It`s not about the bike.....or is it?!

jel · June 2007

Peejay: Because they're there.

peejay78 · June 2007

i know the feeling jel. although i cant be bothered to race numpties though - don't you find that? if some gurning loon on a disgustingly ugly bicycle wants to test their masculinity with an impromptu sprint through London - who am i to emasculate them with an effortless turn of speed, thus taking away possibly their only source of excitement and release?

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jel · June 2007

It's leading by example and, more importantly, from the front. It's showing people that you can go faster and it doesn't involve veering wildly round cars, it's showing the benefits of sitting in primary and leaving people standing but mostly it's about the winning.

peejay78 · June 2007

in london, any sustained turn of pace does require insane riding and light jumping. otherwise it's not possible.

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Eat My Dust · June 2007

I don't commute race. Other cyclists just think I'm racing!![:D]

SNAPS

peejay78 · June 2007

i agree. i road hoem today at a fair lick, not hanging round, stopping at red lights, etc. still didn't get overtaken. i'm just uberfit. hahahaha. or not.

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The Endorser · June 2007

I'm lucky living where I am in the boonies, with a masive newtorks or bridleways and a nearby forest, so i'm oftenout churning the mud. There are a lot of roadies round here too, and most nod or wave, and one even stopped to offer help when i was walking back with a flat (I was less than half a mile from home, so it was easier to walk than do a roadside repair).

I wonder if the easier pace of life in the sticks has anything to do with it?

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Roastie · June 2007

I find most commuters I encounter don't greet me on my flat bar road bike. Not MTBers, roadies, foldies. No one. My life isn't worth living.[V]

peejay78 · June 2007

"My life isn't worth living"

..er....

that's probably because you live in reading. there's only so much of the oracle centre and the winnersh triangle a man can take before it gets him down. as for the lack of a greeting, the intrepid denizens of roayl berkshire have yet to develop opposable thumbs and are still blinking in the sunlight after years of cave dwelling. this may be the more rational explanation as to why they do not wave.

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urrrrrrrrrs · June 2007

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by peejay78

"My life isn't worth living"

..er....

that's probably because you live in reading. there's only so much of the oracle centre and the winnersh triangle a man can take before it gets him down. as for the lack of a greeting, the intrepid denizens of roayl berkshire have yet to develop opposable thumbs and are still blinking in the sunlight after years of cave dwelling. this may be the more rational explanation as to why they do not wave.

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so true peejay[:D]

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Roastie · June 2007

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by peejay78

"My life isn't worth living"

..er....

that's probably because you live in reading. there's only so much of the oracle centre and the winnersh triangle a man can take before it gets him down. as for the lack of a greeting, the intrepid denizens of roayl berkshire have yet to develop opposable thumbs and are still blinking in the sunlight after years of cave dwelling. this may be the more rational explanation as to why they do not wave.
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[:D] LOL. Most of my mileage is actually done in Swindon ... erm ...

BentMikey · June 2007

LOL, and that's better than Reading?

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Roastie · June 2007

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by BentMikey

LOL, and that's better than Reading?

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No. [V] My life really isn't worth living at all, is it? [:(]

peejay78 · June 2007

it is, roastie, and keep living the life, because you are the last resting place of humanity in a dystopian sea of hellish interbred unmanliness. and you ride a bike, which marks you out as special, as in special, not as in "special', the word used to define all other inhabitants of swindon, or in other words, "remedial", "troglodytic", or "whacked out escapees from civilisation with no clue as to what their hands are for, let alone the webbed bit inbetween", although, with regard to the last bit, i hear it's good for rubbing up your sister's five-toed vagina in town gardens.

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BentMikey · June 2007

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Roastie
No. [V] My life really isn't worth living at all, is it? [:(]
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Yes it is! You're a cyclist, and you have a cool username, for just two things.

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Wogan · June 2007

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by peejay78
....i hear it's good for rubbing up your sister's five-toed vagina in town gardens.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">
Ahahahaa. A creative turn of phrase there peejay, but is such spite born of familiarity? Were you untimely flung from your mother's womb as she spun round the Magic Roundabout in an Austin Princess? [}:)]

Hackbike 6 · June 2007

I travelled in an Austin Princess many times.[:P]

What a great name for a car.[8D]

I don't like cars much but it brings back memories.

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Wogan · June 2007

My dad had one for a very brief period. It was gold with a brown vinyl roof! The "seatbelt not on" light wouldn't stop flashing and it broke down on our wayfrom Scotland to France, right outside the Longbridge factory where it was built.

Don't get me started on 70's cars. I still remember the awesome day dad brought home a dayglo yellow TR7...

peejay78 · June 2007

i think my mother had a mini clubman and we lived in williton. which is scarily similar. but then again, growing up in north devon is nothing to crow about - apart from on father's day, where the confusion is a joy to behold.

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Roastie · June 2007

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Wogan

Magic Roundabout
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Still have nightmares about that thing.

Roastie · June 2007

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by BentMikey

Yes it is! You're a cyclist, and you have a cool username, for just two things.
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[:D]

Flying_Monkey · June 2007

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by peejay78

"i always overtake people on road bikes"

this sort of supposition and posturing annoys me. there's no always about it.
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notice that 'people' can refer to an indefinite number... I don't don't always overtake everyone on a road bike - that would be impossible - I always overtake some people on a road bike...

as I said, this kind of thing only seems to matter to some people, so perhaps you're looking rather too hard for something to be annoyed about.[:)]

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It`s not about the bike.....or is it?!

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