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I joined a facebook cycling group once. It turned out to be a vehicle for older men with beards to post selfies with their bikes and what the bikes were named. I supposed it got weirder but I promptly left the group when one dude posted a picture with the caption, "This is my new bike. I dub her venom. She bites" with a little snake emoji. Not only did he name the bike, he assigned a gender to it.
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I joined a facebook cycling group once. It turned out to be a vehicle for older men with beards to post selfies with their bikes and what the bikes were named. I supposed it got weirder but I promptly left the group when one dude posted a picture with the caption, "This is my new bike. I dub her venom. She bites" with a little snake emoji. Not only did he name the bike, he assigned a gender to it.
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Something tells me I'm going to be needing a VPN to be seeing this thread again! With Firefox incognito mode!
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I admit it is fun to "toy-around" with the language, but try not to mis-characterize what I meant by "intimacy" or "relationship".
Maybe I am a bit of an idealist and romantic, and maybe I am more attached to my bikes than I should be to any material object, but it is not outrageous to believe that each bike has its own "personality", that, for me, can only be understood, experienced and assimilated through significant use, in either pace or duration. I find it unfortunate that some have degenerated the conversation to innuendo.
Maybe I am a bit of an idealist and romantic, and maybe I am more attached to my bikes than I should be to any material object, but it is not outrageous to believe that each bike has its own "personality", that, for me, can only be understood, experienced and assimilated through significant use, in either pace or duration. I find it unfortunate that some have degenerated the conversation to innuendo.
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I admit it is fun to "toy-around" with the language, but try not to mis-characterize what I meant by "intimacy" or "relationship".
Maybe I am a bit of an idealist and romantic, and maybe I am more attached to my bikes than I should be to any material object, but it is not outrageous to believe that each bike has its own "personality", that, for me, can only be understood, experienced and assimilated through significant use, in either pace or duration. I find it unfortunate that some have degenerated the conversation to innuendo.
Maybe I am a bit of an idealist and romantic, and maybe I am more attached to my bikes than I should be to any material object, but it is not outrageous to believe that each bike has its own "personality", that, for me, can only be understood, experienced and assimilated through significant use, in either pace or duration. I find it unfortunate that some have degenerated the conversation to innuendo.
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Sorry, but I find pretty much all of that wildly overstated to the point it is "outrageous" or at least "ridiculous". Your choice of words made this even worse--having an "intimate relationship" with an inanimate object borders on the delusional and, yes, it really sounds funny..
I also think your OP posed something as a dilemma that really wasn't. Even if the above is true, that you have too many bikes to do this is a classic humblebrag "complaint."
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I admit it is fun to "toy-around" with the language, but try not to mis-characterize what I meant by "intimacy" or "relationship".
Maybe I am a bit of an idealist and romantic, and maybe I am more attached to my bikes than I should be to any material object, but it is not outrageous to believe that each bike has its own "personality", that, for me, can only be understood, experienced and assimilated through significant use, in either pace or duration. I find it unfortunate that some have degenerated the conversation to innuendo.
Maybe I am a bit of an idealist and romantic, and maybe I am more attached to my bikes than I should be to any material object, but it is not outrageous to believe that each bike has its own "personality", that, for me, can only be understood, experienced and assimilated through significant use, in either pace or duration. I find it unfortunate that some have degenerated the conversation to innuendo.
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Depends which definition of "Fred" you're using--there's at least two, and they are distinct and somewhat contradictory.
There's Fred the bodger, who rides the hell out of old bikes and homebrew kit/equipment, and then there's Fred the lifestyle guy, with all of the latest and bestest.
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I'd guess I'm too middle of the road to be in either of those camps.
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