Bike guys argue about the color green
This is a repost from Cohost! I originally made the post on June 3, 2024. Thought I'd bring it here.
This link is very funny. It is a short thread but I will now provide you with the Bike History contained within:
- Guy bought a Brompton, a very expensive folding bike which folds up REALLY tiny. Probably the classiest type of folding bike you can get. These get so small you can stick em in a suitcase and bring them on a plane... the perfect travel minivelo! He bought a titanium Brompton in the color "Turkish Green" and is worried that it is too feminine. He is fretting about the cost of trading or replacing it... it's very expensive!
- Responses vary, but right out the gate people are telling him that being anxious about his bike color is ridiculous. In particular, light seafoam/mint green is a classic bike color associated with the manufacturer Bianchi, which has been selling road bikes in "Celeste Green" for decades. Because of Bianchi, most notable mint green bikes in the last century have been made for manly manly racing dudes, so calling mint green a "feminine" color is just not accurate in The World Of Bikes!
- Other people volunteer that they also feel that the mint green is too feminine. Nobody's really arguing but they are definitely telling on themselves.
- One person comes in swinging to inform the poster that if he's really worried about his manliness re: bikes, he should just get one of those promotional Danish sperm-shaped bikes which a sperm bank in Copenhagen used to ferry freeze dried sperm around the city. I'd completely forgotten about these but they really were manufactured and used as a kind of cargo bike cooler by this one particular sperm bank over a decade ago. (I would be real surprised if this promotion was still going but if it is: good for them lmao) The funniest thing about this post however is that the poster writes the word "semen" in Japanese to evade the Bikeforums.net moderator bot
- All's well that ends well. The poster returns and explains that he was just suffering from guilt at the high price of his nice bike. In fact, he is gay, and does not like to put a lot of value on traditional gender presentation guidelines, so he has dug into his feelings here and decided that he was still just reeling from the sticker shock of his new purchase and frustrated by a poor comment his friend made. People support him... bikeforums.net returns to normalcy
