people should lighten up a bit I think.

Jezmo - banned
Jezmo - banned Posts: 19
edited August 2009 in The bottom bracket
I went and did the timetrial last night, cos I hate them to peices but someone told me they were good for you or something, I think he may have been drunk at the time, and people were quite amused by my timetrial headband idea, nobody got into a sulk because they didnt think it was funny and nobody posted their heart rate data afterwards looking for a pat on the head.
I did a short 27 in the end which isn't bad for me on a time trial.
I still do TTs even though I don't like em, same as hills I only learnt to deal with hills by doing the same one 6 times a day for a week.
I even told people about my cost efficient crashes idea which amused people, now some people seem to be of the impression that cycling is far too serious for humor but that idea was discussed with me by an elite rider who has ridden the tour of ireland.
I ride with a group of guys who meet and train together, a mixture of people from different clubs and we ride, train and pretty constantly take the piss out of each other nobody takes offence.
The point is I started cycling because its a fun thing to do you meet like minded people and not because I have ambitions to win the TdF, I can still go Grrrrr at races but am quite happy to be called Binky when I am out training.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    You started cycling for the wrong reasons then.

    Cycling is a world of pain and suffering where the only goal is to try and make others suffer more than you.
  • Nuggs
    Nuggs Posts: 1,804
    Please feel free to use BR to dump any rambiling, incoherent and ill-conceived thoughts you may have (that's what it's here for). No need to apply the usual filter between brain and keyboard either. Please feel free to disregard grammar and punctuation too, the stream of conscious format makes a cracking read even better.
  • ColinJ
    ColinJ Posts: 2,218
    Nuggs wrote:
    Please feel free to use BR to dump any rambiling, incoherent and ill-conceived thoughts you may have (that's what it's here for). No need to apply the usual filter between brain and keyboard either. Please feel free to disregard grammar and punctuation too, the stream of conscious format makes a cracking read even better.
    QED!
  • Frank the tank
    Frank the tank Posts: 6,553
    TT is a very tough discipline but at least you're in charge of the effort.

    Racing you have to respond to the effort/tactics of others a lot of the time.

    Cyclo-X is just brutal.
    Tail end Charlie

    The above post may contain traces of sarcasm or/and bullsh*t.
  • softlad
    softlad Posts: 3,513
    jezmo - it sounds like the only person who needs to 'lighten up a bit' is you.....
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Pain and suffering on a biblical scale is what road cycling is all about, sweet, sweet pain...
  • DavidBelcher
    DavidBelcher Posts: 2,684
    Frank the tank wrote:
    Cyclo-X is just brutal.

    Indeed it is, but also good fun in its own way. Just finishing an event brings an enormous sense of satisfaction!

    David
    "It is not enough merely to win; others must lose." - Gore Vidal
  • Nuggs
    Nuggs Posts: 1,804
    ColinJ wrote:
    Nuggs wrote:
    Please feel free to use BR to dump any rambiling, incoherent and ill-conceived thoughts you may have (that's what it's here for). No need to apply the usual filter between brain and keyboard either. Please feel free to disregard grammar and punctuation too, the stream of conscious format makes a cracking read even better.
    QED!
    :lol:
  • nolf
    nolf Posts: 1,287
    I'm with napoleon D,

    Cycling is about pain, Jens Voigt Style.

    When everyones feeling a bit tired, it's about going to the front and upping the pace, stringing them all out and making it hurt, with no motive other than to watch them suffer.

    Also thats one hell of a night out to get you back at 5.
    "I hold it true, what'er befall;
    I feel it, when I sorrow most;
    'Tis better to have loved and lost;
    Than never to have loved at all."

    Alfred Tennyson
  • Smokin Joe
    Smokin Joe Posts: 2,706
    If you enjoy your cycling, you're not trying hard enough.
  • bexley5200
    bexley5200 Posts: 692
    i enjoy going hard,gives me a buzz
    going downhill slowly
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    NapoleonD wrote:
    You started cycling for the wrong reasons then.

    Cycling is a world of pain and suffering where the only goal is to try and make others suffer more than you.[/quote

    Damn right, you have to take pain to dish it, especially to your mates.

    Its like the Hokey-Cokey, thats whats its all about. :wink:
  • passout
    passout Posts: 4,425
    The most fun cycling I've done involves low speed and either cakes or beer.
    'Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible' Marcel Proust.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,333
    Just as Jezmo pointed out - you humourless baskets...

    I thought it was a great ramble. So many crusts out there. Used to meet them regularly and think f**k off - go join the Trainspotters club or something.

    Its like this "I suffered so much on that 50 mile TT.." ...and therefore 'cos you think you suffered more than me (no doubt about that - because I think a 50TT is the epitomy of evil on two wheels) or the next guy, you deseve a pat on the back for going through all that pain. Then all the crusts are going to try to say they suffered more than the next guy and the next guy, seeing who can piss over the highest ego wall so to speak.
    Unless you have just signed a pro-contract, none of you are achieving anything for all the pain you're going through.

    Amazing how all the overdefensive jump out out waving there metaphorical fingers...

    Shakespeare "He doth protest too much"... makes you wonder.

    Want to really compare notes, here is my palmares:
    296 hours of chemotherapy
    2 Hrs of Total body irradiation
    A bone marrow transplant
    3 Hip replacements
    11 Years of going in and out of hospital in my fight against Leukaemia of which 6 months was spent in isolation. Anyone who thinks they "suffer' on a bike have no frikkin idea. I know personally many who have suffered more than me and many who did'nt make it.
    Jezmo - if you fancy a ramble/rant, just PM me - it was A1
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • Aggieboy
    Aggieboy Posts: 3,996
    bexley5200 wrote:
    i enjoy going hard,gives me a buzz

    I think it's the all the blood, going to your knob, that makes you feel light headed! :lol:

    Might add that to "A new phrase everyday" thread as well. :D
    "There's a shortage of perfect breasts in this world, t'would be a pity to damage yours."
  • Frank the tank
    Frank the tank Posts: 6,553
    I need to lighten up, I've gone up to 12st. :cry:
    Tail end Charlie

    The above post may contain traces of sarcasm or/and bullsh*t.
  • hammerite
    hammerite Posts: 3,408
    pinarello001 wrote:
    Just as Jezmo pointed out - you humourless baskets...

    I thought it was a great ramble. So many crusts out there. Used to meet them regularly and think f**k off - go join the Trainspotters club or something.

    Its like this "I suffered so much on that 50 mile TT.." ...and therefore 'cos you think you suffered more than me (no doubt about that - because I think a 50TT is the epitomy of evil on two wheels) or the next guy, you deseve a pat on the back for going through all that pain. Then all the crusts are going to try to say they suffered more than the next guy and the next guy, seeing who can wee-wee over the highest ego wall so to speak.
    Unless you have just signed a pro-contract, none of you are achieving anything for all the pain you're going through.

    Amazing how all the overdefensive jump out out waving there metaphorical fingers...

    Shakespeare "He doth protest too much"... makes you wonder.

    Want to really compare notes, here is my palmares:
    296 hours of chemotherapy
    2 Hrs of Total body irradiation
    A bone marrow transplant
    3 Hip replacements
    11 Years of going in and out of hospital in my fight against Leukaemia of which 6 months was spent in isolation. Anyone who thinks they "suffer' on a bike have no frikkin idea. I know personally many who have suffered more than me and many who did'nt make it.
    Jezmo - if you fancy a ramble/rant, just PM me - it was A1

    well done for pulling through.

    I'm not sure anyone was being humourless on this thread, more a case of reading this and everything else Jezmo wrote on this forum - and responding. He basically started off about 5 threads within days that were making digs at his old club and anything he didn't like about cycling, from reading them it made me wonder why he bothered riding a bike at all as everything about it seemed to wind him up :lol:
  • bobpzero
    bobpzero Posts: 1,431
    Smokin Joe wrote:
    If you enjoy your cycling, you're not trying hard enough.

    that apply to club riders only? as it doesnt make sense to me.
  • softlad
    softlad Posts: 3,513
    pinarello001 wrote:
    Just as Jezmo pointed out - you humourless baskets...

    you obviously missed his other posts then...the guy was stalking his old club on this forum and it started to get quite personal - which is probably why he got banned....
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    I just think jezmo-banned needs a hug. :wink:
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,333
    I see... No I did not see the other posts.

    However, the notion that the more you suffer, the bigger you are and the more of a cyclist you are is quite daft really. If you start cycling and in a short period of time try to compete with other guys that have been doing it a while, you will suffer. It has taken me 4 years to get back to some sort of condition and i'm only just keeping up with the club guys.

    Maybe Jezmo should stick to photography - the photo's are quite good.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    pinarello001 wrote:
    Just as Jezmo pointed out - you humourless baskets...

    I thought it was a great ramble. So many crusts out there. Used to meet them regularly and think f**k off - go join the Trainspotters club or something.

    Its like this "I suffered so much on that 50 mile TT.." ...and therefore 'cos you think you suffered more than me (no doubt about that - because I think a 50TT is the epitomy of evil on two wheels) or the next guy, you deseve a pat on the back for going through all that pain. Then all the crusts are going to try to say they suffered more than the next guy and the next guy, seeing who can wee-wee over the highest ego wall so to speak.
    Unless you have just signed a pro-contract, none of you are achieving anything for all the pain you're going through.

    Amazing how all the overdefensive jump out out waving there metaphorical fingers...

    Shakespeare "He doth protest too much"... makes you wonder.

    Want to really compare notes, here is my palmares:
    296 hours of chemotherapy
    2 Hrs of Total body irradiation
    A bone marrow transplant
    3 Hip replacements
    11 Years of going in and out of hospital in my fight against Leukaemia of which 6 months was spent in isolation. Anyone who thinks they "suffer' on a bike have no frikkin idea. I know personally many who have suffered more than me and many who did'nt make it.
    Jezmo - if you fancy a ramble/rant, just PM me - it was A1

    1 - Jezmo was an utter kn0b (try reading his other threads! :shock:)
    2 - Humourless? (You think my post was serious??)
    3 - Congrats on pulling through.
  • mgcycleguy
    mgcycleguy Posts: 292
    ... I always liked the story about how Pantani used to fall to the back on the start of climbs so he could ride past everybody and look at the pain he was causing on everybodys faces as he rode past them.... then again he did kill himself in the end.... and climbers are at the insane end of madness on the whole. :lol:
  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    passout wrote:
    The most fun cycling I've done involves low speed and either cakes or beer.

    I'm in it mainly for the tight bib shorts and the near misses with vehicles much larger than myself..
    Head Hands Heart Lungs Legs
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,333
    I am not going to pick up on the threads. I've got the picture - Napoleon: yes, I did think your post was serious, perhaps you did too good a job!

    Anyway, this has been thrashed to bits and there are some much more important things to consider and something close to us all.

    I sat down next to a solicitor on the bus who could'nt get a flight to London because of some mix up in Belfast. Got onto the subject of a certain possible Olympic cyclist who got killed in Oban.
    "You want to make an accident with a cyclist/pedestrain a criminal offence?" she asked. Yes, I damn well do, because it seems that drivers class us as second class citizens. Without ever getting on a bike and riding through traffic, they have no idea.
    In France, as a driver involved in an incident with a cyclist/pedestrain/horse, you have to prove your innocence. Which is the reverse of what it is in the UK. The French and most of the continentals respect cyclists far more than they do in the UK but it does'nt mean that we can't change the law so that drivers avoid us for two reasons: A) Its no longer classed as a civil offence to hit somebody and B) this would allow us to push for even higher levels of compensation in the event of injury/death, that in itself being dissuasive as well due to rises in insurance premiums etc.
    I feel more vulnerable than ever as you can imagine and having just been down south for a quick visit, I have no idea how some of you can cope with the amount of traffic and the sheer aggressiveness of it since I lived there. Without the law giving us proper protection, there is just another tragic 'accident' just waiting to happen.

    Surely there is enough of us (cyclists/joggers/horse-riders/walkers etc) to get together and push Councillors, MP's,Mep's etc for a change in the Law ?
    Why can't the campaign start here ? It may take a while, but the fight is worth it.

    In a country with half as many cars as there are people, would it not also have a positive side effect if more people were persuaded to take to there bikes if there was a tangeable chainge in attitudes towards cyclists. In this vein we can also start the "shoot Jeremy Clarkson" if you see him poster ad. It would be the symbol of the fight to change the law as he is the epitomy of the bigotry and callousness that many drivers assume in their attitude towards other road users. Is someone out there willing to design/print some posters and we will kick start this whole thing.
    Thanks for your time.
    PS I am a car driver and part of my job is driving.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • pedylan
    pedylan Posts: 768
    pottssteve wrote:
    passout wrote:
    The most fun cycling I've done involves low speed and either cakes or beer.

    I'm in it mainly for the tight bib shorts and the near misses with vehicles much larger than myself..

    Very similar reasons here; but I only wear the bib shorts to embarass my children. I would prefer to develop my lung power by cardio intensity training rather than by repeated practice shouting at homicidal car drivers. But hey, you get your kicks where you can.....
    Where the neon madmen climb
  • Stone Glider
    Stone Glider Posts: 1,227
    Jeremy Clarkson is a comedian and Top Gear is an "entertainment". Relax, get over it, follow the OP. :)
    The older I get the faster I was
  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    pedylan wrote:
    pottssteve wrote:
    passout wrote:
    The most fun cycling I've done involves low speed and either cakes or beer.

    I'm in it mainly for the tight bib shorts and the near misses with vehicles much larger than myself..

    Very similar reasons here; but I only wear the bib shorts to embarass my children. I would prefer to develop my lung power by cardio intensity training rather than by repeated practice shouting at homicidal car drivers. But hey, you get your kicks where you can.....

    My son's too young to embarass. Now the wife, that's another story... :wink:
    Head Hands Heart Lungs Legs

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