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  • March 12, 2015 at 10:13 am #23473
    unclebadger

    Oh lordy-lord y’all what to do? On my daily commute back and forth into and out of the city of London I am encountering an unfeasibly large number of cycling twits and feel no love for them at all.

    Not you obviously, you’re alright mate, but you know who I mean right?

    Yeah you do. You’ve seen em, I’m talking about the posers. The people riding bikes that cost more than my car and its a pretty damn-nice car too! Clad in team Sky colours, posing with energy gels at traffic lights – cutting you up and riding around at night, with no lights wearing all black thinking that they are invincible Ninjas. You’re not f@ckin Ninjas OK!

    Worst of all seems to be the growing number of people that get into daily slanging matches with car and bus drivers.
    I’ve even seen and been on the recieveing end of arguments with fellow cyclists. Where’s the solidarity brothers and sisters?. How many people have to die before you are going to understand the simple rule: Biggest Wins!
    Dont fight cars you are going to lose. Surely deference is the key for all us road users to get along.

    It never used to be this way. Will it ever revert or has the lid to Pandora’s box fallen off its hinges?

    What do people think?
    Will the sea of cycling twittery eventually recede back and allow a return to good times?. Shoud I just get over it, grow a beard, drop a grand in Rapha and remortgage my house to buy a bike that I am too fat to ride properly?

    Someone said to me recently “Cycling is the new Golf”. The shock has worn off but the pain hasn’t gone away.

    Your answers on a postcard please.

    Big Love

    Uncle Badger (Trainee Old Git)

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  • March 13, 2015 at 7:05 pm #836419
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    Judge dreadful

    Kadinkski wrote:What do

    Kadinkski wrote:
    What do people say when they go past each other? All I’ve ever heard or said is ‘good morning’.

    The vast majority of the time, you’re right, it’s a bit of friendly piss taking at worst, or a hello, or good morning, or whatever. It’s the douche bags who try and be the big man, for no reason whatsoever, that I play with.

    March 13, 2015 at 7:03 pm #836417
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    Judge dreadful

    bikeboy76 wrote:Judge

    bikeboy76 wrote:
    Judge dreadful wrote:
    Cycling is the most tedious, boring thing in the known world.

    Maybe you should take up knitting instead, clearly you are not suited to cycling. I shall have to dig out my old Lance Armstrong USPS 2001 blue train kit. I wear it occasionally even in the last two years and do you know how many people have said anything about it? Zero. Most people don’t even know what I am wearing. Are you the person who thinks it is their place to say something, or give me an ‘orbit.’ You would just prove what an arse you are by calling me out. Or maybe you should just keep you trap shut and seethe with rage instead. It should be a dickhead magnet if I go past you.

    Why you think your cretinous violent fantasies would be appreciated here I don’t know. You should watch the Last Leg #dontbeadick

    Good Lord, you’re an angry little man aren’t you?

    March 13, 2015 at 7:01 pm #836415
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    Kadinkski

    What do people say when they
    What do people say when they go past each other? All I’ve ever heard or said is ‘good morning’.

    March 13, 2015 at 6:54 pm #836413
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    Leviathan

    Judge dreadful wrote:Cycling

    Judge dreadful wrote:
    Cycling is the most tedious, boring thing in the known world.

    Maybe you should take up knitting instead, clearly you are not suited to cycling. I shall have to dig out my old Lance Armstrong USPS 2001 blue train kit. I wear it occasionally even in the last two years and do you know how many people have said anything about it? Zero. Most people don’t even know what I am wearing. Are you the person who thinks it is their place to say something, or give me an ‘orbit.’ You would just prove what an arse you are by calling me out. Or maybe you should just keep you trap shut and seethe with rage instead. It should be a dickhead magnet if I go past you.

    Why you think your cretinous violent fantasies would be appreciated here I don’t know. You should watch the Last Leg #dontbeadick

    March 13, 2015 at 6:50 pm #836411
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    ianrobo

    There are some right snobs on
    There are some right snobs on this forums. I welcome everyone who rides and who cares if they try to be like Wiggins and spend loads on kit. Surely the most important things is 1) they are cycling and 2) most important – obey the laws on the road ?

    March 13, 2015 at 6:40 pm #836409
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    Cyclist

    what a load of Bollox….
    what a load of Bollox…. (|:

    March 13, 2015 at 5:55 pm #836407
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    daddyELVIS

    Judge dreadful

    Judge dreadful wrote:
    daddyELVIS wrote:

    You are thick as well as a prick! You say you don’t care, then go on a rant that suggests the opposite!

    I find those two things are usually attributed to people who make judgements on people they’ve never met, on an Internet forum. Ohhhhhhhh you are the epitome of irony.

    You are hilarious, I give you that!

    March 13, 2015 at 5:03 pm #836405
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    Quince

    Judge dreadful wrote:arfa

    Judge dreadful wrote:
    arfa wrote:
    Judge dreadful wrote:
    arfa wrote:
    Quite a fair amount of kung fu coming out on this thread. I am fascinated to know where these stretches of London Road are where you can sprint ahead, drop back and repeat ad nauseum, in traffic ?

    The cycle path between Hampton Court and Kingston usually.

    Well maybe it’s time to work on your endurance so you can stay in front for the full half mile stretch…..

    Nowt wrong with my endurance. That stretch is usually after 100 odd miles, with another 70 to go. Cycling is the most tedious, boring thing in the known world. If I could get the ‘pay off’ any other (legal) way, I would. Unfortunately, I have to endure cretins on bikes, it’s all part of it. If I have to put up with that sort of horse shit, I’m at least going to make the most of it.

    Enduring ‘cretins on bikes’ in undoubtably necessary for the ‘pay off’ that cycling brings, but I’m curious about what you gain from enduring ‘cretins on bike forums’… What’s the pay off from that?

    March 13, 2015 at 4:40 pm #836403
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    Martyn_K

    I wonder how many people
    I wonder how many people making derogatory comments ride in clubs or just ride alone or with a couple of mates.

    I remember being out on a solo one day and pulling up alongside someone in team kit. We got chatting and it turned out that he used to race at a very high standard 25 years back. He was riding to work, the long way, as part of training to get back in to cycling.

    We exchanged some details, particularly of the cycling club i am a member of and i was surprised to see him a couple of weeks later at the club run.

    To cut a long story short this guy who i could have just buzzed past on the road for being a FPKW is now a valuable member of the club. He has trained and mentored a few riders and helped to build a framework for rider training.

    Don’t judge anyone just for what they are wearing, riding or how they ride. It may turn out that the wanker, minus the FPK, is actually the man in the mirror.

    March 13, 2015 at 4:31 pm #836401
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    unclebadger

    Yorkshie Whippet

    Yorkshie Whippet wrote:
    unclebadger wrote:

    I should have been clear that I just can’t fathom the sense in riding a £5K bike on a commute. I’d save it for the weekend. C’est moi.

    Very simple,

    Someone loves cycling and doesn’t have a great deal of money so they’ve sold everything they have to buy that dream bike and are so proud of it they ride it everywhere. Not everyone can afford several bikes so they ride the one the have.

    I have a £5K bike and ride it as often as I can including 1hr rides in the dark evenings. It’s my dream bike, I love it, I ride it as often as possible. (Except when there’s salt on the road then the winter bike is rolled out or when I’m riding off road, then one or the other of my mtbs is rolled out……) Well we can’t have the paintwork being spoilt can we 8}

    Fair play to you bro

    March 13, 2015 at 4:29 pm #836399
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    arfa

    Judge dreadful wrote:arfa

    Judge dreadful wrote:
    arfa wrote:
    Judge dreadful wrote:
    arfa wrote:
    Quite a fair amount of kung fu coming out on this thread. I am fascinated to know where these stretches of London Road are where you can sprint ahead, drop back and repeat ad nauseum, in traffic ?

    The cycle path between Hampton Court and Kingston usually.

    Well maybe it’s time to work on your endurance so you can stay in front for the full half mile stretch…..

    Nowt wrong with my endurance. That stretch is usually after 100 odd miles, with another 70 to go. Cycling is the most tedious, boring thing in the known world. If I could get the ‘pay off’ any other (legal) way, I would. Unfortunately, I have to endure cretins on bikes, it’s all part of it. If I have to put up with that sort of horse shit, I’m at least going to make the most of it.

    =))

    March 13, 2015 at 4:29 pm #836397
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    unclebadger

    Fair play to you mate
    Fair play to you mate

    March 13, 2015 at 4:25 pm #836395
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    Judge dreadful

    arfa wrote:Judge dreadful

    arfa wrote:
    Judge dreadful wrote:
    arfa wrote:
    Quite a fair amount of kung fu coming out on this thread. I am fascinated to know where these stretches of London Road are where you can sprint ahead, drop back and repeat ad nauseum, in traffic ?

    The cycle path between Hampton Court and Kingston usually.

    Well maybe it’s time to work on your endurance so you can stay in front for the full half mile stretch…..

    Nowt wrong with my endurance. That stretch is usually after 100 odd miles, with another 70 to go. Cycling is the most tedious, boring thing in the known world. If I could get the ‘pay off’ any other (legal) way, I would. Unfortunately, I have to endure cretins on bikes, it’s all part of it. If I have to put up with that sort of horse shit, I’m at least going to make the most of it.

    March 13, 2015 at 4:20 pm #836393
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    arfa

    Judge dreadful wrote:arfa

    Judge dreadful wrote:
    arfa wrote:
    Quite a fair amount of kung fu coming out on this thread. I am fascinated to know where these stretches of London Road are where you can sprint ahead, drop back and repeat ad nauseum, in traffic ?

    The cycle path between Hampton Court and Kingston usually.

    Well maybe it’s time to work on your endurance so you can stay in front for the full half mile stretch…..

    March 13, 2015 at 4:16 pm #836391
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    Judge dreadful

    farrell wrote:Judge dreadful

    farrell wrote:
    Judge dreadful wrote:
    They’re known as ‘full pro kit wankers’. I play a game of ‘orbit the FPKW’ whenever I encounter them. It involves passing them, then usually getting some obnoxious comment as you pass them. Then slow down and let them pass ( usually another knob comment as they do). Then catch them, and pass really close. Then repeat until they bugger off / give up.

    Isn’t this the same as as those choppers that burst themselves to get ahead of you, race you when you’re just on a steady ride, burn themselves out and then you have to keep overtaking them because they aren’t able to keep the pace up?


    Nope, they are a totally different game altogether. If I come across that lot, I’ll just sit beside them, then gradually increase the pace, until they feign a technical and disappear.

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