Oft-heard cycling phrases that get on your nerves

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Do you get lunch breaks ?
Anywhere you can go for a ride during the day ?

I'm lucky to be able to do this. Beats sitting at my desk eating a sandwich.

I commute by train from Glasgow to Edinburgh and the train is pretty jam packed every day. I'd say 1 or 2 days a week there are plenty of folk who don't even get a seat, so taking a bike on teh train isn't really appealing, especially as there are proper cycle-commuters who get on the train halfway - wouldn't really want to deprive them of the space which is already very limited. I thought maybe if I took an earlier train it might be quieter but it appears I'm not the only one who thought that!

5 minutes getting changes at either end, 10 minutes taking a shower afterwards leaves 40 minutes to ride. My work is smack bang in the middle of the city too so not really ideal for riding. It's not particularly ideal.

I've started working longer days though, cause I'm on flexi-time, my plan is to basically work up enough spare hours to take a wednesday (or whichever day has the best weather!) off every 2nd week to go out and ride. Better than nothing at all!

 

[outlash]

Hah, alright. Tell you what. Stop cycling from now until the end of May. Come and do the 3 pistes sportive with me and we'll see what happens when somebody thinks it's okay to do any old sportive with no training. Maybe you're naturally athletic but I was in decent shape for it last year and it still nearly ended me.

Would you attempt to run a marathon tomorrow, with no training? I mean, it's not a race, so you should just be to do with no training, right?

That's just noise. Stop cycling for 5 months, WTF?

Well, I work 9-5 plus occasionally at the weekends. My workplace is sadly too far for me to commute (100 mile round trip), I don't like riding on country lanes in the dark, and riding on busy roads isn't my idea of fun, which means that weekdays are a no-go until it gets lighter in the evenings.

Furthermore, I don't like riding in ice, snow or wind over 20mph, and there's plenty of that from November through to February here, which means my already shortened riding time is restricted even further.

Sorry I'm not as hard as you! I just don't particularly like going out and being blown into traffic, or crashing my bike on ice etc.

I can assure you that my life is pretty busy too but I'm not going to use that as an excuse. I ride the ride I want in the time I have available. I don't compete, others do and if that's their thing, great. But when the cycling media prattles on about 'training' & 'winter miles' while implying sportives are pseudo-races, I find it irritating. Ride you bike, enjoy it. Keep your dick in your shorts. It'll get cold in this weather.


Tony.

 

[totallyfixed]

I got another KOM [on a section that rises a few feet]. It's not a mountain, it's not even a hill, in fact it wouldn't even qualify as an incline. Just stop it.

 

[the_mikey]

This!!

Drafting instad of slipstreaming/sitting in
Cycler instead of cyclist
Fixie instead of fixed
Use of the term 'race' to describe a sportive

 

[bpsmith]

I got another KOM [on a section that rises a few feet]. It's not a mountain, it's not even a hill, in fact it wouldn't even qualify as an incline. Just stop it.

Do you want it termed as King of the Sprints instead? Or King of the Descents? Etc?

It's just simplified. Get over it?

 

[the_mikey]

That's just noise. Stop cycling for 5 months, WTF?



I can assure you that my life is pretty busy too but I'm not going to use that as an excuse. I ride the ride I want in the time I have available. I don't compete, others do and if that's their thing, great. But when the cycling media prattles on about 'training' & 'winter miles' while implying sportives are pseudo-races, I find it irritating. Ride you bike, enjoy it. Keep your dick in your shorts. It'll get cold in this weather.


Tony.

Calm down, it's only a bike ride...

 

[Venod]

Do you want it termed as King of the Sprints instead? Or King of the Descents? Etc?

It's just simplified. Get over it?

Segment Best would be fine with me.

 

[totallyfixed]

Do you want it termed as King of the Sprints instead? Or King of the Descents? Etc?

It's just simplified. Get over it?

Cage rattled.

 

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That's just noise. Stop cycling for 5 months, WTF?

You seriously can't see the point I'm making? You don't have to be a racer to train for something. If we follow your logic then a person who commutes 2 miles a day on flat ground should be capable of riding the etape any time they like. After all, training is pointless, right?

I can assure you that my life is pretty busy too but I'm not going to use that as an excuse. I ride the ride I want in the time I have available.

That's great for you, I'm quite jealous. I'd love to ride more in the winter, but winter conditions, for me, are considerably less favourable. I don't enjoy crashing on ice or all the rest, so I make the most of what I can. There's nothing wrong with making a distinction between the sort of riding I do in the winter and the sort I do in the summer.

I don't compete, others do and if that's their thing, great. But when the cycling media prattles on about 'training' & 'winter miles' while implying sportives are pseudo-races, I find it irritating. Ride you bike, enjoy it. Keep your dick in your shorts. It'll get cold in this weather.

Tony.

Hah, you got me! You caught me trying to be all manly and waving my dick around about bad weather and a busy schedule prevents me from cycling as much as I like. I feel silly now!

 

[bpsmith]

Cage rattled.

Not really tbh. Just having a laugh too. You either like Strava or you don't. Doesn't really affect whether I do.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Very civilised

We try ....

 

[DaveReading]

why would anyone want to arbitrarily use units that have no relationship with any other unit?

Personally, I love the fact that you can have as many, or as few, yards in a mile as you like.

Hang on though, maybe that's not what you meant.

 

[S.Giles]

Despite etymological niceties, I say "undertake"

"Overtaking on the inside" sounds like I'm from Belgium trying to explain it in English, that or I've had about eight pints of strong beer

'Overgiving' would be another possible misuse of the language to describe the action of overtaking a vehicle on the opposite-to-normal side. Following the logic, I suppose 'undergiving' would be a double-negative of 'overtaking', and therefore mean the same thing.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

This thread is petty, nit-picking and not entirely to be taken seriously, but feel to join in.

Hello it's supposed to be a bit of fun not daggers at dawn

 

[the_mikey]

Personally, I love the fact that you can have as many, or as few, yards in a mile as you like.

Hang on though, maybe that's not what you meant.

I mean a foot has no relation to the way we measure volumes of liquid, we don't measure wavelengths in miles, also many recognised mathematical/physical constants like the speed of light in a vacuum or free space are measured in metres/second and thanks to the adherence to decimal units it makes calculating the relationships between different properties much more straightforward.