What do your parents/friends not understand about bikes?

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What do your parents/friends not understand about bikes?
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flag haro-rider-13
Posted: Dec 4, 2014 at 19:13 Quote
doubt it. This thread is always one - two pages of the same shit posted over and over until it goes dead. then months later the cycle just repeats.
flag SSeanS
Posted: Dec 4, 2014 at 20:34 Quote
I was drunk and got a good laugh out of the top post. Was commenting on the winning gem opening up page 525.

Nothing new to contribute, everything my friends and parents dont understand about the lifestyle has been covered by others. We all get it. The friends we ride with get it. Many just dont and wont.
flag no1000
Posted: Dec 9, 2014 at 11:59 Quote
They don't understand how gnarly some trails get. This is especially true with roadies. I'm never going mountain biking with my roadie friend again. He described a secret trail as 'steep' and 'gnarly'. It turned out to be a fire road with rocks no bigger than 2 inches.
flag midwest-mtb
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Posted: Dec 9, 2014 at 12:29 Quote
no1000 wrote:
They don't understand how gnarly some trails get. This is especially true with roadies. I'm never going mountain biking with my roadie friend again. He described a secret trail as 'steep' and 'gnarly'. It turned out to be a fire road with rocks no bigger than 2 inches.
Roadies man, dont associate with them
flag ibishreddin
Posted: Dec 9, 2014 at 18:40 Quote
IH4LIFE wrote:
no1000 wrote:
They don't understand how gnarly some trails get. This is especially true with roadies. I'm never going mountain biking with my roadie friend again. He described a secret trail as 'steep' and 'gnarly'. It turned out to be a fire road with rocks no bigger than 2 inches.
Roadies man, dont associate with them

Have you even ridden a road bike? It actually willchange your life




In other words your sexual preference. No homo
flag cjkj1999
Posted: Dec 16, 2014 at 2:21 Quote
My best one is: "why cant you use your downhill bike for that XC race?"
flag ibishreddin
Posted: Dec 16, 2014 at 13:35 Quote
All the nonbiker friends say:
Wh is it so expensive? You could buy like 5 Xbox ones for that price! :-\
flag mk3lew
Posted: Dec 16, 2014 at 14:32 Quote
goldhecklerswag wrote:
All the nonbiker friends say:
Why is it so expensive? You could buy like 5 Xbox ones for that price! :-\

To which the only reply is "Why would you want to buy 5 Xbox One's?" Haha
flag no1000
Posted: Dec 16, 2014 at 22:50 Quote
cjkj1999 wrote:
My best one is: "why cant you use your downhill bike for that XC race?"

haha so true man! MY roadie friend is always asking questions or will say stuff like:

So, what's the point of a downhill bike if I can't ride it up hills?

What's the point of shuttling?

I enjoy the uphills more than the downs.


He recently just bought a 29er remedy and he keeps telling that he's been 'breaking it in" on pavement roads
flag yo13bo
Posted: Dec 17, 2014 at 3:38 Quote
some roadie i work with asked me if i did competitions in bmx or not, to which i replied no.

"why not?"

"most people that do are over competitive dickbags"

"no, they aren't dicks, thats how you win, by being competitive"

"I ride for fun, and being around them is not fun, so I do not go into competitions, everything is a contest for them and they are too competitive"

"well thats how you win, you win by training and being competitive"

"the minute I start referring to what I do as 'training' is the minute I stop riding bmx, I do it for fun, I do not give a shit about winning"


seriously, do not even try with roadies, its a lost cause lol
flag griff369
Posted: Dec 17, 2014 at 9:49 Quote
That dude looks fast!
flag fallopiantubes413
Posted: Dec 17, 2014 at 20:15 Quote
My dad used to work in a bike shop so he understands the whole "upgrading" thing. Big Grin
flag ZTSH
Posted: Dec 21, 2014 at 13:42 Quote
Mostly, I am just asked, "Why? Whats the point?"
flag NotDannyHart
Posted: Dec 21, 2014 at 13:56 Quote
When your mom buys you bike stuff from from the same shop she buys shampoo in

 


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