The Guardian's bike blog

Putting people in a category because they wear lycra as if that tells you about their personality is really fucking dumb. Likewise, the author of the article is not defined by the denim cut off shorts he used to wear. He's still a dumb fuck in just his pants, I'm sure

Someone introduce Mr Click-bait to The Radavist.

Thanks!

But isn't the cultural shift really just "more people like the thing I love, I LIKED IT FIRST, I don't think they like it in the right way and this makes me VERY ANGRY"? There is nothing stopping him popping on the tighty denim shorts, skinning up, riding to a different hill and enjoying the adventure like he always used to...

I find most of the Graun's 'comment is free' section click-bait

Having read the article after reading the comments here, it's not nearly as combustive as I was expecting. It's ok for him to think competitive cycling is tedious.

As he explains, he's in a strop because he doesn't like being characterised as less of a cyclist. In a similar way people feel like he's looking down on people who are new(er) and super serious so are in a different way less of a cyclist.

Probably nobody is looking down on anybody as less of a cyclist. And who cares if they are anyway.

Why doesn't someone tell him to get in audaxing? He can sploosh all over beards and adventure and weird kit for 600km in a weekend if he wants. Anyway the comeseethduck.com response was bang on.

the-hard-road.com/read-1/2016­/4/12/in-response-to-tom-marriages-piece­-in-the-guardian

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It didn't take a 4 hour cycle around the lanes of South Yorkshire for me to realise that Tom W is far more self-righteous. Makes me totally side with the Guardian writer.

Don't let the false equivalence get you! Just because someone says something idiotic about someone else doesn't mean the other person isn't also idiotic. Don't side with either!

Don't side with either!

I'm with yal on this one.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2017/jul/21/undercover-police-target-london-drivers-who-pass-too-close-to-cyclists

Dare I believe it, are the police daring to care about vulnerable road users.

Last night a car driver nearly 'pinched' another rider and then me; as I later passed her window was open and to my shame I just shouted "Put your phone down" as soon as I saw her rather than asking why she was so close.

The middle aged female driver was on the phone, the phone was dropped and I think she wee'd herself a little.

Having got her composure she gave me the 'loco' hand gesture, but she did then stay 30 yards behind me.

Sometimes, there is an advantage to have a deep voice and being of a darker hue. Sometimes