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How to deal with snobbery?
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Mids_Costcutter wrote: »Cycling past Villa Park (football ground in case you don't know) on a matchday a couple of years ago, a Newcastle fan shouted out to me "can't you afford a car?". I was astounded. The roads were closed to motor vehicles anyway. So now even footie fans are snobs!
How to combat the snobbery? With the reasoning and logic that a number of people on this thread have demonstrated.
It's probably worse with cyclists now you mention it. Ours are £30 ex halfords ones that are battered and well used.
You wouldn't belive the number of people that insist you have to pay over £300 in a "proper" cycling shop.
And if you haven't got the right name on the gears or the right style of brakes.........
I've bought cars for less than they pay for bikes!0 -
My last car was a 12 year old clio which I ran into the ground, surrounded by neighbours with posh cars they exchange in waves every couple of years.
My next door neighbour was chatting to my other half and mentioned something about me driving for years without passing my test....my other half said "she passed her test first time years ago, what makes you say that?" He replied "I just thought she wasn't legal cos she drives an old car....."...... !!!!!!! :mad:0 -
It's probably worse with cyclists now you mention it. Ours are £30 ex halfords ones that are battered and well used.
You wouldn't belive the number of people that insist you have to pay over £300 in a "proper" cycling shop.
And if you haven't got the right name on the gears or the right style of brakes.........
I've bought cars for less than they pay for bikes!
It's all relative snobbery as you move further up the food chain.
Just got my OH a new "Road Bike" (racer in my day) so she can race funnily enough.
On the basis the bike is a massive step up from her comfort bike, in the fact it is stripped down and has proper gear ratios, we were happy to go for something at the low/mid entry point.
I am sure the name isn't right and it is last years colour scheme, and the wrong kind of alloy is used for this that and the other, but I know one thing, all that one up man ship will mean little on the road."If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
"big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham0 -
Does it get you from A to B?
Yes?
Worry eradicated.
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The one thing that does bug me is the amount of W/X reg blobby mondeos that truck around with Gaffer tape on the corners of their rear bumpers.
It only seems to affect these cars in such large numbers."If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
"big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham0 -
Think the gaffer tape was a dealer option on the Mk1 Mondeo.
You would have hated my old diesel Passat, I used gaffer tape to keep the passenger window in place and to seal up the sunroof. Eventually it would start to unstick leaving gaffer tape streamers in the wind.
I did enjoy the dirty look from the M3 driver I overtook on the A41 back in the day. He was that close to the tractor he couldn't see past it to overtake and was not impressed at being overtaken by a manky old 64bhp Passat with gaffer tape hanging off the sides rasping in the wind.0 -
You wouldn't belive the number of people that insist you have to pay over £300 in a "proper" cycling shop.
And if you haven't got the right name on the gears or the right style of brakes.........
I've bought cars for less than they pay for bikes!
£300 for a proper bike, not from our local shop, more like £5000, I'm quite happy with my rather battered (made in Tunisia) Halfords special.I hate football and do wish people wouldn't keep talking about it like it's the most important thing in the world0 -
You wouldn't belive the number of people that insist you have to pay over £300 in a "proper" cycling shop.
That's not snobbery, it's just good sense. My first adult bike came from Halfords - I tried to use that piece of **** to commute to work every day but it just kept letting me down. After I'd had it for almost a year and it failed for the umpteenth time I marched it back to Halfords and demanded a full refund (which I got). I then went to a different shop and bought a bike for £350 which has lasted me ever since for daily commuting.
Of course snobbery does exist among cyclists, and you can pay vast amounts of money for a bike. But "over £300" is not a huge amount to pay for a bike and if you intend to cycle frequently it's worth it.Let's settle this like gentlemen: armed with heavy sticks
On a rotating plate, with spikes like Flash Gordon
And you're Peter Duncan; I gave you fair warning0 -
I'm the opposite. I like driving a car that is a little-known make, or not what everyone else has, or cheaper- the age is irrelevent as long as it runs alright. There's Fiat 500's, Renault Megane's and Ford Focus' in my neighbourhood, yet I get people stopping asking about my Proton's as they're different to the norm!
I've never bought a car new- I will drive away in a car I own fully. So I'm highly unlikely to ever buy the latest must-have model anyway! 0 -
interstellaflyer wrote: »£300 for a proper bike, not from our local shop, more like £5000, I'm quite happy with my rather battered (made in Tunisia) Halfords special.
Tunisia pah - ours was loving manufactured in Cambodia;)"If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
"big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham0
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