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It's a cool toy, but that's all it really is, I can't see much use for it other than a bit of fun.
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straight lines
Dunno what gets you road cyclists off!
Dunno what gets you road cyclists off!
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Super cool!
did one for my ride today shows you the hills and riverloop.. love it
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did one for my ride today shows you the hills and riverloop.. love it
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Riding a bike. Who gives a fuck how you do it? If you want to tool around all day doing 6kph, good luck to you.Enforcer-J wrote:straight lines
Dunno what gets you road cyclists off!
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That is cool. Finally got myself a secure bike park at work... just need to wait until this heatwave passes and I have no more excuses
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Oi if that's a swipe at MTB my first crash was at 70KPH and my second 40KPH. Was pretty rare for me to be in single digits.norbs wrote:Riding a bike. Who gives a fuck how you do it? If you want to tool around all day doing 6kph, good luck to you.
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Oh thats right it's all about the numbers!
There is a reason why MTBers are a happier, more relaxed bunch
There is a reason why MTBers are a happier, more relaxed bunch
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It is all about riding a bike.Enforcer-J wrote:Oh thats right it's all about the numbers!
There is a reason why MTBers are a happier, more relaxed bunch
It is too much to expect MTBers to understand simply logic I suppose.
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+1norbs wrote: It is all about riding a bike.
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you clearly haven't seen me on a MTBEnforcer-J wrote: There is a reason why MTBers are a happier, more relaxed bunch
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I ride both and to be honest probably lean towards Road as my favourite. But I will say that Mountain Bikers seem to be way more laid back and just plain nice. Road Riders can be elitist c*nts!
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and you get to buy a new bikeavro707c wrote:Ride track Jamo - best bunch of people you'll meet.
Great way to build up strength too.
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Yeah whatever floats your boat I guess. I get the appeal of riding up through the hills etc but I cannot fathom why you'd want to ride on flat, straight busy roads in the middle of traffic. Is that really enjoyable? If you werent trying to keep fit, commuting or logging strava data... would you have gone for that ride?
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Most of the time you have to ride straight roads to get to the hills.Enforcer-J wrote:Yeah whatever floats your boat I guess. I get the appeal of riding up through the hills etc but I cannot fathom why you'd want to ride on flat, straight busy roads in the middle of traffic. Is that really enjoyable? If you werent trying to keep fit, commuting or logging strava data... would you have gone for that ride?
I ride a lot of straight flat roads around here and still love it.
Any time I am on my bike I am usually enjoying myself. Why does that seem such a hard concept for you to accept?
I also enjoy mountain bike riding. I started doing that in 1989. I would hazard a guess I have done just as many hours as anyone here on a MTB. Jamo knows just how awesome the Blue Mountains are for MTB. I stopped because no matter what I did, I would hurt myself. So now I don't, and I don't miss it.
The whole roadie vs MTB vs track vs downhill thing shits me to tears. To infer inferiority based on the type of bike you ride is stupid. The occasional jest, fair enough, but there are too many people who bang on about it.
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I probably would haveEnforcer-J wrote:Yeah whatever floats your boat I guess. I get the appeal of riding up through the hills etc but I cannot fathom why you'd want to ride on flat, straight busy roads in the middle of traffic. Is that really enjoyable? If you werent trying to keep fit, commuting or logging strava data... would you have gone for that ride?
The ride Norbs showed was Norton Summit. There's only so many ways to get to the start of that climb.. all of them straight roads.
I do a fairly wide array of cycling, and i'm fairly certain that I could come up with negatives and positives for each.. What I definitely find is that improvements in one discipline invariably results in improvements in all the others.
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no heatwave today.... i assume you rode in?kwijibo wrote:That is cool. Finally got myself a secure bike park at work... just need to wait until this heatwave passes and I have no more excuses
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norbs wrote: It is all about riding a bike.
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w00dsy wrote:norbs wrote: It is all about riding a bike.
Even the Cannibal agrees
Cracking photo that.
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Posted in the wrong thread, thought this was the ride one. I am an idiot.
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you could do that type of trail easily on a cyclocross bike.. just sayin'Swain OHaw wrote:To be honest, I'm tempted to get an MTB for the city - either that or I need to get out of it more, but I can't seem to find routes for doing so without ending up on a motorway. At least in the park there's a seemingly limitless source of MTB trails ... I've even started taking Beryl (poor girl) on some when I get bored of riding up and down the same hills all over again. I think I just need to use the train to get out of the city ...
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I'd need to be able to afford one though, and as I haven't even got proper cycling shoes yet - or been able to buy meat since last September, this seems far-fetched.