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Re: Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do

Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 9:51 pm
by winstonw
- Pay $15,000 for one bike. (Seasoned cyclists buy a roadie and mtb for less)
- Say "I could race crits and win, but don't because all those amateurs make it too dangerous".
- Wonder which way fine derailleur adjusters should be twisted.
- Wonder what the small adjusting bolts on ultegra brakes do.
- Pay for 3 bike fits to get comfortable on the bike, rather than lose 20kg.
- Drink coffee half way through a 40k ride, rather than wait til the end.
- Not fine adjust for chain rub, cos they don't know how.
- start a climb on too high a gear and come to an abrupt halt (which is why you don't want to ride behind one)
- take blind corners wide and two abreast, without interrupting their 'conversation'.
- hold up riders behind by talking when a light goes green, then mess about for 10 seconds trying to cleat in while in too high a gear.
- wear t-shirts rather than jerseys.
- wonder what that squeak is.

Re: Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do

Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 10:17 pm
by r2160
Despite the fact that my Colnago M10 clearly needs a better engine . . . . not care that I dont have a better engine.

Know at the end of a race that I have done my best.

Wish I could have gone that fraction faster.

Wish that the burglars in the races that I am in would realise that they really are cheating not only themselves, but everybody else and put themselves in a more appropriate grade.

cheers
Glenn

PS Wish I didnt have to get up at 5am so I can ride with my friends on a saturday . . .

Re: Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do

Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 10:45 pm
by Tornado
Take crap from other Weekenders who pretend that they aren't.

Re: Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do

Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 10:54 pm
by fnord
skull wrote:
toolonglegs wrote:Cool... I get payed to ride my bike about 2 months per year... maybe more. I am officially not a weekend warrior :P .
Awesome,

I have been paid a couple of times as well, I have also been paid to do fun runs. Super pro.
I get paid at the place I need a bike to ride to, does that make me pro?

Re: Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do

Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 11:21 pm
by toolonglegs
fnord wrote:
skull wrote:
toolonglegs wrote:Cool... I get payed to ride my bike about 2 months per year... maybe more. I am officially not a weekend warrior :P .
Awesome,

I have been paid a couple of times as well, I have also been paid to do fun runs. Super pro.
I get paid at the place I need a bike to ride to, does that make me pro?
No because you could walk there :P .

Re: Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do

Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 11:29 pm
by JessicaAlba
clackers wrote:Carb load with pizza and beer the night before - heck, during lunch the day of the ride! :)
Heh, I just did this!

Primed to go, am I!! :lol:

Re: Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do

Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 11:56 pm
by ldrcycles
Alien27 wrote:Go absolute hell for leather on a short down hill Strava section to get KOTM and then I spent the rest of the ride recovering. I... I mean they :lol
Yea that's so lame. And on a completely unrelated topic, my commute home the other day with a max of 72 and average of only 27 was totally just a recovery ride and i didn't even know that segment was there... :lol:

Re: Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do

Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 7:03 am
by winstonw
toolonglegs wrote:Cool... I get payed to ride my bike about 2 months per year... maybe more. I am officially not a weekend warrior :P .
My company sponsors me. :)
The accountant said it was a legitimate way for me to buy bikes and gear tax free.

Re: Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do

Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 7:08 am
by AndrewBurns
ausrandoman wrote:I have no idea whether I am a weekend warrior, a hubbard, a Fred or some other ingroup or outgroup. I'm just some bloke who likes riding bikes.
I've ridden to the Coongie lakes to to see the sunset, ridden through the bamboo forests of Nara, ridden 450 km in a day, ridden across the Atlas Mountains on donkey tracks, been kissed by a girl riding next to me, watched Jupiter set as I pedalled over Cotton's Pinch in the wee small hours, ridden three days in wet clothes in an Atlantic gale, had a cup of tea with Sir Hubert Opperman, towed a fifty strong peloton through the fields of Normandy, cracked the sheet ice on my tent to fit it on my pannier rack up in the Pilot Wilderness, ridden in 40 degree headwinds and ridden on days when the air was like champagne. Most importantly, I've had a helluva good time.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain...

Re: Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do

Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 7:36 am
by alex
ride everywhere in the big ring

Re: Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do

Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 7:41 am
by toolonglegs
winstonw wrote:
toolonglegs wrote:Cool... I get payed to ride my bike about 2 months per year... maybe more. I am officially not a weekend warrior :P .
My company sponsors me. :)
The accountant said it was a legitimate way for me to buy bikes and gear tax free.
I wish :-) ... I actually do get payed by someone to ride all the most beautiful cols in France ( and Belgium this year ) ... And hopefully italy next year too!... Its a tough job but someone has to do it!.

Re: Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do

Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 8:22 am
by ldrcycles
alex wrote:ride everywhere in the big ring
with a 32t MTB cassette on the rear :) .

Re: Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do

Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 8:27 am
by bychosis
ldrcycles wrote:
Alien27 wrote:Go absolute hell for leather on a short down hill Strava section to get KOTM and then I spent the rest of the ride recovering. I... I mean they :lol
Yea that's so lame. And on a completely unrelated topic, my commute home the other day with a max of 72 and average of only 27 was totally just a recovery ride and i didn't even know that segment was there... :lol:
I'll take it. The only way I got my KOM was with a stiff tailwind. The reverse commute doesn't seem to get a tailwind much in the morning so I'll have to go without.

Re: Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do

Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 8:37 am
by Alex Simmons/RST
Love it!!!
Keep 'em coming. This is not a bike(r) snob thread for those wondering. It's just a bit of fun. :)

Re: Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do

Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 8:53 am
by wizardhat
winstonw wrote:- Wonder which way fine derailleur adjusters should be twisted. (sometimes!)
- Not fine adjust for chain rub, cos they don't know how.
- wonder what that squeak is.
Gosh, this is me :(.

I might have been "Wonder what the small adjusting bolts on ultegra brakes do" as well, but I gave them a turn after trying to adjust the brakes using the mount bolt :(.

Re: Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do

Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 9:22 am
by foo on patrol
I just got 4th place on my Strava for little effort result. :shock: :lol:

I'll win it next week by turning it on in the truck and save the data for the week. :mrgreen:

Foo

Re: Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do

Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 11:11 am
by ni78ck
ride compact cranks!

Re: Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do

Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 12:10 pm
by Ross
Use MTB pedals/cleats/shoes on their road bike

Re: Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do

Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 12:54 pm
by bychosis
zero wrote:The mass participation MTB races like the highland fling, or the three ring circus (plenty of others about too).

After the first 20 minutes the draft stops mattering, but you remain largely surrounded by riders of your pace.
Weekend warriors know that these are 'events' not 'races'. The only person you are out to beat is yourself.

Re: Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do

Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 7:25 pm
by greyhoundtom
Ross wrote:Use MTB pedals/cleats/shoes on their road bike
While wearing the full LiveStrong outfit. :lol: :wink:

Re: Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do

Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 7:34 pm
by skull
enter a 255km ride with minimal training.

Re: Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do

Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 7:43 pm
by coyote
skull wrote:enter a 255km ride with minimal training.
And no spare tubes, C02, hand pump or anything else needed. 8)

Re: Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do

Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 4:54 pm
by munga
wear yellow/green/pink/polkadot/wc/anything else thats just not appropriate unless you've earned it etc etc jerseys 8)
wheelsuck shop bunch, get dropped, wheelsuck next bunch, get dropped, blame it on bronchitis.
buy it in carbon.
but it in ti if you can't but it in carbon.
talk louder than you usually would at the cafe.
get in peoples way by stretching out your fat pink shaved legs at the cafe.
talking loudly at the cafe about how good you used to be.
take four gels on a 32km ride.
stop on bike path to answer phone on sat morning ride, gesticulate wildly with free arm/hand while talking to colleague about current project.
blame phonecalls for ruining segment.

Re: Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do

Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 5:19 pm
by jasonc
Ross wrote:Use MTB pedals/cleats/shoes on their road bike
I've got 1 pair of shoes/pedals - use them on both the flat bar and the roadie. They are MTB style SPD

Re: Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do

Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 5:27 pm
by Ozkaban
skull wrote:enter a 255km ride with minimal training.
The 255km ride *is* training...

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