| > Your bike doesn't fit! This is like saying "I wore shoes that are two sizes too small and my feet hurt". Happened with multiple bikes, after having a fit, and it's not like I got the recumbent fitted. And a post back you were saying it was normal for cycling to feel like boxing training. (It is - for upright cycling). > You are not everyone and just because you have problems the vast majority of people do not. My nan who is 4ft 11 (so a very small lady) managed with a regular bicycle until she was in her late 70s. Are you saying that you are frailer than a woman in her late 70s? So someone who's about half the weight of the average person didn't suffer issues from having too much weight on too small an area. That's exactly what I'd expect. The vast majority of people do find cycling uncomfortable - and don't cycle as a result. > I ride almost everywhere in jeans and t-shirt unless when it is boiling hot in summer when I wear T-shirt and shorts. I don't ride like some people who seem to think it is the tour-de-france everyday. Does this not suggest that it's you who's unusual? People don't wear those padded shorts for fun, they wear them because it's unpleasant not to. Maybe you're some combination of light, riding short distances, insensitive to particular kinds of pain, or just unusually suited to saddles via some random quirk of anatomy. Lucky you, but you are not representative. > Fixing the chain coming off is literally just feeding it back on. Does it take years of experience to loop something round cog ... no. You think that as an experienced cyclist. I've had to stop for people on the side of the road who couldn't/wouldn't put their chain back on, more than once. A normal commuter just isn't interested in learning how to do maintenance, even something that basic. > You are just making stuff up to win the argument at this point. Wow, that's some first-tier projection there. |
I know I said I wouldn't reply but that is a totally disingenuous interpretation of what I said and there is no way I could leave that be.
I never said such a thing. I said if you don't do something for years you will ache. Thai boxing was an extreme example to ram the point home as you were being thick headed about the subject.
> Does this not suggest that it's you who's unusual? People don't wear those padded shorts for fun, they wear them because it's unpleasant not to. Maybe you're some combination of light, riding short distances, insensitive to particular kinds of pain, or just unusually suited to saddles via some random quirk of anatomy. Lucky you, but you are not representative.
No not at all. I see many people cycling in normal-ish clothing on fixed gears, racing bikes, mountain bikes etc.
It is really frustrating when you will deny reality. I've cycled to work in many different countries (UK, Spain, Denmark, Germany) and the vast majority of people where normal clothes.
Here are some from Denmark (not taken from me but I did live there)
https://imgur.com/a/9b4O5l5
https://imgur.com/a/IoXzYVx
This was taken by me while waiting in Gibraltar.
https://imgur.com/a/xkDXWal
This is a picture from Bournemouth
https://imgur.com/a/dHdpA5J
A shot from Manchester (I used to live there as well)
https://imgur.com/a/wlr2xWx
All wearing normal clothing and not struggling. I am sorry but it simply isn't true that I am unusual.