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I've been invited for a ride with the boss' and a few managers.
Any etiquet rules?
Suck, don't blow.
Hole in the back of shorts to show hairy cleavage.
Start descents from the back and show them what elbows are for.
This isn't golf it's a challenge to you machismo.
Make derisory remarks about:
- their bikes
- their physique
- anything else you can
Absolutely destroy them on the climbs, then crash into them on any descents, blaming them for any collisions.
Puncture, and demand they fix it, as whilst out riding the workplace hierarchy is reversed.
Reckon that'll do it. Sorry, you want to keep your job? My bad!
You never know, they might turn out to be fairly normal people.
buy an expensive Ping full susser that takes all the skill out of riding...?
Drop em at the first opportunity... shouting 'LEEERRROOOOYYY JENKINS!!!!' as you go past.
Make sure they 'win' but not by much - that's if you want your next promotion. 😀
One of the lads I ride with occasionally as part of a group is way, way above me at work. He gets bullied mercilessly when we ride together. Not because he's my bosses bosses boss but because he's a bit of a tool.
And they probably all read this forum...
[i]Any etiquet rules? [/i]
Spelling etiquette correctly is the first rule of etiquette.
*reads post three times to make sure spelling is correct but fully expects to get pulled up for something he's missed*
That Leroy video's brilliant
No SPDs in the clubhouse.
I've been invited for a ride with the boss' and a few managers.
I was invited on a business development ride by a law firm the other day - that's when I knew riding bikes was the new golf.
I left work early, rode my bike on company time and thoroughly enjoyed myself. Long may it continue..!
(My take on seniority when doing these activities outside work is to behave as if you were with a bunch of strangers - i.e. friendly but remaining polite. Unless you habitually light your own fats in the presence of strangers of course....)
I took a couple of lads from my work (including my immediate boss) out for a local ride a few weeks ago. I completely *owned* the trails and busted several signature moves during the ride. They were jaw-droppingly impressed. Honest.
find a big hill and do reps whilst explaining why it is an "efficient use of your time" and anything else would not be ringfencing the unicorn.
Did one it was dull and slow with too many pub stops
buy an expensive Ping full susser that takes all the skill out of riding...?
This could be a problem, my bike choice is either the Swift which is slow by virtue of being singlespeed and geared 47" for climbing. Or the Pitch which is slow by virtue of having it's own gravitational field, a single chainring, and climbing's always fun when your front wheel is in a different post code!
I've been invited for a ride with the boss' and a few managers.
I got to ride with the logistic manager (he took his bike everywhere) and a plant manager a couple of times*, both were very fit and very handy on their bikes, I had a great time.
Enjoy.
* I'd load my bike in to the hire car and ride everytime I went to the Neath plant... Afan is ace.
Did one it was dull and slow with too many pub stops
How on earth can a bike ride have too many pub stops? It is what the bridleways of England were made for!
I was invited out by a fairly senior manager a while back for a ride on the North Downs - he encouraged me to bring my heaviest bounciest bike, then turned up himself on a super-lightweight machine, along with everyone else.
Smelling a bit of a stitch-up from the start I felt it especially important to completely annihilate him on every section of the ride, which I did thoroughly 😀
The only way to command respect I reckon 🙂
Might have been different had he been my boss and I didn't think that he was a bit of a pr1ck 😆
Cheers, Rich
my bike choice is either the Swift which is slow by virtue of being singlespeed and geared 47" for climbing
Singlespeeds [i]can[/i] be fast. Therefore, it's not the bike 😉
Singlespeeds can be fast. Therefore, it's not the bike
Indeed, however I'm fat and the climb from the car park is a 1in3, might go upto a 49" now that I can get up it consistently. Which is annoying as before I broke my arm I could ride it on 52" without too much bother.
Cr*p i hadn't thought of that.............man i hate golf.........
My new guvnor "rides a bike" and drives a Q7 ( :roll:).
He has admitted to not being very fit and if the topic comes up, I'll ensure he gets a good understanding of what's required to ride at a decent pace.
- Would it be bad form to turn up for a road ride on a hardtail?
- Would it be bad form to turn up for a road ride on a hardtail?
Not if you can keep up and aren't holding anyone up. If you are slowing the ride down (but you have a road bike you could have ridden) then you're a bit of a prat IMO.
I regulary ride with folk from work - we have done a few 10UTB's etc as well. Our golden rule is no shop talk when riding/away on weekends - seems to work and everyone gets ripped into each other, regardless of inwork pecking order 😆
I dated a girl at uni whose parents were paying for golf lessons as an "investment in her future" I spend the time out on my bike. I'd like to take this opportunity to say a big "ha ha!" To Sarah and more so her mother
njee20 - Member- Would it be bad form to turn up for a road ride on a hardtail?
Not if you can keep up and aren't holding anyone up. If you are slowing the ride down (but you have a road bike you could have ridden) then you're a bit of a prat IMO.
Sorry, I meant to add a tongue in cheek smiley.
Of course, I'd not take any delight in ripping someone's legs off whilst politely smiling at the same time..........
Think your toughest thing will be to explain that your getting naked in a car, in public is a simple, practical way of changing from one form of clothing to another, before and after a ride. It is not to be taken as 'an offer' or some form of dogging game... 😉
Find the steepest most technical trail you can. Send them down first then when they get off and walk - scream past them p@wning the trail shouting 'yah bunch of mincers'.
Totally pwn them while riding a rigid singlespeed with V-brakes 😉
Totally pwn them while riding a rigid singlespeed with [s]V-brakes[/s] [b]mono-mini's[/b]
We'll see.
I did that once with the MD of our company, along with the heads of finance, marketing & communications. It was the palace to palace ride in that London.
I turned up on my panniered up commuter and dished out the pain on the "climbs", took 25mins out of them on the 45mile course too 😉
Turns out it worked in my favour as when the MD turned up at a briefing he said "Hello Steve, how's things?" much to the bemusement of my tosser of a boss 😉
He is a northener though 🙂
This year I got invited to do a 4 day charity ride with the same team in Spain, but the arrival of junior curtailed that
A few years ago I took a load of my guys (all MTBers of varying experience/fitness) to Afan, they throughly enjoyed it - seemed to help the 'team'.
Forget work talk, except remind the most senior one that they have to buy the 'cakes' - with a smile.
Ohh dear, Cycling really is the new Golf!
Cycling on the dark side, yes maybe, but not mtb, no no no, I'm not having that. No, NO, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !!!
No.
take them to a local jump spot and tell them all to go first, then once they're lieing in their backs paralyzed and crying tell them you don't do jumps.
My tip is don't encourage them to take ANY risks. I took novice colleagues out of three rides resulting in one concussion, one set of bruised ribs, and to top it off a compound fracture of the shin. My boss called me in next day and told me NEVER to take them out again if I wanted to keep my job.
My boss just got a decent racer on the c2w scheme and wants to go out and do a ride....some thing epic he says.
Fred Whitton on August here we come. 🙂
Tarnation!
yes it is the new golf but it isn't golf its riding bikes and long may it continue (but it won't)
My boss in school, the Headteacher, lives less than a mile from the start of Penhydd, Glyncorrwg. I've invited him out to ride twice now. To date I have had no response. Which I think is a bit odd- I think that the chance to develop the team in an unusual/ extra-mural situation is worthwhile.
I went riding with some senior managers from work, not my boss mind, and since we go riding all the time and raced D2D together last year. Like someone above said, treat them like normal people, not work people, and you'll be fine.
On a side note, a friend plays rugby with a team mixed with shop floor and senior staff. He often tells me about how they smash each other up during training, irrelevant of 'rank'. There view is this isn't work, it's outside of work and work doesn't come into it!