Road bikes are weak AF
09-21-20, 12:07 PM
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09-21-20, 01:16 PM
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Thanks for the reminder @Trsnrtr. 
09-21-20, 02:06 PM
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Man that’s like twice in a week someone thinks it’s a good idea to come at rubiksoval’s cycling.
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09-21-20, 02:12 PM
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Florida is the most dangerous place to ride a bike. Highly skilled or not. People die down here all the time. Some people even get shot for riding their bikes. Look it up. Most of you wouldn’t last a weekend down here.
09-21-20, 02:13 PM
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Also I was HIT twice this year. There’s a difference.
09-21-20, 02:14 PM
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Also I was HIT twice this year. There’s a difference.
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09-21-20, 02:20 PM
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Just keep to the golf-cart lanes in the retirement village. You'll be a lot safer there. Less crashes.
09-21-20, 02:24 PM
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The very cheap and lowest tier Shimano groups that they put on the bikes my sons rode as pre-teens and teens took a heck of a lot of abuse and just kept working. Sure I had to adjust and bend things back into place, but I think a DuraAce on those bikes wouldn't have survived as long under the conditions they put their bikes through.
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Man that’s like twice in a week someone thinks it’s a good idea to come at rubiksoval’s cycling.
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09-21-20, 02:28 PM
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But not 6.38% of the population. Given its climate and the retirement/vacation numbers, Florida likely overrepresents for cyclists/bicyclists.
Or... it could be that Ryan the Reckless has more followers on his YouTube How-To videos than we suspected.
And Ryan the Reckless may in fact be a more highly skilled rider than all of us. But without proof, still:
09-21-20, 02:53 PM
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The only other country I have experience riding a bike in is Spain. In 2018 they had 58 bike fatalities - that's with a population of 46 million (twice the population of Florida).
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09-21-20, 02:55 PM
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09-21-20, 02:56 PM
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Road bicycles are not intended to be routinely crashed.
