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  • The miserable roadie thing.
  • poppa
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    I remember one mate of mine invited me on one of his club runs & was very worried that I'd turn up in baggie shorts & dirty shoes

    And you wouldn't bat an eyelid if he turned up to a group MTB ride in a lycra bodysuit and time-trial helmet? 😆

    ooOOoo
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    out on club ride yest. probably 30 of us in the group.

    went past some xc lads (aged 30-40ish) de-camping from their cars next to ladybower, and could see them from a mile off smirking and starting to take the pish out of roadies, lycra etc etc. (nice bit of pointing and laughing going on)

    its no suprise that roadies occasionally dont say hello, particularly with a large proportion of mtb riders being complete infantile n0bheads.

    Well just take the piss back at them then. Or do you all just take yourselves too seriously for that?

    CaptainMainwaring
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    3 hour ride round my local trails yesterday. Riding the 20 mins along the road to home I said hello to about 10 roadies in ones or twos coming the other way. Best I got was a couple of curt nods. Gave up after that. It's about 2/3rd round the Etape route so a fair old plod for them, but still no excuse

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    JoB
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    "Best I got was a couple of curt nods."

    were they "curt nods" or just "nods"?

    just because they didn't high-5 you, shout "dude" and touch your bottom, like mountainbikers have to do to each other to validate their existence…

    KINGTUT
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    Best I got was a couple of curt nods. Gave up after that. It's about 2/3rd round the Etape route so a fair old plod for them, but still no excuse

    FFS.

    CaptainMainwaring
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    were they "curt nods" or just "nods"?

    just because they didn't high-5 you, shout "dude" and touch your bottom

    🙄 It was the opposite to friendly. More like "how dare you put pressure on me to acknowledge your presence"

    tracknicko
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    Or do you all just take yourselves too seriously for that?

    classic… im slow clapping right now for you.

    Soup
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    Do we honestly need another one of these threads? Flogging a dead horse springs to mind.

    ooOOoo
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    classic… im slow clapping right now for you.

    Thank you, thank you….too kind
    Actually you're right, riding pushbikes is a very serious business

    Soup
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    When I was a roadie I thought mountain bikers were rude. Pointless discussion.

    oldgit
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    A nod curt or otherwise is full on acknowledgement in roadie terms, a whole step up from the classic 'index finger one inch raise' he literaly wanted your babies.

    aP
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    I'm usually happy with a gentle nod, much preferrable to the standard "here come the ****' roadies" that greets us at Peaslake from the fat, padded up warriors talking their gnarl at the bus stop.

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