Hip Priest
Veteran
To clarify, I meant getting the bonk and being stranded without food. Bonking within reach of plentiful nice food is a wholly different matter!
Your number one fear with cycling ?
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To clarify, I meant getting the bonk and being stranded without food. Bonking within reach of plentiful nice food is a wholly different matter!
Andrew_Culture
Internet Marketing bod
- Location
- The People's Republic Of Suffolk.
You misunderstand me, I was replying to the post about the more general (non-cycling) nasty things in life.
There's an old (probably apocryphal) native American story whereby an elder is explaining to a child that there are two wolves fighting inside everyone's soul; one wolf is negativity, anger, frustration hate and pain, the other wolf is positivity, contentment, tolerance and peace. The child asks which wolf wins the fight, to which the elder replies 'whichever wolf you feed'.
guitarpete247
Just about surviving
- Location
- Leicestershire
I put down that having my bike stolen is my number one fear.
I must point out that I've never suffered this fate (though no doubt I will have both my bikes nicked over night now) but always feel a tad paranoid when I leave one fastened up. I always remove pump, computer, tool pouch and run cable through saddle rails of MTB (q/r saddle post) and lock front wheel up with the rear of road bike.
I've seen the odd wreck, chained up, with wheels kicked in and saddle pinched to fear this is my fate with someone waiting for me to walk away.
I have always tried to lock bike up in an area that has plenty of people walking past or in view, if I can. I have been known to go back and check.
I don't fear any of the others as there's not a lot you can do about them. But to put your bike in harms way, deliberately, and just leave it to the mercy of the rest of the world, to try to fend for it's self. That does frighten me. Especially as I would have to walk home
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I must point out that I've never suffered this fate (though no doubt I will have both my bikes nicked over night now) but always feel a tad paranoid when I leave one fastened up. I always remove pump, computer, tool pouch and run cable through saddle rails of MTB (q/r saddle post) and lock front wheel up with the rear of road bike.
I've seen the odd wreck, chained up, with wheels kicked in and saddle pinched to fear this is my fate with someone waiting for me to walk away.
I have always tried to lock bike up in an area that has plenty of people walking past or in view, if I can. I have been known to go back and check.
I don't fear any of the others as there's not a lot you can do about them. But to put your bike in harms way, deliberately, and just leave it to the mercy of the rest of the world, to try to fend for it's self. That does frighten me. Especially as I would have to walk home
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Cress1968
Active Member
- Location
- Newcastle upon tyne
Wasp in my eye on the day I forget to wear glasses... Oh no hold on that was yesterday and my eye still hurts lol
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Linford
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I put down that having my bike stolen is my number one fear.
I must point out that I've never suffered this fate (though no doubt I will have both my bikes nicked over night now) but always feel a tad paranoid when I leave one fastened up. I always remove pump, computer, tool pouch and run cable through saddle rails of MTB (q/r saddle post) and lock front wheel up with the rear of road bike.
I've seen the odd wreck, chained up, with wheels kicked in and saddle pinched to fear this is my fate with someone waiting for me to walk away.
I have always tried to lock bike up in an area that has plenty of people walking past or in view, if I can. I have been known to go back and check.
I don't fear any of the others as there's not a lot you can do about them. But to put your bike in harms way, deliberately, and just leave it to the mercy of the rest of the world, to try to fend for it's self. That does frighten me. Especially as I would have to walk home
Having your bike nicked stays with you
. My garage was broken into and it was stolen in the middle of the night. Total financial loss of a very nice bike which I bought new, sold, and then badgered the bloke for 3 years to sell it back to me(well swapped for a nice Hybrid), then had it nicked a couple of days later.
I've had a couple of bikes and a couple of motorbikes nicked over the years, but by far the most upsetting was the Roadie.
Hoping to replace it in the next couple of months, but having to juggle so much other stuff around to achieve it.
I've never been worried about getting hit off, or getting too old, but theft risk in a big town is never far away because they are full of chav scum
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Linford
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[QUOTE 2045625, member: 45"]Nothing. I have no time for your tireless, prejudiced exaggeration.
If your town is full of chavs then you must be one of them. Otherwise it couldn't be full of chavs.[/quote]
Bring your bike up to mine, chain it to the lamp post at the end of the road, and see how long it stays there for. In fact why not try it in your sisters road.
If your town is full of chavs then you must be one of them. Otherwise it couldn't be full of chavs.[/quote]
Bring your bike up to mine, chain it to the lamp post at the end of the road, and see how long it stays there for. In fact why not try it in your sisters road.
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Linford
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[QUOTE 2045687, member: 45"]I wouldn't chain my bike to any lamp post linf. That doesn't mean that big towns are full of chavs.[/quote]
Mine is 'well represented' - I know who pinched my bike. He is a local chav off a nearby council estate. His chav big brother was in my daughters school year. You're going to tell me that they are misunderstood now
Mine is 'well represented' - I know who pinched my bike. He is a local chav off a nearby council estate. His chav big brother was in my daughters school year. You're going to tell me that they are misunderstood now
Mad Doug Biker
Banned from every bar in the Galaxy
- Location
- Craggy Island
Other than my bike getting stolen, going down a hill at speed and I get something caught in the wheel or similar and I go flying over the handlebars. Either that or my brakes failing and I end up a bloodied heap at the bottom.
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Linford
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[QUOTE 2045737, member: 45"]No, I'm encouraging you to address your prejudices.
Your town is not full of chavs. You've identified two so far (is that's what we're going to call them).[/quote]
I'm supposed to be cool about people who spend their lives being a menace to others around them, and that they consider that if they clap their eyes on anything, they can just help themselves - and that is OK ?
Chav mentality is just the scourge of society. They are the product of the hand wringers who thought it a good idea the abandon any punishment for them. these kids know no fear - even from the age of 10 or 11. they all know their rights...
Your town is not full of chavs. You've identified two so far (is that's what we're going to call them).[/quote]
I'm supposed to be cool about people who spend their lives being a menace to others around them, and that they consider that if they clap their eyes on anything, they can just help themselves - and that is OK ?
Chav mentality is just the scourge of society. They are the product of the hand wringers who thought it a good idea the abandon any punishment for them. these kids know no fear - even from the age of 10 or 11. they all know their rights...
mangaman
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If you mean my posts AC, they were only mickey taking.
Linf has a long history of being terrified of everything except his bizarre, horse owning, middle-class set in Cheltenham. He thinks Gloucestershire is terrifying and routinely uses words like chav scum and he we had a long dabate about his terror of a paedophile moving in anywhere near him (again, just a straightforward misunderstanding of probabilty by Linf) - my thesis is he lives in constant terror from outsiders.
Witness his quote from yesterday "'I've never been worried about getting hit off, or getting too old, but theft risk in a big town is never far away because they are full of chav scum
He has an awful lot of previous in slagging off immigrants - especially young female ones in Cheltenham shops - unfortunately the forum history from his previous incarnation has been purged - essentially he implied the shops of Cheltenham were packed with feckless Polish women with endless children together with his other impressive ouevre of garbage.
My posts were jokes that he would understand and I'm sorry if I didn't make myself clear.
I'm afraid he deserves to have the mickey taken - he ignores serious discussion and is just is here to criticise in my experience
marafi
Rolling down the hills with the bike.
- Location
- univeristy is my home for now. lol
If I get run over then that it for me to ever cycle again. Also I think friends and family would really lecture me whole heatedly in to never cycle again. They really hate the idea especially at night cos I one look scary two not an easy target.
Raging Squirrel
Well-Known Member
- Location
- North West
my biggest fear is seeing my girlfriend going over the handlebars face first into the road, that's why I go first downhill if it's a bit wet/damp. I haven't told her that though.
- Location
- Glasgow
How thoughtful
Andrew_Culture
Internet Marketing bod
- Location
- The People's Republic Of Suffolk.
If you mean my posts AC, they were only mickey taking.
Linf has a long history of being terrified of everything except his bizarre, horse owning, middle-class set in Cheltenham. He thinks Gloucestershire is terrifying and routinely uses words like chav scum and he we had a long dabate about his terror of a paedophile moving in anywhere near him (again, just a straightforward misunderstanding of probabilty by Linf) - my thesis is he lives in constant terror from outsiders.
Witness his quote from yesterday "'I've never been worried about getting hit off, or getting too old, but theft risk in a big town is never far away because they are full of chav scum
He has an awful lot of previous in slagging off immigrants - especially young female ones in Cheltenham shops - unfortunately the forum history from his previous incarnation has been purged - essentially he implied the shops of Cheltenham were packed with feckless Polish women with endless children together with his other impressive ouevre of garbage.
My posts were jokes that he would understand and I'm sorry if I didn't make myself clear.
I'm afraid he deserves to have the mickey taken - he ignores serious discussion and is just is here to criticise in my experience
Awesome, in future I shall post my responses to Linf rather than deleting them.
