[Closed] Cycling trends that need to die. Episode 47

Calling your bike a "rig".

Couldn't agree more.

I bought a turbo and despised the bloody thing.

Putting a turbo trainer in your garage and then calling it a "pain cave".

Oh this please, "Oh look at me, all tough and that in my 'Pain Cave' because I don't like being cold and wet"

it's more like Wimps Corner

You hate turbos, or you hate the use of "pain cave"?

I'd argue that turbos have a place, both for specific training and if you're short on time, but "pain cave" does grate rather.

whitestone - Member

Calling your bike a "rig".

Or a steed, whip, weapon, etc.

The word bike does the job fine!

Edit. Agree turbos good, "pain cave" bad.

What if [s]I, wait, no[/s] a mate already have a pain cave (in the traditional, special interest, sense) and set up a turbo in there?

How do we feel about 'Grimace grotto?'

Calling your bike a "rig".

One of my Mates gets all snippy about that, his Dad used to drive Lorries and he'd be say "er, it's a bike, not a HGV".

He looked a bit deflated when I mentioned it was more Nautical than that.

Mines a Mincing Mansion.

Cycling trends that need to die

I have an entire warehouse for my turbo trainer, a cavern rather than a mere cave.

hahahahah, I actually thought twice about calling it that on the other thread as I don't like it either, but in the end decided to use it as everyone would know instantly what the thread was about.

Go out for a ride instead.

Bloody good idea. Can I count on you to babysit until the other half comes home from work?

Singlespeeding

Can we add

Hipster Beards

along with

Rigids

Please

pretty sure i saw a band called Pain Cavern once. Quite sweary.

I am overdue a visit to the Pootle Palace

How do I know if my beard is hipster or not?
🙂

Derailleurs.

I hear your 'pain cave' and I raise you a 'cottage of wattage'.

*Slap!*

being condescending about what other people call things, like garages or bikes. WGAF? no-one.

gears !

“Variable gears are only for people over forty-five. Isn’t it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles rather than by the artifice of a derailleur? We are getting soft. Give me a fixed gear.”
–Henri Desgrange, 1903. Cyclist, first organizer of Tour de France.

bloody cyclists of today and weak little spinny hamster legs 😀

Jazz palace?

I have a pain cave in my basement full of specialist equipment but that's another story.

Steel is real
Skinwall tyres
fist bumps
Epicyclo's constant SS cock measuring contest

Berating others for their choice of vehicle / bike / anything in particular

Gnar, rad, shredding et al

This BOOST nonsense

In France do they have Maisons du Misere?

Orangery of mild discomfort?

Undercroft of unpleasantness?

Agony annexe?

Pantry of pissantery

"I'm going to the pain cave to get a visit from the man with the hammer"

Oh do FRO won't you?

Epicyclo's constant SS cock measuring contest

I really dont think the mad old Highlands dwelling beardie gives two hoots, what others think or do. He'll be off pottering about on some 1930's three speed thing with funny bars up a mountain looking like a deranged Santa Clause.

conservatory of pervert-tory?

Undercroft of unpleasantness?

maybe some chamois creme would help

Rusty Spanner - Member
How do I know if my beard is hipster or not?

If it's pretty, groomed and you have slicked hear with shaven sides.... it's Hipster.

Orangery of mild discomfort?

I could cope with an Orangery of Boulangerie

He looked a bit deflated when I mentioned it was more Nautical than that.

What you just park your bike in one spot and drill for oil/gas?

I object to the following:

-Use of the term [i]"Swap out"[/i]...

-People refering to their bike as [i]"Custom"[/i] when all they've really done is change the wheels and rear mech on an otherwise stock bicycle.

-Front Mech Remoaners (more an interweb thing).

-CX bikes fitted with slicks and panniers, that never get taken off road...

-Baggies on road bikes...

-Taking Gels/energy bars and forcing the group to stop for a munch on a sub 3 hour ride...

-Geometry experts...

saying things are off Piste.

Lean-to of lament?

Undercroft of unpleasantness?

maybe some chamois creme would help

Or some bongo bukake

When people say that they are "running" this fork or "running" those bars.

Why is everyone running? It's bloody cycling!

Gnarmac shack
Vroom room
shred shed
asphalt vault

I assume anyone working out in a garage hasn't heeded the warning of American Beauty 🙂

Zwift- get some friends and ride in the real world and if its all cold and dark and wet outside HTFU 😀