Angry at someone slagging off my bike

Fell a bit shamefaced about this, this morning.

Bloke at work suggested an evening pootle around Poole last night to go and check out Poole bike night. Decided to to take the Thorn.

Got to his house where I was met with “Why did you bring your mums shopping bike” followed with “bloody hell what a piece of crap you can cycle 10 yards behind” then finished with “why havent you got any gears ha ha keep up if you can”

I gave him a right mouthfull 😳 he didnt even know what a Rohloff is 😕 I love my Thorn rode from Vancouver to Mexico on her toured Denmark and Sweden commuted etc etc.

Really pissed me off last night, usually I can take a ribbing but a nerve was touched, quite surprised me.

*sends Piggie virtual hug*

*hopes for reacharound in return*

probably secretly loved it.

You described your bike as her. I’m with the other bloke on this one.

What was he riding? Did you not wee in his shoes post ride?

and the bottom bracket isn’t loose.

and so on.

Anything for you big man 😆

You need a new t-shirt

😀

sounds like a bit of a tactless mate to me,is your mate allways like that.some people are bit ignorant bout others feelings..how did said fella react to your response.?

Could bigrich be labelled inappropriate 😆 wow

Over sensitive soul, nothing wrong with that, stop wearing your wifes undies though yeah 😉

Ur thorn is a saracin

Over sensitive soul, nothing wrong with that, stop wearing your wifes undies though yeah

I thought the deal was he got to wear the undies, and she got to keep his bollocks in a drawer?

…or possibly in bigrich’s drawer.

hey! these are solid “someones criticised my bike” ripostes.

you try and help a brother out.

only one way to settle this …. ride their legs off.

i was signing on for a fun race one winter and had a set of beater manitou axels on as my sids were away being serviced.

walked back out from sign on to fit a couple of guys looking at my bike and commenting(obviously not knowing it was my bike) on how i had really shit forks but XTR drive train and that i should have just got XT and some good forks.

im not sure they found it funny when my shit forks passed them for a second time.

I gave him a right mouthfull he didnt even know what a Rohloff

What an idiot especially when he’s been all over the news this week.

Does he ride only MTBs? I have a mate who has been riding since the early 90s but only ever MTB. He thinks road bikes are for gays and absolutely will not entertain riding anything other than an MTB. It took him about 5 years to even recognise full sussers as an acceptable form of bike.

Shortly after I built up my commuter he said it ‘even has an old mans saddle’, it’s a Charge Knife but happens to be brown, I guess it’s the brown that makes it an old mans saddle 🙂

Personally I think he’s a closet roadie, it’s just he’s spent all these years building up this macho self image that it’s too late to back down and pull on some lycra. I’d say your mate might have similar issues.

only one way to settle this …. ride their legs off.

+1

He sounds like a ****. Move on.

🙂 at Drac.

I had a mate who was a huge anti-roady, sounds a bit like you’re mate tonyd. Took the piss out of me no end for having a road bike, and to the point where it ceased to be funny. Anyway, turns out he was road curious. He’d secretyly borrowed a road bike and had been sneeking out on it for months as he was worried his fitness as slipping behind. He was mocked mercilessly.

So don’t be surprised if this guy is trawling ebay to assemble a tourer with that used “round the world” look so he can look credible and not some fanny who just raided Decathlon.

I cna see that you’re upset about your bike being slagged off, but I’m struggling to join in without a pic

walked back out from sign on to fit a couple of guys looking at my bike and commenting(obviously not knowing it was my bike) on how i had really shit forks but XTR drive train and that i should have just got XT and some good forks.

im not sure they found it funny when my shit forks passed them for a second time.
Who laughs last, and all that. 🙂

what was he on – you should have slagged that off in response.

I was with a mate at Thetford and we heard two blokes talking about my bike. I’d left it propped against a bench while I went to get a cup of tea.
One of them was asking the other whether it was actual carbon fibre. His mate replied that it wasn’t, just an aluminum frame with a wrap!

It was all I could do not to storm over there and exclaim “HOW VERY DARE YOU?”.
Instead I just had the wee wee ripped out of me by my mate who still insists to this day that my bike is not carbon, but alu with a Halfords carbon effect wrap.

Had this once on my Swift* from a bloke on a shiny new Lapierre spicy. “I suppose it would make a good shopping bike for arround town”. Wouldn’t have been so bad if he’d been any good on it but he was amongst the slowest of the group!

*addmittedly it takes a special type of mental to take a rigid SS arround Guisbrough.

So you’re angry that someone who is clearly an idiot has expressed an ill informed opinion about your bike?

It’s a bit like Jenson Button being angry because someone says his car’s crap because it’s got no boot space!

only one way to settle this …. ride their legs off.

I really hope you did 🙂

it’s a bike – get over it

we need a pic of your bike, he may have been correct?

I’ve got a bike. You can ride it if you like.
It’s got a basket, a bell that rings and
Things to make it look good.

Perhaps best sung in the original manner.

Yawn, is this like one of those look at me facebook posts?

I used to get nervous waiting on the start line at races.
Looking round at all the high spec bikes and thinking how plain my bike was in comparison.
Shirley these folk are gonna leave me for dead.
Flag dropped and where were a lot of the bling bikes ?

Oh yeah..

Soldier ,it ain’t about the bike 🙂

If that had been me, I’ve have **** destroyed them on the ride (assuming I could), otherwise grease his discs.

Needs a picture of the bike, thorn make some pretty ugly bikes – seems to be a niche thing with them – is it one with masses and masses of headset spacers?

If someone slags your Rohloff, the only real answer is to drop it on their head. Try surviving that one!

you do say “bloke at work” rather than “mate”

i wouldnt even bother to ride with someone like that, f***in knob.
that said, you do seem a little precious about a collection of metal tubes.

not enough info!

what bike was he on?
can you ride his legs off?

only then will we be able to comment properly,,or you know, you could just get over it, its just a bike 🙂

Come on then, let’s see the bike.

Sounds right to me, I always verbally trounce my mate’s new kit. Surely this is acceptable?

What did you want, appreciation? *shudders*

was on holiday last week and i had propped my bike up outside a cafe whilst the GF and i grabbed an ice cream. sat there in our normal clothes and two German “enduro” lads came along and went into the cafe. overheard them talking. one of them started talking about my (admittedly rather loud) DB Alpine…. saying that you can’t do anything on a HT, it was just a show bike, 2.4 tyres on a HT were pointless, blah blah blah…

i sat there smiling with the GF about it, talking in English, obviously.

sawe them the next day at the top of a trail. followed them in and shouted at them to move aside. they did so. got to the bottom and expected them to arrive before the GF, but no, she arrived laughing at how shit they were. we stood at the bottom for another minute and saw them coming down, brakes squealing. shouted “faster!” at them and rode off.

i felt smug. 🙂

oh, and the GF’s riding has leaped forward over the past few months… i’ve got a new riding buddy!

+1 let’s see it and what did he ride?