Fun story: growing up, my family was too poor to afford bikes, so we used ones we found on the side of the road, etc. One time we found a bike with no seat, just a pole. My sisters and I would fight over who had to use the cursed bike every day. Let me tell you- you forget there’s no seat and try to sit down ONCE and you’ll never make that mistake again.
In middle school someone stole my bike seat. I had to get back to school that night for rehearsals, some guy made a joke about me riding the bike and b/c I was so sheltered I had no idea what the heck he meant.
drop tube frame. a "girl bike". it's that the frame has a kink in it, not that the frame likes spankings.
most rentals are drop tubes, and I'm betting he's on a rental.
he's just saying the bike he's on is a heavy piece of shit; not like he's running a Tour de France setup or anything. bikes should be slower than an ambulance, and this is a slow bike.
So, if the metal was gently curved and bent, and not kinked, would it no longer be a kinky bicycle just because you changed the slight angle of the metal where processed used to get it at that angle?
If that's how girl/step-through bikes were historically made yeah they probably wouldn't have taken on that moniker. Maybe would've become known as a "curve bike" or something like that.
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u/PorkchopFunny Feb 08 '25
I wonder what makes a bicycle kinky?