What is a 'real' Cyclist?

[swee'pea99]

Someone who rides a 'real' bicycle. Next!

 

[taxing]

According to lots of these definitions I'm not a cyclist, but if I were to be knocked off my bike what would the local rag report? 'Local cyclist, 23, involved in collision...'

 

[jimboalee]

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

That's exactly what was asked when Daimler put an engine in a Safety Bicycle.

 

[jimboalee]

According to lots of these definitions I'm not a cyclist, but if I were to be knocked off my bike what would the local rag report? 'Local cyclist, 23, involved in collision...'

Inexperienced journalist.

 

[Philk]

This (regularly repeated) topic is one of the silliest on the forums!

As far as I'm concerned a real cyclist is someone who rides a bike (or trike)

Someone who has a bike, but it stays in the garage/ shed/ whatever for 364 days a year isn't. (On the 365th it may or may not come out and get ridden less than a mile, at which point its owner decides it's too much like hard work &/or too dangerous/ &/or they'd do more cycling if only they had a differrent bike)

Definitions of serious cyclists are just as futile.

LOL that was me up until i purchased a "Propper" road bike, now i cant keep off it

 

[homercles]

I would say a cyclist is someone who sits on a bike and moves their legs up and down in a cyclic manner. That means the posers who just loiter around on impossibly shiny bikes are excluded. Proper cyclists will be out in all weathers, and not just during those fleeting moments when the weather is perfect like tennis players who only come out during Wimbledon fortnight.

 

[tyred]

I would say a cyclist is someone who sits on a bike and moves their legs up and down in a cyclic manner. That means the posers who just loiter around on impossibly shiny bikes are excluded. Proper cyclists will be out in all weathers, and not just during those fleeting moments when the weather is perfect like tennis players who only come out during Wimbledon fortnight.

I agree up to a point but I draw the line at ice. I don't fall as well as I did when I was about 10 or 12.

 

[alci4]

when you stop worrying about how much of a tool you look in helmet and wear it anyways

then your a cyclist my son

 

[MacB]

when you stop worrying about how much of a tool you look in helmet and wear it anyways

then your a cyclist my son

don't wear one, negates that concern

 

[threebikesmcginty]

when you stop worrying about how much of a tool you look in helmet lycra and wear it anyways, tubby

then your a cyclist my son

Ok - try it now

 

[DavieB]

I went out in the rain on Tuesday and in the dark yesterday am I a real cyclist 0_o


And I wear lycra with pride, under my regular shorts

 

[jayonabike]

Does it really matter what a proper cyclist is? Just get on yer bike and ride the bloody thing ....... and ENJOY IT!

 

[youngoldbloke]

I would say a cyclist is someone who sits on a bike and moves their legs up and down in a cyclic manner.

- but those who ride electric bikes sometimes do that - they're not proper cyclists - just electric-moped riders.

 

[karan733]

Isnt a real cyclist someone who doesnt get offended when they get asked if they prefer it in the big ring or the little ring?

 

[rb58]

After falling off (or being knocked off) 'real' cyclists will check the bike for damage before they check their own bodies.....