jeremyclarkson] until now. [/jezza]

I just patched my last patch-free tube of about 15 tubes. I am usually all for patching tubes until you have to patch a patch, but something in back of my mind is now thinking about exploding tubes at 50mph downhill

I'm thinking about getting rollers for winter already. The thought of being confined to my 29er for three months is unsettling even though I like the bike (Spokane usually has snow on the ground for 3 months). I want to use this winter to train up and be even faster for next season.

I know people work hard to buy nice bikes, but I can't help but feel some negative jealousy toward people who have nice bikes and aren't as strong of riders.

It's pretty jackass of me, and I don't say anything, but the thoughts remain. Sucks being a broke college student...

Bump 'cause I like this thread.

Also, a confession- I've never opened the "great deal/sale" sticky because I am scared to lose all my money. I probably won't ever look at it.

yeah no doubt man
i've always thought it would be cool if bike shops charged you on how fast a rider you were. if you could go up a canyon in a certain amount of time, then you'd get a percentage off or something.
Granted, I got a really nice bike... but there are some even nicer ones out there ridden by total snails - what's the point?

Riding alongside them, preferably uphill, at the same slow pace that they're struggling at while you're doing it at ease, teasing away as they do it and then dropping them with ease when you think they had enough.

I know a guy, complete roadie, who had something similar to this happen to him this summer. but I don't know if it counts because it was Lance that dropped him.

anyway, I confess that I kind of want to try fgfs or street bmx. it looks...kind of fun.

I want a Surly Pugsley really bad. I would be able to ride through ANYTHING.

Idk about fgfs as I haven't done it, but I used to ride bmx street when I was younger. It's a blast man.

I regret buying Thickslicks.

The thoughts are natural. But everything we do is going to bother someone else in the same way. It's almost a certainty that someone will look at your bike and think it's crap, while someone else will think they'd kill to have a bike like that.

I completely understand your feeling. I come from a running background, so I do have some mixed feelings about some cyclist. Generally it seems, when people want to be faster than their riding buddies, they run to a bike shop and declare that their bike is not good enough. But if you're a runner, the mentality is improving your training or diet, adjusting shoe fit etc.

Too many casual riders on either hundreds or thousands of dollars worth of equipment when a cheap shopping bicycle or at most a hybrid bicycle would actually suffice for them. I miss running but now my body is too broken to do so as I once did. But I love biking, just not everything about it. It's also a mixed bag because running was never, "cool." But biking now is very fashionable/marketable etc, and many have started biking recently as solely a fashion statement, so you get a lot of the extra garbage that comes with that, i.e. poorly setup histograms/kageros/cervelos/carbon kalavinkas. Those that seemingly at times represent us all, but in actuality they are only a small portion of us.

Already long story short, I know you can do whatever you want with your money, but should you?

My confession is that I'm thinking of Pedalroom as the new and improved FixedGearGallery, just the grainier south-east Asian version.

I'm too much of a ***** to ride in the winter. Also, I think skidding is dumb, but I do it here and there and I don't remember the last time I used my brake. I think I enjoy working on my bike as much as I like riding it. I've stripped a bike clean and sold the parts before. It was there for six months before I did it, and the day I did it the cops had tagged it for removal, so I don't feel as bad about it, but still.

I wonder if the logic applies to someone's broken down car that's illegally parked on a street that's tagged with warnings that it will be towed and on the day of towing, you break the glass and "take" the radio. It's one thing if you found it in the trash but at very least if you're not a bike thief you may be a crackhead. "take" = stole.

As I said in the thread I made asking advice about it, I posted a note on it asking the owner to call me if he no longer wanted it. I also contacted a friend who is a cop about the matter. The owner hadn't contacted me after two weeks, and my cop friend said that if I took the bike or any parts from it it would not be illegal due to it being considered abandoned by the PD. I kind.of feel bad, but not really. Three months later, the frame is still there.

What kind of bike was it that got your attention so badly?

Ok, I remember that thread. You are "that guy."

I guess I just don't like when people start making the assumption that they are entitled to someone else's property, just because they don't like how the owner is using it. Because if that's the case there are a ton of homes I would love to break into and "rescue" the bikes, that I feel are being misused as wall art/bar bikes/photo props. But telling someone, "Hey, I'm going to `take` your stuff in 2 weeks, if you don't stop me," seems a little bit sketchy. I also wouldn't reply to someone who was threatening to steal my stuff. "rescue" and "take" = steal.

to EpicSchwinn, I think it was a Bianchi Pista, but I'm not sure.

The frame was some old no-name conversion. The parts are what was nice. The only thing I didn't take were pedals (because I didn't want them) and cranks (because I didn't have a tool with me) and the thing is still there, still has the police note on it, and hasn't moved. It's abandoned. Get off of your high horse.

Edit: I was within the letter of the law, and had Scrod's approval, so I feel ok about it.

My confession: Lately I have had absolutely no desire to ride the 930 and have had all the attention on the DJ bike. Today's ride on the 930 was forced by myself.