Back in the day the stock bikes were poorly equipped and everyone lusted after a boutique frame you'd appointed yourself. If you wanted a bike to work hell and survive you'd end up breaking stuff and customizing it to some degree. That curious assembly of customizations told you a lot about a person.
At some point in the last ten years or so production bikes started coming out of the box ready to roll and that's when it made sense for most people to ride a complete until it was time to swap for another complete. I _will_ stop a guy with a unique bike to chat: "Whoa a Karpiel!" \*spins on heels\* but I will never do that for a Santa Cruz or a Specialized.
I've ridden in every price point of Tesla and I gotta say the interiors and quality finish leave a lot to be desired. For $150k CAD you would expect a BMW to be something special but for some reason Tesla get a pass. Why? It's all a bit soulless and mass-produced. But I guess that level of crisp homogeneity and disinterest was necessary to appeal to the status joiner who wouldn't have been attracted to the scene of guys in hockey gear riding bikes on cliffs and bridges.
Also there is something about a car operated entirely by touch screen that really sets is apart from everything we've previously loved about cars. Makes it less of a mechanical obsession and more of a toy, another disposable bit of e-waste we're just going to swap out every 3 years.
July 11, 2022, 8:37 a.m. - Cr4w
Back in the day the stock bikes were poorly equipped and everyone lusted after a boutique frame you'd appointed yourself. If you wanted a bike to work hell and survive you'd end up breaking stuff and customizing it to some degree. That curious assembly of customizations told you a lot about a person. At some point in the last ten years or so production bikes started coming out of the box ready to roll and that's when it made sense for most people to ride a complete until it was time to swap for another complete. I _will_ stop a guy with a unique bike to chat: "Whoa a Karpiel!" \*spins on heels\* but I will never do that for a Santa Cruz or a Specialized. I've ridden in every price point of Tesla and I gotta say the interiors and quality finish leave a lot to be desired. For $150k CAD you would expect a BMW to be something special but for some reason Tesla get a pass. Why? It's all a bit soulless and mass-produced. But I guess that level of crisp homogeneity and disinterest was necessary to appeal to the status joiner who wouldn't have been attracted to the scene of guys in hockey gear riding bikes on cliffs and bridges. Also there is something about a car operated entirely by touch screen that really sets is apart from everything we've previously loved about cars. Makes it less of a mechanical obsession and more of a toy, another disposable bit of e-waste we're just going to swap out every 3 years.