Bl&&din' obvious instructions

beverick
beverick Posts: 3,461
edited January 2010 in The bottom bracket
I noticed this on the handlebars of an MTB today"

"Grip firmly at both ends for best performance."

So that's where I've been going erong....

Bob

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  • DIESELDOG
    DIESELDOG Posts: 2,087
    Ha, bit like the "instructions" on a kids superman costume - Wearing this does not enable you to fly.
    Bugger. :roll:
    Eagles may soar but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

    www.onemanandhisbike.co.uk
  • Stewie Griffin
    Stewie Griffin Posts: 4,330
    American bike? Do not put live animals in this microwave :roll:
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    beverick wrote:
    I noticed this on the handlebars of an MTB today"

    "Grip firmly at both ends for best performance."

    So that's where I've been going erong....

    Bob

    You don't get those sort of instructions on drop bars. Something to do with intelligence quota difference between Mountain goats and the noble art of Road cycling. :wink:
  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    One of my personal favorites

    4294799829_96c20eed8a.jpg
  • matt581
    matt581 Posts: 219
    dmclite wrote:
    beverick wrote:
    I noticed this on the handlebars of an MTB today"

    "Grip firmly at both ends for best performance."

    So that's where I've been going erong....

    Bob

    You don't get those sort of instructions on drop bars. Something to do with intelligence quota difference between Mountain goats and the noble art of Road cycling. :wink:

    Yeah, they know roadies can't read :wink:
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    matt581 wrote:
    dmclite wrote:
    beverick wrote:
    I noticed this on the handlebars of an MTB today"

    "Grip firmly at both ends for best performance."

    So that's where I've been going erong....

    Bob

    You don't get those sort of instructions on drop bars. Something to do with intelligence quota difference between Mountain goats and the noble art of Road cycling. :wink:

    Yeah, they know roadies can't read :wink:

    This is a ROAD FORUM. Not a squechy, yoohoo, 14 punctures and 4mph average, hairy, graceless mountain bike forum. We invented reading, to see how to care for our delicate road garments, operate expresso machines and select which coffee from a nice menu . Go back to the bog and take yer' knobblies with you. :wink:
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    dmclite wrote:
    matt581 wrote:
    dmclite wrote:
    beverick wrote:
    I noticed this on the handlebars of an MTB today"

    "Grip firmly at both ends for best performance."

    So that's where I've been going erong....

    Bob

    You don't get those sort of instructions on drop bars. Something to do with intelligence quota difference between Mountain goats and the noble art of Road cycling. :wink:

    Yeah, they know roadies can't read :wink:

    This is a ROAD FORUM. Not a squechy, yoohoo, 14 punctures and 4mph average, hairy, graceless mountain bike forum. We invented reading, to see how to care for our delicate road garments, operate expresso machines and select which coffee from a nice menu . Go back to the bog and take yer' knobblies with you. :wink:

    Superiority fail.
    "In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"

    @gietvangent
  • matt581
    matt581 Posts: 219
    dmclite wrote:
    matt581 wrote:
    dmclite wrote:
    beverick wrote:
    I noticed this on the handlebars of an MTB today"

    "Grip firmly at both ends for best performance."

    So that's where I've been going erong....

    Bob

    You don't get those sort of instructions on drop bars. Something to do with intelligence quota difference between Mountain goats and the noble art of Road cycling. :wink:

    Yeah, they know roadies can't read :wink:

    This is a ROAD FORUM. Not a squechy, yoohoo, 14 punctures and 4mph average, hairy, graceless mountain bike forum. We invented reading, to see how to care for our delicate road garments, operate expresso machines and select which coffee from a nice menu . Go back to the bog and take yer' knobblies with you. :wink:

    Haha, I'll get my baggy riding top and leave
  • beverick
    beverick Posts: 3,461
    matt581 wrote:
    dmclite wrote:
    matt581 wrote:
    dmclite wrote:
    beverick wrote:
    I noticed this on the handlebars of an MTB today"

    "Grip firmly at both ends for best performance."

    So that's where I've been going erong....

    Bob

    You don't get those sort of instructions on drop bars. Something to do with intelligence quota difference between Mountain goats and the noble art of Road cycling. :wink:

    Yeah, they know roadies can't read :wink:

    This is a ROAD FORUM. Not a squechy, yoohoo, 14 punctures and 4mph average, hairy, graceless mountain bike forum. We invented reading, to see how to care for our delicate road garments, operate expresso machines and select which coffee from a nice menu . Go back to the bog and take yer' knobblies with you. :wink:

    Haha, I'll get my baggy riding top and leave

    'scuse me but when you've stopped squabbling. my road bike has flat bars....

    Bob
  • nolf
    nolf Posts: 1,287
    RonB wrote:
    One of my personal favorites

    4294799829_96c20eed8a.jpg

    Thats epic.
    "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
    I swear this is true. Back in '01 I had a set of dual controls delivered for fitting to my then tuition car, and on the box it said "Contents not for consumption".

    Even if I had felt a bit peckish it would never have even occurred to me...
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    beverick wrote:
    matt581 wrote:
    dmclite wrote:
    matt581 wrote:
    dmclite wrote:
    beverick wrote:
    I noticed this on the handlebars of an MTB today"

    "Grip firmly at both ends for best performance."

    So that's where I've been going erong....

    Bob

    You don't get those sort of instructions on drop bars. Something to do with intelligence quota difference between Mountain goats and the noble art of Road cycling. :wink:

    Yeah, they know roadies can't read :wink:

    This is a ROAD FORUM. Not a squechy, yoohoo, 14 punctures and 4mph average, hairy, graceless mountain bike forum. We invented reading, to see how to care for our delicate road garments, operate expresso machines and select which coffee from a nice menu . Go back to the bog and take yer' knobblies with you. :wink:

    Haha, I'll get my baggy riding top and leave

    'scuse me but when you've stopped squabbling. my road bike has flat bars....

    Bob

    Then you are dissin' road bike etiquette as well. Do you have SPD sandals too ? :wink::wink:
  • crankycrank
    crankycrank Posts: 1,830
    We've been flooded with rain this week. Management decides to put up the "WET FLOOR" caution sign at the outside entrance to my workplace. :idea:
  • skyd0g
    skyd0g Posts: 2,540
    crankycrank wrote:
    We've been flooded with rain this week. Management decides to put up the "WET FLOOR" caution sign at the outside entrance to my workplace. :idea:

    Maybe it was an instruction. :wink:
    Cycling weakly
  • neeb
    neeb Posts: 4,473
    American bike? Do not put live animals in this microwave Rolling Eyes
    The French, on the other hand, enjoy taking the p*ss out of such americana...

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/39430743@N08/4134923016/
  • dag_on_a_bike
    dag_on_a_bike Posts: 581
    neeb wrote:
    The French, on the other hand, enjoy taking the p*ss out of such americana...

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/39430743@N08/4134923016/

    ...and for good measure, just above that instruction "Do not tumble dry"

    Priceless.
    There's no such thing as too old.
  • Buckled_Rims
    Buckled_Rims Posts: 1,648
    neeb wrote:
    The French, on the other hand, enjoy taking the p*ss out of such americana...

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/39430743@N08/4134923016/

    There was once a man in the Guinness book of records who eat a bike...and a car...and lots of other things!
    CAAD9
    Kona Jake the Snake
    Merlin Malt 4
  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,675
    Buckled_Rims wrote:
    neeb wrote:
    The French, on the other hand, enjoy taking the p*ss out of such americana...

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/39430743@N08/4134923016/

    There was once a man in the Guinness book of records who eat a bike...and a car...and lots of other things!

    Michel Lotito, a Frenchie.
    "Do not follow where the path may lead, Go instead where there is no path, and Leave a Trail."
    Parktools :?:SheldonBrown

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