Has noddergeddon started this year?

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  • rower63
    rower63 Posts: 1,991
    FINALLY, this year it is here!
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  • hopkinb
    hopkinb Posts: 7,129
    Yesterday was also "tit Monday", which continued into "tit Tuesday".
  • fat_tail
    fat_tail Posts: 786
    was today the beginning of the end of noddergeddon for 2016 ?
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  • Tashman
    Tashman Posts: 3,495
    hopkinb wrote:
    CoalTheCat wrote:
    Only been commuting for 12 months (all through winter and all weather) and sorry for the silly question. Is a nodder just another person on a bike who nods to say hi?

    Also what is a chopper, apart from a ballripping bike off of the 70’s..

    Any other terms I should be aware of? Is there a glossary anywhere on the forum?

    Nodders just bimble along, seemingly oblivious. Usually slow, given to random changes in direction. Some nod as they pedal, some don't. Usually in civilian clothes. A benign presence on the road, although in swarms, they can hold up ones journey.

    Choppers are less benign. Chopperish behaviour includes but is not limited to, riding too fast for the conditions, sitting too close to your wheel, red light jumping , overtaking on the inside, no shoulder checking, squeezing into tiny gaps between heavy vehicles, generally filtering dangerously.
    Just noticed this bit. I didn't realise that cyclists were a uniformed organisation! Isn't a lycra sausage skin suit just an different form of "civilian clothes"?
  • mtb-idle
    mtb-idle Posts: 2,179
    Nodders just bimble along, seemingly oblivious

    I find a nodder/chopper combination the most dangerous. They are nodders but aspire to ride like choppers. The faster they ride, the more effort they are putting in, the more their head nods.

    A nodder/chopper (nopper/chodder?) passed me a month or so ago and at first I had trouble chasing him down because I literally laughed out loud as his head was nodding up and down at the same rate as his knees (left knee down, nod, right knee down, nod, left knee down nod etc.) :twisted:
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  • lancew
    lancew Posts: 680
    IT HAS BEGUN!!!

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  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,817
    I thought that this morning, unfortunately I was in the car as I'm still sickly, but there were 8 people cycling across Kingston Bridge as I crossed just after 7am. Only seen 1 or 2 most days recently.
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  • wolfsbane2k
    wolfsbane2k Posts: 3,056
    Does appear to have done so this way as well.
    Something about getting prepared for next week's "Cycle to work week" I guess.
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  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    I actually saw three riders on my way home from work the other day. Getting a bit busy.
  • On_What
    On_What Posts: 516
    hopkinb wrote:
    Yesterday was also "tit Monday", which continued into "tit Tuesday".


    I didnt think it was warm enough for that yet :lol:
  • warreng
    warreng Posts: 535
    Is there a difference between Choppers and Allez-men?
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  • warreng
    warreng Posts: 535
    On_What wrote:
    hopkinb wrote:
    Yesterday was also "tit Monday", which continued into "tit Tuesday".


    I didnt think it was warm enough for that yet :lol:

    There is no Tit Tuesday. It's always Tit Monday irrespective of the day. I'll be explaining this every Spring until the day I die
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  • vpnikolov
    vpnikolov Posts: 568
    It is that time of the year again... completely forgot about this thread. And now thinking about it, it was crazy on Embankment yesterday evening.
  • hopkinb
    hopkinb Posts: 7,129
    On_What wrote:
    hopkinb wrote:
    Yesterday was also "tit Monday", which continued into "tit Tuesday".


    I didnt think it was warm enough for that yet :lol:

    I originally posted about Tit Monday last July! Plenty warm enough then!

    Though I spotted a girl riding along CS7 in the shortest of short shorts about 2 weeks ago.
  • vimfuego
    vimfuego Posts: 1,783
    WarrenG wrote:
    Is there a difference between Choppers and Allez-men?

    It's like leave voters and racists really - not all Choppers are Allez-men, but all Allez-men are Choppers*

    * may not ALL be choppers, just every single one I've ever seen :-)
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  • lancew
    lancew Posts: 680
    Whats the difference between a SCR-man and an Allez-man? If riding an Allez....
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  • anonymousblackfg
    anonymousblackfg Posts: 2,029
    Allez-men typically also have hockey socks, peaked helmet, baggies and a uni sports top, or is that Clapham Man?

    Yes, to this whole thread though, loads coming off Putney Bridge this morning, plus a guy sat (textbook Clapham man) was asking me yesterday about what he needed to start cycling in.
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  • warreng
    warreng Posts: 535
    vimfuego wrote:
    WarrenG wrote:
    Is there a difference between Choppers and Allez-men?

    It's like leave voters and racists really - not all Choppers are Allez-men, but all Allez-men are Choppers*

    * may not ALL be choppers, just every single one I've ever seen :-)

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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    still zero for me, plenty of wild life mind
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  • asprilla
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    itboffin wrote:
    still zero for me, plenty of wild life mind

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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    Blue this time of year
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  • asprilla
    asprilla Posts: 8,440
    Left the office at about 5 today and saw a lot of bright yellow BITB jackets on the way home. If noddergeddon isn't upon us then the early daffodils of nodderspring are here.
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  • fat_tail
    fat_tail Posts: 786
    anonymousblackfg wrote:
    Allez-men typically also have hockey socks, peaked helmet, baggies and a uni sports top, or is that Clapham Man?

    Yes, to this whole thread though, loads coming off Putney Bridge this morning, plus a guy sat (textbook Clapham man) was asking me yesterday about what he needed to start cycling in.

    plus some form of football or running shorts.
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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    fat_tail wrote:
    anonymousblackfg wrote:
    Allez-men typically also have hockey socks, peaked helmet, baggies and a uni sports top, or is that Clapham Man?

    Yes, to this whole thread though, loads coming off Putney Bridge this morning, plus a guy sat (textbook Clapham man) was asking me yesterday about what he needed to start cycling in.

    plus some form of football or running shorts.

    extra long seat posts seem the fashion as well
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  • warreng
    warreng Posts: 535
    I think Clapham Man morphs into Normal Man once they've had kids, been run over and moved out to Raynes Park. It's like a post-teenager phase of gawkiness that needs to be knocked out of them. Allez-men are a lost cause - commuting by bike is a phase
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  • warreng
    warreng Posts: 535
    Saw a classic Clapham Man move on London Bridge last night - he was having a massive moving row with a taxi driver then at the red lights slunk away to avoid a real confrontation. He clearly thought that's how proper commuters behave - he was very proud of his shoutiness. A few of us apologised to the taxi driver (who seemed to be innocent of any perceived misdemeanor)
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  • awavey
    awavey Posts: 2,368
    its like flying ant day, no one knows the precise day it just happens when the weather picks up...but its definitely started and BITB yellow is this seasons colour to be seen in it seems.
  • milemuncher1
    milemuncher1 Posts: 1,472
    MrSweary wrote:
    If you leave home at 6.30am there is no noddergeddon.
    I leave home at 04:30 when on 'days'. All I tend to see is foxes, Badgers, and the occasional owl, none of which nods or wobbles, wears hockey socks, or Rugby shirts, or indeed, ride an Allez, or any other bike.
  • adambruntlett
    adambruntlett Posts: 257
    anonymousblackfg wrote:
    Allez-men typically also have hockey socks, peaked helmet, baggies and a uni sports top, or is that Clapham Man?

    Yes, to this whole thread though, loads coming off Putney Bridge this morning, plus a guy sat (textbook Clapham man) was asking me yesterday about what he needed to start cycling in.

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  • warreng
    warreng Posts: 535
    anonymousblackfg wrote:
    Allez-men typically also have hockey socks, peaked helmet, baggies and a uni sports top, or is that Clapham Man?

    Yes, to this whole thread though, loads coming off Putney Bridge this morning, plus a guy sat (textbook Clapham man) was asking me yesterday about what he needed to start cycling in.

    See also: ruddy-cheeks, lovely hair, over-inflated sense of entitlement, "mummy never said no" attitude, fit, fast and dangerous/stupid.

    When challenged they get aggressive but if you stand your ground they sh1t themselves
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