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Think the OP's maybe missed the tongue-in-cheekness of a lot of responses, the banter's part of what makes STW so great.
Especially for me living in the MTB wasteland of Nottingham, don't you think taco...? 😉 (That smilie's to show there's no negativity, just a bit of lighthearted banter...!)
I would prefer the cycling talk on here to be more about mountain biking and less about road than it currently is,
*lobs a straw man into the argument*
Taking that idea to it's conclusion we'd only have two or three threads on here. The Munroe thread, about half the bivi thread, and a few threads on the Lakes and Wales, nothing else is 'Mountain'.
[i]nothing else is 'Mountain'. [/i]
*looks out of window at South Downs*
good point.
Can't you just ignore the stuff you're not interested in and read the stuff you are? Radical, I know.
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To be honest, having to wade through all the "Its Tuesday, please congratualate me on this photo that I took" thread is far more annoying than the roadie threads but then thats because I am also a roadie and not a photographer. I came up with an ace plan though, ignore the photography threads.... Mrs BristolPablo likes the dog picture threads though so wants those to stay.
I think your understanding of the phrase "torrent of abuse" is very different from a lot of other people
Yeah, you should try posting an urgent [b]"I've just seen on the telly that the Titanic has sunk"[/b] thread and see what happens... 😉
still smarts eh Mr Woppit?
teamhurtmore - Member
FWIW and IMO, there are a few reasons for the roadie talk:1. All cycling is fun and I would guess the majority of MTB owners also own some kind of road bike. The exclusive bit is to a large extent a myth that is sustained merely for the humour/banter value
2. The crap weather and condition of trails has led to many of us getting the road bikes out again
3. There really is not that much MTB stuff to talk about if we are being honest
4. Commited roadies (and especially triathletes like me ) are easy targets for banter
5. They've all jumped on the 2012 TdF / Olympics bandwagon. They'll all be playing tennis in June.
wwaswas - Memberstill smarts eh Mr Woppit?
It's da bomb! 😆
🙂
I'm not getting Mr Woppit's Titanic reference and search isn't yielding the goods - could anyone furnish me with a link to the offending item?
he somehow managed to find a story about the 7/7 bombings about 4 years after they happened and believed it was a live news report.
So he posted it on here.
You can probably predict the results.
We try not to talk about it when he's about now, tbh.
I am NOT on the "other bus." It's The Yak thats the roadie bastard.
My mates in my road club think I'm a mountain biker - when I'm out with (different) boys offroad on the MTB(s), they think I'm a roadie* !
Great innit !
*obviously my blinding speed and fitness 😉
I think I'm a mountain biker, but no fooling myself about where the 'miles' are done.
Oh, and this is a great forum, (both bike and chat), despite the occasional predictability and arguing !
G.
Surely that should be 'in the other peleton?'
The Yak is still very disappointed by this forum. He was banned for being nice to people and using my laptop to sign on. I'll try and get him to sign in again and join in here. He's got quite an opinion on all this roadie pish.
No, he might actually be back ,<ahem > 'in the bus' ..
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Which mincers don't ride mountain bikes in winter?
Its the best (not neccesarily true) time of year for riding, getting sideways round corners, getting filthy, throwing mud at your riding pals, the list of jollity is endless, but i'll stop there cos we've all got lives to get on with. I cant see 700cc wheels sliding well round the corner unless you've just hit some black ice. I agree there is too much roadie stuff but at least if its advertised in the thread title its easy enough to avoid, its the bloody stealth roadies as have been mentioned before posting roadie stats in an mtb thread. You may not want to leave the MTB site alone but don't invade what is becoming the last bastion of moutain bikes on a mountiain bike forum and try to usurp the topic that way.
And relax 🙂
[i]Surely that should be 'in the other peleton?' [/i]
or, in my case 'in the other broom wagon'
In reality, we're not solely interested in one specific thing. We like lots of stuff - I like MTB, road, I commute, I drive a car, I own a house, I drink coffee, I travel, take pictures etc etc. I don't want to have to click through different forums or even sites to talk about this stuff.The diversity of stuff both cycling and non- is what makes this forum so good. I spend all day on here, I hardly ever go to other forums!
This!
teamhurtmore - Member
...2. The crap weather and condition of trails has led to many of us getting the road bikes out again...
Maybe just need to get a proper mountainbike instead? - one that can cope with winter weather. 🙂
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No such thing as crap weather on the trails.
That a Jetstream P8? Great bike, wish I never sold mine now.
one that can cope with winter weather.
My bike can cope fine, it's me that can't be bothered. Slithering about at half normal speed listening to your drivetrain being ruined and getting muddy - yawn. The same old trails are becoming dull enough as it is.
If I could pause my life and naff off to the Beacons for a 6 hour ride mind, I would - even if it were in the middle of winter.
It's a Groove. Been sold on too. Enormous fun, but I've got way too many bikes, so something had to go.
I used to pull it out when the 26" wheel crowd got too obnoxious about how their small wheels were better and stronger than 29er wheels and handled better etc. Somehow they couldn't quite grasp that by that reckoning 20" wheels must be the ducks nuts. 🙂
Edit: I posted the pic to demonstrate that weather shouldn't stop you taking your mtb out. If that little thing can be ridden round the mountains in snow, so can all those flash bikes cowering in sheds.
if it's anything like last year.until [s]november[/s] [b]June[/b]...
I don't think there's that much roadie content but then again I am one of those people who have just started dabble in the skinny tyre side of things...and have really enjoyed it so far.
I love mountain bikes, I really do but where I live the riding isn't great and it's a bit of a faf, especially when time is limited and the weather is poo. I like th fact that on the road bike a I can ride from my doorstep, do a couple of hours on quite roads, slung the bike in the garage and be done with it.
If I still live is Sheffield, and had Stanage and Wyming Brook on my doorstep like I used to, I doubt I would eve have thought about getting a road bike.
At the end of the day, it's a bike riding so who cares?
It is probably too late (it's all in the timing) but -
This is a bike Forum? Mostly about wood burning stoves, audis and human interest stories isn't it?
If you go on a pure roadie forum there is a lot of talk of training, racing and serious stuff. Here it is people who seem to just want to go for a ride, that this weekend, is on the tarmac.
FWIW, road biking is good but cx is much better. It's like a rigid drop barred 29er, what more could you want.
A drop barred 29er sounds like hell on earth. WTF would I want that? Crossbikes are for Goys.
Have you been on 'roadie' forums? God they're dull. They're really isn't anything to say.
The threads about things related to road bikes (I can't think of any roadie threads) on STW tend to be fun and mostly harmless with a pinch of BS.
It's a bit ...[i]awkward[/i] to post at work, without getting an earful, so I've just come back to this thread. TBH, I honestly couldn't understand what the OP was on about. I've not noticed any particular emphasis or bias towards road riding on here, but then, this is, as has been pointed out, the [b]chat[/b] forum, not the [b]cycling[/b] forum.
This is where I spend all my forum browsing, purely and simply because, as Molgrips said, there's such a wide variety of subjects all in one place, which is what I love about STW. I hate micro-managed fora, where there's a dozen silly little subject headings that you have to stick with. As this is the [b]chat[/b] forum, I expect there to be a huge variety of subjects, and if a few are concerned with road bikes, well that's fine with me, I'm amazed anyone should get all aggressive about it.
I didn't even recognise the OP's name, I thought he was a new member just signed up to be a troll, the fact he actually admitted to attempting to troll this thread, and then get all snotty when pulled up about his poor grammar, means I've no respect for whatever point he was trying to make.
Anyroadup I'm off for a mountainbike ride, anyone coming?
Nope, I went for a protest road ride earlier
Where's Yodagoat & Stanfree ? They're both batting for the other team
Mmmm ,Davesport your a prime candidate for a road bike , you wear snug Ron Hills to go for a pint at the Winton. 😀
A bit of research would have clearly told you that the roadies on here are a very defensive lot
like in the same way this bloke was a bit defensive..
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I didn't even recognise the OP's name, I thought he was a new member just signed up to be a troll, the fact he actually admitted to attempting to troll this thread, and then get all snotty when pulled up about his poor grammar, means I've no respect for whatever point he was trying to make.
The Names Tacopowell, Been a member for a year or two but only recently started using the forum properly.
Read my posts again, Where did I admit to trolling?! Read the original post and ask yourself if was at all in the slightest bit aggressive???
As far as getting "snotty" about my grammar, no, I find it annoying when people use poor grammar as an argument, Has nothing to do with my quite frankly easy going opinion on the subject in the original post.
People would be better off reading rather than scanning the words.
Well I quit my ST sub a few months ago (after 10 yrs) and have just taken out one to Cyclist. Its rather a good read. It wasn't an intentional swap, I had just got bored of ST then I bought C when bored in a service station and next thing I've subscribed.
I still prefer mountain biking though.
Epicycle, I was out nearly every day in the snow. It's the thick gloop that just scores your chain/cassettes etc up that I get fed up with.
Have you been on 'roadie' forums? God they're dull. They're really isn't anything to say.The threads about things related to road bikes (I can't think of any roadie threads) on STW tend to be fun and mostly harmless with a pinch of BS.
Agree. Post on here for advice on road bikes or training you'll probably get a reasonable, relaxed and helpful response. Post same on bikema9ic and you'll get a load of sarcastic, inadequate know it alls demanding to know what your targets are and FTP is before they will offer to share their huge wisdom with you and each thread ends with them points scoring off each other and arguing that a 3x5 min interval session is so much better for improving VO2 max than a 5x3 min session.
tacopowell - Member
I posted the thread not because I'm a hater or because I'm the "Thread Police" or because I thought I'd try my hand at Trolling,
Sorry, my bad, I was speed-reading in case I got caught not working and miss-read this bit. Apologies.
hh45 - Member
Well I quit my ST sub a few months ago (after 10 yrs) and have just taken out one to Cyclist. Its rather a good read. It wasn't an intentional swap, I had just got bored of ST then I bought C when bored in a service station and next thing I've subscribed.
It's a cracking read Cyclist. I have got the road one for the past 2 months, easily the best mag out there.
[edit] [s]there's been some overnight redaction of this thread.[/s]
or maybe it's just search playing up.
Mmmm ,Davesport your a prime candidate for a road bike , you wear snug Ron Hills to go for a pint at the Winton.
Ouch...killer punch 😀 Can't get into the Ron Hills any more. Ar$e has got too big. I'd make a shi*e roadie. I'm far too happy 8)
I'm lycrad up to the eyeballs and about to head out on a bike with very VERY skinny tyres.
I'm lycrad up to the eyeballs
why stop at the eyeballs?
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I'm lycrad up to the eyeballs and about to head out on a bike with very VERY skinny tyres.
It's sunny and the trails are dry but your going out on the road bike?!
Why so? Crazy fool!
My club have decided to hold mtb training/skills sessions in preparation for the Tuesday races they will be running in April. Out of 600+ members only 2 have expressed an interest.
I blame Wiggins.
teamhurtmore
Epicycle, I was out nearly every day in the snow. It's the thick gloop that just scores your chain/cassettes etc up that I get fed up with.
I wouldn't take a derailleur through that sort of muck either.
Here's my solution:
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Low geared singlespeed.
It's sunny and the trails are dry but your going out on the road bike?!Why so? Crazy fool!
Sometimes you just need to go as fast as possible from one place to another. Plus the mtb options are a bit rubbish en route. It's best done on a cyclocross bike.
And the Lycra makes me look slimmer....possibly
cyclocross rocks
+1
it's sunny and the trails are dry but your going out on the road bike?!Why so? Crazy fool!
and still you wonder why people rip it out of ya 🙄
adds smiley to counter act rolling eyes ,just so it doesn't look like some torrent of abuse 🙂
Roadies are a weird bunch.
Their propensity towards tarmac, their man-leotards, riding two abreast whilst ignoring the log-jam behind, their sour faces, their curly handlebars, their brakes that don't always work, the list goes on.
Weird weird weird.
Did I mention their weird big padded bollocks?
I wouldn't take a derailleur through that sort of muck either.Here's my solution:
Not sure how that helps. Derailleurs aren't the issue ime.
Epicycle, I was out nearly every day in the snow. It's the thick gloop that just scores your chain/cassettes etc up that I get fed up with.
I wouldn't take a derailleur through that sort of muck either.Here's my solution:
Low geared singlespeed.
Jeez Did you steal Noddies mudguards.
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Here's a picture of a road that used to be part of my local loop.
Don't tell me it aint nice...don't tell me you don't fancy a blast along it... 8)
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Maybe on a motorbike, but not on a pushbike. The Yak got a new roadbike that he wanted to show everyone but he got banned again.
Don't tell me it aint nice...don't tell me you don't fancy a blast along it.
Wheres that.?
Wheres that.?
I'm going to guess at the hills just outside San Francisco - Mount Tamalpais National Park somewhere.
Watch the Tour of California if you want some stunning roads. 🙂 Easily the match of anything Europe has to offer.
Right now, mountain biking is on the decline and road biking is on the up, give it another 10 years and it will have reversed.
Road bike clubs just seem to be better organised to me, mountain biking is more social, but road is more serious. That's the way I perceive t anyway.
Not forgetting many roadbike club's chaingangs. A hazard to any other road user.
stanfree - Member
....Jeez Did you steal Noddies mudguards.
Yeah, but I was out riding my bike when no one else was, and staying dry and clean. 🙂
LOL! Chaingangs, especially dangerous if you are an unfit porker...they will **** you up.
Funny how you perceive a chaingaing to be a hazard, when in reality it's a group moving at a constant steady pace and effort and at a constant position in the road and is about as highly predictable you can get in a group.
Group of blokes chin wagging, having fun on the way to the next BW on the other hand?
Most slow moving hazards have an orange flashing light. Maybe the chaingangs should get special lights on their helmets.
riding bikes is baaad, no, goood, no, baaaad, no Oh I dunno. I'd say, if you have to buy a magazine to figure it out.. you're not riding enough bikes!
Two wheels good. Four wheels bad.
I'm an excellent driver.
Please don't feed the goat...
Are you on any prescription medication?
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Here's a picture of a road that used to be part of my local loop.Don't tell me it aint nice...don't tell me you don't fancy a blast along it...
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Panoramic Highway on top of Mount Tamalpais in Marin County. Used for car commercial shoots all the time. Great road, stiff climb to get to it.