Cycling isn't cool anymore
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God, one bottle of Peroni and I get all bolshy. happy days0
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with mudguards, rack and a rucksack attached thereto, pannier stylee, i doubt very much that my commuter bike is "cool", even if cycling is, or isn't.riding on my bicycle, i saw a motorcrash…0
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biondino wrote:Attica wrote:Don't get me wrong I like their stuff, I just can't differentiate between albums.
It's all very unchallenging samey stuff. Kind of a modern day Status Quo with less denim and more, ahem, socks.
I don't, they're awful, whiny, tedious toss as far as I'm concerned. Not fit to lick Status Quo's groupies.
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I have a cross bike and a FGSS therefore I MUST be ultra cool 8)Rule #5 // Harden The Feck Up.
Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
Rule #12 // The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.0 -
_Brun_ wrote:itboffin wrote:I have a cross bike and a FGSS therefore I MUST be ultra cool 8)
But they're Guinness slippersRule #5 // Harden The Feck Up.
Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
Rule #12 // The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.0 -
DonDaddyD wrote:gtvlusso wrote:I believe it is called a "soul patch"......Feel free to punch me out, if we meet :-)
HAHAHA Touche. I've got a "soul patch" myself...
Your cool.
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Anyone who thinks they are cool is uncool and anything that anyone thinks is cool is uncool. Anyone who wants to be cool is uncool and anyone who cares what anyone else thinks in terms of their coolness is uncool. Even talking or thinking about it isn't cool which is why I'm posting here...........Faster than a tent.......0
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Rolf F wrote:Anyone who thinks they are cool is uncool and anything that anyone thinks is cool is uncool. Anyone who wants to be cool is uncool and anyone who cares what anyone else thinks in terms of their coolness is uncool. Even talking or thinking about it isn't cool which is why I'm posting here...........
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biondino wrote:Attica wrote:Don't get me wrong I like their stuff, I just can't differentiate between albums.
It's all very unchallenging samey stuff. Kind of a modern day Status Quo with less denim and more, ahem, socks.
I don't, they're awful, whiny, tedious toss as far as I'm concerned. Not fit to lick Status Quo's groupies.
"Like" as in can put up with it far better than the turgid euro piddle that the new boy in my office has subjected me to for most of this week!
As for Status Quo's groupies - fantastic imagery Bionds, made I proper laugh out loud, as they say in these parts."Impressive break"
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So I'm not cool then ?
Top Gear is cool 8) 8)0 -
I think it's good that more people (however fabulously rich) are rdiing bikes. Perhaps if the chairman and a few directors of my company (as in the company I work for) rode bikes we might get a few benefits - changing rooms and clothes drying faclities. Or maybe not0
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Attica wrote:Don't get me wrong I like their stuff, I just can't differentiate between albums.
It's all very unchallenging samey stuff. Kind of a modern day Status Quo with less denim and more, ahem, socks.
+1.FCN 2-4.
"What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
"It stays down, Daddy."
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Well that was an amusing 4 1/2 pages!
I still haven't managed to work out if I'm cool or not but by using DDD's orginal cool list suggestions I think I am as I fall under that (rather large) final umbrella of "faster then me on a bike" ;-)
Still having said that I couldn't really give a toss whether I'm cool or not as it's never really been a big deal for me. I think it might have made a difference back in college when my friend seemed to think I'd commited a cardinal sin by daring to wear the same top 2 days running...........
Regardless of whether cycling is seen as "cool" or not I'm still gonna carry on doing it for me the un-cool people are those un-enlightened ones who still insist that trains, tube and buses are still the best way around town ;-)0 -
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itboffin wrote:I have a cross bike and a FGSS therefore I MUST be ultra cool 8)
Cross bike? you are freakin Ice Cold.
So say's another cross bike rider.
I'll get mi coat.0 -
DonDaddyD wrote:Attica wrote:Nerds are of course more cool than geeks!
BTW, how do you come to the conclusion that the RHCP are cool? They've released the same album repackaged with different song titles goodness knows how many times in the last decade or two.
Oh my god, I just felt part of my soul die... :shock:
How could you!!! How can you speak so badly of Chilli Peppers. :shock: :shock: :shock:
is it cool if you put an extra L in Chili Peppers??Whenever I see an adult on a bicycle, I believe in the future of the human race.
H.G. Wells.0 -
is it cool if you put an extra L in Chili Peppers??
Chili Pleppers?"Bed is for sleepy people.
Let's get a kebab and go to a disco."
FCN = 3 - 5
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Deliberately doing something because you think it is cool is a fundamentally uncool thing to do.David
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sarajoy wrote:"Don't dream it, be it"
Anyone getting the reference gets 1) cool points, and 2) to tell us what they wore if they went to see it
I am afraid I went to the stage show in London in the year it first opened! (that ages me!!! :oops: ). Had no idea what it was all about before I went, wore civies!
Had the most fabulous g/f with me...parted the following year, still miss her
Oh, to be young0 -
Don't dream it, be it
20 years ago, Oxford, in a thong and a black basque with 20 other like minded souls. It was a riot.
Chased a mate down the road outside the theatre (he was in civvis on a date, probably seeing some motr period nonsense). Failed to get into any nightclubs afterwards, just got a series of "you lot MUST be f*&ing joking" from one set of boucers after another :P
Some joker posted a photo of the lot of us from that night on FB recently. I nearly spat out my false teeth (would have had, if I had any, that is). I elected not to show Mrs B the picture, but she found it anyway (damn you FB!)
Oh, and Cycling is still cool. The fact that fools like Sugar try and hijack some of the gleen just shows that they know it's cool. Bet he looked a right idiot on a pinarello, which just goes to show you really. Should have done it in a basque and nickers, then we'd have thought him cool. Honest.Everything in moderation ... except beer
Beer in moderation ... is a waste of beer
If riding an XC race bike is like touching the trail,
then riding a rigid singlespeed is like licking it
... or being punched by it, depending on the day0 -
DonDaddyD wrote:I'm cool, I'm black and listen to both Kurt Cobain, Nas, Lupe Fiasco and Red Hot Chilli Peppers.
I was wearing Air Force 1's, Addidas Decades and a Nike Windbreaker (orginally seen in the 80's movie Breakdance) before they were popular and bought back into production several times over.
There I said it.
being a "Casual" wasn't even cool in 80's (I know, I was there), let alone on the retro thing0 -
Got the reference but never seen it.
My list of cool - Cycling, Slacklining, Clangers, The Permian, all things Italian, Alpkit
Uncool - Motoring, Bunjey jumping, Wallace and Gromet, The Jurassic, The French, RBS0