Notices by nothingfuture (nothingfuture@mastodon.social)

@ascentale @bobjonkman @bikenite I don’t keep computers on most of my bikes- they don’t bring out the best in me.
Generally, I try to (vaguely) track how many hours I’ve put on a bike, as it matters for maintenance intervals (suspension forks, chain lube, etc etc etc).
#bikenite

My love of bikes is such that I’m joyful about even weirdo stuff like this- which is also a bike I own. It’s an impeccably executed bad idea, and it rides better than it has any right to.

#bikenite #biketooter

@quinn I find myself saying that a lot, but also “fair use doesn’t work that way” a considerable amount too.

@v_perjorative @tk @cycling @mastobikes To be clear- I’m not saying discs are bad or whatever. I’m saying that most of the time, for many, many people, they’re overkill.
Some people seem to feel that discs are necessary for a bike to be safe; that is very rarely the actual case. #BikeTooter

@mhoye @tk @cycling @mastobikes
I came up riding tandems with sketchy canti brakes in hills, and- it was ok? We adjusted our riding to braking power.
On a road bike, I’ve never felt I needed discs. And I rode canti’s on mtbs all through the 80’s/90’s and into the early 00’s. They were fine. Until you were riding DH courses.
Are discs better? Sure. Good hydro discs have immense amounts of power. Were rim brakes enough? Yeah. Most of the time. #BikeTooter

@tk @cycling @mastobikes I’ll concede that there are applications where disc brakes-specifically hydraulic- are better than rim brakes. But those situations are, I think, wildly overstated, and usually far outside the use-cases of the vast majority of cyclists. #biketooter