TheSoulReaver03
Active Member
Shave your beard. It's more aero m8. While you're at it, shave your legs. That's about 0.00000000000000000000001% less wind drag. That equals to 2 seconds on a 3 hour ride. BIG DIFFERENCE!
Cycling snobs
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Shave your beard. It's more aero m8. While you're at it, shave your legs. That's about 0.00000000000000000000001% less wind drag. That equals to 2 seconds on a 3 hour ride. BIG DIFFERENCE!
ayceejay
Guru
- Location
- Rural Quebec
That is SOOOOO yesterday.
Shaven Legs!!!!! i'd rather buy a £2000 Carbon for that 00000000001 of a second, oh wait i have a carbon and guess what? its only as fast as the old legs that pedal it
John the Monkey
Frivolous Cyclist
- Location
- Crewe
You sound like you're going along the right lines to me.That's why I hate blind hills, you don't know which ones have a pub at the top
martint235
Dog on a bike
- Location
- Welling
What you really need to do is clothes yourself from head to foot in Rapha. Get a £5k carbon bike. Learn how to ride it really fast. Then one Saturday morning, misjudge a corner, hit some gravel and slide along the tarmac on your a**e and gear levers for a few yards. Then you'll remember why the cheap stuff is perfectly adequate.
Elybazza61
Guru
Except that the cheap stuff may rip even more than the pricier kit and in the case of Rapha you may be able to actually get it repaired(possibly for freeshock-horror).
Certain amount of reverse snobbery on this thread,you know sometimes pricier things are better.
martint235
Dog on a bike
- Location
- Welling
It might do. But ripped is ripped and it needs replacing.
John the Monkey
Frivolous Cyclist
- Location
- Crewe
Yep, and the thing is, cheap (let's re-phrase that as "inexpensive", shall we?) works just fine for some people.
Nalini's least expensive bib shorts are, in my experience, poor. DHBs are fine. For some bottoms, the Nalinis could be the best shorts EVS, or both choices may pale next to anything other than a set of bibs that happens to cost more than £150. Fizik's Arione is a bit too flat for me, but an Aliante or a Brooks works fine. I don't wear my pricey merino jerseys on commutes and short rides, but I'm glad of them on long rides, especially on days where the temperature is variable.
What matters is that the stuff that you're using works for you, and, obviously, that you're not bankrupting yourself, lacking cake money, or making your children go hungry by buying it.
Some people like the expensive stuff because they feel it gives them no excuse but to do their best (they can't complain that the gear is holding them back). Some like it because of the design, or the cachet is carries. Some like it because they're nobbers who like to look down on other people.
Similarly, there are people who are very anxious to let you know that a bin bag with three holes cut in it works just as nicely as your fancy jersey, thanks very much, as much as there are people who like inexpensive kit because it suits them fine.
Don't worry about it, just enjoy *your* riding. Someone else is always faster, has a nicer bike, &c &c &c. That's life, innit.
Maybe his spare bike, what what?
xxDarkRiderxx
Veteran
- Location
- London, UK
lol Buy what you can afford, ride where you can enjoy and don't let the snobs spoil your fun. 
martint235
Dog on a bike
- Location
- Welling
Does anyone else remember Team 50p? It was an internet-based cycling club (largely MTB iirc) in the late 80s/early 90s with the motto of "What's the point of having a £1000 bike if you've only got 50p legs"
Crikey!
Hill Wimp
Fair weathered,fair minded but easily persuaded.
Ride, enjoy , ride , enjoy now repeat 