A cyclist's rant to incompetent road users...

Rossy.

Pew_Pew_Pew_Lasers! wrote: »

It puzzles me why so many people refer so mockingly to lycra. I'm beginning to suspect that these people have sexual needs that are currently unfulfilled.

Maybe I should start writing about idiots on crossers who wreck public footpaths, and suggesting that all motocross riders are to blame? Would that be any less offensive?

See i'm quite different to most youths. I actually use a trailer and transport my bike to proper motocross tracks to ride. I wouldn't use it on a public park due to the fact that it's dangerous, noisy, and like you say damages the park

I think most people mock lycra purely down to the fact that it

A) looks totally pointless
is off putting at best
C) is something " Mr Motivator from GMTV" so famously wore

I mean if you like your licra then go for it

custardy

Strider590 wrote: »

My mountain bike has no lights and no reflectors at all, they were removed as soon as it was delivered.
I always transport the bike to woodland (and mountain bike park etc), it's worth more than most 5+ year old cars and i'd be pretty p1ssed if someone trashed it before I even got there.

If I were to start commuting by bike, I would buy a cheap road bike or hybrid with all the safety gear remaining on the bike.
I think though, that the roads are just far too dangerous.

roadies are great but the roads in Edinburgh are murder on the wheels

Strider590

Pew_Pew_Pew_Lasers! wrote: »

Maybe I should start writing about idiots on crossers who wreck public footpaths, and suggesting that all motocross riders are to blame? Would that be any less offensive?

Wouldn't that be the chav's that belt up and down the canals on knackered old bikes?

Found a solution for these idiots.... Dig a narrow channel diagonally along the toe path and loosely cover it in leaves, then when they hit it at stupid speeds, the front wheel digs in and tramlines them into the water :rotfl:

OR they go into a tank slapper and end up in the water :rotfl:

Everyone's a winner

custardy

Rossy. wrote: »

See i'm quite different to most youths. I actually use a trailer and transport my bike to proper motocross tracks to ride. I wouldn't use it on a public park due to the fact that it's dangerous, noisy, and like you say damages the park

I think most people mock lycra purely down to the fact that it

A) looks totally pointless
is off putting at best
C) is something " Mr Motivator from GMTV" so famously wore

I mean if you like your licra then go for it

you forgot D)practical
i dont wear it but wear cargo shorts with liners
however its not so fun when they hook on the saddle

Rossy.

custardy wrote: »

you forgot D)practical
i dont wear it but wear cargo shorts with liners
however its not so fun when they hook on the saddle

What practicality can they have though? I mean riding a bike with a saddle between your ar*e isn't the most comfortable exercise anyway so why add to it with skin hugging materials?

Wouldn't a decent a pair of shorts suffice ?

esmerobbo

Pew_Pew_Pew_Lasers! wrote: »

What? You're saying that the absence of a law must be enforced by a law?

No I don't know about your sport so I assume there is regulation that allows you to use a bike without lights or where your sport is allowed to take place without lights.

What ever sport you do I bow to your superior knowledge my opinion on bikes having lights is totally geared to people using bikes after dark in towns and cities.

I don't ride any more loved it as a kid, if I hit an unlit cyclist in my car I am not going to feel much pain, but he/she could. Its not cause I want bikes off the road because their not legal! Hell most of us commit traffic offences everyday so we would all be of the road. Having said that I would hate to have to live with the thought of killing or injuring an un-light cyclist even if I was proven not to be at fault.

custardy

Rossy. wrote: »

What practicality can they have though? I mean riding a bike with a saddle between your ar*e isn't the most comfortable exercise anyway so why add to it with skin hugging materials?

Wouldn't a decent a pair of shorts suffice ?

its tight and doesnt snag on the saddle
if you get caught in the rain it doesnt really matter with lycra
lycra shorts are decent cycling shorts

Rossy.

custardy wrote: »

its tight and doesnt snag on the saddle
if you get caught in the rain it doesnt really matter with lycra
lycra shorts are decent cycling shorts

LOL !

I'll take your word for it

Pew_Pew_Pew_Lasers!

Rossy. wrote: »

See i'm quite different to most youths. I actually use a trailer and transport my bike to proper motocross tracks to ride. I wouldn't use it on a public park due to the fact that it's dangerous, noisy, and like you say damages the park

I think most people mock lycra purely down to the fact that it

A) looks totally pointless
is off putting at best
C) is something " Mr Motivator from GMTV" so famously wore

I mean if you like your licra then go for it

Lycra is the most practical and comfortable material from which to make cycling attire. That's why people use it.

I think most people (like you, for instance) mock lycra simply because they don't have a clue what they're on about.

Pew_Pew_Pew_Lasers!

esmerobbo wrote: »

No I don't know about your sport so I assume there is regulation that allows you to use a bike without lights or where your sport is allowed to take place without lights.

Erm, there's no regulation anywhere which states that a cyclist must at all times have lights. And nobody time trials at night.