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Can you please inform us what is funny about "eliminating all cyclists" (these are the authors words) when 100,000 of them are injured on the road every year?
Don't you think the author would act differently if one of his own family were one of the victims?
If it were your family, wouldn't you see a joke about "eliminating all cyclists" differently?
And if you could, please tell us how this is "off topic" on a cycling forum where 1,000 cyclists are killed on the road each year. Thank you, Stan!
Don't you think the author would act differently if one of his own family were one of the victims?
If it were your family, wouldn't you see a joke about "eliminating all cyclists" differently?
And if you could, please tell us how this is "off topic" on a cycling forum where 1,000 cyclists are killed on the road each year. Thank you, Stan!
Let me know when I cyclist is killed by bags of granola and I'll do what what I can in my power to make sure the author knows that this is not funny.
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Thank you for the clarification.
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SurferRosa, please leave this thread. You obviously don’t share the perspective of most members in this thread which is humorous and fun. You don’t like it so don’t contribute.
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glad i had just finished the last of my tea or it would be on my monitor. you have to check out general cycling to get this
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I think it really depends on your sense of humor and viewpoint and maybe whether you had coffee or not
and remembering no one is perfect (sitll miss Calvin)
I like Pearls Before Swine, despite picking on Jef. Bad puns and play on worrds can't resist. Author pics on himself more than anyone else Have to admit to laughing and groaning at some of the puns at the same time
Loose Parts if growing on me fast
Yehuda moon picked of the foibles of cycling https://www.instagram.com/yehudamoon/
and remembering no one is perfect (sitll miss Calvin)
I like Pearls Before Swine, despite picking on Jef. Bad puns and play on worrds can't resist. Author pics on himself more than anyone else Have to admit to laughing and groaning at some of the puns at the same time
Loose Parts if growing on me fast
Yehuda moon picked of the foibles of cycling https://www.instagram.com/yehudamoon/
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I think it really depends on your sense of humor and viewpoint and maybe whether you had coffee or not
and remembering no one is perfect (sitll miss Calvin)
I like Pearls Before Swine, despite picking on Jef. Bad puns and play on worrds can't resist. Author pics on himself more than anyone else Have to admit to laughing and groaning at some of the puns at the same time
Loose Parts if growing on me fast
Yehuda moon picked of the foibles of cycling https://www.instagram.com/yehudamoon/
and remembering no one is perfect (sitll miss Calvin)
I like Pearls Before Swine, despite picking on Jef. Bad puns and play on worrds can't resist. Author pics on himself more than anyone else Have to admit to laughing and groaning at some of the puns at the same time
Loose Parts if growing on me fast
Yehuda moon picked of the foibles of cycling https://www.instagram.com/yehudamoon/
Calvin and Hobbes was almost fine art.
People expecting any kind of hilarity in comics, including Pearls, are either expecting too much, or can’t appreciate them for what they are.
Never saw yehuda moon. Very cool.
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This is not about having a sense of humor but rather appears to be more of a trolling effort from Classic & Vintage riders, disparaging those who don’t share the same enthusiasm for riding older bikes. The choice to post it in the C & V sub-forum suggests a deliberate attempt to belittle those with different preferences, rather than fostering a constructive discussion whether the Comic is appropriate or funny. This line from post #14 explains it all.
“Yep, I get it but we ride C+V, they don't.”
What is with this bizarre we and them mindset in the C&V community. Most of us just like riding bikes and prefer that it happens safely.
“Yep, I get it but we ride C+V, they don't.”
What is with this bizarre we and them mindset in the C&V community. Most of us just like riding bikes and prefer that it happens safely.
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This is not about having a sense of humor but rather appears to be more of a trolling effort from Classic & Vintage riders, disparaging those who don’t share the same enthusiasm for riding older bikes. The choice to post it in the C & V sub-forum suggests a deliberate attempt to belittle those with different preferences, rather than fostering a constructive discussion whether the Comic is appropriate or funny. This line from post #14 explains it all.
“Yep, I get it but we ride C+V, they don't.”
What is with this bizarre we and them mindset in the C&V community. Most of us just like riding bikes and prefer that it happens safely.
“Yep, I get it but we ride C+V, they don't.”
What is with this bizarre we and them mindset in the C&V community. Most of us just like riding bikes and prefer that it happens safely.
EDIT: I must admit, I'm also a bit taken aback by the sense of insecurity exhibited here, a sort of, "You C&V guys are always picking on us" vibe. Not sure how a cartoon making fun of a generic cyclist (we don't know what Jef rides), elicited such a feeling, but it is strange, nonetheless.
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This is not about having a sense of humor but rather appears to be more of a trolling effort from Classic & Vintage riders, disparaging those who don’t share the same enthusiasm for riding older bikes. The choice to post it in the C & V sub-forum suggests a deliberate attempt to belittle those with different preferences, rather than fostering a constructive discussion whether the Comic is appropriate or funny. This line from post #14 explains it all.
“Yep, I get it but we ride C+V, they don't.”
What is with this bizarre we and them mindset in the C&V community. Most of us just like riding bikes and prefer that it happens safely.
“Yep, I get it but we ride C+V, they don't.”
What is with this bizarre we and them mindset in the C&V community. Most of us just like riding bikes and prefer that it happens safely.
I recommend spending time in the Clydesdale and Athena forum when the nastiness in C&V threatens to get out of hand, as in this thread. I once had an exchange with the late Tom Stormcrowe on the subject, asking why the posters in the Clydesdale and Athena forum are so genuinely welcoming and friendly compared to some of the other forums. He said big people grow up being treated like freaks every day of their lives and thus have a preference for avoiding confrontation and a tendency to be mutually supportive. Whatever the reason for the contrast, I enjoy reading posts there.
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LOL. You think that people read a comic strip and then go out and deliberately endanger cyclists - because a comic strip wink wink nudge nudged said it's ok.
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I agree, and it is bizarre. The title of this thread ("Thank god we aren't the full lycra wearing fools") puts it out there for all to see.
I recommend spending time in the Clydesdale and Athena forum when the nastiness in C&V threatens to get out of hand, as in this thread. I once had an exchange with the late Tom Stormcrowe on the subject, asking why the posters in the Clydesdale and Athena forum are so genuinely welcoming and friendly compared to some of the other forums. He said big people grow up being treated like freaks every day of their lives and thus have a preference for avoiding confrontation and a tendency to be mutually supportive. Whatever the reason for the contrast, I enjoy reading posts there.
I recommend spending time in the Clydesdale and Athena forum when the nastiness in C&V threatens to get out of hand, as in this thread. I once had an exchange with the late Tom Stormcrowe on the subject, asking why the posters in the Clydesdale and Athena forum are so genuinely welcoming and friendly compared to some of the other forums. He said big people grow up being treated like freaks every day of their lives and thus have a preference for avoiding confrontation and a tendency to be mutually supportive. Whatever the reason for the contrast, I enjoy reading posts there.
No topic or subforum remains untouched; discussions are regularly derailed. For instance, if you post a question about the best cycling GPS in the Touring section, it inevitably devolves into someone insisting that paper maps are the best, recounting an experience from 1975 after graduating high school. This pattern repeats across various topics and subforums. Consider all the third-rail subjects we have endured as the sport has moved on: carbon anything, tubeless, electronic shifting, disc brakes, bike computers, wide tires, low spoke count wheels, lycra, gravel bikes, triple chainrings, clipless pedals and it goes on.
Moreover, any critique within the C&V subforum is met with swift responses claiming it as a "safe space" for enthusiasts, urging critics to either conform or leave. This thread was explicitly initiated with an "us vs them" narrative, attracting the usual participants (myself included).
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Of course it wasn't. It was initiated as a "let's poke a little fun at ourselves, and not take ourselves too seriously" thread. That didn't work out, because the various Jefs among us got butt-hurt about our portrayal in national media. That it devolved into some perverse murder-threatening, granola-hurling Nazi propaganda thread is beyond ridiculous.
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Safe place ? ? Here ?
OK ---- conformity is mostly enforced but hijacking is really prevalent. You want real conformity? Over at the paceline if you don't speak the mods opinions you get banned.
And I'd best let it go at that.
OK ---- conformity is mostly enforced but hijacking is really prevalent. You want real conformity? Over at the paceline if you don't speak the mods opinions you get banned.
And I'd best let it go at that.
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Of course it wasn't. It was initiated as a "let's poke a little fun at ourselves, and not take ourselves too seriously" thread. That didn't work out, because the various Jefs among us got butt-hurt about our portrayal in national media. That it devolved into some perverse murder-threatening, granola-hurling Nazi propaganda thread is beyond ridiculous.
"Thank god we aren't the full lycra kit wearing fools."
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^^^^^^ ME ^^^^^^^
I met the man at Powells. I thought his back story was interesting. This is all my fault.
Feel free to not buy me a beer at the next outing we all get together.
PS: I bought his book. Those crocs are idiots.
PPS: I did ask the administrators to remove this thread pages ago (like page 2).
PPPS: Has anybody seen my cape?
I met the man at Powells. I thought his back story was interesting. This is all my fault.
Feel free to not buy me a beer at the next outing we all get together.
PS: I bought his book. Those crocs are idiots.
PPS: I did ask the administrators to remove this thread pages ago (like page 2).
PPPS: Has anybody seen my cape?
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In a previous comment within this thread, I expressed my concern about the overwhelming dominance of C&V (Classic & Vintage) enthusiasts across the entire Bike Forum. Despite playing a relatively minor role in the sport, it seems that more money is spent and more miles are ridden by rental bikes on a long weekend in San Francisco than by the entire C&V community in North America throughout the year.
No topic or subforum remains untouched; discussions are regularly derailed. For instance, if you post a question about the best cycling GPS in the Touring section, it inevitably devolves into someone insisting that paper maps are the best, recounting an experience from 1975 after graduating high school. This pattern repeats across various topics and subforums. Consider all the third-rail subjects we have endured as the sport has moved on: carbon anything, tubeless, electronic shifting, disc brakes, bike computers, wide tires, low spoke count wheels, lycra, gravel bikes, triple chainrings, clipless pedals and it goes on.
Moreover, any critique within the C&V subforum is met with swift responses claiming it as a "safe space" for enthusiasts, urging critics to either conform or leave. This thread was explicitly initiated with an "us vs them" narrative, attracting the usual participants (myself included).
No topic or subforum remains untouched; discussions are regularly derailed. For instance, if you post a question about the best cycling GPS in the Touring section, it inevitably devolves into someone insisting that paper maps are the best, recounting an experience from 1975 after graduating high school. This pattern repeats across various topics and subforums. Consider all the third-rail subjects we have endured as the sport has moved on: carbon anything, tubeless, electronic shifting, disc brakes, bike computers, wide tires, low spoke count wheels, lycra, gravel bikes, triple chainrings, clipless pedals and it goes on.
Moreover, any critique within the C&V subforum is met with swift responses claiming it as a "safe space" for enthusiasts, urging critics to either conform or leave. This thread was explicitly initiated with an "us vs them" narrative, attracting the usual participants (myself included).
So he decided to talk up the simplicity and reliability of friction shifting, as well as its character-building aspect, versus, in his words, "point-and-click" shifting. Then, having managed to move some product by way of his folksy rhetoric---the man undeniably has the gift-o'-the-gab---he bought up a bunch of other non-current stuff and ratcheted up the spieling.
To his credit, he mostly refrained from disparaging the riders who used the then-current state-of-the-art equipment, instead bemoaning the unfortunate, exclusively racing-oriented direction the manufacturers were pursuing. (Those same manufacturers were selling plenty of hybrid bikes by that time, which were essentially an updated version of the "sensible" bikes he said were gone from the market, but that didn't fit the narrative, so it was ignored.)
Grant, as I say, didn't say anything against the riders who liked their modern racing bikes, but the subtlety of the distinction between the bikes and the people who rode them was lost on the C&V guys he'd managed to rile up. Result: some C&V'ers came to see themselves as beleaguered survivalists, surrounded by mindless drones bent on destroying all they hold dear.
The irony, of course, is that most C&V riders wear plenty of Lycra, including, e.g., TOSRV and other event jerseys, and ride modern bikes in addition to their "forever" and "grail" bikes. And bless their hearts. I guess the us/them dichotomy might actually be re-enactors versus cosplayers.
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So you think he was referring to you? Or non-C&V riders in general? My wife, who really doesn't ride much, maybe, and when she does ride, it's a mountain bike? How about me? How many vague thread titles do you think are referencing you and "your people?" That paranoia can be treated, you know. How do you explain us C&V people who DO wear full lycra kit? And somehow aren't offended by this?
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Was I offended by this thread? No.
Do I venture into other forums and derail threads? Also no.
Do I have an inkling of why there are more C&Vers than folks in most of the other forums? I didn't until this thread.
There's a P&R forum if you simply must be argumentative.
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Stephan Pastis is missing a bet if he doesn't start selling Jef's "pyramid of humanity" chart on a jersey.
"It's okay, my people expect very little of you."
"It's okay, my people expect very little of you."
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and just to note....for those of us who find wool is too itchy and riding in tweed daily is impractical here is a C&V guy in lycra (which I bet most C&V people do ride in)
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Eleven pages! OMG! Now THAT'S funny!
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