Unhealthy practices seen while riding
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Re: Unhealthy practices seen while riding
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Re: Unhealthy practices seen while riding
Postby greyhoundtom » Sun May 20, 2012 5:20 am
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Re: Unhealthy practices seen while riding
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Re: Unhealthy practices seen while riding
Postby g-boaf » Mon May 21, 2012 10:21 am
Saw a hipster on a fixie a while back riding across the Anzac Bridge - no hands at all, arms folded - cool as you like. Going at a decent clip as well. Unbelievable!Ross wrote:People riding no hands isn't terribly clever either IMO.
Or hipsters on fixies with no brakes.
+1 also on the old cars with smelly exhausts. But my pet hate is the old Hiace with the uniquely Toyota stinky exhaust, or the two-stroke scooter spluttering away with its smokey exhaust.
I think this goes as another example:
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&layer=c ... 6&t=h&z=16
No hands, no helmet either! The bike needs the helmet more than the rider. Captured by Google Street view - and a setup if ever there were one.
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Re: Unhealthy practices seen while riding
Postby Parrott » Wed May 23, 2012 6:56 pm
I've got pretty good at the bush hanky using thumb and forefinger and catching it in my hand. If there is enough there I can sometimes hear the slap as it hits the road when I flick it down near my pedals.foo on patrol wrote: And you are supposed to do what when racing, other than blow it into your hand and wipe it down you your knicks?
Foo
Other than that wait til you are at the back of the paceline or on your knicks as you say. Nothing worse than a face full of someone elses snot.
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Re: Unhealthy practices seen while riding
Postby foo on patrol » Sat May 26, 2012 8:05 am
Maybe these days the aim isn't as good as it was back then.
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Unhealthy practices seen while riding
Postby toolonglegs » Sat May 26, 2012 8:27 am
What do you do in tt's?... Not that easy to lift a hand up when in aero mode... I have just been snotting down the front of myself... Everything goes in the wash anyway .
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Re: Unhealthy practices seen while riding
Postby Parrott » Sun May 27, 2012 12:24 pm
I wish more people would snot in their hands in bunch rides there is quite often one who seems to insist on spraying it everywhere.
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Re: Unhealthy practices seen while riding
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Re: Unhealthy practices seen while riding
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Re: Unhealthy practices seen while riding
Postby ldrcycles » Wed Jul 25, 2012 7:25 pm
And the unique to Hiace "BLERRRRRR!!!" moan everytime they change gear. There's one that lives down the road from my place and i can always hear it coming, "vrrrrrmmm BLERRRRRR vrrrrrmmmm BLERRRRRR!!!!".g-boaf wrote: But my pet hate is the old Hiace with the uniquely Toyota stinky exhaust
I've never been on a bunch ride yet where someone who needed to launch a snot rocket didn't swing WAY off to one side before doing so.
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Re: Unhealthy practices seen while riding
Postby Mulger bill » Wed Jul 25, 2012 10:42 pm
Grrr! I hope karma gets these mongrels by making their saddle fall off mid air.Cadel wrote:When riding around Westerfolds Park I noticed quite a few energy gel wrappers on the MTB tracks.
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Re: Unhealthy practices seen while riding
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Re: Unhealthy practices seen while riding
Postby ILMB » Mon Sep 17, 2012 6:51 pm
How about stopping, taking out a hanky/tissue and having a good blow. Only takes seconds.foo on patrol wrote:And you are supposed to do what when racing, other than blow it into your hand and wipe it down you your knicks?IR8naml wrote:I am over the macho cyclist who has to demonstrate the repulsive act of showing the person behind them how much crap they can blow from their nasal cavities, which if you’re lucky, when the wind is right the expulsion violently splatters onto the perusing cyclist face.
Seriously, you people need to learn some manners.
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I usually find the nasal gunk stops after one clean-out.
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Re: Unhealthy practices seen while riding
Postby VRE » Fri Sep 21, 2012 12:42 pm
Lucky you. In colder weather, my nose needs flushing every 5 minutes or so, and it's just not practical to stop that often.ILoveMyBike wrote:How about stopping, taking out a hanky/tissue and having a good blow. Only takes seconds.foo on patrol wrote:And you are supposed to do what when racing, other than blow it into your hand and wipe it down you your knicks?IR8naml wrote:I am over the macho cyclist who has to demonstrate the repulsive act of showing the person behind them how much crap they can blow from their nasal cavities, which if you’re lucky, when the wind is right the expulsion violently splatters onto the perusing cyclist face.
Seriously, you people need to learn some manners.
Foo
I usually find the nasal gunk stops after one clean-out.
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Re: Unhealthy practices seen while riding
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Re: Unhealthy practices seen while riding
Postby warthog1 » Mon Sep 24, 2012 5:34 pm
Good way to make the race harder for yourselfILoveMyBike wrote:How about stopping, taking out a hanky/tissue and having a good blow. Only takes seconds.foo on patrol wrote:And you are supposed to do what when racing, other than blow it into your hand and wipe it down you your knicks?IR8naml wrote:I am over the macho cyclist who has to demonstrate the repulsive act of showing the person behind them how much crap they can blow from their nasal cavities, which if you’re lucky, when the wind is right the expulsion violently splatters onto the perusing cyclist face.
Seriously, you people need to learn some manners.
Foo
I usually find the nasal gunk stops after one clean-out.
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