I always see one thing that is conspicuously absent from any off these urban utility bikes that fucktard-design companies squirt out of their ass whenever there is a competition they can "win," and you guessed it, it's a chain guard.
I know I took the chain guard off my huffy bmx bike back in 1994, but I now know that it was a very serious mistake and any person that actually wants to ride their bike around like a normal person wearing normal clothes knows that the biggest hurdle to overcome when trying to cycle around town is grease stains smeared across every single pair off pants that you own, or worse getting your pants stuck in the chain and toppling over into someone's garbage can and having fast food bags filled with trash thrown at you from SUV windows by smiling children.
The crappy thing about commuting by bi-cycle is that you actually have to think about what you wear. I think that it is another conspiracy from the car companies, like helmets, that almost no commute worthy bicycle comes equipped with a chain guard so you can wear what you please. Every single "urban" bicycle I see has all the amenities to haul furniture, but doesn't have anything that can allow you to wear jeans that weren't borrowed from your eleven-year-old-anorexic sister.
The only exception to the rule is 800 euro dutch bicycles. I'd love to have one, but I'm just fresh out of euros, and the $200 shipping charge isn't the most cost effective thing ever.
I guess it's too early for such radically innovative things in the United States when whether or not it's appropriate to run street tires at 98 psi rather than 99 psi is such a divisive issue in the the cycling world.
Go mash some pedals.
No comments:
Post a Comment