So the opposite day I posted about fellow growing old bike Web character Lucas Brunelle, after which yesterday the YouTubes served me this:
Oh, Lucas.
Lucas, Lucas, Lucas.
Initially, with all due respect, from one growing old rider to a different, you’re like 75 years previous. What the hell are you doing along with your levers?
Look, I get it, slender bars and turned-in levers are at present trendy amongst roadies. However don’t attempt to copy the youngsters. You’re sufficiently old to know that from about 1998 to love 2010 or thereabouts, highway racing handlebar setups really made sense–you used bars that have been a centimeter or two wider than what folks have been driving within the downtube shifter days, which gave you additional 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. Nice. Once more, if the kiddies need to try this as a result of it makes them barely extra aero no matter then good for them. However for chrissakes, you’re an ideal grandfather! Do you shrink the font dimension in your e-reader as you become old? No you don’t! Then why would you deliberately make your bike tougher to journey? So you possibly can lay it down making a very peculiar 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 journey?
I imply positive, they do have every thing you want in your out of doors dwelling space, however nonetheless:
And superb, there was a bit of little bit of gravel:
However that may not have been an issue if solely he’d been driving an age-appropriate bicycle as a substitute of this…factor:
Significantly, 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 dangle the upper your bars ought to be. Good grief Lucas, try to be monitoring the speed of improve of your scranus-to-testicle differential carefully at your age and elevating your bars inversely, I assumed this widespread 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 just isn’t listening to the universe, which is telling him in no unsure phrases to Simply Purchase A Rivendell Already. As an alternative he tries to show his crash right into a educating second and offers the world’s worst lesson in turning, slicing heedlessly throughout two lanes of site visitors:
Why does he provoke his left turns from the far proper facet of the highway as a substitute of shifting over to the left first?
Was he simply driving alongside when he was immediately overcome by an intense need for a brand new patio eating set?
Appears to me he ought to be getting in on the Platypus presale as a substitute.
