Sideburns

Hals1967
Hals1967 Posts: 231
edited September 2012 in Road general
Anyone with sideburns had any "oy Wiggo" wisecracks whilst out riding ?

For the record, I've had sideburns since before Wiggo's balls dropped but all of a sudden you've only got 'em because of him !

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  • sungod
    sungod Posts: 17,496
    this is the peril of fashion, the moment someone in the news matches you, you are seen as emulating them

    i avoid this risk by cultivating an aura of deep and timeless unfashionability
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  • Bozman
    Bozman Posts: 2,518
    Had them for 20 yrs and up to now.... nothing. I follow/watch Road Racing so there's the Guy Martin thing as well.
  • mkviken
    mkviken Posts: 217
    yep. i only got into bikes a few weeks ago and literally had never heard of him until the last week of TDF when i started to take notice. ive had chops for bloody years.

    i was at a cafe stop last week and some bloke on a bike said to his little lad 'you need to grow some bradley's like him over there' pointing to me.

    i used to get alot of guy martin comments when i raced motor bikes too...
  • verylonglegs
    verylonglegs Posts: 4,023
    I had similar comments from someone who I've worked with for years and who also knew I was into cycling! 'Got sideburns like Wiggins I see' I heard during a lunch break just after Bradley had won the TdF. 'Er, had em for fooking years you muppet' as I waved my ten-year old ID badge photo at him :x
  • dw300
    dw300 Posts: 1,642
    Pffft .. try having a Charlie Chaplin moustasche!
    All the above is just advice .. you can do whatever the f*ck you wana do!
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  • El Zomba
    El Zomba Posts: 164
    Pfft. Any man can grow sideburns to copy the champ, you part-timers.

    Having a nut lopped off; now THAT'S hero worship!
  • kentphil
    kentphil Posts: 479
    I had them pre-Wiggins. Now i'm called Bradley at work!
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  • keef66
    keef66 Posts: 13,123
    Last time I grew mine they turned out to be mainly grey, so I'm going clean shaven from now on.
  • Rigged
    Rigged Posts: 214
    verylonglegs wrote:
    I had similar comments from someone who I've worked with for years and who also knew I was into cycling! 'Got sideburns like Wiggins I see' I heard during a lunch break just after Bradley had won the TdF. 'Er, had em for fooking years you muppet' as I waved my ten-year old ID badge photo at him :x

    Sideburns at ten years old is pretty impressive! :D
  • Paul 8v
    Paul 8v Posts: 5,458
    Overtook some old guy on his shopper the other day, further up the road my chain somehow got jammed between my front mech and the chainring so I had to manhandle it back in to place. Old man rides past and shouts "nice bike Mr Wiggins!" I've had these sideburns since I was 16!
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  • dw300
    dw300 Posts: 1,642
    I'm 33 and still can't grow sideburns .. I still hold out some hope, but I'm starting to think it's not going to happen, although I've started to develop some crazy eyebrows and ear and nasal hair!
    All the above is just advice .. you can do whatever the f*ck you wana do!
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  • Fantastic Mr Fox
    Fantastic Mr Fox Posts: 848
    Oh my god I'm so glad I found this thread!

    Yes! Literally the day after Wiggo won the final time trial on the Tour de France my dad said something about me growing them because of him. I've had them for 4 years! Ever since then I've had loads of comments about it.
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  • Dougall
    Dougall Posts: 49
    I've had mine for years, well should really say I had mine for years.

    Went to barbers on monday & whoosh, faster than Hoy in a keirin they were gone. None of this "what do you want done with your sideys" malarkey. Razored in an instant & gone. :oops:

    So now if I try & grow them back I'll just look like a fudnut trying to look cool. :roll:
  • smidsy
    smidsy Posts: 5,273
    Well I have a full beard (about 4 years now) and prior to that had sideies since about 17.

    According to the 'rules' facial hair of any knd is fround upon in cycling so I am a total outcast 8)

    Even on my club runs I am 'that guy with the beard' so Wiggo has a long way to go to be a role model :-)
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  • Warwickshire Whizzer
    Warwickshire Whizzer Posts: 218
    Pah.

    I've had smallish ones (just to earlobe) for years. And then some bl00dy smart ar5e in our London to Paris group suggests we should grow proper Bradleys for charity and shave them off in Paris. Now I look like a complete noob, who's just starting growing 'burns too!
  • dave8178
    dave8178 Posts: 169
    I'm growing mine because I have just left the army i have always been moaned at for having them, not because of wiggo.
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  • Kingy 123
    Kingy 123 Posts: 41
    Had my sideburns since listening to blur that was nearly twenty years ago.
  • navrig
    navrig Posts: 1,352
    Kingy 123 wrote:
    Had my sideburns since listening to blur that was nearly twenty years ago.


    Hi, my name is King123 and I listen to....... :oops:
  • seanorawe
    seanorawe Posts: 950
    Sorry if I offend anybody. But I think they look ridiculous. I can understand growing them to a certain length. But going past the ear lobe is too long in my book.
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  • Rushmore
    Rushmore Posts: 674
    I've grown some... That laydees love it... :)
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  • springtide9
    springtide9 Posts: 1,731
    Slightly off topic, but what would you suggest someone is implying if they shouted ''Go Lance..." as you rode past :oops:
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  • Flexisurfer
    Flexisurfer Posts: 249
    springtide9 wrote:
    Slightly off topic, but what would you suggest someone is implying if they shouted ''Go Lance..." as you rode past :oops:

    I'd be offended that someone thought I was a druggie.

    I've had chops for a few years now but I haven't had a comment made yet.
  • Ginjafro
    Ginjafro Posts: 572
    I've had sideburns for decades. Once they continued from ear to ear (beared). Then they went solo with my goatee. They were even modified to pointy jobs like Capt Kirk. I eventually lost the goatee (too much grey hair) appearing! Until recently all I had left was a "fanny tickler" under my bottom lip. Now all I have left apart from the hair on my head is my sideburns - and ginger too!
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  • dodger421
    dodger421 Posts: 39
    I get enough strange looks when I come back from leave with a full on beard. Apparently it's not the done thing if you're completely bald...

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