ThreadBare said:

is there a big price descrepancy between a child's bike and a used adult bike? it really isn't that expensive to be a used adult bike so if these men are riding bikes because other modes of transportation are too expensive, why are they riding the baby bikes and not one that's made for someone their size? no one is saying that they need to be riding the lastest model ten speed but a child's bike? it seems a bit like a fashion statement.

i mean, i've seen these guys riding really teeny bikes. they can probably walk faster than they can ride those bikes.

Fauxie said:

I don't know. That's my point.

As well as the fact that it's easy to see how we often -- if not generally -- "convict" black males of crimes before being presented any evidence of a crime.

"Oh, he's too old to be riding that -- he must be a bum. And, if he is, shame on him," we say.

Maybe he's just POOR and riding his only means of transportation, and the little, insufficient-paying job he does have ended an hour or so ago.

Some people NEVER move up out of their tax bracket.

Some people NEVER get a country-club hookup that lands them in Yale or on a weekend-MBA track.

Does that make them bad -- or, even -- worthy of our derision and ridicule, just because we're wealthy enough to chat at the Org in our free time?

ThreadBare said:

Of course it doesn't. I see grown men in Thailand riding small, beaten up women's bikes all the time and think nothing of it. It's a practical, economical way to get around if you can't afford to own and run a car. They don't seem in the least bit self-conscious about it.

I just wanted to ask you whether you believed the "saving his resources for other, positive things" explanation to be a common reason for an adult male to be riding around on a small bicycle, the desire not to generalise put aside for a moment. Do you believe it to be possible, typical, or even common?

i think its more of a trend then anything. i remeber my brother used to do it too. and i see heaps of teens today riding bikes smaller then them, not little kids bikes but defiently too small for them.

lilgish said:

Teenager? I've seen grown ass men on a fucking banana seat bike with a basket in the front and streamers on the handlbars. Came in at 3 in the morning to buy condoms.

I don't know about the ghetto but when I see ANY grown ass man on somekind of bicycle riding around in the middle of the day, I automatically think he's on PROBATION or PAROLE.

ThreadBare said:

yea, but are they small ass bikes?
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lilgish said:

Teenager? I've seen grown ass men on a fucking banana seat bike with a basket in the front and streamers on the handlbars. Came in at 3 in the morning to buy condoms.

You mean some women actually fuck these losers?

YEAH! And what's up with those grown ass bears riding small bikes?

sinisterpentatonic said:

they just don't know any better


he is gone

AnckSuNamun said:

You know he stole that bike from some goldielocks.

AnckSuNamun said:

You know he stole that bike from some goldielocks.

hellomoto said:

next time, ask why?

When Jerome is 45 and riding a bike, the assumption is that he's squandered his resources -- not that he's saving his resources for other, positive things.

People embrace the ridiculous.....

Similarly I see high school boys with pink Hello Kitty backpacks.

People embrace the ridiculous--pants around the ankles, huge sunglasses, Paris Hilton, nuclear weapons

this thread cracks me up!