Slack Randoms: MTBs in Cybertrucks, Pizza Oven-Equipped eBikes, $925 Towel Skirts & More
We use Slack as our workplace communication tool at Pinkbike and we have a #randoms channel that we use to share an assortment of videos and stories from all corners of the cycling world and beyond... We thought a couple of the moments from the past week were too good not to share with a wider audience, so here are some of the highlights.
The Cybertruck Will Fit Your Expensive MTB
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For anyone worrying that their new Tesla Cybertruck won't fit their top-of-the-range bike then you can sleep easy as the truck bed is plenty big enough to show off your high net worth and scratch up your downtube on the way to the trails.
Update
In a wild turn of events after spotting this photo shared across other platforms it turns out it originated from Pinkbike user @gserrato
Domino’s New Delivery E-Bikes Come Equipped with a Pizza Oven
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Domino’s new DXB e-bike features a temperature-controlled pizza pod or a pizza oven for anyone not writing press releases. The aim is that this will keep food warm while it is being delivered and to make sure your warm pizza arrives unharmed Domino's has also included suspension that is claimed to reduce g-forces by up to 67%.
Read more here.
Balenciaga's $925 Towel Skirt
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If you thought bike prices are too high then look no further than Balenciaga's towel skirt from its Spring 24 collection. Costing $925 the towel skirt is made in Italy and features a hidden adjustable belt buckle inside to make sure it's completely different than just wrapping a standard towel around your waist.
Anneke Beerten & Jess Hana Talk Trail Manners
Skiing A Rail Upside Down
Racing Giant LEGO Cars
Building a Rocket Bird
The Cybertruck Will Fit Your Expensive MTB
Photo: @gserrato
For anyone worrying that their new Tesla Cybertruck won't fit their top-of-the-range bike then you can sleep easy as the truck bed is plenty big enough to show off your high net worth and scratch up your downtube on the way to the trails.
Update
In a wild turn of events after spotting this photo shared across other platforms it turns out it originated from Pinkbike user @gserrato
Domino’s New Delivery E-Bikes Come Equipped with a Pizza Oven
Domino’s new DXB e-bike features a temperature-controlled pizza pod or a pizza oven for anyone not writing press releases. The aim is that this will keep food warm while it is being delivered and to make sure your warm pizza arrives unharmed Domino's has also included suspension that is claimed to reduce g-forces by up to 67%.
Read more here.
Balenciaga's $925 Towel Skirt
If you thought bike prices are too high then look no further than Balenciaga's towel skirt from its Spring 24 collection. Costing $925 the towel skirt is made in Italy and features a hidden adjustable belt buckle inside to make sure it's completely different than just wrapping a standard towel around your waist.
Anneke Beerten & Jess Hana Talk Trail Manners
 | Hi There! Jess Hana and Anneke Beerten here! How much do you know about Trail Manners? Not much...? Don't worry, we are here to give you a few reminders on how to behave out on the trails. The outdoors and the trails is a place we should all share together. A friendly hello, giving the right away, minding your speed, and just being a good ambassador for our sport goes a long way. Whether you're a professional, or new to mountain biking, we've put together this video with a few trail situations that might give you a refresher on trail etiquette. With a little comedic relief of course  |
Skiing A Rail Upside Down
| Gravity ain't got nothing on Mac Forehand, who stepped to a secret kicker at Sunday River in Maine to hit a custom Red Bull rail feature upside down! No one can test the vertical limits of skiing over a 50-foot gap like Mac, press play! |
Racing Giant LEGO Cars
| Leave it to Travis Pastrana and the Nitro Circus gang to build (and then race) life-size LEGO cars. |
Building a Rocket Bird
| Building a DIY ornithopter that flies like a hummingbird. It took over 4 months to design this mechanical bird, and with no knowledge about drone or rocket design, I was in over my head. |
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Besides, I can't hear it over Miley Cyrus blasting directly into my eardrums at a cool noise-cancelled 130dB lmao
- mind your own business
- it's a public space, I can do whatever I want
- you must be fun at the parties
- this is for safety ( bear deterrent)
- headphones aren't safe
and etc etc etc
I think at the end this just shows that a good chunk of the population are just entitled asshats.
I imagine those runners/riders with both ears plugged will be among the first to go.
It’s from Always Sunny in Philadelphia. It is a joke.
Yeah, fashion isn't real anymore
Here are some tips that most middle aged Karens don't think about though:
- If you find someone's water bottle/wallet/etc. don't empty it before pretending to be a good person and leaving it where they will find it. You still suck.
- speak tf up if you want to pass or back tf up. Ain't nobody got eyes in the back of their head or read minds.
- if you/your group stops, chill on the side of the trail, not in the middle of it.
- turn your shitty music off.
- don't remove features or in general be such a self absorbed twat you actually alter a trail to better fit your skillset/prefs.
- you are not the trail Police. The trails aren't your country club.
Golfers limit themselves to groups of 4 or less on paid for private courses, but we have regular businesses(cough brewery) sponsored rides(by sponsored i mean they don't contribute shit but the riders go and spend a shit ton of money there afterward) where 50-60 riders will rip through the open space and make every other user get out of there way even though it takes 5-10 min for the full train of riders to pass. /rant
Also, my first rescue was dog aggressive. I could never take her anywhere. I always had her on a leash, but everyone liked to just let their dogs wander around and say "Oh, Rex is friendly!" "Well mine isn't!" And then I was the a*shole.
coming with me every ride. No laws against it.
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www.pinkbike.com/u/gserrato/buysell/sold
Price: I can afford it
Range: Enough
>Feck off about my supposed virtue signaling
>Proceeds to literally virtue signal in the next sentence.
Me personally? I mean, I COULD take the position that I disagree with Musk, and chose to not buy a Tesla on ideological reasons (and there are valid points one could certainly make).
But all that gets me is some minor points with people who pretty much DGAF about me on every single level, DGAF about all the workers that take home a salary that Tesla employs, DGAF about supporting cleaner forms of transportation, and DGAF about nuances in lieu of desperately trying to point out how shitty people are and how they are better then that.
Or I could make the much smarter decision to get something that is very useful in day to day life.
I mean you are never going to see it this way because you live in Portland and are surrounded by people like yourself, and if you don't adopt this groupthink you are going to feel very lonely, so its totally understandable why you would feel this way.
Looking forward to more virtue signaling from your next comment.
You fit right in a dunce cap. Or a Klan hood, perhaps.
Yeah, and then you can hook up a travel trailer to it and travel 90 miles on a charge....
Globally, something like a $50k usd annual income puts you in the top 1% of wealth. Thats $24 an hour. Not nothing, but also not a whole lot for most areas in the states. In some places, you’d be living in a tent at $24.
If someone makes $500k a year or has inherited millions, is it unreasonable to drive a $100k vehicle and ride a $10k bike? That would be the equivalent to making $50k a year and driving a $10k vehicle and riding a $1000 bike. I know lots of people making less than $50k driving $20k tacomas and riding bikes worth more than $1000, and you do too.
So what is modesty? Isn’t it subjective? You’re telling me that if you won the lottery, you’d live your life exactly like you do now and your spending habits wouldn’t change at all? I doubt it.
We all participate in a niche sport that is generally only available to those with some expendable income. Our basic needs are met; we have food and water, and enough free time to recreate. The fact that we ride bikes alone can be easily argued as “not modest”.
- More standard truck platform. Easier to do modifications. For people that go offroad (which would be useful for shuttling more challenging access roads), bigger tires are easy to fit and have enough clearance. Level kit at the front gives you ability to run 34's
- Can be used as a house power source if you lose power (with the specially installed charger) This is not confirmed yet for Cybertruck.
- More useful bed with bigger dimensions and standard shape. Cybertruck has less tiedown points for starters. F150 can take a camper shell, at which point you just need a blow up mattress and you have a very good camping setup, with outlets right in the bed.
- More dealer support across US. You don't have to live close to a Tesla service center.
- Code keypad entry. No longer do you have to bring your keys with you.
- Not first year anymore, unlike the Cybertruck.
The only thing that really Lightning really lacks is the Extended cab, where you get the 6.5 foot bed. If you don't carry people in the backseat often, this would be much better.
Overall, F150s in general have been the smartest truck to get for quite some time, if you actually need truck things, and generally, unless you have the need to go all electric, they are still the trucks to get. Get an XLT with the 3.5tt engine and FX4 package, youll spend less on it than a Tacoma and have more truck for the money.
All in all a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist.
@cmi85: I’m tired of cancel culture too but when they run ads targeting young kids in a sexual way, that’s when I have a problem. Hopefully it disturbs you too.
@mi-bike: You may want to look into it a bit further. Last year they posted an ad with a young female child holding a teddy bear dressed up in bondage. Nope, doesn’t seem fine for kids regardless of the price.
My apologies for trying to inform all the PB users of their disgusting ad with kids. You do you, Live and let live, whatever. I think it’s disgusting and I just won’t buy their stuff (@cmi85).
No problem. There are PB users that have kids and a lot of kids are on this site. No need to be promoting companies that take advantage of kids. Let’s keep the content centered around biking and some fun slack random stuff.
Its honestly amazing to me the immaturity of most adults, and the lengths that they go do to "protect" the kids against anything sexual, instead of actually being an adult and sitting down with your kid and having in depth discussions of what it means to be human (sexuality included), so that they can contextualize stuff that they are going to be exposed to anyways.
And then those same adults wonder why their kids are making shitty decisions later on in life.
I understand and agree with what you’re saying. There is however a time in a child’s life that is appropriate to have those conversations. If you see how young the kid is in the ad, it’s easy to realize that she isn’t ready for that conversation.
>There is however a time in a child’s life that is appropriate to have those conversations.
Yes, and that time is when a child has access to the internet.
Seems like the vast majority of parents out there basically get memory loss as soon as they have a kid, forgetting about how they were curious when they were a kid, and how all the taboo things were exciting. Your kid is going to be exposed to this stuff sooner or later, and the more context he/she has around it, the better he/she will be able to process this. There is plenty of evidence in different cultures that prove this.
I’m not disagreeing with you about being good parent and getting ahead of the game but that doesn’t mean putting your young child in a bondage themed ad. I’m not trying to be a smart a$$ but I would really like read any evidence that supports your point. Message me any links you have. All we can do is educate ourselves and do the best for our kids.
www.thecut.com/article/what-to-know-about-the-balenciaga-ad-scandal.html
But that doesn't mean that your kid isn't going to be exposed to stuff if he/she is on the internet.
The reason for this is simple human psychology in 2 effects, and applies to all things developmental with kids.
First is desire for self autonomy that seems to be intrinsic to healthy mental state. When you can do something that someone else tells you is forbidden, especially when that something gives you a dopamine boost, it makes you feel good.
Second is leaned behavior from other things like candy, entertainment. When you know those things are good as a kid, but your parents forbid you from eating them, you learn the association between things that are forbidden that are also good.
Because parents in Netherlands are very open about sexuality, and encourage kids to participate in sexual behaviour, there isn't as aspect of "forbidden fruit" to it, so the above two effects don't apply, which means teens can contextualize this a lot better.
And you can extend this to other things as well. Engage in your kids curiosity, establish yourself as a source of trust. Instead of forbidding your kid from viewing things when they express curiosity, encourage discussion, build thought patterns around contextualizing things. Kids aren't dumb, and the neuroplasticity in their brains is way higher than adults. The difference between someone engaging with anything sexual in good ways versus bad is dependent on repeated learned behaviors, which you as a parent have very good control over.
Racing Giant Lego Cars vs Building a rocket bird
I'd have more faith in humanity and the users of this website, if it leaned more towards rocket bird.
Call me old fashioned but I like my pizza 30 minutes late and stone cold.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjyJRTM0knE&t=549s
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