Bravado from Roadies.

[dodgy]

CTC types - do you mean about 60 years old with an average speed of about 13mph?

Whoooooosh!

 

[Mortiroloboy]

Children, children! There is no snobbery on the roads, there is just a hierachy. It is as follows:

Taxi drivers ()
Snails
Pedestrians
Drivers
Bike shaped object cyclist
MTB with knobblies cyclist
MTB with slicks
Wannabe roadies (105 and below)
Brooks saddle Roadies (ouch!)
Roadies (Ultegra/Dura ace)
Ultra Roadies (Campagalinioly thingaby whatstsis)Super Ultra carbon absolutely everthing (they have even had carbon finger nail and toe nail replacements as grams count)roadies.

So where do you fit in?

That'll be me then

 

[Banjo]

I read somewhere that a Tour de France winner on an old butchers bike could beat most of us on a state of the art racing bike.

 

[cheadle hulme]

CTC types - do you mean about 60 years old with an average speed of about 13mph?

This lot would love to be 60 again!

 

[Angelfishsolo]

+1

It sounds as if a roadie has been drafting him...so rather than wanting to overtake they've just been taking it easy in his slipstream!

I'm constantly being overtaken or dropped by mtb riders - but then I'm not exactly a roadie.

 

[Sh4rkyBloke]

MY point is it does not matter what bike you ride[all mod cons] its all down to the bloke riding it

Why do you get the snobbish veiw from Road bike users to good peeps who ride a MTB????

I know you cannot Tar everybody with the same brush but the majority of roadies i,ve come into contact with are cocks.

LOL.

Shall I add that most of the MTBers I see on the road... aren't actually on the road, but tend to ride on the pavement like muppets, jumping on to the road when it suits them without so much as a backwards glance to see if they are getting in anyone else's way... oh, hang on though, you can't tar everyone with the same brush

 

[Sh4rkyBloke]

Children, children! There is no snobbery on the roads, there is just a hierachy. It is as follows:

Taxi drivers ()
Snails
Pedestrians
Drivers
Bike shaped object cyclist
MTB with knobblies cyclist
MTB with slicks
Wannabe roadies (105 and below)
Brooks saddle Roadies (ouch!)
Roadies (Ultegra/Dura ace)
Ultra Roadies (Campagalinioly thingaby whatstsis)
Super Ultra carbon absolutely everthing (they have even had carbon finger nail and toe nail replacements as grams count)roadies.

So where do you fit in?

You're putting Taxi drivers at the top!!! Interesting.

 

[Angelfishsolo]

I got trashed on a hill climb by a roadie whilst riding my behemoth of a bike. I still felt a surge of satisfaction though as I knew I was going off road at the top. As for the OP, perhaps we shall see him in the next Olympics, maybe even on him trusty MTB

 

[Angelfishsolo]

Why do you care and how many Roadies have you actually come into contact with??? I thought you left them in your cloud of MTB rubber.

MY point is it does not matter what bike you ride[all mod cons] its all down to the bloke riding it

Why do you get the snobbish veiw from Road bike users to good peeps who ride a MTB????

I know you cannot Tar everybody with the same brush but the majority of roadies i,ve come into contact with are cocks.

 

[philr]

yesterday i was enjoying a ride in the countryside on my roadbike,

at one point i saw two extremely good looking females on MTB's cycling the other way, all of a sudden i wished i was on a MTB following them in the slip stream (or any other excuse i could get away with)

it was good to see so many other people of very different ages, bikes, abilities "ENJOYING THEMSELVES" in the good weather we had yesterday.

i made a point of saying hello to everyone i come across.

 

[rich p]

If the OP is going to get a road bike and all roadies are cocks then in the near future ipso facto, OP=Cock

 

[Goffins]

Down my way there are gang war type affairs amongst the MTB crew and Roadies, we fight savagely for hours until a bunch of fat guys drinking stella arrive on their beaten up shoppers and give us a hiding.

 

[Angelfishsolo]

I think he is already one

If the OP is going to get a road bike and all roadies are cocks then in the near future ipso facto, OP=Cock

 

[Dave Davenport]

I'm wondering if 3-in-one does a sub 21min '10' on a borrowed bike?

 

[asterix]

I,m soon to become a Roadie hopefully next year when i,ve saved up the money,At the moment I ride a MTB roughly about 50 miles every Sunday in Dorset[on the Road].

What pleases me more since I started cycling is to cycle at my pace and have a Roadie[like today] nearly up my ass yet for 7 miles cannot get near me or over take,this has happened a few times.........


ROAD V MTB you would think there would be NO contest as road bikes are for the job of roads yet a mere mtb can achieve the same.


Its all Road bike Bravado[bollocks] all because i,m on a slower bike[mtb]

Welcome to the forum my oleaginous friend. You have made an excellent start (except for the apology).

(I can't remember being overtaken by an MTB except once when riding my Brompton and once up Winnats but I had already done 60 miles and he started at the bottom!)

..but anyway, stick around and I hope you get that road bike soon.