Trackstanding on a hire bike

^^That's charitable of you. Perhaps they should just all sit around on mobility scooters where they belong?

Got to start somewhere.

People who smoke while riding a bike.

I don't necessarily have anything against smoking, it's just the fact that they're exercising and negating the health benefits of exercise at exactly the same time. Cracks me up.

I kind of dig it. Smoking is stupid though.

What makes me laugh is overweight people on bikes.

Hah, yeah, all that irony, loads of it, wobbling away.

Cycling clothing is amusing. Not in a good way. No wonder most people think cyclists are twats. Almost all of us look like shit. Nylon = no style.

Much like the excellent thread about standing in the road, this is a thread about people who enjoy trying to trackstand at the lights whilst riding their Barclays Billboard Bike. I hope to try to provide some stunning photos in the near future.

What else makes you piss yourself laughing on YOUR way to work/college/dolequeue/probation?

time and place man, time and place

Oh you said "trying" I thought you meant "succeeding" in which case I cannot help you.

People who smoke while riding a bike.

I don't necessarily have anything against smoking, it's just the fact that they're exercising and negating the health benefits of exercise at exactly the same time. Cracks me up.

Like downing a lint while taking a piss.
Or eating a burger on the toilet.

People who smoke while riding a bike.

I don't necessarily have anything against smoking, it's just the fact that they're exercising and negating the health benefits of exercise at exactly the same time. Cracks me up.

Like downing a pint while taking a piss.
Or eating a burger on the toilet.

I can't trackstand you bigot

Like downing some Lindt while on the toilet.

ftfy

I smoke while riding, I find it quite enjoyable.

A couple of weeks ago I saw a group of wankers obviously in the city for a stag night or some other occasion riding boris bikes, I was inwardly sighing at their general shit road behavior until one of them did a fucking excellent bunny hop, he must have cleared at least 50 drains and he had some proper impressive height on it too.

Much like the excellent thread about standing in the road, this is a thread about people who enjoy trying to trackstand at the lights whilst riding their Barclays Billboard Bike. I hope to try to provide some stunning photos in the near future.

What else makes you piss yourself laughing on YOUR way to work/college/dolequeue/probation?

:( I do this out of bordom sometimes. Thanks for the reality slap

Heh, it's OK. But funny.

Well I can wheelie them :)

I suspect most of us will have experienced something similar to this.

You're riding along and either catch up with (it's best when you catch up with them to start it) or meet at the lights or cross paths with another cyclist and you either know they're going the same way as you or it comes out in conversation.

You talk for a few minutes then they, thinking they are a faster rider, on a faster bike etc say cheerio and proceed to ride away till they are maybe, 5 bike lengths infront of you then they check over their shoulder frantically as they utterly fail to drop you.

Best when it's a lycra'd up, clipped in roadie and you're on your 3speed town bike with flat pedals etc.

I like to give them a wee wave everytime they look back.

hehe....^ I like the little wave.

the only thing that makes this better is when it's uphill and you're a on a fixed gear, and they're on a clipped in roadie

Last year I'd just got a brompton before the brompton world championships. In a desperate attempt not to be humiliated I was riding it everywhere to get a feel for it and I'd also slapped on spd's as that was what I was planning to use for the race. Each day I was entertained by belting away from people at the lights due to being clipped in

Probably not for this thread but has anybody else noticed that many people on folding bikes keep up a fairly decent pace but also seem to be trying just a little too hard to be going that fast?

I don't know whether its something to do with having small wheels or whether it is some form of "little bike syndrome" but I've seen a lot of Brompton riders ticking along at 20mph as if they're sprinting for the line recently. Always makes me chuckle.

This. Little dogs are just the same, though thankfully they don't wear suits and day-glo.

Latfh?

Looks a bit 'ironic' but thanks for posting that.

One day recently on The Cut I rolled up to the Blackfriars junction behind two fashionable young guys doing a backy / croggy on a hire bike: The front guy pedalling was waiting with foot down, the backee was sitting on the saddle, feet hanging outwards, hands too embarrassed to hold onto his pal's waist... like doing a star jump. He reminded me of those balancing clown toys.

I was chuckling away when a commuter woman rolled up and stopped next to me.

I nodded toward them and said very loudly "oooh that's very metrosexual isn't it?".

I'm glad to say she cracked up.

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I've just had an amaaazeballs idea! A rack that qr clamps onto a hire bike to make a rear rack seat backy thing - like all young people do in Holland, the hire bike can give your mate a lift.

It won't work. You need to have mates.

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I've just had an amaaazeballs idea! A rack that qr clamps onto a hire bike to make a rear rack seat backy thing - like all young people do in Holland, the hire bike can give your mate a lift.

Bet you feel silly for buying a tandem now!

A clip on one of these would be even better:

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I've just had an amaaazeballs idea! A rack that qr clamps onto a hire bike to make a rear rack seat backy thing - like all young people do in Holland, the hire bike can give your mate a lift.
Argh - flash backs to childhood attempts to do this, some more successful than others...

A clip on one of these would be even better:

...and contraptions like this one, sometimes "involving" my poor younger siblings.