Roadies

69fencer

We're do I start how come roadies don't talk is it because they are not as fit as us mountain bikers
And can't talk and cycle or is it because are wife/girlfriends don't mine us being dirty and there boyfriends don't
And what is with the cap only place I sore a cap and a activity together was at Oxford or Cambridge and don't they get buggered rant over

RandG

Interesting first post :roll:

I think you'll find roadies are probably fitter than mtb'ers

cooldad

69fencer wrote:

Hello I'm speshul. Please don't touch my ears.

arthur_scrimshaw

Classic

cooldad

ps The Crudcatcher is for silly pointless posts.

69fencer

Really I think mountain bikers are fitter

cooldad

That's nice.
Go tell them.
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rockmonkeysc

Some pretty bad spelling and grammar there.
Maybe it's just you they don't want to talk to.

paul.skibum

Why would you be trying to talk to roadies - surely one of you is riding in the wrong place?

felix.london

69fencer wrote:

We're do I start how come roadies don't talk is it because they are not as fit as us mountain bikers
And can't talk and cycle or is it because are wife/girlfriends don't mine us being dirty and there boyfriends don't
And what is with the cap only place I sore a cap and a activity together was at Oxford or Cambridge and don't they get buggered rant over

come again? Even if this huge sentence had punctuation and proper spelling, I'm pretty sure it still wouldn't make any sense to a normal person. Don't mind us being dirty? Oxford or Cambridge? Not as fit?...you what?

BigAl

Have you ever considered that it might just be you? I can't understand you - maybe they can't either?

MTBers fitter? Can you ride at 25 mph for a couple of hours?

I ride on and off road. Road riding keeps me fit, off-roading provides the fun and improves skill. Though I'm neither particularly fast or skilful.

I can communicate though

welshkev

i'm not agreeing with the OP here, just to get that out of the way

but mountain biking is physically harder that road riding. it's just that roadies ride further for longer, so are in return fitter..imho anyway - and that's not always true as I know some super fit mountain bikers

on a side note, I drove behind 2 roadies up the lane to my house yesterday, I stayed behind them doing about 10 mph for about 1/2 a mile. I got a wave of thanks off them so no probs. they then ride past me as i'm getting my DH bike out of the car (I was just coming back from cwmcarn)

"nice walking machine butt, how far you ride on that heavy thing?"

cue bouts of laughter as they ride off? wtf?

some roadies just don't help themselves

cooldad

They weren't wrong though, were they?

welshkev

cooldad wrote:

They weren't wrong though, were they?

yep, i'd just come back from riding about 18km

ok, it was all downhill, but technically they were wrong

j_l

Funny thread.

I was out a couple of weeks ago and on the return leg which is on road I was passed by a two rodies who commented on how muddy I was I thought it was a good opportunity to get an easy ride home and sat on their wheel...

they did play a few games trying to drop me but I did just manage to stay with them, that said I was blowing out of my arse when I finally peeled off for home, they were both good sports though it has to be said..

mpatts

I am much, much fitter than your average MTBer - my 7 year old says so (mind you, she also continually asks why I'm not riding in whatever Grand Tour is on at the moment)

arthur_scrimshaw

In either discipline (ooh err) how fit you get depends on how hard you ride/train.

njee20

Of course, but your average roadie is vastly fitter than your average MTBer. Partly because there's little else to riding on the road, whilst there's plenty more to mountain biking.

prawny

I get a better workout riding on the road, but I have more fun jumping on my MTB. I've tried it the other way round, but it's not as good.

Briggo

How has this thread turned from utter drivel into an actual discussion? It was dead from the word go.

I'm fitter than all of you, look at me, women can't keep off my sexually splendid exterior.

rockmonkeysc

I ride road and mtb. I wouldn't say one takes more fitness than the other.
Cross country mountain biking requires more leg strength and sprint fitness for steep technical climbs. Downhill is all about sprint fitness and not just in the legs.
Road is more about endurance.
I could easily ride all day on road (if it wasn't so dull) but five or six hours on my xc bike and im ruined.

Mikey41

cooldad wrote:

69fencer wrote:

Hello I'm speshul. Please don't touch my ears.

dammit, gotta clean the coffee off the screen again.

kajjal

RockmonkeySC wrote:

I ride road and mtb. I wouldn't say one takes more fitness than the other.
Cross country mountain biking requires more leg strength and sprint fitness for steep technical climbs. Downhill is all about sprint fitness and not just in the legs.
Road is more about endurance.
I could easily ride all day on road (if it wasn't so dull) but five or six hours on my xc bike and im ruined.

Four hours is about my on road limit before I get bored of it. Before than I am happy enough. The big difference for me is mountain biking involves more rapid / varied bike handling skills where as road biking is more about riding smoothly and pushing yourself just to the limit before you over do it and lose all power. Road bikers do seem more miserable but having had two cars randomly pull out in front of me when I was doing 20mph+ dropping me to 5 mph each time when I had up until that point a very fast ride was really annoying today. I am over six foot six wearing a bright red top how they could not see me

diy

Got much fitter since taking up road riding. Though MTBing requires more skill.

stubs

Kajjal wrote:

I am over six foot six wearing a bright red top how they could not see me

They need to stop texting put the phone down and look out of that big piece of glass the manufacturers kindly fitted to the car so drivers dont need to put the interior light on to see the phone screen.

BigAl

Kajjal wrote:

I am over six foot six wearing a bright red top how they could not see me

'twas probably the milkman. Or the postie. Or possibly both together. Ask your wife. She'll know which one

dubcat

Mikey41 wrote:

cooldad wrote:

69fencer wrote:

Hello I'm speshul. Please don't touch my ears.

dammit, gotta clean the coffee off the screen again.

+1

kajjal

BigAl wrote:

Kajjal wrote:

I am over six foot six wearing a bright red top how they could not see me

'twas probably the milkman. Or the postie. Or possibly both together. Ask your wife. She'll know which one

She must like the older men this fella and his wife were in their late sixties

kajjal

stubs wrote:

Kajjal wrote:

I am over six foot six wearing a bright red top how they could not see me

They need to stop texting put the phone down and look out of that big piece of glass the manufacturers kindly fitted to the car so drivers dont need to put the interior light on to see the phone screen.

Normally you would be right but the tartan rug and tip aware boxes on their parcel shelf suggest they may be a bit old for that

This road biking is nuts another car tried to kill me today, I was happily riding along and a car decided to accelerate out from behind a row of parked cars to play a mad max style game of chicken with me. I breathed in and luckily she missed me. No wonder so many road bikers are so grumpy I am starting to get a complex

booldawg

I've even heard that roadies cycle UPHILL!

welshkev

booldawg wrote:

I've even heard that roadies cycle UPHILL!

Bloody weirdos!!