>>1072478>Try fitting a rack to your carbon race bike, try fitting chunky tires on it, try taking it on a week long trip.LOL why would I want to do any of that?
I don't need a rack on any of my bikes because I have a CAR to run errands in.
I don't need 'chunky tires' on any of my bikes because I have no need or desire to ride off the pavement, ever.
I don't take 'week long trips' on a bike, I have a CAR for things like that.
All of the above is because I have a JOB and am not POOR.
Meanwhile I have an order of magnitude more fun on bikes than you do, and people admire and ask questions about not only the bikes I ride, but about me, because I look like a proper cyclist, not some weakling on a garbage bike with a bunch of junk bolted to it.
You just don't get it: Nobody is impressed by or asks questions about your family minivan. They're impressed by and ask questions about your Porsche convertible -- if they're going to be impressed or ask questions at all. Your cheap steel bike, with flat bars and racks bolted to it, are just part of the background noise. People see you out in the middle of nowhere as they're driving by, and know what they think? They think "Gee, that poor guy can't afford a car and has to get around on that old bike. Should we stop and offer him a ride?". Bet that happens to you regularly: "Sweetie, do you need a ride somewhere?" LOL.
Stop trying to make being poor and having poor-people things into some sort of twisted *virtue*. You're just deluding yourself. FFS try to get a better job (or *any* job if you don't have one) so you can afford decent things. Then you won't have to convince yourself that you're actually happy with what you have.
