quick followup to these bike posts

Category: gardening among the rocks | Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 1:52 am

I listen to music while I ride, and tend to swerve my bike on the empty road in time to the music, swooping it so low I've fallen over a couple of times. O well- I just really like riding. And my bike and I have been through alot together so it's a tad beat up. This morning I rode in my sweats, orange safety vest, and apparently old-fashioned helmet. Whatever. But I passed the funniest thing. Two bikers standing next to a spotless pickup. In really fancy skin-tight cycling gear, cycling shoes, really dope helmets. And really jazzy bikes, of course. Standing by their bikes stretching their legs to get ready to ride up the trail I'd just come down. I just peddled by, dipped my bike 45 degrees to the ground in salute, and waved; they gave me a really odd look. I don't know why it struck me so funny, but it did. Guess I'm guilty of reverse snobbery, lol!

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glendann wrote on Thu Jun 05, 2008 2:10 am:

Your a mess Critter.You probably made them ashamed and they parked and went inside .They had to know they don't have the expierance to do that.

Droopy wrote on Thu Jun 05, 2008 7:42 am:

*lol* *lol* *lol* I really don't like the skin-tight, fancy gear the exercise biking people insist on wearing these days. They all look like they're going to join the Trondheim-Oslo (600 km or 373 miles), and I know they aren't. Besides that, they all bike on the main road when there's a perfectly good pedestrian/bicycle track running next to it. I guess it's something trendy, but I never keep up with trends.

Sjoerd wrote on Thu Jun 05, 2008 10:22 am:

Heh heh heh... I know exactly what you mean about those biking suits. They are very popular with a certain group over here too. I wonÃ‚Â´t tell you what I have to say about the clothing and the people that wear them--itÃ‚Â´s not nice.
The trouble with these types over here is that they seem to think that because they are wearing competition gear that they do not have to stick to the traffic rules. They also think that normal folk should get off the bike paths (if they even stoop to using them) and make room for them when they are coming through.
Aside from the fact that the clothing is out of place their antisocial behavior is what actually rubs me the wrong way.
chuckle. What a complainer I can be sometimes.

sharon mc wrote on Thu Jun 05, 2008 10:35 am:

I loved riding my bike round the Island (Portsmouth, UK) when I lived there; nothing so good as hurling through the gridlocked traffic! Rurally, here, too deadly! Know what you mean about the 'Special Kit' tho! LOL