So the opposite day I posted about fellow getting older bike Web persona 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To begin with, with all due respect, from one getting older rider to a different, you’re like 75 years outdated.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 trendy 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, highway racing handlebar setups truly made sense–you used bars that had been a centimeter or two wider than what folks had been driving within the downtube shifter days, which gave you further stability and leverage. And naturally you oriented your levers kind of parallel to one another and never all cockeyed like Señor Hacer de Manos right here:
Now everybody’s driving teeny bars and turning their levers in. Advantageous. Once more, if the kiddies need to do 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 measurement in your e-reader as you grow old? No you don’t! Then why would you deliberately make your bike harder to trip? So you may lay it down making a totally strange left-hand activate a suburban highway?
Why the hell is the godfather of outlaw biking movies, who has chased a number of the world’s craziest cyclists via a number of the world’s craziest streets, wiping out on the entrance to an out of doors furnishings retailer on a solo trip?
I imply positive, they do have every thing you want in your out of doors residing space, however nonetheless:
And positive, there was somewhat little bit of gravel:
However that may not have been an issue if solely he’d been driving an age-appropriate bicycle as an alternative of this…factor:
Severely, 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 cling the upper your bars must be. Good grief Lucas, you ought to be monitoring the speed of enhance of your scranus-to-testicle differential carefully at your age and elevating your bars inversely, I assumed this frequent information!
[A bike fitting expert monitors an aging rider’s “pants yabbies” and their inexorable migration floorward.]
Why do you assume Ol’ Man Branson switched to flat bars?
[Branson’s hang so low he gets road rash on his scrotum.]
Sadly Lucas shouldn’t be 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 educating second and provides 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 highway as an alternative of transferring over to the left first?
Was he simply driving alongside when he was all of the sudden overcome by an intense need for a brand new patio eating set?
Appears to me he must be getting in on the Platypus presale as an alternative.
