Brutuskend's BRAG-O the DAY! (Now with a JOKE to BOOT!)

[Ness]

Originally posted by: Brutuskend

Originally posted by: Legendary
I don't suppose I would be off base in asking: "Wtf is that?"

It's a top of the line front MTB derailleur.

uh-huh. Now WTF is that? 😉

from the looks, it's the part that flexes a bit in order to make a bike change gears.

 

[Mucman]

Originally posted by: Fausto

Originally posted by: Mucman
I think I might need some hook ups 😉

Join a team. I get a lot of stuff at shop cost for being an active member of my club's racing team.

That's what sucks! I love riding solo 🙂. I probably should try some amatuer races though. Who knows, I might be good at it!

 

[Fausto]

Originally posted by: Mucman

Originally posted by: Fausto

Originally posted by: Mucman
I think I might need some hook ups 😉

Join a team. I get a lot of stuff at shop cost for being an active member of my club's racing team.

That's what sucks! I love riding solo 🙂. I probably should try some amatuer races though. Who knows, I might be good at it!

Racing's pretty fun really. You pay money to suffer like a dog, then drink beer with your teammates and bitch about it afterwards. Sometimes, you win stuff. 😀

 

[Brutuskend]

Originally posted by: Ness

Originally posted by: Brutuskend

Originally posted by: Legendary
I don't suppose I would be off base in asking: "Wtf is that?"

It's a top of the line front MTB derailleur.

uh-huh. Now WTF is that? 😉

from the looks, it's the part that flexes a bit in order to make a bike change gears.

WINNAR!

 

[Mucman]

Originally posted by: Fausto

Originally posted by: Mucman

Originally posted by: Fausto

Originally posted by: Mucman
I think I might need some hook ups 😉

Join a team. I get a lot of stuff at shop cost for being an active member of my club's racing team.

That's what sucks! I love riding solo 🙂. I probably should try some amatuer races though. Who knows, I might be good at it!

Racing's pretty fun really. You pay money to suffer like a dog, then drink beer with your teammates and bitch about it afterwards. Sometimes, you win stuff. 😀

Nothin beats a cold beer after a long ride (well, after lots of water 😉)

 

[waggy]

I need to get a new bike for myself and my wife. Not going to get a wal-mart one but dont want to spend more then $400 on them.
anyone got any ideas?

 

[Fausto]

Originally posted by: waggy
I need to get a new bike for myself and my wife. Not going to get a wal-mart one but dont want to spend more then $400 on them.
anyone got any ideas?

At that price range, any of the "big" brands will be fine. Not a tremendous amount of variation at that price point. The biggest question will probably be whether you want a full-on mountain bike, or a hybrid bike.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: Fausto

Originally posted by: waggy
I need to get a new bike for myself and my wife. Not going to get a wal-mart one but dont want to spend more then $400 on them.
anyone got any ideas?

At that price range, any of the "big" brands will be fine. Not a tremendous amount of variation at that price point. The biggest question will probably be whether you want a full-on mountain bike, or a hybrid bike.

we mainly want something we can ride on the bike paths. Though i do enjoy actually going "off road".

I had a older Schwinn High sierra that was great. it was light and rugged. to bad it broke when someone hit me while i was riding.

I bought a trek 500 and i didn't like it.

 

[Aharami]

Originally posted by: Brutuskend

Originally posted by: Legendary
I don't suppose I would be off base in asking: "Wtf is that?"

It's a top of the line front MTB derailleur.

ah so that's what it is!

<----still clueless as to what i was looking at :Q

 

[newbiepcuser]

Originally posted by: waggy
I need to get a new bike for myself and my wife. Not going to get a wal-mart one but dont want to spend more then $400 on them.
anyone got any ideas?

Specializedand and Trek has some decent bikes for $300


check out Specialize's Specialized HardRock

 

[Brutuskend]

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: Fausto

Originally posted by: waggy
I need to get a new bike for myself and my wife. Not going to get a wal-mart one but dont want to spend more then $400 on them.
anyone got any ideas?

At that price range, any of the "big" brands will be fine. Not a tremendous amount of variation at that price point. The biggest question will probably be whether you want a full-on mountain bike, or a hybrid bike.

we mainly want something we can ride on the bike paths. Though i do enjoy actually going "off road".

I had a older Schwinn High sierra that was great. it was light and rugged. to bad it broke when someone hit me while i was riding.

I bought a trek 500 and i didn't like it.

We sell a LOT of Haro bikes.

My last two MTB's have been Haro's!

 

[DT4K]

Brutuskend,
which shop do you work at?

 

[Brutuskend]

Originally posted by: Shanti
Brutuskend,
which shop do you work at?

Bike Barn.

We are now in the Delta Oaks Shopping Center. (Eugene Or.)

 

[waggy]

Brutskend sorry for attempting to highjack the thread 😀


but thanks to you and newbiepcuser seen a few i will look at.

this one looks nice. I just want something that is comfortable to ride. I do not enjoy riding 10 speeds. While i do not do a lot of off roading i do enjoy riding a few of the trails around here.

 

[Brutuskend]

Originally posted by: waggy
Brutskend sorry for attempting to highjack the thread 😀


but thanks to you and newbiepcuser seen a few i will look at.

this one looks nice. I just want something that is comfortable to ride. I do not enjoy riding 10 speeds. While i do not do a lot of off roading i do enjoy riding a few of the trails around here.

N/P 🙂

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: Fausto

Originally posted by: Jeff7181
Is that carbon fiber? :Q 🙁 Looks like this import trend isn't going away anytime soon :disgust:

What the hell are you talking about? The two biggest component companies are (and have always been) foreign. This isn't cars, doofus.

Thanks, Captain Obvious :roll:

 

[Fausto]

Originally posted by: Jeff7181

Originally posted by: Fausto

Originally posted by: Jeff7181
Is that carbon fiber? :Q 🙁 Looks like this import trend isn't going away anytime soon :disgust:

What the hell are you talking about? The two biggest component companies are (and have always been) foreign. This isn't cars, doofus.

Thanks, Captain Obvious :roll:

So what the hell is the "import trend" thing about?

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: Fausto

Originally posted by: Jeff7181

Originally posted by: Fausto

Originally posted by: Jeff7181
Is that carbon fiber? :Q 🙁 Looks like this import trend isn't going away anytime soon :disgust:

What the hell are you talking about? The two biggest component companies are (and have always been) foreign. This isn't cars, doofus.

Thanks, Captain Obvious :roll:

So what the hell is the "import trend" thing about?

As far as I know, there aren't any U.S. manufacturers of decent bike component groups. Shimano and Campagnolo are the tops. There used to be SunTour but they went out in the early-mid 90s IIRC.

I guess it would be like this, if the only U.S. made car was a Geo Metro but you could get a Lexus from Japan or a Ferrari from Italy for slightly more money which would you chose?

 

[dquan97]

I'm going to create a stir around here with...

Roadmaster > *

:Q 😉

 

[Fausto]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: Fausto

Originally posted by: Jeff7181

Originally posted by: Fausto

Originally posted by: Jeff7181
Is that carbon fiber? :Q 🙁 Looks like this import trend isn't going away anytime soon :disgust:

What the hell are you talking about? The two biggest component companies are (and have always been) foreign. This isn't cars, doofus.

Thanks, Captain Obvious :roll:

So what the hell is the "import trend" thing about?

As far as I know, there aren't any U.S. manufacturers of decent bike component groups. Shimano and Campagnolo are the tops. There used to be SunTour but they went out in the early-mid 90s IIRC.

SunTour was japanese. There have (to my knowledge) never been any large US component manufacturers. There are US component makers, but they're mostly small high-end stuff like Paul's.

I guess it would be like this, if the only U.S. made car was a Geo Metro but you could get a Lexus from Japan or a Ferrari from Italy for slightly more money which would you chose?

Hey, if Americans actually liked bikes there might actually be demand for US-made stuff, but there isn't. Jeff's making it sound like some US company is being outsold by foreign goods when there is no US company.

 

[crystal]

Haha... this thread reminded of a time about 3 yrs ago where I were really into bikes. Having spended over a thousand to buy two pre-build bike, one for my wife and one for me, I still not satisfied. After reading a lot of those bikes sites, I decided to build my own. Got a TI frame ebay, the fork from one site and the wheels on the other. I were tried to save a buck or two, but I were only kidding myself. After all the stuffs got in, from the bike stand to books and over a thousand dollar poorer, I built my first bike. It take me a whole day, but I were very proud of myself after I built it.
In less than a week and having rode it a few times, I felt flat on my face because my one of my shoes still stucked to the peddle when I had to stop. This told you how novice I were with bikes. I wrist hurt like a b*tch for a few weeks. My brother told me there might be a micro facture, but I never got it x-ray, heh... As for the bike, it sat in the garage to this day. I kept telling myself one of this day I will bring it out and tune it and start riding again. At least I did remove that stupid peddle that costed me around 80 bucks or something and replaced with the regular one. No chance of my shoes got stuck again with these peddle. 🙂

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: Brutuskend

Originally posted by: Ness

Originally posted by: Brutuskend

Originally posted by: Legendary
I don't suppose I would be off base in asking: "Wtf is that?"

It's a top of the line front MTB derailleur.

uh-huh. Now WTF is that? 😉

from the looks, it's the part that flexes a bit in order to make a bike change gears.

WINNAR!

Why not call it a gear changer then? You people and your fance schmancy names... 😛

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: Fausto

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: Fausto

Originally posted by: Jeff7181

Originally posted by: Fausto

Originally posted by: Jeff7181
Is that carbon fiber? :Q 🙁 Looks like this import trend isn't going away anytime soon :disgust:

What the hell are you talking about? The two biggest component companies are (and have always been) foreign. This isn't cars, doofus.

Thanks, Captain Obvious :roll:

So what the hell is the "import trend" thing about?

As far as I know, there aren't any U.S. manufacturers of decent bike component groups. Shimano and Campagnolo are the tops. There used to be SunTour but they went out in the early-mid 90s IIRC.

SunTour was japanese. There have (to my knowledge) never been any large US component manufacturers. There are US component makers, but they're mostly small high-end stuff like Paul's.

I guess it would be like this, if the only U.S. made car was a Geo Metro but you could get a Lexus from Japan or a Ferrari from Italy for slightly more money which would you chose?

Hey, if Americans actually liked bikes there might actually be demand for US-made stuff, but there isn't. Jeff's making it sound like some US company is being outsold by foreign goods when there is no US company.

I know Suntour was Japanese. I still have Suntour Superbe Pro on my road bike. It's decent stuff.

I was trying to think of a US company that made components but I cannot come up with any. I just thought there must have been one at some point and the analogy sounded good to me. 😛

I guess it was a stupid analogy.

 

[Fausto]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: Fausto

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: Fausto

Originally posted by: Jeff7181

Originally posted by: Fausto

Originally posted by: Jeff7181
Is that carbon fiber? :Q 🙁 Looks like this import trend isn't going away anytime soon :disgust:

What the hell are you talking about? The two biggest component companies are (and have always been) foreign. This isn't cars, doofus.

Thanks, Captain Obvious :roll:

So what the hell is the "import trend" thing about?

As far as I know, there aren't any U.S. manufacturers of decent bike component groups. Shimano and Campagnolo are the tops. There used to be SunTour but they went out in the early-mid 90s IIRC.

SunTour was japanese. There have (to my knowledge) never been any large US component manufacturers. There are US component makers, but they're mostly small high-end stuff like Paul's.

I guess it would be like this, if the only U.S. made car was a Geo Metro but you could get a Lexus from Japan or a Ferrari from Italy for slightly more money which would you chose?

Hey, if Americans actually liked bikes there might actually be demand for US-made stuff, but there isn't. Jeff's making it sound like some US company is being outsold by foreign goods when there is no US company.

I know Suntour was Japanese. I still have Suntour Superbe Pro on my road bike. It's decent stuff.

I was trying to think of a US company that made components but I cannot come up with any. I just thought there must have been one at some point and the analogy sounded good to me. 😛

I guess it was a stupid analogy.

There are some smaller ones like Paul's and SRAM before they got bought up, but no major ones that I can think of. Americans just don't give a sh*t about bikes once they hit 9 years old for the most part so there aren't many major frame manufacturers any more and there really never were any component manu's.

 

[PanzerIV]

Originally posted by: crystal
Haha... this thread reminded of a time about 3 yrs ago where I were really into bikes. Having spended over a thousand to buy two pre-build bike, one for my wife and one for me, I still not satisfied. After reading a lot of those bikes sites, I decided to build my own. Got a TI frame ebay, the fork from one site and the wheels on the other. I were tried to save a buck or two, but I were only kidding myself. After all the stuffs got in, from the bike stand to books and over a thousand dollar poorer, I built my first bike. It take me a whole day, but I were very proud of myself after I built it.
In less than a week and having rode it a few times, I felt flat on my face because my one of my shoes still stucked to the peddle when I had to stop. This told you how novice I were with bikes. I wrist hurt like a b*tch for a few weeks. My brother told me there might be a micro facture, but I never got it x-ray, heh... As for the bike, it sat in the garage to this day. I kept telling myself one of this day I will bring it out and tune it and start riding again. At least I did remove that stupid peddle that costed me around 80 bucks or something and replaced with the regular one. No chance of my shoes got stuck again with these peddle. 🙂

Man, I hope English isn't your first language but if it is...:Q