Old Mountain Biker(and roadie) says hello...

ChrisLS
ChrisLS Posts: 2,749
edited July 2007 in The Crudcatcher
...I don't really like to put the various types of cycling into seperate camps, it's all cycling to me :D ...always has been. I have always ridden on the road and also off the road...I'll pedal anything! My first MTB was a Raleigh Ozark, 531 frame, and no suss, this was about 20 odd years ago...I am very old :( ...anyways, hi everyone...
...all the way...'til the wheels fall off and burn...

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    Hi Chris,

    Nice to have you on board. Raleigh Ozark - there's a blast from the past...What are you riding these days?
  • ChrisLS
    ChrisLS Posts: 2,749
    ...Trek 6000...very new. I am still tweaking and adjusting...it always seems to take a while to get a bike set up that I am happy with...but I love the bike, good spec for the money, and it's the orange and black paint job :D:D:D :P
    ...all the way...'til the wheels fall off and burn...
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    Nice :D
  • Bronzie
    Bronzie Posts: 4,927
    My first MTB was a God-awful Peugeot thing..............bright yellow and made of old scaffold tubes I think.............then I got a Marin "Pine Mountain" around 1989..............grey frame with bright orange forks..........God, the 80's were awful weren't they!!

    Over the years I have 'morphed' into more and more of a roadie and hardly touch my current MTB.............Gary Fisher Team Sugar 2003 full 'sus...............pity really as I enjoy riding it, but seem to fall off more than strictly necessary!!

    So now I road race, ride the track (as in velodrome, not single track), sportifs................I even shave my legs............even though I seem to remember promising myself I would never be that sad..............but very rarely get the Sugar down from the hooks in the garage and give it a blast...........maybe I should try it a bit more often.

    Anyway, hi there.................back off "downstairs" now to talk Tour de France shite again :lol:
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  • juankerr
    juankerr Posts: 1,099
    531 - them was the days...
  • St.D1ckie
    St.D1ckie Posts: 982
    ChrisLS wrote:
    ...I don't really like to put the various types of cycling into seperate camps, it's all cycling to me :D

    you have obviously never tried to say hello to / converse with a roadie when on a mountain bike... hell do they even say hello / smile at each other? im doubting it..
    Kona
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  • ratty2k
    ratty2k Posts: 3,872
    Must admit I've never had the problem of being ignored by the other camp. The only time we meet is on the road and then, regardless of some views we are all cyclists.....
    And that applies if I'm on my roady or my mtb, one of which is a 29er so i'm one of the sandal wearing wierdy ones at that!laughing-smiley-006.gif


    Edit: Oh and HELLO CHRIS!!!!!food-smiley-004.gif
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  • St.D1ckie
    St.D1ckie Posts: 982
    dont get me wrong i agree with the 'we are all cyclists' and i will always say hello / wave / smile at other riders, whatever they are riding..

    from my experience, however, there is a certain 'camp' of riders who very rarely respond..

    they often get something shouted at them in return of their inhospitableness (sp?)
    Kona
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    Richard
  • ratty2k
    ratty2k Posts: 3,872
    But, I think most of that is down to the individual concerned. Some people are just ignorant, others wait till you nod to them, just one of those things.....
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  • Aux1
    Aux1 Posts: 865
    Well I once climbed a road alone, came to a lodge and had a drink, and a lone roadie came, I invited him to my table, we talked and then we continued to the top of the mountain together and it was all nice friendly and proper :)
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  • ratty2k
    ratty2k Posts: 3,872
    Got passed by a fellow MTB'r this morning. Not a word as he went by.......

    But I was on the 29er, and he may of looked and thought "wierdo!" :lol:
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  • schmako
    schmako Posts: 1,982
    I'll say hello to any form of cyclist. By far roadies have been the most ignorant, most completely ignore you. But maybe they just don't take kindly to bright orange FR bikes around here..
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  • Unklehomer
    Unklehomer Posts: 646
    i say hi to everyone, commuters say hi, Mtbers, most roadies...

    chavs on shockwaves i ignore... i'm a snob...
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  • Gambatte
    Gambatte Posts: 1,453
    Not had a problem with roadies or MTBers, whichever bike I was on.

    They might have had a problem if they've said hello and expect a response, when I've just crested a long uphill and I'm pulling in oxygen from every orifice!
  • HJ1976
    HJ1976 Posts: 205
    Not come across many roadies since i took up cycling again- but i will say hello to most people, horse riders, walkers, Skiiers (I Snowboard badly too) and most people will show respond if they are greated happily.
  • ajevans
    ajevans Posts: 373
    If I see a fellow roadie I automatically say Hi, but will wait usually wait for a MTB'er to say Hi first and then reply.

    The reason: You can tell a roadie from a long distance due to the drop handlebars and attire. You can't tell apart a MTB'er from a 'chav on a bike' until you get quite close and then it's too late as you've sped past.

    There's no malice or rudeness to it, I and many others will say Hi to those we immediately recognise as a 'kindred spirit' and anyone who says Hi to us first.

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