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I can't help thinking roadies are more miserable than ever, like they are riding without padded shorts...
Kinda reminds me of people in training for a marathon telling you what fun it is but when you see them out running there face tells a different story.
Off road trails here are busier than ever but it seems most riders nod a greeting or ask if you need help when you've pulled to the side of the trails.
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Its you o.p.
They don't like you.
It's not just you OP.
They don't like anyone.
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Why are trolls so shit and predictable? OP? One for you?
I've noticed it after a couple of days riding down south. I'm used to getting at least a nod from 95% of the roadies I pass up north but down south they just seemed to ignore me.
You're assuming that you're meant to enjoy it.
You're not!
Wow, only six days since the last time this came up!
http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/why-are-roadies-so-miserable
Bet you'd been waiting for a wheel size thread to come up so you could use that one plop pants, but then this little gem was too good to resist. 😉
Why do some users assume that all users read every post, every day?
? Why don't question marks appear at the start of a question.
To answer the OP, i don't know if they are all miserable but road riding is terribly boring and some people are grumpy when bored.
Second post sums it up perfectly. (Again)
i ride a road bike and a mountainbike, it's the constant mood swings i can't stand
If you find road riding boring you must be doing it wrong... Or live somewhere really crap. Personally I like riding any sort of bike and people seem friendly enough in Cumbria regardless of what type of bike they ride. Ho hum.
Just for balance, I was extremely miserable on my mountain bike this morning. I think someone may have started a "Mountain Bikers - why so miserable thread?" on road.cc in my honour.
I've noticed it after a couple of days riding down south. I'm used to getting at least a nod from 95% of the roadies I pass up north but down south they just seemed to ignore me.
It's because you're a northerner and therefore treated like the leprous wretch that you are; to wit they act as if you're not there. It's hard to acknowledge empty space. It just is.
Mountain bikers, why so needy for the attention of strangers?
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It's because you smell OP.
Ive seen miserable ****s on mountain bikes.
Then again why say hello 10x a day. What is it? A public service?!
Why do some users assume that all users read every post, every day?
why in 2014 do people use information technology so badly? With 200,000+ topics in the bike section alone the chances your question has been asked before. Posting a new thread rather than searching is a really inefficient use of a huge resource, you might get 10 replies on your "best flat pedal/shoe/tyre" thread, but its been asked 10 times before so youre missing out on another 100 opinions.
But you didn't want a rational response, and trolls are only interested in further downgrading the signal to noise ratio, not gathering information.
It's all the mountain bikers riding around on their new poorly fitted road bikes with mtb saddles and baggies.
Nah its the ones who never podium but are the ****s in road clubs and always train and enter crits.
Basically deluded Napoleons.
Bet you walked into any amateur road club, the big characters/pushy/headstrong ones.
I like being miserable.
I ride both and am continuously cheerful.
Leaving aside that you can almost set your clock by this thread these days, I guess a lot has to do with approach and habit.
Turning it on it's head, how many sunny cheerful people would you expect to find in a gym after a day at work? Or for that matter mountainbikers at the end of a long slog event that didn't end in a rush of DH but instead with a long climb? Just sayin'.
I smiled and waved at everyone I saw when out on my ride this evening just to prove you wrong. Even the mountain bikers.
On the road bike I always put on my sourest face and ignore everyone and everything. I thought they were the rules 🙂
Edit... TBH though I'm usually looking at my garmin or the 6ft or so of road ahead of my front wheel. By the time I notice a rider coming the other way it's often too late to give a wave.
I'm usually looking at my garmin or the 6ft or so of road ahead of my front wheel
Same as most drivers then 😀
Do you get in a fuss when you walk down the street and no-one says hello to you too? 😯
It's because they're not getting any. Obviously.
Because I live on the TDF route I'm seeing loads of roadies out recently and they tend to at least give you a nod, even when I'm on my MTB. I love all the newbies that are out, big saddle packs, matching Lycra, questionable positions on the bikes - always get a smile (with maybe a grimace if they are climbing!) and maybe a wave. Looks like they are enjoying being out on the bike in the nice weather and I hope I will see them again! I really think the TDF fever round here is doing a world of good. Long may it continue.
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STW, last week:
http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/banana-skins-litter
I live on the tour route and have been told i have to move my car and that my road will be closed, i asked what if i need to go into the village, they requested that I walk, due the fact i will be unable to ride my bike ir drive as it would be agains the flow of the ride. hahahahaha, its 5 miles.
I'm just about to set off on the road bike. I got very little sleep and definitely no sex last night so full on miserable mode engaged. Don't you dare acknowledge me you MTBing scum.
[url= http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/why-are-roadies-so-miserable ]here[/url]
[url= http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/grins-and-grimaces-a-contrast ]or here[/url]
[url= http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/who-should-say-hello ]or here[/url]
[url= http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/miserabe-roadie-sportive-ists ]or here[/url]
[url= http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/the-miserable-roadie-thing ]or here[/url]
Another question. Why do the forum smart Alec's think that if something has been discussed once IT MUST NOT BE DISCUSSED AGAIN?
Get over yourselves.
I think it's less the topic has been discussed, more it is a pernicious statement that seems to border on troll-lite.
...anyway, the fact we are now on page 2, means it's getting discussed to a certain degree.
Can we not just make it a sticky thread?
Incredibly small penis should answer most of the questions in this thread
Most of the questions in this thread seem to be questioning the OPs trolling motives, so you may be right.
I'm afraid I'm one of the annoying ones rolling along with a shit-eating grin and saying hello to people.
If you find road riding boring you must be doing it wrong... Or live somewhere really crap
What should i be doing [i]right [/i]to make it exciting?
I was pedaling in an anti-clock wise direction so i've got the basics covered. It was faster than walking and i got plenty of fresh air but road riding is much slower than travelling by motorbike and my attempts at injecting some excitement into it were unsuccessful (bike broke) so i was doing it wrong on that front. I see road riding as the serious/grown up side of cycling and that's not what cycling is about for me at present. Moving house to somewhere less crappy isn't going to change that.
why in 2014 do people use information technology so badly? With 200,000+ topics in the bike section alone the chances your question has been asked before. Posting a new thread rather than searching is a really inefficient use of a huge resource
If you'd used the [i]excellent [/i]search function, you could have found the answer to that question. 25 efficiency credits will be deducted from your account.
Ha ha, just went out on road bike and did some hill climbs and got a puncture.
But guess what...
I still really enjoyed myself.
Weather is nice.
It's a quiet-ish road.
And I'd still rather be out on my bike, mountain bike or road, than doing almost anything else.
And I greeted a mountain biker just to make a point
Surely you'd be miserable too if you had to ride this?
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Not all of them can be hora though, surely?
If you'd used the excellent search function, you could have found the answer to that question. 25 efficiency credits will be deducted from your account.
🙂 FWIW I find the advanced one works fine.
My first road ride was a joyless death march,I perservered as I was carrying an injury and it quickly clicked, and I now do more on road than off road riding. My 2005 R1 has just been SORNed, first time in 20+ years I havent had a road legal bike, as those rest days where I'd blat into wales for a long day of lane carving (and spend a fortune on petrol) I now spend out on the road bike. No faffing loading cars and driving to some worthwhile trails, I'm on quiet roads 5mins from my door. More sociable than MTBing if you want it to be as you can chat as you ride. Cover more miles so (as long as youve got the surroundings) you see more than on an MTB. Flying along the flats with legs spinning smoothly and a feeling of effortlessness has a feeling of purity and is a bit zen. Climbs are there to be conquered and pain to be overruled. Then spin out, tuck and fly down the other side, lifting your vision and using your bodyweight as if you were on a motorbike, every roadie remembers the first time they topped 50mph.
As long as you are riding and enjoying it it's all good, I hope road riding clicks for you as its another option/dimension, but if it doesnt youre loving MTBing so its win-win.
I smile and wave to everyone out on a bike, be they 'serious' roadies, gnarly MTBers or commuters, farmers or pensioners pootling to the shops.
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.H. G. Wells
They may look miserable, but they are secretly revelling in the 'glory of suffering'.
The roads did seem quieter this morning. And last night too for some reason. If it means I get to ride my bike with less numpties on the road I might have to start hoping Ingerlund win and get through to the next round.
I'm miserable because I hate the inconvenience of having to look upon another member of this doomed species. Each and every one of you makes me feel sick.
My first road ride was a joyless death march,I perservered as I was carrying an injury and it quickly clicked, and I now do more on road than off road riding. My 2005 R1 has just been SORNed, first time in 20+ years I havent had a road legal bike, as those rest days where I'd blat into wales for a long day of lane carving (and spend a fortune on petrol) I now spend out on the road bike. No faffing loading cars and driving to some worthwhile trails, I'm on quiet roads 5mins from my door. More sociable than MTBing if you want it to be as you can chat as you ride. Cover more miles so (as long as youve got the surroundings) you see more than on an MTB. Flying along the flats with legs spinning smoothly and a feeling of effortlessness has a feeling of purity and is a bit zen. Climbs are there to be conquered and pain to be overruled. Then spin out, tuck and fly down the other side, lifting your vision and using your bodyweight as if you were on a motorbike, every roadie remembers the first time they topped 50mph.
Good answer 😀 Pretty much covers many reasons why i (and maybe most of us) cycle in the first place. I'm still a bit too keen on using every lump, bump and curb as an excuse to play to make owning a road bike a practical thing though. I prefer the extra freedom and robustitude of using an mtb - sounds really very obvious but you're not limited to the roads. I do ride on roads* (not really road riding though) in order to get to the wild, but if i spy something interesting on my travels (easily done where i live - maybe i should move somewhere crappier still 😉 ) i can go explore and not worry about having to walk home.
I hope road riding clicks for you as its another option/dimension
I'd like to give the road a go some day but i'll need to shake the inner child in me first for it to work. It's on the long finger and my 'plan' is it to continue to do what i do, for as long as my body will let me, then retire to the road 😀
* 500 efficiency credits deducted and a further 10,000 good citizen credits deducted for using footpaths on occasion.
I have come to the conclusion, that the ones who do not smile, nod, reply hello, morning, evening etc are concetrating on smashing the KOM on that Strava segment and any diversion from that task, would be against their marginal gains 😉
I'll bite
Yesterday whilst roadieing into work I approached a bridleway junction with a chap on a MTB waiting there. Nodded hello to him and got completely ignored.
This morning on't MTB, riding down a quite crappy gravel track on NCN20, I met two women coming the other way on road bikes. Good mornings were exchanged all round.
Conclusion? One nil to (us) roadies 😆 😛