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I have a nice bike and love riding but I'm not fit, I ride on my own mostly for that reason, go at my own pace, have a rest when I feel like it.
If you fancy a more sociable ride some time - I must be somewhere near you and am also very unfit 🙂
A Pitch, for commuting, on the roads.
Wow. Get him out on the trails on it!
There is a massive differential between thinking one is fit for the bike, and actually being bike fit.
I've had the ignominy of being given a shove, and I've also coaxed plenty of riders home. We do all have to learn somewhere.
I would have had sympathy for oldgit's rider but for the fact that he shot his mouth off. I've never met a decent rider who tells anyone how good s/he is - they just batter you from beginning to end and then do another 40 miles home after the ride.
I've just bought a beautiful, expensive road bike. While I'm not the fittest or fastest in the world, I'm by no means the slowest (did 96 miles yesterday at 17mph avg (on the winter bike, it was raining)) and I'm feeling really strange about going out on my new bike, like if I'm not caning it people will think what an idiot, All the gear no idea.
so going back to the OP, do these people not have any shame? or are they oblivous to it all?
C'mon 17/96 is fast.
A Pitch, for commuting, on the roads.
There's a guy in Leicester who commutes on a Stinky.
I wish I had his thighs.
I turned up on my 3rd club ride back in december. It was a cold winters day and there was a guy waiting who i hadn't seen before. Had no club kit on and had winter bike with mudguards etc.
I asked him if he was with the club and said no but a mate in the club had invited him along. I asked him if he rode much and he said "a bit"
Found out when i got home he was a masters road race champion, National Expert MTB series winner (2004), top 20 in World masters road, tt & cross championships and has held and Elite road licence for 8 consecutive years!!! 😯
grum - sounds good, been off the bike for a while due to a 'medical thing' - I'm in to see a consultant at 10:45 today.......will mail you after that although I'm expecting some sort of small operation in the near future - well I'm hoping its small 😐
You see peeps on the machines at gyms reading... How on earth do you read if you're going balls out on something (i.e. training with effect)?
You're a "no pain no gain" sort of person aren't you? It is possible to train without going balls out you know.
Whilst I completely agree he shouldn't have gobbed off about his brilliantness, maybe he was over compensating for being a bit nervous. If it really is a friendly ride shouldn't someone should have dropped back and at least offered him a wheel?
I did my first ever bash last night and was bricking it before hand.
I find these 'more money than sense' people very depressing actually. You just know they'll end up disappointed.
OK - What should he have done? & what bike should he have bought?
OK - What should he have done? & what bike should he have bought?
It's not a case of "he should start on a cheap bike" cos that's clearly rubbish. The guy can buy whatever bike/kit he wants. Turning up and shooting your mouth off about how great you are though deserves some contempt, especially when you're out the back within a few seconds.
Turning up, explaining that you're new to all this and would welcome some advice and I'm willing to bet that he'd have been helped round or at least offered some useful advice.
ok fair point - he needs some good advice followed by years of piss taking "remember the first club ride you came to"? haha...
I bought a PL X SL Red for just over a grand - I posted (on another forum) how to adjust the Sram rear mech - there was a few posts with "sram red/newbie" 🙄 I felt I was tarred with the all gear no idea brush.
truth is I'm relatively fit, bits of fell running, mountain biking etc & had a grand for a road bike (how dare me for not buying a 105 groupset)!
aracer - MemberYou're a "no pain no gain" sort of person aren't you? It is possible to train without going balls out you know.
That'll be the one 🙂 Yes you can but shirley such low intensity to be able to sitand read a book is going a bit too far? Next we'll have 'training by laying on the sofa eating biscuits' or 'I did 10 miles medium intensity....on the BUS!' 😆
aracer - MemberYou're a "no pain no gain" sort of person aren't you? It is possible to train without going balls out you know.
That'll be the one 🙂 Yes you can but shirley an intensity so low as to be able to sit and read a book is going a bit too far? Next we'll have 'training by laying on the sofa eating biscuits' or 'I did 10 miles medium intensity....on the BUS!' 😆
Just joshing, I like watching (read letching) gym bunnies it's just the bullshit that's hard to swallow 😉
shirley such low intensity to be able to sitand read a book is going a bit too far?
Don't call me shirley.
I can quite happily read a book whilst level 2 training on the turbo (determined using a HRM). Plenty of training effect there.
The thing I like about road riding is it's brutally honest.
ie: if you're good, you're good and people will respect you for it (so long as you're not a pr*ck about it)
If you talk a lot, have the kit but can't ride, it becomes clear. You can't blag it.
If you're in the latter group but learn how to ride your decent kit and learn to give it a bit less chat, you get the respect that's due.