So the opposite day I posted about fellow getting older bike Web character Lucas Brunelle, after which yesterday the YouTubes served me this:
Oh, Lucas.
Lucas, Lucas, Lucas.
To begin with, with all due respect, from one getting older rider to a different, you’re like 75 years outdated. What the hell are you doing together with your levers?
Look, I get it, slender bars and turned-in levers are at the moment modern amongst roadies. However don’t attempt to copy the children. You’re sufficiently old to know that from about 1998 to love 2010 or thereabouts, street racing handlebar setups truly made sense–you used bars that have been a centimeter or two wider than what individuals have been using within the downtube shifter days, which gave you further stability and leverage. And naturally you oriented your levers roughly parallel to one another and never all cockeyed like Señor Hacer de Manos right here:
Now everybody’s using teeny bars and turning their levers in. Effective. Once more, if the kiddies need to try this as a result of it makes them barely extra aero no matter then good for them. However for chrissakes, you’re a terrific grandfather! Do you shrink the font dimension in your e-reader as you become old? No you don’t! Then why would you deliberately make your bike harder to experience? So you may lay it down making a totally strange left-hand activate a suburban street?
Why the hell is the godfather of outlaw biking movies, who has chased among the world’s craziest cyclists by among the world’s craziest streets, wiping out on the entrance to an outside furnishings retailer on a solo experience?
I imply certain, they do have the whole lot you want in your outside dwelling space, however nonetheless:
And wonderful, there was slightly little bit of gravel:
However that will not have been an issue if solely he’d been using an age-appropriate bicycle as an alternative of this…factor:
Critically, levers apart, an 86 year-old man mustn’t have a saddle-to-bar drop like that. Everybody is aware of that the decrease your balls grasp the upper your bars needs to be. Good grief Lucas, you ought to be monitoring the speed of enhance of your scranus-to-testicle differential intently at your age and elevating your bars inversely, I believed this widespread information!
Why do you suppose Ol’ Man Branson switched to flat bars?
[Branson’s hang so low he gets road rash on his scrotum.]
Sadly Lucas just isn’t listening to the universe, which is telling him in no unsure phrases to Simply Purchase A Rivendell Already. As a substitute he tries to show his crash right into a instructing second and offers the world’s worst lesson in turning, slicing heedlessly throughout two lanes of visitors:
Why does he provoke his left turns from the far proper aspect of the street as an alternative of shifting over to the left first?
Was he simply using alongside when he was all of the sudden overcome by an intense need for a brand new patio eating set?
Appears to me he needs to be getting in on the Platypus presale as an alternative.
