It's happened......... I think am a bike snob
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I commute shamelessly in MTB gear on a roadie.
At the weekend I'll don the lycra but there is no way I am walking through my office in it.
I have bought a roadie style helmet and a couple of proper jerseys but my baggies and spd shoes are staying put.Not climber, not sprinter, not rouleur0 -
Entirely understandable.I wear overshorts and spd`s,even at the weekends.Smarter than the average bear.0
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If you are going to wear mtb gear on a road bike, its important to ride with your knees sticking out and spinning a completely rediculous little gear in order to complete the effect.0
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Always Tyred wrote:If you are going to wear mtb gear on a road bike, its important to ride with your knees sticking out and spinning a completely rediculous little gear in order to complete the effect.
Duly noted. Should I drop my saddle right down as well?Not climber, not sprinter, not rouleur0 -
I think all you so called bike snobs have missed the point entirely, looking down on people who have found the joy of cycling/commuting is what I call naff. By the way I ride a BSO, as someone described the Carrera Subway, but I enjoy my commute on it, doing 40 miles a day, and have found it quite up to the job, after 4000 miles or so.k.curtis0
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Then again I take absolute pleasure in crusing past some ejit on a £3k machine (yes you, bloke on the Idol the other week) on my bike which I originally bought from a jumble sale for a fiver.0
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Keiron Curtis wrote:I think all you so called bike snobs have missed the point entirely, looking down on people who have found the joy of cycling/commuting is what I call naff. By the way I ride a BSO, as someone described the Carrera Subway, but I enjoy my commute on it, doing 40 miles a day, and have found it quite up to the job, after 4000 miles or so.
The Carrera Subway is not a BSO, it is a perfectly acceptable commuting machine.Not climber, not sprinter, not rouleur0 -
I think this thread seems to have mutated from 'snobbery of cheap ill put together bikes' to pros and cons of MTBing on the road instead of using a 'proper' road bike..
no bad thing as i have stupid point to make about it, ive found commuting on my mid-range MTB excellent funa s there are a number of large drop-offs and sets of stairs to fly down (all, okay most, not on the public highway and rarely used by those funny folk who only use their legs to get around), and fun.. isnt that why we all cycle anyway..?0 -
georgee wrote:Then again I take absolute pleasure in crusing past some ejit on a £3k machine (yes you, bloke on the Idol the other week) on my bike which I originally bought from a jumble sale for a fiver.Not climber, not sprinter, not rouleur0
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georgee wrote:Then again I take absolute pleasure in crusing past some ejit on a £3k machine (yes you, bloke on the Idol the other week) on my bike which I originally bought from a jumble sale for a fiver.
If I could afford a £3K bike, I'd buy it for the pleasure of owning and using a top-quality machine. Would the fact that I couldn't ride such a machine at an average speed of 20MPH+ make me an ejit?0 -
Would the fact that I couldn't ride such a machine at an average speed of 20MPH+ make me an ejit?
IMO not an ejit but, personally, I like to avoid being in the "all the gear and no idea" box - I think it's a pretty naff place to be. I reckon you would be squarely in that box.
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How do you tell if someone who has all the gear has no idea? They could just be cruising themselves.There`s a bit of inverse snobbery going on now.Smarter than the average bear.0
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read his question again - there was no doubt about whether he could ride the bike at 20mph! You know whether you can make sensible use of a flash bike - all I was saying was that I would want to get reasonably fit and fast BEFORE riding about on some superbike.0
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georgee wrote:Then again I take absolute pleasure in crusing past some ejit on a £3k machine (yes you, bloke on the Idol the other week) on my bike which I originally bought from a jumble sale for a fiver.Smarter than the average bear.0
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Stuey01 wrote:I commute shamelessly in MTB gear on a roadie.
At the weekend I'll don the lycra but there is no way I am walking through my office in it.
I feel a responsibility to provide my colleagues with a little humour in these difficult times. I can tell from the general sniggering and stifled snorts as I walk past their desks that I achieve this objective. Why do people find 'Assos' amusing :?Bike1
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This thread is turning into a pile of contradictory bullsh*t
The truth is, you are all snobs or have, at somepoint, been a snob towards someone at some point.
If you have ever:
Looked down your nose or frowned at someone commuting on an expensive or cheap bike, you've been a snob.
Looked down your nose or frowned at someone wearing 'the wrong gear' (fair weather commuter) or all the gear ('all gear and no idea') irrespective of their riding ability, you've been a snob.
Looked down or frowned on someone for the type of bike they're riding (such as full suspension on the road), you've been a snob.
Complained about elitism because people have or are willing to spend more money than you. Or complained about people buying cheap products/bikes because thy can't afford premium prices, you've been a snob.
I've done it and I don't deny it. Doing so however, doesn't make it alright or OK either. Fact is a person buys what they can afford and the decision is their own, its not really mine or anyone elses right to judge. But we are entitled to our oppinions. That's my default (setting) thoughts on the matter.Food Chain number = 4
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That`s a long post.Snobbery is just part of the human condition,basically.Smarter than the average bear.0
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antfly wrote:That`s a long post.Snobbery is just part of the human condition,basically.
For DDD, that's a short post. And he puts it very well, it might be worth using more words in future!0 -
My name is Kieran and I am snob.
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lost_in_thought wrote:antfly wrote:That`s a long post.Snobbery is just part of the human condition,basically.
For DDD, that's a short post. And he puts it very well, it might be worth using more words in future!Smarter than the average bear.0 -
Kieran_Burns wrote:My name is Kieran and I am snob.
Has anyone got a drink?
Dom Perignon or Newky Brown?
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Bike snobbery is fun - I got totally razzed by some dude in a tracksuit on a heap'o'shit plastic-pedal Halfords special the other day. TWICE. Totally kicked my lycra-clad ass, on over a grands worth of 22lb rigid bike that *should* outclimb anything else on the trail...
It's all good fun - even if I'm the inverted butt of it...WTD:
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Bike snobbery is fun - I got totally razzed by some dude in a tracksuit on a heap'o'shoot plastic-pedal Halfords special the other day. TWICE. Totally kicked my lycra-clad ass, on over a grands worth of 22lb rigid bike that *should* outclimb anything else on the trail...
It's all good fun - even if I'm the inverted butt of it...
And this is where we start getting in the Spirit of SCR.
We almost expect that an expensive bike be ridden like the clappers and when on the more expensive bike we ride like the clappers in the hope that we aren't overtaken by something that's 10% of the price of my bike.
I cannot account for who is and who isn't faster than me. But if someone should pass me on a bike made from old tank parts, I bid them a Chapeau! Then sprint my a*se off to catch them back up and promptly overtake. If I can't "Chapeau!" again!Food Chain number = 4
A true scalp is not only overtaking someone but leaving them stopped at a set of lights. As you, who have clearly beaten the lights, pummels nothing but the open air ahead. ~ 'DondaddyD'. Player of the Unspoken Game0 -
jedster wrote:Would the fact that I couldn't ride such a machine at an average speed of 20MPH+ make me an ejit?
IMO not an ejit but, personally, I like to avoid being in the "all the gear and no idea" box - I think it's a pretty naff place to be. I reckon you would be squarely in that box.
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Really? Despite the fact I cover 100+ miles per week? Despite the fact that I might be in the middle of a 60-mile day-trip? Not everyone who owns a really good bike wants to race on it!
Mind you, I guess this is the essence of the 'bike snob' thing isn't it: assuming you're better than someone else on the basis of a glimpse of how they're dressed, what they're riding and how fast they're riding it!
Although to be fair, I wouldn't be caught dead on a £3k+ carbon racer. A nice titanium audax machine or tourer on the other hand.....0 -
I sense snobbery from some other cyclists. I think it's becasue I don;t wear expensive gear and my bikes looks a bit rough, and it's not a trendy make.
It might be my imagination - but after reading this thread I doubt it.0 -
@Porgy ; no, it's not your imagination, just universal paranoia ala Douglas Adams.The older I get the faster I was0
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Porgy wrote:I sense snobbery from some other cyclists. I think it's becasue I don;t wear expensive gear and my bikes looks a bit rough, and it's not a trendy make.
It might be my imagination - but after reading this thread I doubt it.
It's worse than that Porgy - there's a whole hidden forum on here where we talk about you behind your back. They'd do it to me too but I block out their mind rays with my tinfoil wrapped crash hat.
I do not judge anyone*
* Not really true **
** REALLY Judgemental actually***
*** What's with them straight bars then?Fixed gear for wet weather / hairy roadie for posing in the sun.
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georgee wrote:Then again I take absolute pleasure in crusing past some ejit on a £3k machine (yes you, bloke on the Idol the other week) on my bike which I originally bought from a jumble sale for a fiver.
Odd post. You don't know what the bloke on the £3ker is up to, could be recovery ride, could be tootling back from LBS, could be near the endpoint of a 100 miler, could be resting in between intervals etc etc. Now if he was clearly trying to put some pace on, give you a bit of a race and failing, then, yeah, perhaps you can sneer, but since when did people have to buy anything commensurate with their ability? You're in no position to judge others on how they spend their cash, or to begrudge them their purchase. Should a beginner/poor runner not buy £150 nike trainers? An amateur golfer not buy high end clubs? A sunday league footie player not buy "Rooney's" boots etc? People can spend their money how they please.*
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Straight bars are lighter and generally better than bendy ones because I say so.
Also, bar ends are cool.
End of off-topic.
(if moderators would delete any more posts on this off-topic conversation that would be really appreciated...)
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Green Halo TwinRail
25.0mm-26.2mm seatpost shim
Red X-Lite bling
Specialized ladies BG saddle (white?) 155mm
RH thumbie
700x28c CX tyres&tubs
Flatbars 620mm 25,4mm & swept, ti in an ideal world0