• JayleneSlide
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    1 day ago

    Oh, fuck right the fuck off. Not you, @[email protected]; thank you for your service. Seriously.

    But big cycling press… eat a buffet of cholera-ridden diarrhea and proletariat rebellion, you corporate taint-slurping shitbags. “Oooh, this particular permutation delivers 14W improvement!” The difference between a zipped and unzipped cycling jersey is something in the range of .08cd. I don’t recall the exacts, but it’s nuts, on par with the difference between a Honda Civic and semi truck with trailer. So, a little more than 14W improvement can be earned with minor tweaks to one’s utility rig.

    I understand that cycling journalists also need to eat, and therefore also need to gargle corporate taint like the rest of us hoi polloi doing our daily wage slavery. I also understand the capitalistic hamster wheel, aspirational, halo designs. For some reason though, chasing the middle- and down-markets just ain’t sexy enough even if that is where brands’ bread and butter are truly earned.

    I long to see all these big corp brands chase the middle- and down-market tiers as if their paychecks depended on it. Giant, take those 14W and jam them up yer ass sideways.