In your opinion, what represents the very pinnacle of 2 wheeled bell-endery?

Following on from the baggies debate presently raging.

To me the ultimate in naffness is lycra replica team kit. I always thought it looked achingly strokerish in a look-at-me, I’m Lance Armstrong type of way. A mobile equivalent of a Roooooney England shirt in the pub.

Then I saw how much they cost! Jesus! You could buy loads of pairs of baggy shorts and those humpback things for that 😉

Your nominations/prejudices please…..

People who have their names on their bike but aren’t pro riders? What is the thought process behind that?

Ignorant slow coaches at trail centres who hog the singletrack sections and wont move out of the way when I holler “experienced cyclist behind”

People on night rides with no lights…….

It’s funny on the first decent, after that you’re on your own!

I dont have a problem with team kit, it’s often cheaper than non team kit and you’re cycling in it, not going to the pub.

Folk not getting moving out of the way when they have a chance and general rudeness but luckily I dont encounter much of either to be honest!

people who wear full facers and sun glasses.
knee and shin guards strapped to the massive camelback so the ride can gnar up on the energy section of whites.

I’m with Whatnobeer, a non-team Castelli top costs around 85 quid. The same top with Garmin logos on can be had for 35 quid.

I have a leopard trek top because a) it was good value, and b) I like the design, and c) If it makes me a hundredth as hard as Jens Voigt, I’ll be happy.

Is this on the North Face Trail David? You should try some of the other stuff around there, I’ve heard it’s quite decent. So long as you’re suitably experienced.

Binners, it’s possibly your attitude on the other thread, or possibly the replica kit thing, I’m not sure.

Being cocksure everyone else should be into what you’re into wearing/riding/believing in.

Apply that to everything in life.

I think most grown men just look wrong in lycra but if they want to wear it then crack on. It’s making them happy.

Live and let live

Hora.

Is this on the North Face Trail David? You should try some of the other stuff around there, I’ve heard it’s quite decent. So long as you’re suitably experienced.

Generally yes. The problem with alot of the other stuff is there’s not as many people to race on it, and alot of the tracks are bridleways so I can pass without having to shout.

To be fair, I probably represent the pinnacle of 2 wheeled bellendery.

I’m not a fan of down hill bikes on anything other than an Alp

I don’t think I will be going back to baggies :)Does flatties, pads an Lycra turn some peoples rageometer up???

KINGTUT – Member
Hora.

Great minds thinking alike 🙂

This:

Far worse than any team kit.

on anything other than an Alp

That’s why I’m taking my fixxy to the Himalayas.

Wannabees at marathons and the like that shout at you to get out of their way when they come up behind you

I always make it more difficult for this type of bell-end

Douche bags on fixies who sneer at you.. because you are not as unique as them..
I’ve got news for you children you are also clones!

Oh and people who have forgotten that two wheeled wizzyness is suposed to be fun..

People banging on about how light their bike is when they are clearly overweight and carrying a rucksack that could carry enough crap to see them through a weekends camping….

….no, your lightweight bike will not help you get up that hill better when you insist on scuppering your best effort by strapping a bergen to your back that a squadie would think twice about carrying.

Cyclists passing judging on other cyclists would be top of my list…..

A pink Orange Blood.

cyclists

To be fair, I probably represent the pinnacle of 2 wheeled bellendery.

You’re certainly my favourite STW troll. 🙂

Sorry, I know it only involves one wheel.. but seriously… uni-cycling?!?!?!?!?!?!

The bloke at Llandegla who turned up in a RS4, stripped off in the car park, got changed then rode his carbon Scott full susser ROUND THE CAR PARK whilst his wife took the dog for a crap.

A group next to us actually came over to confirm that they had seen it too.

A girl getting changed next to us said she’d nearly wet herself laughing.

Umm just ride, it’s all riding, it’s all good, I don’t mind what people wear, what they do, what they ride, or even getting in my way (I take GW’s wisdom on this and just hang back so I can have a clear section, I mean I do not actually own the trail).

Bell endery is getting on other peoples cases for personal decisions that do not affect you or anyone else.

Ignorant slow coaches at trail centres who hog the singletrack sections and wont move out of the way when I holler “experienced cyclist behind”

Just ride over them. 🙄
2 wheeled bellendery? People who judge you on the bike you ride, you know the type, they give your bike the once over before talking to you. (In general people who judge are bellends).

(In general people who judge are bellends).

Me, for continuing to do big enduro-y things that have stopped being fun. The novelty has worn off after 11 years and I’m too hopeless to be anywhere near the front.

folk who sprint up to your back wheel then just sit in and draft… on the commute.
I don’t really mind, it’s your self worth I’m concerned about.

To be fair, I probably represent the pinnacle of 2 wheeled bellendery.

You’re certainly my favourite STW troll.

+1

Them’s the ones yunki. 😛

personally i dont agree with wearing replica team riding kit…just cos you dress like lance armstrong or whoever, doesnt mean people are gonna look at you and say “oh look there goes lance armstrong…quick get his picture/autograph”, but maybe its a psychological thing…dressing like a pro racer might make me ride like one or at least in my mind…
each to their own…if thy’re daft enough to splash out £85 or more on a replica team jersey then let them…the rest of us can then have a laugh at them like the guy in the RS4…who by the way to quote Peter Kay…”what a ****!!”

The guy on the rusty Apollo bike with rusty chainset going tinky tinky as it doesn’t shift, wearing sandles on a public highway with an ipod plugged in, no helmet (open to interpretation but doesn’t help his situation) and texting on his mobile phone – that to me it the pinnacle of being a cock 😉

(this is a true story 😉 )

this forum.

Red Sidis, road or mountain.
You look like Dorothy.

people who have forgotten that two wheeled wizzyness is suposed to be fun..

Umm just ride, it’s all riding, it’s all good, I don’t mind what people wear, what they do, what they ride, or even getting in my way (I take GW’s wisdom on this and just hang back so I can have a clear section, I mean I do not actually own the trail)

*nods in agreement*

for complete 2 wheeled bell-endery it has to be while climbing you wonder why it seems to take more effort getting up the hill only to realise that your bell-end of a riding companion is trying to hitch a free lift by holding onto your saddle…either that or he wants you to fart on his hand…

carbon water bottle cages… (I have one, and it weighs the same if not more than my aluminium ones, it looks nice though)

Running red lights, litter at the trail (usually lucozade, crisps packets, haribo, energy gels etc), sneering at the uninitiated. People wearing helmets tilted way back on their heads, but more of a cringe that they’re going to nut the tarmac.

Being made to feel like everybody else has the latest (insert bike part here) and everything else is going to fail horrifically. Also that there is a “way” to dress, ride and behave which has no relationship to being on a bike or riding it.