Cycling - which are you?

[Deleted User] · April 2004

ooooh.. jj has _good_ sunday runs...

popsider · April 2004

Road, all that stuff about getting covered in crap and whacked in the face by branches is what I'd hate about mtbs. Much prefer getting some miles in on a hot day, smooth tarmac and cafe stops.

cougie · April 2004

In fact - let's just do the cafe stops. That cycling gets in the way of a decent 3 hour cake refuel. ;-)

[Deleted User] · April 2004

Pops
"smooth tarmac and cafe stops." maybe in a few years it'll appeal but for the mo there's still a few years left of the ruff stuff. I'll do the L-Brighton and stuff but not roads usually.

Andrew,
I am ex-BMX'er (probably explains the resistance to roads and racers), used to race in its hey-day (1983). Great sport and would love to be able to do the tricks that Hoffman et al can do these days. Last stunt I did at age 28 was trying to ride down 4 flights of stairs on a BMX and face planting the wall, with my nuts ending up in the stem. Excellent sport. At 34, I'll take tricks with some bounce thanks.

Godzilla · April 2004

Bi - Lycra clad road dwelling but on mtb - with cleats

WildWill · April 2004

allways had my suspitions about u 'zilla

lol

[Deleted User] · April 2004

Quite a few interesting results. Wasn't counting on so many people 'batting for both sides'.

Cheers

GT

Jj · April 2004

'cleats' is fast becoming my favourite word.

[Deleted User] · April 2004

Jj,
Cleats are OK on the road, and maybe for a bit of XC, but not for bumps and jumps. They are good but I'd still be nervous about them on downhill.

Plus the hardcore roadie SPD shoes with curled up toes (where you sound like a horse when you are walking) look a bit naff, dont they?

AndrewSmith · April 2004

not to mention slipping over when you stop for a drink at a shop. very embarressing

Jj · April 2004

I have just painted my toenails pink. So I shall be wearing neither.

[Deleted User] · April 2004

in a cafe the other day wearing my mtb spd shoes which i had worn for a road ride in peaks. Got funny looks from a load of mtb ers who couldn't undestand why i was wearing the gear but wasn't dirty. Curiousity got the boeeter of em in the end and one of em was pushed forward to ask- lol

[Deleted User] · April 2004

so Andrea when asked,
Did you come clean and admit to being partial to a bit of roadie, or did you just say you had finished a rip-roaring section of singletrack (to save face) and got so dirrrrty that you had to get cleaned up?

Suffolk Punch · April 2004

Alpine desecents - not much fun at all. At best, bloody scary and painfull on the fingers with all that braking on narrow twisty roads which are usually very gravelly from the lasst downpour (unless you're on Le tour day and the road's been swept!).

[Deleted User] · April 2004

I thought the idea was that you didn´t brake...? To scary for me, after I come down a pass you could fry an egg on my rims and I usually need another set of brake blocks!

cougie · April 2004

Jeez Lizzy - you don't brake ? How do you do hairpins ? Or do ya just jump the bike down to the lower down corner ? V cool !

[Deleted User] · April 2004

Oh crikey, I brake, I brake lots. In fact my paws are welded to the brakes and I´m bolt upright in the saddle for ultimate wind resistance, usually with clothes flapping as well for that parachute effect. Mr B claims not to brake, but he´s usually too far ahead for me to see, and anyway, I don´t want to watch, ´specially when he starts overtaking those lorries and tourist coaches...

cougie · April 2004

Tee hee. Well you don't need to brake on straight bits usually, but it does help before you get to bends.

[Deleted User] · April 2004

Yes, I think from expereince Alpine descents are spent mainly on the anchors, with your body hanging over the back.

I went to this place which was so scenic and surreal taking out the same places you ski on a bike.

http://cms.bikeworld.info/ViewPage.asp?Site=BIKEWORLD&PageID=1538

[Deleted User] · May 2004

MTB for sure
- am only beginner doing some local routes where i know what's round the corner

Gary that bikeworld website has some amazing pics - any other websites you'd recommend ?

[Deleted User] · May 2004

I'm Bi...

shouts MMmmm from the back.. then realises what he's just intimated..!!!!

Mtb
Ti hardtail
Spesh Enduro
Cove G-spot

Roadie
Airbourne Zeppelin
Quinana Roo Te Quilo

and a 'swinger' too by the looks of all that!!!

[Deleted User] · May 2004

and I know I missed a t out of qunitana just now...

RichardM · May 2004

Is there a t in qunitana??

candy ollier · May 2004

quinitanat?

[Deleted User] · May 2004

must be a 2nd silent t then... (and a invisible one... is not even on the cross bar name!)

candy ollier · May 2004

ah you got one of those cheap mexican rip off Quinternet Roots then... apparently they fall apart after 2000 miles

[Deleted User] · May 2004

LOL...
I'll let ya' know...!!! (prob will occur at sherbourne this year!)

candy ollier · May 2004

i tried to buy a TiPhoon but they didn't have one in my size (and i'm 6 foot 1 so hardly unusual) anywhere in the world - i think they don't exist and they just made the bike up to look big and clever

damn mexicans

[Deleted User] · May 2004

well,
branching out from tea-bags is a pretty big leap...

candy ollier · May 2004

are they made by the same people? i thought the big slippers and cloth caps were more 'MTB' territory anyway

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