Anyone have anything they'd like to rant about?

[meter-man]

You guys are doing it all wrong.

Flats? No way man, too much steeeeeeeze! It must hurt your dick to get laid that often.

Clipless? I smell a dirt roadie... stanky spandex incoming.

Duh, you gotta ride with CLIPS! That's real telepathic mind-body-bike connection, leading inexorably to mind-body-ground connection.



Works for JFB too!



Dumbo has Secret Service in tail, and yet does not have his helmet buckled.

RANT: WTF Secret Service?!?! Buckle the damn helmet of the leader of the free world. fuckin hell

[jackstraw]

It'll teach you how to keep your body planted on the bike without relying on your feet being attached to the pedals.

That was the biggest thing I noticed when I started riding flats. I was not grounded at all. Like a fish out of water flopping at speed. Now I'm not riding buff machine made trails, so I'm not sure if anyone would notice riding that terrain. Clips are definitely cheaters for a lot of things. Now I flip back n forth so often I can't even tell the difference, but it's improved my riding. The other side of flats for me as a builder is pedaling out to the build in hiking shoes is so much better. I've always had a 2nd pair of clip shoes that were beaters to build in, but they kinda sucked for walking around.

[VTskibum]

Anyone have anything they'd like to rant about?

Agree w those points. Long ride and especially techy climbing with flats is awful. I ride both enough that I have few issues switching, though I think riding skinnies is far better on flats and I think they also help teaching you to get planted, really makes you embrace heels down and also weighting/unweighting the bike.


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[bagtagley]

I like flats for skinnies and dirt jumping. I also tend to favor them for lift assisted, but comfort is a big part of that. Agree on clipless for lots of climbing. I can get used to climbing in flats but going back to clipless after a long stint is revelatory.

[Bunion 2020]

You guys are doing it all wrong.

Flats? No way man, too much steeeeeeeze! It must hurt your dick to get laid that often.

Clipless? I smell a dirt roadie... stanky spandex incoming.

Duh, you gotta ride with CLIPS! That's real telepathic mind-body-bike connection, leading inexorably to mind-body-ground connection.

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Works for JFB too!

Rode those from 1985 until about 2002 and loved them, switched to SPDs and meh. Switched to CB eggbeaters and love all over again. I have switched back to flats after an ankle rebuild, as soon as I could trust the ankle, back to clipless but that is me. You (whoever) do you.

no problem up here

rants are usually BS

here is somemore

love ya

Ditto.

[east or bust]

One thing I'll say, it's damn easy to pick out riders who started out using clips (see middle aged dentist who took up mtb as an adult). Most have mediocre bike skillz.

[skaredshtles]

I like flats for skinnies and dirt jumping. I also tend to favor them for lift assisted, but comfort is a big part of that. Agree on clipless for lots of climbing. I can get used to climbing in flats but going back to clipless after a long stint is revelatory.

I should try going back to clipless. Rode them from 1995-ish until 2016(?) and switched to flats. Clipless shoes just collecting dust in the garage since then...

[jackstraw]

One thing I'll say, it's damn easy to pick out riders who started out using clips (see middle aged dentist who took up mtb as an adult). Most have mediocre bike skillz.

Hey punk, I took up mtn biking as an adult because that's when it was invented! Now get off my lawn! [emoji1787]

...well, are you an actual adult at 19?

[Falcon3]

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it's like riding a bike a man and that's just fun.
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Do you use flats or clips when you’re riding a man?

[Spats]

FFS with the projecting. Ride your own ride and bitch about the stuff that directly affects you. Like BB standards.

Amen, brother. Maggots complaining about beginner riders on trails? Guess what, you were a beginner once too. Get over yourself. Instead of bagging on people who aren't as rad as you, people who don't dress as well as you, or people who ride (gasp!) ebikes, maybe we should stick together and FIGHT FOR TRAIL ACCESS ,instead of always losing to the Sierra Club, HOHAs, and rich equestrians because we're too busy bickering amongst ourselves and the "advocacy" organizations compromise away our position before we even start.

http://www.gnolls.org/123/mountain-biking-in-jeans/

Now let's make fun of someone that deserves it: Shimano, for refusing to adopt any standard they didn't come up with themselves, even when their own version is objectively far worse. Thus, we get 15 different incompatible BB and crank interfaces, we get tapered steerers instead of straight 1.5, we get 15mm instead of 20mm axles (20mm adds so much more torsional stiffness than 15mm), we get incompatible hub bodies again after so many years of everyone agreeing on splines, ...

[Eluder]

I equate it to shredding on tele/freeheel skis, sure, some people rip, and it takes a lifetime to master. I personally flail around.

Whoa, dude, can we leave the tele tumblers out of it, man. That's a rabbit hole for a whole other thread.

[rideit]

Spats, most of that shit was from frame and fork manufacturers. Not sure about freehub bodies…

[Reformed]

Creaky CSUs on “enduro” forks. Bring back freeride and give me a modern 160-170 dual crown with 35 mm stantions that weighs less than the current crop of creaky 38 mm single crowns. Recycling large chunks of precision-machined metal on an annual basis is stupid. Somebody stop the madness!

[jackstraw]

Do you use flats or clips when you’re riding a man?

Ha! Proof reading is not my strong suit.

[rudy]

I should try going back to clipless. Rode them from 1995-ish until 2016(?) and switched to flats. Clipless shoes just collecting dust in the garage since then...

Damn, this is me to a t...