[Closed] How can I become a working-class mountain biker???

Move oop north and buy an orange 5.

How bizarre!

come live ere in huddersfield.

get out wi us,and we'll transform you 😀 😉

I find your whole post quite offensive tbh.

your entire post is a complete fail though mate because it helps us to see that you are in fact a middle class stuck up **** 😀

So very [i]gauche[/i] of you, TG. Embrace your disposable income, your job, your 3-bed semi in suburbia. Don't try to be something you're not.

Stop spending your money on shite that will not make you faster and go on a few skills course instead?

Sorry for any offense just trying to point out that this forum is constantly full of cracks at so-called middle class riders from Surrey (who possibly work in IT, are fighting middle-aged spread and drive Audis), and they often appear to be quite barbed, as if we are the root of all evil.

to be fair to you i do see your point.

I was trying to do a Brass Eye - Chris Morris - type thing but obviously failed - which is why I work in IT and not the entertainment industry 🙂

The fairest thing to take the p1ss out of in the Surrey Hills area in my view is all the lycra clad middle aged roadies - wearing the kit and looking the part but just pootling along the road putting little real effort in. And then popping into the LBS to get their gears trimmed as they don't know how to do it.

Don't take the piss out of me! Take the piss out of those other guys there much worse than me look!

drinking bitter instead of lager

That would be a mistake. Middle class types have taken over the world of real ale. Working class blokes drink lager.

The fairest thing to take the p1ss out of in the Surrey Hills area in my view is all the lycra clad middle aged roadies - wearing the kit and looking the part but just pootling along the road putting little real effort in. And then popping into the LBS to get their gears trimmed as they don't know how to do it.

Um, don't we want to encourage cycling? If you're on a bike you're doing pretty fine really.

Does nobody drink mild anymore?

Does nobody drink mild anymore?

In my experience there are two choices for the modern drinker: mass produced, gassy lagers that sponsor football and taste of nothing but a desire to punch your tattooed wife, or locally brewed real ales made from beards and melted down titanium Jones loop bars.

Middle Aged - Tick
Work in IT - Tick
Drive an Audi - Tick (and I ****ing love it)
Wear Lycra - Tick
Pootle around in the Surrey Hills- Tick
Don't put any real effort in - No Tick - I may not be going very fast but believe you me I am putting the effort in 😆
Have too many expensive bikes that I can't really ride - Tick
Have a **** off expensive Naim Hi-Fi, and probably in all truth can't tell the difference - Tick
Middle class - Tick (but most certainly from a working class family, but my free comprehensive education enabled my social mobility!)

I have no shame, where do I sign for my life membership?

Well see first you need to get rid of that fancy-dan Turner, and get some old knackered cheap thing, "hardtails" I think they are called. Make it your mission to "hunt down" "power rangers" and act all affronted when someone suggests that a tracksuit and old reeboks are not the optimum cycling attire.

To make the transition to working-class warrior, don't forget to stock up on sour grapes. These sour grapes will eventually turn into vinegar, which you can sprinkle liberally on the sizeable chip on your broad working-class shoulder.

Why would simply working in IT make someone middle class?
I get a bit sick and tired of every Tom, Dick and Harry that has a decent wage thinking that they're middle class. Unless you are of good education (no state school riff-raff) and managerial (proper managerial) you're quite simply white collar working class.
Get over it and learn to live with you insecurities.

can't I have a hardtail as well as a Turner?

Your a southerner, you can never truely be working class!

I'll admit to drinking mild (when I can find it).

But this debate really finished years ago with that fantastic Prescott quip about keeping his coal in his bidet.

maybe the criteria is whether you would feel comfortable in a working mens club, or not?

I got the joke ! and thought it amusing, so I don't understand why anyone would find this (original) post offensive............ Mind you I do live in the Surrey Hills 😯

can't I have a hardtail as well as a Turner?

that was the wrong thing to say - I should have said:

It'll be a cold day in hell before anyone gets me off this ****in' turner

I wondered about having to sell my 3 bed semi in Horsell

better swap drinking and eating in the Red Lion for bitter and scratchings in the The Crown... 😆

Heh heh, once drinking in a working man's club, bought a ticket in the meat raffle, you should have seen my mate's face when this geezer comes over and says

'You've just won a joint'...

A 3 bed semi? You won't have to downgrade your house to working class accomodation then.

probably the saddest thing about STW (although I'm also well aware that it's mostly merely a reflection of the wider world actually) is the near constant need to pick faults with everyone else's lives.
why even care?
if you're doing so because you're not happy with your own, then make changes...
if you're doing so for "a laugh", then it's not really particularly funny, is it?
if you're doing it because you genuinely dislike everyone other than yourself, then perhaps you need to take a look in the mirror?

You could start by buying a detached house,instead of one of those shared semi-things.Never understood those things, how can it be your house if it's joined onto another house ? You wouldn't buy a car that was attached to another car now would you......... 8)

Footy top, tracksuit bottoms, LiDLs SPD shoes; proper scum:

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better swap drinking and eating in the Red Lion for bitter and scratchings in the The Crown...

crikey, have you seen me going into the Red Lion then - next time introduce yourself!!!

The Crown - shudder - it does look rough in there...

don simon - Member

Why would simply working in IT make someone middle class?
I get a bit sick and tired of every Tom, Dick and Harry that has a decent wage thinking that they're middle class. Unless you are of good education (no state school riff-raff) and managerial (proper managerial) you're quite simply white collar working class.
Get over it and learn to live with you insecurities.

Well said! I think a lot of this working-class, middle-class thing could be better put as...those who get their hands dirty and those that don't (office workers!). 😛

You could start by buying a detached house,instead of one of those shared semi-things.Never undertood those things, how can it be your house if it's joined onto another house ? You wouldn't buy a car that was attached to another car now would you

the wife didn't like any of the detached we looked at when we bought this, and now the gap to a decent detached round here is too much to be worth it really, another 200k at least. I'll wait for the next crash.

[Although we could go to Kingfield or somewhere, near where they play that scummy soccer game.]

Should have slapped her down and reminder her of her place and insisted on the detached then.

those who get their hands dirty

the only reason I get my hands filthy is because I never get around to cleaning all the lunchtime crumbs and splashes from my keyboard 😳

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Footy top, tracksuit bottoms, LiDLs SPD shoes

All negated by the Lefty. Too niche for proper low life. Good effort but that last 10% gives it away.

I'd be delighted to indoctrinate you into the world of the [i]underclass[/i] cyclist if you have a spare lifetime to dedicate to your learnings..?

All negated by the Lefty. Too niche for proper low life

Balls. 😡

OP

Is a good reason to pack this forum in 🙁

Sadly this site is not updated anymore.... I expect the IT departments boy's Audi has conked out 😉

http://bluecollarmtb.com/

I think Im the most riteous in this here class war!
Nan Bield descent near high street in the lakes, on a xc hardtail 😉
we got there on the train to Stavely from Manchester
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better swap drinking and eating in the Red Lion for bitter and scratchings in the The Crown...
crikey, have you seen me going into the Red Lion then - next time introduce yourself!!!

The Crown - shudder - it does look rough in there...

Will do.. just assumed - Red Lion is the nicest Pub in Horsell... 😉

Si

Red Lion is the nicest Pub in Horsell...

the clientele can be it's a bit pretentious there though - is that your regular ??? 😀

The Plough is the closest and nice pies but the wife doesn't like the salads they dress the food with !!!

So we go to the cricketers mostly.

You need one of these:

http://www.on-one.co.uk/i/q/CBOOWHIPSLX/on_one_carbon_whippet_slx

then you can be working class in a post modern ironic fashion.

* wanders into thread in pants, farts, scratches arse, opens the fridge and cracks open another can of wife-beater. Tuts at middle class homo's* 😉

homo's

homos

10 year old spesh stumpy.
Aldi winter gloves
Home made neck buff type thing.
Asda shorts.
Obsolete and patched up parrot bibs.
Aldi cycling shoes.
Army gortex boot liners.
$8 over specs.
Goretex jacket bought at an auction
Aldi/Lidl base layer mix
Recycled drinking bottles.
and a G-Shock

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That's the curse of a northern comp education for you bravissimo. The Guardian could probably run a 3 page piece in G2 about the tragedy of it!

The Guardian could probably run a 3 page piece in G2 about the tragedy of it!

As well you know. 😀

I just spoke to my working class friend and asked them what they thought of recycled and Aldi gear...

Here's their reply -

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redthunder - (serious ?) do you not get really hot in all that stuff?

Christ! It's ok being working class, but I wouldn't be seen dead in the shite you lot leave the house in. I think you're confusing the class issue with self-respect.

Do you buy your jeans from tesco? That, as everyone is well aware, is the point where you might as well just put yourself out of your misery!

Jeans at Tesco?? Elasticated waists?? thats middle age not middle class

I wanna live like common people - err right

I get a bit sick and tired of every Tom, Dick and Harry that has a decent wage thinking that they're middle class. Unless you are of good education (no state school riff-raff) and managerial (proper managerial) you're quite simply white collar working class

I sort of agree. If you have to work for a living, you are working class, no matter how your big car and house are.

[working class software developer bloke who went to an Essex state school]

Certainly have a strange perception of a Working class man

I think all the working class bikers should unite and overthrow the ruling class.

Riding might be a problem though, as you have nothing to lose but your chains...

I get a bit sick and tired of every Tom, Dick and Harry that has a decent wage thinking that they're middle class. Unless you are of good education (no state school riff-raff) and managerial (proper managerial) you're quite simply white collar working class

I agree entirely.

Tbf,you sound pretty working class but kind of oikishly aspirational anyway, so just keep going.

😉

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if you really want to be a bit more working class just start neglecting your personal hygiene..

easy

None of this is actually about class, it's just about whether or not you are a dick.

slainte ➡ rob

yunki - Member
if you really want to be a bit more working class just start neglecting your personal hygiene..

easy
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Oh here we go 🙄

Working class (or lower class, labouring class)................ describe[s] those employed in lower tier jobs (as measured by skill, education and lower incomes), often extending to those in unemployment or otherwise possessing below-average incomes.

my work and education would point to me being working class, but my earnings and style of expenditure would identify me as being middle class....

oh, and i drink bitter.

Do you reckon if we all write in we could get Jeremy Kyle to do a special?

"after the break - he got all mucky on the back seat of my Audi, then insulted my equipment!"

😉

My bike is nearly 10 years old, my car is older, I live in the actual north, I work in a primary industry. I'm the only person in my group of riding buddies without a degree. *

What do I get - a ****ing sweetie?

*Awareness of class distinctions negates proleiness.

randomjeremy - Member

To make the transition to working-class warrior, don't forget to stock up on sour grapes. These sour grapes will eventually turn into vinegar, which you can sprinkle liberally on the sizeable chip on your broad working-class shoulder.

Now there's bitter middle-class wallah with a massive chip on his shoulder.

Working class or middle class, a **** is a **** and I can spot some of you a mile off!

oliverd1981 - Member

My bike is nearly 10 years old, my car is older, I live in the actual north, I work in a primary industry. I'm the only person in my group of riding buddies without a degree. *

What do I get - a ****ing sweetie?

no, a hammer and a bag of nails. or a shovel if you're down the pit.

Funny that, I never thought of Elfin as a Cannondale rider. All the working-class credibility he ever had lies in tatters.

It's simple. You're middle class if you have a job that let's you spend all day on an internet forum and still get paid for it.

I'm working on going back to being working class again. TBH, the fact that I've got nothing better to do during working hours than argue with people on here is starting to get too depressing.

Ironically enough, when I do go back to being working class I'll make more money and have more time off.

I thought the modern definition of middle class was someone who employs 'staff' at their home i.e. gardener/cleaner/housekeeper. I think you can take comfort in that childminders and window cleaners don't count 🙂

So just tell your driver that don't need him to escort you to Peaslake next weekend 🙂

So just tell your driver that don't need him to escort you to Peaslake next weekend

But how would you get up from the bottom of flytipper with a V10 without a driver?

a shovel if you're down the pit

doesn't understand mining - definitely bourgeois

Support Huddersfield Town, Bury or Oldham = working class.

Support Man utd = plastic mancs

Support Man City = people don't work who support city, they claim whilst working cash in 'hand 😆

Tbag how long did the train take, how many connections and return cost? Never thought of taking the train there- I thought itd cost too much. The bonus is you relax and enjoy ale before returning I bet 😀