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Let's see that drivetrain review, and get the Microshift Advent 9-speed in the mix too!

(Please)

I want my next drivetrain to be 9-speed, wide-range and cheap!

Thats a nice parts selection right there, gets a pretentious knowing nod from me.  

I'd almost be bummed to have to take some of that stuff off to test other parts...

Fenders on a mountain bike generally look freaking terrible.

I run three in the winter.  

Life is better when you're dryer, cleaner and don't care what people think of your look.

Yeah, this sport would be so much better if you didn’t have to pedal or worry about the terrain.

I mean, is it even "growing the sport" if it's not even the same sport anymore?

What’s missing (and what’s so good about mountain mopeds) is that segways and hover boards don’t replicate walking very well. They’re just boring ways to roll slowly and easily. Something that lets you walk, but with some help, would be awesome for the injured/disabled and folks who want to move faster.  Would have saved me a bunch of grief when I was laid up if I could feel like I could walk like a normal person.

Edit: yahs edited his post while I typed mine. Post deleted.

So ableist if you to assume that everyone who uses an exoskeleton to walk is lazy. What about the people who are genuinely disabled?  Aren’t they entitled to chips too?  Everyone is entitled to everything, don’t ya know?

I think the strength of people’s reaction to this term is hilarious. 

If mountain mopeds are actually electric mountain bikes than we’re going to need a term to differentiate the two. Guitars come in electric and acoustic, everyone know what it means, so hey, why not use the term for mountain bikes too?  

I know acoustic technically refers to sound but none of y’all who object to the term has suggested an alternative. Besides, to borrow some reasoning from the mountain moped advocates - it seems the train has left the station here, time to get on board!

I’m sure Specialized and Trek will tell us what’s right, they seem to have a firm grasp on the future  mountain bikers want🙄

I recently had a ride than totally messed with my head. 

Started out all cranky about life. My riding felt terrible. I felt slow and didn’t bother trying to clean a bunch of hard climbs that are generally within my tough but doable range. Eventually I slipped into being present and not thinking and voila! A smile on my face and a cheery disposition for strangers and family for the rest of the day!

And when I checked my Strava, a ton of PR’s!  I wasn’t riding slow at all, my mood was just ruining my perception of my ride!  What the hell, brain?!?

Lesson: don’t indulge your shitty attitude and don’t trust what you think.

I’m shocked, SHOCKED I tell you to see that no one has taken you up on your genuine offer of a reasonable conversation about US politics. 

SHOCKED.

To me, in light of where he went after this, this reads as someone who is making his determination on someone’s immigrant/old stock determination visually, therefore, by race  

“ I live in Mississauga, nobody wears — very few people wear a poppy. Downtown Toronto, forget it! Downtown Toronto, nobody wears a poppy.’”

And I believe that, based on the fact that he thinks he can identify immigrants by looking at them, his specific type of bigotry expressed is racism. His ignorance and stubbornness is the source of his bigotry.

Yes. And in the past my business has had a collection thing out, and we change the legion our non-profit rates when we do service there, and non-profit rates when they visit us...

Posted by: FLATCH

Posted by: tashi

I’m a first generation Canadian.

I don’t wear a poppy.

Did my parents fail to assimilate? Could you tell by looking at me while I walk down the street?

Why don’t you wear a poppy?

Because they cost money to produce, fall off, and are another small piece of shitty plastic that the world has to deal with for basically forever.

My dashboard is cluttered with ones from my in-laws and wife...

Yeah, he was trying to talk about poppies and the troops. But, not too surprisingly, he let his racism slip out. Oops!

You’re dancing around the word racism by using other words, but you yourself just described how he is racist.

His relationship with a black man has nothing to do with it. Racism is how people see and judge people based on their ethnicity, plenty of people have racist ideas about groups that they make exceptions for specific individuals. “I’m not racist, I have a black friend!” is a bullshit defense.

I’m a first generation Canadian. 

I don’t wear a poppy. 

Did my parents fail to assimilate?  Could you tell by looking at me while I walk down the street?

So you don’t think he’s being racist when he walks down the street and thinks that he can identify who is and who isn’t an immigrant?  What criteria exactly do you think he’s relying upon exactly?  

The racist part has nothing to do with his support for the troops. That’s a red herring, and people are using it to distract from the real issue. It has to do with his (and yours I guess) idea that white people are native Canadians (term chosen for irony) and non-whites are immigrants.

Posted by: Stuminator

Agree or disagree with him, you gotta give him credit for saying what he wants & not backing down. How many people do you know who are like that in this day & age? Not many. Most people in the world today are PC pussies who are afraid to say anything.

Personally, I think he definitely could have & should have phrased it better. Perhaps what he meant was taken out of context. His fervent patriotism got him worked up. But oh well, end of an era & life goes on. (CBC, just don't bring that punk Strombo back)

Doggedly holding on to and expressing racist/xenophobic views doesn’t deserve any “credit”. 

He expressed his views perfectly. The problem was with what he said, no re-phrasing was going to fix it.

Plenty of 85 year olds have learned to not be racist douchebags.  He just didn't want to.  He's just a stubborn old man who won't change so he got canned.  

He has a good home on Twitter, maybe Rebel Media will pick him up too.  They seem to want him to keep going.