Are you a Cycling Dork?

Kupa

I like exhibiting a little of the dork quality. It makes dropping the fashionable dentists with TI/carbon bikes all that much more pleasureable...

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Chester1

With posts like that, I live in hope.

Can't afford a new bike yet, but the old one still looks and goes pretty well.

Lab_Rat

The shaven legs also help with us "more serious racers" when we go for our weekly massage. Wounds heal faster and you don't have to scrub as much to get stones and hair out of the abrasions.

As for the lycra kit and tops, they're designed to minimise drag as much as possible, keep you dry and be visible. That's why so many people struggle to chat at an average of 30. And some serious riders do wait for people at intersections, so don't make judgements purely on the way we dress and the bikes we ride. We don't spend our money on flashy cars etc. (Think of a harley rider who gets his bike as trick as possible.) It's his hobby, so let him enjoy it.

I have seen many people enter the ranks of cycling, and berate the speedsters, only to become one of the rude ones at a later stage. Don't become one of the loathed when you hit the upper ranks, coz in my opinion, it makes you the biggest dork of all.

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kevin edmundson

what about mirrors that attach to your eye glasses?

Lazy legs

How the hell do you see them????

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Kupa

Hi, my name is Steve...

"Hi Steve"

And I'm a bit of a dork at times. I tried those itsy bitsy mirrors that are about a half inch in diameter that stick to the inside of your glasses. They never worked at all. I could not get the mirrors far enough away from my eyes to see around behind me. If I held them with my fingers, in front of the glasses they would show me what was over my shoulder pretty well, but they never would work when applied to the inside of the lens. I also was paranoid that if I crashed they would somehow pop off and get into my eye.

Cheers,

Steve Cooper

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Brizza

Interesting thread.
I use a camel because it carries more water (2 litres) and helps me carry tools to and from the race.
On the topic of shaving, what about in winter if you don't have leg warmers?
Hair free legs is a lot cooler in summer and makes it eisier to massage your own legs, it doesn't really help a massuer as they have better access to your legs.

I'm tempted to try a mirror as it would save me time during breakaways or looking around during a sprint, has it worked for anyone?

I'm a Knobbly by nature so I don't mind standing out from the skinny tyre riders.

prestonjb

Fred



Fabio



Fred



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A. Never wear look cleats or road shoes. Wear carbon soled mountain bike shoes and SPDs on your road bike.
B. I always wear my shoes. I have high-end carbon ATB shoes I exclusively wear on my road bike with double-sided ATB SPD pedals. I ride a beater bike to work and on that I wear cannondale M series shoes... I get off the bike and lock it up and then walk into work, walk to lunch, drive the car, whatever. The only time I don't wear the cannondales is when I know I won't be on a bike all day.



A. Not if you work in them all day.
B. Not if you are working on a long-haul ride. What's wrong with eating lunch at a street side cafe' in your cycling duds?
C. When "you" fix my lunch, change my wheels, or better still give me the wheel off of your bike and stay behind waiting for the team car while I ride off into the sunset... Perhaps...



When you was *MY* bike after I finish my ride then I'll think about it. In the meantime buy a van specifically for hauling the bike(s) then this is not a prolem...



Man... I've never seen this one before... Guess I'm passing those guys too fast...



Unless they were dropped and came in at 120th



You mean ULTRA-MARATHON Cyclist. And if I'm on a long haul training ride by-myself... in sunny Florida... Well you can see the reason... Otherwise I'll have to take a picture of you skating around in your look-cleated road shoes in the back of the cafe' trying to fill your bottles... In your soggy shorts... Did you tuck in your jersey first?



What's CAT4. What is racing? Who is Lance?

I thought you would bad mouth those who dismount from the left over those who dismount from the right.

How about getting it tatooed?

How about leaving it there "AFTER" you change?

And lastly... Who really cares... I guess when you can catch me wearing my T-Shirt, my Bell helmet, my mirror and my non-road-shoes... Oh yea what about wearing glasses inside or outside the helmet straps...

Instead of worrying about the way everyone else looks just be glad they are on a bike... The more geeks on the roads the better the roads will be for the rest of us...<geeks>

BTW: I wear my glasses inside the helmet straps, tend to wear funky socks and will only go as far as wearing local club jerseys or my Lite-Speed specific jersey... And I don't wear the bell helmet but a pneumo because it fits well... I do wear ATB shoes instead of road shoes because I stop for traffic lights. I suspect that stopping for lights is a geek thing too? But watch out I cruise for 100 miles at 23mph so you better sprint through that intersection or I'll eventually catch you <dead or alive>...

JBP

calibum

That's what I look like sometimes when I ride. Hairy legs, camelback, and kneepad. Helps keep the knee warm on cold days and stops it from hurting (old injury).

If you ride, ride. Who cares if you look like a dork?

Ralph Ray

I don't shave my legs but I shave my wifes legs for her. I do wear a Ultimate backpack on my 35 mile ride I do usually 6 days a week(it's hot here in Oklahoma) and I ocasionally wear my 91 team "Z" helmet on my rides. If your a decent cyclist and can hang with the rest, who cares. I love dropping all the legs shaving with all the latest tech stuff dweebs.And hey, if you like the pro team stuff, wear it! This is one hobby I been doing now for 16 years straight and no ones going to ruin it for me with their rules.

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NuTz4BiKeZ

The opposite appears to be true... I suffer some knee pain on my road, tandem and mtb, especially in larger gears climbing but on the recumbent no pain at all.

But I guess riding a recumbent pretty much qualifies me as a dork in any case.

Geonz

Proud to be dorky. Would much rather be a total dork than an elitist snob inventing arbitrary coolness rules. I left that behind somewhere around fourth grade.

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Arsbars

Being one of my first posts.. I'll grace this thread.. I'm a dork that uses a camelpak on hot days when I run outta water 2 hours into the ride if I dont. I'll sometimes wear my mtn bike helmet and take off the visor..I usually have tire/chain marks on my leg after long rides.. but thats from changing flats, or repairing others bikes. It also has to do with I am a dirt magnet. I work at a shop and I can't tell you the last time I went home clean...

Randal Lovelace

Well, guess this will qualify me as a "Fred Flinstone", currently ride a Huffy BlueRidge 18sp MTB to work, wearing a Goldberg T-Shirt, and Hiking shorts with Tennis Shoes....and WHITE socks.
My bike has one water bottle, with a air pump mounted under it, rear rack ('cause my lunch and work clothes got heavy on my back), I have a Bell Torchlight light kit (Halogen with side rays and a multi setting rear light)......can't wait to get my old Lotus Elan ready for riding.

Just call me 'Fred' lol......

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