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I'm coming to believe that general advice is more or less useless.
Most things are just a facet of price or types of bikes which really are both up to the person buying something.
People here don't even really agree on much. I have opinions about everything but they're just that. Most things are barely even comprehensible to a noob so why should they even listen, and I don't think they do.
What evidence is there that people who come to /n/ for vague general advice ever listen to anything said or even ever buy a bike?
Specific questions, sure, helpful. Recs off craigslist, helpful. Comparison between 2 options, helpful.
>wat bike is good
the answer should be fuck off
Even
>suspension is bad
is more complicated than that. Good riding carbon/chromoly forks and supple tires and good fit and form riding is good. Suspension is a cope for cheap tough tires and cheap overly stiff frames, and at that, it's a good cope, shitty bikes without it can be pretty fucking harsh, and cheap shitty suspension doesn't do nothing. And lots of bikes people would naturally gravitate towards have suspension forks. Can you really convince those people otherwise? Those bikes are egalitarian. If people wanted to lurk /n/ and actually look at what people here ride then they could and maybe get that idea from their own mind.
>comfort bikes are bad
they aren't even that common and I don't agree, they're just only good for cruising on, which is a lot of what people buy bicycles for.
>tourney is bad
I mean yeah but again, a lot of people ride fuck all and 'cheap' is really their main priority and it's not like they don't work at all.
thoughts?
