Anyone else feels like absolute shit after crashing? it's not even the pain of it it's just the faith in your ability slowly dying inside. When I was younger it was whatever but now it feels like someone chipped away a chunk of confidence.

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Let's discuss bike tires here.
>pic related currently using
>27.5 x 1.60 (650b x 40)
>1000 miles in
>pulled a few glass shards out
>extracted a broken glass bottle shard that was wedged 6mm in the tread at an angle
>no punctured tube
>no flat
>rolls great
>doesn't weigh as much as a Marathon Plus or Mondial
>installing them wasn't too bad either
What's your daily driver? Do you run tubed or tubeless? General thoughts, experiences of tires you've ran with?

I start a 12-week program next week to become a ship's rating; navigation, steering, docking/mooring, radio comms, lookout, survival craft, firefighting, various marine logistical duties; all prerequisites for deck work on major ferries.

Any mariners around with advice/tips?

My city is cutting bus routes starting in 2026, so tell me me/n/, do you ride bus routes for fun?

It is said that if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem. Are you one of the good ones, /n/? Do people say you're not like those other cyclists?

The end of ebike terrorism is in sight. Let's not count our chickens before they hatch, but I'm tentatively feeling hopefully about this. During the time that the last thread was up, hundreds of people were killed by ebike fires. We need to put a stop to this. I just hope they make sure to add prison time for people caught with unlicensed ebikes.

What is the intent behind statements like "I'm not a cyclist, I'm just a person who gets around by bike"?

At a surface level it is obviously meant to (proverbially) throw other cyclists under the bus, but to what end? Would it somehow appease the anti-bike people if the person "blocking traffic" didn't agree to be referred to by the word "cyclist"?

Cyclists of /n/, do you wear a lot of loud obnoxious advertising logos on yourself when you ride?

Is riding on top end groupsets if you're not a top end cyclist stolen valor? Or is this sour grapes?

What groupset would you ride if you could get any groupset you wanted for free, but when/if you sold the bike you would have to price it as whatever groupset you ride now. That is, if your financial circumstances were no different and you were subject to the same "rules" as you currently as in terms of other people judging (because we all know unlimited wealth begets shamelessness), what do you choose?

If BOAT stands for "Bust Out Another Thousand," what does PLANE stand for?