Overrated: Single speed bicycles (and they’re everywhere now)
One of the most liberating feelings in the world is hitting a flat or slightly downward sloped straight, shifting into your highest gear and gliding across the smoothly paved black.
Overrated: recumbent bicycles
If your chode hurts get some padded shorts - you look like a friggin tool.
Can we agree that these just need to go away forever?
Underrated: Hybrid bicycles
My bike: Cannondale Bad Boy
Because I almost exclusively ride through or around the city, I find this style of bike incredibly practical. Yes, occasionally some spandexed-out diehard on an all carbon Bianchi flies by me like I stopped to get ice cream; but for the most part I can keep up with the road bikers. On the plus: the sturdy frame and slightly wider tires make jumping curbs and crossing rail tracks much more manageable, and the upright position is so much better for navigating around cars, pedestrians, and homeless people.
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