Stupidest Bike Accessory Ever

[Trek420]

Mimi, maybe you could ride "Fatty's 100 miles of nowhere ride" (there's a thread about it somewhere): it's a ride on the trainer or rollers for 100 miles. You could make a LOT of smoothies in that time.

Here's the thread She could simultaneously do the ride and provide food for the rest stop

[Biciclista]

I don't know about you guys, but there's only so many smoothies we can eat!
The drawback to my bike smoothie maker is that we're all done in less than 15 minutes and that includes preparing the fruit to put into the blender!


someone here is complaining that good people have left this forum. That's a natural occurrence in forums. Some people go, some people stay, and some people (like me) post too much. that's the way it is; people move on.
It sure is great when we have experts on here; and we do, we have a frame builder, a bike shop owner (or 3?) and some fantastic bike mechanics.

Yet even these people are pushed to the limits almost daily with questions like "does this bike fit me?" "will this saddle work for me?"
Have fun ! if it's not fun for you to be here, don't be here!

[Cataboo]

Yet even these people are pushed to the limits almost daily with questions like "does this bike fit me?" "will this saddle work for me?"
Have fun ! if it's not fun for you to be here, don't be here!

There's a lot of touchy people lately. Maybe it's because it's allergy season.

I'm definitely not volunteering to do this - but if someone really wanted to, it'd be great if there was an FAQ on here that has links to threads on or discussions on does this bike fit or will this saddle work for me? Or if we set up a team estrogen wikipedia on women's bike fit.

[Biciclista]

I think that's already been done!

[Cataboo]

I think that's already been done!

Ooops, one of these days I'll find it! I guess there is a FAQ button up at the top!

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I'm definitely not volunteering to do this - but if someone really wanted to, it'd be great if there was an FAQ on here that has links to threads on or discussions on does this bike fit or will this saddle work for me? Or if we set up a team estrogen wikipedia on women's bike fit.

That's what the TE search function is for. There are just too many hundreds of threads and posts that have various questions combined about saddle fit, bike fit, WSD, frame size, frame material, reach, seat tube angles, sore butt, numb hands, etc, etc. No one could gather all that up and try to categorize it neatly- you just have to learn to use the search engine on TE if you want to read what everyone has written already. Most new people are search engine 'challenged' and/or they simply don't want to do the work of reading when they can simply ask the questions all over again!
I know I personally have stopped trying to answer the same newbie questions over and over again- it gets to be just too much. My favorite is the "What bike should I get?- I want a really good bike that'll last but I don't want to spend more than $200..."...usually containing ZERO details that might give a vague clue as to what kind of riding they hope to do or what kind of rider they are.

When I joined TE I had plenty of questions....but I read, read, read tons of past threads and many of my questions were answered and then some- even questions that I didn't know I had yet!

[Cataboo]

I think I could point to Sheldon brown's site and say it's quite possible to gather a lot of bike information up and summarize it neatly. It's definitely a huge amount of work, which is why I suggested a wiki, because various people could organize it.

Yes, TE does have a search function, and I've made extensive use of it, which is why I've never asked you guys what saddle to buy despite choosing the saddles I've bought based on recommendations from here - if I'm going to post a question on here, I've already done a search on here and various other forums on the internet looking for information previous to posting it. However, most forums do have a FAQ entitled something like "READ THIS FIRST BEFORE YOU ASK THE SAME QUESTION EVERYONE ELSE HAS". And the TE search function is lacking in some regards... If I'm trying to find information on TE, most of the time, I go out into google and use it to search the forums in order to try to get a more intelligent search going.

If you search on brooks saddle on here, you get 80 million threads that mention brooks saddle with information scattered all over the place... and there are 1 or 2 really helpful threads, but they are definitely hard for newbies to find. Especially newbies that in addition to being new to biking are also somewhat new to forums and computers, because I get that impression from a lot of the people on here.

That's what the TE search function is for. There are just too many hundreds of threads and posts that have various questions combined about saddle fit, bike fit, WSD, frame size, frame material, reach, seat tube angles, sore butt, numb hands, etc, etc. No one could gather all that up and try to categorize it neatly- you just have to learn to use the search engine on TE if you want to read what everyone has written already. Most new people are search engine 'challenged' and/or they simply don't want to do the work of reading when they can simply ask the questions all over again!
I know I personally have stopped trying to answer the same newbie questions over and over again- it gets to be just too much. My favorite is the "What bike should I get?- I want a really good bike that'll last but I don't want to spend more than $200..."...usually containing ZERO details that might give a vague clue as to what kind of riding they hope to do or what kind of rider they are.

When I joined TE I had plenty of questions....but I read, read, read tons of past threads and many of my questions were answered and then some- even questions that I didn't know I had yet!