People at Work

Finally out of the closet, I think andyp wound up in one of the shots actually...

Was I scrabbling around looking for lost chain ring bolts per chance? ;-)

I spent ten minutes of an otherwise dull meeting this morning explaining what the different races are, and why Chris Hoy doesn't do the Tour de France. It was way better than the agenda. There's about 50 cyclists where I work, but we are down to two fixers (from a peak of four) me & a bloke with a genesis flyer. There are a couple of hardcore roadies (a cat 1 and cat 3) and a guy who's done a sub-10 hour iron man, so there's no shortage of people to talk hubs with.

Anybody noticed similar at their jobs?

I didn't give them the chance. I always end up babbling non-stop about the Olympics for about 15 minutes as soon as I get in (a combination of post-commute euphoria and a current obsession with the contents of Laoshan velodrome). It's embarrassing - I've long considered myself post-national, above patriotism, and utterly uninterested by sport. Yet here I am...

post-national? so nations don't exist?

if thats true then i don't need to worry about the home office changing the form i need to fill out.

loads of my fellow couriers have suddenly started talking expertly about track racing but mention Bruno Risi to them...

all I get all day is opinionated comments on the races, especially on the sprint races:

"that was a really slow race"
and
"the one who's behind always wins"

still. I can't complain as they all drive BMW's and 4x4s in the home counties...

We have a couple of 60 inch screen and a skybox I try and get the Frenchies, Germans, Polish, Russians and Italians to get interested in the British track team but then there eyes glaze over and they just yawn and the Russian goes back to watching the occupation of Georgia. We have one Italian though who was an indoor track champion which is kinda cool he loves my HHSB..;)

This morning all the British paper are going on about cycling its like the old mother country woke up and realised that we are actually good at something!

Was I scrabbling around looking for lost chain ring bolts per chance? ;-)

Ha! Indeed! I'll try and post the feature up later... I think it's you, anyway...

I try and get the Frenchies, Germans, Polish, Russians and Italians to get interested in the British track team

Is this where you work?

(Obscure 70s sitcom reference...)

I had a massive crush on the French woman as a boy, loved that show...

I work with 1 New Zealander, 1 Spanish, 1 Italian, 1 German and about 20 Dutch people.

Theo "The Boss" Bos who?? ;)

A Pakistani, an Israeli and a Scotsman are in a pub.

What a fine example of an integrated community...

Taxi!

And I've just employed an Australian, well no one's perfect!!

^A gentleman should never have to take his own bins out, after all...^

HaHa!!

I got at work the other day; "Have you been watching the cycling on TV? It's quite exciting." Other dude I work with; "Yes but not as exciting as the horse jumping"....

"Yes but not as exciting as the horse jumping"....

He had a point...

loads of my fellow couriers have suddenly started talking expertly about track racing but mention Bruno Risi to them...

...and they start talking about mullets?

^Call that a mullet?

Is that you back in the day, Tommy?

We've a couple of sales people here who like their sport, but are forever taking the piss out of Brett and I for turning up wearing cycling gear (well, probably we more as I also have a Brompton hanging off my arm).

Now it seems that they are (and have always been) cycling fans, knowing everything there is to know about the sport. Bunch of cunts!

Now it seems that they are (and have always been) cycling fans, knowing everything there is to know about the sport. Bunch of cunts!

There's two possible ways to deal with this kind of shite. Firstly try and get your sysadmin to disable access to Wikipedia. Failing that, plant some utter nonsense in Wikipedia and call them on it the moment they repeat it back to you.

Actually, just beat them severely with your quick release chainring.

Now according to the BBC we will be seeing yet more people on bikes on the road, and by the looks of it they will be taking hints from the track cyclists and drafting along right up my arse, nice!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7571882.stm

I hereby promise to drop every commuter who tries to get within a foot of my rear wheel. I will not put up with this kind of nonsense from the nodders.