Comments on: 251 Tips that Suck

By: BillStrickland

BillStrickland — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:29:12 +0000

Bradq — you were right to call us out on that stupid leftover thumbnail graphic. If it’s not changed already, it’s in the process; we told our subscription/marketing depts to get rid of it.

Dan . . . I apologize on the behalf of my shiny-legged brethren all those years ago. For sure we can be jackasses. And if you’ll send me your address I’d like to send you some stories we’ve done that might show you we can be a good read between iterations of how to change flats and do wheelies.

By: sorelegs

sorelegs — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 03:51:46 +0000

ooops I mean hellbelly…

By: sorelegs

sorelegs — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 03:50:52 +0000

Kick stand off the front at a City Limits sign. Now that is puddin’. Nice leadbelly.

By: mxracer652

mxracer652 — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:58:33 +0000

Hmmm,
I think hellbelly is onto something. Spring crits on a triple, with frame pump & seatbag sound appealing. I’ll be the scourge of the series.

By: sommerfliesby

sommerfliesby — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:52:18 +0000

That’s a nice technique hellbelly. I always wanted to show up on the line at a mtb race with a baseball card in my spokes…never did, but hey, maybe that’s an excuse to race again?

By: hellbelly

hellbelly — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:28:30 +0000

I received a subscription for christmas this year all because of my re-interest in the sport. My only comment would be that there are not enough scantily clad women. Why print a magazine without some skin? To address the comments about beater bikes / bike snob annoyance, my trick, back in the day, was to put a kick stand on my race bike during the week on group rides. Nothing annoyed anyone more. Having the guy with the kick stand win the town sign sprint, while everyone else had been busy backing out crank, stem, chainring bolts and replacing with titanium. It was priceless. It’s not the equipment!

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:24:32 +0000

BTW hair takes people down.. LOL

By: slappy

slappy — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:42:23 +0000

Well that one MOuntain BIke looked farmiliar cuz i still have my copy.. cuz it has an ariticle on sswc05 and they have some pretty nice shoots of the whole crew their in pennslytucky gettin ready to suffer.. just so you know, as a bike mechanic whose pretty objective at this stage of the game, reading rodaile or any other publication is just another bit of information to digest, it doesn’t have to hurt you unless you’re real fragile – like. Then when you work in a shop and someone comes in who has yet to learn just how cool they can be, and happens to have picked up bicycling in the dentist office and wants to know if there is a used bike with their name on it, well then you can understand what their level of knowledge is, given that it’s derived from the coprorate propoganda that Bicylcing and others spew.. and then you can cut right to the chase and explain the rational of the 10 yr old 8 spd. 100% legit road bike that you’re gonna sell them instead…. gear exchange g’wood springs Co

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:39:23 +0000

I bought the last issue only because it had Ross Dillion writeup
in it.. use to race with that guy before he got hit..

Sad thing is last time we raced we had diffrences. I wish him well
always. He has come along way.

Peace,
Joe

By: Opus the Poet

Opus the Poet — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 03:32:13 +0000

As a cyclist that loses 2-5 pounds every spring when the leg fur comes off to make room for the sunscreen, I like Bicycling magazine. I just don’t like it enough to pay for it since they hardly ever have articles on bikes like mine (recumbent) or on how I like to use my bike (I ride to distant cities and visit in person with friends) I was riding 112 miles a day to go have lunch with a friend last year, until she died. For the most part Bicycling ignores me, and I return the favor.

Opus

By: DrunkenBiker

DrunkenBiker — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:09:45 +0000

“show up with furry legs smelling like beer and hand him his ass.”

1) Showing up smelling like beer is all good. Basically 1/2 my life story.

2) Handing me my ass is all good. Basically 75% of my biking life right there. 100% when hills are involved. ha

3) Furry legs ?? Shoot on sight I say.

By: Marrock

Marrock — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:39:22 +0000

We have a Mr. & Mrs. Lance Wannabe in town here, usually found very early in the morning or just around dinner time, matching kit, matching bikes, matching piss-poor attitudes, they look down their nose at absolutely everyone they feel is not in their “league”, which, as it turns out, is everyone else on the planet.

I like catching them as they go hammering up the hill, I smile and wave as I pass them on my beater with an overloaded BoB trailer behind it.

I’m not sure but I think they hate me.