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deptfordmarmoset
Joined: 05 Sep 2009
Posts: 384
Location: Sour Feast Lahn'n
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 Posted Thu Nov 5, 2009 10:59 pm |
When you see ''CYCLISTS DISMOUNT'' and you think ''Oh no they don't.''
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dmclite
Joined: 14 Dec 2008
Posts: 1492
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Graeme_S
Joined: 13 Jun 2006
Posts: 1074
Location: Coventry, United Kingdom
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Posted Fri Nov 6, 2009 7:52 am |
When 9 months out you realise that your wedding will clash with week 3 of the TdF 
and start trying to think of ways that you might be able to watch it anyway
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Verbal
Joined: 31 Jul 2005
Posts: 35
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Posted Fri Nov 6, 2009 10:32 am |
You need to go for a number 2 and in one hand you're holding the latest copy of Esquire with Megan Fox on the front in her pants and in the other hand you have the latest copy of Pro Cycling with the latter magazine winning hands down. Jump forward half an hour to a serious case of pins and needles in the legs...
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Feltup
Joined: 25 Sep 2008
Posts: 1195
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Posted Fri Nov 6, 2009 11:09 am |
When you take your bike on your honeymoon because you happen to have arranged to stay near the Maratona route and the Madonna di Ghisallo.
Still married!
Short hairy legged roadie FCN 4 or 5 in my baggies.
Felt F55 - 2007
Specialized Singlecross - 2008
Marin Rift Zone - 1998
Peugeot Tourmalet - 1983 - taken more hits than Mohammed Ali |
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Heckler1974
Joined: 30 Oct 2009
Posts: 27
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Posted Fri Nov 6, 2009 11:38 am |
| Verbal wrote: | | Jump forward half an hour to a serious case of pins and needles in the legs... |
 You get pins and needles when you have a number two? Perhaps you need more ruffage or some of that stool softner stuff they advertise......
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muffin top
Joined: 13 May 2007
Posts: 47
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Posted Fri Nov 6, 2009 12:19 pm |
| dennisn wrote: | | Steve_b77 wrote: | | You start planning family events / holidays around where you can get a ride in |
You ride TO family events and holidays. |
.. and that's unreasonable because? Come on, this is normal behaviour, yea? Somebody agree with me.
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nick hanson
Joined: 18 Jan 2006
Posts: 1465
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Posted Fri Nov 6, 2009 5:07 pm |
Almost all of these seem perfectly normal to me (except drifting off when driving )
Must have it bad!
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thomasmc
Joined: 31 Jan 2007
Posts: 327
Location: Ireland
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Posted Fri Nov 6, 2009 5:09 pm |
| Lakesman wrote: | | you flick round potholes - when driving your car |
Yea, while pointing at them & shouting "left" (when driving on your own)
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Verbal
Joined: 31 Jul 2005
Posts: 35
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Posted Fri Nov 6, 2009 6:38 pm |
| Heckler1974 wrote: | | Verbal wrote: | | Jump forward half an hour to a serious case of pins and needles in the legs... |
You get pins and needles when you have a number two? Perhaps you need more ruffage or some of that stool softner stuff they advertise...... |
If you sit on the bog for half an hour reading Pro Cycling you do. See Danny Glover in Lethal Weapon II for an example...
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DavidBelcher
Joined: 26 Jul 2007
Posts: 1820
Location: Winchester
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Posted Fri Nov 6, 2009 7:06 pm |
| thomasmc wrote: | | Lakesman wrote: | | you flick round potholes - when driving your car |
Yea, while pointing at them & shouting "left" (when driving on your own) |
During my brief stint as a learner driver, I did occasionally - due to force of habit from cycling - let the car's steering 'follow' a corner, forgetting that a car doesn't lean into bends in the same way as a bike does. And I also drove with thumbs out resting on the centre bit of the wheel in an approximation of being 'on the hoods'. None of it deliberate, just done out of instinct.
David
"I'm not a man, I'm a machine; chisel me down until I am clean" |
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ozzzyosborn206
Joined: 08 Dec 2008
Posts: 102
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Posted Fri Nov 6, 2009 7:53 pm |
at roundabouts in my car i often manage to sneak into spaces that my non cycling friends dont see, i also swerve to miss potholes, but i think the worst is when walking in a busy place and you say riders or on your left to move past someone
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ozzzyosborn206
Joined: 08 Dec 2008
Posts: 102
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Posted Fri Nov 6, 2009 7:54 pm |
when you can have hour long conversations without saying much more than words like campag, armstrong, deepdish, and it all makes perfect sense
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Ands
Joined: 30 Apr 2003
Posts: 248
Location: United Kingdom
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Posted Fri Nov 6, 2009 8:02 pm |
.....even your two-year old has to ride a Specialized
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Fat Head
Joined: 17 Mar 2005
Posts: 605
Location: Scotland
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Posted Fri Nov 6, 2009 8:48 pm |
When you have so many bikes you get dizzy thinking about what needs done to them next.
When you give cyclists so much space in the car as you overtake you nearly hit the kerb on the other side of the road.
When you check out the bikes on top of a car roof-mounted cycle rack as they pass.
When yearly holidays rotate between Flanders, the Italian Alps, the French Alps and the Pyrenees, and UK short breaks are ALWAYS somewhere hilly and NEVER a city.
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MingMong
Joined: 25 Jun 2004
Posts: 212
Location: Barnsley
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Posted Fri Nov 6, 2009 9:26 pm |
You're so called workmates deride you for looking longingly at ceramic Jockey Wheels on the internet at lunch break.
Your favourite image before you drift off into REM is you on your bike, in a effortless state of grace, gliding on a plate-flat sheet of ice, on samaurai blade tyres, into the setting sun WAKEY WAKEY, BACK IN THE ROOM 
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ddraver
Joined: 20 Sep 2005
Posts: 1421
Location: Llandudno via Cornwall
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Posted Sat Nov 7, 2009 1:04 am |
| Fat Head wrote: | When you have so many bikes you get dizzy thinking about what needs done to them next.
When you give cyclists so much space in the car as you overtake you nearly hit the kerb on the other side of the road.
When you check out the bikes on top of a car roof-mounted cycle rack as they pass.
When yearly holidays rotate between Flanders, the Italian Alps, the French Alps and the Pyrenees, and UK short breaks are ALWAYS somewhere hilly and NEVER a city. |
ah crap.....
Insert random comment here.....
-Cotic Soda-
-Ribble Winter/Audax-
-cindercone, 02, "apollo TdF, 3000" (frames only)- |
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muffin top
Joined: 13 May 2007
Posts: 47
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Posted Sat Nov 7, 2009 6:42 am |
When you give your passengers a running commentary while driving up hills ....
"This bit's steep ... watch the inside of this left-hand bend ... you're really out of breath by the time get to this bit ... false summit ... you can go for it from here ..."
Your partner just smiles knowingly.
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nick hanson
Joined: 18 Jan 2006
Posts: 1465
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Posted Mon Nov 9, 2009 6:50 pm |
| ddraver wrote: | | Fat Head wrote: | When you have so many bikes you get dizzy thinking about what needs done to them next.
When you give cyclists so much space in the car as you overtake you nearly hit the kerb on the other side of the road.
When you check out the bikes on top of a car roof-mounted cycle rack as they pass.
When yearly holidays rotate between Flanders, the Italian Alps, the French Alps and the Pyrenees, and UK short breaks are ALWAYS somewhere hilly and NEVER a city. |
ah crap..... |
Pardon?
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iain_j
Joined: 25 Jul 2008
Posts: 1055
Location: Liverpool
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Posted Mon Nov 9, 2009 9:45 pm |
When you get an urge to tell people to "hold their line" when walking down a busy street.
When you smirk at the folk at work who were "knackered" and "dead" after the 5 mile charity ride at the weekend.
When you think absolutely nothing of spending £100 on some new cycle clothing, but the same on non-cycle clothing would be an extortionate rip-off.
Likewise vasts amount of money on a new bike vs. that price for a car.
When driving on a fast, bendy road, you lean into the corners and start to straighten your "outside" leg.
When driving up a hill and starting to struggle a bit on the short steep bit, you wish there was a "get out of the saddle" option rather than the hassle of changing gears.
2003 Giant OCR 4 (FCN 3, sometimes 5)
2007 Claud Butler Dalesman (FCN 5, sometimes 7)
My routes ~ My photos |
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