I hate bike snobs

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  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    Danlikesbikes wrote:
    Could we not settle for a little bit of karma - the staring rider spending too much time looking at you bike, wobbles and into a field over the bars & into a pile of cow muck sort of like a scene from last of the summer wine

    Sounds great :) I'll be looking forward to this... if he doesn't wave or say hi next time though, can I at least swap the cow-muck for dog-shit?
  • danlikesbikes
    danlikesbikes Posts: 3,898
    mfin wrote:
    Danlikesbikes wrote:
    Could we not settle for a little bit of karma - the staring rider spending too much time looking at you bike, wobbles and into a field over the bars & into a pile of cow muck sort of like a scene from last of the summer wine

    Sounds great :) I'll be looking forward to this... if he doesn't wave or say hi next time though, can I at least swap the cow-muck for dog-shit?

    Only on the basis that you film it happening, submit to you've be framed & donate half your £250 fee to the chap for cleaning of his clothes/bike.

    That way karma states that he get his comeuppance for not paying attention, the video will generate some entertainment, he will not be inconvenienced as you are giving him money to pay for cleaning his clothes/bike & in doing so are not being ignorant yourself but being gentlemanly.
    Pain hurts much less if its topped off with beating your mates to top of a climb.
  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    Danlikesbikes wrote:
    mfin wrote:
    Danlikesbikes wrote:
    Could we not settle for a little bit of karma - the staring rider spending too much time looking at you bike, wobbles and into a field over the bars & into a pile of cow muck sort of like a scene from last of the summer wine

    Sounds great :) I'll be looking forward to this... if he doesn't wave or say hi next time though, can I at least swap the cow-muck for dog-shit?

    Only on the basis that you film it happening, submit to you've be framed & donate half your £250 fee to the chap for cleaning of his clothes/bike.

    That way karma states that he get his comeuppance for not paying attention, the video will generate some entertainment, he will not be inconvenienced as you are giving him money to pay for cleaning his clothes/bike & in doing so are not being ignorant yourself but being gentlemanly.

    Naaa, thinking about it Id rather he got hit by a car :)
  • VTech
    VTech Posts: 4,736
    That guy could have been me :)
    So despondent that the same guy is passing him for the third day on the trot that he looks over, only to discover that whatever he does, however hard he tries, this same guy is zooming past yet again. And with the extra effort taken each day trying to avoid this fellow flying past he is left with so little energy that he struggled to breath, yet alone say hello whilst thinking "that bloody guy! How can he be zooming past me so quickly, I hope he gets a puncture or falls of his bike as he is trying to overtake me. Damn that would make my day"

    Maybe that would be his karma ? :)
    Living MY dream.
  • MountainMonster
    MountainMonster Posts: 7,423
    Pross wrote:
    Someone appears to have a severe case of bike envy.

    In my 20 odd years experience of riding low to mid level bikes I have never come across this bike snobbery that some newcomers seem to encounter every time they go out. Weird :?

    Not got quite as much experience as you but same situation. I have only ever noticed poor people complaining about other my rich, super fast and super sexy bike, but I never heard someone talk down on them for having slower cost bike. The hate,i my opinion is only coming from below upwards.
    My London Road
  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 16,003
    mfin wrote:
    Bikes don't matter.

    What bothers me though is (riding on quiet lanes), how I can pass the same berk 3 days in a row, wave and say hi each time, and all said berk in his replica Team Kit can do is turn his head round and have a good stare at my bike. Ignorant tw@t.

    I hope people like that get smacked off by a car.

    You may have got him wrong. He may not be staring at your bike at all. He may be turned on by a firm thigh and a well turned calf, he may be staring at your shapely shaven legs. :roll:
  • daviesee
    daviesee Posts: 6,386
    Anyone noticed the OP's conspicuous absence?

    Just asking. :wink:

    Or is he being rude by not saying hello? I hate being ignored. :twisted:
    None of the above should be taken seriously, and certainly not personally.
  • MountainMonster
    MountainMonster Posts: 7,423
    daviesee wrote:
    Anyone noticed the OP's conspicuous absence?

    Just asking. :wink:

    Or is he being rude by not saying hello? I hate being ignored. :twisted:

    I've heard if you beat poor people by out-complaining them they normally ignore you,or run to the council.
    My London Road
  • solosuperia
    solosuperia Posts: 333
    A bit of a digression, but about relationships with other people.......
    Down my local last night, the biggest bullshltter in the world, says after another guy had left.
    " I can't stand that bloke he is the biggest bullshlter I know".
    The rest of us just stood there in stunned amazement.

    To be fair if there was a gold medal available, it would be a close run thing.
  • carrock
    carrock Posts: 1,103
    the playing mantis wrote:
    anyone who uses the term close of play, and does not play or is not a cricket tragic is a complete douche

    anyone who uses the word douche, particularly if they are not American, is an utter cockwhisk
  • carrock
    carrock Posts: 1,103
    mr_eddy wrote:
    You know who you are, You are the people who are in love with your own internal monologues:

    "My bike is considerably more expensive than yours so by that logic I am better than you, now that has been said shall we away"

    I dont like you, You look ridiculous in lycra and work in middle management and use the phrases "by close of play" and "push the envelope" , You are like a broken pencil - Pointless.

    No one likes you.

    I have a S Works purely because it is nice to ride. I bought it second hand and fully admit I am not the quickest. In fact I have been overtaken on the c2c by a man in a batman costume riding a Brompton.

    But if it makes me happy, where's the problem.

    PS. I am not a dentist
  • jonomc4
    jonomc4 Posts: 891
    MountainMonster wrote:
    Pross wrote:
    Someone appears to have a severe case of bike envy.

    In my 20 odd years experience of riding low to mid level bikes I have never come across this bike snobbery that some newcomers seem to encounter every time they go out. Weird :?

    Not got quite as much experience as you but same situation. I have only ever noticed poor people complaining about other my rich, super fast and super sexy bike, but I never heard someone talk down on them for having slower cost bike. The hate,i my opinion is only coming from below upwards.

    agreed
  • rhext
    rhext Posts: 1,639
    Good job the opinion of people who don't have expensive bikes is worthless, or I'd be quite offended by this post.
  • daviesee
    daviesee Posts: 6,386
    carrock wrote:
    the playing mantis wrote:
    anyone who uses the term close of play, and does not play or is not a cricket tragic is a complete douche

    anyone who uses the word douche, particularly if they are not American, is an utter cockwhisk
    Even the French?
    Oh....... :wink:
    None of the above should be taken seriously, and certainly not personally.
  • the playing mantis
    the playing mantis Posts: 2,129
    carrock wrote:
    the playing mantis wrote:
    anyone who uses the term close of play, and does not play or is not a cricket tragic is a complete douche

    anyone who uses the word douche, particularly if they are not American, is an utter cockwhisk


    maybe
  • GiantMike
    GiantMike Posts: 3,139
    what on earth is a cockwhisk? Is it what one uses to mix fanny batter?
  • jordan_217
    jordan_217 Posts: 2,580
    GiantMike wrote:
    what on earth is a cockwhisk? Is it what one uses to mix fanny batter?

    :lol::lol::lol:
    “Training is like fighting with a gorilla. You don’t stop when you’re tired. You stop when the gorilla is tired.”
  • arthur_scrimshaw
    arthur_scrimshaw Posts: 2,596
    carrock wrote:
    mr_eddy wrote:
    You know who you are, You are the people who are in love with your own internal monologues:

    "My bike is considerably more expensive than yours so by that logic I am better than you, now that has been said shall we away"

    I dont like you, You look ridiculous in lycra and work in middle management and use the phrases "by close of play" and "push the envelope" , You are like a broken pencil - Pointless.

    No one likes you.

    I have a S Works purely because it is nice to ride.

    PS. I am not a dentist

    Of course not, as any fule kno, Dentists ride Pinarellos and wouldn't be seen dead on a Specialized.
  • morstar
    morstar Posts: 6,190
    SoloSuperia wrote:
    A bit of a digression, but about relationships with other people.......
    Down my local last night, the biggest bullshltter in the world, says after another guy had left.
    " I can't stand that bloke he is the biggest bullshlter I know".
    The rest of us just stood there in stunned amazement.

    To be fair if there was a gold medal available, it would be a close run thing.
    But don't you find the following to be true...
    When somebody does really annoy you, it's usually somebody displaying similar traits to yourself?
    I know the silly little things that often wind me up are followed shortly afterwards by a ****, I do that.
  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    VTech wrote:
    That guy could have been me :)
    So despondent that the same guy is passing him for the third day on the trot that he looks over, only to discover that whatever he does, however hard he tries, this same guy is zooming past yet again. And with the extra effort taken each day trying to avoid this fellow flying past he is left with so little energy that he struggled to breath, yet alone say hello whilst thinking "that bloody guy! How can he be zooming past me so quickly, I hope he gets a puncture or falls of his bike as he is trying to overtake me. Damn that would make my day"

    Maybe that would be his karma ? :)

    He was coming towards me each time, stacks of time to wave back... he's now scored 3 berk points. If he does it again, I'll turn round and catch him and call him an ignorant tw@t to his ignorant tw@tting face, the ignorant tw@t :)
  • VTech
    VTech Posts: 4,736
    Ahhh, I thought you meant you were overtaking him.
    Maybe he's just a grumpy guy ?
    Living MY dream.
  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    VTech wrote:
    Ahhh, I thought you meant you were overtaking him.
    Maybe he's just a grumpy guy ?

    Yeah, spose. Anything like that irritates me, like I always hold doors open for people and if someone doesn't say 'thanks' they get a really loud 'yeah, thanks for that' at them
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,517
    I ride a Pinarello and I am not a dentist although I did this to myself once after an excrutiating extraction from an SS bloke whom they never caught. I decided I would do the next one myself:

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    Back to the plot. Long conflab - make yerself a cup of tea or just skip it!

    Whats the matter with the 'crusts' ? Thats what I call cyclists who don't wave, wink, put a finger up or say Hi.

    I have an all singing all dancing Wiiler with Campag 11 on it. Why ? Because when I was a lad, I dreamed of having some of the machines that were available in the Comic. Remember Deeside Cycles and the pick and mix charts of Groupset and frames, wheels and finishing kits ?
    I cannot justify the expense of my bikes but it doesn't make me a snob. Bikes are second only to the aircraft industry in quality and performance. I have no qualms whatsoever with someone buying a 6 grand machine or own a pink Apollo. Bikes are beautiful and aesthetic as well as fantasticaly efficient.
    Its my money and i'll spend it on what I like. I always like looking at other peoples rigs - most of the time, when you talk to a cyclist that you don't know, you can usually guarantee a conversation which makes our eclectic lycra clad world a better place.
    Those cretins who choose to look down on you 'cos you are slow or lily white or in team kit or whatever silly reason are just posers and I feel sorry for them and their ludicrous arrogance.
    I once had a great conversation with Jeroen Blijlevens at the Post Girot tour of Sweden - the British team at the time were a bunch of complete and utter standoffish 4rseholes. Similarly, Steven Hodge and Gilbert Duclos Lasalle (he gave me his water bottle) at the '91 Wincanton Classic were talkative and at the top of their trees but still had time for a natter.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • VTech
    VTech Posts: 4,736
    pinarello001 wrote:

    I have an all singing all dancing Wiiler with Campag 11 on it. Why ?
    Its my money and i'll spend it on what I like. I always like looking at other peoples rigs - most of the time, when you talk to a cyclist that you don't know, you can usually guarantee a conversation which makes our eclectic lycra clad world a better place.

    And who can argue with that ?
    People value different things, for me its cars and watches although I love my bike too :)
    For some it holidays, for others its clothes and shoes.

    No matter what you hold dear, find others who like similar and you will always have a great chat.
    Living MY dream.
  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    pinarello001 wrote:
    Bikes are second only to the aircraft industry in quality and performance.

    This bit of your post I wouldn't agree with at all. Aircraft are somewhat under engineered because of things like reliability being quite high up the list, loads of bike stuff breaks, and tons of it is purely market driven... so new kit comes out that is quite often inferior than stuff before it on some levels, but marketed to make people want it. (wobbly, melted next to a radiator pinarellos for instance ;) )

    The rest was quite true though, apart from the fact that the same proportion of cyclists seem to be d1ckheads as the proportion of the general public in general I reckon :)
  • FatTed
    FatTed Posts: 1,205
    It is so much easier to spend money than train hard. My other bike is a Colnago Master X Light.
  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    I'm confused. Can we have a poll on this?
    Faster than a tent.......
  • Courage Monsieur
    Courage Monsieur Posts: 534
    All this is almost enough to put me off getting a new bike this year or next. I'll surely look like a moneyed dickhead if I do. :)
    Best stick with the old ride, which still looks class.
    Some may look down on it but what the hell. Plus I ain't that fast.
  • Courage Monsieur
    Courage Monsieur Posts: 534
    @mfin
    I may have missed this, but what were you riding? Sounds interesting.
  • the playing mantis
    the playing mantis Posts: 2,129
    what a clustersf*ck of a thread. bunch of douches.

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