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Hey guys it's upright maxing guy here. You won't believe the day I just had.
>traveled fucking across the city to meet with some sketch Russians or Ukrainians (I don't fucking know) selling the Gazelle Dutch bike.
>meet in some fucking back alley garage in the ghetto.
>They had like 5 or 6 bikes including one that was hot pink and clearly a girl's bike.
>Umm okay I'm sure 2 bald fat old Russians just love riding the pink bike in the ghetto.
>anyhow they show me the Gazelle.
>keep telling me it's their friends bike and he no longer rides.
>tell me that the back wheel lock key is stuck because of rust from sitting in the garage for years.
>wut.jpg
>literally close the lock and remove the key effortlessly and show them.
>mfw they didn't know that's a design feature of these Dutch bikes.
>mfw they have a suspicious amount of knowledge on what makes the bike vulnerable to theft (like they showed me that the seat had a hex key screw instead of the quick release handle, told me thieves won't steal the seat because of this)
>mfw too autistic and excited to ride the bike to do any critical thinking about the situation.
>do a few laps up and down the residential street and bike seems to ride okay, so buy it and leave.
Spoiler alert: it was not okay.
>3 speed gears are not nearly enough.
Holy God I was scared for my life because this POS handled like a beached whale on roofies. The gear increments were too big (and the gear shifter was rusted to shit so switching gears was really hard).
>ZERO fucking shock absorbers.
It has been 5 hours at time of writing an me ass still hurts from riding this bike for 10 minutes.
My city has worse roads than Iraq, this bike makes me feel every fucking pothole and dent.
>feel like I am getting a concussion while riding.
>shock also goes through arms despite being fully straight back.
>10 minutes of riding and my gear shifter stops working.
>Then shortly after both breaks also fail.
