Why is Rapha so divisive?
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I think it's weird anybody would worry that fat people will stop eating iced cream because of something they read on a water bottle.
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If I can be permitted to go off-subject in this oh-so-serious thread...
Shortly after reading this comment, I was driving and had someone just in front of me commit one of my pet peeves - a great big, dumb, widening of their turn. Like, to the point where their wheels are out of their lane on one side to make a turn in the other direction. You see it pretty often with SUVs (I guess they roll a bit much and people can't be bothered to slow down enough to make a proper turn?), but this was with a Prius. A friggin' Prius. Dude just about swiped parked cars on the right while widening to take his left.
HOLD YOUR LINE! There needs to be a "We're going toyell honk at you" thread on CarForums.net.
Shortly after reading this comment, I was driving and had someone just in front of me commit one of my pet peeves - a great big, dumb, widening of their turn. Like, to the point where their wheels are out of their lane on one side to make a turn in the other direction. You see it pretty often with SUVs (I guess they roll a bit much and people can't be bothered to slow down enough to make a proper turn?), but this was with a Prius. A friggin' Prius. Dude just about swiped parked cars on the right while widening to take his left.
HOLD YOUR LINE! There needs to be a "We're going to
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If I can be permitted to go off-subject in this oh-so-serious thread...
Shortly after reading this comment, I was driving and had someone just in front of me commit one of my pet peeves - a great big, dumb, widening of their turn. Like, to the point where their wheels are out of their lane on one side to make a turn in the other direction. You see it pretty often with SUVs (I guess they roll a bit much and people can't be bothered to slow down enough to make a proper turn?), but this was with a Prius. A friggin' Prius. Dude just about swiped parked cars on the right while widening to take his left.
HOLD YOUR LINE! There needs to be a "We're going toyell honk at you" thread on CarForums.net.
Shortly after reading this comment, I was driving and had someone just in front of me commit one of my pet peeves - a great big, dumb, widening of their turn. Like, to the point where their wheels are out of their lane on one side to make a turn in the other direction. You see it pretty often with SUVs (I guess they roll a bit much and people can't be bothered to slow down enough to make a proper turn?), but this was with a Prius. A friggin' Prius. Dude just about swiped parked cars on the right while widening to take his left.
HOLD YOUR LINE! There needs to be a "We're going to
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If I can be permitted to go off-subject in this oh-so-serious thread...
Shortly after reading this comment, I was driving and had someone just in front of me commit one of my pet peeves - a great big, dumb, widening of their turn. Like, to the point where their wheels are out of their lane on one side to make a turn in the other direction. You see it pretty often with SUVs (I guess they roll a bit much and people can't be bothered to slow down enough to make a proper turn?), but this was with a Prius. A friggin' Prius. Dude just about swiped parked cars on the right while widening to take his left.
HOLD YOUR LINE! There needs to be a "We're going toyell honk at you" thread on CarForums.net.
Shortly after reading this comment, I was driving and had someone just in front of me commit one of my pet peeves - a great big, dumb, widening of their turn. Like, to the point where their wheels are out of their lane on one side to make a turn in the other direction. You see it pretty often with SUVs (I guess they roll a bit much and people can't be bothered to slow down enough to make a proper turn?), but this was with a Prius. A friggin' Prius. Dude just about swiped parked cars on the right while widening to take his left.
HOLD YOUR LINE! There needs to be a "We're going to
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anyone want red vines or raisinets?
liking the new rapha core lightweight jersey about as much as some of their older, more expensive lightweight/flyweight jerseys.
it doesn't have a "valuables" zippered pocket but i will purchase another one probably in the fall when things finally get restocked
in a size large.
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If I can be permitted to go off-subject in this oh-so-serious thread...
Shortly after reading this comment, I was driving and had someone just in front of me commit one of my pet peeves - a great big, dumb, widening of their turn. Like, to the point where their wheels are out of their lane on one side to make a turn in the other direction. You see it pretty often with SUVs (I guess they roll a bit much and people can't be bothered to slow down enough to make a proper turn?), but this was with a Prius. A friggin' Prius. Dude just about swiped parked cars on the right while widening to take his left.
HOLD YOUR LINE! There needs to be a "We're going toyell honk at you" thread on CarForums.net.
Shortly after reading this comment, I was driving and had someone just in front of me commit one of my pet peeves - a great big, dumb, widening of their turn. Like, to the point where their wheels are out of their lane on one side to make a turn in the other direction. You see it pretty often with SUVs (I guess they roll a bit much and people can't be bothered to slow down enough to make a proper turn?), but this was with a Prius. A friggin' Prius. Dude just about swiped parked cars on the right while widening to take his left.
HOLD YOUR LINE! There needs to be a "We're going to
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And I will say Prii wallow. That rear suspension is heavily compromised to fit the batteries, and it's a soft pig. That said, it's no worse than the GX, and can certainly be driven properly if the driver is competent.
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What's so weird about it? And yes, I suppose it could among a certain audience. If you know much about eating disorders, that shouldn't surprise you. But the point is that it was, in my opinion, a reasonable criticism for someone to make. You can disagree with it, but it's not crazy.
Someone used "put me back on my bike" as a quote. That quote is directly associated with tragedy and i can see how using that on a bottle would be in poor taste. But this? This is an example of the sort of stuff elite athletes do, in order to be elite. Pro cyclists do a lot of crazy stuff to reach race weight - eg, eat apple peels as a snack. MMA fighters do even more insane stuff to make weight cuts.
The connection between what Pantani did and eating disorders is extremely tenuous except in the most banal/shallowest of ways. Just because some easily-offended halfwit is unable to parse the distinction between a nod to the extreme dedication of the elite and the more mundane concerns of the non-elite does not make it the rest of the world's problem.
People are entitled to respect and support for the issues they are facing - what they are NOT entitled to is for the rest of the world to start tip-toeing around in order to avoid doing something that even remotely at anything that they might find bothersome.
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I'll tell you where they are NOT - not in Asia, that's for sure. At 180lb, i am atleast 20lb heavier than most guys i race with, and typically 35-40lb.
I find this offensive and discriminatory towards Fatsos and by having more jerseys in smaller sizes and fewer in larger sizes (confession - after this thread, i went to buy a Core jersey too, but the one i wanted was sold out too), Rapha is contributing towards this unfairness. Cut their heads off!
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i grabbed some hot tamales, peanut m & m's and jujubes as well. any other requests?
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Where the hell are all these guys at the hilly races?
I'll tell you where they are NOT - not in Asia, that's for sure. At 180lb, i am atleast 20lb heavier than most guys i race with, and typically 35-40lb.
I find this offensive and discriminatory towards Fatsos and by having more jerseys in smaller sizes and fewer in larger sizes (confession - after this thread, i went to buy a Core jersey too, but the one i wanted was sold out too), Rapha is contributing towards this unfairness. Cut their heads off!
I'll tell you where they are NOT - not in Asia, that's for sure. At 180lb, i am atleast 20lb heavier than most guys i race with, and typically 35-40lb.
I find this offensive and discriminatory towards Fatsos and by having more jerseys in smaller sizes and fewer in larger sizes (confession - after this thread, i went to buy a Core jersey too, but the one i wanted was sold out too), Rapha is contributing towards this unfairness. Cut their heads off!
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Never understood why larger roadies didn’t do more track racing. The training for mass start racing is the same as the road except you might spend one night a week at the velodrome doing intervals.
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Track cycling sounds too much like riding a trainer. I ride to go someplace, and I like the rate at which the scenery changes outdoors. But that's just me.
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It's about 300 comments long.
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