If Bike Brands where Cars Brands?

[berty bassett]

This post just makes me so angry! You are wrong, wrong, wrong. Some things simply cannot be compared.

I just tried to complete a blackboard equation with a piece of Camembert. I thought it would compare nicely with chalk. And does it? No!

So please keep your helpful so-called opinions to yourself Mr Bassett.

so if you compared a piece of chalk for writing on a board to a piece of cheese for writing on a board you would come to the conclusion that the cheese compares very badly to the chalk maybe if you compare them on taste and you hated cheese then chalk would compare favourably , if you had a block of cheese and a block of chalk you could compare weight or compare damage caused when thrown at someone - if you had a stick of chalk and a thin piece of cheese you could stick them in a socket and compare electrical output - there are endless things you could do - so dont give up just because cheese lost on the board test think of it as 1-0 to chalk

 

[black'n'yellow]

so if you compared a piece of chalk for writing on a board to a piece of cheese for writing on a board you would come to the conclusion that the cheese compares very badly to the chalk maybe if you compare them on taste and you hated cheese then chalk would compare favourably , if you had a block of cheese and a block of chalk you could compare weight or compare damage caused when thrown at someone - if you had a stick of chalk and a thin piece of cheese you you stick them in a socket and compare electrical output - there are endless things you could do - so dont give up just because cheese lost on the board test think of it as 1-0 to chalk

that's almost as daft as comparing a car to a bicycle...

 

[berty bassett]

but just as possible

 

[jayonabike]

FTFY

that's almost as daft as comparing a car to a bicycle most of the stuff I post on here..

 

[Boris Bajic]

so if you compared a piece of chalk for writing on a board to a piece of cheese for writing on a board you would come to the conclusion that the cheese compares very badly to the chalk maybe if you compare them on taste and you hated cheese then chalk would compare favourably , if you had a block of cheese and a block of chalk you could compare weight or compare damage caused when thrown at someone - if you had a stick of chalk and a thin piece of cheese you could stick them in a socket and compare electrical output - there are endless things you could do - so dont give up just because cheese lost on the board test think of it as 1-0 to chalk

Now I'm even crosser!

All my electrics have gone... The main fuse is burnt out and the whole downstairs smells of scorched medium cheddar.

I also have a very angry neighbour (who luckily cannot find me in the dark) who claims I've been lobbing cambazola at him. He'd be even angrier, but I missed with the chalk, thus nullifying the results of the test.

I'm sure you think you were helping, but you were not. Please keep your so-called advice to yourself!

 

[Crankarm]

 

[Boris Bajic]

This thread is much too jolly. I need to provoke a reaction.

All these carbon, poo-sh1te, whizz-bang, look-at-my-team-kit-lycra, rolling examples of conspicuous consumption and self-absorbtion are the convertible Lexus of cycling.

All about being seen on and being talked about at the golf club or at a work dinner... Little to do with cycling, as the convertible lexus is little to do with driving. Tomorrow's landfill in a bland, monochrome world of consumerist lust and retail one-upmanship. Carbon and science in perfectly pointless fusion, rendered odourless excreta.

All steel bikes (particularly my steel bikes) are 1960s Alfa Romeo Giuliettas or Zagato-bodied Lancias. Beautiful and you just know the designers knew a thing or two about food and wine.

Rigid-forked early MTBs are 1959 Humber Super Snipes. Glorious and utterly pointless in equal measure, but the world would be a duller place without them.

This may not be a serious post. As ever, I am right and any dissent is groundless.

 

[Drago]

So... you're saying you like carbon bikes, right?

 

[Oldspice]

If you are really upset by this harmless thread. You could go here and vent.
http://www.cyclechat.net/threads/my-advice-to-newbies.12623/

 

[CopperCyclist]

See, I'd have said Ford was Boardman. Reliable, affordable, everywhere.

Cube/Focus would be the good, but well priced, Japanese brands - Honda, Mitsubishi, Nissan.

Carrera are the Koreans - Hyundai, Kia. If you have one you're happy with a perfectly functional and reliable bike, but you try to avoid admitting it.

Specialized, Trek, Giant - enter the expensive 'Check out my ride' German cars - your Audis, BMWs, Mercs

Campag, Colnago, Pinarello - the italians (not Fiat of course), the Ferraris, Lambos.

 

[Cycleops]

[quote="Boris Bajic, post: 2190614, member:

So please keep your helpful so-called opinions to yourself Mr Bassett.[/quote]
If everybody did that you wouldn't have a CycleChat!

 

[berty bassett]

Now I'm even crosser!

All my electrics have gone... The main fuse is burnt out and the whole downstairs smells of scorched medium cheddar.

I also have a very angry neighbour (who luckily cannot find me in the dark) who claims I've been lobbing cambazola at him. He'd be even angrier, but I missed with the chalk, thus nullifying the results of the test.

I'm sure you think you were helping, but you were not. Please keep your so-called advice to yourself!

you only have yourself to blame - you could have lit candles and made it a romantic fondue party
you shouldnt throw things at neighbours thats not nice - if they are neighbours you should wrap the blocks up and see what present he liked best - make love not war !

 

[Herr-B]

What's my Ribble - an MR2 dressed up as a Ferrari?

 

[SportMonkey]

See, I'd have said Ford was Boardman. Reliable, affordable, everywhere.

Cube/Focus would be the good, but well priced, Japanese brands - Honda, Mitsubishi, Nissan.

Carrera are the Koreans - Hyundai, Kia. If you have one you're happy with a perfectly functional and reliable bike, but you try to avoid admitting it.

Specialized, Trek, Giant - enter the expensive 'Check out my ride' German cars - your Audis, BMWs, Mercs

Campag, Colnago, Pinarello - the italians (not Fiat of course), the Ferraris, Lambos.

Where does my Masi fit in?

 

[Night Train]

Brompton?