Real men don't each quiche or ride mountain bikes..

Massimo

A slighly contraversial title I know, but grown men on quality mountain bikes, with the baggy shorts, the team issue tops, the sexy shades, riding on the pavement!! Are you allowed to shout 'Get on the road you girl' or is this seen as showing a lack of solidarity with your fat tired bredrin'?

John Stevenson

If spelling flames weren't - rightly - considered lame, I'd have to reply:

And, clearly, real men don't use spell checkers.

Jacomus-rides-Gen

Shouting "Get on the road you girl" seems like a very MTB phrasiology, so I'd say in technical terms you would be spot on Shout away

ddraver

as an MTber...yes you are...tell em to stop being pussys n all that all learn em

mazcp

What did you shout back?
Seriously, I've never seen any MTBer that fit that description...maybe it's a London thing?

Massimo

Sorry about the typo (bit of a senior moment), good point, well made...

Massimo

mazcp wrote:

What did you shout back?
Seriously, I've never seen any MTBer that fit that description...maybe it's a London thing?

It's me doing the shouting at them...

BentMikey

I prefer Magnatom's "Oi, the pavement is for 5 year olds!!"

Jacomus-rides-Gen

What really makes it is when he follows with "They even gave you a wee cyclepath" - makes me wish i could do a Scottish accent just so that I could empoly the full phrase :P

mazcp

I always reprimand the pavement-riding old girls on their wicker basket pashleys nipping down the shops. Scares the life out of them. You should see the look on their faces!

(...that's a joke btw!)

BentMikey

A couple of months ago I came across a granny riding a sit-up-and-beg on the pavement, dressed in a HiViz jacket and HiViz woolly hat. She was riding along in the same direction as I was, and then just as I was nearly level with her, veered off the pavement into the road. Lucky I'd felt uncomfortable and moved out a metre or two, but I still got a fright. Not as big as her fright though, because I laid on the AirZound (in warning, not retaliation).

Can't believe her stupidity in not looking and just swerving off the pavement like that!!!

Hairy Jock

BentMikey wrote:

I prefer Magnatom's "Oi, the pavement is for 5 year olds!!"

Damn BentMikey beat me to it, I second that, especially if you have a helmet cam to record the results...

adifiddler

BentMikey wrote:

I prefer Magnatom's "Oi, the pavement is for 5 year olds!!"

I like that i must remember it

fossyant

Eeek, Airzound an old bid - could have given her a heart attack :twisted:

Better than ending under a truck though !

ddraver

well.....same result :?

Cunobelin

...and just what is wrong with eating quiche whilst wearing baggy shorts?