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Too many cycling twits!

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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 1:32 pm #836359
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    stenmeister

    birzzles wrote:interesting

    birzzles wrote:
    interesting this. In mainland Europe everyone wears the kit. In Britain it seems to be regarded as strange. Cultural difference?

    Maybe it’s because cycling is more ingrained in the culture of those countries whereas here the wearing of pro kit has a correlation with Froome and Wiggo winning the tour?

    March 13, 2015 at 1:26 pm #836357
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    runskiprun

    sailing the new Passat?
    sailing the new Passat? :)) 😀 😀 😀

    March 13, 2015 at 1:15 pm #836355
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    birzzles

    interesting this. In
    interesting this. In mainland Europe everyone wears the kit. In Britain it seems to be regarded as strange. Cultural difference?

    March 13, 2015 at 1:14 pm #836353
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    runskiprun

    sailing the new Passat?
    sailing the new Passat? :)) 😀 😀 😀

    March 13, 2015 at 1:13 pm #836351
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    southseabythesea

    Some people on this thread
    Some people on this thread need to get out more or get laid, possibly both!

    March 13, 2015 at 1:08 pm #836349
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    teaboy

    brooksby wrote: We are all

    brooksby wrote:
    We are all different. We are all individuals.

    I’m not.

    March 13, 2015 at 12:47 pm #836347
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    daddyELVIS

    Judge dreadful wrote:Reggie

    Judge dreadful wrote:
    Reggie Plate wrote:
    This thread seems to have degenerated into a nasty slanging match. What’s up with people. We’re all just cyclists at the end of the day. What does it matter what sort of bike we ride/kit we wear? Each to his/her own. If it makes you feel good . . .

    Absolutely right. I don’t think anyone cares about what equipment or kit other cyclists have. I sure as hell don’t, I’ve got better things to worry about. I just can’t resist winding the ‘all the gear, no idea, but have to try and be a hero, because they’ve splashed the cash on some super fancy gear’ brigade up.

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

    March 13, 2015 at 12:46 pm #836345
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    Chuck

    Some of the people on this
    Some of the people on this thread seem to live in a different world to me, and it sounds like a pretty sad one. Obnoxious comments to someone overtaking? Deliberately circling around to do it again and wind them up? Kicking wheels? Really?

    If they’re just trolling, same thing applies.

    March 13, 2015 at 12:41 pm #836343
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    Judge dreadful

    Reggie Plate wrote:This

    Reggie Plate wrote:
    This thread seems to have degenerated into a nasty slanging match. What’s up with people. We’re all just cyclists at the end of the day. What does it matter what sort of bike we ride/kit we wear? Each to his/her own. If it makes you feel good . . .

    Absolutely right. I don’t think anyone cares about what equipment or kit other cyclists have. I sure as hell don’t, I’ve got better things to worry about. I just can’t resist winding the ‘all the gear, no idea, but have to try and be a hero, because they’ve splashed the cash on some super fancy gear’ brigade up.

    March 13, 2015 at 12:39 pm #836341
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    atgni

    Judge dreadful wrote:…..who

    Judge dreadful wrote:
    …..who takes a kick at your front wheel, for having the audacity to pass their gazillion pound super machine, on my “piece of shit Boardheap”.

    If you’ve passed them, how do they kick your front wheel?

    Unless you’re baiting them and just trying one of you claimed repeated close passes!

    March 13, 2015 at 12:27 pm #836339
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    daddyELVIS

    Judge dreadful

    Judge dreadful wrote:
    daddyELVIS wrote:

    You are a prick!

    Have I orbited you lately?

    Haha, I doubt you’d catch me!

    March 13, 2015 at 12:26 pm #836337
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    Reg Molehusband

    This thread seems to have
    This thread seems to have degenerated into a nasty slanging match. What’s up with people. We’re all just cyclists at the end of the day. What does it matter what sort of bike we ride/kit we wear? Each to his/her own. If it makes you feel good . . .

    March 13, 2015 at 12:11 pm #836335
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    notfastenough

    Judge dreadful

    Judge dreadful wrote:
    notfastenough wrote:
    Who gives a sh*t? I was wearing decent kit on the commute the other day – because I added an extra 25 miles to the ride home. Do I have to wear a sign proclaiming this fact in order to make it ok to wear my club jersey?

    As for judge dreddful playing ‘orbit the FPKW’ (catchy!) – you sir, are a large and rather grand turd. I hope you try it one day and find a pro rider letting you pass because he/she is strictly on a recovery ride – until they’ve had enough and show you what’s what.

    I actually like it when I get it wrong, and do it to an actual handy rider. I’ve picked up some subtle, but effective ‘tricks of the trade’ from these guys. Usually they know the game anyway, they do give some banter, but there’s a huge difference between a bit of tounge in cheek banter, and some lardy arsed prat in full pro kit, who takes a kick at your front wheel, for having the audacity to pass their gazillion pound super machine, on my “piece of shit Boardheap”. I don’t class people in club kit as FPKW’s. They are in fact, the antithesis of a FPKW. Club kit = good, full pro kit (that hasn’t been provided by a team ) = bad.

    If someone has honestly taken a kick at your front wheel just for passing them, you’re doing it wrong. Seriously, I think it’s you with the issues.

    March 13, 2015 at 12:08 pm #836333
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    stenmeister

    Judge dreadful

    Judge dreadful wrote:
    notfastenough wrote:
    Who gives a sh*t? I was wearing decent kit on the commute the other day – because I added an extra 25 miles to the ride home. Do I have to wear a sign proclaiming this fact in order to make it ok to wear my club jersey?

    As for judge dreddful playing ‘orbit the FPKW’ (catchy!) – you sir, are a large and rather grand turd. I hope you try it one day and find a pro rider letting you pass because he/she is strictly on a recovery ride – until they’ve had enough and show you what’s what.

    I actually like it when I get it wrong, and do it to an actual handy rider. I’ve picked up some subtle, but effective ‘tricks of the trade’ from these guys. Usually they know the game anyway, they do give some banter, but there’s a huge difference between a bit of tounge in cheek banter, and some lardy arsed prat in full pro kit, who takes a kick at your front wheel, for having the audacity to pass their gazillion pound super machine, on my “piece of shit Boardheap”. I don’t class people in club kit as FPKW’s. They are in fact, the antithesis of a FPKW. Club kit = good, full pro kit (that hasn’t been provided by a team ) = bad.

    Wearing Club Kit doesn’t necessarily make you a better rider or better person. Some of the club guys I have met are dead nice, some are indeed, wankers.

    I am also not convinced that their club kit is necessarily better than pro kit produced by say Castelli or Rapha.

    March 13, 2015 at 12:00 pm #836331
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    Judge dreadful

    evojm72 wrote:
    I’m getting

    evojm72 wrote:

    I’m getting the word…Bellend.

    I think I’d likely un-clip and kick you off.

    And there we have it. You are exactly the sort I was referring to. The last idiot who tried unclipping and kicking me, didn’t understand that I know that particular tool of the FPKW trade. I heard the click, pushed on, he totally missed and ended up weaving in front of a van. I nearly fell off I laughed so hard.

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