Are you a real cyclist?

[confusedcyclist]

http://notanothercyclingforum.net/bikereader/contributors/Ainsley/realcyclist.html

Just for fun. I scored with:

5pts transported crate of beer + other shopping
5pts biked in -5C
8pts - Failed a repair (buckled wheel, broken spokes, broken derailleurs etc)
5 pts - Triggered a few 30mph speeding cameras in my time
15 pts (carless since 2014)
5pts cycling home in wet shoes/kit

Total 43

Damn, I'm not a real cyclist

 

[CycleCommute.CC]

29 points for me - I'm gutted!

 

[Vantage]

5 pts moving house and using the kiddie trailer to carry the telly and computer.
5 pts - 5 to work.
2 pts bent chainring/snapped handlebar.
5 pts Rivington Road near er... Rivington is a 30mph road. I did......51mph once.
15 pts never had a car.
5 pts 7 hour reliability ride. It rained constantly.
3 pts I had a go on a recumbent trike once.
6 pts I've lost a few bikes to theft.

49 pts total.
I'm a Real Good cyclist apparently

 

[DaveReading]

I love a quiz where you get to choose how many points you score for a correct answer.

 

[mickle]

78

 

[TheDoctor]

Hmmm. I've moved everything I've owned on a bike before now. I've also severely compromised the handling / structural integrity of a bike by carrying 6 crates of beer and a half-case of Cotes du Rhone. I've ridden recumbents, trikes and a few penny farthings.
But I'm too real a cyclist to score the quiz

 

[Edwardoka]

68 or 73, depending upon whether being in the last group on a sportive counts as "Back-marked in a race". Scored 0 for the question about failing to repair but I reckon that a double puncture in the middle of nowhere with only one spare tube and having to ride 11 miles on the rear rim should count for something...

 

[Slioch]

Total = 26. This quiz is totally wrong and biased imho.

• Does it include giving your mate a "backie", plus two kit bags back from the cricket club at 2am when you're both totally pished on a school night? - No!
• Does it include being pulled pulled over by an under-informed copper for riding on the road when there was an "advisory" cycle path covered in broken glass and other assorted debris available alongside? - No!
• Does it include using a manky looking Carradice saddlebag when there are more modern twattish "frame bags" available at vast expense? - No!
• Does it include wearing cycling kit that does not coordinate - I.e. red socks with a blue top? - No!

I rest my case.

 

[classic33]

Shifted a huge load
11pts Taken a three piece suite, in one load, to the tip/recycling centre three miles away. Various fridge-freezers to the same place. Can I claim for each?
Biked to work frozen
10pts biked in -15C
Biked Across Britain
7pts Questionable, having set off from the halfway mark, then done the return ride that afternoon. All sponsor money collected.
Failed a repair
6pts - Frame failed, taped in place, but pushed uphill and freewheeled when possible.
Busted the speed limit
5 pts - Triggered two 50mph speeding cameras on the same hill, same day. On a recumbent.
Been carless
15 pts Never had a car.
Dripped all day
5pts Cycled to and from work, then outside in the rain at work.
Been thrown off bus / train
7pts Not allowed to travel, despite having booked it on & checked that I would be allowed to take it on at Manchester Picadilly. Guard refused to set off with me on.
Ridden a recumbent
3pts Explains the heavy load. The Prone I managed to get going where it wanted to go.
Had a bike nicked
5pts Two Pashleys nicked, one tracked as it moved around.
Been on a demo
5pts World Naked Bike Ride, for a bit of fun.
Total 73


Added in edit
Biked to work frozen

 

[Drago]

What is a REAL cyclist? A very solipcistic question, man.

 

[Slioch]

Been on a demo
5pts World Naked Bike Ride, for a bit of fun

Ooerr

 

[classic33]

Ooerr

You against having a bit of fun?

 

[Edwardoka]

Been on a demo
5pts World Naked Bike Ride, for a bit of fun.

On tour I cycled past a nudist area on the Riviera. There was a naked German guy on a bike in front of me and seeing his gentleman sausage was quite unexpected. Everyone knows that German gentleman sausage is the wurst

 

[Rusty Nails]

Barely made double figures.

Ah well, never mind.

 

[Rusty Nails]

On tour I cycled past a nudist area on the Riviera. There was a naked German guy on a bike in front of me and seeing his gentleman sausage was quite unexpected. Everyone knows that German gentleman sausage is the wurst

Did he have a child seat on the back for showing his brat's wurst?