Cycling confessions

veronese68

BBB, my wife has a 1950s 3 speed with basket on the front. It's great for bimbling about on or popping to the shops, especially when you pass an unsuspecting roadie.

MisterMuncher

I mentally value any bike I see on the roads and must go faster if it's substantially dearer than mine. Like a class war version of SCR.

iPete

I don't like pottering around the countryside on long rides or bumbling around on club runs.

There, I said it.

sloppyschleckonds

I wear black socks





















occasionally

roger_merriman

t4tomo wrote:

i'm dissappointed when I seem someone in front of me on my commute home and they don't turn off to go up the big hill that I'm about to go up. each one is a lost chance to embarress someone by scalping them uphill on my Brompton

Heh I enjoy worrying roadies with (comfort bike) a old MTB panniers etc, due to tire rumble they can hear the inevitable getting closer and closer...

Equally as childish I enjoy (if empty) crossing the railway bridge by riding up the steps and down the other side.

First.Aspect

I once bought white cycling shorts.

surrey_commuter

Since finding out that the plastic coppers of Canary Wharf have no powers I see the roads there as mixed use

Avenger197396

simonhead wrote:

I once hit a pheasant, finished it of with my pump and stuck it in my bag. It was very tasty.

I see double entendres in every thread I read.

Avenger197396

Oh, and I have been known to watch women's cycling for reasons other than their sporting prowess.

Kieran_Burns

Kieran_Burns wrote:

A mate of mine says he's not ready for a 100Km ride yet, so I've done him a 50 mile route that takes in Snake Pass and Winnats Pass.

I should feel guilty. I don't

Good God, and they did it!

jonny_trousers

I have been known to mentally go, "Kghhhhhhht, copy that Red Leader; I have visual now," when I spot a cyclist in the far distance before closing them down and firing my imaginary machine guns/lasers (depending on what mood I'm in) as I get close. The old generation of Campag hoods had little circular protrusions that acted as great thumb triggers.

Um, actually I've never done any of that; I was thinking of someone else :oops:

surrey_commuter

when I come off the lights at URR heading into Town I see my fellow cyclists as the TdeF peloton bunching for the last few hundred metres before the uphill finish on the top of the Col de Marc Bolan.... my team is always in tatters and struggles to form a decent lead out train more often than not leading me to freelance and once again miss a PB...

This scenario is available on Eurosports +1 when approaching the Blackfriars underpass (tunnel of death)

asprilla

The junction from Hampton Court Way onto Riverbank on the south side of Hampton Court bridge isn't a junction at all, it's a series of slalom markers on the Red Bull Air Race.

Kieran_Burns

I wear underpants under my shorts when I commute.

walkingbootweather

I've been posting on this forum for nearly a decade. One of these day's I'll have to get a bike....

Sharkyssurfers

Kieran_Burns wrote:

I wear underpants over my shorts and a red cape when I commute.

FTFY

veronese68

I don't really need to buy anything at the moment, I just need the time to play with what I've already bought. By which time I will have realised there was a vital component I haven't bought yet. Like rim tape. Ballcocks! Now what sort and what can I order to go with it?

arran77

walkingbootweather wrote:

I've been posting on this forum for nearly a decade. One of these day's I'll have to get a bike....

You mean this is a cycling forum :shock: I wondered why there were some parts of it that seemed a bit weird

itboffin

I know where GregT body is buried

porlyworly

I momentarily stop pedalling to break wind. This morning I thought of this thread and wondered if this was normal behaviour?

leeefm

Definitely normal!

itboffin

freaks

Wheelspinner

Kieran_Burns wrote:

I wear a saucy, red lace thong under my shorts when I commute.

FTFY

redvee

Kieran_Burns wrote:

I wear underpants instead of my shorts when I commute.

FTFY :oops:

wongataa

PorlyWorly wrote:

I momentarily stop pedalling to break wind. This morning I thought of this thread and wondered if this was normal behaviour?

I may have done that a few times myself!

menthel

PorlyWorly wrote:

I momentarily stop pedalling to break wind. This morning I thought of this thread and wondered if this was normal behaviour?

Sometimes I even stand up on the pedals to do it.

redvee

PorlyWorly wrote:

I momentarily stop pedalling to break wind. This morning I thought of this thread and wondered if this was normal behaviour?

A tailwind is a tailwind is a tailwind

blu3cat

I recently wrote off my bike frame, and scoured the internet to get an identical model in the hope that no one notices. :oops:

Long_Time_Lurker

I have a commuting nemesis - full lycra, carbon framed roadie.
I put my foot down and scalp him on my full suspension mountain bike to make him feel bad.

I then turn up a dirt track (knowing that he can't ride that route), then stop to catch my breath as I've spent all my energy getting past him. :oops:

rower63

Long Time Lurker wrote:

... I then turn up a dirt track to be sick without him seeing

ftfy