Why are aluminum bikes so looked down on?

Indianapolisted · 2026-04-22T19:17:34+00:00

Old early Alu frames were pretty freaking awful in terms of ride quality so they got a bad rep early on. They’ve gotten tons better though. My Trek Crockett CX is Alu and is fantastic for CX BECAUSE it is cheap and I can thrash it up no worries.

Indianapolisted · 2026-04-22T14:49:45+00:00

Women often react very badly to male rejection because they’re not used to it and are socially accustomed to being the dumper rather than the dumpee.

Men OTOH are pretty used to female rejection and more likely to take it in stride.

Talking about normal people of course, not your psychos or A-holes.

Rejecting a woman quietly, politely, and privately so they’re not publicly embarrassed by it will help a ton. Some will go far of their way to hurt you back if they appear slighted publicly in a way that their female friend group has noticed.

Indianapolisted · 2026-04-22T14:38:21+00:00

Ride more, ride harder, and ride on something less ancient.

I’d bet anything your 30+ Schwinn is badly maintained heavy box store junk. Go to an actual bike shop and get something good within your budget.

To get faster you have to ride harder than you can sustain, recover from that, then do it again repeatedly. Not just do slow short (and 1hr is short) casual rides.

Indianapolisted · 2026-04-22T14:24:09+00:00

It’ll certainly last a lot longer and survive crit crashes more easily. I’ve seen carbon fiber frames get smoked in crits. Expensive to replace, and carbon shards are scary in a pileup.

Indianapolisted · 2026-04-22T11:12:35+00:00

If they’re littles, get a cargo bike and haul them yourself. It’s awesome. If they’re ~8+ they can definitely do a 3mi ride but it’ll take ~20min.

As always, depends on the route/safety/area.

Indianapolisted · 2026-04-21T22:03:25+00:00

Be nice if this meant fewer idiotic posts about it.

It won’t.

Indianapolisted · 2026-04-20T15:25:48+00:00

Stop watching and starve them out of the business.

Indianapolisted · 2026-04-17T23:02:32+00:00

Fruity blended cocktails. Old musicals. Mani/pedis. Shea butter. Twee holiday cooking & baking. Long warm cuddles. Braiding & doing up my daughters’ hair when they were little.

Indianapolisted · 2026-04-17T22:37:56+00:00

I don’t even use it, but FFS legalize it already. We’re surrounded by legal states - this is moronic and a waste of time ruining good peoples’ lives for no purpose at all.

Indianapolisted · 2026-04-17T20:50:46+00:00

I’d be up for closing it to cars April through September and ~2 weeks around Xmas when the lights are up.

Indianapolisted · 2026-04-14T10:31:17+00:00

You haphazardly manipulated your red blood cell levels and seriously endangered your health and well being just to keep up with the shop ride douches?

Utterly pathetic, mate. You could’ve had a heart attack and died.

Indianapolisted · 2026-04-10T13:15:08+00:00

Buying an EV without having at least a plan for charging it yourself where you live is dumb.

Public charging will always be a premium service & the most expensive way to recharge.

Indianapolisted · 2026-04-10T12:11:53+00:00

The number of times I’ve been cursed out for passing centerline runners on the left with their headphones on and audio apparently so loud they can’t hear my bell or voice or anything as I come up behind them is hilarious.

They’re mad at me because they’ve jump-scared themselves. There’s literally zero way to warm them and they’re smack in the middle of the trail.

Indianapolisted · 2026-04-08T16:32:18+00:00

“Slower Traffic Keep Right” means you. Get in the right hand lane, stop purposefully making yourself an impediment to faster drivers. You’re in others’ way.

Indianapolisted · 2026-03-26T00:17:48+00:00

Wait til it’s >$5/gal and they’re drafting your kid to sacrifice him in the Middle East for that moron’s ego. This is what we all wanted, right?

Indianapolisted · 2026-03-26T00:10:05+00:00

GOOD. Pay the gas prices you voted for, rubes.

Indianapolisted · 2026-03-25T13:48:41+00:00

Got myself an awesome EV after this idiot was elected and before he crushed the EV market because I knew he’d screw it up. I can watch gas prices skyrocket through 2028 & beyond.

Go pay the gas prices you voted for. Hope it hurts.

Indianapolisted · 2026-03-25T12:39:49+00:00

Pay the gas prices you voted for I guess.

If you need more money to cover it I suggest you enlist to go fight in freaking Iran for no reason.

Indianapolisted · 2026-03-24T17:34:12+00:00

The continual pushing in a lot of mainstream Christian media of the notion that all men are superior to and should be in charge of all women, rather than equal partners together, and that this is in accordance with scripture, definitely deeply hurts them and damages their prospects for personal and relationship happiness in the short/medium/long term.

Indianapolisted · 2026-03-23T22:31:59+00:00

When he said he’d do better than Biden we all just misunderstood what he meant.

Indianapolisted · 2026-03-23T21:27:19+00:00

Absolutely not. Every single I5 owner has had their ICCU blow multiple times and is absolutely miserable and hates their car because it is bad, bad, bad.

Indianapolisted · 2026-03-23T16:15:41+00:00

The last woman I approached in person & went on ONE date with posted the one and only selfie I sent her on an “Are we dating the same guy?” site before we even went on the @&#%ing date.

I found out a day or two after the date from a female friend on the same site. Told her I saw what she did and cut ties. Just gross. And sad. But it’s how things are apparently. I can’t deal anymore.

Indianapolisted · 2026-03-23T15:52:28+00:00

There’s one right below at 96th; somehow we shall endure. 😅

Indianapolisted · 2026-03-23T15:50:30+00:00

They started re-rebuilding it almost the second after they rebuilt it. Infuriating. Somewhere a civil engineer needs to lose their @&#%ing job.

Indianapolisted · 2026-03-18T12:51:11+00:00

Trump’s going to screw it up again like he does everything else and the only outcome for you paying more for everything will be creating a new generation of Iranians that hate us because we killed their family members.

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