The spinergy ad in the new issue of IT;
“Yo Spinergy, Pimp My Ride”
Got me thinking, is it better to pimp your ride or make it aero?
Can a bike be pimp and aero at the same time?
Ah Grasshopper, your question belies your pseudonym. For your ride to be pimp, it must perform it’s designed job to such an extreme that it is no longer practical. Therefore, for your tri bike to be pimped out, it must be aero to the point where it hurts to actually ride. I would suggest that to truly pimp your wheels, you would need to be running pair of discs the thickness of tin foil using rubber bands for tires.
So a bike can be pimp and aero, but it cannot be pimp and ridable.
Can you take a rainbow, and put it in your mouth? Such is pimpin’.
Aero is most definitely pimp. it’s one and the same. throw some flames on it like the Caliente and it’s uber-pimp. Stock is not as pimp as adding your own aero touch to it, like Peter Reid’s sick f’n aero out-of-production brake lever nubs. His specialized was uber-sick-pimp, yo.
Ah Grasshopper, your question belies your pseudonym. For your ride to be pimp, it must perform it’s designed job to such an extreme that it is no longer practical. Therefore, for your tri bike to be pimped out, it must be aero to the point where it hurts to actually ride. I would suggest that to truly pimp your wheels, you would need to be running pair of discs the thickness of tin foil using rubber bands for tires.
So a bike can be pimp and aero, but it cannot be pimp and ridable.
Can you take a rainbow, and put it in your mouth? Such is pimpin’.
jmorrissey is totally correct. Tri-bikes are inherently pimpin’ because they’re so damned dangerous to ride in the first place. Brakes a mile from where your hands are at when going your fastest, the seat jacked up and forward WAY over where it should be, and tapered edges for aerodynamics that will slice you up if you wreck, all make tri bikes completely impractical and therefore pimpin’. If you’re trying to go THAT fast, you should drive a car. My nephew’s first cusswords were when he saw my tribike for the first time. He didn’t think bikes that cool even existed.
“If you encounter God on your journey, he will be cut.” (Kill Bill) That’s the definition of something pimpin’.
"Can a bike be pimp and aero at the same time? "
Of course it can, Spencer Smith looked pretty “Pimp” winning Gulf Coast a couple weeks ago and so did Luke Mckenzie winning Carlsbad. I dont know if a girl can be “pimp” but Jessi Stenslands bike is pretty pimp.
I would rebut your statement, but then you’ll show me the pimp hand.
the pimpin’est tri gear would be a carbon fiber wetsuit with hinged joints, tipped with fur at the ends of the sleeves and legs.
Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet.