What is a 'real' Cyclist?

[rh100]

Wow, i are one!

I'm not Mine is silver and came from Lidl )

 

[Davidc]

Yup, and its always ripe for a wind-up.

I suppose if there are electric bikes there might as well be wind-up ones, but are their riders real cyclists?

 

[arallsopp]

I always find the moniker works against me. My neighbours seem to think I'm not only a 'cyclist' but also a 'serious cyclist'!

Probably evidenced by my coming home / setting off at all hours of the night on a funny shaped bike, but means that they all dedicate at least 90% of any conversation we share to saying "I'd really like to come along one day. Let me know" and then explaining to each other that they needn't actually get on their bikes because I'm a serious cyclist whilst they'd just do it for fun.

I've given up velovangelism in the street.

For now.

 

[Moodyman]

I'm not Mine is silver and came from Lidl

Then you (like me) are not a real cyclist.

 

[Moodyman]

Chiefwiggum - you become a serious cyclist whern your Cycle Chat profile changes to an Executive member. As a junior member, you can't be considered a real cyclist.

 

[Chiefwiggum]

Chiefwiggum - you become a serious cyclist whern your Cycle Chat profile changes to an Executive member. As a junior member, you can't be considered a real cyclist.

I would be on my 'puter all the time and not cycling therefore I would not be a serious cyclist , hell I don't even want to be a 'serious' cyclist, I do it for fun

It has been interesting watching this thread develop

 

[MacB]

A serious cyclist is someone that is honest about what, and how, they ride.

 

[arallsopp]

A serious cyclist is someone that is honest about what, and how, they ride.

South Eastern Railway services, via season ticket.

Good. That's the neighbours sorted.

 

[Ravenbait]

I believe that would be an ontological matter.

Sam

 

[Chiefwiggum]

To paraphrase Descartes, I cycle, therefore I am a cyclist, does it for me

 

[Rip Van]

Oh no, not again.

If you can't tell the difference between a 'cyclist' and 'someone riding a bicycle', you've still got a lot to learn.


Example clue 1.
'Someone riding a bicycle' has to walk the bike home if it punctures because they don't know what a PRK is.

Example clue 2.
'Someone riding a bicycle' doesn't bother checking and adjusting the tyre pressure before departing their journey.

Example clue 3.
'Someone riding a bicycle' has to ask if he's a cyclist.

Get real? A proper cyclist is anyone on a bike.
Don't get all snobby on us now.

 

[Rip Van]

A real cyclist wears his sunglasses over his helmet straps and not under.

+1

 

[MacB]

South Eastern Railway services, via season ticket.

Good. That's the neighbours sorted.

Ah, but you're a special case Andy, not because of what you ride, just your general lack of mental stability

 

[threebikesmcginty]

A serious cyclist is someone that is honest about what, and how, they ride.

That's what I said to Eddy Merckx after I'd popped up to Aberdeen and back on one of my Colnago C50s.

 

[arallsopp]

Ah, but you're a special case Andy, not because of what you ride, just your general lack of mental stability

I'll have you know my mentality is entirely stable.
Its just come to rest in a sandbank, a few degrees off the accepted latitudes of normality.