Freds Dad
Veteran
- Location
- Gawsworth.
Bianchi's and Pinarello's for the Cheshire set MAMILS round here. Personally I slum it with a Specialized.
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Specialized are nice bikes and they make some good equipment,I have a Specialized helmet, but I can't help thinking of them the same way I think of Apple (iphone etc) nice but overpriced and a bit up their own ass , just as other phones/computers are available that are just as good and some better than Apple products at a fraction of the cost, so it is with bikes, and don't get me started on curved top tubes.
I am an old man who wears lycra on the road bike and the mtb, but sometimes I don't wear lycra on the mtb, I don't know what label to apply to myself.
I am an old man who wears lycra on the road bike and the mtb, but sometimes I don't wear lycra on the mtb, I don't know what label to apply to myself.
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Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
You sometimes don't wear your Lycra. Dirty old man, riding round naked.
shouldbeinbed
Rollin' along
- Location
- Manchester way
Repeated whiny interruptions without any semblance of useful contribution appears to be DP's MO.
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User32269
Guest
What's the matter? Nobody on SC&P awake yet for you to call racist or sexist? Your contributions mainly consist of sniping from the sidelines and rather vile personal insults.
Still, if it makes you feel superior, that's ok then.
Accy cyclist
Legendary Member
- Location
- The hills of Accrington
GrumpyGregry
Here for rides.
Don't mamils call them "utility cyclists" whilst curling their lips?
jonny jeez
Legendary Member
- Location
- Chislehurst, Kent, UK
I live in the burbs and so the make up of riders around my parts leans heavily towards middle aged riders (mamils and mawils).
With that in mind I cant say that there is a manufacturer of choice. Id go further and say that most aspire to be unique and to choose a bike that is, by definition, unlike everyone else's.
The common factor is that they are all, I suspect...carbon.
Compare that with a different demographic on, say, my commute...where the mail representation ride anything from a steel frame fixie or a pashley guvnor, to a aero carbon framed willier or Ridley.
The most common bikes I see are spesh, cannons and giants but the riders are not as easy to compartmentalise.
With that in mind I cant say that there is a manufacturer of choice. Id go further and say that most aspire to be unique and to choose a bike that is, by definition, unlike everyone else's.
The common factor is that they are all, I suspect...carbon.
Compare that with a different demographic on, say, my commute...where the mail representation ride anything from a steel frame fixie or a pashley guvnor, to a aero carbon framed willier or Ridley.
The most common bikes I see are spesh, cannons and giants but the riders are not as easy to compartmentalise.
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vickster
Squire
Post persons?
jonny jeez
Legendary Member
- Location
- Chislehurst, Kent, UK
Bloody posties, with their bright red pashleys, if only they would wear Lycra then I could define them more easily!!
GrumpyGregry
Here for rides.
Hereabouts I'd have to say ones with multiple gears and two wheels.
shouldbeinbed
Rollin' along
- Location
- Manchester way
Its all labels innit
I'm just a cyclist, foldys and a bike I call my Ute, as in the Aussie pick up truck meaning of Utility vehicle, as it is my go wherever, in whatever weather for whatever I need bike. For the OP not many road bikes or lycra clad lot on my day to day riding routes and Specialized and Merida seem popular with the weekend roadies I happen across heading out of town.
GrumpyGregry
Here for rides.
I dunno. I'm not a cyclist. I just ride bikes.Its all labels innit
For the OP not many road bikes or lycra clad lot on my day to day riding routes and Specialized and Merida seem popular with the weekend roadies I happen across heading out of town.
Fab Foodie
hanging-on in quiet desperation ...
- Location
- Kirton, Devon.
