It's happened......... I think am a bike snob
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Once I take delivery, anyone who doesn't ride a Kuota doesn't deserve to exist in the same reality as me.
There I've said it.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 -
Stone Glider wrote:@Porgy ; no, it's not your imagination, just universal paranoia ala Douglas Adams.
That I can accept 0 -
Just because you are paranoid it doesn't mean they are not out to get you.Not climber, not sprinter, not rouleur0
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Just because you are paranoid it doesn't mean they are not out to get you.Not climber, not sprinter, not rouleur0
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Depends how you ride it. A bloke pulled up in front of me at Borough Station lights this am, he's on a Madone 4.7 i'm on my Pearson, he clearly thinks he's gonna be faster off the lights and down the road. He's faster off the lights but I wound up the 50/16 and seconds later i'm sitting on his tail. He tried to give it some and had a couple of glances over his shoulder, but I kept with him easily and made a point of freewheeling a few times whilst hanging back and to his right - clearly not drafting. My lovely new ENO 16T makes a lovely Campag-esque noise which I think he enjoyed. Considered passing him but I was turning left, within 200 metres. Turns out he was too and we rolled into the office courtyard together before going our separate ways. I'll be keeping my eye out for him in the future, defo a scalp in there somewhere...[/quote]jashburnham
i do this everyday apart from the guys are on road bikes and im on a mtb :shock:0 -
DonDaddyD wrote:Once I take delivery, anyone who doesn't ride a Kuota doesn't deserve to exist in the same reality as me.
There I've said it.
the kebel gets closer to delivery
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Porgy wrote:Stuey01 wrote:Just because you are paranoid it doesn't mean they are not out to get you.
Why did you say that twice?
Deja vu - it's a sign that they have changed something.....
Do you want to borrow my Bacofoil?Fixed gear for wet weather / hairy roadie for posing in the sun.
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SCR is an entirely diff kettle of fish of course. You'll not see me commuting on the Prince. Risk of meeting CP on his Brompton is too great.
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People can spend what they like on anything but if they are crap they can`t expect not to be mocked.Excluding cyclists of course.jashburnham wrote: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.*
*of course in SCR mode a pricey bike kinda paints a target on ya back!Smarter than the average bear.0 -
got a trek elite 9.9 carbon hardtail xtr carbon everything
zasker le xtr carbon bits
boardman urban comp £170 light on the front {looking to upgrade parts}
kuota kebel .campag .and any flash bits i can find
s-works silence lotto lid {this is just my latest i have four top end lids :oops: }
sidi vernice or sidi bettini shoes not decided yet
team kit to match all the above bikes
spesh arc 2 glasses
does this make me an uber bike snob
or just obssesive.
and if im out on any of these bikes i will nod or acknoledge anyone who is on a bike
£50 or £5000 :P0 -
Porgy wrote:
OK, I was typing in a computer simulation of a tunnel designed by machines, in which my unconscious mind lives out it's days keeping me docile whilst my corporeal being is used, along with millions of others, as a power source for said machines.Not climber, not sprinter, not rouleur0 -
mountainroadie wrote:got a trek elite 9.9 carbon hardtail xtr carbon everything
zasker le xtr carbon bits
boardman urban comp £170 light on the front {looking to upgrade parts}
kuota kebel .campag .and any flash bits i can find
s-works silence lotto lid {this is just my latest i have four top end lids :oops: }
sidi vernice or sidi bettini shoes not decided yet
team kit to match all the above bikes
spesh arc 2 glasses
does this make me an uber bike snob
or just obssesive.
Neither - it just makes you a git!
Jealous? Me? :PWTD:
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ha ha ha what can i say its ma hobby 8)0
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Porgy wrote:
Occasionally, the induced lag from intercepting the message and retransmitting can cause cause cause cause repeated posts
Make sure your web cam is switched off AND turned to face the wall.
I myself live in in in in a Faraday cage, so I **know** I'm safe. 8)Chunky Cyclists need your love too! :-)
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DonDaddyD wrote:jedster wrote:Hang on a minute. Isn't it a bit shallow to look down at people for riding cheap bikes but be humbled becasue someone is riding a pricy but totally inappropriate bike?
I give a slightly sad shake of the ahead at people on BSOs because they are just not good value - they'd get on much better with a simpler but better mix of components at a given price point.
I certainly wouldn't look down on somone for riding something fairly cheap and really cheerful like a Revolution or even a Carerra Subway.
But if I started commuting on my decent full sus MTB. I'd expect to get laughed at - it would be slow, inefficient, not particularly safe (disc brakes and fat nobblies make it very easy to lock the wheels up on tarmac). It would also be an invitation to thieves. The fact that it cost a couple of grand would not make it a respectable choice for commuting. Instead it put me squarely in the "all the gear and no idea" spotlight which IMO is not a very attractive place to be...
J
First rule of materialism. Buy what you can afford.
Secondly I think most of your post works on assmuption. What if Donovan (my commuter) is in the shop and I have to ride my Kuota to work? Am I being silly with my inappropriate bike? Do I need a sign on the Kuota to explain all this?
What if I ride the Kuota to work because I'm heading off somewhere afterwards for a race, sportive socail gathering?
At least my humble subway is not a BSO
Seriously most people buy what they can afford if work had not have done the cycle to work scheme i would not have bought a bike period i could not afford one with the pay cuts we have had due to the recession.
At least they are attempting to cycle , they are not another maniac behind the wheel of a car trying to run you over , we should praise them for having a go and if they are interested then offer "gentle " advice about how to improve on the experience with a more suitable bike for what they want to do, not go OOOH what is that crap your riding you should have one of these listen to me IR 1337 !!FCN 3/5/90 -
Stuey01 wrote:Porgy wrote:
OK, I was typing in a computer simulation of a tunnel designed by machines, in which my unconscious mind lives out it's days keeping me docile whilst my corporeal being is used, along with millions of others, as a power source for said machines.
and i thought you were a brain in a jar being prodded by aliens!0 -
Right,stop that,this is getting silly!Smarter than the average bear.0
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A fit builder riding his half ton 20 year old mountain bike with his his old puma sports bag as a ruck sack, wearing trainers, shorts and a fluoro top, RLJing cos he don't give a toss, as work is beckoning, and doing you all ends up!!!!
They are out there and you (with the exception of Jon, CJ, Greg66 et all) and me will get done upside down by them from time to time. Be a bike snob, it's your right.
Me, I think there are is a growing body of bikers who deliberatly buy crap bikes just to shove it up them of us that have average to good bikes.
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DiggingDeeper wrote:They are out there and you (with the exception of Jon, CJ, Greg66 et all) and me will get done upside down by them from time to time. Be a bike snob, it's your right.
No one is faster than me. If they overtake its because I let them.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 -
DiggingDeeper wrote:Me, I think there are is a growing body of bikers who deliberatly buy crap bikes just to shove it up them of us that have average to good bikes.
I'm deliberately building up a commuter bike with decent components that look like crap. Hammerite paint job, scratching the hell out of logos, etc.
It's primarily to make it less of a target for thieves, but now that you mention it, it could be a valuable SCR tool.0 -
Ahhh.... a rat bike - bit like the rat cars that seem to be coming fashionable at the moment...
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Hmmm, my absolute favourite thing is hammering past full-sussers on brutal descents, clipped in & fully rigid - nothing better!
(*not that it happens very often)WTD:
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elPedro666 wrote:brutal descents
The road surface in the Putney side of the Col De Putney Bridge is gnarly. Also the speed hump halfway down the slope of the Bolan Death bridge is fearsome.Fixed gear for wet weather / hairy roadie for posing in the sun.
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Greg T wrote:elPedro666 wrote:brutal descents
The road surface in the Putney side of the Col De Putney Bridge is gnarly. Also the speed hump halfway down the slope of the Bolan Death bridge is fearsome.
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It's primarily to make it less of a target for thieves, but now that you mention it, it could be a valuable SCR tool.
I'm waaaayyyy ahead of you.
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Absolutely lethal.0
