COOL WALL is back - Yeti C-26 cool or not?
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Cool? Hmmm.
No bike with a disc drive on it can be cool, but then the disc drive isn't the frame's fault.
And then there's that auction, which has made the bike less cool than it was before.
It's the word uncool that gives me a problem. The opposite of cool is sad, and a Yeti C-26 certainly isn't sad. Maybe uncool means ok, not the lowest - cool>uncool> sad.
If I met somebody on the trail on his C-26 and he told me he'd just paid $12,000 for it, would I be impressed? No, other than I'd be impressed that he actually rode it. Am I impressed by any bike that's so valuable nobody would ever ride it? No.
But it isn't sad, so I think its status is that it has become uncool.
No bike with a disc drive on it can be cool, but then the disc drive isn't the frame's fault.
And then there's that auction, which has made the bike less cool than it was before.
It's the word uncool that gives me a problem. The opposite of cool is sad, and a Yeti C-26 certainly isn't sad. Maybe uncool means ok, not the lowest - cool>uncool> sad.
If I met somebody on the trail on his C-26 and he told me he'd just paid $12,000 for it, would I be impressed? No, other than I'd be impressed that he actually rode it. Am I impressed by any bike that's so valuable nobody would ever ride it? No.
But it isn't sad, so I think its status is that it has become uncool.
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Cooler than cool!
It's an iconic bike - and therefore it's the penguin's peanuts!!
It's an iconic bike - and therefore it's the penguin's peanuts!!
No, I don't think you need to be cool to be entitled to hold an opinion on what is cool.MJN":3injrwxa said:
Surely nobody could think Clarkson is cool? The question is whether you find him gloriously sad or just sad. Personally I think he veers between the two. He is very knowledgeable and can be quite amusing, but often a lack of self-discipline takes over and he becomes inane and boorish.
But it's the audience's fault for encouraging him. When Cream were at their height, Eric Clapton remarked that their audiences were so uncritical that he got huge applause for a few seconds of tuning up. At least he was unaffected enough to recognise that this was no way to discipline him to play well. The sadness of Clarkson is that he isn't unaffected.
