Nodder/Fixie Skidder

damn

have to agree with sexy starry milffucker

that thread is brilliant

it is never going to work without a decent road infrastructure with thought put towards cyclists and standardized cycle training unlike the joke that is cycle proficiency

we already have a road, all we need to do is ride on it.

I'm not sure how i'd take advice given by a rider on the road. I might think '...prick' as they ride off. This hasn't stopped me riding up to people to say 'you need more lights', or 'your helmet is undone/on backwards' and 'lose the ipod'...

Prick.

:-)

It's fine.

The petrol people can sell the driving people new (hydrogen) fuel for their new cars.

Some more people will think "hang on a minuite" and start cycling instead.

[ crystal ball prediction ]

I'm not sure how i'd take advice given by a rider on the road. I might think '...prick' as they ride off. This hasn't stopped me riding up to people to say 'you need more lights', or 'your helmet is undone/on backwards' and 'lose the ipod'...

I have said a few things to people that I have seen doing ridiculously dangerous things. Especially going up the inside of lorries and at traffic lights. I must admit it is usually women as I think they respond to advice more openly whereas a bloke might just thing, fuck of you twat. Just point out the dangers of what they are doing and where they should be things like that

So lastnight i'm on my usual trip home but nursing a slightly sore left knee. Due to this i've been riding steady away all week so as not to make it worse. This was my fatal error as "taking it steady" and being a bit lazy put me at the mercy of the incompetence of the everyday Nodders...

Junction past tower bridge eading East, like a slightly skewed crossroads with traffic lights and a minimart just past it on the left. Sat in the cycle lane waiting for the lights to change with about 15 other cyclists in front - all geared up by buying the shittest bike from Argos and clothing aquired by covering their bodies with a good amount of no nails and then proceeding to ride through Evans to make sure they have every single overpriced accessory that they sell.

Lights change, off we go... THEN for no apparent reason there is some mass panic up ahead and the guy in front on a MTB slams his front brake on and winds up doing an endo whilst the guy behind me fails to slow down at all resulting in me over handle bars.

Strange thing was i got up, totally uninjured, checked the bike, totally fine, not even a bit of ripped bar tape on the drops. Mystery how i managed that considering i had one bike beneath me and another on top.

Asked the guy in front "WTF did you stop for?" he replies "Oh, erm, not really sure, think i just pulled the front brake too hard haha" Yeah fucking funny isn't it. Prick.

Asked the guy behind "WTF didn't you brake?" he replies "I didn't see you" Great.

So watch out folks, Nodders are evolving and now have hands far too strong for the average brake lever and also blind people are allowed to cycle - it's a fucking jungle out there...

Have you considered cycle training?

A pinch of salt?

Have you considered pinching salt training?

Have you considered public transport?

or not being so judgemental? we were all nodders once...

@OSR is the nodder in the subject you?? :-)

nah I'm far too slow and uncompetitive, and flouro is just so gauche

So the OP hasn't been on a forum ride to witness the impeccable riding of people on here...

I'm confused about what actually happened, you were between the two of them?

or not being so judgemental? we were all nodders once...

Speak for yourself kidda

nodder spit roast

nah I'm far too slow and uncompetitive, and flouro is just so gauche

i didn't mean you clefty, darling!

Yep taken with a pinch of salt, it left me slightly amused more than anything else. Yep been on loads of forum rides and have witnessed the skillz that people on the forum haz.

Yeah one infront, one behind, in the starting line as it were of a Nodder GP, except i had qualified near the back.

and flouro is just so gauche
Add some tassles, vinegar and lemon, and it can be a gauche louche douche.

Or a nodder spitroast...

Pah! This is too weak for Friday popcorn. Next please.

So the OP hasn't been on a forum ride to witness the impeccable riding of people on here...

This...