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I'm sure this will last.

With these guys -everything- is secret. Not just fancy new products. It's actually a pain in the ass to have to work around.

I wasn't comparing anecdotal evidence against statistics, I was comparing his personal anecdote and my being a fucking professional with training and real knowledge of how these things work and, more specifically, -don't- work. I could share failure rates on this completely google-able site, but I d...

Your choice, trust the guy with only his own anecdotal evidence, or the guy who troubleshoots and repairs computers for a living and sees failed external drives on the daily. Those things usually come with 3-5 year warranties for a reason. All hard drives fail, it's just a matter of when. Putting al...

impossible only if you try and do it yourself, unless your laptop has an easily accessible drive bay (which many if not most do...) in which case it will take you all of maybe 5 minutes to do the actual deed of installing the hardware. moving your data is another story, but you should already be bac...

don't buy an external drive to expand your space- it's a waste of money. you'll have to buy a second external drive to back up both the stuff on your internal and external hard drives, and it's a pain to juggle all that data. your priority should be to back all your stuff up (have it saved on two di...

hahaha. fuck. I'm sure she kept your thigh warm, though.

Which is weird, because cycling tends to make your taint sore rather than your butt.

I'd definitely describe my tone as "tainthurt".

I know you were being polite! I just wanted to hear back from you rather than read more defensive bickering from Thom. I guess it's just funny to me that it's even considered challenging to ride a single speed bicycle. All of the bikes I had growing up (talking single digits, age-wise) were single s...

I also love the irony in the fact that I was on the complete opposite end of this hypothetical "punk enough/misfits shirt" scenario for most of high school.

Yeeeaaah, ok. You're basically completely wrong (riding fixed gear is about the last thing anyone would do to be "different", especially in the big wide world outside of Des Moines where it is definitely "played out") and being hyper defensive which really shows who has the issue...

Also a front brake alone is sufficient for most any kind of road bike. Sheldon Brown wrote plenty on the physics behind it, so I won't repeat it here. Long story short: you have far less stopping power from the rear brake and a front brake won't launch you over the handlebars in any scenario if it i...

Yes, you need toe clips or straps. A few reasons: you will get power transferring to the pedals for the full rotation of the crank and you will develop proper pedaling technique, it will help you avoid the urge to lock your legs and try to coast (and thus having the bike launch you from the saddle),...

"Dumb as fuck" is not an adequate assessment of that situation.

If anything I'm more concerned with how far every dead brakeless n00b sets back the acceptance of fixed gear/track bike riding within the cycling world.

specifically, SPACE JUNK

oh, and bike porn thread needs bike porn.

here she is, fresh for the spring:

As for single speed, I would recommend it to everyone. It's practical in that there's nothing too complicated to fix by yourself if it breaks, you can choose an easy gear ratio so hills aren't a problem (this is a bad idea on a track/fixed gear bike because you would have to pedal extremely fast whe...

First of all, Thom: you're going to fucking kill yourself. Riding without brakes is one thing, riding without clips or straps is suicidal. You said you were riding fast... that means you have absolutely no way of stopping. No matter how strong your legs are, you can't fight inertia with mere downwar...

Rushmore kid is in his 20's... frighteningly, that movie was made well over 10 years ago. sigh.


edit: oh yeah gotta keep this OT

hey Tyler that creepy kid in your signature gif lives in Denver. My friend went to film school with him.


just to keep this on topic: weed

lol famous bowls

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfan5MacmsI

well fuck that

I prefer "flesh". Most of the blood has been drained from meat by the time you're eating it.

http://www.architecturaliron.com/gallery/full%20images/Stoop-1.jpg + http://www.frontiersaloon.com/BeerTakeOut/TakeOutMaltLiquors/images/4pkcColt45MaltLiq16oz2009.jpg and http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs237.snc1/8433_1233165943184_1050236275_728192_5271255_n.jpg + http://www.frontiers...

those illustrations are fucking awesome. also probably tongue-in-cheek.

I think piss christ is aesthetically pleasing, politics aside.

anyway yeah this thread was -so- much better when it was a hypothetical circle jerk.

ilikehorses wrote:NEO-CON.

this word does not mean what you think it does

I also believe a successful and legitimate DIY venue, you have to have it be drug/alcohol free. I would say the opposite is true. If you ban drinking, it's really going to limit the number of people coming in. People can whine all they want about how it should be all about the music or whatever, bu...

btw only half-joking