>wears a rolex daytona while driving, just like paul newman Fine >wears a rain coat when it's raining, just like gene kelly Fine >wears gym shorts at the gym, just like wilt chamberlain Fine >wears aviators just because, just like val kilmer in top gun Fine >wears tacticool ballistic nylon cargo pants when working, just like steven seagal in under siege Fine >wears cycling shorts when cycling Whoa wait WHAT NOOOOO YOU CAN'T DO THAT YOU TRYHARD WHAT IF SOMEONE THINKS YOU'RE LANCE ARMSTRONG AND YOU WOULD HAVE TO TELL THEM YOU'RE NOT A PROFESSIONAL RACING CYCLIST THEN THE UNIVERSE WOULD EXPLODE NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
>>2018683 >Whoa wait WHAT NOOOOO YOU CAN'T DO THAT YOU TRYHARD 90% cope from dorks that are afraid to wear lycra for whatever reason and 10% memes from dorks on 4chan dabbing on dorks that are afraid to wear lycra. as a fat guy that wears lycra: if you're looking at my dick or my fat ass in my riding bibs thats on you, fag. enjoy the show.
>>2026770 nah they're pretty shit they just have great marketing. I set my quartz watch twice a year at daylight savings, those Rolexes need set once a month at the very latest and need full services as often as a quartz watch needs a $2 battery
>>2026869 yeah but how far off is your watch when you do it twice a year? unless you've got thermocompensated or something like that you're probably off by 2-3 minutes
I never understood mechanical watches. We have a superior system. Plus you can just buy a new $300 quartz watch every few years for the fashion and look way better than some clunky, dorky grandpa Rolex.
>>2026873 yeah I don't know why it's so accurate, one time it was like 2 seconds off, obviously some months it will gain a few and some lose but it averages out to fuck all >>2026926 It was a marketing thing the Swiss companies had to do to survive. Swiss companies used quartz until Japan could make them really cheap
>>2027032 most "watch guys" aren't wearing anything near that expensive. go on the average watch discussion online and see, it's mostly neckbeards who feel very smug about their ebay frankenfake HMT with "omega" crudely stamped over the original dial markers) that they pretend is actually in the same class as an original george daniels and therefore they're morally superior to any kind of timepiece that's actually accurate and usable in real life conditions. it's the watch version of the steel is real guys who convinced themselves that their gaspipe bso with a bent derailleur hanger and brakes that don't work has more "character" than an entry level allez or a domane that actually and you don't have to dismount every 3 miles and fish the chain out of the spokes
Cyclists who wear lycra are like that kid who turns up for a kickabout in full football kit, including studs and shin pads. Except they're adults so the cringe is multiplied by 1,000,000.
imagine you're going to take the car out for a spin, and you dressed up like Ayrton Senna on race day, even if you had a Ferrari everyone would know that you're a cunt.
>>2028747 Lol that hits so close to home. In my 20s I had a Sgt who was really into futbol (and probably tistic), so he later ordered PT (exercise) was going to be futbol. Mfer showed up in full cleats and shins while all of us were in standard issue PT gear. The other Sgts were so fucking mad they didn't let him organize a PT session for a long time lmao
>>2028748 "pick me" is wearing the casio so that the old money thinks you "have nothing to prove" and therefore must be one of them so they'll take pity on you and give you free money
>>2033879 so what do you do, carry your bibs in a backpack while wearing jeans until you get to the mountain and change when you see the first grizzly bear eating a moose?
>>2033881 no i just feel retarded for about 20 minutes at the start and end of long road rides and when i see other roadies in the city looking gay i have to remind myself they've probably just come back from looking cool
>>2026870 My guy, 2 or 3 minutes is what a Daytona would get in a couple weeks, not in 6 months. >b-but muh superlative chro- O/+5 s/day out the factory or service workshop, expect it to drop over time. Also the Sneedmaster, Type XX and Navitimer are nicer chronos that don't require the entire chronograph counter geartrain to be replaced during service.
>watch autists has entered the chat Real time travelers like me wear two watches, one radio watch that syncs itself to the atomic clock daily for relative time and another basic bitch timex weekender to measure how much time I've dilated since epoch because I cycle so much I curve spacetime
>>2036903 A generic weekender with a commodity grade 32.768khz XO is good for about +-30spm, which is a roughly 1000 mile per second speed difference over the course of one month.
Since I doubt you can sustain such a cadence at your level of physical conditioning, I might suggest you are better served by a Symmetricom CSAC SA.45s such as the Hoptroff No.16. This would enable you to get a relatively (ha ha get it?) accurate time dilation readout without requiring an unreasonably large chainring or dangerous levels of EPO in your blood.
What really gets on my nerves is how walkists can have a big ass northface logo on everything, runners can have whatever the fuck runners are into wearing now (brooks?) but my tiny tiny castelli scorpion in my crotch where no one can even see it is OMG RIDING IN TEAM KIT SPAMMED WITH LOGOOOOOOS WTF DO YOU THINK YOU'RE SPONSORED LOSER FUCKING KILL YOURSELF STUPID FRED and this kind of behavior is encouraged by karens in the so-called cycling activist community, sorry for not spending the extra $200 for a "minimalist" product that does the exact same thing but doesn't have a logo?
>>2037973 Go into any cycling or cycling-adjacent internet space anywhere that's not purely limited to freds like weightweenies, that's how it is any time someone talks about cycling apparel
>>2033876 other way around though, why would you bother putting on lycra for the ski lift, then the other fatties at the mtb park will just see how fat you are
>>2028748 zuck wears a de bethune though and bezos a ulysse nardin. ellison a richard mille. are you calling them girls? choose your next words carefully, pleb.
>>2047778 If you're fredding out, which many here are, or keepbuilding and rebuilding your mtb differently because you have five forks and ten groupsets to swap out, you can afford a mechanical watch. Not a Memetona because it's the most overrated and overpriced watch on the secondary market, but a Recuded Speedmaster or a TAG Carrera or even an old BP Leman chrono if you're lucky costs less than plenty of road bikes do now. >t. looking for one of the reeditions of the Tissot Janeiro to keep it /n/ >even though it would be completely impossible to read while /n/ogging out
>>2047800 The 4channers who rebuild their 90s "MTB" every week will tell you that a Seiko 5 is actually better than a Rolex because it shows you're not a consoomer or something
>>2047759 Pretty sure she completely quit porn and stopped being "ella" due to getting the worst postnut clarity in history after the piss gangbang video
>>2047805 >will tell you that a Seiko 5 is actually better than a Rolex because it shows you're not a consoomer or something I'm wearing a Seiko 5 right now as I type this and they're solid watches for the money but I just have one because I'm poor. Although if I weren't poor I probably wouldn't get a Rolex, I have my sights set on a Hamilton
>>2053060 late '00s early '10s citizen chronomasters in near mint condition go for around the same price as a new hammy and are objectively far better watches in every way including "watch guy cred"
>>2058764 No I mean the people who believe his I still live in the same house and overall lower lifestyle projection mcdonalds breakfast included. Yes he still lives in the "same home" that he had expanded to over 6 thousand sq ft.
It just shows you how small a fan base cycling really has. Everyone who isn't into cycling basically thinks it boils down to who is riding the lightest bike. They know nothing about the rules, the strategy, etc.
Among actual cycling fans, just about every one of them has a repro jersey of some sort, and they'll wear it to show they're part of a fan group.
>>2067898 Why do you keep on bumping only old threads over and over (sometimes deleting your spam post after the fact) and keeping junk around artificially? Are you mentally ill?
>only dress in and ride marketplace/kijiji/thrift shop finds >repair it myself as required instead of replacing shit >coworkers, family, and even local business owners express concern for my mental health and level of radicalization jokes on them im one more crisis away from going full ted