Cycling Snobs

[threebikesmcginty]

If a roadie sneered at me, I'd think, well, you may have the better bike, but did you build your own front wheel? No? ha! beat you!

(ok, I've only ever built the one, but hell, I did it, and it's still true enough, about 5 years later)

Is it a knitted one?

 

[rh100]

Used one of them on a job (work not nickin') in London years ago - it had a Ford V6 engine - S.H. 1 T. off a shovel!

but nothing is faster than an Astravan - especilally with ladders and stuff on the roof. try racing one

 

[Twanger]

That just makes me laugh. Those things cost a fortune. I do all my cycling fuelled by pasta, cake and tea, which are very cheap, and readily available at millions of stockists nationwide (and world wide, should I wish to venture abroad).

What kind of tea and cakes do you find fuels you the best? Do you find you turn the pedals best with Earl Grey and petit fours, or green tea and carrot cake, or do you go for the raw, throbbing power of PG Tips and jam doughnuts?

 

[MacB]

not sure where I fit in, fuelled by pepsi max, guiness and JPS, maybe just 'misfit' applies

 

[GrumpyGregry]

I go for Belgian (Trappist pref.) beer and Bara Brith at 'tea stops' myself, supping on the road from a camelbak, with the odd puff on me asthma inhaler to keep me going. Oh, and my road bike has disc brakes. Obsessed with staying hydrated and stopping when I want to, of course I don't fit in. Not sure I want to either.

 

[chap]

Those things cost a fortune. I do all my cycling fuelled by pasta, cake and tea, which are very cheap, and readily available at millions of stockists nationwide (and world wide, should I wish to venture abroad).

Run, run little rabbit, for soon our two worlds shall collide

P.S. Afternoon Tea or G&T, both are rocket fuel for me*!

*If any of you are law enforcement jobsworths, or from our current ruling political Party, G&T means Gingerbread and Teacakes.

 

[Arch]

What kind of tea and cakes do you find fuels you the best? Do you find you turn the pedals best with Earl Grey and petit fours, or green tea and carrot cake, or do you go for the raw, throbbing power of PG Tips and jam doughnuts?

I'm mostly a PG Tips and proper cake devotee. Proper cake is any sort of sponge - victoria, chocolate, coffee... lemon drizzle if I feel the need for vitamins. Carrot cake isn't really cake, it's salad. Sometimes a toasted teacake, or scone.

I have friends who are devotees of all sorts of fancy teas, and whenever I go over for the evening, they ask me what I'd like and I always say, a little feebly, have you got any normal tea?

Which reminds me, why do Marxists drink herbal tea? Because proper tea is theft.

Chap:

BTW, at work we sometimes buy some flapjacks to have at lunchtime. One day, someone bodged saying it, and now we always have Jackflaps, which sounds unutterably rude.

 

[Arch]

Is it a knitted one?

No, but maybe I should knit some aero discs for it....

 

[jimboalee]

It started early on.

If you didn't have a Starley & Co. Rover, you were a nobody.

 

[chap]

Chap:

That is it, a man has his limits! To York!

 

[Arch]

That is it, a man has his limits! To York!

Excellent, I'll put the kettle on. On that teeny bike in your post, I'll expect you sometime in 2014....

 

[Piemaster]

I'm mostly a PG Tips and proper cake devotee. Proper cake is any sort of sponge - victoria, chocolate, coffee... lemon drizzle if I feel the need for vitamins. Carrot cake isn't really cake, it's salad. Sometimes a toasted teacake, or scone.
.

Now that is worth noting as a sig of the future.

 

[Twanger]

I'm mostly a PG Tips and proper cake devotee. Proper cake is any sort of sponge - victoria, chocolate, coffee... lemon drizzle if I feel the need for vitamins. Carrot cake isn't really cake, it's salad. Sometimes a toasted teacake, or scone.

I have friends who are devotees of all sorts of fancy teas, and whenever I go over for the evening, they ask me what I'd like and I always say, a little feebly, have you got any normal tea?

Which reminds me, why do Marxists drink herbal tea? Because proper tea is theft.

Chap:

BTW, at work we sometimes buy some flapjacks to have at lunchtime. One day, someone bodged saying it, and now we always have Jackflaps, which sounds unutterably rude.

I thought you were sound! Good!

 

[Arch]

Now that is worth noting as a sig of the future.

The upside of course, is that it's also a portion of vegetables towards your five a day.

 

[Davidc]

The upside of course, is that it's also a portion of vegetables towards your five a day.

But so are the rasins or sultanas in your toasted teacake or scone aren't they?