The real reason for the tariffs

[mowens]

I'm rooted in the camp that a desktop computer/laptop is a creation/consumption device, and a phone purely a consumption device. I'm sure your tinkering has led you to avenues of problem solving, understanding and execution, as mine has. The rise of phones and tablets as someone's only computing device, to me, says they aren't interesting in building or making anything - physical or digital. No person is going to be programming all day on a tablet unless the circumstances are dire.

Plus, porn sucks when seeing it on a phone.

[SuperHoneyBadger]

Bicycles are for children.

Well have I got a FACT for you buddyguy, they make adult sized bikes! Bikes so large a child has no hope of riding them at all. Therefore your statement is false.

[SuperHoneyBadger]

Plus, porn sucks when seeing it on a phone.

Protip: hold the phone just above your junk so it covers your hand and looks like the chick is blowing you. Works every time, I'd like to see someone try that with a monitor!

Edit: I'm leaving this up, but it's an absolute Incog tier post that I feel a moderate amount of shame about after re-reading.

[Bucky Cornstarch]

Well have I got a FACT for you buddyguy, they make adult sized bikes! Bikes so large a child has no hope of riding them at all. Therefore your statement is false.

I don't believe you. Next you'll tell me that bicycles are capable of injuring an adult human.

[SuperHoneyBadger]

I don't believe you. Next you'll tell me that bicycles are capable of injuring an adult human.

Well, I mean, not by themselves. You gotta hit the rider with a car first.

[CNCAppsJames]

Hey, I respect the skill and your guys' choices, I'm not going to advocate legislation or anything... For my money though, a nasty bump on the head is the difference between a career as an operator, or a programmer!

I don't ride like I used to anymore. I don't have even close to the flexibility I once had and I'm not in that kind of shape either.

So, no more decades, cherry-pickers, double decades, fire hydrants, bar rides, g-turns, rolling tailwhips, etc... mostly just cruising, infinity rolls, endos (not OTB though) riding backwards, rock-walks, etc...

I am going to get back into BMX racing this season though. Should have my bike back together in a few weeks. GT PowerSeries. I need a new set of cranks. I robbed my Profiles and put them on my Fit Bike Co. Flatland bike. I will be riding with a full-face helmet though. I'm dumb... not stupid.

I'm probably still fast enough to be 2nd to last.

Just looking to get into better shape and have some fun doing it.. not looking for trophies.

[Jeff]

I'm going to say that inviting a head injury isn't worth looking like a badass in any scenario.

Are you Gen Z or younger?

[Jeff]

I can see helmets being worn when zooming thru trails on a mountain bike, but just general riding your bike down a street? Nah, you might as well be wearing a mask also, you look that stupid.

[Elmer Fudd]

A programer I worked with crashed riding in Moab. Hit his head on the rocks and turned his brain to mush.

[SuperHoneyBadger]

Are you Gen Z or younger?

Born 1990, firm millennial.

[ghuns]

While I can accept that wearing a helmet while riding a bike offers a certain amount of protection, there is something to be said for jumping your banana seat Huffy off a plywood/cinder block ramp, eating shit, picking gravel out of your hair, and learning a valuable lesson.

Stupid should hurt and scars create lasting reminders.

[Jeff]

Born 1990, firm millennial.

lol that explains it!
Your generation was practically born with a bicycle helmet on.
 

[SuperHoneyBadger]

Your generation was practically born with a bicycle helmet on.

Boom, roasted.
We stopped smoking too, so just uncool all around I guess, eh?

I spent too much time on the computer to need one personally. Judging by this thread I was in mortal danger far less than my ancestors!

[Bucky Cornstarch]

I can see helmets being worn when zooming thru trails on a mountain bike, but just general riding your bike down a street? Nah, you might as well be wearing a mask also, you look that stupid.

I've been riding motorcycles since I was five years old. Even back then, if I saw someone riding without a helmet I would point and laugh, and think of how stupid that person must be. Today, more than 50 years later living in Michigan where there are no helmet laws (which I am firmly against) I still point and laugh when I see riders without helmets.

Bicycles are the same. I've seen firsthand the consequences of riders severely hurt or killed because they weren't wearing a helmet. Yes, even "just general riding your bike down a street." 

Now that I know that someone like you thinks anyone wearing a bicycle helmet looks stupid, I will wear one even more proudly. Much like getting a crazy emoticon reaction to a post here on FleeMastercam, having the Jeff's of the world think you're stupid means you are doing at least something right.

[rdshear]

in Michigan where there are no helmet laws (which I am firmly against)

While I don't ride a motorcycle, I'm not for helmet laws.  I don't think the government should set laws to prevent stupid decisions when that decision will not hurt anyone but the helmetless operator.  Do I think it's a VERY bad idea to ride without a helmet?  ABSOLUTELY.  At some point though, you have to allow people to make their own decisions, even bad ones.