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Anonymous Wed 02 Dec 2020 03:43:56 No.1580664 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>1580670 >>1580693 >>1581267 >>1581279 >>1581334

So im a fat fuck 5'8 and 235 pounds and I want to get a bicycle to ride around and do some exercise but i dont know anything about bikes and havent rode on one since I was like 10 probably 16 years ago.

How do I know what size bike to get? Also what type of bike? I dont wanna spend too much money so i was just thinking of getting like a $150 bike from walmart, but idk if those are terrible and i would end up regretting it

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Dec 2020 03:48:56 No.1580670 Report

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>>1580664
The cheap shit bikes from Wal-Mart are terrible and you will end up regretting it. They're made to low standards and are difficult, if not impossible to repair. Just don't do that. Used bikes can be a good way to if you don't want to spend too much money up front.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Dec 2020 03:52:22 No.1580674 Report

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If you have no good used market, go look at shitheap hybrids from bikesdirect, and possibly some of their bottom level hardtail mountain bikes. They're about the cheapest new thing you can get that isn't complete garbage.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Dec 2020 03:53:52 No.1580675 Report

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Just ignore this guy.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Dec 2020 04:04:34 No.1580681 Report

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fuck off you fat faggot

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 02 Dec 2020 04:42:29 No.1580690 Report

Quoted By: >>1580721 >>1580785

the best cheap bikes from wallmart, are the most mechanically simple ones. So no suspension or disc brakes. I just had a look online and it's the ones in pic related.

Just be aware that these bikes will be setup by absolute retards and have parts that are only in theory adjustable. So the bearings in the hubs will need servicing out of the box to run properly. The drivetrains will probably not shift flawlessly. The brakes will warrant pad upgrades, possibly re-cabling and definately adjustment. Like it's probably going to be rideable on a basic level but warrant some attention.
You're in for a similiar amount of effort and learningn how a bicycle works as you would with a used bike. And they're gonna be destined for the trash after a couple years. But still, even an absolute shitter bike is still a bike. If you have no other choice go for it.

Your better option by far, if you have a good local market, is to buy a bike off craigslist. If you're prepared to do that, post your local craigslist I can make you some recs. And if you buy a wallmart shitter please post your experiences with it, because i'm curious.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Dec 2020 04:46:40 No.1580693 Report

Quoted By: >>1580700 >>1580704 >>1580707 >>1580721 >>1580840

>>1580664
Let me save you some time OP. I was in a similar position as you and most people on this board are mentally retarded so you’re not going to get sane advice from them.

Forget Walmart. What you want is called a road bike. There are a million makes/models to choose from so don’t get too hung up on it because fundamentally all you’re looking for is a bike with an aluminum frame and carbon fork. Everything else can be modified/adjusted as you figure out how you like to ride. Go on Craigslist and look for something used. Don’t buy new. Don’t buy a mountain bike. Don’t buy a gravel bike. Don’t do any of this retarded reddit shit. Look up frame sizing; you’re going to be a 54cm frame.

$150 is probably too little. you’ll need at least $300. Try to find a cyclocross bike or something

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Dec 2020 04:47:10 No.1580694 Report

Quoted By: >>1580700 >>1580721

Probably a 'hybrid' is fine if you don't have specific kind of riding in mind. A hardtail mtb will be better offroad and comfier but a little more expensive and slower too. Either the default 'medium' size or the next size down should be right. Test ride them if you can.

$150 is kinda low if you want something that's quality and not used. $400-$500 might be more realistic. Look in bike shops or sporting goods stores, not Walmart.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Dec 2020 05:00:23 No.1580700 Report

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>>1580693
>>1580694
It's one thing to say not to ignore more recent used offerings, which can be valid, because /n/ can sometimes unreasonably dismiss 00s/10s bikes for meme reason, but what you're doing is the other side of the coin, pure reactionary bullshit, in saying to ignore 80s/90s bikes.

what do you ride?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 02 Dec 2020 05:11:32 No.1580704 Report

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>>1580693
>Don’t buy a gravel bike
>Try to find a cyclocross bike or something

>Don’t buy a mountain bike
>A hardtail mtb will be better offroad and comfier but a little more expensive and slower too

>Probably a 'hybrid' is fine
>Don’t do any of this retarded reddit shit [buy a rigid 90s mtb [a hybrid]]

>Don’t buy new.
>Look in bike shops or sporting goods stores

>$150
>$400-$500

>most people on this board are mentally retarded
what did he mean by this?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Dec 2020 05:19:55 No.1580707 Report

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>>1580693
lad what do you think the difference between a cyclocross bike and a gravel bike is?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Dec 2020 05:33:54 No.1580711 Report

Quoted By: >>1580714

Road bike: Fast but zero ride cushioning, terrible on anything but smooth pavement, expensive as hell
Gravel bike: Road bike but wider tires for better comfort and traction, slightly heavier and slower, ok for easy trails, expensive as hell
Cyclocross bike: Basically a gravel bike
Hardtail mtb: For riding trails, slightly expensive
Full-sus mtb: For riding over rocks and trees and shit, expensive as hell
Fatbike: Walking would be faster, expensive as hell
Anything used: Hopefully my interest in biking will die before it collapses from the hidden damage the previous owner correctly assumed I wouldn't find
Anything used and old: When it collapses in a month I can just get another one for $20
Hybrid: Fuck all that shit I just want to ride around town without paying out the ass, risking my safety, or looking like a tryhard

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Dec 2020 05:36:18 No.1580714 Report

Quoted By: >>1580718

>>1580711
a good road bike is far more comfortable than a cheap hybrid because supple tyres and compliant frame, even given the hybrid has several sizes up tyres.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Dec 2020 05:46:09 No.1580718 Report

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>>1580714
>zero ride cushioning
i mean that's just completely wrong. Good new or quite old road bikes (00s can be very harsh) have the most compliant of all rigid frames as they're designed to be ridden hundreds of kilometers without fatiguing riders, often on poor roads, and expensive road tyres are some of the most supple tyres of all that you can buy. A 25mm gp5k is comfier than a 32mm marathon plus.

a cheap overbuilt rigid hybrid frame, often with an aluminium or hiten fork, or even with a shitty suspension fork and stiff puncture protected tyres is your real zero ride cushioning ass hatchet. And the ones which approach comfy status are either the old chromoly ones you deride, or quasi road bikes with flat bars for rich idiots.

beyond that which is comfortable or not purely depends on how it's fitted and if you expect to actual put effort into riding and sustain a somewhat efficient aero position, or just lazily coast around in which case you want to sit upright but that bike is not at all going to be 'comfy' to actual cover any distance on and theoretically if you simply put an enormous stem riser and a padded saddle on a fast road bike it too would be good for lazycunts.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Dec 2020 06:04:30 No.1580721 Report

Quoted By: >>1580722

>>1580690
This anon is trolling. Two of those bikes have been recalled for safety issues. Mechanically simple is a good idea, but stay the fuck away from Walmart.

>>1580693
No way in hell can you get any new complete bike with a cf fork for 300.

>>1580694
Sporting goods stores are generally shit as well. There's a few exceptions like REI, but anon is better staying away from that garbage.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Dec 2020 06:08:34 No.1580722 Report

Quoted By: >>1580730

>>1580721
>This anon is trolling. Two of those bikes have been recalled for safety issues. Mechanically simple is a good idea, but stay the fuck away from Walmart.

I still think it's better than nothing. and those bikes are from briefly geezing their website just now. Surely if they're still selling then those specific recall issues have been resolved.

I mean yeah obviously he should spend more or buy used if he can. But hell, throwing away $150 on a dangerous piece of shit isn't the worst thing a man can do.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Dec 2020 06:18:30 No.1580730 Report

Quoted By: >>1580735

>>1580722
The problem with walmart and the big box stores is they sell so much garbage that the odds of you getting shit is too high. On anything theoretically worth riding, they have no price advantage.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Dec 2020 06:25:16 No.1580735 Report

Quoted By: >>1580736

>>1580730
i think those bikes in the pic would probably be ok beaters if you adjusted the bearings, upgraded the pads, and trued the wheels. I know how shit the parts all are but it's overblown too. Chinky v brakes do work.

I would really much rather put that effort into something used and actually good but some people don't have used markets.

and hell, i'm curious too. I'm curious if it's viable or not. People don't actually talk about doing this here. It's pure speculation.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Dec 2020 07:00:35 No.1580736 Report

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>>1580735
OR, you could get something from a better seller for 20 to 50 dollars more from a different vendor that didn't require fucking bearing service out of the box.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Dec 2020 09:50:23 No.1580785 Report

Quoted By: >>1580802

>>1580690
Not angry anon but a week before leaving for florence italy I bought a coil over spring fill sus mtb and rode it all around the city for 6 months. It was 249 dollars. Worked amazing. Every morning I would ride across the front steps of the Cathedral and as close as possible to groups of asian tourists. It worked great but the 3x7 setup was way overkill for everything but the hills of fiesole outside the city. I just used the big ring in the city

The buses smelled real bad there so a bike was a godsend. Plus at the time italian rail and Eurrail IC trains both let you take a full bike on.

Rode probably 1000 miles over 6 months. Never popped a tire, broke one spoke.

I just left it there and gave it to our neighbors.

It was hook em horns orange. I dont know what I was thinking should have just bought a bianchi there.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Dec 2020 10:52:46 No.1580802 Report

Quoted By: >>1581271 >>1581319

>>1580785
Nice story zishan.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Dec 2020 12:00:40 No.1580821 Report

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get a standard city bike and learn to ride/ lose some weight before you go to road bikes or other sporty stuff

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Dec 2020 13:31:31 No.1580840 Report

Quoted By: >>1581055

>>1580693
>this fucking retard wants to put a fat guy on a road bike
jfc, insert yourself into a woodchipper

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 03 Dec 2020 02:22:39 No.1581055 Report

Quoted By: >>1581231

>>1580840
round is more aero than flat, and aeroness is more important than weight

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Dec 2020 19:09:58 No.1581231 Report

Quoted By: >>1581232

>>1581055
>what is frontal area

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Dec 2020 19:21:06 No.1581232 Report

Quoted By: >>1581248 >>1581261

>>1581231
The same for every one of those? Do you understand what _coefficient_ means?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Dec 2020 20:30:53 No.1581248 Report

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>>1581232
>The same for every one of those?
The illustrations certainly don't show that.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Dec 2020 21:27:20 No.1581261 Report

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>>1581232
In practice a hamplanet will have a silhouette about 3x the size of that of an aerotwink, even if they made half the Cd, they'll have enough extra drag to make the bike's aero irrelevant, not to mention the inability to get in an efficient position to begin with.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Dec 2020 21:54:11 No.1581267 Report

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>>1580664
fatty thinks he wants to ride a bike, lmao

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Dec 2020 22:15:57 No.1581271 Report

Quoted By: >>1581319

>>1580802
Not zishan. I ride a Poseidon Triton now carch me on /drt/ or /pybt/.

Zishan is a New Zealander and doesnt have Walmart so anything he says about it hes talking out his ass

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 03 Dec 2020 22:51:37 No.1581279 Report

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>>1580664
Pop along to a local bike shop and chat to the staff. They are usually friendly fellows :)

Absolutely Anon

Absolutely Anon Fri 04 Dec 2020 00:15:47 No.1581319 Report

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>>1580802
heh your projecting is getting out of hand you mentally deranged sicko

>>1581271
>Zishan is a New Zealander
fucking hell poseidon bro im not a fucking kiwi

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 04 Dec 2020 01:44:59 No.1581334 Report

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>>1580664
walmart makes some decent bikes, but none below $1000, and you should expect every bike to be misassembled because when's the last time you've gone to your local walmart bike shop?
soft to hard spectrum goes full suspension mtb - hardtail mtb - gravel - road
this is also the order of maintenance complexity and how much power you can put down
all other categories are basically derivatives of the ones I mentioned above, including hybrid and ebikes (see above, but add a throttle) but excepting fatbikes which are comfy retardmachines
once you figure out what you generally want, go to a local store and ask the staff to help you figure out what your weight will support
don't buy from walmart

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