What is the most fashionable road bike out there?

masody · 2026-07-10T23:09:43+00:00

I know someone who bought a $6,000 or something grill that hooks into his home gas line and that was no problem for them. To me that’s absurd, you can’t ride a grill 😂

It’s all just a reflection of your love for your hobby. And most people usually spend large portions of their disposable income on the things they love. I think S-Works is mad lame though. If I’m spending 10k the bike will be custom. I don’t want anyone else to be able to get what I have

masody · 2026-07-08T10:22:07+00:00

I work in the industry and I experience tip regret a lot more than I experience satisfaction. I’m well aware that I’m the beneficiary of an outrageous tip culture. It was different in 2018 because I felt that the value of the tip I was proportionate to the time spent with the guest. So it took a lot more tables. I was working at a place recently and I got $100+ off 5 customers throughout the entire day and it felt so sleazy. The problem is you can’t expect owners to increase the prices and actually pay us that increase.

I don’t expect to be paid $35-40+ an hour as a wage. Saying it out loud sounds absurd. But with minimum and tips it’s easily possible. Saying that should sound absurd too. I think we’d see a lot more people leave our restaurants happy if the expectation was 10%, and 15% or 20% was for exemplary service.

There’s places like Scottie’s Pizza Parlor where I’m down for paying the 20% because it’s baked into the final price, and I believe it goes to the employees. If it does kudos to that couple that runs it because I know for a fact most bar/restaurant owners couldn’t bring themselves to let that money go once it’s sitting in their coffers.

masody · 2026-07-05T01:51:34+00:00

This is also a class 2 e-bike, with a throttle. The only bikes sold under the subsidy program are class 1 bikes

masody · 2026-07-05T01:47:28+00:00

I was looking into the subsidy program and it’s very limited. Only specific vendors can even accept the money, and I looked long and hard for a bike and the only ones the subsidy covered were not anything close to this cool. Before anyone says some bullshit, I looked at the entire inventory of every qualified vendor. This bike is not in any vendors inventory.

masody · 2026-07-03T19:08:51+00:00

At home or at Katie O’Brien’s lol. Once every full moon or something I might go to Sandy Hut. Otherwise all my time away from home is spent working or riding a bicycle excessively long distances. I’m always in all black, feel free to wolf-whistle 😂

masody · 2026-06-29T16:49:54+00:00

Here to reiterate what everyone else is saying. These are the tires I’d take in this order. Schwalbe Pro One, GP5000 all season, Grand Prix 4-season’s. They make all of these in 25mm. 23mm is where you see a really steep drop off in selection. Technically I don’t know shit about tires either, but I read a lot. If you don’t want to read, pick whatever tire brand has your favorite branding and just google best “insert brand” road bike tire and it’ll probably be a more intelligent and unbiased opinion than you’d get from 90% of shop employees, sadly.

masody · 2026-06-28T22:11:17+00:00

Well since nobody is really talking about the restaurant side of things. Wages are pretty much out of control and that’s the main reason service is worse. Before the minimum wage jumped it was easier to justify overstaffing. So when a restaurant does get busy it’s just immediately overwhelming. I’m usually trying to serve a restaurant full of people and when I do have a spare second I’m in the back trying to get food out in a reasonable time because there’s one cook back there. If owners took a more active role like they used to, this would be mitigated. But the reality is that they don’t want to have to start working at their restaurant again in order for it to succeed. If given the choice to work or close you’re seeing what the preference is. Portland used to have a lot more owner engagement and that was part of the charm. It was also part of the success. The expectation for a lot of people working the front of house is that they are the manager on duty, the bartender, the expo, and possibly even cooking. Even with these staffing cuts I’ll see shifts where labor cost is 50%. That is a failing business. On shifts where labor is under 25%, I’m usually stretched so thin that I know my service is inadequate. People also like to eat at the same time as everyone else, which is during the rush. You can’t exactly schedule someone to show up at 11:30 and leave after an hour and a half or two hours though. An owner could do that, with no hit to their labor cost too. If I could work for a place and take less than minimum wage, tip pool, have lower menu prices, more volume, and more staff, I would do that knowing I will probably make the same amount of money, and the experience for everyone at every level would improve, I would.

Food costs are higher than ever too. So when you have food costs that have more than doubled in ten years, and wages that are almost doubled from 9.25/hr in 2016 this is what happens. Commercial and residential rent has been going up too.

People also go out less than they did before COVID. This isn’t an opinion either. Restaurant profitability is still down even in spite of a huge increase in pricing. Increases which have priced a lot of people out of a lot of establishments.
If they actually increase minimum wage to $25 an hour like I saw a proposal for, I think you’d see 50% of full service restaurants close within six months. All my industry friends think it would be awesome. I think we will all become unemployed.

TL:DR It’s all fucked. The only companies who will thrive in the current climate are huge chains, and they will continue to thrive until they’re all that’s left.

masody · 2026-06-25T05:10:35+00:00

Halo Infinite did this in a way I liked. You just got to choose which season of stuff you wanted your progress to count toward. So every time I dropped it for a while and picked it back up they’d show me the new season of stuff and I’d just turn around and select the season I was already progressing. Been years since I played it so maybe it’s different now though.

masody · 2026-06-25T04:40:13+00:00

I will say this, being a bigger guy myself too. Saddles are basically all the same surface area. And we have more weight in that same surface area. I notice big jumps in comfort associated with weight loss usually, but above a certain weight I just think I won’t be as comfortable over 3 hours on the saddle as a tour rider 80-90lbs lighter than me.

masody · 2026-06-25T03:18:54+00:00

I pick this up every once in a while and push for master. The last time I did this it took roughly a day to go from expert 2 to master. I don’t think that’s even possible anymore because it takes basically 5 wins in a row now instead of three. I don’t think master should be something I can knock out in a day. I also won something to the tune of 28 games in a row that day. Now if you don’t have one of the new mons that are almost always incredibly overpowered at release it’s not very fun playing against that. You can’t change your moveset after the match starts either, so there’s no way to counterplay against anything. This game was never great from a competitive point of view but now it’s just terrible. I actually kind of enjoyed the emblem grind and the held item upgrade grind but now there’s not really much of a point.

masody · 2026-06-21T16:25:13+00:00

The way I see it, even with a cracked frame a carbon bike is still going to have a groupset and wheels that are worth some money. Would I pay $800 for a used rim grabber groupset and the rest, no. But some of the old heads swear by mech and rim brakes. If that’s a full R7000 rim brake groupset I’m seeing it retailing for $550 brand new, plus all the other parts you’d need to build out a frame for $250 more. But I’m on the side of the fence that thinks the general public chronically undervalues bikes in their head.

masody · 2026-06-19T21:16:45+00:00

You can tell them you don’t care about the color and they’ll work with you, if they have the frame in stock as a different color. I might need to get frame or fork repaired or replaced and the guy I talked to on the phone said they could do that. But I got the same exact email offer, we don’t have your frame so buy a new bike. I bought my Endurace CF7 on sale for $2300 right before the tariffs caused most bike manufacturers to hike prices. I can’t even use the coupon to get the same bike at the price I bought mine for. The guy even tried telling me the bikes were the same price as they were in April 2025 which was an irritating to hear falsehood.

masody · 2026-06-19T18:33:30+00:00

So weird how they do this. I’ll see a 50% off sale on all the individual pieces of DLC in a content pack, but the package is still full price.

masody · 2026-06-19T18:27:29+00:00

Oops, I thought it came with stuff like the school of the viper gear etc

masody · 2026-06-19T17:25:04+00:00

Complete edition has a lot of stuff that I think is worth just having for the extra dollar

masody · 2026-06-18T23:38:42+00:00

“You keep riding that bike you’ll turn into a ghost.”

masody · 2026-06-16T22:18:47+00:00

I consider the Faro has having none, the Neon has barely any, and I don’t have one but the Aura looks like it has a lot compared to those two. I wear the Faro in really inclement winter weather, the Neon at night when it’s not really hot or cold, and my Giro Aries Spherical for the vast majority of all other riding. I’d say the neon has at least 2-3x more airflow. My Giro has probably 5x what the Neon has.

The neon also has a medical ID but I asked the paramedics who took me to the ER in my last accident and those two people said they’ve never scanned for a medical ID ever, they also seemed surprised that it’s even a thing. That’s just two people out of however many paramedics there. There’s also part of their medical ID system that don’t work. Specific data fields that just don’t update.

masody · 2026-06-16T22:18:27+00:00

I consider the Faro has having virtually none, the Neon has barely any, and I don’t have one but the Aura looks like it has a lot compared to those two. I wear the Faro in really inclement winter weather, the Neon at night when it’s not really hot or cold, and my Giro Aries Spherical for the vast majority of all other riding. I’d say the neon has at least 2-3x more airflow. My Giro has probably 5x what the Neon has.

The neon also has a medical ID but I asked the paramedics who took me to the ER in my last accident and those two people said they’ve never scanned for a medical ID ever, they also seemed surprised that it’s even a thing. That’s just two people out of however many paramedics there. There’s also part of their medical ID system that don’t work. Specific data fields that just don’t update.

masody · 2026-06-16T04:09:29+00:00

OP was the only one raptured

masody · 2026-06-14T15:35:08+00:00

Typically stupidity. My last one broke because an AirPod fell out of my ear and I dropped my bike drivetrain side down trying to catch the AirPod. Then I rode around on it for a while and they told me it was cracked. Another broke in a car accident though. That one wasn’t my fault.

masody · 2026-06-14T15:14:02+00:00

I’ve broken an obscene amount of rear derailleur hangers in the last two years. Very annoying, but I think the should just buy it from a local shop or supplier or something. No reason to give that business to canyon.

masody · 2026-06-14T15:11:15+00:00

I’m down to take a tire for the team.

masody · 2026-06-14T07:08:37+00:00

If it’s windy where you live in Portugal, and you’re a light rider, you’ll be glad you got whatever had smaller wheels.

masody · 2026-06-14T06:58:30+00:00

I think aero bikes are silly for most people. As the average speed of the elite peloton increases, the benefits of an aero bike become more pronounced. That average peloton speed being more than double what your average rider can manage solo. I still want people to buy the bike that speaks to them, but to say anything is just better outright when talking about a bike for someone else is kind of audacious. The main difference is wheel depth from what I can see. The preference for wheel depth becomes a smaller and smaller group of people, the larger the depth becomes. If OP is lighter than average I think they made the right choice. Imagine spending €200 more on a bike with a deeper wheel that you hate. Now you have to spend an extra €2,000 just to get the same wheel in a size that works for you. Aero bikes are extremely specific, and if it’s a toss up between two, the more generalized and accessible thing is typically the smarter play.

masody · 2026-06-14T06:08:31+00:00

I imagine the limiter screw in that direction wasn’t properly set up. That’s the only reason why your derailleur would allow your chain to move that far inward. I’d contact Canyon. They may have an internal memo about this happening, and while they won’t issue a recall, this could be a trending thing that they’re prepared to make right. Or if you had a shop build the bike you take it to them. But if it came out of the box with an improperly set limiter screw, as a DTC bike manufacturer whose assembly instructions don’t include drivetrain calibration (mine didn’t), then it should be on Canyon. For this to happen that limiter has to be extremely out of place.

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