I see no one on my commute until I hit the station, then it's just Women With Baskets, fatty on an Apollo, lot's of dog eared MTB's and Moi on my Dahon Vitesse.I don't subscribe to Yellow Jackets, just light chino stylee, loafers, white shirt, Rapha LSJ, musette and a grin.
Am I in a negative P&L situation like Portugal/Greece and in need of a bail out???
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Commuter MAMIL bingo!
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Walked home last night........
TT bars
Race numbers
team kit x 3
world championship jerseyHipsters may not have made it to Reading on their Fixies, but mamils have!
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Sounds like a MAMIL Spotters Blackfriars Beer may be in order! What do you ride, Allthepies? Will keep eyes out!
Boris Bike, should be easy to spot
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How many points for a full face helmet on an electric bike? (Seen most mornings by Nottingham uni....)
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Nothing much to report this evening - perhaps they've found this thread
Although there was one 'tard on a MTB who kept RLJ'ing, riding on the pavement etc, who at a set of lights coming in Twickenham jumped the light, shot across the pedestrian crossing onto the pavement and promptly got knocked off by a pedestrian - my how I LOL'd
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perhaps they've found this thread
I think they have.
However, three sets of deep section carbon, one full matching Saxo kit on a Spesh Tarmac and a lycra clad Borisist. Not bad.
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Great thread but can't believe you missed out Rapha kit. as people have said, what is justified (if anything has to be justified that is?) does depend on length and nature of commute. if i did 20 miles on open roads without too many lights and ped crossings I would use my road bike and so wear lycra. but on a 5 miler accross London with 40 sets of lights its hardly worth it so i ride an old hardtail and focus on sprinting and generally enjoying the view, racing cars and cyclists, jumping off sleeping policemen and trying to perfect my route. FWIW I wear Swirve 3/4s in winter and hipsters in summer. and a plain merino top.
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hh45 - Member
Great thread but can't believe you missed out Rapha kit
*Facepalm*
How could I forget it!
I often see a Borisist in a suit. With a Rapha cap on. That has to be some good points!
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Due to the rain, nothing much to report this morning.
One lady (rather nice too) on a carbon Synapse with Jamis shorts, mismatching top and a World Champion branded helmet!
One guy in full Team Sky kit on a frikkin Trek, I ask you!!!!
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Little branded MAMILian activity this morning, but I did like the besuited black guy in the porkpie hat and sunglasses on a BMX. Every shade of cool.
And nice Burls/Rohloff/O-O carbon fork action going on on Hyde Park Corner this morning.
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besuited black guy in the porkpie hat and sunglasses on a BMX. Every shade of cool
That is truly epic! Class.
Also very little proper branded MAMIL action for me today, only a 4. Perhaps the drizzle put them off!
On an aside for the London commuters, a note to Borisists, more notably to Borisettes - There are two options for you here;
1 - Longer skirts
2 - More attractive undercrackersThat is all.
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No action this morning for me either, light drizzle early on probably put the others off.. Not me though and still in my Rapha LSJ.. I've yet to see carbon rims and TTbars anywhere near my commute.
And only one Woman with a child seat and basket..
You lot get all the Views..Posted 1 year ago # -
You lot get all the Views..
Not all of them are good....see above!
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Is a boris-ist someone actuall on a boris bike?
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I have no idea what MAMIL is, so maybe I'm missing the point, but how the hell can you see what pedals someone is using on their Brompton?
Either you're going damn slow or not paying attention. What a silly game.
My commute is nearly all country roads now, so I hardly see any other riders.
Did see 3 blokes wearing identical Catlike helmets the other day. They looked stupid.Posted 1 year ago # -
MAMIL - Middle Aged Men In Lycra
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MAMIL jackpot tonight by Parliament! A (What is the collective noun for MAMILS?) of them, with so much Assos and deep section carbon I lost track! And then I spotted a four spoke aero front wheel. Dear Lord above, the motherload!
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thisisnotaspoon - Member
Walked home last night........TT bars
Race numbers
team kit x 3
world championship jerseyHipsters may not have made it to Reading on their Fixies, but mamils have!
Hmm, there used to be a guy who rode into Reading down the Wokingham road on a singlespeed track bike with aero wheels, hardly see any SSers there though. Think I saw somebody on a mongoose maurice the other day but most of them are on old canti mtbs
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I claim the win today, Victoria bus station, White single speed hipster wagon, deep section rims, silly narrow bars ridden by I can only assume a member of the once great Lampre team judging by his full team kit! Although he may have been on a recovery ride as he was wearing running shoes.
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The bar is raised high with that one steve.
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I've seen that chap before, Steve! Awesomeness personified!
A big fat zero for me today. But then my commute was through kitchen to collect coffee and in to study to work, so not really likely to see much!
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"I claim the win today, Victoria bus station, White single speed hipster wagon, deep section rims, silly narrow bars ridden by "
Ha! Ha! Apart from being near Victoria bus station that could describe one of my commuters !
Just hope I never have the misfortune to meet any of the bigoted asshooools on this thread while on my commute.
It's all cycling peoples, live and let live eh!Posted 1 year ago # -
Yeah some people take things way too seriously.
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Shandy - Member
Yeah some people take things way too seriously.Indeed they do.....
My main spot today - Some idiot around Victoria on a triple clamped Enduro. In flip-flops.
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I was overtaken on my way to the station (I was on my Dahon) by a chappie on an FELT F1 (with a decent setup,SRAM Red etc.), whilst he was smoking..
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FELT F1 (with a decent setup,SRAM Red etc.), whilst he was smoking..
1,000 points if it was either a pipe or a big cigar!
My morning highlight was a Rohloffed Nicolai on Blackfriars Bridge. Gnaar.
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on a triple clamped Enduro. In flip-flops
Nipping to the shop for a paper? 5-10s not dried out from the night before? His behaviour doesn't make him an idiot. Criticising it does make you sound like one.
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*ourkidsam misses the joke totally....*
He was riding back from the bike shop, where he'd just had his forks refitted after a service
Too late to pop out for a paper
His FiveTens are perfectly dry as he's been a little too busy to get out on a proper ride recently. Besides, it hasn't rained in ages.
He had a curry in the slow cooker he was looking forward to getting home to
He had a nice bottle of Ubu with the curry(Writing about yourself in the third person is rather odd, don't you think?
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Hey I saw a "fixie twunt" in Munich the other day. Not too bad - dressed fairly normally and a plain black bike, but he had bars narrower than his hips which spoiled it all for me. That cannot be comfortable, he must only have done it to try and look cool surely?
And surely flats and fixed is not a good combo?
the motherload!
It's 'motherlode' btw.
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My morning highlight was a Rohloffed Nicolai on Blackfriars Bridge. Gnaar.
I know who that is, he's the UK importer of Nicolai
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*ourkidsam misses the joke totally....*
What joke?
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the
smiley is confessional, partyboy.
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No pipe nor cigar just simple "fag" what made it worse was he got in front of me and exhaled and I got a mouthful of his secondhand puff..
Urgh!!Posted 1 year ago # -
Oh
As you were
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There's a bloke on a Brompton does the same Waterloo -> Blackfriars route as me daily. He lights up a ciggie on exiting the station and puffs away as he cycles. No problem with that, it's a good incentive to overtake him otherwise I have to inhale his evil smoke
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