I feel I must apoligise....

rackgaki
rackgaki Posts: 309
edited August 2010 in Road beginners
i've always ridden mountain bikes and have been known to insult people who wear lycra without baggy shorts on top....however.....on a recent holiday to majorca i hired a road bike and did 50k on it and must admit i've never had a better experience on a bike!

So now i'm looking for a road bike....
Dont you just love Marin's...i sleep with mine

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  • rake
    rake Posts: 3,204
    i still wear shorts over the lycra, theres no hard fast rules. just never underestimate what some car drivers are capable of, they seem to have no sense of speed with a bike and just assume it must be going @10mph, batting downhill well over 40 doesnt seem to register at all.
  • Garz
    Garz Posts: 1,155
    rackgaki wrote:
    So now i'm looking for a road bike....

    Good luck then.. time to share which one you picked afterwards!!
  • velvetytoast
    velvetytoast Posts: 161
    yep - that speed thing really throws drivers - and the acceleration at the traffic lights!
  • Hrun
    Hrun Posts: 116
    I wear baggies with built in Lycra ;)
    A biking runner :)
  • Chip \'oyler
    Chip \'oyler Posts: 2,323
    rackgaki wrote:
    i've always ridden mountain bikes and have been known to insult people who wear lycra without baggy shorts on top....however.....on a recent holiday to majorca i hired a road bike and did 50k on it and must admit i've never had a better experience on a bike!

    So now i'm looking for a road bike....

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  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    Apologies accepted. Now don't do it again.
    The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns
    momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
  • Splottboy
    Splottboy Posts: 3,695
    Where in Majorca???
  • rackgaki
    rackgaki Posts: 309
    I went to cala d'or....now look chip at least I apologised! Jeeze lighten up
    Dont you just love Marin's...i sleep with mine
  • sundog
    sundog Posts: 243
    rackgaki wrote:
    I went to cala d'or....now look chip at least I apologised! Jeeze lighten up

    What sort of insults did you throw at the Lycra wearers?
    I like white bikes
  • antikythera
    antikythera Posts: 326
    rackgaki wrote:
    ....now look chip at least I apologized! Jeeze lighten up

    Oh! I thought he was talking about himself! :?
  • thiscocks
    thiscocks Posts: 549
    rake wrote:
    i still wear shorts over the lycra, theres no hard fast rules. just never underestimate what some car drivers are capable of, they seem to have no sense of speed with a bike and just assume it must be going @10mph, batting downhill well over 40 doesnt seem to register at all.

    ...whats that got to do with wearing shorts?
  • antikythera
    antikythera Posts: 326
    thiscocks wrote:
    rake wrote:
    i still wear shorts over the lycra, theres no hard fast rules. just never underestimate what some car drivers are capable of, they seem to have no sense of speed with a bike and just assume it must be going @10mph, batting downhill well over 40 doesnt seem to register at all.

    ...whats that got to do with wearing shorts?

    Not sure, but a good point. I make an effort to not look like a lycra roadie. I've found that its a look that seems to trigger a more aggressive attitude in drivers! So it's mountain bike baggies on a fixie for my commute.
  • rackgaki
    rackgaki Posts: 309
    bunch of numb nuts on this thread, one lot can't work out that I was joking and the other lot don't even know what i'm on a about....I am still joking now btw
    Dont you just love Marin's...i sleep with mine
  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    rackgaki wrote:
    bunch of numb nuts on this thread, one lot can't work out that I was joking and the other lot don't even know what i'm on a about....I am still joking now btw

    Is this some kind of joke? I've got no idea what you're on about.
    The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns
    momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
  • mattward1979
    mattward1979 Posts: 692
    I was quite the other way... when I wa commuting on a MTB, I always yearned to be clad in a lycra bodysuit hacking down a TT route at 25mph....

    The weight loss and finances didnt quite go to plan, so Now I have a Modest £1000 road bike and show enough Lycra so that im aero but not making people sick or scaring small children!

    Welcome aboard =D
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  • dulldave
    dulldave Posts: 949
    rackgaki wrote:
    i've always ridden mountain bikes and have been known to insult people who wear lycra without baggy shorts on top....however.....on a recent holiday to majorca i hired a road bike and did 50k on it and must admit i've never had a better experience on a bike!

    So now i'm looking for a road bike....

    Even if you did wear lycra it couldn't distract people from noticing how fugly your Marin is :D
    Scottish and British...and a bit French
  • Chip \'oyler
    Chip \'oyler Posts: 2,323
    rackgaki wrote:
    bunch of numb nuts on this thread, one lot can't work out that I was joking and the other lot don't even know what i'm on a about....I am still joking now btw

    Sorry I didn't realise Oscar Wilde had joined the forum
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