Hate snobs on their common as muck bikes

Nuggs

I'm nominating this thread for the 'Biggest Waste of Bandwidth' award...

CyclingBantam

tmg wrote:

I don't give two toots what anyone else rides, what they wear while they ride, how fast they ride, who they ride with etc etc they all get the same hello as we pass, either that be in the opposite direction or if they are smoking past me. Makes no difference to my riding whatsoever!!

Saying that I will be on the look out for the OP from now on

My sentiments exactly. I must admit as well, I have never been, or witnessed anyone else beeing treated differently due to their bike.

STEFANOS4784

djbarren wrote:

Infamous wrote:

What's wrong with a £1100 genesis please?

exactly, I want enlightened,

bravo to those who can afford their carbon fibre bikes, As I stated in my orig post I had no choice in where my bike was purchased my work insisted we went to a specific shop, so this is wot i got,

So it has a bland look, why does that give people the right to point and laugh.

Suspose my title for this post was harsh and ironic, and yes I did contradict myself in my post, If I have offended people Im sorry, that was not my intention.

I can't believe anyone actually "points and laughs" i think you might be exagerating slightly :roll: If anyone physicaly pointed and laughed at me and my bike then........................................ :twisted:



P.s if you're 11 then i take it all back

Anonymous

There seems to be quite a bit of inverse snobbery going on here...

I think it sounds like the OP mixes with the wrong crowd if that's what happens to him. In the club I'm in, if someone has a nice bike they get a compliment on it. If it's your normal run of the mill bike, *rsed. Fact is we're all out riding and we all like to look at a bit of bike p0rn. We know who the fast riders are.

So what if you are faster on a cheap bike?

I drive a 'slow' car yet am trained to drive at just under the highest level on the public roads (the VIP Escort group is one step above me) so I can drive it a lot faster round the country roads than most people believe possible. I don't because I just like to bimble along in my own car, it's cheaper and I get to see the lovely countryside.
I don't moan at people in faster cars than me because I can drive fast safely... (Safely being the operative word, any idiot can drive fast dangerously)

I have a completely pimped out Look carbon bike yet the one I use most is a no-name aluminium affair with mudguards. I am an utter bike tart yet still I'm just not bothered.

CyclingBantam

I find it bizzare that someone would actually point and laugh at your bike. I have never seen anything like that happen. The are pretty much showing to all around them that they are a prize jerk so it should be no skin off your nose. Are you sure that is really why they are laughing. You don't ride around dressed as a tube of toothpaste or something do you?

Acelliott

Well if some snob on a REAL bike laughed at me, I'm sure i could think of a joke about there wife and the cost of there bike.

Chip \'oyler

Perhaps I'm a snob - but I wouldn't be seen dead on a common bike!

bigjim

Maybe it's an English thing. I keep a bike over in Mallorca. This is the home of all the fancy teams and expensive bikes. My exotica? A 1980s Black and Gold Raleigh Sprint. I take a Brooks B17 saddle out with me. I can usually stay with quite a few of the amateur teams in my age group. Normally German Middle aged guys who spend a lot on their bikes and they know how to ride. They are quite happy to have me in their midst and like to chat. When I have a coffee stop at one of the villages, the square is usually busy with guys out on training runs. I nearl always find that someone wants to look at the bike. They never laugh. More interested in how it handles etc. Like I say. Maybe an English thing.
Ignore the saddlebag. Thats for the shopping.

fast as fupp

bigjim wrote:

Maybe it's an English thing. I keep a bike over in Mallorca. This is the home of all the fancy teams and expensive bikes. My exotica? A 1980s Black and Gold Raleigh Sprint. I take a Brooks B17 saddle out with me. I can usually stay with quite a few of the amateur teams in my age group. Normally German Middle aged guys who spend a lot on their bikes and they know how to ride. They are quite happy to have me in their midst and like to chat. When I have a coffee stop at one of the villages, the square is usually busy with guys out on training runs. I nearl always find that someone wants to look at the bike. They never laugh. More interested in how it handles etc. Like I say. Maybe an English thing.
Ignore the saddlebag. Thats for the shopping.

i really, really wanted one of those black and gold raleighs when i was young!

a_n_t

redddraggon wrote:

Half the club rides Ribble

thats true, come winter you cant move for ribbles!

dodgy

I remember those black and gold Raleighs, they were the JPS Capri of the cycling world! Very desirable (still is IMO).

Anonymous

They were/are cool... In the US Raleigh are considered a desirable brand...

Anonymous

I'll drop you both on my 1986 Muddy Fox Courier.

And I've only one working leg!

STEFANOS4784

I'll smoke the loy o' ya on a uni-cycle 8)

dogsloweverywhere

Just be grateful that they don't know about the poor spelling & grammar you use!

Whilst I ride a couple of lovely, quite expensive bikes, I am no more than a w/end warrior who sees far better, stronger riders on bikes that I would not have thought suitable given the terrain. Witness Summit’s race meeting last Wednesday: a horribly tight circuit in a small wood. Top 3 elite were on 29ers, first 2 on riding SS.
I know my place, and I’m more than happy to bring up the rear at Gorrick races and the like. Although we did come 9th at Set2 Rise in the pairs category last year.

Anonymous

Djbarren you started this by starting this topic and opened it up for response. Stop bleating like a little girl, and I really don't give a s hit if you are diabetic or not.

I'd know about it because I would see your saddlebag coming over the hill before I saw you or your bike...heeheehee you bit soo hard.

Anonymous

Hey NapoleonD, muddy fox courier, I had one of them, nice

jellybellywmb

BenBlyth wrote:

I find it bizzare that someone would actually point and laugh at your bike. I have never seen anything like that happen. The are pretty much showing to all around them that they are a prize jerk so it should be no skin off your nose. Are you sure that is really why they are laughing. You don't ride around dressed as a tube of toothpaste or something do you?

I have had people point and laugh at me, but i later realised that I had my bibs on inside out,
Just ride it!!

HonestAl

keep it going, keep it going... reading this thread is like parachuting into a Dali painting...

Anonymous

I got laughed the first day I went out in my new Rapha jersey, arm warmers, gilet and cap.

Never forgot to put my bibshorts on after that incident...

Anonymous

No worries DJbarren, I think your bike looks a bit like a ghisallo,

STEFANOS4784

dogsloweverywhere wrote:

Just be grateful that they don't know about the poor spelling & grammar you use!

Can't argue with that :oops: :arrow:


P.s do you think you spent your yearly post wisely

v.e.e

Hey don't mock a guy for his saddlebag.............my daughter is diabetic and it means you have to carry all sorts of extra kit besides the usual inner tubes, tyre levers, multi tool etc.

Power to your elbow, enjoy your riding and excericse is the best thing for controlling your diabetes.........anyone who laughs at you should be copiously ignored unless it is just good humoured ribbing in which case give it back.

By the way my daughter is planning to ride John O Groats to Lands End to raise money for Lupus UK which she also has, if anyone wants to sponsor her go to:

http://www.justgiving.com/tishmegaride

Stumpy Ade

You've gotta love this thread


Just a thought, mtb 's tend to appreciate the different attributes of different bikes. There doesn't seem to be the "I've got a bigger one than you" thing going on.

But I've not encountered snobbery in either code.

ohlala!

Hey djbarren! I'd like to climb those vintage bicycle mountains

hotspur

fast as fupp wrote:

hey dj your bike looks fine-maybe they are laughing at you-have you got a fat head or something?

I heard he rides the bike naked. Just a rumour going around though.... :oops:

kingrollo

A bike doesn't make you faster - but I don't know why you need to have a go at riders of the more exotic machines - ever thought that they may have saved/worked hard for that bike ? sacrificing a holiday, driving an older car, ? - I admit to being a name snob - Ive wanted a new bike for a couple of years, but Im saving the pennies until I can afford what I want - by that time my current name bike will be close to 10 years old.

bigjim

Whats a name snob? Do you mean Scott as opposed to Raleigh etc? I thought the most expensive bike is with a frame made to measure and then choose your own components to suit? So you could be riding a very expensive machine with no name on the frame?
Is that right?

Marcosplace

What about people who are snobbish against HALFORDS.....whats wrong with BIKEHUT....????

996JAT

Ok,

Lets put it as it is.

I'm new to cycling (2Years) and yes snobbery exists. Its just as cars.

I used to be a snob in a car years back.

I had an M5 and looked down at "poor people" in bmws with "no engine's".

I was ok when i first started cycling with my halfords carrera mountain bike. But then i brought a Road bike, a Trek 1.7, which if i admit is low in the range. So then you have it in your head when I see another Trek on the road i say "B*stards got a Madone".

To be honest its only people with Road bikes, i think because of the costs, ranges, options, carbon, ali, the racing scene too.

The Trek's V's The "Poor People on other Bikes" competition thing too.

There are so many reasons but it exists and i think its roadies for sure.

As long as your happy with your bike thats all that matters, I even thought of upgrading to get out of the not having a "Madone" thing, but just be happy with what you have !!