When SCR Becomes a Bit Too Serious.....

Snakebite the 2nd
Snakebite the 2nd Posts: 452
edited January 2016 in Commuting chat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEmANHl9k7Y

I think they could both do with taking a step back and revaluating what it's all about!

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  • timothyw
    timothyw Posts: 2,482
    I have very little sympathy for those who complain about 'wheel suckers', but this one is particularly amusing as he has clearly slowed down after completing the overtake, which is to say nothing of the million style points lost by wearing the grey/white shorts.

    The person recording the video has gained some style points for riding casually on the flat of the bar during the episode, rather than the hoods or drops (and so avoiding looking like he was trying), although he lost all style points when he uploaded the episode to youtube....

    As you say snakebite, I think they could both do with taking a step back...
  • wolfsbane2k
    wolfsbane2k Posts: 3,056
    Ok, so I honestly wasted 8 minutes of my lunch time watching that?

    As you say, not important to anyone. They are both uninjured, nothing to shout about, they need to chill. Cyclegaz has lost a lot of style for uploading that.

    Sorry for taking another 30 seconds of your time in reading this!
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  • It was the other guy that started it but I do wonder whether having a helmet cam and a YouTube channel makes arguments more likely to happen or escalate ...
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  • dhope
    dhope Posts: 6,699
    Cyclegaz has lost a lot of style for uploading that.
    I didn't think he had too much left. Aren't most of his vids the helmet cam warrior type stuff?
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,734
    Would all be fairly standard until some bell end put it up on YouTube.

    Just let it go! Doesn't need to recorded for posterity.
  • Now it may be different in big cities, I can't comment, but here in the Shires there is a modicum of camaraderie amongst fellow cyclists.
  • Ok, so I honestly wasted 8 minutes of my lunch time watching that?

    As you say, not important to anyone. They are both uninjured, nothing to shout about, they need to chill. Cyclegaz has lost a lot of style for uploading that.

    Sorry for taking another 30 seconds of your time in reading this!

    Sorry about the time wasted, take an extra 8 minutes tomorrow and tell I said it was ok. :mrgreen:
  • dhope
    dhope Posts: 6,699
    Now it may be different in big cities, I can't comment, but here in the Shires there is a modicum of camaraderie amongst fellow cyclists.
    I think there is in London too, until someone demonstrates they're a bell end, then they're just a bell end
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  • The Rookie
    The Rookie Posts: 27,812
    Six plus half a dozen=12, youtube why?

    Teddy bears at 5 paces springs to mind!
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  • cruff
    cruff Posts: 1,518
    Can't understand it. Clearly neither of them were making too much of an effort - so why's the nodder moaning about being wheelsucked when he went past the bloke and couldn't gap him, and why's the bloke with the camera got bent out of shape about a nodder in the first place? First one hasn't got a clue, second one got all butthurt about a nodder popping him and decided to upload it to tha internetz. Both of them need to man the fu(k up.
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  • It is handbags at dawn!

    Gaz used to post here, have to say not a video that makes him look good. nor does the tolling he does on his youtube channel

    he drafts closely/tailgates another rider.

    complaining that the rider moves across due to crossing woman, and he's drafting so closely, so he has to move as well.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,734
    We're all d!cks sometimes.

    It happens.

    No need to a) record it and b) put it online.