Mountain Bikers on Road Club Rides

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?

Well at least the stw all the gear no idea says hello…

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

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Me on my Reg Harris, up front in the 1977 Afia Memorial 36 mile 2up TT.

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:

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 feckers. 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.

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

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…. 😉

DavidB keep going you are making me laugh (for the reasons you intend)

it’s human nature to be scared of the unknown, and when we’re scared, we tend to lash out.

roadies attack mountain bikers because they’re scared of the unknown. mtb’ers attacker roadies because … etc.

i suggest that to promote understanding and friendship between the 2 groups we should introduce ourselves. i think the best way to do this if for lots and LOTS of mountainbikers to join their local road club for a few club rides (most of us own a road-bike, you know it’s true).

i believe this will be more effective if we’re honest about who we are; the mtb’ers should show up in baggies, a bit muddy, peaked helmet, camelback bulging with the usual cake/camera/old innertubes/carrier bag full of conkers.

To show how friendly and enthusiastic we are, we should hug everyone, call them all ‘Dude’, compliment them on the size of their p3n15 (surely the only reason for wearing lycra outside competition?). At the top of each climb we should gather round for group photo’s, and to share home-made flapjack. At the bottom of each descent we should insist on a round of high-5’s – describing it as ‘gnarly’. Obviously, the boring flat bits should be used for wheelie practise on these funny skinny bikes. and welcoming any succesfull attempt with a loud chorus of ‘whoa! – that was sick!’

i’m sure the roadies would love us, it would be like we’d brought a little piece of the forest with us.

it’s what i plan to do anyway…

Class! I’m totally with you, dude!

That’s the way we roll.

you rock dude 😀

I’m laughing out loud here!

I would love to see the faces at my club if i turned up with my mountainbike kit on. In fact i might do it this weekend, complete with camera and porkpie!

Chuckles at complete with camera and porkpie! 🙂

I do not really have too separate sets of kit. I have kit for when I’m going fast, and kit for when I’m not so bothered. The shoes in this picture are my only set of SPDs, and got ridden on a road club ride a week after HtN without more than a cursory clean… 🙂

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Likewise BigDummy, though I do own some white road shoes.

I could be forced to go with ahwiles on this though it would ruin the aesthetics of the lycra clad fast moving sight of a road group in full flight.
Perhaps if the Mtb’ers neither went to the front or back, but just sat in the middle somewhere out of sight.