Cycling Clubs

Went out today for the first time with my local cycling club. Hmmm... got there and asked what the pace would be like, at which point got looked at and comment muttered "not very fast, have you seen what he's riding" (the shame of the Langster). Then got told off about my slack chain from some old boy! Later into the ride the group split as a couple of blokes speeded up to 23-25mph. F*cking hurt but managed to stay on the back for the whole 60 miles, despite dropping others. Made me think if it was worth the bother, and why cycling fails to attract newbies....

cycling requires you, with no exceptions to HTFU

Come on, spill the beans - which club? (though it could be any really)

Should have come on the Rollapaluza CC club ride. No one gets dropped - it's a social ride, not a race or a training thing.

no willy waving allowed on RCC rides.

fancy dropping people, that's just cruel

cycling requires you, with no exceptions to HTFU

Cycling requires you, with no exception, to HTFU.

Close your parenthesis you savage! We're meant to be british. ;)

It's a west London club, which I'm stilll thinking of joining as I'd like to get miles in before the Dunwich Dynamo. Not rude, but pissed off that this kind of attitude still prevails.

But if you accidentally half-wheel on a Rollapaluza CC clubrun, Bill sticks his pump in your spokes à la 'Breaking Away'.

i was out on the mtb today. at peaselake village stores having a cup of tea when 4 london dynamo riders (road) stopped to buy something in the shop, one of them in a very loud voice said:
"it smalls of cowshit round here, it must be the mountainbikers"

this is the reason i will never join a club they are usually full of tossers.

I did notice down RP the other day, that not one of the 100-odd Dynamo members who had commandeered the café actually had a dynamo fitted to their bike. That's just wrong.

that's the dynamo's tho - on the whole a rather distasteful bunch of c*nts

In which case MrSmith should have used the line from Silence of the Lambs....

In which case MrSmith should have used the line from Silence of the Lambs....

Having just re-read MrSmith's post, that would mean he might've said, "I can small your cunt"...

http://cyclingclubhackney.blogspot.com/

I keep meanin to check out their grass track racing

for every dynamo rider that Jos beats in a race, 2 puppies are resurrected…

BringMeMyFix - that sounds like a surgical procedure!

i was out on the mtb today. at peaselake village stores having a cup of tea when 4 london dynamo riders (road) stopped to buy something in the shop, one of them in a very loud voice said:
"it smalls of cowshit round here, it must be the mountainbikers"

this is the reason i will never join a club they are usually full of tossers.

True. But there are tossers all walks of life. I agree that road cycling seems to attract a particularly high number of elitist arse - pieces.

i don't think it's just cycling. club sports attract these people. i used to play cricket, but the tossers thinking they were in a test match put me off.

http://cyclingclubhackney.blogspot.com/

I keep meanin to check out their grass track racing

yeah, had a brief chat with the guy who runs it a while ago at critical mass.
he told me i should get some bolts in my bottle cage mounts. "if the rain gets in, there'll be no frame left in 20 years time!"

Cycling requires you, with no exception, to HTFU.

Close your parenthesis you savage! We're meant to be british. ;)

hello english teacher :P

for every dynamo rider that Jos beats in a race, 2 puppies are resurrected…

hahah !

It's not that cycling clubs are so elitist there are just a few rules to follow, often unwritten. It's not the fact that you're on a langster but that it's a ss/fixed gear bicycle. Wearing lycra also helps....

I would wanna write more but I'm to tired and I'm going to bed.....

good luck on your next club run. Should try the Rollapaluza one but starts in East London. The're a bit more casual ;)

I did notice down RP the other day, that not one of the 100-odd Dynamo members who had commandeered the café actually had a dynamo fitted to their bike. That's just wrong.

ha ha ha.. thats classic, thats just like when i joined The Paddington CC... the TV celeb. was nowhere to be seen, not even a crust off a marmalade sandwich ! I was really upset. But a cool bunch of lads and had some big laughs with them.

that's the dynamo's tho - on the whole a rather distasteful bunch of c*nts

+1

Did you know that they don't actually own RP?

+1

Did you know that they don't actually own RP?

No, that's a different, rather better-known, bunch of distasteful c*nts...