[Closed] Proud to be a cyclist...

Pete who?

You've never heard of Pete Steav?

I'm not offended, just saddened. 🙁

[waves Union Flag vigourously too]

Tee-Hee!

[i]It is beyond me why some people are arguing it's wrong to be proud[/i]

Who said it was wrong to be proud?

I think some of you need to reread the op which asked do you feel proud to be part of cycling’s success story. I'm proud of what I do; I'm proud and happy for others achievements but I'm not part of the ‘success story’.

Well if I'd had no influence over my parents life, then no I certainly wouldn't feel pride. In fact if I'd had no influence on their lives, they'd be pretty shity parents.
Bikes are great BTW 🙂

Buzz, that's exactly why we SHOULD be proud! Well said.

I thought this thread might be good fun but as usual the STW psuedo-intellectuals like to butt in to bring it down. I don't have the language or argumentative skills to reply. And if I did I wouldn't bother anyway.

Happiness is still legal you know!!

[starts reciting Churchill speech, 'cos it makes me happy and will probably annoy the detractors, lol]

I'm proud to be human (with numerous misgivings). Those aliens are standoffish knob jockeys...

robdob - I think you've just killed it by calling them what most of them are - pseudo-intellectuals... Busted.

Ah so thats why you stoop to petty name calling then robdob.

I'm no pseudo-intellectual, I just know my own mind and I'm not afraid to state my opinion and stick to it. I like the way you've joined in there Goan must be nice to feel part of the gang for a change.

You're just pissed that he's called a lot of you for what you are.

Gary_M - I've never known you to put forward your opinion on anything. I have seen you try and pick holes in plenty of others opinions though, not very successfully either. I have also known you to have a dig at a rider in a sportive who started fast to get up and over a hill and out of the wind too - I'm the man remember...

Yep keep it going Goan, I'm sure if you stick around it'll turn on you eventually.

if you can only have pride in your own achievements then you can never be proud of your nationality or race or sexuality - didn't choose those did you.

Hmm. there seems to be lots of people who are proud of those things....

I am pleased to see cycling getting more coverage, from Chris Hoy on the brand flakes box to the fakenger bikes which pop up on telly all the time now, as props. cycling seems to becoming accepted and normal.

GBR doing well in cyclesport as well can only help this - imo.

I give in.

+1 for thomthumb - go GB!

If my sons grow up with biking in the news (for good reasons rather than RLJ / cycling nazis etc) then they'll be better off than I was.

late edit: success to the positive posse 😀

My bike goes boing.

Eh?

See there's no point arguing about this, 'cos I clearly have no idea what you're talking about. I'm not as clever as you, obviously (and I genuinely mean that, I'm quite a simple guy).

Positivity prevails.....

Bikes are rad to the power of sick. Apart from grumpy tw4ts on SS, they are just grumpy tw4ts.

robdob can I explain where I'm coming from here. The op basically said 'are you proud to be part of the cycling success story'. Well I'm not part of the cycling success story so I don't agree with his statement. I'm proud of what they have achieved, I'm proud of my own cycling achievments but I'm not proud to be part of a 'movement' I have nothing to do with.

Of course as usual on here people fail to read the question and fly off the handle, group mentallity means those that can't think for themselves jump on the bandwagon and it rolls on.

I really don't think there is any need to get nasty.

Tee Hee!

Happiness wins!

I'm so chuffed that Cycling GB is going so well. I know so many more people who can relate to cycling now, and so many more actual cyclists. I'd much rather go on a 1mile ride with a overweight teenager who got on a bike 'cos he wanted to be like Chris Hoy than 20 miles at the best trail centre.

I want to be able to cycle to work WITH other cyclists who have seen GB success and have found how great bikes really are.

I can talk about cycling at work now without feeling like a freak. That's fantastic.

Tom and ACJim - thanks!

[i]I'm so chuffed that Cycling GB is going so well[/i]

And of course you feel a personal pride because you're part of it, right?

Well I applaud you for being so smart to be able to pick apart the language of the OP and argue against it, rather than understand the point of it all. Clearly your English skills are more advanced than mine (they probably are).

Hope you can be "proud" of that! 😉

Oh for ****s sake stop it, I wasn't 'picking apart', I answered the question that was asked. Maybe you saw a point that wasn't even there in the first place.

Oh and btw the 'tee hee' thing makes you sound like the village idiot, I'd drop it.

I think you'll find that if you look at the sport/passtime/activiy/hobby/whatever then the competitive side of it all is the bit that is doing least well. Cycling in the UK is on the crest of a wave right now, and it is a great time to be a cyclist in the UK.

There are different types of pride and feeling good about the part you may have played in a competition success is only one of them.

We are part if the success. If you buy something from a bike shop you put money into the shop. The shop can sponsor more people, who can then train more and be successful. This could come from the manufacturers as well. More success equals more funding. Maybe they go onto win a medal or a TDF stage or the Hour Record. Maybe it's not as simple as that but there's still a connection. You are part of it anyway.

So you can be proud of it, even by your logic.

[i]You are part of it anyway.[/i]

In that case anyone who bought a lottery ticket can also consider themselves part of that success.

Have you been drinking?

Everyone that buys a lottery ticket is part of the lottery's success. Of course they are, without people buying the tickets nobody would win, no "good causes" would get money and the lottery would fail.

Goan what are you talking about. British cycling has lottery funding, yes? So anyone who buys a lottery ticket has contributed to the success of the British cycling team, so can be proud to be part of it.

Going by the majority on here.

Temper temper!!

I don't care if I sound like the village idiot (who's name calling now???). They always seem so happy on TV. Wouldn't like the teeth they seem to have though.....

have to agree with gary_m, I am proud of my success when i race, but i aint proud of anyone else....

I figured I'd play you at your own game and look for a crap and completely irrelevant interpretation of your post...

It was advice rather than name calling. If someone said to you 'you look stupid in that hat', it's not the same as 'you're stupid', is it?

I bought a Spanish lottery ticket earlier this - but I don't think it counts as a:) I was pissed & b:) I didn't check if it won 😀

Lottery ticket buyers CAN be proud of the success. Good on 'em I say. It all helps.

Goan, LOL!

oh dear, I'm off. I've got a 20 mile ride home I can be proud of soon.

I'll leave robdob and smee to their love in, they seem a good match.

Did you cut the trails or build the roads? if not i suspect it may be misplaced pride. 😉

Somebody I knew shared a house with Chris Hoy, and I went round there. I've been in the Two Mills when CB was in there (when he was still racing). I beat Liam Killeen in a time trial (he got DQ'ed for going the wrong way). Tracy Moseley once stopped to let the group I was riding with go past. As I'm sure none of these people would have achieved what they did without their chance encounters with me, does that mean I'm allowed to feel proud of our cyclists' achievements?

the op basically said 'are you proud to be part of the cycling success story'

Of course as usual on here people fail to read the question and fly off the handle

If you're going to be a pedant and pick apart MY original post, take another look. It wasn't a question, but a simple statement. Granted I hoped and expected it would invoke some positive responses from like-minded people, but instead - as is so often the case on STW - it lured in those who take great pleasure in passing on their apparent bad mood. Thanks

instead - as is so often the case on STW - it lured in those who take great pleasure in passing on their apparent bad mood.

I certainly feel like a cyclist, to the extent that I smile when I see little old ladies pottering about on their bikes. Couldn't care less if that makes me sad, I'm the one with a smile on my face 🙂

As for positive news stories, well a mate of mine spent about a year trying to sort out a 4x track locally. Had funding from the council, track professionally designed, site all sorted. Then it was ko'd by some developers who wanted to build some bloody houses 🙁

Anyway, pottering about on a ride at the weekend, it suddenly occurred to me that a blatant opportunity (disused school with grounds, local committee sorting it out) was going begging. It's about 500m from my flat 🙂 Doing some groundwork tonight, wish me luck!

I've bought a few bikes - some from same companies as race teams there.

If no one bought bikes then the companies wouldn't last and so no racing - there's not loads of TV cash!!!!

pride in being part of that - too right!!!

plus pride in riding, pride in bikes (even though I don't clean em too often)

Hey RichP, that sounds hopeful.

Having spoken to my friend tonight, it's been more like 3 years 🙄

Oh well, in for a penny, in for a pound...