Archie_tect said:Wow! Excellent analysis wafflycat, makes everybody sound sad and pointless but hey we all ride bikes so who cares anyway!
...by omission, you clearly have a sneaking admiration for MTBers because of their cool, but youthful joie de vivre?![]()
Archie_tect said:Wow! Excellent analysis wafflycat, makes everybody sound sad and pointless but hey we all ride bikes so who cares anyway!![]()
purplepolly said:I'm still trying to work out where folding bikes fit in.
wafflycat said:I prepare myself suitably for when cycling, dependent upon steed.
If I plan to cycle on the tourer, I stop taking the hormone meds to enable my beard to grow, I don socks, sandals and take knitting needles & cereals in order to knit my own museli at tea stops.
If I plan on cycling sur road bike, I have a bit of plastic surgery done to enhance the facial sneer I aim towards anyone on a mountain bike or hybrid.
If I'm on the recumbent, I overdo the caffeine before hand (a full packet of esspresso usually does the trick) to make sure I am high as a kite in order to complete the suitably mad, maniacal look of the cycling oddball, cackling laughter as I cycle along.
When I'm planning to go out on the hybrid, I make sure I've watched lots of depressing films beforehand, so I can develop the full sense of sadness & neediness required to wave in feeble gestures at everyone else out on the bike and then burst into tears when the roadies don't wave back...
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If i get a puncture however far away from home i carry the bike over my back and run the rest of the course. Never under any circumstances would i return home without finishing.chillyuk said:I'm sure we all have our own snooty brigade in our area. We certainly have around here (harlow, Essex). However, the other day I had an irrepairable puncture in my tube that left me stranded 10 miles from home.
I arranged for someone to come and pick me up, and whilst waiting I left the bike upside down as there was nowhere to lean it. Just about every cyclist who came past, including the roadies, slowed down or stopped just to check I was OK.
it restored my faith in human kindness!!
wafflycat said:Man?? Man???
Not with chesticles the size of the ones I own!
Bongman said:You asked for this one:
Your post is nothing without pictures!![]()