When the going gets tough the ......
Posted on 08/18/2011 12:33:59 PM PDT by MindBender26
Hence, the knickers comment
Barf.
No, that’s not a girls bike. Also, it’s a not an ATB (off road bike) it’s just a run of the mill men’s hybrid. This is one area that I have genuine expertise.
If you get on a bike wearing jeans, you’re not going for a ride.
phony
The cutaway frame typical of a "girls bike" is structrually weaker (therefore heavier), but allows a girl in a skirt to mount the thing without violating modesty.
Modern off-road bikes have much smaller frames than road bikes, to put distance between the rider and the frame. Don't want to bash the family jewels any more often than necessary.
Women's road racing bikes are structurally similar to men's.
That looks like a total chicks bike.
All it needs is some streamers and a front basket.
Looks like a duck, quacks like a duck....expert or not. Perception and ensuing ridicule are operative here.
The helmet is gay, his white shirt is gay, his pants are gay, his tennis shoes are gay, the bike is gay, his stones are in the Wookie’s lock box. The only thing manly is the color of the bike.
When the going gets tough the ......
It’s called a step-through frame, and the origin of the step-through frame is that it allowed women to ride in dresses. That’s it. It was all about the dress.
They’re going the way of the dodo. Women’s (real) off-road bikes and road bikes now use the more standard diamond frame. Beach cruisers and hybrids are about the only modern bikes available in a step-through frame.
Oh...this is just effing ducky...now I’m gonna get a bunch of technospeak and excuses for what and why his bike looks like that...I’ll repeat again. Looks like duck, quacks like duck....etc. I don’t care about the specifics in this case...most men my age look at it and think ‘girl’. Don’t be offended.
Since there's video out there proving he can't pitch, I think you'd be safe with 1000:1 odds.
In that second photo he has his legs together which looks kinda girly.
Here’s a link to Rick Perry riding a bike (copyright life magazine).
http://www.life.com/image/3443739
I think that is how guys should look riding a bike.
He looks foolish.
A quick trip up US-1 to College Park Bicycles would get him straightened out. On this, at least.
The top tube runs down at an angle and connects to the seat tube on these bikes instead of running straight across and parallel to the ground. This keeps the rider sitting upright. Check out his daughter's bike. That's a girls bike and difference is obvious.
This one looks like it was manufactured by Giant Bicycles of Newbury Park, CA. It's an aluminum frame, 21 speed bike... a pretty nice machine for riding bike paths and the like.
You guys need to criticize Odumbo about his stupidity, his racism, his anti-Americanism, etc.
Mocking his choice of bicycle is weak.
And remember Armstrong's comments on his bike ride with Bush: he was surprised at how well he kept up.
When Bush rode, it was exercise. Real exercise. Like, the sweating kind.
Gender roles are so Republican. Why shouldn’t little Johnny ride a girls bike?
He is also wearing ‘Mom’ jeans!
Probably wee wees sitting down, just to be fair.
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