What defines a roadie? As far as I’m aware it’s…..

To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women.

Beagy, always happy to help clear things up! 😉

Im pretty sure the definition is something like:

Roadie: noun; a person that rides a road bicycle and ensures everyone else know that they do.

I have been out today on the MTB and while there was a lot of “us” out, there was a lot of them roadie people out too tramming it along on the road section climb… ie coming past at around 15mph quicker…..

One thing while out today that got me thinking while slugging it up the hill is that theres 3 types of roadies…

type 1) out for a gentle ride spinning them pedals wearing causal gear
2) Roadies who think they are semi-pros wearing full lycra with branded logos of the bike they are riding or clothes brand…
3) Deluded people thinking they ride for a pro team in the full gear complete with an advertisement bill board.. i saw 2 guys wearing matching outfits… green Europcar kit… is that cool ?? also a few guys today where out advertising Garmin….

Each to their own and horses for courses as they say…. but when i go out on my road bike (yes i have one too!!) I just wear plain shorts and a top…

thoughts ?

ensures everyone else know that they do.

Which doesn’t have to be done verbally. Simply leaving everyone else for dust on the climbs is a more subtle method 😉

So where does my Jura whisky branded jersey come in the ‘types of roadie’ equation? 😀

Mtb’er in disguise?

rickt
2 and 3 are the same
4) Riding along in club kit, back pockets loaded. No nodding heads, no upper bodies moving side to side, no flailing arms and legs. cadence matched to pace.

Riding road bikes for ‘fun’? I say fun, but no roadie I see smiles. It’s the sense of achievement apparently… I can do that but enjoy it at same time.

I do some road miles but its either socialising with work roadies or fitness. Not for fun.

joefm – Member
I say fun, but no roadie I see smiles.

Yawn

rickt – Member

2) Roadies who think they are semi-pros wearing full lycra with branded logos of the bike they are riding or clothes brand…
3) Deluded people thinking they ride for a pro team in the full gear complete with an advertisement bill board…

Wow you can read minds.

joefm – Member
Riding road bikes for ‘fun’? I say fun, but no roadie I see smiles. It’s the sense of achievement apparently… I can do that but enjoy it at same time.

I do some road miles but its either socialising with work roadies or fitness. Not for fun.

So when you’re out gurning on your road bike it’s for some higher purpose yet everybody else is doing it out of spite against your idea of fun? 🙄 Sounds a bit hypocritical to me.

Well i got plenty of nods/smiles/hello’s whilst out on my road bike yesterday, some even from mtb’ers!
Might have been my comical riding style of course.. 😳

Don’t think proper roadies would be seen dead in replica team kit. Least of all because it’s against the rules!

When I think of roadie I see someone out on a cold wet morning on a winter road bike, properly wrapped up, getting the miles in.

These “US and them” threads are ridiculous. We are at the end of the day all people who ride bikes. Why try to pigeon-hole one type of bike? The idea that “Roadies” are less friendly is absurd. I rode the Southdowns way on a beautiful weekend last year and met hundreds of mtber’s coming the other way. I got “blanked” by more than half of them.

What’s more I have two mtbs, a cross bike, a road bike, a heavy duty tourer and a crappy commuter. Most of my mates have more thaa one type of bike – as do a huge number of people on here. Why the hell should we be branded or identified by whichever bike we feel like riding that particular day.

We get enough shite from the Daily Mail motorists as it is without creating arbitrary distinctions within ourselves.

Double post

When I think of roadie I see someone out on a cold wet morning on a winter road bike, properly wrapped up, getting the miles in.

+1, its all too easy to ride when the sun’s out

Didn’t see this as an “us and them” thread. Just how would a commonly used term be defined. I don’t think anyone thinks that being a “roadie” means you can’t also be a bunch of other things too.

mr bloddy it is the “deluded” “no roadie I see smiles” etc posts that make this an us and them type thread.

http://31.media.tumblr.com/683f91054cae5337bbc7f1de30899e48/tumblr_mrr7foslcB1qfcvrto3_400.gif

http://24.media.tumblr.com/8fb22e239a774a148d0802518334be44/tumblr_mrr7foslcB1qfcvrto1_400.gif

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv-UfvrBj8o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAlm-EelsiM

For me it’s someone who races (on the road obviously). Would know how to ride in a bunch/chain gang.

When you get a feeling of dissapointment at the top of a climb rather than at the bottom.

rickt
2 and 3 are the same
4) Riding along in club kit, back pockets loaded. No nodding heads, no upper bodies moving side to side, no flailing arms and legs. cadence matched to pace

5)

Riding along in club kit, back pockets loaded. No nodding heads, no upper bodies moving side to side, no flailing arms and legs. cadence matched to pace

I ride a fair amount on the road, as do some of my fellow MTB’ers and we are more 5 than 1-4 I think 😕 no temptation to join a road club, maybe than means we don’t qualify for a ‘roadie’ definition ?

double post

(road-hog mentality).

I refer the honourable gentleman to the recommended way to ride…

Primary position

You’re not a true roadie if you ride that courteously!

It’s when they get in a pack and they start feeling brave, that’s when the inner-idiot really starts to show.

I refer the honourable gentleman to the recommended way to ride[b]forum rules[/b]…

FTFY

It’s when they get in a pack and they start feeling brave, that’s when the inner-idiot really starts to show.

A bit like forum trolls sat on their own behind their keyboards

A bit like forum trolls sat on their own behind their keyboards

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Everybody’s entitled to their opinion. Unless, like you, they just get a bit defensive and churn out the usual “ooh, he disagreed with my viewpoint, what a troll!!”, reply!

What defines a roadie?

Posting questions about road bikes on a MTB forum?

I’m of to ask about Ferraris in the Landrover forum now…

Everybody’s entitled to their opinion. Unless, like you, they just get a bit defensive and churn out the usual “ooh, he disagreed with my viewpoint, what a troll!!”, reply!

Well, you’re either a troll or a **** (dependant on whether that was your genuine opinion or not), so pick one. HTH.

Well, you’re either a troll or a ****

Now that IS trolling!

😐

How so?

You know you’re a roadie when other roadies say hi and MTB types ignore you…

Not true, proper roadies ignore everybody including their own kind. At least Northern ones do…

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Everybody’s entitled to their opinion. Unless, like you, they just get a bit defensive and churn out the usual “ooh, he disagreed with my viewpoint, what a troll!!”, reply!

Not entirely sure what response you expected from coming on a cycling forum and declaring everyone a homosexual road-hog, which was presumably an insult in the primary school playground or 19th century, but amongst grownups in the civilised world you just come accross a bit odd.

I only called roadies road-hogs, which they are when they form large clusters.

This opinion has been validated on numerous occasions when I have encountered them.

This is a mountain-biking forum!

I only called roadies road-hogs

This is a mountain-biking forum!

So it’s OK because they’re different?

(and actualy it’s a “bike forum”, it say’s so at the top)

The Rules

If you read these and think ‘what a load of pretentious old cobblers’ then you’re not a roadie

If you read these and take them seriously, then you’re an mtber with a humour by-pass.

I only called roadies road-hogs, which they are when they form large clusters.

You’ve not heard of safety in numbers, then?

I’ve never encountered a group of 20 mountain-bikers rideing together on a road, so yes, they are in my experience different.

I only called roadies road-hogs, which they are when they form large clusters.

This opinion has been validated on numerous occasions when I have encountered them.

This is a mountain-biking forum!

and i call mtbers the road hogs, the number of times i get stuck behind some audi with a sub5 on the back!

Schools are back soon aren’t they?

Down the memory hole it goes. Booooo!

You’ve not heard of safety in numbers, then?

Why should 20 roadies be scared of a solitary mtb’er?