Define "Proper Cyclist" please.

[Ian H]

Anyone who cares enough about cycling to develop the skills to ride safely and properly.

 

[Yellow Saddle]

Anyone thinking of themselves as a proper cyclist is almost certainly not.

I am certainly not deluded. Take that back.

 

[vickster]

Anyone who cares enough about cycling to develop the skills to ride safely and properly.

What does properly mean?

 

[Yellow Saddle]

What does properly mean?

Beautifully smoothly, yet powerfully and effortlessly, like me.

 

[wheresthetorch]

There's a pub near me that advertises 'proper pies'. I'm tempted to go in and ask them what an 'improper pie' is!

 

[Vantage]

Beautifully smoothly, yet powerfully and effortlessly, like me.

Yup.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOAf5uobph8

 

[vickster]

Beautifully smoothly, yet powerfully and effortlessly, like me.

Didn’t you say above that you aren’t deluded

 

[vickster]

There's a pub near me that advertises 'proper pies'. I'm tempted to go in and ask them what an 'improper pie' is!

Made with shortcrust pastry

 

[AndyRM]

Beautifully smoothly, yet powerfully and effortlessly, like me.

You are blazed AICMFP.

 

[Ian H]

What does properly mean?

I should have typed 'competently'.

 

[pawl]

There's a pub near me that advertises 'proper pies'. I'm tempted to go in and ask them what an 'improper pie' is!

A pie with its crust pealing off at the shoulder.Only to be sold from under the counter in a plain rapper.

 

[vickster]

I should have typed 'competently'.

What does that mean?
I have the odd wobble...even the odd fall does that not make me a proper cyclist despite riding 2000 miles a year (with health issues), having ahem several bikes...might just quit now

 

[Yellow Saddle]

I should have typed 'competently'.

Naah, my mates and I are proper, not merely competent.

 

[CharlesF]

Not me! I can't climb.

 

[vickster]

Not me! I can't climb.

At all? Maybe find smaller hills...or try changing gear?