"Get a real bike!"
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"Get a real bike!"
Postby Hotdog » Tue Nov 20, 2007 9:53 pm
The topic of the thread was shouted at me on my commute home from work this evening. When I turned to see where the recommendation was coming from it wasn't a bike snob perched on a road bike costing as much as most people's houses as I was expecting, but instead the occupant of a blue "hoon-mobile" ute. I never knew cyclist-abusing ute drivers were so discerning about bicycles, normally all I get is "Get off the f'ing road" (which admittedly wouldn't have been appropriate in this case as I was on a SUP next to the road at the time) or incomprehensible jeering...
Oh well, that'll teach me for going out riding on my imaginary bicycle, I suppose, I'll take the real one next time
Oh well, that'll teach me for going out riding on my imaginary bicycle, I suppose, I'll take the real one next time
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Postby Hotdog » Tue Nov 20, 2007 11:26 pm
As is almost always the case he was past and gone well before I had time to react at all. To be honest as it's one of the least offensive things I've had shouted at me from a car I was more amused than anything else, I was after all getting cycling advice from someone labouring through heavy traffic in an silly, ugly, overweight and overengined carstryker84 wrote:Shoulda yelled "Get a real car, not some ponsy hoon-mobile!" right back at him.
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Postby Kalgrm » Tue Nov 20, 2007 11:39 pm
I'm guessing he was actually a cyclist himself. Non-cyclists see these as "cool" or "wicked". Only hard-core roadies or MTBers (in my experience) know what a "real bike" should look like.
I've had it yelled to me from a truck-full of council workers who were stuck in traffic on the fwy. As I rode past them on the adjacent bike path, one of the guys in the back yelled out "Get a real bike!"
I yelled back "Why?".
We parted ways smiling at each other.
Cheers,
Graeme
I've had it yelled to me from a truck-full of council workers who were stuck in traffic on the fwy. As I rode past them on the adjacent bike path, one of the guys in the back yelled out "Get a real bike!"
I yelled back "Why?".
We parted ways smiling at each other.
Cheers,
Graeme
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Postby Kalgrm » Wed Nov 21, 2007 12:11 am
I've had a sudden rush of people asking me one question lately as I've rolled to a stop next to them:
"Are you comfortable on that thing?"
They all ask as if it looks like an instrument of torture. I don't understand where the question comes from. What makes them think I look uncomfortable?
Anyway, my response usually goes along the lines of "Which part looks uncomfortable? The bit where I get to lie back or the bit where I get to put my feet up? The only thing uncomfortable about this is the fact that the bikini-clad waitresses can't keep up with the beer and chips!"
Cheers,
Graeme
"Are you comfortable on that thing?"
They all ask as if it looks like an instrument of torture. I don't understand where the question comes from. What makes them think I look uncomfortable?
Anyway, my response usually goes along the lines of "Which part looks uncomfortable? The bit where I get to lie back or the bit where I get to put my feet up? The only thing uncomfortable about this is the fact that the bikini-clad waitresses can't keep up with the beer and chips!"
Cheers,
Graeme
Think outside the double triangle.
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Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it ....
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Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it ....
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Postby Mulger bill » Wed Nov 21, 2007 9:28 pm
Two wheels, bioengine... what's not bike about it?
Maybe the pretty streamers on the handlebars got him
[quote=]To the hoon ute driver, a real bike probably is a big throbbing motorbike or Harley between his legs[/quote]
Well he's got to have something there, even if he has to buy it...
Shaun
Maybe the pretty streamers on the handlebars got him
[quote=]To the hoon ute driver, a real bike probably is a big throbbing motorbike or Harley between his legs[/quote]
Well he's got to have something there, even if he has to buy it...
Shaun
...whatever the road rules, self-preservation is the absolute priority for a cyclist when mixing it with motorised traffic.
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Postby Uba Tracker » Mon Jan 14, 2008 7:29 am
Tall Poppies have always been the unfortunate target of insult and abuse, I personally find insults or jibes of motorists easier to ignore than the blatant denial of my existence by fellow 'Cyclists'.
A bad day's riding beats a good day's work everytime
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Postby europa » Mon Jan 14, 2008 8:38 am
Had a bloke in his sixties pull up next to me the other day. This clown was riding a full carbon race bike, grey beard, full lycra ... and an expression that made me wonder if I had some hideous disease.
Sorry, I just can't understand that sort of attitude.
Richard
Sorry, I just can't understand that sort of attitude.
Richard
I had a good bike ... so I fixed it
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Postby Leigh_caines » Mon Jan 14, 2008 8:51 am
A few of the roadboys [after a long time of me waving each day] raze their hand as I pass on ether of my recumbent...
but when I'm on the raleigh20 they turn the other way
but when I'm on the raleigh20 they turn the other way
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Postby Kalgrm » Mon Jan 14, 2008 9:15 am
I just read an un-attributed quote over on BROL which sums it up well for me:
Anyway, it doesn't matter what others think in the long run. Do what is best for yourself, because that's really who you are riding for.
Cheers,
Graeme
When I find out who said it first, it will be my new signiture quote (for a while, anyway.)someone wrote:You laugh at me because I'm different: I laugh at you because you're all the same ....
Anyway, it doesn't matter what others think in the long run. Do what is best for yourself, because that's really who you are riding for.
Cheers,
Graeme
Think outside the double triangle.
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Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it ....
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Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it ....
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Postby Leigh_caines » Mon Jan 14, 2008 10:47 am
>You laugh at me because I'm different: I laugh at you because you're all the same ....<
I like it.... good saying
And Graeme I like your pics...
well not "Pics" but "Art"
I like it.... good saying
And Graeme I like your pics...
well not "Pics" but "Art"
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