Feeling sweet on a bicycle built for - who?

ghostgum said:

The NYTimes article on bike seats and anatomy is given another spin
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Another storm in a tea (or should that be chamois?) Do the authors of the article in The Journal of Sexual Medicine know *anything* about basic geometry/setup of a bike? Do they even care? Regardless, anyone who rides around numb for any length of time without adjusting their bikes basic geometry must be fecking numbnuts.

On 2005-10-10, cfsmtb (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

Quoted message said:

Regardless, anyone who rides around numb for any length of time
without adjusting their bikes basic geometry must be fecking
numbnuts.

Dear cfsmtb: you are my hero.

Is that a pun, or is something like that given a different name?

--
TimC
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Charged Particles Moving at Velocities in Excess of Five Hundred
Million Miles Per Hour. --unknown

Um - I don't think that far ahead. Possibly combination of
stream-of-consciousness + tautology? Glad you liked it. tootle-pips.

c😉

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Quoted message said:

Another storm in a tea (or should that be chamois?) Do the authors of
the article in The Journal of Sexual Medicine know *anything* about
basic geometry/setup of a bike? Do they even care? Regardless, anyone
who rides around numb for any length of time without adjusting their
bikes basic geometry must be fecking numbnuts.

--
cfsmtb

I dunno. Many casual cyclists I know think discomfort is part of riding a
bike. They think a sore bum, numb bits and sore hands is part of the deal.
The common solution? Only ride a few km, slowly, tottering about on shared
paths through parks, seat low enough so they can put both feet flat on the
ground with knees bent, saddle at whatever angle it was when they bought the
bike, etc, etc. Exactly the kind of rider who will then leave the bike in
the shed because it hurts to ride. Exactly the kind of rider who will be put
off by articles like this instead of investigating causes (because they
don't know there's something to investigate).

The blame for poor fit for these casuals lies with bike retailers.
Supermarkets because they have nobody to advise their Huffy buyers and bike
shops for not explaining fit in detail, even (especially when?) it's only a
$200 bike.

By stating what you do above you're assuming everyone knows what questions
to ask and where to go for answers. That's a pretty elitist assumption: that
everyone cares for their bike as people on this and other bike groups do.
Not everyone is a 'keen cyclist". Many, many people just want to pootle
around on a Sunday morning and makethemselves feel good about getting some
exercise. Articles like this make those people take up golf... and keep
driving rather than riding.

Cheers,

Frank

Plodder said:

By stating what you do above you're assuming everyone knows what questions to ask and where to go for answers. That's a pretty elitist assumption: that everyone cares for their bike as people on this and other bike groups do. Not everyone is a 'keen cyclist". Many, many people just want to pootle around on a Sunday morning and makethemselves feel good about getting some exercise. Articles like this make those people take up golf... and keep driving rather than riding.

It's not an elitist assumption. A certain percentage of the population when faced with a problem probably will take steps to educate themselves in order to solve it. Another percentage can't/won't/shalnt - and unfortunately end up utilising a service industry/medical practitioner to repair it for them. ie: think Podiatrists, Cardiologists, Chiropractors, Cleaning Services, Smash Repairers etc etc etc. It's education vs regulation and legislation. The bike industry has a huge role in designing adequate models for domestic markets - but invaribly churn out cheap lowend imports. Any possible solution to that comes from cyclists, as the products end user group, should take a longterm approach educating themselves and working with industry/government to enforce satisfactory production standards. If I had my way, the majority of the [censored] for sale in Kmart etc would be withdrawn & all bikes for domestic market would come equiped with guards, lights, highly detailed instructional manuals (with relevant local information, links and networking tips) and all that daggy unfashionable stuff. Back to the saddle positions for a moment, this again could be seen as an example of condenscending and/or ignorant attitudes towards cyclists and cycling in general. Populist stuff without hard data analysis is relatively easy copy to spin in the media - and we should object to it at every opportunity.

Resound said:

A damn good point. I went hunting for information when I started riding,
that's how I found a.b. The community on this group seems to have inquiring
minds as a common feature as much as cycling. So now we're faced with the
issue that plagues so many other groups, namely how you inform the
unfortunately large portion of the general public who is not merely
apathetic about but often actively hostile to instruction? By the way, if we
work out how to do this, we're going to be beset on all sides by the
education community, the health industry etc etc 🙂 Hmm...offer an interview
to 'lifestyle' tv shows on one way to 'beat rising petrol prices'?

Either we form a advertising company, float it on the stock exchange &
make lots of $$$. Or invent the ultimate rumour that proports cycling
as alluring and deadset sexy. Or somefink like that....

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Quoted message said:

Resound said:

A damn good point. I went hunting for information when I started riding,
that's how I found a.b. The community on this group seems to have
inquiring
minds as a common feature as much as cycling. So now we're faced with the
issue that plagues so many other groups, namely how you inform the
unfortunately large portion of the general public who is not merely
apathetic about but often actively hostile to instruction? By the way, if
we
work out how to do this, we're going to be beset on all sides by the
education community, the health industry etc etc 🙂 Hmm...offer an
interview
to 'lifestyle' tv shows on one way to 'beat rising petrol prices'?

Either we form a advertising company, float it on the stock exchange &
make lots of $$$. Or invent the ultimate rumour that proports cycling
as alluring and deadset sexy. Or somefink like that....

Or turn the tables on 'normal'

"Haven't you ever ridden in to work?"
"No."
*in backing away and avoiding eye contact tone of voice* "Ooookay. I suppose
there's nothing wrong with that..."

Resound said:

Or turn the tables on 'normal'

"Haven't you ever ridden in to work?"
"No."
*in backing away and avoiding eye contact tone of voice* "Ooookay. I suppose there's nothing wrong with that..."

Later rumour mongering in the office:

"Hey, heard the latest on Macca down in Accounts?"

"Nah?"

"He doesn't ride in from home"

"Shessh, I always though he was a bit of a freak"

"And guess what else?"

"Wot?"

"He's only got one bike - and a Kmart [censored] at that!"

(sounds of muffled giggling)

cfsmtb said:

Later rumour mongering in the office:
"Hey, heard the latest on Macca down in Accounts?"
"Nah?"
"He doesn't ride in from home"
"Shessh, I always though he was a bit of a freak"
"And guess what else?"
"Wot?"
"He's only got one bike - and a Kmart [censored] at that!"
(sounds of muffled giggling)

LOL! 😄

Just take it easy with that "only got one bike" thing! 🙁

hippy
"Get a job ya bum!"

cfsmtb said:

"And guess what else?"

"Wot?"

"He's only got one bike - and a Kmart [censored] at that!"

(sounds of muffled giggling)

*cough* I've only got one bike. 45,000 kms and counting.

EuanB said:

*cough* I've only got one bike. 45,000 kms and counting.

I need to find a small piece of paper with an odo reading on it so I can work out how far I rode on my little euro vacation..

hippy
Nov 30th - Franz Ferdinand LIVE! 😄