Cycling these days .... rise of the clones?

[RedRider]

Nick name I picked up many years ago playing cricket, I guess I was thinner back then or something..... It's what most of my friends know me as!

Something I get called too. Maybe we're related!

 

[screenman]

I don't see anyone moaning about it; just making an observation. The observation being that if they weren't so clueless they would be able to enjoy the bike as it was intended. I would rather ride my sweetly tuned 4 year old Tiagra shod Tricross than some £4k bling machine that doesn't change gear smoothly, just because a barrel adjuster needs to take up some slack in a cable!

What I would do in that situation is offer to adjust it for them, after all as somebody said earlier it only takes 20 seconds, but there again in real life I am that sort of nice helpful guy.

 

[Vapin' Joe]

I am sitting here using a computer, does not mean I know how to fix it should it go wrong. Also I see no reason why people should not buy an expensive bike if that is their choice, it has nothing to do with the rest of us.

Sounds lik moaning for the sake of it too me.

Your computer may break, but it isn't going to leave you stranded 50 miles from home.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

. Several of them waved at me from across the street and I had no idea who they were, each one a pea in a pod, each identical.
...

Yebbut did you wave back

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Live and let live I say, unless you're in full Sky kit in which case you're obviously a johnny-come-lately clueless nobber who should be given a good hard kicking at the first opportunity.

 

[tony111]

Live and let live I say, unless you're in full Sky kit in which case you're obviously a johnny-come-lately clueless nobber who should be given a good hard kicking at the first opportunity.

Careful tho'. I once pushed a " clone " off his bike cos he was effin and blinding at me. I got charged with making an obscene clone fall.

 

[snorri]

. I got charged with making an obscene clone fall.

Oh!....No....

 

[Brandane]

What I would do in that situation is offer to adjust it for them, after all as somebody said earlier it only takes 20 seconds, but there again in real life I am that sort of nice helpful guy.

I would have done the same, FWIW. Then again, I would be expecting someone in the team Skoda to roll up alongside and fix it for them.

 

[CharlesF]

It strange how the culture of cycling differs between countries; I work most weeks the Netherlands and have never seen anyone in a team kit yor in anything resembling Lycra. Cycling here is a means of getting around and everyone is on "sit up and beg" bikes, riding in the rain with an umbrella and texting one-handed without looking where they are going. They can do this because it isn't a perpetual race and they cruise along at about, I guess, 8-10mph. But they rule the road like we in the UK can only dream about.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Yebbut did you wave back

 

[Fab Foodie]

Careful tho'. I once pushed a " clone " off his bike cos he was effin and blinding at me. I got charged with making an obscene clone fall.

Chapeau!

 

[Fab Foodie]

Just watching 'A Sunday in Hell', cool kit, real cyclists, bouffant hair, real flares and some shocking wallpaper ...

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I'm a bit of a pedal and let pedal kind of person but what I haven't fully grasped is why a long-time cyclist should be too worried about others: after all, you'll be pretty well used to being outside the pack by now.

 

[DCLane]

@Fab Foodie - I may be a clone after all. On today's ride to Sid's Cafe in Holmfirth I got mistaken for a rider from Nonna's in Sheffield a couple had seen in their last visit to the cafe as I was in a black/white/red jersey.

However, to mitigate I did get wolf-whistled at twice last week ... but both were men

 

[Fab Foodie]

I'm a bit of a pedal and let pedal kind of person but what I haven't fully grasped is why a long-time cyclist should be too worried about others: after all, you'll be pretty well used to being outside the pack by now.

Because we now find ourselves inside the pack goddamit!