You either have or you don't.
- CyberKnight
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Re: You either have or you don't.
I have heard a ctc ride leader around these parts regularly thrashes roadies on his folding shopping bike .
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- ArMoRothair
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Re: You either have or you don't.
hondated wrote:As he overtook me on the hill at some speed I was standing up on my pedals and he was sat just twiddling away on his.
With a cheery " morning " as he passed me he disappeared up the road and at one point I thought I had caught up with him but on the next hill he just twiddled away and was gone again.
E-bikes are great.
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I got my new bike 2 weeks ago and after 3 months little exercise I just found myself blitzing two MTBers on a very steep Lakeland hill towing a heavy trailer. All that with a 50-32 chainring and 11-25 cassette. I was on the big chainring too. I was on form today, won't happen again.
PS I was wearing walking kit too. I own one pair of Lyra cycling shorts and hate them. Hiking trousers tucked into your socks.
PS I was wearing walking kit too. I own one pair of Lyra cycling shorts and hate them. Hiking trousers tucked into your socks.
Re: You either have or you don't.
ArMoRothair wrote:E-bikes are great.
Yes - I do find it a little disappointing if someone who looks older/less fit than me sails past me up a hill - but if I then realise they're on an E-bike I can feel slightly smug.
Re: You either have or you don't.
nosmarbaj wrote:ArMoRothair wrote:E-bikes are great.
Yes - I do find it a little disappointing if someone who looks older/less fit than me sails past me up a hill - but if I then realise they're on an E-bike I can feel slightly smug.
ah thats the new excuse - he over took me as he was on an e-bike doesnt matter that that bulge was just a frame pannier and not the battery....
Re: You either have or you don't.
Once I past a middle age roadie on a MTB on a hill. I made sure I start bobbing my head, stick out my knees and slow down my cadence as I was passing him.
Re: You either have or you don't.
If he was on a MTB how did you know he was a roadie?
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Paulatic wrote:If he was on a MTB how did you know he was a roadie?
I was on the MTB he was on a road bike.
This was in Richmond park. All manor of queer things was frashing him up that hill
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A bloke on a Brompton sometimes passes me on my way home, he's going all out, giving everything and generally gets about 50m on me before he gratefully turns off to his house whilst i unhurriedly continue home a mile or so further on. Does it bother me? not in the least but the fact he regularly jumps 6 sets of traffic lights, rides up the inside of other riders and generally has no basic concept of road sense does, twice he's nearly caused accidents that i'm aware of!
I regularly get commuters making big efforts to burn me off before reaching their destination, not sure what they are gaining as i'll be warming up for a two hour ride through the Peak District that i'm sure they'd enjoy but maybe not at my pace! Last nights example made a huge effort to hang onto my wheel for about 200m but there was a big sigh of relief behind me when i made the next junction and he didn't
I regularly get commuters making big efforts to burn me off before reaching their destination, not sure what they are gaining as i'll be warming up for a two hour ride through the Peak District that i'm sure they'd enjoy but maybe not at my pace! Last nights example made a huge effort to hang onto my wheel for about 200m but there was a big sigh of relief behind me when i made the next junction and he didn't
Convention? what's that then?
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