At what point do you become a Cyclist?

[mickle]

To answer the title question, I reckon it's when you change your first component on your bike not because it's broken but because you've found what you think is a better replacement.

Nice definition!

 

[Joe]

To answer the title question, I reckon it's when you change your first component on your bike not because it's broken but because you've found what you think is a better replacement.

And so begins your ever expanding bits box

 

[Arch]

Tom used to say "You're a cyclist in your head". Mostly, he was explaining the way so many people make excuses for NOT cycling (it's too hard, it's too dangerous, I can't afford a fancy new bike, it's too hilly, it'll rain too much) - matter how you disabuse them and provide solutions, they can't 'see' themselves cycling. Whereas some of us would class ourselves as cyclists, despite not riding so much (Like Mickle, I ride very little really, most weeks, in my case it's because most of my trips about town are very short and easier on foot)

But I think in this case, Andy in Sig has got it right...

 

[walker]

No one is a true cyclist till they own a bit of Lycra, till then your just a person on a bike

 

[alecstilleyedye]

No one is a true cyclist till they own a bit of Lycra, till then your just a person on a bike

like a cc jersey?

 

[domtyler]

You become a cyclist when you start to define yourself as a cyclist. It has nothing at all to do with the amount of miles you do. Hence Mickles wife is not a cyclist as she does not define herself as a cyclist whereas the non-cycling Mickle does. Of course this is just another way of defining Arches comment that it is in the head.

 

[gambatte]

Maybe its just some of us like to be labelled and some don't?

 

[barq]

To answer the title question, I reckon it's when you change your first component on your bike not because it's broken but because you've found what you think is a better replacement.

That's nice. But I'm going to spoil it with an exception... A friend of mine who is quite the best cross country rider I've ever known just does no maintenance whatsoever. He lives very near a shop and they do everything for him.

And so begins your ever expanding bits box

Heh! I built a complete bike (to be fair I had to buy a frame) from my parts box. It is quite ridiculous the amount of parts some of us amass.

 

[alecstilleyedye]

i must consider myself as a cyclist as i take it as a personal insult when people start going on about the cyclist who rljed etc on their way to work, as if i am somehow responsible, bracketing me in with all the chavs on mtbs who ride no handed whilst making a phone call and rolling a fag.

 

[gambatte]

i must consider myself as a cyclist as i take it as a personal insult when people start going on about the cyclist who rljed etc on their way to work, as if i am somehow responsible, bracketing me in with all the chavs on mtbs who ride no handed whilst making a phone call and rolling a fag.

Is that because you count yourself as a cyclist or because they know you as a cyclist?

 

[barq]

bracketing me in with all the chavs on mtbs who ride no handed whilst making a phone call and rolling a fag.

That's quite talented actually.

 

[gbb]

That's quite talented actually.

Only if you can do both...at the same time

 

[barq]

Only if you can do both...at the same time

Naturally! Oh well, that's my training for tomorrow night worked out.

 

[BentMikey]

You're a cyclist the moment you get your leg over the bike, and you stop being one when you get off, because then you're a pedestrian. After that you might be something else, like sedentary, or a motorist.

 

[gambatte]

You're a cyclist the moment you get your leg over

Fnaaar!