What's the weirdest thing you're upset about?
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People who chew with their mouths open should be fucking euthanized.
Obviously, I don’t actually think that, but as a misophonic person who was brought up right, it drives me fucking insane when people do this.
Also Misophonic and 100% agree.
All unnecessary sound bothers me. If you're doing a thing that doesn't need to make noise but choose to do so it's going to annoy me. For whatever reason though chewing in particular drives me to madness.
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I'm sorry, 1x11? I've never really shopped for a bike more expensive than like $500 and the idea of getting less gear options for more money is wild to me.
There’s surprisingly a fair bit of overlap on the gear ratios of a 2 or 3x that makes a 1x11 or 12 have a similar range of ratios. However you do have to sacrifice either a bit of top end speed or climbing ability so you see a few more 2x on road bikes. I’ve never found myself wanting more from my 1x mtb drivetrain
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For mountain biking at least, 1xs are superior due to the narrow-wide chainring, not to mention completely eliminating a derailer and associated controls. I don't understand how this could possibly be more complicated or expensive than a 3x9, but I'm sure these companies have found a way.
superior due to the narrow-wide chainring
Fully agreed. Narrow-wide rings are absolutely a boon to mountain biking as are derailleur clutches. And 1x is superlative for hard trail riding on that factor alone.
A factor in the issue I take is the proprietary nature of modern bike drivetrains. With older drivetrains, we could mix and match to our hearts' content. But now, even within a component line, e.g. Deore XT or SRAM X[n], specs such as pull rates can be different even for the same cog count. "These are the only combinations of components we think you should use, and we will do everything we can to block you from customizing." Shimano is especially egregious about this expensive mess, and they know it, which is why they tried to un-hash things with CUES.
Pretty much everything 3x9 all works together. Road derailleur and cassette with mountain crank and bar-end shifters? Sure! Gear range for days. I sincerely believe this is to sell more bikes. Want to climb hard pack and mixed surface? You need a gravel bike! Want to get groceries? You need a commuter or loaded tourer! Want to go on a fast road ride? You need a road bike!
It used to be really easy to build up a bike that could perform most bicycle functions well. Mixed-surface, loaded, commuter/grocery-getter, randonneuring, snow, rain, club rides... one bike with maybe a wheel change*. Good luck with that now. Gravel bikes are kinda filling that niche now, but the components and frame manufacturers are again trying to fracture that even further. The gravel drivetrain won't have the range to cover all the use cases without a cassette or crank change.
Moar rant, moar example: my partner works in an LBS. We can literally afford to buy any bicycle we could want. She wants a general-purpose gravel bike, and it's not even a case of "just spend more money to get these additional features." Component selection on a pre-built, geometry, wheel selection... all tightly engineered to cover as few use cases as possible. Okay, we'll build from a naked frame. Oh, the more racy geometry frames lack braze-ons and can't fit a 50mm tire.
*It makes complete sense to have a full-squish mountain bike for the aggressive off-road stuff, and those bikes are necessarily different. Even for that case, I can hang with the LBS trail/flow rides on my do-almost-everything bike. My current do-everything took me more than six months to source compatible parts and troubleshoot. This used to be a matter of just pulling the trigger on the parts I wanted.
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I can't even count the amount of times I've sent some variation of "Yeah, so I think we should reboot the server:wq" into irc
Funny you should mention IRC as that's how I met that coworker in the first place. I miss the good old days of IRC. Freenode was a blast back in the day.
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Funny you should mention IRC as that's how I met that coworker in the first place. I miss the good old days of IRC. Freenode was a blast back in the day.
IRC is still around! I run my own server and everything. It's still a blast
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Broom dustpans don't need a fucking lip. You're sitting there repeatedly sweeping the same dirt into the same pan instead of a simple one and done because that way if you hold the pan up perfectly level like a fucking sociopath the dirt doesn't fall out.
Damn that's right
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Or maybe you don't know what you're talking about.
It would explain this reaction, and why you're no longer confident when pressed to give details.
Or maybe you're just a sealioning loser that should shut the F up and find something else to do with their time vs being an annoyance online.
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Hating daylight savings isn't weird, it's dumb and everyone knows it's dumb.
Timezones are arbitrary lines on the map that were made when trains were new and there was no good way to coordinate otherwise. We are way past that, everyone has an automatically synced and precise way of telling time on them pretty much at all times. The "time" is an arbitrary number. Noon is not when the sun is highest in the sky most of the year unless you live near the equator, midnight is rarely "the middle of the night", 9 to 5 should be deleted, and have one universal time would be one step closer to uniting human kind.
Timezones are fucking dumb, it's not the 1800s. I'll fight to the death over this.
Hmm you may have a point, let's discuss tomorrow at 5pm
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I've never really forgiven him for normalizing electronic drums.
Nor should you.
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Hating daylight savings isn't weird, it's dumb and everyone knows it's dumb.
Timezones are arbitrary lines on the map that were made when trains were new and there was no good way to coordinate otherwise. We are way past that, everyone has an automatically synced and precise way of telling time on them pretty much at all times. The "time" is an arbitrary number. Noon is not when the sun is highest in the sky most of the year unless you live near the equator, midnight is rarely "the middle of the night", 9 to 5 should be deleted, and have one universal time would be one step closer to uniting human kind.
Timezones are fucking dumb, it's not the 1800s. I'll fight to the death over this.
If everyone in the world was on one universal time, some people would be functioning in the dark while people on the other side of the world are functioning in the daylight. Not fair. Time zones are essential. And yes, in most places in the world, 12:00 p.m. is when the sun is highest in the sky.
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If everyone in the world was on one universal time, some people would be functioning in the dark while people on the other side of the world are functioning in the daylight. Not fair. Time zones are essential. And yes, in most places in the world, 12:00 p.m. is when the sun is highest in the sky.
Why would they be working in the dark? They'd still get up in the morning, go to work, come home in the evening, etc.... just the number on the clock would be different
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Fuck that trumpet.
is he a trumper too? christ, as if i needed another reason to hate that guy.
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is he a trumper too? christ, as if i needed another reason to hate that guy.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Huh, no?
There's a literal trumpet at the end of the book series. Like the musical instrument. It's incredibly dumb.Edit: I'm almost certain Stephen King hates Trump.
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Huh, no?
There's a literal trumpet at the end of the book series. Like the musical instrument. It's incredibly dumb.Edit: I'm almost certain Stephen King hates Trump.
Right, i forgot about that. That's how memorable the ending was, for me.
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Right, i forgot about that. That's how memorable the ending was, for me.
Yeah it's really bad. Your gripe is justified in my eyes.
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There’s surprisingly a fair bit of overlap on the gear ratios of a 2 or 3x that makes a 1x11 or 12 have a similar range of ratios. However you do have to sacrifice either a bit of top end speed or climbing ability so you see a few more 2x on road bikes. I’ve never found myself wanting more from my 1x mtb drivetrain
Wait, you said a 1x can have a similar range, and then immediately followed up with:
you do have to sacrifice either a bit of top end speed or climbing ability
It is impossible for both statements to be true at the same time.
