Things a Weekend Warrior *can* do

[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.

[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 . . .

[Tornado]

Take crap from other Weekenders who pretend that they aren't.

[fnord]

Cool... I get payed to ride my bike about 2 months per year... maybe more. I am officially not a weekend warrior .

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?

[toolonglegs]

Cool... I get payed to ride my bike about 2 months per year... maybe more. I am officially not a weekend warrior .

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 .

[JessicaAlba]

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!!

[ldrcycles]

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...

[winstonw]

Cool... I get payed to ride my bike about 2 months per year... maybe more. I am officially not a weekend warrior .

My company sponsors me.
The accountant said it was a legitimate way for me to buy bikes and gear tax free.

[AndrewBurns]

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...

[alex]

ride everywhere in the big ring

[toolonglegs]

Cool... I get payed to ride my bike about 2 months per year... maybe more. I am officially not a weekend warrior .

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!.

[ldrcycles]

ride everywhere in the big ring

with a 32t MTB cassette on the rear .

[bychosis]

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...

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.

[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.

[wizardhat]

- 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 .

[foo on patrol]

I just got 4th place on my Strava for little effort result.

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

Foo

[ni78ck]

ride compact cranks!

[Ross]

Use MTB pedals/cleats/shoes on their road bike

[bychosis]

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.

[greyhoundtom]

Use MTB pedals/cleats/shoes on their road bike

While wearing the full LiveStrong outfit.

[skull]

enter a 255km ride with minimal training.

[coyote]

enter a 255km ride with minimal training.

And no spare tubes, C02, hand pump or anything else needed.

[munga]

wear yellow/green/pink/polkadot/wc/anything else thats just not appropriate unless you've earned it etc etc jerseys
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.

[jasonc]

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

[Ozkaban]

enter a 255km ride with minimal training.

The 255km ride *is* training...

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