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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 12, 2015 at 9:11 pm #836299
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    Ush

    Colin Peyresourde wrote:
    You

    Colin Peyresourde wrote:

    You seem to be really just a bit jealous.

    I think that’s at the unpleasant root of all this. Why should anyone care what someone else is wearing?

    March 12, 2015 at 9:09 pm #836297
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    Ush

    pashda wrote:The way people

    pashda wrote:
    The way people ride in London is shocking and they wonder why there are so many getting squashed by trucks. You dont pick a fight with 15 tonnes of metal at a junction.

    Interesting idea. Pity that the majority of the people getting squashed are the “deferent” ones following the infrastructure which leads them up the inside of trucks to be squashed at the junctions.

    Follow the rules: ride assertively and take primary.

    March 12, 2015 at 9:07 pm #836295
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    hsiaolc

    Judge dreadful wrote:They’re

    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.

    You have serious issues.

    March 12, 2015 at 9:02 pm #836293
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    crikey

    Cycling has moved to become
    Cycling has moved to become the new trainspotting I’m afraid. I’m not talking about the heroin addicted bleakly glamorous immortalised in print and film kind either, I mean the weak lemon drink and listing numbers in little books while wearing sensible anoraks and Hi-Vis clothing type….

    March 12, 2015 at 8:56 pm #836291
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    simon.thornton

    It’s commonly repeated that
    It’s commonly repeated that cycling is the new Golf.
    But not a lot of people realise that skating is the new Polo.

    March 12, 2015 at 8:40 pm #836289
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    OnTheRopes

    Judge dreadful wrote:They’re

    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.

    Oh how superior that must make you feel! Get over yourself.
    Perhaps you get a knob comment because you are behaving like a knob?

    Whilst I would never wear full pro kit myself, I see nothing wrong in people wearing it if it makes them feel good. Not many are mistaken for real pro’s. Quite a few kids wear pro kit to look like their heroes and if that encourages more people to get into cycling then all for the good.
    You don’t see this snobbish attitude to kids and people wearing football kit to emulate their hero even though the sight of some overweight dad down the pub in his Man Utd shirt looks kind of dumb to me.

    March 12, 2015 at 8:33 pm #836287
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    fukawitribe

    Judge dreadful wrote:They’re

    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.

    Wow, just wow…. and you still call people ‘wankers’ who might, for whatever reason, be wearing some team kit without any sense of irony ?

    March 12, 2015 at 8:29 pm #836285
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    sergius

    Judge dreadful wrote:They’re

    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.

    Interesting, in all of the many hundreds of people I’ve overtaken while riding, not once have I ever had anyone make an obnoxious comment. Are you sure you are doing it right?

    March 12, 2015 at 8:22 pm #836283
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    Judge dreadful

    They’re known as ‘full pro
    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.

    March 12, 2015 at 7:46 pm #836281
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    hsiaolc

    bashthebox wrote:Meh, I do

    bashthebox wrote:
    Meh, I do find it a bit odd that people commute on a top spec road bike wearing incredibly expensive kit – I’m guessing these are people who have secure lock-ups at work and… nope, can’t really find the logic in wearing your best kit for the grind through town. Save it for the countryside, that’s what I say.
    Still, it’s a lot of fun dropping those people when I’m wearing jeans and trainers and riding a scrappy singlespeed that’s 2 sizes too small for me. A roadie in disguise, fun humiliation points.

    I don’t think it’s worth getting upset about. There’s far worse things.

    The only reason you feel that way because you are jealous. Not attacking you.

    Its applies to anything expensive really. Some buy it because it is status symbol some buy it because they really like it.

    I wear rapha stuff but I didn’t buy them from the beginning. I just really like it and not wearing it riding to win any races or trying to make anyone feel inferior. You buy what you like and what you can afford and live within your own ability.

    I have tried so many different brands from very cheap to the very expensive and I go for Rapha or Vulpine stuff all the time.

    March 12, 2015 at 7:44 pm #836279
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    ronin

    jmaccelari wrote:I got cut up

    jmaccelari wrote:
    I got cut up by a car this morning going through Tooting. I clipped the back passenger side, but managed to stay upright. The driver jumped out and I could see he was livid and just looking to throw one at me- frothing at the mouth and swearing. So I rode away with him running behind me just far enough not to catch me – with me telling him to run faster – for about 60 yards until he got tired.

    This place is going crazy…

    You’re lucky for sure, It’s a shame you didn’t have a helmet cam, you could have shamed this idiot on YouTube because it sounds way funny!

    March 12, 2015 at 7:21 pm #836277
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    bashthebox

    Meh, I do find it a bit odd
    Meh, I do find it a bit odd that people commute on a top spec road bike wearing incredibly expensive kit – I’m guessing these are people who have secure lock-ups at work and… nope, can’t really find the logic in wearing your best kit for the grind through town. Save it for the countryside, that’s what I say.
    Still, it’s a lot of fun dropping those people when I’m wearing jeans and trainers and riding a scrappy singlespeed that’s 2 sizes too small for me. A roadie in disguise, fun humiliation points.

    I don’t think it’s worth getting upset about. There’s far worse things.

    March 12, 2015 at 6:20 pm #836275
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    Colin Peyresourde

    Nothing wrong with good
    Nothing wrong with good clothes and good bikes. Not a fan of the Sky stuff myself, but whatever floats their boat.

    You seem to be really just a bit jealous. Faster, better bikes and clothing. The other bits about the arguing with cabs and buses just seems to be by way of justification. The people that worry me in London are those that have no bike etiquette, whether that be waiting at red lights, or just being observant of their fellow cyclists. I’m not going to generalise like you, because bad cycling happens whether the perpetrator is on a cheap fixie or a carbon racer, and your personal bigotry has no place on the roads or here.

    March 12, 2015 at 5:12 pm #836273
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    Matt eaton

    You see other cyclists when
    You see other cyclists when you go out?

    I’ve been out 3 times today (OK, 2 were very short rides) and I only recall seeing 2 other bikes. One kid on the pavement doing his paper round and one guy on a roadie who looked to be commuting.

    Car and van drivers on the other hand, 3 acts of idiocy during a ride of less than 2 miles. Can anyone top that?

    March 12, 2015 at 4:52 pm #836271
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    barbarus

    Idiots and lovely people are
    Idiots and lovely people are everywhere. Some drive cars some wear rapha and some eat carrots. Get used to it.

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