Like bikes

brb gonna go ride my bike on the busiest streets instead of the empty side roads

The same empty side roads that haven't been repaired in a decade and will destroy your wheels and/or spine?

Cyclists wearing spandex are literally the LEAST cool athletes of all. The ones that wear branded/sponsored clothes like their professional idols are the cringiest of all

so just bike and wear normal clothes you dumb whiney faggot

lyrca shit is used because it doesn't chafe and it wicks away sweat to keep you cooler than riding normal clothes but normal clothes are fine if you just nufred it around

no one notices you anyways faggot

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Iktf. Problem with cycling is that it’s a money sport... you can throw more money at a bike then brag about it. Runners don’t do that with their shoes or lifters with their plates... it’s just about how fast you run or what you can lift. With cyclists it’s how fast can you ride and what did you spend on your bike. Chasing it is ludicrous so now I ride well tuned dept store bikes... I’m not a competitive rider or going off into the woods so idgaf.

>in order to cycle you have to subscribe to the "cycling culture"
You can do whatever you want with it.

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There's a middle ground between not being a snob and risking your life on a 60 pound lump of walmart shit that will disintegrate if you breathe on it wrong.

lel
no

no one notices if the guy is on a 10k SpecialEd or a $1200 Cdale except other cyclists

runners absolutely obsess over what footwear is most trendy to have but like cyclists no one gives a shit outside of other runners

this, bike culture is absolutely populated with beta males and sojas

eh, whatever

cycling is fun, good for your health, cheap, and if you live in a non-US city, you get to your destination faster
Who cares if some autist calls you a fag for cycling

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What even is this picture?
>All on road frames
>Tyres aren’t even hybrid
>Guy going down rough terrain in a drop bar stance
>Not an ounce of dust on any of them
Is this the cover to some kind of shitty album or something?

Why is the one on the left so accurate to me?

Just do what you like, and if that includes cycling, don't let your vision of others disrupt that, you mentally ill faggot

>Hating this hard
Find the ragey cagey that associates sexuality with how you get from point A to B, lel

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Judging by the subtly prominent "BMC" logo and the general douchy vibe of BMC's website, I'm about 99% sure it's part of this social media marketing campaign thing they seem to have going on

bmc-switzerland.com/us-en/experience/racing-teams/bmc-ride-crew/
> The BMC Ride Crew consists of a group of riders who resist categorization. They are makers and shakers, sometimes racers, but most of all they love to ride…just for the sake of it.

Too lazy to scroll through all those instagram posts to find that specific picture though.

Joey is that you?

I used to know this autistic kid who would wear a dirt bike helmet while riding his bike in suburbia, he used to make motorbike noises as he went up and down the street

kek I was looking for this image a few minutes ago but realized i didnt have it anymore. Thank you for posting it

It's Thereabouts, a photo and video thing by the Morton brothers, a pro and an ex-pro. The guy on BMC is Taylor Phinney.

It was about just riding out and enjoying it. Surprisingly unpretentious.

Unfortunately their next project is sponsored by Vice and will most likely be unbearably hip.

>he doesn't do veldrijden

That just seems like a great way to waste money on hubs.

>you don't need a 5.000$ road bike to enjoy cycling
>hurr wrong equipment they're not even hybrids waste of money hurr

I know the feeling. I hate the blatant consumerism and “me me me” bullshit a lot of groups have going on. I was driving on a pretty busy road with cars going +40mph all day when a group of 15 or so cyclists decided to turn on and block all lanes of traffic going 10mph. The really fucking annoying thing is though, is that there is a bike path that follows this road, and is in perfect condition (I use it regularly) and is wide enough to accommodate that entire group. I had to stop at the light right after they got on, and they surrounded the car on all sides, some even creepin I front of it. I gunned it out in 2nd gear to scare the shit out of them so they’d back off and not get sucked under my wheels, and I swear I saw one chuck his overpriced water bottle at me.

I’m not exactly sure what you’re getting at, as they could’ve easily bought a bike suited for that terrain or even just some hybrid tyres for really cheap.

>he spends more than 50$ on a bike
lmaoing at your life, just get a used one you cucks

>bike culture
There's no single bike culture. You're thinking of road endurance cyclists. If you're going to do four hour intense training sessions, five times a week you need the lycra, padded bibs and all that. There's also randoneur culture which is more miles than how fast you go, fixie culture, messenger culture (sometimes overlap) and so on.

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>He spends more than ¢10 per pound on meat
Lmaoing at your steaks, Just buy ground beef intestines you cucks

>10 cents a pound
??

Whaddup boiii

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>that boomer who still rides bmx in his 20's

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Based

>no one cares if you ride a cheap $1200 bike instead of $10k
Perfectly illustrating the problem of putting your price floor for quality at $1200. Who the fuck can afford that?

It’s freedom units

$500 minimum for a Giant roadbike would be the best for a new budget bike.

If you're a good boy maybe Santa will bring you a grown-up bike for christmas.

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Can't I just hate one thing? Why do there have to be so many different things to hate?

>he thinks $1200 is a lot for a bike
CAADs are the cheapest racing bikes worth buying.
Don't listen to this fag, $500 bikes weight more than $20 steel mtbs from the 90's and have babby geometry. Enjoy reselling it for $250 after a couple of months when you join a group.

>odi grips
My niqqa

You got me
I have plenty of other toys though

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Delete this for you own good. People can be very mean and hurtful on the internet.

He did :)

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Fuck. Now I regret not getting out of bed at 6 30 to ride my Slut. But I needed them sleepgains
Oh well, I'll leave her ready and lubed up for a good riding on Sunday morn.

Unless you’re a KOM maniac or race competitively or routinely do +30 mile rides, a $500 dollar bike would be fine for a beginner. They can upgrade later if they want.

>Why do you hate me user-kun?

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>Tfw no qt3.14 cyclist gf

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Because you’re not sitting on my face fresh after riding your bike

Moist

>slammed saddle
>3ft long bars
I just love fucking up my knees while looking like an absolute fucking tool.

>*posts a boomer bike*

>tfw 26 and have driver license but too nervous to drive, got it at age 25, aspie
>just bike and/or subway everywhere

This is every hobby op, lifting included. As long as you don’t let it define your whole being fuck it and do what you like.

You’re saving cash that way man. I should my car and got a bike to lose weight, and I haven’t looked back since. That was 4 years ago, and I’ve noticed that my paycheck is substantially better spent not only because I don’t have any car associated fees, but also that I can’t go out and do things as easy like getting chips and soda from a store at night, or even get carry out because of how hard it is to get home.

i dont really care about the money. the reason i dont have a car is because im basically a shut in autist. although i do enjoy not having to spend $4 a gallon on gas all the time and expensive maintenance. and i park my bike in the morning at my subway station for work in a locking cage and it costs 5 cents an hour, so like 50 cents a day, while car parking is $3 a day

im skelly mode as well so it isnt like im using it to lose weight

I take mine into work with me. Those are just some added benefits to cycling instead of driving.

>road bike cucks
el oh el

just don't be an asshole dude. I ride my bike around town a lot and don't have problems since I stay in the bike lane. sometimes I will use the road to make turns from the turning lane but only if there is little traffic. it's fags that take up the lane when I'm driving that annoy people

>doesn't ride a road bike
>rides on bike lanes
I bet you even wear a helmet.

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You can easily find a Cannondale or giant on Craigslist for cheap. Even bike shops have last season's models on discount. Go on a major holiday like around Thanksgiving or Father's day. I got my caad 8 for 800 dollars brand new right off the sales floor

stfu miki

They look like cyclocross or gravel bikes

well I made it out to look like a more courteous cyclist than I am. I actually ride more recklessly than I drive, but I do wear a helmet when I'm going somewhere in a hurry or far. When I used to ride to school I would run reds all the time, cut in front of traffic if I had the space, decide whether to ride on the road or sidewalk depending on which suited me, and also pop sick wheelies on my mountain bike in front of police at intersections. feels good mane. plus I can always jump shit on my mtb

Shoulf i buy a $190 bike from walmart guys? Are those og a good quality? My last one broke :(

You are living in a delusion dude you've gotta mature

Imagine being this beta that you let others influence how you enjoy an activity

Having watched those bike do exactly that when I mtb I know exactly what needs fixed to make them safe and ridable. It’s just bike mechanics and tuning... not rocket science.

>Runners don’t do that with their shoes
They do it about literally everything that they carry. Same as cyclists only poorer, slower and with worse knee health.

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fuck fruity faggot cyclists and street bikes. get a mountain bike. if you live somewhere without mountains get a motorcyle, you will probably spend a couple grand anyway to get a "good" street bicycle so just go buy a motorcyle with that instead
stupid street bike cyclists are always the ones sitting in the road going 10mph on a 30-45mph street taking up the whole lane and blocking traffic. use the fucking sidewalk like everyone else, i dont give a fuck if its "illegal" ive done it all my life and never once got ticketed and if a cop asked me i would tell him i dont trust cars to pay enough attention to see me before i see them. if you cant keep pace w/ traffic gtfo the road

i would never bike on the sidewalk. sidewalks are more dangerous to bike on than in the street with cars. trash cans, light posts, people, shitty quality uneven sidewalk panels, etc

Same goes with mountain bikes on bike paths intended for road bikes (my city has a 4 lane bike path, one for mountain bikes and the other for road bikes going two ways) and they’re almost always in the fucking road bike line blocking shit up, swerving all over the path because they can’t hold a line worth shit and aren’t paying attention. Even cyclists hate other cyclists. Then when you try to pass them, they step on it because “lol I’m faster than a fancy road bike” but then you either zip past them because they’re still slow as fuck, or you catch them hunched over dry heaving further up because they aren’t actually faster than a road bike, and they bonked trying to out do you.

>Even cyclists hate other cyclists
This. No matter what, all cyclists are just a giant ball of hate. Whether it’s contempt for expensive or cheap bikes, better or worse riders, types of riding, etc. they always have something to bitch about.