[Closed] I am not a mountain biker (according to Chipps)

...and.... ?

We all knew that 🙂

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I want to be a proper mountain biker

I get mocked by my other half for 'perving' bikes. Any bikes. And yes, I do the tyre thing... 🙁

is this in the mag or something?
or has he written about you in his memoirs?

I think that just means you are a dirty old man, not a mountain biker.
Personally I take in the whole scene, bike and all

SFB - I am with you there.

If you are a real mountainbiker as opposed to a fashion victim then the bike is merely a tool to do the job not and end in itself. Who cares what the bike is and about all the geekery that goes with it.

Real mountainbikers get out there and ride - and whatever else you may or may not be guilty of you certainly ride your bike.

depends how hot the rider is whether they or the bike get my attention.

its like jeeves & wooster .

sorry, it's his editorial in the latest issue - you know, that mag thing they do in their spare time when not slaving over STW ?

I want to be a proper mountain biker

no, I don't, that obsession with kit thing is too "autisitic spectrum" for my taste...

I think that just means you are a dirty old man, not a mountain biker.

but I started doing it when I was 15...

TandemJeremy - Member

If you are a real mountainbiker as opposed to a fashion victim then the bike is merely a tool to do the job not and end in itself. Who cares what the bike is and about all the geekery that goes with it.

Real mountainbikers get out there and ride - and

Some of us do both

I nearly crashed the car once checking out a bike......

I think there might have been a girl on it a well!

I shall pass comments once my subs copy finally turns up 👿

Just because you started being a dirty old man when you were young is not an excuse 🙂

druidh - you a bike geek?

Just because you started being a dirty old man when you were young is not an excuse

I'm thinking it's genetic programming. The types that drool over kit become extinct 🙂

TJ - I'd say that I'm on the geeky side. Partly an occupational hazard of course, but what else would you call someone who replaces their Shimano brake hoses with Goodridge just because they are white?

Hmm maybe you have something there. Just keep your lense to yourself though 😯

You keep it decently well hidden away druidh - anyway - thats being a tart not a geek. Geeks are the ones who recognise people by their bikes and can tell this years xtr from last years at a glance

A little bit of licence being taken there, sfb, considering the word used is 'sign' not requirement.
Unfortunately I don't have too many of the 'signs'. thankfully.

I'll comfess to doing the tyre thing, but only because I hope it makes me look a tiny bit like Ray Mears... 😳

I liked that article. The kit geek was not the only point made

TJ you do constantly suprise me with your narrowmimdedness. Guess I should be used to it 🙄

Interest in bikes to the exclusion of the riding is one thing but it's perfectly possible to combine the two.

The kit geek was not the only point made

but I agreed with most of the other stuff:)

I'm both a geek and a tart love all elements of mountain bikes maybe something to do with my engineering back ground but I enjoy all the technologies whether it's bollox or not. It's my hobby I guess and occasionally I even go for a ride !

does anyone else speed up on the motorway if you see a possibly interesting bike on a roof rack in the distance?

if you don't engross yourself in the geekery, the tartery and the fashion(ry) of mountain biking as well as riding, then you're missing out on half the fun
maybe if you had a nice bike you'd understand 🙂

rOcKeTdOg - Member
does anyone else speed up on the motorway if you see a possibly interesting bike on a roof rack in the distance?

Only if I'm riding my tourer.

[i]Geeks are the ones who can tell this years xtr from last years at a glance [/i]

Oh, c'mon all you need is a working set of eyes for that comparison. Methinks the lady doth protest too much

I am not a sad individual. I tend to get on with people better than I do with non-human things.

When out for a ride with people, I will usually recognize people and tell them apart from what bike they are riding.

Right now I'm wearing a specialneeds t shirt and fox shorts. And endura socks.

I'll notice if you have new jockey wheels, but probably not if you have had a hair cut.

Being a bike geek is fun. Just a shame there aren't more out there to talk gear inches with.

then you're missing out on half the fun

half for you mebbe, less than 1% for me :o) Give me totty any day!

I'm crap at remembering names but quite good at remembering what bike you were riding all day.

nickc - Member

"Geeks are the ones who can tell this years xtr from last years at a glance"£

Oh, c'mon all you need is a working set of eyes for that comparison. Methinks the lady doth protest too much

I wouldn't be able to tell xtr from any other mech without reading whats on the side - the whole geekery simply escapes me. I don't recognise or remember bikes at all.

Its just geekery - same as trainspotting

but quite good at remembering what bike you were riding all day.

it never registers for me. Sometimes I can remember the colour of the bike...

"no, I don't, that obsession with kit thing is too "autisitic spectrum" for my taste.."
er, i think not, autistic obsession would be the noise the kit makes, not the looks.
"not me then. I'll take in face, hair, figure, body language, boobs, thighs, arse, calves, hands and wrists"
wrists? blimey, never noticed wrists before, although there must be entire websites devoted to it!

rocketdog, er, yes many a time, just to get a glance! 😉

tumnurkoz - Member
....> hands and wrists"
wrists? blimey, never noticed wrists before, although there must be entire websites devoted to it!

Might be quite important if you're into fisting though?

'sickbag'!

Simon, I don't know you, but you are perhaps just a bike rider, and not a mtb rider, like Chipps said.

Last night someone asked me if the rear mech on my new bike was last year's XTR. I didn't even realise I had an XTR rear mech 😳

stevious, I have a lovely Deore rear mech that will work just as well on your bike. Mail me and we can do a swap.
ps you won't even notice , right?

sfb - would you still go biking if there was no 'totty'?

Geeks are the ones who can tell this years xtr from last years at a glance

Oh, c'mon all you need is a working set of eyes for that comparison.

I'm more of a trail perv. I passed a footpath sign I've never noticed before on the way back from the pub tonight. I'm Google Earthing it now!

sputnik - Member

Simon, I don't know you, but you are perhaps just a bike rider, and not a mtb rider, like Chipps said.

Well the photographic evidence is that SFB does indeed ride a mountain bike on mountains fairly regularly ( well fells anyway :wink:) I indeed ride mountainbikes almost everyday - sometimes on road , sometimes on mountains. I am most deffo an MTBer and do not subscribe to the geekery at all.

but you are perhaps just a bike rider, and not a mtb rider, like Chipps said.

but I only have a mountain bike (here, next to me as I type) and I only like riding it off road...
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buzz-lightyear - Member
I'm more of a trail perv. I passed a footpath sign I've never noticed before on the way back from the pub tonight. I'm Google Earthing it now!

Guilty as charged m'lud

Guilty as charges m'lud

oh yeah, me too - always looking from trains and cars etc :o)

Ooh, the Barnes Cave!

'This gives us a fascinating insight into the life of this truly disgusting creature...'

Look; two screens for comparing bottoms! Top man....

Ooh, the Barnes Cave!

I tidied up special like...

many screens for many eyes. fly guy that barnes.

I'm glad that most men do appear to look at bikes more, I'd feel most uncomfortable if group rides that I went on were full of leering pervs like sfb. In fact, I'd probably stop going on them.

I'd feel most uncomfortable if group rides that I went on were full of leering pervs like sfb.

You do know that he's at least honest, and that all the others are secretly looking at your bottom?

I don't think the ladies that go on SFBs rides have a problem with him being a perv; they know he's too elderly to actually cause them any real danger. Speshly when he's not got his teeth in.

Is that a Dual-Booty system, Barnes?

I'd feel most uncomfortable if group rides that I went on were full of leering pervs like sfb.

and yet the women I do ride with appear to find it funny 🙂 Not least because I'm openly honest about it.

they know he's too elderly to actually cause them any real danger.

it's me age you know...

Is that a Dual-Booty system, Barnes?

just Win7 at the mo 🙂 Watercooled i7.

[i]that obsession with kit thing is too "autisitic spectrum" for my taste...[/i]

[i]just Win7 at the mo Watercooled i7. [/i]

Discussion point Fail. 😉

just Win7 at the mo Watercooled i7.
Discussion point Fail

I'm no more interested in PC hardware. It's just a tool.

What are you using it for that requires 'watercooled i7'?

And you never answered my question:

Would you still go biking if there was never any 'totty' involved?

What are you using it for that requires 'watercooled i7'?

Processing bottoms of course!

The number of bottoms SFB has to process requires a LOT of computer power....

What are you using it for that requires 'watercooled i7'?

DXO Pro* drives it up to 100% for hours

And you never answered my question:
Would you still go biking if there was never any 'totty' involved?

oh, sorry, I missed that! It's hard to give a definitive answer, but I have given up Wednesday evenings as they were unrelentingly blokey, though male only rides are very rare at the weekend, so the question does not arise. It's sexist but I'm not very keen on other men, they tend to be dull.

*photo batch post processor

Very guilty of the tyre thing........................

DXO Pro* drives it up to 100% for hours

Fair enough

oh, sorry, I missed that! It's hard to give a definitive answer, but I have given up Wednesday evenings as they were unrelentingly blokey

For someone that claims to love mountain biking as much as you say, that seems a bit odd - but then I will happily ride on my own.

For someone that claims to love mountain biking as much as you say, that seems a bit odd - but then I will happily ride on my own.

I love the experience, which for me is sociable and shared - I never ride alone either - and I prefer socialising with women, or at least in a mixed group and moan like hell when no women turn up

When I was about 15 my Mom (very keen cyclist in her day) got exasperated with my mates and I tinkering about with our bikes rather more than riding them. She burst out with "You're not cyclists, you're just bike riders!". It doesn't make logical sense, but I know eggzackerly what she meant and it made me sick with shame then, and it still does now, 40 plus years later.

I guess that's why I ride 3 times a week, but do virtually no bike maintenance to this day.

BTW - why has SFB got a picture of TJ's Mrs on his wall? Trying to cause an argument?

(An argument? - with TJ?? - who'd have thought it?)

why has SFB got a picture of TJ's Mrs on his wall?

I can only see my daughter, brother and me...

anyway, I contend that an obsession with kit does [b]not[/b] characterise mountain bikers, and I wonder if it isn't the case that the obsessives either attach too much importance to the bits and pieces in a kind of supersticious voodoo related to their enjoyment, or don't get enough from the pure riding and need to add metal and/or rubber fetishism

BTW - why has SFB got a picture of TJ's Mrs on his wall? Trying to cause an argument?

Huh?

or don't get enough from the pure riding and need to add metal and/or rubber fetishism

Or perving over women? Presumably if it was about pure riding it wouldn't matter if you rode alone.

Or just that those of us who like bikes too get more from riding than you do. I don't see that one excludes the other. It certainly doesn't for me.

Presumably if it was about pure riding it wouldn't matter if you rode alone.

correction accepted - pure riding in company :o)