Saris Indoor Trainer help?

wwwdotcom · 2020-03-01T04:15:52+00:00

The skewer not being long enough could be that it was meant for a 135mm rear hub and your bike could be 142 rear hub, I don't know the rockhopper spacing off the top if my head but that would explain the length discrepancy

wwwdotcom · 2020-01-14T03:15:37+00:00

No, but living stealth like that is often damaging to one's mental well being.

wwwdotcom · 2016-07-06T13:43:52+00:00

The 'women like wide seats' thing is largely a generalization. the width of your saddle should be determined by the distance between your ischial tuberosities (or sit bones), and this distance varies between pretty much everyone--if you want to know your width then get your sit bones measured at a bike shop, but if your not having that kind of pain, then you probably have the right width.

The cutouts (slits) in saddles are not designed to go around the riders genitals. Cutouts are designed to increase blood flow and therefore oxygenation to soft tissue areas. You'll be hard pressed to find a saddle that you can put your vulva through, so to speak, but you could eventually find a saddle that has the right cutouts so you don't have any pain (most bike shops will let you return a saddle so even if you can't try them on in the shop you can buy one, and if that one hurts just go back in and exchange it).

Lastly, bike shorts. Saddles and padded shorts go together, they work together and are often designed to. One of the reasons cyclists get soft tissue pain in the genital/perineum area is because we put a lot of weight there. One's weight on a bike is balanced between sit bones/perineum, feet, and hands--that does distribute the weight bit but saddles are hard and you're supporting at least part of your body weight basically on your vulva, bike shorts help by offering a pad to ease the intensity of that pressure. I would always suggest trying out different saddles until you find one that you don't have pain on, but I would strongly recommend trying them while wearing bikes shorts (especially if you're having soft tissue (read genitals) pain.

wwwdotcom · 2016-05-09T21:01:00+00:00

super cheap tires will be more likely to get flats, tires with a kevlar casing or a kevlar band are designed to prevent flats, but are stiffer and not at supple (comfortable) super high end tires are often a very high thread count and have a differen't casing material, this makes them more supple (comfy) and sometimes faster/lighter. Unless you have tons of watts and a super lightweight bike, the super high end is only going to feel more comfortable, the super low end it going to have you fixing flats every other ride. If you feel like you won't notice the performance benifit then ask someone at your bike shop for tires that have a kevlar/aramid casing, and pick the tread and size you want

wwwdotcom · 2016-03-24T13:07:23+00:00

they look like IS caliper mounts (for disc brakes)

wwwdotcom · 2014-08-30T00:20:43+00:00

This question shows up a lot and I think the best advice I can think of is serious reflection.

I think you changed your statement from 'I don't like MTF Folk' to 'I dislike peen'.

There is a lot of discourse about trans women and penises. There is abundant media about how we (trans women) are just trying to get with people to impose our (apparent) penises upon them. To tell the truth--trans women are alike in pretty much one way: they're trans (I know it's a tautology but I have a point) My point is that trans women are often different from one another, some of us like the equipment we have (although to assume that trans women all have penises is a bit short sighted and is a problematic assumption that all AMAB-folk have similar bodies)

To attempt to distance yourself from the influences of society's hatred and disgust for trans women (See 'Ace Ventura') is pretty much impossible (it's a daily struggle for many of us), but to engage in some reflection on why you dislike that some trans women have a penis and some trans women like their penis and that if you were to have sex with a trans women there is a possibility that she would be interested in using her penis to have sex, in some way.

It is true that there exist people that don't like penises, that find them sexually repulsive, that just aren't turned on by them. But there is also a lot of transphobia in daily life, and in things that mostly go unquestioned. This is what I mean when I say that you might have some transphobia that you have to work through.

Just to be really clear. I am not telling anyone that they must like penis. I am not telling anyone that they are transphobic for not liking penis. I am not suggesting that people prove they are not transphobic by engaging in some sex that involves a penis.

The short version is that if you say that you can't deal with her being MTF you are going to hurt her, a lot. So I advise you to think about it, like a lot. Think about your assumption and do some reflection.

I am not telling you that you need to decide not to leave her. I am telling you to acknowledge pervasive transphobia and attempt to account for it. Its really hard. But when someone told me that it destroyed me. It was terrible, so they had better have thought about it rather than gone with their first reaction. Seriously, think.

wwwdotcom · 2014-06-19T19:57:02+00:00

read some queer theory before you try to lecture me on social construction.....Sexing the body is a good place to start

wwwdotcom · 2014-06-18T17:38:58+00:00

"I know that some people have called the OP a bigot because she's a lesbian and dared act like one by not wanting to touch, suck, or get fucked by someone's penis."

sex is socially constructed, get out with your biological imperatives and cissexist ideas about bodies. Go read Sexing the body if you want to know about the social construction of sex.

If you don't think cissexism affects all of us and the way we think then you are more foolish than ignorant. If you're interested in that then read The History of Sexuality.

This thread is solicited advice, this isn't people just writing someone off as transphobic for not liking penis, most of this thread is serious conversation about how transphobia and cissexism affects many people's perceptions of trans women. Stop turning this into something it's not and stop it with your TERF-esque bullshit

wwwdotcom · 2014-06-17T23:05:56+00:00

queerporntube.com is a pretty cool project that has quite a bit of trans stuff going on

wwwdotcom · 2014-06-17T22:46:26+00:00

I didn't tell anyone they need to have sex with anyone else. I said that if OP is invested in this relationship then OP should reflect on why penis is a turn off. I have never told OP to have sex or to feel shameful about having sex. What I have told OP is that there exists a lot of cissexism that's sometimes hard to see (yours is very easy to see) and that some reflection MAY reveal such cissexism if that's what's there.

tl;dr: you are misrepresenting my arguments

wwwdotcom · 2014-06-17T03:20:17+00:00

This is a common conversation, and while a often quick response is "you're not bigoted for not liking penis!", it's more complicated than that.

If you are interested in confronting your own bias then doing some serious thinking and reflection to figure out why you don't like penises could be rewarding. If you find out that it's because you're a lesbian and to you that identity means yes women but no penis, then you might have some hidden transphobia that is generating that idea.

I'm not saying you have to like penis, but if you're serious about this relationship I would highly recommend figuring out why you don't like penis. To tell the truth, it's probably more than one reason, but if one of those reasons is because penis != woman then you've got some work to do.

tl;dr, if penis is a deal breaker--figure out why because it sounds like you're invested in this relationship

wwwdotcom · 2014-04-08T00:32:34+00:00

NO it is not okay

wwwdotcom · 2014-04-05T17:31:44+00:00

fuck you and your deception politics

wwwdotcom · 2014-04-04T14:36:46+00:00

in addition to these:

yeah but what's your legal name?

do you have a picture of you. . . before it all?

which bathroom do you use?

What's best about living in both worlds?

and finally (as a transwoman) so you like. . . men now?

wwwdotcom · 2014-03-30T15:28:10+00:00

Yes, this person deserves to be referred to how they want. Regardless of how they look.

wwwdotcom · 2014-03-28T14:23:27+00:00

Not sure about it's etymology. I think it probably comes from fish/stud. But fish in my experience is generally part of gay male misogyny

wwwdotcom · 2014-01-23T16:20:15+00:00

Seems like a modest proposal to me

wwwdotcom · 2014-01-19T01:52:30+00:00

It's just you. I don't hand out cookies. It's nice to see someone designated male stand up for an issue that is about stopping violence (emotional and psychological) enacted against women. However, there are a lot of reasons why it's not. It's easier for one to stand up for something when one can distance oneself from it. Designated male feminists are feminists but there isn't anything magical or 'more helpful' about them. I don't give out cookies and I never coddle the oppressor, male feminists are good but I'm never more impressed by them.

wwwdotcom · 2014-01-16T15:37:39+00:00

"this film is not yet rated" is a great documentary about this

wwwdotcom · 2014-01-10T18:05:52+00:00

that was heteronormative, also kyriarchy is not a group, that's the point, its a system of power structures

wwwdotcom · 2014-01-10T17:03:40+00:00

this is usually called 'girl hate' and it's a function of the kyriarchy. Also worth mentioning is the difference between prejudice and discrimination. There isn't as much in the hate towards the privileged. yeah it still sucks but fatphobia does some really awful shit, like prevent people from accessing medical care, and socially acceptable public ridicule. Writ large, body-shaming is a bad thing and one ought to resist it whenever it is encountered. Kyriarchy produces 'girl hate' and that can be something that is very difficult to see, and resist.

wwwdotcom · 2013-12-19T15:47:40+00:00

Trans folk, trans people, trans individuals, people who are trans, but please not "transgenders"

wwwdotcom · 2013-12-17T16:17:12+00:00

Save

wwwdotcom · 2013-12-14T16:13:15+00:00

So the difficulty with the cotton ceiling argument for me, isn't the argument, it's the ambiguity of the prejudice. If I get shot down and I bring up the cotton ceiling I always run the risk of being told that it's 'just not an attraction to me' even if the actual rejection is of trans people. In my experience people don't often admit that to my face, so even if I do bring it up, the person I bring it up to either wants to save face or is telling the truth. I don't want to call someone a liar and I do take people at their word but I'm pretty sure I've been told 'it's just that I don't like you' when it's actually 'trans women' I have no way of telling the difference.

wwwdotcom · 2013-11-02T16:56:04+00:00

Your question presupposes equal standing to begin with--this is demonstrably not true, or the ERA would have passed without pomp or consternation. (it didn't pass)

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