Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do
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Re: Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do
Postby winstonw » Fri Oct 26, 2012 9:51 pm
- 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.
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Re: Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do
Postby r2160 » Fri Oct 26, 2012 10:17 pm
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 . . .
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Re: Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do
Postby Tornado » Fri Oct 26, 2012 10:45 pm
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Re: Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do
Postby fnord » Fri Oct 26, 2012 10:54 pm
I get paid at the place I need a bike to ride to, does that make me pro?skull wrote:Awesome,toolonglegs wrote:Cool... I get payed to ride my bike about 2 months per year... maybe more. I am officially not a weekend warrior .
I have been paid a couple of times as well, I have also been paid to do fun runs. Super pro.
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Re: Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do
Postby toolonglegs » Fri Oct 26, 2012 11:21 pm
No because you could walk there .fnord wrote:I get paid at the place I need a bike to ride to, does that make me pro?skull wrote:Awesome,toolonglegs wrote:Cool... I get payed to ride my bike about 2 months per year... maybe more. I am officially not a weekend warrior .
I have been paid a couple of times as well, I have also been paid to do fun runs. Super pro.
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Re: Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do
Postby JessicaAlba » Fri Oct 26, 2012 11:29 pm
Heh, I just did this!clackers wrote:Carb load with pizza and beer the night before - heck, during lunch the day of the ride!
Primed to go, am I!!
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Re: Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do
Postby ldrcycles » Fri Oct 26, 2012 11:56 pm
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...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
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Re: Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do
Postby winstonw » Sat Oct 27, 2012 7:03 am
My company sponsors me.toolonglegs wrote:Cool... I get payed to ride my bike about 2 months per year... maybe more. I am officially not a weekend warrior .
The accountant said it was a legitimate way for me to buy bikes and gear tax free.
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Re: Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do
Postby AndrewBurns » Sat Oct 27, 2012 7:08 am
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...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.
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Re: Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do
Postby alex » Sat Oct 27, 2012 7:36 am
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Re: Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do
Postby toolonglegs » Sat Oct 27, 2012 7:41 am
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!.winstonw wrote:My company sponsors me.toolonglegs wrote:Cool... I get payed to ride my bike about 2 months per year... maybe more. I am officially not a weekend warrior .
The accountant said it was a legitimate way for me to buy bikes and gear tax free.
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Re: Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do
Postby ldrcycles » Sat Oct 27, 2012 8:22 am
with a 32t MTB cassette on the rear .alex wrote:ride everywhere in the big ring
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Re: Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do
Postby bychosis » Sat Oct 27, 2012 8:27 am
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.ldrcycles wrote: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...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
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Re: Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do
Postby Alex Simmons/RST » Sat Oct 27, 2012 8:37 am
Keep 'em coming. This is not a bike(r) snob thread for those wondering. It's just a bit of fun.
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Re: Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do
Postby wizardhat » Sat Oct 27, 2012 8:53 am
Gosh, this is me .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.
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 .
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Re: Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do
Postby foo on patrol » Sat Oct 27, 2012 9:22 am
I'll win it next week by turning it on in the truck and save the data for the week.
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Re: Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do
Postby ni78ck » Sat Oct 27, 2012 11:11 am
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Re: Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do
Postby Ross » Sat Oct 27, 2012 12:10 pm
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Re: Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do
Postby bychosis » Sat Oct 27, 2012 12:54 pm
Weekend warriors know that these are 'events' not 'races'. The only person you are out to beat is yourself.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.
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Re: Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do
Postby greyhoundtom » Sat Oct 27, 2012 7:25 pm
While wearing the full LiveStrong outfit.Ross wrote:Use MTB pedals/cleats/shoes on their road bike
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Re: Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do
Postby skull » Sat Oct 27, 2012 7:34 pm
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Re: Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do
Postby coyote » Sat Oct 27, 2012 7:43 pm
And no spare tubes, C02, hand pump or anything else needed.skull wrote:enter a 255km ride with minimal training.
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Re: Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do
Postby munga » Sun Oct 28, 2012 4:54 pm
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.
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Re: Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do
Postby jasonc » Sun Oct 28, 2012 5:19 pm
I've got 1 pair of shoes/pedals - use them on both the flat bar and the roadie. They are MTB style SPDRoss wrote:Use MTB pedals/cleats/shoes on their road bike
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Re: Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do
Postby Ozkaban » Sun Oct 28, 2012 5:27 pm
The 255km ride *is* training...skull wrote:enter a 255km ride with minimal training.
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