Hilarious - 9 things nobody tell you when you start cycling.

[Doobiesis]

http://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/l...book&utm_medium=social&utm_term=cyclingweekly

 

[mjr]

Only six points now and five are rubbish: it's not hard unless you want it to be, you can avoid most hills, you don't need a lot of kit, cyclists like beer too and you don't need processed pap sports foods, but it is addictive.

 

[Tail End Charlie]

Lighten up mate, it's a bit of fun.

 

[Doobiesis]

Only six points now and five are rubbish: it's not hard unless you want it to be, you can avoid most hills, you don't need a lot of kit, cyclists like beer too and you don't need processed pap sports foods, but it is addictive.

Just a little laugh mate. Lol

 

[mjr]

How is it a laugh to try to put beginners off by writing shoot? Strange sense of humour...

 

[CanucksTraveller]

Mjr is this weeks winner of a one year subscription to Curmudgeon Weekly magazine... the periodical for the man who loves to grumble.

 

[mjr]

Quite the opposite - I'm not the one posting a link to a whinge about how rotten cycling is.

I go to RideLondon and see all sorts of people discovering/rediscovering that cycling isn't as difficult as they thought and can be really quite fun (especially the Freecycle) and give a sense of achievement (especially the 46 and 100) and then someone posts a link here about how hard and awful cycling is and apparently that's funny somehow? Way to welcome the beginners from RideLondon, folks(!)

 

[KnackeredBike]

With @mjr on this, pisses me off when people make out that to be a "proper" cyclist you need to be a poncy nobhead with tons of money.

Forgivable if the article is actually funny but that is just "LOL AREN'T WE ALL DRINKING EXPENSIVE COFFEE AND PISSING MONEY UP THE WALL LOL!!!1!".

 

[Bollo]

With @mjr on this, pisses me off when people make out that to be a "proper" cyclist you need to be a poncy nobhead with tons of money.

Forgivable if the article is actually funny but that is just "LOL AREN'T WE ALL DRINKING EXPENSIVE COFFEE AND PISSING MONEY UP THE WALL LOL!!!1!".

So we now have two active threads, with many more lurking below the fold, about proper-cyclists-expensive-bikes-loadsamoney-new-golfery!!!!! Can someone please, please change the ****ing record!!!!!!!!!!!

In the style of @ianrauk's cyclists-waving money jar, I'm now claiming the "proper cyclist" jar. If you feel the need to turn cycling into class war, then a quid in here will see you all right with me. Thanks.

 

[classic33]

Only six points now and five are rubbish: it's not hard unless you want it to be, you can avoid most hills, you don't need a lot of kit, cyclists like beer too and you don't need processed pap sports foods, but it is addictive.

I'm wondering how easy it actually is to avoid hills.

I go onto the road, first junction a choice, up or down. Go down and I've an incline to go back up. Further on the road then heads downhill, followed by two short inclines. Next junction, choice again, stay on the same road(downhill) or take the left hand fork(uphill). Next set of lights, left or right it's uphill.

Return journey will always involve an incline(uphill), whichever way its done.

You yourself have already said you'd rather take the steeper climb to avoid a section of road.

 

[Racing roadkill]

It's a race, everything is a race, you have to 'smash' stuff all the time, or something.

 

[Vantage]

Very few flat bits up here in the north west and from the little I saw of Yorkshire, there's no chance of avoiding hills.

 

[KnackeredBike]

So we now have two active threads, with many more lurking below the fold, about proper-cyclists-expensive-bikes-loadsamoney-new-golfery!!!!! Can someone please, please change the ****ing record!!!!!!!!!!!

Can we not just agree that to start a thread with the title "Hilarious" it has to be Chris Morris-funny or better?

 

[screenman]

Move to Boston in Lincolnshire, simples.

 

[Tin Pot]

So we now have two active threads, with many more lurking below the fold, about proper-cyclists-expensive-bikes-loadsamoney-new-golfery!!!!! Can someone please, please change the ****ing record!!!!!!!!!!!

In the style of @ianrauk's cyclists-waving money jar, I'm now claiming the "proper cyclist" jar. If you feel the need to turn cycling into class war, then a quid in here will see you all right with me. Thanks.

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Hear farking hear.