Snobbery

[Adasta]

If you buy team jersey cos it is cheap I can see the point, though I've always found club or generic stuff just as good and just as cheap.

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Where do we stand on people wearing yellow or pink jerseys?

You're right, but I don't discriminate between club jersey/replica jersey/generic jersey - I mainly go on price/quality/aesthetics.

I'd wear a pink jersey.

 

[Dayvo]

Where do we stand on people wearing yellow or pink jerseys?

Ooh, don't forget the pretty polka dot one!

 

[apollo179]

Its the endless signing autographs that i find tiresome.

I do wave to people outside York but I am usually going much too fast to notice if they wave back or not. I'd imagine they would be too impressed not to, and no doubt many of them applaud me as well.

My apparel consists of lycra shorts and whatever jerseys I can pick up cheap as possible but preferably free. My shoes are from Lidl and very good they are too.

 

[MacB]

I've noticed a difference recently depending on which bike I'm on, the Vaya with drops got a certain level of acknowledgement, some of which has vanished since moving to flat bars. The drop bar Burls gets more acknowledgement but also some strange looks at the disc brakes.

As usual I'll say hi to anyone, bike or no bike, as long as I have the breath, but I really don't care if I'm blanked, I just find it humorous.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

I've noticed a difference recently depending on which bike I'm on, the Vaya with drops got a certain level of acknowledgement, some of which has vanished since moving to flat bars. The drop bar Burls gets more acknowledgement but also some strange looks at the disc brakes.

As usual I'll say hi to anyone, bike or no bike, as long as I have the breath, but I really don't care if I'm blanked, I just find it humorous.

every ruddy rider coming the other way this morning!

 

[MacB]

every ruddy rider coming the other way this morning!

After departing yesterdays ride to head home I passed one roadie, opposite directions I couldn't actually pass a snail at present, and I swear there was a quadruple take from him. I half expected him to turn around and catch up to see if his eyes had been deceiving him.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

After departing yesterdays ride to head home I passed one roadie, opposite directions I couldn't actually pass a snail at present, and I swear there was a quadruple take from him. I half expected him to turn around and catch up to see if his eyes had been deceiving him.

on Friday afternoon, whilst bimbling about the local lanes I was overhauled by a roadie. Nothing odd about this but his question was a bit odd. "Are those disc brakes?", "Yep!", "Do they work?", "Yep", etc., etc..

 

[HLaB]

I'd like to think it isn't snobbery but just folk to encased in their own efforts to notice others. I find it doesn't really matter what bike I'm/ they are on, some folk are more pleasant than others :-)

 

[Adasta]

I'd like to think it isn't snobbery but just folk to encased in their own efforts to notice others.

So it is for me. I don't regonise other cyclists when I see them on the road; they're part of the traffic, just like a car or a bus. Sometimes I talk to people at the lights if I feel like it; sometimes people speak to me. In general though, it's simply not possible to acknowledge everyone.

It's different when cycling in the countryside, though!

 

[pepecat]

I like the team kit, but not sure if I'd buy one (or wear it)..... I have a mont ventoux shirt bought at the cycle shop in Bedouin a couple of years ago. Now the only thing I've ever been up mont ventoux in/on is a car. I have NOT cycled up it.... hence i have not yet worn the shirt out cycling. I figure all the better roadie types (though looking at me in the lycra people prob think i'm a 'roadie type') would snort and laugh at me struggling up hills in a mont ventoux top. I don't feel 'good' enough to wear it yet.
Same for the team jerseys. I kinda feel like i need to be able to whoop along at 20mph to justify wearing a pro jersey.....

 

[E11a]

I always give a nod to other cyclists. Like HLaB, I've found it doesn't matter what bikes people are on, some nod back and others don't.

 

[marzjennings]

I don't get a lot of time to ride, so most of my riding is of the training sort rather than the social sort. And when I'm training, I'm sorry, but answering the odd hello, nod and wave from over cyclists is not at the top of my priority list.

Usually the best I can muster is a wee nod, but that's about it while I'm concentrating on cadence, HR, average speed, hydration and the road ahead.

Now when I have the time and I'm just out for a pootle, I'm a waving, how's it going freak, but those rides are few and far between.

 

[MacB]

Two double hellos today, I saw two tandems, which is a first and both being ridden by young people, ie under 30.

 

[mcshroom]

I wave or say hello to most cyclists, and often pedestrians on my riding. I do tend to be out on rural roads most of the time though.

As for team kits, I played football in Huddersfield Town Shirts and even England shirts at different times. I never thought I was part of the team but it was a bit like the dream you have of actually turning out to play for the team you support. I don't see cycling as any different (although to be fair I don't own any team kit). Same with yellow/pink/world champ/etc. jerseys, and there is actually a YACF polka-dot jersey option (including ironic sized ones)

 

[italiafirenze]

I wave or say hello to most cyclists, and often pedestrians on my riding. I do tend to be out on rural roads most of the time though.

As for team kits, I played football in Huddersfield Town Shirts and even England shirts at different times. I never thought I was part of the team but it was a bit like the dream you have of actually turning out to play for the team you support. I don't see cycling as any different (although to be fair I don't own any team kit). Same with yellow/pink/world champ/etc. jerseys, and there is actually a YACF polka-dot jersey option (including ironic sized ones)

I just played two games of football in a Chelsea shirt with David Luiz and number 4 on the back. I suppose that's who I wish to emulate when I play. I used to ride in a yellow 1999 TdF jersey, I would wear a Phil Gil belgian champs, or a Jens Voigt Leopard Trek jersey quite happily as equally I would wish to emulate those great cyclists. I don't because I don't like polyester jerseys on the bike.

Full Cervelo Test Team kits are common round here, never riding a Cervelo though.