[Closed] Mountain Bikers on Road Club Rides

simonfbarnes - Member
This I hate roadie sh*t really ****s me off, I ride MTB's I ride road bikes too.
it's not about that, it's about disliking unpleasant people :o)

Exactly Simon, thats my point. the world is full of tw*ts but its also full of good guys too 🙂 in fact there are far more of them. Nobody should let a few of the bad ones put them off a whole sport. Only thing that puts me off road riding is getting an absolute kicking every saturday 🙂

Hang on a mo I've just remembered. Back in the seventies when I raced in B&W the fast guys did use to drop me if I slacked off and never waited if I punctured.
The utter barstewards.

"Fat Roadie Kicks Off" - lol seeing as I've won a number of hill climbs and am accused of having a toast rack instead of a chest.

Here's another go at the OP

"A bloke came on one of our rides the other day, it was quite a tough one. Most of us worked together to make it easier for the weaker riders and ensured that we would all get home together. However, he insisted on disrupting the ride and showing off. I wasn't too happy about that and we had a polite word with him but he carried on anyway. Near the end of the ride he could not keep up, mainly due to his showing off which had depleted his energy."

I actually meant it as humorous piss take Viz type rant not a troll post, but there you go. My MTB forum guidelines are 100% vindicated, in fact I think I'm going to do some more work on them this weekend to bring them up to date with current practice.

I'm very proud of my road club, they do loads for the community and new/old riders alike. They are all incredibly sociable and patient and only ever ask that new riders **listen** to advise when joining rides for the first time. Sadly many don't.

Have you also won back pedalling races? 😉

Oh Jesus, I just read some of the blog link that was posted up earlier. Seems that we're in the presence of a new messiah after reading just a snippet of the self-indulgent ramblings of a clear self-obsessive.

I'm sure a saw a couple of riders using "small under the shirt" Camelbaks during the Tour a few years back. One may have been Lance during a team time trial.
Didn't Lance use a helmet with a peak during the Tour of California recently?

[i]the name must prove embarrassing when used in verbal introduction, ie. "Hello, you must be ‘WickerNuts'"[/i]

I chuckled at this. 🙂

Just 'cos Lance did it doesn't make it right.

DavidB - will you please name your club?

Or at least re-assure me that it's not in the Cheshire/Manchester/Peaks area.

pk-ripper .. can I use that quote on my site!

Or at least re-assure me that it's not in the Cheshire/Manchester/Peaks area.

Higgo - I ride with a Manchester club. It's very friendly and is in the process of re-growing* with stacks of new members. People are into all sorts of different stuff, whether sociable Sunday rides, sportives, road racing, time trialling, touring, track, cross, MTB racing.

I joined the club a couple of years ago having got bitten by the road riding bug. I was expecting much weirdness based on my prejudices as a MTBer (I think, as I recall, I got all of these prejudices from MBUK back in the early '90s!).

They're an exceedingly friendly bunch, are actively sociable outside the riding (if you want that, cool if not) and are also very encouraging of all new members. There are at least two groups riding on a Sunday - even during the summer, where traditionally club runs are less popular with racing members. Sunday rides tend (unless otherwise agreed) to have a "no-one gets left behind" policy, which is good for the likes of me for whom gravity is a serious issue.

If you want any more info, drop me a line at ourmaninthenorth AT googlemail.com.

Oh, and if you need any further incentive, me and another chap are putting together an off road ride for later in the summer. That's off road on our carbon race bikes....

*Having had the likes of Chris Boardman and reg Harris as members, it used to be the premier amateur racing club in the country.

Manchester Wheelers/Truman Steel? or that Kodak sponsored squad??

Thought Reg Harris was a southerner as my first 'proper' bike was a Reg Harris and I'm err a southerner!

After much mickey taking recently a female MTBing friend of mine bought herself a decent road bike and decided to go on a club ride. The condescending sh*te she had to put up with when she turned up first time with her Camelback (ooh, that will hurt your back love' - how? it doesnt hurt for 8 hr MTB rides, hardly gonna do the same for a 2 hr pootle with a load of Lance wannabes). The derision at her MTB shoes and spds made her go and buy road shoes and pedals the week after. Funnily enough, she did comment that they all went really slowly up hills and she overtook most of them.

I dont think she has been back. Did her first DH race at Moelfre last week though and everyone was really friendly and helpful... Funny that. Hopefully she is selling the Trek carbon road tat and buying a Session 88.

"I'm sorry but you just don't wear a Camelback on a road bike, in the same way that you don't wear a peaked helmet"

i do, why not? did a sportive like that a few weeks ago. it's just a bike ride, on or off road..

For the same reason you don't wear tank tops at a Metallica gig..you just don't

For the same reason you don't wear tank tops at a Metallica gig..you just don't

That is really a good reason... To be honest I hope you are trolling as you sound exactly like the kind of tosser I cross during my commute everyday.
Not tough enough to do proper rides, so ride a shiny expensive carbon frame along the coast, cant really go much faster than a commuter with an over stuffed messenger bag a 12kg old and crappy SS road bike a peaked helmet and mtb shoes but are too much right they own arses that they cant be bothered to abide to the basics rules of politeness

Basic rules of politeness probably include not calling people tossers don't they?

But sadly I don't really fit your cyclist profile very well juan

The camelback thing is like, over long brake hoses or mismatched valve to logo positioning or 9" forks on an on-one or weeds in bike against wall shots....etc..

Manchester Wheelers/Truman Steel? or that Kodak sponsored squad??

Thought Reg Harris was a southerner as my first 'proper' bike was a Reg Harris and I'm err a southerner!

Yep, Manchester Wheelers.

No longer sponsored by Trumans Steel (unlike the glory days, which some of the older members are fond of going on about).

Reg Harris was from Birtle, near Bury!

Anyway, if you're interested in coming out on a club run, you would be very welcome. Even with a camelback, peaked helmet, hairy legs and all the stuff that seems to have got everyone so excited in this thread...

😀

He has become caught up in achievement and forgotten the simple pleasures to be had in riding your bike whilst not giving a toss how fast, how hard or how difficult your riding should be. He's succumbed to the virtual arms race of equipping my bike with the latest gadgets and gears and forgotten that it’s just as much fun to ride when you do it with others and take pleasure from their enjoyment rather than your own.

Bollicks innit?

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Salut juan 🙂

Salut strato 😀

Thanks for the offer, but I'm firmly based down sarf. Complete with shaven legs (camelbak & peak in the bin) I'm an old fuddy duddy you see.

I did have a few run is with the Manchester/Truman guys in the 70's and early 80's. Then IIRC they were one of the first clubs to get sponsored big time and competed on a different level.
Anyway bought back a few good memories of the old red white and blue jerseys.

What tosser wrote that load of old crap stratobiker. Sounds like some sort of up their own arse messiah type?

Me and my mate rode our bikes for the BBC's Messiah.

Sounds like some sort of up their own arse messiah type

oldgit - sorry! I thought Higgo had posted that, so the comment about hairy legs was for him..! (Though, of course, you're more than welcome to come and give us a kicking next time you're up North..!) 😀

The Trumans Steel days were one of semi-professionalism, AFAIK, and so there was lots of concern that the playing field wasn't level. It certainly seemed to attract the best riders at the time....

We still wear the same jersey (as originally designed by Reg Harris). I'm no racer (next year, when I'm well again and fit enough), but I do get a sense of pride in pulling on the jersey.

Did you ever come across Harold "H" Nelson - the soigneur of some distinction?

Is he the guy with the 'face' that looked like he had done a few rounds with Henry Cooper and come off the worse?

DavidB i get your homour and much made me laugh/smile etc but some of this is a litlle bit like bike snobbery which works in both directions of the great pointless bike divide mtb v road
Who cares if you ride in Lycra or baggies , have spd shoes with three holes or two holes, whether you drink water from a bottle or a tube, whether you have a peak or not as long as you enjoy riding a bike does the rest really matter?
On a first ride I would not expect someone to lead the group even on a two mile flat section I would also not expect them to bomb up the hills either though.
We are just people who ride bikes some ride them on the road some off road some do both some ride fast some ride slow some ride in groups some do solo honestly who cares how other people enjoy their bike riding?

PS Juan not like any of us know a MTB'er with a bike far better than thier ability now is it?

PS Juan not like any of us know a MTB'er with a bike far better than thier ability now is it?

easy to say hello whilst pushing up hill though 😆

Just dont get this us and them divide as I ride a MTB a road bike and a hack commute bike we are all bikers just getting our thrills in different ways

OMITN
Me on my Reg Harris, up front in the 1977 Afia Memorial 36 mile 2up TT.
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Sorry about dragging this pic out again.

Doh 'Reg Barnett'

DavidB - you're not one of the the Port Sunlight lot I fell out with a few weeks ago are you?

Plus, having pretty much been told to "**** off the road you ****, you're in our way" by the London dynarod club,

the emergency plumber club are well know for being a bunch of stuck-up impolite ar*eholes. dulwich paragon, addiscombe and VCL are meant to be a lot more friendly. i'm not a member of any club but hear good things about addiscombe.

i was having a tea/cake stop at peaslake once when a group of dyno-rod road riders rolled up and one of them loudly said "phew what's that smell? cow sh*t? no, must be the mountainbikers"

This thread reminds my why I always ride alone on the road, and with company on the MTB. I did a road charity event the other year - 110 miles from Bristol to London. A group of club riders latched on to my tail, hung there for 15 miles, and then dropped me on the next climb. What a lovely bunch of people.

"DavidB - you're not one of the the Port Sunlight lot I fell out with a few weeks ago are you? "

No, I'm the misunderstood **** on the internet that everyone else has fallen out with

Is he the guy with the 'face' that looked like he had done a few rounds with Henry Cooper and come off the worse?

Er, could be.

This is him:

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Oh, and oldgit, you can't have been going that fast - you had time to smile..!

Nice picture.

In fairness, Dyno-rod have some stupid number of members (I think it's more than 350 at present) and are very, very efficient in their kit distribution.

So the chances of any individual SW London road biking cock being (a) a member of Dyno-rod and (b) identifiable as a member because he's wearing their branded socks are disproportionnately high, but there is no real evidence that dyno-rod suffers from a higher percentage of cocks than any other group of people. 🙂

BD - my one expereience of riding in the South East seemed to involve too many of the ****ers. So, on that statistically significant basis, I'd say stoning was too good for 'em. 😉

Oh, and that old geezer is the bloke your brother is currently seeing (a lot) more of than his missus.... 😳

This bloke who turned up on the club ride wasn't called Lance and spoke with an American accent was he? You see I've seen cycling on the TV and there was a bloke there who sat on the back the whole way until the climbs and then attacked all the honest chaps who'd been doing the work on the front for the rest of the ride. Was just wondering if it was the same bloke?

It's a grimace, and that's not the bloke I was thinking of.

[i]the bloke your brother is currently seeing (a lot) more of than his missus[/i]

I am not going to comment, other than to note that I assume they fulfil different roles in his life. 🙂

Lets resolve this with a fight;

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I can't belive this thread is still going! Can we all just ride our bikes now?

It could have been him, does Lance keep asking you what tyres you need for the various tarmac types?

I am not going to comment, other than to note that I assume they fulfil different roles in his life.

Well, that entirely depends on whether or not she also uses baby oil.... 😉