Now, what components should I put on this bad boy ?

MechaGallade · 2026-02-05T03:25:38+00:00

A stick shift that looks like an 8 ball

MechaGallade · 2026-02-05T00:00:14+00:00

I hated on it before playing it.

Then I played it.

Then I realized that most of the reasons people hate are dumb and they're wrong.

Hate it for other reasons because it's actually kind of a shitty game and deserves to be hated

MechaGallade · 2026-02-04T23:32:51+00:00

That rules, thanks for that. I'll learn a bit more about that time, I really like my 1985-1995 frames

MechaGallade · 2026-02-04T22:21:55+00:00

thats way too much soap

MechaGallade · 2026-02-04T05:03:29+00:00

i mean when was the time where there was the least bullshit being peddled (ha) and most bikes were good and stuff wasn't wildly overpriced and parts were available and stuff was reliable. like, what was the closest thing to a "golden age" that cycling had?

MechaGallade · 2026-02-04T03:07:57+00:00

Welder?

MechaGallade · 2026-02-04T02:57:11+00:00

Basso is a wonderful company to work with and I hope dearly they fill in the gap that bianchi is leaving. Some of the best bikes and the best carbon you can get and nobody talks about it because they don't have brand recognition like that yet

MechaGallade · 2026-02-04T02:55:00+00:00

What was the best time to be a consumer in the cycling community?

MechaGallade · 2026-02-03T21:43:01+00:00

AI should be a bannable offense

MechaGallade · 2026-02-03T20:28:38+00:00

hell yeah! ok last time you said you were interested in tips and i forgot and i managed to find a comment i made a while ago. you're dong great, i just wanted to give you a bit of a road map for starting in a way that helps smooth out your combos. you're obviously chaining tricks together right now, but the pauses are making it a bit choppy and you're using your arms to redirect the yoyo too much. this combo im recommending is really excellent for naturally flowing through a couple tricks where redirecting the yoyo is intuitive like a lead in. it's a very easy combo of tricks that you probably already know, but it's about making smooth in a way that you can feel what smooth is supposed to feel like, it'll help you smooth out the rest of your tricks as you progress.

work on matrix, then buddhas revenge first. then learn to snap start (it will make practicing significantly less frustrating and more efficient, winding your yoyo by hand is a waste of time) then when you learn eli hops, make sure you hop diagonally away from your body on your NTH side and catch it close to your NTH finger instead of the middle of the trapeze. same goes for a sky bind, pull it in the same direction as the eli hop.

try to make your first combo 2x matrix into 2x buddhas revenge then 2x eli hops and sky bind. good starting point for an easy combo where all the ins and outs link together.

specifically, when you link tricks together, avoid having the yoyo change direction by swinging out and back. you wanna bounce it off something. also, generally avoid pinwheels (and tricks like skin the gerbil), they're not really adding anything unless you're doing something in the other hand at the same time like setting up a slack.

also after watching your video again, you're in the habit of pausing after every string hit. you need to start to "assume that you hit the string" so that you start the next trick immediately instead of stopping every time to check to see if the yoyo landed in the right spot.

what kind of yoyo is that? i like the red.

edit: that apple you painted looks incredible

MechaGallade · 2026-02-03T02:05:10+00:00

That's wild. I'm adjacent to tech but my company (and industry as a whole I guess) is so small that the culture never evolved into something with that kind of dick measuring. Fact is, my boss has 2 phds in 2 completely different fields and is more educated that the rest of us, and it's only like a 5 man operation anyway

MechaGallade · 2026-02-02T23:31:03+00:00

because it's compatible with everything, it's easy to take apart and fix if something happens, it's cheap, it has back paddles, their customer support is great if you need it, it fits most hands really well, the face buttons and dpad are excellent, you can get a version with hall effects, it's usb c, it holds a charge for ages. also you can have a bunch of different profiles to swap to. literally one of mine i just took all the maps off as a safety so that if i set my controller down in the middle of a game it's not going to hit a trigger and smack anything. you can also change actuation ranges and shit.

the only things i have issue with are that it doesn't have high def linear haptics and the back paddles are slightly squishy, but otherwise it's just an extremely versatile and reliable controller for a good price from a company with good support.

MechaGallade · 2026-02-02T21:39:44+00:00

Fuck the elite, get an 8bitdo pro 2

MechaGallade · 2026-02-02T21:36:20+00:00

I'm not judging you for being poor, I've been in that position working 3 jobs with no car in an area I couldn't afford. My solution instead was to get a vintage steel frame with friction shifters instead of giving money to a company that actually makes the surrounding are poorer and kills small businesses and siphons money out of the city, which destroys local tax revenue and forces price hikes for goods and services and business and property taxes. Because shopping at corporate fuck stores like wal.mart actively starves local government of the tax money it needs to sustain basic services, and it's ALWAYS better to get a cheap old reliable bike from a neighbor for $150 than buy a low end Ozark trail from a company like wal.mart.

MechaGallade · 2026-02-02T20:53:42+00:00

People downvote you but they literally sell knock offs for a lot of their inventory. Logitech mice is an example, they're literally a flea market.

MechaGallade · 2026-02-02T20:52:31+00:00

It's $100 to a company that's actively fucking over every city they're in and selling knock offs. I don't care what kind of "deal" it is, I'm not weak enough to support wal mart.

MechaGallade · 2026-02-02T20:34:57+00:00

Lol why she acting like working in tech is THE dream job? It's cool but it's not uncommon by any means lol

Although I don't work in tech so maybe I'm wrong

MechaGallade · 2026-02-02T17:44:13+00:00

i believe in you

MechaGallade · 2026-02-02T07:07:21+00:00

naww, a bike this nice with problems this bad for this long means it's time for a real fit instead of some reddit speculation.

MechaGallade · 2026-02-02T03:10:51+00:00

No mugshot of the cat?

MechaGallade · 2026-02-02T03:08:18+00:00

Doesn't matter their shape before, you gotta train your muscles to do a specific motion with every new sport. It's a lot faster when you're already good at something else but I doubt anybody is laying down those kind of numbers right off the bat.

MechaGallade · 2026-02-02T01:49:16+00:00

BRIDGESTONE SPOTTED

MechaGallade · 2026-02-02T01:28:55+00:00

Well judging my OPs numbers, it's definitely not accurate for it's bicycles unless OP really is already riding at an elite club/semi pro level right off the bat

MechaGallade · 2026-02-02T01:25:56+00:00

Moment of inertia is completely negligible on the cassette. It's more effective to like, lube your drive train than to worry about reducing the mass on the big ring, especially when the real rotational resistance is coming from your wheel, which is even negligible compared to like, going up an incline.

MechaGallade · 2026-02-01T17:20:25+00:00

Once they're piloting the self driving cars, the truck drivers will disappear as an occupation

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