So I’ve been looking into getting a new bike. As you may know, probably not, I bought a bike a few months ago and I’ve been just riding around. It is a very generic, not high end but not low end, mountain bike. I love it. It’s great. But I’ve been looking into fixed-gear bikes lately because there’s such a huge fad on fixed-gear and I want to be cool and I’m a homo and blah blah blah blah blah…
Regardless of whatever reason or where this preoccupation w/ fixed-gear bikes came from, it is going nowhere. You know how when you get into something, you start looking for information on it or reading about it or whatever. Well, I haven’t done much. I thought I was just going to go buy one from the bike store, a pre-built-factory-stock-fixed-gear bike but it’s not that simple.
I started reading up on it and I learned about fitting and all the varying parts. Why the fuck does it have to be so complicated. In one sense, it’s good, you want to have something to call your own, something that’s yours, that fits you, but on the other hand, it’s like, holy shit, I just want to ride a fucking bike, not perform surgery here.
I have to do all this reading, go into forums, do research, go to the bike store, talk to those bike store guys and just get all this info. Jeez, biking was never this complicated. Thank you internet, you fucking piece of shit. By the time I get enough information and am ready to get a bike, it’ll be winter again and I’ll have to wait for next summer.
For my mountain bike, I didn’t do any research. I went to the bike shop, talked to the guy, went back the next day, after sleeping on it, and gave him money in exchange for my pretty pretty bike. Easy. I bet you if I do some research, I’ll find out there’s all these things wrong w/ my bike that I need to change or I can get these or those improvements.
Whatever. All my readers (Hi Joey, Timmy, Sally and Jack - as I greet all of you by your respective names — single tear drop) go get a bike and we can have a discussion.
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