Elitism and Snobbery

[Reynard]

Agreed, all but two of my bikes are from there, and most of my kit is too.

The other week I bought a really nice jersey and MTB capri pants from their 500 range.

I'm far too short for their adult bikes though, and their current range kids bikes aren't exactly what I want to ride. Therefore I ride a Wiggins, which has proved to be equally good VFM.

And I get regularly compliments on my kit and bike when I'm out and about.

 

[Ian H]

Then you get the nightmare ‘Frankenstein’s Knobber’ a clubbie riding a sportive.

Were you refused membership or something?

 

[Racing roadkill]

Were you refused membership or something?

Nope, I’ve got a membership of a club, for the shop discounts, but I don’t ride with the clubby clubbies. That’s not my bag at all.

 

[Milkfloat]

Nope, I’ve got a membership of a club, for the shop discounts, but I don’t ride with the clubby clubbies. That’s not my bag at all.

Yet you go on and organise group rides as well as ride commercial sportives, so you are special?

 

[derrick]

Yet you go on and organise group rides as well as ride commercial sportives, so you are special?

Very special.

 

[Tim Hall]

Yet you go on and organise group rides as well as ride commercial sportives, so you are special?

I think Decathlon have a special range of Judgy Pants

 

[Reynard]

Decathlon is another retailer where there are two whole racks of men's kit and a quarter of a rack of women's kit (at least in our local, new, store). This is an aside, obviously, as the OP is a bloke.

I think that's par for course. The one in Cambridge and the one in Surrey Quays are the same.

 

[User169]

To reverse the trend a bit, I once bought a 1930’s BSA looped frame cycle from a museum, got it back working with minimal effort and decided to ride to the museum to show them. Got on shared path and was maybe 50 yards behind a bloke on a race bike. Every time I rang my bell at walkers/dog owners in front, the race bike rider pedalled faster, as if it was some massive effrontery to him if I got past. It ended up being highly amusing (to me) as I was gaining on him until I was on his back wheel, so I kept ringing the bell at people.
In the end he stopped and pulled his phone out and I got past. He was clearly knackered and could have been on the home straight of a 100 mile ride or something, but it didn’t half amuse me.

Classic bike forum trope #34. I was on my paper round on my bmx which had one pedal and no handlebars and I overtook every single other person! And they were all like pros going totes as fast as they could! MASSIVE!!!!!!!

 

[Drago]

That's nothing. In 2003 I was out on my Raleigh Wayfarer, which had no wheels, pedals, seat, or anything else, and I overtook Lance Amstrong. I then saw Evel Knieval, so I jumped 18 buses and popped a wheelie. Let me tell you, that ain't easy while rolling a smoke with the girlfriend riding pillion while using my nethers as a grab rail.

 

[raleighnut]

That's nothing. In 2003 I was out on my Raleigh Wayfarer, which had no wheels, pedals, seat, or anything else, and I overtook Lance Amstrong. I then saw Evel Knieval, so I jumped 18 buses and popped a wheelie. Let me tell you, that ain't easy while rolling a smoke with the girlfriend riding million while using my nethers as a grab rail.

You had a frame, you were lucky I had to make do with a seatpost.

 

[Randomnerd]

You had a frame, you were lucky I had to make do with a seatpost.

I rode the one remaining atom from my Raleigh Chico - after the house fire that ruined my childhood home put all fifteen of us on the street - right round the world twice while whistling show tunes from Cats et al, passing all cyclists I met at around Mach Six.
Sold that atom of a bike in Exchange and Mart in 1981, which funded part share in a small Mediterranean island, from where I take phone calls and jet off occasionally to save the world from any and various evil megalomaniacs.
Which made me laugh....

 

[Noodle Legs]

This is an aside, obviously, as the OP is a bloke.

This could be debatable!

 

[raleighnut]

This could be debatable!

Aye funny folk out Hugglescote way, nearly as bad as them from Thurlaston.

 

[Noodle Legs]

Aye funny folk out Hugglescote way, nearly as bad as them from Thurlaston.

Oh god yes, me dad’s me brother and all that!!

 

[Drago]

I rode the one remaining atom from my Raleigh Chico - after the house fire that ruined my childhood home put all fifteen of us on the street - right round the world twice while whistling show tunes from Cats et al, passing all cyclists I met at around Mach Six.
Sold that atom of a bike in Exchange and Mart in 1981, which funded part share in a small Mediterranean island, from where I take phone calls and jet off occasionally to save the world from any and various evil megalomaniacs.
Which made me laugh....

Well, that's nothing. My Raleigh Tomahawk rusted so badly that one day I came out to ride it to school and all that was left was a quark. Didn't stop me riding the 741 miles to school no handed though, while whistling ever act from Wagner's Ring Cycle and doing my homework.