Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

Either you're a streetwise fixie skidder, year round cyclist, never wear fluoro and keep your upper body in Wiggins like stasis while pedalling, or you're a nodder, dressed head to toe in reflective day glo altura, head wobbling with every pedal stroke, at least for the two weeks of sunshine every July. After that they all go back to driving to work. There is no middle ground.

Either you're a streetwise fixie skidder, year round cyclist, never wear fluoro and keep your upper body in Wiggins like stasis while pedalling, or you're a nodder, dressed head to toe in reflective day glo altura, head wobbling with every pedal stroke, at least for the two weeks of sunshine every July. After that they all go back to driving to work. There is no middle ground.

This sounds like my boss at work. Cheers guys! Learn something new everyday!

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Nodder&defid=7181657

Just checked this, and saw this as well

Indra
Noun

A 15 year old who doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about and persists on riding bikes that don't fit.

Verb
To rudely offer to buy someones bike that clearly not for sale, whilst giving advice on something you know nothing about to people with much greater experience in the area.

Adjective (Also see: Indra'd)
To break ones bike and oneself after riding badly / inappropriately or just by failing to understand how a bicycle works.
Noun/Verb

Idiot - "So I said to him 'that bike is the wrong size for you; I'll buy it. Dibs!"
Person - "Don't you dare try and Indra me you filthily little Indra"

Adjective

Idiot - "oh no, I bent my frame and dislocated my shoulder after I tried to take a track bike mountain biking"
Person - "You stupid cunt, sounds like you've made a real Indra of yourself!"

One could also just say "Indra'd" as in:

"oh fuck you've really Indra'd it haven't you"

the hell xD pretty sure indra is a member here

the hell xD pretty sure indra is a member here

ha, hadn't seen that.

http://www.lfgss.com/thread108860.html

Not a fan of that Indra entry.
It seems more hurtful than humorous.
Whoever wrote it needs to get a life.

None of his bikes do fit him, tbf.

Dick entry that. Great guy and from what I've seen, all his current bikes fit him damn well.

Until they catastrophically carbopocalyse.

cf YBI'D thread.

My girlfriend nods like a proper nodder on the back of the tandem while I'm all elite with my perfect core and zero head movement. I told her to stop but she says she likes nodding as its fun.

FML

the amount of summer first season riders
out and about brainwashed into hi viz and helmet is dispiriting I have to say
just ride ffs

The girl who rides out of croydon at 6pm most days and will draft buses when she gets a chance. It would be more impressive if I wasn't keeping up on my 26er mtb riding a safe distance behind. A bus will emergency stop or she randomly just isn't with it 110% one of these days and then broken carbon and bones with nobody to blame.

Also any idea how to find randoms you shared a couple of miles of a ride with if they strava?

whoever wrote that shit about indra is a grade A fucking cunt. no need for that whatsoever.

Also they seem confused between verbs, nouns and adjectives.

Also any idea how to find randoms you shared a couple of miles of a ride with if they strava?

http://labs.strava.com/flyby/

The girl who rides out of croydon at 6pm most days and will draft buses when she gets a chance. It would be more impressive if I wasn't keeping up on my 26er mtb riding a safe distance behind. A bus will emergency stop or she randomly just isn't with it 110% one of these days and then broken carbon and bones with nobody to blame.

Also any idea how to find randoms you shared a couple of miles of a ride with if they strava?

Why do you want to find random people you don't know on Strava. Creepy...

#stravastalker

Not a fan of that Indra entry.
It seems more hurtful than humorous.
Whoever wrote it needs to get a life.

Definitely more spite in that than humour.

Didnt realise he was only 15!

Why do you want to find random people you don't know on Strava. Creepy...

#stravastalker

I keep getting kudos'ed from someone in Singapore!

The girl who rides out of croydon at 6pm most days and will draft buses when she gets a chance. It would be more impressive if I wasn't keeping up on my 26er mtb riding a safe distance behind. A bus will emergency stop or she randomly just isn't with it 110% one of these days and then broken carbon and bones with nobody to blame.

Also any idea how to find randoms you shared a couple of miles of a ride with if they strava?

Think they would show up on the ride if you rode with them?

Think they would show up on the ride if you rode with them?

Isn't that only if you added them before?

Maybe she doesn't strava.

Why do you want to find random people you don't know on Strava. Creepy...

#stravastalker

I ride the same way home most days dunno it seems like a good way to use strava.

Isn't that only if you added them before?

Maybe she doesn't strava.

Nah i've had people show up I dont have in my added list. But you might be right as on my sportive no one showed up as riding with me. Maybe Garmin doesnt link this up like the phone app does?

Maybe she doesnt strava, or uses a garmin and hasnt uploaded her ride yet?

Isn't that only if you added them before?

Maybe she doesn't strava.

#stravastalker

why don't you just say hey next time your riding out of Croydon at 6pm? you said you see her most days

Isn't that only if you added them before?

Maybe she doesn't strava.

I ride the same way home most days dunno it seems like a good way to use strava.

Why dont you talk to these folk and make an introduction, following people you don't know does seem just a bit creepy.

why don't you just say hey next time your riding out of Croydon at 6pm? you said you see her most days

See her everyday and say nothing = #stravastalker

see her and say hi = #stravas talker

why don't you just say hey next time your riding out of Croydon at 6pm? you said you see her most days

We say hi and stuff if we see each other but usually a fast pace so not really talking more than that.

Also just did that flyby thing on a few rides and it's kinda cool but picks up loads of people going the other way lol