[Closed] FAIRWEATHER CYCLISTS!

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Fatties out on bikes is overall a good thing.(I should know).

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People on bikes is a Good Thing.

People on bikes is a good thing, but I have seem some very interesting fairweather commuting of late - cycling on pavements outside of school, cycling 3-abreast down a busy 2-way cycle lane (at a snails pace!), having no idea how to use a roundabout (it was his right of way and I sat there for ages waving him out!). All for lots of people out (last night ride was really busy, in a good way), its great, but sometimes you do wonder!

Where do you stand on fat people who cycle in poor weather too 😉

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Definitely more people out there is good and definitely body shape matters not, it's all about fun.

All of a sudden those local authority courses offering the equivalent of the old Cycling Proficiency seem like a good thing that many might do well to avail themselves of though, and if I'm really honest it can be a bit annoying some mornings if I'm running late not being able to drop the hammer properly because of wobblers and it's very hard trying to persuade work that more lock up facilities are suddenly needed...

All in all a good thing though. 🙂

The work changing room is full of these types. Can't get a space now. Where were they in the pissing rain cold winter!?

A disgrace.

Cycling is still taught in many French schools probably in all but i dont know that for sure.

Same with Motorbike commuters! Over the winter, probably 20 hardy motorbikes in my work bike park, now when I'm on lates (today), I struggle to get a spot - must be 50+ motorbikes 👿

It's bloody great, people out all over the place, fat and thin, old and young, walkers, runners and cyclists, it awesome to see.

I just make sure I give the slower folks struggling up the climbs a smile and an encouraging word or 2, spread the love people, the more cyclists the better.

Same at my work, a lot busier recently. In an act of petty territorialism by me, I always claim 'my' space on the towel heater. I can't abide these johnny-come-latelys hogging all the facilities...come the first rain in September, there are plenty of abandoned b-twins and boardmans all of a sudden. 😉

Welcome back Fairweather Riders!

ARE EVERYWHERE!

Good. More cyclists means more safety in numbers on my commute.

Cycling is still taught in many French schools probably in all but i dont know that for sure

Isn't it taught in English schools too?

Both our kids were taught it at primary school (one this year), but we're in the land of the rising Sturgeon.

Or more annoyed motorists that have been held up for longer and now see you as no better than the slow new comers.

Oh it's a joy

It did make me laugh when we got to the pub after a night ride last week. They've installed a jet washer - which is nice of them. A group of GGNNNAAAAARRRRR looking Enduro types turned up on some rather expensive looking full sussers, clearly.... like TOTALLY.....STOKED!!!!! ...and proceeded to turn their bikes upside down and jet wash them for a good 5 minutes each.

I don't know where all this mud was they must have found. In June. We seemed to have missed it. As we looked out our lightly flecked frames, it became apparent it must have been the very dangerous, and much feared invisible type.

I doubt they'd have been happy slogging through the axle-deep filth we've endured through the winter. Well..... the expensive bearings they were now relentlessly blasting full of high pressure water certainly wouldn't 😆

Great to loads of people out though. Because the sun means most of them are smiling too

FAIRWEATHER CYCLISTS! - good work, you're awesome, bikes are ace.

is that what you meant?

Kielder 2011 - 11 hours of unrelenting rain - cured me of my misconception that it was fun to ride in all weathers. I had a big ride planned for Saturday, but a quick look at the weather forecast suggests I'll be staying a home.

Lunge has the right of it. Well said.

For every bike, it's one less car, even if it is just for summer.

I used to be one of the fatties wobbling and struggling all over the place. Now I'm a fatty who doesn't wobble or struggle and goes out in winter. I'm so awesome.

hopefully more fairweather cyclist out now will mean more thoughtful drivers on the road once the weather inevitably changes again.

I just make sure I give the slower folks struggling up the climbs a smile and an encouraging word or 2

My commute is 50 miles return trip, I do save it for nice days...

I spent the winter slogging through the slop in the dark and cold at my local trails at Woburn, rarely saw a soul. Now they're everywhere.

I'm all for it though, more the merrier, and at least I kept my fitness up over winter and can cheerily pass them while they blow out of their backsides.

I got the top for my birthday and i'm just bigged boned I'll have you know 😥

In a quite frankly idiotic twist I actually ride less in the Summer, there's lots of other interesting things to do and I occasionally go out with the family (shudders).

In winter, there's naff all else to do and I refuse to watch TV, might as well go and try and bend my femur on the singlespeed and revel in how niche and hardcore I am.

I just make sure I give the slower folks struggling up the climbs a smile and an encouraging word or 2, spread the love people, the more cyclists the better.

Don't judge by appearances. I too have wobbly bits, go red in the face and wear my Sky top. I rode in on the bike all winter, swapping to the mountain bike to face the A6 traffic when it snowed.

I was out here 3 times a week when it was 5 below and dark with ice all over the place.

Ha - where were you the other 3 nights a week I was out? In my day you went out with coal in your shorts just to make sure you knew you were out!

Mutter mutter

As a recent recruit to the ranks of the fat, three year medal due soon. Due to the offence I have caused I will endeavour to cloak myself in the most sihouette reducing clothing I can find whilst enjoying my gentle exercise.

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The fat is just so I can wear more hi-viz clothing when road riding.

I overtook someone on my Fatty on the road, with 8psi in my tyres last night.

Given my current level of fitness I had to check they'd not actually stopped as this really shouldn't have happened!

Or more annoyed motorists that have been held up for longer and now see you as no better than the slow new comers.

That makes no sense - if some of the commuters who are normally in cars have switched to bikes, everyone will have been held up less, not more, surely?

Ah, but in ranty motorist land, the new free flowing traffic caused by less cars should have meant he could have let rip with his turbo, and showed off his cornering prowess. This was spoilt by an increase in cyclists getting in the bloody way even more than usual - faster drive home, but he now hates cyclists even more!!

Fair weather cyclists are great, they pander to your ego by providing slow moving targets to pass 🙂

Especially when you overtake roadies while on the road on an mtb.

I went for my first ride of the year the day before the clocks went forward so officially I was "riding through winter"

I find cycling in winter tedious as **** so just go running instead...getting out of bed in the pitch black when it's raining to go cycling?! **** that

It also means less clothing on, everyone, everywhere. This is both a good and bad thing.

I'm a fat, fairweather cyclist & I take umbrage at the OP's comment. Calling a fat person 'fatty' is a form of bullying even if It's a fact that he's fat. (that took some typing after 3 bottles of King Goblin) It's no different to calling someone from ****stan a......(that naughty word)

Anyway, I've just sold the factory that made the Tee shirts that said 'Iv'e ridden in some right crap weather over the past 24 years & now I'm sick of it'

I won't be out on Saturday either now, have you seen the forecast for the North East?!

It also means less clothing on, everyone, everywhere. This is both a good and bad thing

Very much this. There was a woman on my commute home, defo a fair weather cyclist, riding in a miniskirt that didnt quite cover her hold ups 8O. She did seem a bit self concious about it tbf. You woulnt get that in february.

I'm the opposite, I prefer riding when it's colder / cloudier.

I can't stand being too hot so prefer walking the dogs etc on hot days.

Hooray for more people on bikes!!!

There was a woman on my commute home, defo a fair weather cyclist, riding in a miniskirt that didnt quite cover her hold ups

Where was this exactly? (& I mean 'exactly')

Heading up The Mound, towards George IV Bridge in Edinburgh.

jekkyl - Member
...Red in the face they pant up the road,
Keep cycling fatty!...

That's not fat.

That's my long range fuel tank...

how about fair weather commuters who then spout out all their "knowledge" and "recommendations" about gear ratio's and how 23mm tyres are too wide for them...
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Heading up The Mound

FAT(ish) ...TICK
RIDE MORE IN SUMMER... TICK.

It's all bikes and all good. Love to see anyone out on a bike at any time in our country.

I did A NIGHTRIDE last night.

The Kinder/Jacobs in a tshirt and no lights 😀 !

Please stop typing fair weather as one word...please.

I had a lovely time this evening as a fair weather fatty, I enjoyed breezing past a group of shiny Bianchi, and Specialized road bikes on my old cyclo cross commuter with a 19 stone fatty and full panniers on. At the moment I have a knackered left leg which I can only use at half power, so it was just a great moment for me..

I love fairweather riders. It means the sun's shining 🙂