MadGrad

My clipless pedals work fine as a bottle opener...

dddave

my uncle is a mechanical engineer at a university in illinois. he made a big mold of bottle openers and cut each one out and machined them separately (think like cutting a loaf of bread). it's made of some titanium and aluminum alloy or something and is hard as f*ck. he made it because he got sick of crappy store-bought ones wearing out all the time. i've had this for 5 years and it's not worn out at all. and, trust me, it sees a looooot of use.

skinnyland

Nice ring, but if you need a special ring for it, you're doing it wrong. My wedding ring is a plain titanium band, and it pops beer caps allllllll day.
Also, agreed. It's handy to have a bottle opener on you at all times. My bike doesn't need one, however, because I wear my wedding ring all the time.
And, lastly, if you're drinking beer that has a twist-off cap, you're also doing it wrong.

Weeeeeeeeee!

1fluffhead

Has been the only bottle opener I have needed for years now.

oneangrytoast

everyone drinks beer, bro's and hipsters alike.

i just recently quit smoking so this doesnt apply for me nemore but bic lighters work well too.

oneangrytoast

not to get into politics, but you realize the ron paul is the opposite of a liberal right? maybe i missed what you were getting at...

Meepers

now this is a trick i am going to have to learn. i never wore a ring until my girlfriend bought me this one. it was a birthday present 2 years ago. she thought it was funny because i drink a lot of beer, so she bought it for me. I would love to learn how to pop a cap off with a plain band. never even thought of trying it.

I want to get better at the lighter trick to. every once in a a while i can get it, but i think it is just luck. that and i don't smoke, so i rarely have a lighter on me (if i do it is a zippo, or my lady forgot it in my hoodie).

oneangrytoast

i cringe when people use their teeth. freaks me out.

Mr. O

That is sick!

drjava

Hey man, its 5:00 somewhere!

scrublover

what he said.



all six bikes have the same capability. no need to bolt extra crap on!

trelhak

Marketing people have made a science of following demographic trends and identifying the next cool city.

To be the cool city, you are in that very narrow zone between "safe for rich, white kids" and "safe for rich, white kids' parents."

In this fleeting state, the rich, white kids can be rich and white and live in this city without being robbed, but the parents are still too sketched-out to actually come and visit.

My prediction: the city of the early 2010's will be Detroit, Michigan.

I'm getting ahead of the curve by buying up rental property that I will rent at cut rates to artists and musicians. Then when the rich kids come, I quadruple the rent, make two years' worth of good money and then move to a new city.

adriano 

let me know how that goes.

metaljim

None of you have ever used your spokes to open a beer? Did no one ride bikes in high school?

Also, Austin sucks. Everyone needs to leave. No one else come here. Don't even bother coming for SXSW, you'll get murdered or something. Just stay in your own cities. Thanks.

Patricky

sum timz i see othr kids who use it okay and weird coz they kent drank but its like fixy so they have them its weird coz like the trnd but my track bike is 02 and we no dodnt use it and i ok but no its just off to me and NAD cause we nvr nedded it now till then we did

xsnakobx

^ What?

bbattle

In other words, where John Hughes films his movies.

LesterOfPuppets

I heard you can buy houses for $7000 there. Motown's gonna have to get a LOT more hip to make people put up with the weather.

AModernDrunkard

Grammar and sentence structure are your friends.

Back on topic, I just use a trusty bic or a corner of something.

malpag3

SPD FTW!! That is awesome. Trying it tonight. Thanks!

BTW, as someone who lives in Detroit...it's fun, but it's not that great. We definitely make due and have a lot of fun doing it, but I am moving to Denver shortly so...that should say something.

trelhak

See, that's the genius of my plan:

By charging such low rates and being selective with whom I rent to, the coolest, but also poorest, people will move in. (Artists and musicians) Such a high concentration of these otherwise useless people in such a small area will begin to constitute a "scene". The rich, white kids, who have the money to move wherever they want, will flock to where the "scene" is. They get charged at quadruple the rent because they don't know any better and it's not their money anyway, it's their parents.

With sufficient investment capital I can open up some booksellers, coffeehouses, record stores, etc for the rich, white kids to "work" at so they can claim to be "working class" in addition to living in a city that is such a demilitarized zone it can't claim to be anything BUT "authentic".

The best part of all this is that these kids, who have forever chafed under their parents' parenting won't want to be visited by their parents. Such visits might potentially demonstrate to the parents that the kids' weekly allowance is spent entirely on booze and drugs. Well, what parent would ever want to go to Detroit for any reason?

Being Detroit, the beat-up muscle car will probably become the new fixie.

I call it, "the Williamsburg model". I'm going to talk to some bankers about getting a business loan. All I have to do now is convince the bankers that business and social engineering is the same thing.

dddave

detroit will always be a complete ghetto sh*thole.

bape

Sounds plausible to me.I'm in.

eric716

He never fails! I love all his posts!

haywireII

I won't be impressed until someone straight up brazes a rig spoon to their frame.