Joy to the world

rick_chasey
rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
edited December 2011 in Commuting chat
Been a bit miserable of late.

Just found out the guy who sits in front of me is doing a triathlon.

(This is a guy who won't buy any shoes for work that are under £200).

Cheered me up no end - especially after the sh!t he gives me for cycling.

Let's wait till I catch him in Richmond Park.

:twisted:
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  • notsoblue
    notsoblue Posts: 5,756
    This will be you too at the watercooler then..
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    He doesn't even own a bike. :lol:

    Let me put this into context.

    He really really rates himself as an athlete > all he does is weights in the gym and the odd run.


    He gives me sh!t for lycra more or less every day.

    He's not ridden a bike in anger in about 20 years.

    Je suis will enjoy this.
    _
  • clarkey cat
    clarkey cat Posts: 3,641
    he won't buy any shoes for work that are under £200

    sounds like an eminently sensible young chap. I bid him godspeed.
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  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    Point him in the direction of Rapha.

    Please, please, please keep us updated.
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  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,773
    What triathlon is he doing? Sounds like even I could beat him. Please tell me he can't swim.
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,372
    cjcp wrote:
    Point him in the direction of Rapha.

    Please, please, please keep us updated.

    Ooooh, yes, please do. Although if he ever finds out about this thread, getting ribbed about your lycra may be the least of your problems.

    I can already see the purchase of ALL the kit including £5K TT bike, aero lid, £300 shoes x 2, etc, etc.
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  • Jay dubbleU
    Jay dubbleU Posts: 3,159
    Run, Fatboy run - no not Dennis - you'll have to start calling him Whit :wink:
  • Headhuunter
    Headhuunter Posts: 6,494
    So why has this guy suddenly decided to do a triathlon, out of the blue like that?!
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Will discuss on Friday night!
    _
  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Will discuss on Friday night!

    Or you could discuss now so that the vast majority of folk here can hear the story :wink:
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  • Headhuunter
    Headhuunter Posts: 6,494
    Rolf F wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Will discuss on Friday night!

    Or you could discuss now so that the vast majority of folk here can hear the story :wink:

    Time for you to force yourself to come down to London again! You know how much you enjoy it...
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Yeah, but I've probably said enough to get sacked, so I'm going to rein it in a bit...
    _
  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    Headhuunter wrote:
    Time for you to force yourself to come down to London again! You know how much you enjoy it...

    I'd love to - I enjoy a good Morpeth do (all those discussions about nearly getting up to double figures etc etc :lol: ) but this weekend I am stuck in the (not very) windy North :(
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  • Aerozine50
    Aerozine50 Posts: 73
    Mmmm Revenge is a dish best served with Liquid Nitrogen......!!!

    No seriously, this sounds like an ideal place for an SCR duel as part of his "Training".

    Sounds very much like got all the gear, but $od all idea.........
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  • DrLex
    DrLex Posts: 2,142
    clarkey cat wrote:
    he won't buy any shoes for work that are under £200

    sounds like an eminently sensible young chap. I bid him godspeed.

    Depends - is that at Trickers or Gucci? Can't be Lobb at that price.
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  • spasypaddy
    spasypaddy Posts: 5,180
    rick please send him my way i'll sell him everything he could ever want and not need!
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  • mitb
    mitb Posts: 78
    What a bell end. Work pays for your free time. If you spend £200+ on shoes for work you either have too much money and trouble spending it, or hideously skewed priorities. Just doing weights is so remorselessly sh!te, that’s saying “I only care about how I look”, when you can put that same amount of effort into riding for adventure, experience, exhileration (or any sport, sport is fun, weights are a task).....I cannot see any benefit in spending good money on office uniform when it could be spent on bikes and cake. All flash and no substance, I long to hear about his Jenson Button man-crush ending in you kicking his ass in the tri!
  • bails87
    bails87 Posts: 12,998
    You need to go out on a few practice rides with him, but only ride at a max under 15mph. Then tell him you've done a few tris and finished quite well due to your speed on the bike.

    When he's able to go past you at 17mph tell him you're amazed with his speed and you're sure he'll wipe the floor with everyone else.

    Then, come raceday...... :twisted:
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  • mitb
    mitb Posts: 78
    You can use his ignorance to freak him out too. When he spends five grand on a bike you can say
    "A Pinarello? Interesting....you get it cheap though, right?". He'll soil his overpriced wetsuit.
  • clarkey cat
    clarkey cat Posts: 3,641
    I reckon he'll get a half-decent bike - train really hard - and end up being a pretty good cyclist.
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  • bails87
    bails87 Posts: 12,998
    But just in case he doesn't, and he gives up, Rick should convince him to buy a bike that Rick wants, which he can then pick up second hand at a bargain price :lol:
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  • mitb
    mitb Posts: 78
    Clarkeycat, please don't stick up for this person because you approve of his excessively expensive shoe policy. I've heard enough, he sounds like a massive git. Unless you have a truly wonderful job (helping people, creatively fulfilling, or The Saturdays' underwear advisor for example) then taking the money you earn and putting it back in to working is a very depressing thing. Doesn't the weight training and lycra-p!ss-taking make you want to slap him??
  • clarkey cat
    clarkey cat Posts: 3,641
    Cheap shoes are a false economy.
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  • bails87
    bails87 Posts: 12,998
    Not true, my £19 Tesco shoes are seemingly indestructable, real leather too. :wink:
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  • clarkey cat
    clarkey cat Posts: 3,641
    do they look like this?

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  • asprilla
    asprilla Posts: 8,440
    bails87 wrote:
    real leather too. :wink:

    Real cow leather?
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  • mitb
    mitb Posts: 78
    I had some Tesco £12 shoes that lasted about 18 months. They may have been made of mouse leather but they were great shoes. But even if you don't go that cheap, Two Hundred Quid? On work shoes? For men, there should be nothing more expensive than Clarks. Women's and bike shoes are different...I don't care how much work went into the shoes I work in, I drive my car, sit at a desk and occasionally make a cup of tea in them. Their main role is to stop rain making my socks soggy. They do not look £150 less brilliant than tri-boy's and no-one looks at them anyway.
    Still, people should be free to spend their hard-earned however they wish. Unless it's on *^@^ing work shoes.
  • roger_merriman
    roger_merriman Posts: 6,165
    The only trouble I have with such types is it's false SCR since even though they maybe on flash carbon etc, it's hardly a contest between equals.

    which is annoying as i rarely see any thing worth a punt at any way!
  • deptfordmarmoset
    deptfordmarmoset Posts: 3,118
    bails87 wrote:
    You need to go out on a few practice rides with him, but only ride at a max under 15mph. Then tell him you've done a few tris and finished quite well due to your speed on the bike.

    When he's able to go past you at 17mph tell him you're amazed with his speed and you're sure he'll wipe the floor with everyone else.

    Then, come raceday...... :twisted:

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