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Yeah, it can be possible, my remedy with worn out SB8s was a speed machine.
What I don't get is why they slipstream me, then overtake, then don't slow a bit to let me slipstream them.

I'm on my non-aero machine mr power ranger, come on, help me out here.


 
Posted : 16/08/2011 1:03 pm
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Wow, there are some cocks around aren't there!?

I don't give them the time of day even if I'm on a road bike
How do you differentiate between 'you' and 'them'? How do you know if they're not a mountain biker, on his first ever road ride? Are they not good enough for you because 'they' wear lycra? You sound like a far bigger **** than the OP!


Because they all ride in a big ROAD CLUB you c**t


 
Posted : 16/08/2011 8:27 pm
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Good story


 
Posted : 17/08/2011 12:11 am
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Doesn't sound like many of you would nod at me...

Overtake me? 😉


 
Posted : 17/08/2011 6:11 am
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Because they all ride in a big ROAD CLUB you c**t

Confirms my point quite nicely there!

You know, I was walking down the road the other day, I said hello to another pedestrian, and he didn't reply, the nerve of some people 🙄


 
Posted : 17/08/2011 9:01 am
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We're all cyclists together so I always say hello to other cyclists, whether they're on the road or off road. I don't know whether they all respond, I'm usually overtaking them at great speeds so I dont hear them if they do.


 
Posted : 17/08/2011 9:07 am
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How different would your post be if he actually managed to keep up? Actually you wouldn't have posted that!!

Got to give these things a try at times, on the rare occasion it works it'll be great. I managed to keep up with an unfit looking roadie on my 29er on the road for a few miles, was completely burst after it but it was fun trying.


 
Posted : 17/08/2011 9:53 am
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You know, I was walking down the road the other day, I said hello to another pedestrian, and he didn't reply, the nerve of some people

Must have been "on a century"


 
Posted : 17/08/2011 10:40 am
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You just don't get this whole them and us on roadie forums, in fact MTB is hardly mentioned at all.
Seems to be a completely one sided obsession, like an inferiority complex.


 
Posted : 17/08/2011 10:42 am
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You just don't get this whole them and us on roadie forums, in fact MTB is hardly mentioned at all.
Seems to be a completely one sided obsession, like an inferiority complex.

Sounds about right.


 
Posted : 17/08/2011 10:49 am
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It's just the frustration with humourless people who take riding a pushbike far too seriously.
Still, at least now the TDF is over, there's less grim faced men in tights on my commute.


 
Posted : 17/08/2011 11:31 am
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Still, at least now the TDF is over, there's less grim faced men in tights on my commute.

Fair play for doing it, but if I was commuting from Belgium to Paris I wouldnt go via the Alps and the Pyrenees


 
Posted : 17/08/2011 11:56 am
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