I've got my Shimano AM45's on ready for the ride home. For some reason this means I am a "spacker" in the eyes of my colleagues. I wouldn't class them as high fashion but are they that bad???
Are they on the right feet?
worse...
looks like they were drawn up by the chap that designed the shocking slip on lonsdale trainer for sports direct did it on friday afternoon when he was drunk
I am a "spacker" in the eyes of my colleagues.
Well, your colleagues are clearly tossers who think it's still the early-80s, so who cares what they think?
God forbid i put my trouser clips on to stop material flappage on the way home. They'll all collapse! They still don't understand why somebody chooses to ride to work.
benjii19 - MemberGod forbid i put my trouser clips on to stop material flappage on the way home. They'll all collapse! They still don't understand why somebody chooses to ride to work.
Hang on - do you mean you have your AM45's on and you're wearing your work trousers? In which case you are a spacker.
You are Kelly McGarry and I claim my £5
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Could be worse. They could be 5 10's
They probably can't figure out why you have a pair of flats that can take SPD cleats. Should be either one or the other (unless you are a World Cup downhiller!)
Your riding your bike not at London fashion! Crack on with your ride home, you look great!
In which case you are a spacker.
Gaylord.
Thank you all for your support 😉
You could've got the MT53s,at least they look like a real shoe 8)
They look gash! besides i do relish the piss take!
Apparently the tiger does not concern itself with the opinion of sheep.
Think it means ignore them. I have used this recently with work colleagues who s**** at my cycling attire. It seems to work. They look constipated for a second or two ,realise what I'm getting and then tell me to **** off.
Job done!
Why have you changed your shoes already [i](I suspect I know the answer to this one, is it because your desperate for some attention and this is the only way you can think of getting some)[/i]?
ur shoez r sarcin
Why have you changed your shoes already (I suspect I know the answer to this one, is it because your desperate for some attention and this is the only way you can think of getting some)?
I had nothing to contribute to STW and dreamed up this baby.
From the title, I expected you to be a 29er rider.
They do look like they should have calipers fitted
They do look like they should have calipers fitted
this.
Even my colleagues in the LBS take the mick when I arrive/leave in mine...
:belm:
"spacker"
people still use that?
You could walk into a crowded pub/restraunt in a pink lycra Tri-suit. I kid you not. Poor chap.
Funnily enough it's the guy with the expanding waist line at work who is the biggest piss taker when I'm in my gear. I completely ignore him, but am saving up the famous 'Button it...' line for a packed office.
They do have a touch of the orthopaedic granny shoe about them.
Hmmm.. They are a rather challenging footwear.
Ignore them, and take it as banter, get it all day, one day they will realize it's lycra not spandex, best laugh is I'm nice and slim and they all have bellys hung over their belts, one day a get well soon card apres heartattack will be theirs 😈
Stop licking that window, grab your crayons and shout wheee all the way home. You're just beautiful the way you are.
Nice and slim? Beanpole with no shoulders more like. And a little pot belly. 🙂
very little cycling attire looks good IMHO so its function over fashion
I would challenge their choice of insult but taking the piss is fine.
Nice and slim? Beanpole with no shoulders more like. And a little pot belly.
Thanks for that tubs 😛
I rode home in AM41's knee length Seal Skinz and 3/4 Semi Drys so you have a long way to go yet. My commute is off road and pretty muddy so I do have an excuse but luckily I don't run into many people and give it another couple of weeks and at least it'll be dark on the way home.
I used to get a few comments when I started rocking up in Lycra and proper disco slippers, most of 'em are not sure what to do when (depending on if I'm on the bike or not) I grab my arse/cock, bend in the reqd fashion and ask if they want to feel me.
Thank for piping up Pook. I always value your appreciation of my slim physique.
I had no idea what an AM45 looked like until I Googled. All I can say is...............what the blinking heck were Shimano thinking of 😯
Only shoes I [i]don't[/i] get laughed at by my (non-cycling) colleagues are my old shimano 'casual' spd's (grey/black, laces and single velcro strap). My boss thought my defrosters were rugby boots! (I really do not have the physique of a rugby player!)
Do they not remind you of this?:
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I didn't know what the am looked like so I googled them,
Holy s**t!!! A very special shoe indeed
God forbid i put my trouser clips on to stop material flappage on the way home. They'll all collapse! They still don't understand why somebody chooses to ride to work
One day they'll laugh so hard they'll choke to death on their chips. That'll learn 'em.
I've never been a doyenne of style but tbh the am45s look fine on and off the bike. I've got mw81s though. Proper boots
AM45's are ridiculous. Someone once said its function over form due to what they are used for. However my black Sombrio's are brilliant yet soo understated.
Didn't you have a pair?
Bought, worn, felt huge/clumsy and looked utterly stupid.
Whereas Sombrio has the required toe/heel and grip etc without the utter bulk.
Sold within weeks.
One would have thought that corporate might of Shimano could manage function [i]and[/i] form...
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They are pretty fugly but if it is anything like my office, it is all banter.
Replying with "your Mrs thought they looked ok when I left yours this morning" or similar normally does the trick 😆
It's only a problem if you give a toss what others think 😉
When i wear my AM41's to bike to rugby training i usually get ' do those come with calipers?' my stock retort is 'does that gut come with scaffolding'. Its always the fat props!
Ps, I can also confirm that Pook has fallen down the fashion stairs, got up climbed a tree then fell down the clothing ugly branches.
They're not that bad - 5 10 impacts look far worse. They look like full on corrective shoes.
Most cycling gear does look a bot odd - roadie stuff is worse though. I made the mistake of getting a round in a few weeks ago at the end of one of our rides and had the mick ripped out of me by a load of drunk brummies. Ironically the people who seem to take the mick the most are the fatties who haven't seen their nobs for a long time!
At the start of a ride/parked. There were circa 15 Indian blokes sat on a wall. I had to whip off my sweatpanrets to put my ride shorts on....underneath I had bright pink boxers. The Indians stopped chatting. Utter silence.
I imagine a few emails were sent home about English blokes wearing pink underwear.
Any English blokes would have ripped into me 😆
plus one - Member
It's only a problem if you give a toss what others think
+1
Especially by ppl who think a derogatory term like "spaka" is an acceptable today
^ and so it begins. 🙄
It's only a problem if you give a toss what others think
Its not just that though. In the case of such items as the AM45 even you know they aren't very well styled and tbh to a degree badly designed.
I'm wearing high-top sneakers today- a weird design from Italy. Love em. I can see that some people wouldn't but I love the styling. The AM45 really is s[i]pecial[/i]. Get over yourself if you don't like the term.
My colleagues used to mercilessly take the piss out of my bib tights when I was getting changed at work, about 90% of which were wrestling references. Until one day when I wrestled them. Then they stopped!
CB you'd actually defend someones right to use that term? It's wrong and if you don't know that, you need a reality check. The plenty of ways to take the piss without being so insensitive or plain nasty. What next, a bit of casual racism too, cause you know it's only a laugh after all?
My colleagues used to mercilessly take the piss out of my bib tights when I was getting changed at work, about 90% of which were wrestling references. Until one day when I wrestled them. Then they stopped!
I too would 😯 if a man in bib tights with a funsized mars bar started grabbing me 😆
z1ppy calm down. Are you personally affected or offended for others or just moral conscience?
I'm not upset, I don't need to be upset to be offended because it's just wrong. As I say, bit of causal rasim next?
You know were all m8's after all... and it's only a laugh.
Attitudes need to change, words like that aren't right, meant in jest or not.
Ok. I see your point.
I have quite a dark/black humour mindset which i sometimes have to step back to see others opinions (my youngest sister lives in a residential home/one of my cousins has down-syndrome). 🙁
On a basic level you can draw a parallel to remedial footwear I think (visual referencing). However I firmly draw the line at spastics and window-licking references. Those are out for me.
It's one of those words you used as a kid when you didn't truly understand the meaning of it, and it's being used in the same way here. No offence was intended by the OP, bad choice of word or not, that's all i meant.
I work in an office full of engineers, some of whom claim to ride bikes at the weekend, I still get various comments when I don the Lycra to ride home, mostly let it wash over me, or I "own" the insults, sometimes I spot the look and head them off before they can formulate a new line and get in there with a quick [I]"Yet another pride march, would you believe?"[/I] or similar tends to confuse...
CB I agree, I was not trying to turn this into a case of middleclass outrage and nor blame the OP for using it, I assumed he was repeating the insult used on himself.
Look at my post, all I was saying was that anyone who believes that is an acceptable terms nowadays (now were not in the playground), their opinion is irrelevant & not worth listening too.
Sorry to continue to derail the thread... carry on... 🙂
I honestly dont know what the term "Spacker" means.. obv derogatory but is it that bad?
Kid slang for spastic.
Spacker makes more sense when accompanied with a belm or two.
There's no wonder they call this tardworld.
I feel like I should butt in here. Firstly I wasn't exactly offended by being called the name, I have no problem looking daft in front of work mates, colleagues etc. I just posted this for a laugh. I personally think they look well daft the am45 but they keep my feet dry but they do look like special shoes, am I allowed to say special.
Personally being called a "spacker" doesn't bother me. Nor being called "a cheese eating surrender monkey" after all I'm half French. People who take the moral high ground on these sayings obviously don't understand context. Or I am obviously insensitive to what is right and wrong. In other words banter is banter unless you prefer being wrapped in middle class cotton wool.
Rant over!
I feel like I should butt in here. Firstly I wasn't exactly offended by being called the name, I have no problem looking daft in front of work mates, colleagues etc. I just posted this for a laugh. I personally think they look well daft the am45 but they keep my feet dry but they do look like special shoes, am I allowed to say special.
Personally being called a "spacker" doesn't bother me. Nor being called "a cheese eating surrender monkey" after all I'm half French. People who take the moral high ground on these sayings obviously don't understand context. Or I am obviously insensitive to what is right and wrong. In other words banter is banter unless you prefer being wrapped in middle class cotton wool.
Rant over!
I feel like I should butt in here. Firstly I wasn't exactly offended by being called the name, I have no problem looking daft in front of work mates, colleagues etc. I just posted this for a laugh. I personally think they look well daft the am45 but they keep my feet dry but they do look like special shoes, am I allowed to say special.
Personally being called a "spacker" doesn't bother me. Nor being called "a cheese eating surrender monkey" after all I'm half French. People who take the moral high ground on these sayings obviously don't understand context. Or I am obviously insensitive to what is right and wrong. In other words banter is banter unless you prefer being wrapped in middle class cotton wool.
Rant over!
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Have you got the Tracey Mosely ltd edition ones?