EC1 Collective

Here's the link
http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit

"As I have tried to show, modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in order to make the meaning clearer. It consists in gumming together long strips of words which have already been set in order by someone else, and making the results presentable by sheer humbug."

Thank you for the Orwell link - it's a long time since I read that. I've long since tried to absorb and apply the five rules at the end (I like to think I don't always fail) - probably the best I can hope for is to express myself clearly enough that:

when you make a stupid remark its stupidity will be obvious, even to yourself

At the same time both embarrassing and disgusting.

You'll never be a member, you're not Stravaing hard enough.

ftfy

Why are people like this? Really why? Baffles the mind. Do they not have a sense of self awareness? In a way is that admirable? Just doing your thing and not worrying if everyone thinks you're being a massive cock? I suppose it is.

I suspect it is a club with one member.

They do data mining events though - they were round our office a few weeks ago dong strava / zwift turbo things: ec1turbochamps.com

^ the image at the above link is quite clearly EC3...

No, that's the thing that astounds me, he's clearly managed to convince at least a dozen people into this nefarious cabal.

dong strava

Do not want.

And they could be doing a 25 on the E1

These are the sort of people who eagerly signed up as members of the Sturmabteilung; who perpetrated intimidation, terror, and genocide.

https://www.facebook.com/ec1collective/photos/a.721816767953312.1073741834.664143257053997/781403718661283/?type=3&theater

Sure they'll all go sub 50.

"put your hands up if you're a cunt" Poor bloke bottom left couldn't hear with his skull cap on under that wonky helmet.

I was going to try and write something funny, but that's all that strava is, isn't it. virtual willy waggling.

is that oppressed skidder in the middle?

Subbed, this is hilarious. Also you'd think they could afford some wapha types to design and manufacture their kit. It's all a bit Aldi looking.

https://www.strava.com/clubs/109835?hl=en-GB

I appreciate people need to train but there's something about watching someone burn themselves pedalling in front of a telly that I always find very, very funny.

Actually, I quite like their kit, as club jersey go: black shorts, nice shade of blue, not too fussy.

I just find the the exclusivity of it all rather sinister, not to say neurotic.

It's all a bit Aldi looking.

Bro, it's the new cycling aesthetic, actually on trend.

A quick name change and they're bound to let me in.

if someone pays my membership i'll infiltrate the organisation and bring it down from the inside, letting their tyres down, putting fish in their downtubes, untightening their brake cables, other suggestions welcome

actually saying that isn't that hippy at the front, maybe he could do it

Considering they're supposed to pool their members from the creative industries, they obviously didn't have too many jersey designers to choose from. Quite fitting thay the final design is uncreative and unsubtle, much like the members.