very tiny handlebars?

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  • woodford2barbican
    woodford2barbican Posts: 1,505
    Parsnip49 wrote:
    woodford2barbican wrote:
    I think they are w*nkers, using small handlebars is sufficient evidence to arrive at that conclusion.

    As is having flyers in your spokes, dreadlocks on soap averse white middle class trustafarians, fairy wings on anyone over the age of 9, mean wearing women's jeans are w*nkers.

    I could go on, but I would probably classify myself as a w*nker before too long.... :lol:

    I wouldn't call you a w*anker. An ill informed, narrow minded, stereotyping idiot maybe, but not a w*nker

    Bite!
  • BigJimmyB
    BigJimmyB Posts: 1,302
    [quote="biondinoI think you may have lost your own argument there! But having said that, you're the bigger man for not resorting to name-calling and whatever my prejudices I was a bit harsh. Sorry about that.[/quote]

    Err , maybe(!).

    No apology needed, this is a debate after all and you're entitled to you opinion, but I appreciate your post - thanks.
  • Bikerbaboon
    Bikerbaboon Posts: 1,017
    woodford2barbican wrote:
    Parsnip49 wrote:
    woodford2barbican wrote:
    I think they are w*nkers, using small handlebars is sufficient evidence to arrive at that conclusion.

    As is having flyers in your spokes, dreadlocks on soap averse white middle class trustafarians, fairy wings on anyone over the age of 9, mean wearing women's jeans are w*nkers.

    I could go on, but I would probably classify myself as a w*nker before too long.... :lol:

    I wouldn't call you a w*anker. An ill informed, narrow minded, stereotyping idiot maybe, but not a w*nker

    Bite!

    so are we assuming that to use a small handlebar you must have never touched your self in that special way ? as if thats the case then i think we woule be seeing alot less about. :shock:
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  • the_hundredth_idiot
    the_hundredth_idiot Posts: 813
    Parsnip49 wrote:
    If im on my own on busy roads doing something stupid (i.e arms rested on tops) im putting myself at risk, if some eejit knocks me off or i crash, its me who gets hurt. I know the risks and i accept them - foolhardy maybe, but a w*anker? Maybe you are working from a different dictionary to me...

    OT Its much easier to do on old style (pre 2009) shimano, you can grab the brake cables if things get hairy :) /OT

    Unless, of course, you crash into someone else! Pedestrian, perhaps? Maybe another cyclist? Possibly a car driver who needs therapy for months to help get over the shock of hearing your head pop beneath his wheels?

    [And darn it, I tried to add a funny animal picture but still seem to be too stupid to figure out how. Got picture, can't link it. :roll: ]
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  • Littigator
    Littigator Posts: 1,262
    Hmmmm, 'tarty' is that enough, too much or missing the point? We seem to have embroiled ourselves in a bit of semantic shillyshallying...

    I bought a singlie (black) and added white saddle and white bar tape and will at some point when Mrs Littigator isn't looking sneak some nice white halo rims (snigger) onto it...that's a bit tarty.

    Applying the same term to Tarquin the trustafarian who shops exclusively in Brick Lane Bicycles because it's cool and has handlebars which can only be gripped with forefinger and thumb (although one would doubt his ability to fully comprehend the wondrously myriad uses of the opposable digits) because it's a fad, is it enough to apply the same term?

    Methinks not and one is reluctantly drawn back to the pejorative use of the self-abuse reference previoulsy bandied about and which has been used in haste, withdrawn, apologised over and couched in more civilised terms...no no dear forummers it is without doubt that this chap, this fop, this dandy of the dual wheeled world is a W*NKER!

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    HOWEVER, I would not for one minute suggest that any honest to goodness gawd bless 'em proper salt of the earth messenger who peddles his wares (d'you see what I did there) around town and who for convenience ease and necessity decides to shorten his bars should be hectored, taken down a peg, ostracised or onanised in any way.

    They do a bloody good and tough job, which we in summer would relish, but in truth year round would be hard going!

    ithankyou


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  • Greg T
    Greg T Posts: 3,266
    If there was an inverse relationship between self love and handlebar size I would be well and truly screwed.......



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  • Littigator
    Littigator Posts: 1,262
    Stop pretending that's your bike...yours is no way as cool as that!
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  • Bodhbh
    Bodhbh Posts: 117
    Saw first one of these today and remembered this thread. Young chap passed me on walking back from work. Noticed the fancy bike and thought he must be some hardcore cyclist or somesuch. Instead he rode about 50yards past and dismounted at the bottom of a small hill about the size of a motorway flyover, without even giving it a crack. I more or less caught him up on foot and had chance to eye up the bike: handlebars foot or less, orange tires, orange bar tap, no brakes at all, toestraps on the pedals. Didn't noticed if it was fixed or ss.

    He obviously couldn't ride the bloody thing, why people make such a rod for their own backs :( Looked like a deathtrap in the hands of someone who couldn't even ride up a little hill. Only a few miles out in the sticks in Watford, don't see many out on bikes nm these fadmobiles. Saw him again at the station getting the train for London, oh well, expalins that. Remember drilling holes in BMX frames as a kid to make em lighter, so I guess I can't talk.

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