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Whatever else: My speculations on the use of the word "dialed" in the fixed gear cycling community

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    • CommentAuthora
    • CommentTimeJul 23rd 2012 edited
     
    The first uses of the word "dial" start around 1430 as the name of a device used to tell the time of day and come from Latin for day and represented the circular path the sun makes around the earth in one day, or the device used to measure that path.
    Sundial

    Around 1911, anything circular with one point of reference along its circumference used to precisely tune or measure something begins to be called a dial, like the knobs on a radio.


    Soon, the idiomatic expressions "dialed in" comes to be used to describe something that has been adjusted to a very precise setting. This is in reference to the need to turn knobs in order to make the adjustment. For example, in the world of photography, this person uses "dialed" as an adjective to describe a setting on a camera that is perfect for the situation at hand (The word "in" has recently been dropped from the phrasal adjective); "a dialed exposure," then, is one that has been set to properly expose the film.

    In the cycling community, a bike that is "dialed in" or "dialed" has been adjusted to properly fit the rider and perform optimally. Thus, the word "dialed" is used to describe a bike that is visually appealing for its ability to perform at a high level.

    However, "dialed" has recently been used in many conversations in the fixed gear community to refer to a general visual appeal of anything related in some way to cycling, but not necessarily in reference to the proper fit or performance. In some ways it has become exclusive community parlance, and the use of the word represents identification with the fixed gear cycling community.
    Hell Yeah!: SuicideKing
    Hell No!: broey, NickNewport
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    This thread is far from dialed.
    Hell Yeah!: broey, mjfarsi, Freddie
    "You KOM every bar in town." -Scott
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      CommentAuthorMr. Jojo
    • CommentTimeJul 23rd 2012
     
    I didn't get past the first picture...
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      CommentAuthorB-Hard
    • CommentTimeJul 23rd 2012
     
    Whoever made this is hilar. They also need to stop drinking alone and get some friends.
    Hell Yeah!: broey, huey, Freddie, Tony Hairtrigger
    8=D
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      CommentAuthorReplicant
    • CommentTimeJul 23rd 2012 edited
     
    ya fucked up... blatant omission of "dialed" durring my timeline...
    dial
    Hell Yeah!: Transition3
    • CommentAuthora
    • CommentTimeJul 23rd 2012 edited
     
    Posted By: Replicantya fucked up... blatant omission of "dialed" durring my timeline...
    dial


    I tried to include that, but I wanted to keep the entry short. "Dialed" seems to split into two camps in the 1930s or so, and is used a verb, or verb in past tense used as an adjective, in reference to making a phone call. I thought there might be a connection between a dialed phone number, meaning one that has been correctly punched in and connected, with the current fixed gear cycling usage, but that connection was harder to make.
    Hell No!: broey
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    I am not bald, my hair is living in Reseda
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    Then let us return to our roots.
    "Yo dawg, did you see that hella tyte bro ridin' that fixie with the siqq colors?! That shit was KNOBBED!"Run reds. Kill Freds.
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    He said knobb...........I am not bald, my hair is living in Reseda
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      CommentAuthorbenk0
    • CommentTimeJul 23rd 2012
     
    Posted By: Replicantya fucked up... blatant omission of "dialed" durring my timeline...
    dial
    Hell Yeah!:Transition3


    I own that exact phone... it was mine from childhood. Oddly enough, it lives right next to the fixed bikes in the house. Double dialed.

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      CommentAuthorhuey
    • CommentTimeJul 23rd 2012
     
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      CommentAuthorReplicant
    • CommentTimeJul 23rd 2012
     
    double dialed !

    Posted By: benk0
    Posted By: Replicantya fucked up... blatant omission of "dialed" durring my timeline...
    dial
    Hell Yeah!:Transition3


    I own that exact phone... it was mine from childhood. Oddly enough, it lives right next to the fixed bikes in the house. Double dialed.

    Hell Yeah!: adamo
    • CommentAuthora
    • CommentTimeJul 24th 2012 edited
     
    One last thought: perhaps the fun of using "dialed" in the sense of the general goodness of something vaguely related to bicycles (it has basically become a culturally specific synonym for "cool") is removing the blatant objectivity of the scientific measurability and replacing it with subjective measures of goodness.

    For example, in the Prolly Is Not Probably example above, John Watson is using the word in both an objective sense of the word, i.e. the photograph is correctly exposed (a scientifically measurable phenomenon), and in a subjective sense (he mentions the composition of the biker as centered on the wall behind him, which is an aesthetic choice, but not scientifically verifiable.) There is an ambiguity as to whether he wishes to convey scientific precision, or subjective aesthetic pleasure. Within the fixed gear cycling community, "dialed" is used both ways interchangeably, and the distinction hardly matters.

    When someone uses "dialed" purely subjectively, as NickNewport did above, it undercuts and parodies the scientific, precision-oriented origins of the word. This acknowledges the inherent ambivalence of modernity discussed by Zygmunt Bauman. He argues that the clinically scientific objective of modernist language to catalogue and quantify “contains an inevitable and unconscious drive towards fragmentation.” The user of the word "dialed" in purely subjective terms realizes the futility of quantifying, say, the perfect bike, for example, and therefore, whether they are aware or not, uses a scientific term ironically. In other words, one could argue that the term is a postmodern wink at the inherent failure of modernistic scientific pursuits.
    Hell Yeah!: huey
    Hell No!: broey, huey
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      CommentAuthorCyborg
    • CommentTimeJul 24th 2012 edited
     
    ..
    Hell Yeah!: huey
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      CommentAuthorhuey
    • CommentTimeJul 24th 2012 edited
     
    Posted By: aOne last thought: perhaps the fun of using "dialed" in the sense of the general goodness of something vaguely related to bicycles (it has basically become a culturally specific synonym for "cool") is removing the blatant objectivity of the scientific measurability and replacing it with subjective measures of goodness.

    For example, in the Prolly Is Not Probably example above, John Watson is using the word in both an objective sense of the word, i.e. the photograph is correctly exposed (a scientifically measurable phenomenon), and in a subjective sense (he mentions the composition of the biker as centered on the wall behind him, which is an aesthetic choice, but not scientifically verifiable.) There is an ambiguity as to whether he wishes to convey scientific precision, or subjective aesthetic pleasure. Within the fixed gear cycling community, "dialed" is used both ways interchangeably, and the distinction hardly matters.

    When someone uses "dialed" purely subjectively, as NickNewport did above, it undercuts and parodies the scientific, precision-oriented origins of the word. This acknowledges the inherent ambivalence of modernity discussed by Zygmunt Bauman. He argues that the clinically scientific objective of modernist language to catalogue and quantify “contains an inevitable and unconscious drive towards fragmentation.” The user of the word "dialed" in purely subjective terms realizes the futility of quantifying, say, the perfect bike, for example, and therefore, whether they are aware or not, uses a scientific term ironically. In other words, one could argue that the term is a postmodern wink at the inherent failure of modernistic scientific pursuits.
    Hell Yeah!:huey
    Hell No!:huey


    TL;DR Loves the sound of his/her own voice. Probably drives this car
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      CommentAuthorS. Felde
    • CommentTimeJul 24th 2012
     
    This thread is now about posting pics of grandpas napping.

    Hell Yeah!: mjfarsi
    • CommentAuthora
    • CommentTimeJul 24th 2012
     
    g
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      CommentAuthorIshmael
    • CommentTimeJul 24th 2012
     
    yawndeath by strava
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      CommentAuthoradamo
    • CommentTimeJul 24th 2012 edited
     
    Posted By: a I wanted to keep the entry short.
    Hell No!:broey
    I have one speed, one gear: GO
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      CommentAuthorTheWizard
    • CommentTimeJul 24th 2012
     
    this now AZFixed Wiki?

    Hell Yeah!: Univega!, x-ray
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      CommentAuthorx-ray
    • CommentTimeJul 24th 2012
     
    Hell Yeah!: TheWizard, B-Hard, adamo
    Give an Engineer an inch, and they'll measure it.
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    Hell Yeah!: NickNewport
    I am not bald, my hair is living in Reseda
    • CommentAuthorct
    • CommentTimeJul 25th 2012
     
    is this the "jumping shit" thread?

    • CommentAuthorjoe.ramus
    • CommentTimeJul 25th 2012
     
    my last name is Gill, not Ramus.
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    ^ their bodies are perfect for 69ing each otherRun reds. Kill Freds.

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