Damn mountain bikes all over the hills

always_tyred
always_tyred Posts: 4,965
edited April 2009 in Commuting chat
My commute is plagued with mountain bikers.

I cycle along a cycle route past a couple of reservoirs up in the hills. Its clearly a cycle route, yet I keep coming across mountain bikers STANDING on it, their bikes left unattended across part of the path. Sometimes I get right up to them before they call their bikes back to them and get out of my way. Get this, today, right, this one biker did this and I kind of muttered "thanks" and as I went past, they said to me "thank you" like really saaarcastically.

How rude is that? I had to slow down becuase this person was standing on a footpath. God.







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  • jonginge
    jonginge Posts: 5,945
    Always Tyred wrote:
    My commute is plagued with mountain bikers.

    I cycle along a cycle route past a couple of reservoirs up in the hills. Its clearly a cycle route, yet I keep coming across mountain bikers STANDING on it, their bikes left unattended across part of the path. Sometimes I get right up to them before they call their bikes back to them and get out of my way. Get this, today, right, this one biker did this and I kind of muttered "thanks" and as I went past, they said to me "thank you" like really saaarcastically.

    How rude is that? I had to slow down becuase this person was standing on a footpath. God.







    This story is entirely fictional and none of the characters are in any way intended to resemble real people past or present.
    Did that in fact not happen 20 years ago?
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  • Dropzone-dog__
    Dropzone-dog__ Posts: 59
    Always Tyred wrote:
    My commute is plagued with mountain bikers.

    I cycle along a cycle route past a couple of reservoirs up in the hills. Its clearly a cycle route, yet I keep coming across mountain bikers STANDING on it, their bikes left unattended across part of the path. Sometimes I get right up to them before they call their bikes back to them and get out of my way. Get this, today, right, this one biker did this and I kind of muttered "thanks" and as I went past, they said to me "thank you" like really saaarcastically.

    How rude is that? I had to slow down becuase this person was standing on a footpath. God.







    This story is entirely fictional and none of the characters are in any way intended to resemble real people past or present.


    Play nice now :lol::lol::lol:
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    Not everybody agrees with your point of view though.
  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    There's this gate, on my commute. Stands in the same place every day. Refuses to move. I have to climb OVER it ever morning. One of these days I'm going to kick it square in the neuts.
  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    Bet Linsen wouldn't let them get away so lightly.
    I've added a signature to prove it is still possible.
  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    Always Tyred wrote:
    There's this gate, on my commute. Stands in the same place every day. Refuses to move. I have to climb OVER it ever morning. One of these days I'm going to kick it square in the neuts.

    You're on a cross bike. It's obligatory for you to shoulder the bike at some point.

    Now, if you were on a road bike, the gate would acknowledge its place lower down the food chain, uproot itself and step aisde.
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    "It stays down, Daddy."
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Always Tyred wrote:
    There's this gate, on my commute. Stands in the same place every day. Refuses to move. I have to climb OVER it ever morning. One of these days I'm going to kick it square in the neuts.

    :lol::lol::lol:
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  • doog442
    doog442 Posts: 370
    just mutter "jesus christ" say seven hail mary's and continue cycling up your 10,000 foot mountain

    really cant see what the problem is :?:
  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    doog442 wrote:
    just mutter "jesus christ" say seven hail mary's and continue cycling up your 10,000 foot mountain

    really cant see what the problem is :?:
    You still here?
  • Rich158
    Rich158 Posts: 2,348
    Some may say it's the CX perverts getting in the way of the mountain bikes :wink:

    Tbh when your out on the MTB, in baggies trying to look all chilled and hardcore, the last thing you need is some lycra clad guy on a road bike with knobbly tyres showing you up :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:
    pain is temporary, the glory of beating your mates to the top of the hill lasts forever.....................

    Revised FCN - 2
  • roger_merriman
    roger_merriman Posts: 6,165
    heh! true though many may not know what a CX bike is.

    i see people in full batlle gear going around Richmound Park, a path that a road bike can cope with....

    peanut meet mr sledgehammer...
  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    Rich158 wrote:
    Some may say it's the CX perverts getting in the way of the mountain bikes :wink:

    Tbh when your out on the MTB, in baggies trying to look all chilled and hardcore, the last thing you need is some lycra clad guy on a road bike with knobbly tyres showing you up :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:
    This is true actually, the path gets a bit rocky further on and I do get a lot of odd looks from mtbers thinking I'm on a road bike. I even get odd looks from people further along who think I'm unaware what the path turns into. Also, I can't go anywhere near as fast on that bit as someone on a full suspension bike. Just got to suck up the pride and take the scalping.
  • roger_merriman
    roger_merriman Posts: 6,165
    well i'm not that old but my old MTB was pre suspention, teaches you to take a good line and to ride light. 35mm isn't far off the thin tires we used to use, not far off the thin mud tires i have on at the moment to be honest, claimed 1.9 at most 1.7....
  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    JonGinge wrote:
    Always Tyred wrote:
    My commute is plagued with mountain bikers.

    I cycle along a cycle route past a couple of reservoirs up in the hills. Its clearly a cycle route, yet I keep coming across mountain bikers STANDING on it, their bikes left unattended across part of the path. Sometimes I get right up to them before they call their bikes back to them and get out of my way. Get this, today, right, this one biker did this and I kind of muttered "thanks" and as I went past, they said to me "thank you" like really saaarcastically.

    How rude is that? I had to slow down becuase this person was standing on a footpath. God.







    This story is entirely fictional and none of the characters are in any way intended to resemble real people past or present.
    Did that in fact not happen 20 years ago?

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  • beverick
    beverick Posts: 3,461
    It's no different than when you go to the gym many of the machines are invariably 'hogged' by people sitting or standing on them drinking isotonic drinks, listening to ipods and doing bu&&er all else.

    I pointed out to one rotund 'mary' last week that in downing her second bottle of 'Gatorade' and having done nothing but walk between equipment that staying at home and just not taking the drinks would have had a more beneficial impact on her health.

    Bob
  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    For the avoidance of doubt, mtbers on a mountain bike trail wide enough to admit several cyclists abreast, are NOT in anyone's way.
  • King Donut
    King Donut Posts: 498
    roger merriman wrote:
    i see people in full batlle gear going around Richmound Park, a path that a road bike can cope with....
    busted :oops:
  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    Has anyone timed themselves on a lap of the gravel path round the outside of Richmond Park? How does my best - 29:45 - stack up?
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  • jonginge
    jonginge Posts: 5,945
    biondino wrote:
    Has anyone timed themselves on a lap of the gravel path round the outside of Richmond Park? How does my best - 29:45 - stack up?
    In the 24s (always anticlockwise) on an MTB a few years back (actually, 10) before the speed restrictions/policing came in. Not been on the path for ages...
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  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    Dunno. Suspect it's close to Bio's time. However, try getting up Broomfield Hill and the rise from Ham Gate with a kid on the back, who's saying "this is fun, daddy!". My HR has never been so high.
    FCN 2-4.

    "What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    cjcp wrote:
    Dunno. Suspect it's close to Bio's time. However, try getting up Broomfield Hill and the rise from Ham Gate with a kid on the back, who's saying "this is fun, daddy!". My HR has never been so high.

    "Are we nearly there yet?"
  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    Always Tyred wrote:
    cjcp wrote:
    Dunno. Suspect it's close to Bio's time. However, try getting up Broomfield Hill and the rise from Ham Gate with a kid on the back, who's saying "this is fun, daddy!". My HR has never been so high.

    "Are we nearly there yet?"

    There's no "nearly" about it. They want to know if we're in Wales yet before I've got on the M3.
    FCN 2-4.

    "What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    JonGinge wrote:
    biondino wrote:
    Has anyone timed themselves on a lap of the gravel path round the outside of Richmond Park? How does my best - 29:45 - stack up?
    In the 24s (always anticlockwise) on an MTB a few years back (actually, 10) before the speed restrictions/policing came in. Not been on the path for ages...

    Nice! Mine was on a road bike, mind, so I wasn't plunging heartily through gravel and sand as you probably were :)
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  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    biondino wrote:
    JonGinge wrote:
    biondino wrote:
    Has anyone timed themselves on a lap of the gravel path round the outside of Richmond Park? How does my best - 29:45 - stack up?
    In the 24s (always anticlockwise) on an MTB a few years back (actually, 10) before the speed restrictions/policing came in. Not been on the path for ages...

    Nice! Mine was on a road bike, mind, so I wasn't plunging heartily through gravel and sand as you probably were :)

    For the love of God Blondie, why!
  • roger_merriman
    roger_merriman Posts: 6,165
    jashburnham wrote:
    biondino wrote:
    JonGinge wrote:
    biondino wrote:
    Has anyone timed themselves on a lap of the gravel path round the outside of Richmond Park? How does my best - 29:45 - stack up?
    In the 24s (always anticlockwise) on an MTB a few years back (actually, 10) before the speed restrictions/policing came in. Not been on the path for ages...

    Nice! Mine was on a road bike, mind, so I wasn't plunging heartily through gravel and sand as you probably were :)

    For the love of God Blondie, why!

    why not? and it's fun getting concered looks from MTB's ;-) though to be honest i haven't for a while though i do take old red light off road from time to time.
  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    Well, for years I thought the road in the Park looked busy and un-fun compared to the beautiful, peaceful, meandering track. Indeed, I still think this, but my priorities have changed slightly. Linsen thought the track was lovely when I took her round it, too.

    I got one puncture in maybe 300 off-road laps, so it was hardly a tyre-chewer. There is really only one short section that is entirely unsuitable for road bikes, and it's about 150 yards long, so no biggy.
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  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    roger merriman wrote:
    jashburnham wrote:
    For the love of God Blondie, why!

    why not? and it's fun getting concered looks from MTB's ;-) though to be honest i haven't for a while though i do take old red light off road from time to time.

    It's fun getting annoyed looks as you blitz past them (and cross your fingers that they won't re-violate you in the really gravelly bits...)
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  • roger_merriman
    roger_merriman Posts: 6,165
    biondino wrote:
    roger merriman wrote:
    jashburnham wrote:
    For the love of God Blondie, why!

    why not? and it's fun getting concered looks from MTB's ;-) though to be honest i haven't for a while though i do take old red light off road from time to time.

    It's fun getting annoyed looks as you blitz past them (and cross your fingers that they won't re-violate you in the really gravelly bits...)

    worse than that i've overtaken them with this.

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    i should point out i'm at heart a MTB lad since i grew up and have spent most of my life around the Breacon Beacons hence the why take a MTB for a park path....

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