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09 Jun 2025, 3:35 pm

My brother went through a few frames when he first got into BMX.

BMXes and downhill bikes tend to be especially heavy. Mountain bikes (excluding downhill focused bikes) usually try to balance strength and weight, but I'd be surprised if commuter bikes were designed with any consideration towards stunts or riding on harsh terrain.


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09 Jun 2025, 4:13 pm

So why are nearly all the frames made of such wide tubing these days? And what's the deal with these large-wingspan handlebars?



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09 Jun 2025, 5:40 pm

I wonder if there's such a thing as a green BMX.


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09 Jun 2025, 5:42 pm

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I wonder if there's such a thing as a green BMX.


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And, if you can't find one, a few cans of John Deere green will make any bike green. :P


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09 Jun 2025, 5:42 pm

I wonder what vegans would think of me not being able to do Meatless Monday?


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09 Jun 2025, 5:45 pm

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I wonder what vegans would think of me not being able to do Meatless Monday?


They exist in a range, so some of them wouldn't care because they're not vegan for moral reasons; of the ones who are vegan for moral reasons, some of them understand that it's not an option for everyone, although there's others like The Vegan Teacher who mostly seem to be vegan because it gives them an excuse to be judgmental asswipes.

That last category might seethe, but they're not the sorts of people I'd worry too much about.


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09 Jun 2025, 5:49 pm

funeralxempire wrote:
CockneyRebel wrote:
I wonder if there's such a thing as a green BMX.


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And, if you can't find one, a few cans of John Deere green will make any bike green. :P

For real class you could always paint it British Racing Green.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_racing_green



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09 Jun 2025, 5:51 pm

ToughDiamond wrote:
funeralxempire wrote:
CockneyRebel wrote:
I wonder if there's such a thing as a green BMX.


100%

And, if you can't find one, a few cans of John Deere green will make any bike green. :P

For real class you could always paint it British Racing Green.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_racing_green


Strictly speaking there's no one shade called BRG, so John Deere green can also be BRG.

That Napier is pretty close to JDG.


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09 Jun 2025, 5:56 pm

funeralxempire wrote:
CockneyRebel wrote:
I wonder what vegans would think of me not being able to do Meatless Monday?


They exist in a range, so some of them wouldn't care because they're not vegan for moral reasons; of the ones who are vegan for moral reasons, some of them understand that it's not an option for everyone, although there's others like The Vegan Teacher who mostly seem to be vegan because it gives them an excuse to be judgmental asswipes.

That last category might seethe, but they're not the sorts of people I'd worry too much about.

I hate proselytising even if it's in a good cause. It just sends me the other way.



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09 Jun 2025, 6:03 pm

funeralxempire wrote:
ToughDiamond wrote:
funeralxempire wrote:
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And, if you can't find one, a few cans of John Deere green will make any bike green. :P

For real class you could always paint it British Racing Green.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_racing_green

Strictly speaking there's no one shade called BRG, so John Deere green can also be BRG.
That Napier is pretty close to JDG.

Yes but after the way John Deere started rigging tractors to stop farmers repairing their own property, I wouldn't want to encourage them. I'd deliberately choose a shade that wasn't John Deere Green just to stick it to them.



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09 Jun 2025, 6:06 pm

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Yes but after the way John Deere started rigging tractors to stop farmers repairing their own property, I wouldn't want to encourage them. I'd deliberately choose a shade that wasn't John Deere Green just to stick it to them.


That's fair. Their position on right-to-repair is utter crap and they should be ashamed.

They just picked a nice shade of green.


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09 Jun 2025, 6:11 pm

Well sometimes you have to sacrifice a bit of aesthetics for the sake of a moral stand.

Definitely don't wear one of these:
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It would be like wearing sandwich boards for Trump.



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09 Jun 2025, 6:17 pm

I guess I'll just paint my next rally car army green to be safe. It's not like armies ever do anything morally questionable. :lol:


As for on my mind, I sure which Honda would enter WRC.

Or even better, entered it back during the World Rally Car era.


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09 Jun 2025, 6:42 pm

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I guess I'll just paint my next rally car army green to be safe. It's not like armies ever do anything morally questionable. :lol:

Especially the British Army. :lol: There's a sardonic joke somewhere in there about the Black And Tans but I can't quite pull it together right now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_and_Tans



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09 Jun 2025, 6:45 pm

ToughDiamond wrote:
funeralxempire wrote:
I guess I'll just paint my next rally car army green to be safe. It's not like armies ever do anything morally questionable. :lol:

Especially the British Army. :lol: There's a sardonic joke somewhere in there about the Black And Tans but I can't quite pull it together right now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_and_Tans


I'm pretty familiar with their history, and of the British military more broadly.

It's hard to tell now, but I used to be pro-British Empire as a kid.

Pro-Israel too. :lol:


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09 Jun 2025, 7:02 pm

So did I when I was a kid, I must confess. :oops:
There's a neat song about them by Dominic Behan. I'm toying with the idea of performing it in Arkansas but I'm not sure how it would go down.

I got away with Sean South Of Garryowen, so maybe.



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