Cycling is the new golf

[robjh]

A quote from Radio 4 this morning :

"Cycling is the new golf, and all that money that used to be spent on expensive golf clubs is being spent on bikes."

Discuss.

 

[MikeW-71]

Yep. It's a sport/pastime, that is now very easy to make very expensive. Unless you are savvy enough to separate what you actually need, rather than what you want (or have been made to think you want)

 

[robjh]

Again or still?

They didn't say if the quote was original or not.

 

[robjh]

The point being made was that it's what middle aged men spend their leisure money on.

Personally I've been cycling since long before I reached middle age and have never seen the point of golf, but I get what they're driving at (sorry, no golf pun intended).

 

[gavroche]

One will certainly get fitter cycling than playing golf!

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Even more so if you cycled with golf clubs on your back.

 

[SS Retro]

Golf club cyclists are easy to spot- full sky kit, pinerello, red face puffing and panting, no acknowledgement on the road!

 

[TeeQue]

Loved the fact the interviewee managed to get 'n+1' into the conversation, I take it that wasn't anyone off here?

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Wonder if Viz will do a 'Bike ****'
Definitely NSFW, probably not home either - I sent a copy to my MD though!

 

[Brandane]

Me and some of the lads have just been out and got ourselves the latest cycling gear:

 

[ianrauk]

Golf is rubbish.
You have to get all the brand new latest blingy gear. Acquire a whole wardrobe of funny looking clothing. Go out for the day on your own or with some mates, in all weathers.
I mean who would want to do something silly like that?

 

[SS Retro]

Cycling and Golf same but different!

 

[SS Retro]

[QUOTE 3022009, member: 45"]S'rubbish. You can't take the kids to school or do the Asda run on a 5 iron.[/QUOTE]
You have to have a car for the golf club carpark and to carry the golf bats in that will go to asda then you can let the kids out with the 5 iron!

 

[vernon]

Loved the fact the interviewee managed to get 'n+1' into the conversation, I take it that wasn't anyone off here?

It's spread from Velominati 'rules' rather than from CC

Rule #12
// The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
While the minimum number of bikes one should own is three, the correct number is n+1, where n is the number of bikes currently owned. This equation may also be re-written as s-1, where s is the number of bikes owned that would result in separation from your partner.

It's wormed its way into the collective consciousness of cyclists and is as tiresome as the unwillingness of cyclists to write the word 'puncture' in full and recumbent riders referring to non recumbent bicycles as 'upwrongs'.

 

[tyred]

Me and some of the lads have just been out and got ourselves the latest cycling gear:

God me eyes! I must order a new monitor as there is clearly something wrong with the colour on this one.