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How not to be a ‘fish and chips’ cyclist.

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  • June 5, 2014 at 2:05 pm #797731
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    gdmor10

    lots of things wrong in that
    lots of things wrong in that article, in my experience most cyclists I meet on the road do say hello apart from people in club groups who usually ignore you, Henley road club seem particularly snooty, maybe the writer is a member there?

    Yes I am a bit overweight and wrong side of 40 but I ride because I enjoy it, it keeps me fit and I can fit it in alongside family life so I don’t feel the need to join a club in order to fit in, go on club runs or enter races.

    However I was in a club when a teenager and raced then and did all the group stuff, if that’s what people want then a club is a great thing but not for me right now.

    June 5, 2014 at 12:48 pm #797729
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    Flying Scot

    Bang on Dave.
    Bang on Dave.

    June 5, 2014 at 12:40 pm #797727
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    dave atkinson

    It’s written from the point
    It’s written from the point of view that everyone who buys a road bike and tries a sportive wants to be like him, a ‘proper’ cyclist. they don’t.

    there’s a fairly major logical flaw in his argument too, which is that the guy most culpable for riding directly into the path of the road race wasn’t a “middle-aged middle manager throwing himself willingly onto the nation’s roads” but a club cyclist following the race. and i’ve seen plenty of videos of road racers crashing thanks to a victory salute.

    the “i’m experienced and this is how it’s done” attitude is the one that pervades the kind of cycling club that has three chaingangs and no social ride, that wonders why it’s not getting any new members

    June 5, 2014 at 11:39 am #797725
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    MKultra

    I am bemused by the obsession
    I am bemused by the obsession with team issue kit. I have always been more comfortable mixing and matching with MTB kit such as 3/4 length shorts and a sensible jersey. The only time I go “full lycra” is winter and then it’s longs and a soft shell, possibly a dorky woolly hat and a head torch to match, even a beard. The bike needs to be practical and capable of taking a variety of tyres from skinny to lumpy.

    I commute, I bimble to the coffee shop, I go out mountain biking, I love night rides down the lanes. Sportives are just not my thing although I have given time trialing a thought.

    June 5, 2014 at 11:18 am #797723
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    farrell

    Exactly, not everybody wants
    Exactly, not everybody wants to sportive to work in the morning, chain gang to the shops or time trial to a friends house for a brew.

    I think this sums it up pretty well:
    http://t.co/tf7htOTG2y

    June 5, 2014 at 10:15 am #797721
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    FluffyKittenofTindalos

    Neither terrible nor good,
    Neither terrible nor good, just didn’t entirely agree with it.

    I’m not saying ‘hello’ to everyone I encounter on a bike, sorry, that’s just ridiculous! Any more than I say ‘hello’ to every fellow pedestrian. (Granted, that might be a city/countryside thing).

    But ‘don’t ride in the gutter’ (or the door zone!) is valid advice and possibly useful to tell those new to cycling.

    The last point on that list, however…hmmm

    (Also, personally, I am never, ever dressing as he does in the picture in that article! OK that’s just personal preference – each to their own)

    I guess the point is he refers to cycling as a ‘sport’ or possibly a ‘hobby’. Its not, its a means of transport!

    June 5, 2014 at 7:26 am #797719
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    Dapper Giles

    I found it patronising, but
    I found it patronising, but now that my indignation has faded. It’s actually pretty sound advice and now feel a little silly.

    June 5, 2014 at 7:14 am #797717
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    dannycarr2k

    I don’t understand why it is
    I don’t understand why it is a terrible article. Could you explain?

    The title may be frivolous but as Giff77 stated, it contains the exact same advice any club cyclist would give an aspiring cyclist.

    June 5, 2014 at 7:14 am #797715
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    dannycarr2k

    I don’t understand why it is
    I don’t understand why it is a terrible article. Could you explain?

    The title may be frivolous but as Giff77 stated, it contains the exact same advice any club cyclist would give an aspiring cyclist.

    June 5, 2014 at 6:12 am #797713
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    giff77

    Actually it was a pretty good
    Actually it was a pretty good article. All sound advise bar the final point. Join any club or rub shoulders with a club cyclist they will say much the same thing.

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