The ridiculousness of the lycra/no lycra debate has caused me to relate this story to you...
The other day, I was riding home from work with Jake. We were just cruising along, enjoying the day, when we were over taken by a fellow commuter.
"Hey!" I said in a conversational tone.
"Hey!" He said back.
He was looking kinda weird, dressed as he was in his jeans, on his mtn bike, with bits of metal protruding out of all his body parts. But hey, he was moving good. Must have good legs under those pants. I had to test him out.
So I sped up a bit, he followed, I sped up some more, he followed and said, from his position behind me now, "So does wearing lycra help you ride ya flake?"
So I said "Pardon?!?!"
"So does wearing lycra help you ride ya flake?"
WELL I LOSE IT! I faked him with a phony downshift, and lit up the back brake. As he swerved, I dumped all 585 watts from my rear hub into the ground and blew a hole in the asphalt. He hit the new pothole, flew over the handlebars, and smashed his face on the ground. As I spun around, I rode over his outstretched fingers and said "is that flake enough for ya?!?"
Ever since, I've been the champ.....
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"So does wearing lycra help you ride ya flake?"....
So....does it?;)
EnigManiac
Man, that is the worst 'Champ' I've ever read. Where's the play-on-words? You know, the part that makes it funny? All that was was two wheeled road rage. Guess all the good comedians are here in Toronto.
:D
cudak888
...and that, my friends, is another reason why you should always keep a cheap frame pump on hand. Stick'em through the spokes!
-Kurt
sgtsmile
Man, that is the worst 'Champ' I've ever read. Where's the play-on-words? You know, the part that makes it funny? All that was was two wheeled road rage. Guess all the good comedians are here in Toronto.
:D
:rolleyes: at least you get it
Edit: on second thoughts, you missed it;p read my siggy, look at what bike I commute on, THEN re-read the champ
ghettocruiser
I was with you... until the part where the lightening bolt apparently leap out of your powertap meter and pulverized the asphalt and your jeans-wearing rival.
Sorry, I dont get it either.
Wasn't Jake the Snake an 80s wrestler?
EnigManiac
:rolleyes: at least you get it
Edit: on second thoughts, you missed it;p read my siggy, look at what bike I commute on, THEN re-read the champ
I'm afraid it's you that doesn't get it. You see, there must be the 'misunderstanding,' the misinterpretation of what the other guy said for The Champ to lose it. That's what makes it funny. 'Does the lycra make you ride ya flake?' isn't a phrase that can be misinterpreted. If it was supposed to, you missed by a mile.
Just as an example. If you'll recall the beginning of the baseball season twelve years or so ago, The Champ did a bit about what players he liked and he remarked that he was impressed with a few of the Blue Jays wherein Knuckles Muldoon said "I like two Expo's myself.' Naturally, Champ remarks 'excuse me?' and loses it. After the obligatory beating he reiterates "is that 'i like to expose myself' enough for you?" See, THAT was funny.
ghettocruiser
So the fact that "flake" sounds a bit like "jake" and "snake" is the key here? Man I should have never asked.
lyledriver
I think we're supposed to know who the champ is.
Possibly some Eastern Canadian Icon?
I worked in a record store in 1996, and they brought in a "Champ" CD.
I never got around to listening to it.
sgtsmile
I'm afraid it's you that doesn't get it. You see, there must be the 'misunderstanding,' the misinterpretation of what the other guy said for The Champ to lose it. That's what makes it funny. 'Does the lycra make you ride ya flake?' isn't a phrase that can be misinterpreted. If it was supposed to, you missed by a mile.
Just as an example. If you'll recall the beginning of the baseball season twelve years or so ago, The Champ did a bit about what players he liked and he remarked that he was impressed with a few of the Blue Jays wherein Knuckles Muldoon said "I like two Expo's myself.' Naturally, Champ remarks 'excuse me?' and loses it. After the obligatory beating he reiterates "is that 'i like to expose myself' enough for you?" See, THAT was funny.
Nope, you dont get it. Ghettocruiser does.... "Does wearing lycra help you ride your jake....."
And Jake the snake was a wrester, and was also a nick name for a famous cyclocross champ, and the person who Kona named the bike "jake the snake" after, which is what I commute on....
sgtsmile
I think we're supposed to know who the champ is.
Possibly some Eastern Canadian Icon?
I worked in a record store in 1996, and they brought in a "Champ" CD.
I never got around to listening to it.
"the champ" was a ficticious character invented, if memory serves, by a radio personality in Toronto. He would routinely misshear things and lose it on ppl, pounding them to butter. He was an ex-boxer.
EnigManiac
Nope, you dont get it. Ghettocruiser does.... "Does wearing lycra help you ride your jake....."
And Jake the snake was a wrester, and was also a nick name for a famous cyclocross champ, and the person who Kona named the bike "jake the snake" after, which is what I commute on....
Okay, well....that is a pretty obscure reference to base a 'Champ' story on. The idea of his humour was to misnterpret a phrase or remark that anyone could understand and relate to, not words that rhymed with what he meant. So, I'll stand by observation that if you were trying to achieve that, you missed by a mile.
Good effort anyway.
And it has been fun to see all the folks who don't know who The Champ was scratching their heads wondering what they missed.
;)
cooker
The Champ (http://q107.com/the_champ/the_champ.cfm)
cooker
If this was a real Champ thread, the guy would have said something to Sgtsmile like, "Hey, fella, I'd sure like to ride your Snake sometime". Then sgtsmile could lose it!!
sgtsmile
If this was a real Champ thread, the guy would have said something to Sgtsmile like, "Hey, fella, I'd sure like to ride your Snake sometime". Then sgtsmile could lose it!!
LMAO!!!
I wrote that champ while biking back from work the other day. I wish I had thought of that!! What the goal was was to gently poke fun at the latest silliness on the boards (bike shorts, watts...) while digging up the champ at the same time... too many eggs I guess
wabbit
I have a jake... but it's about 3 years old. With the obnoxious glow in the dark paint job. I love it! ANd it does attract attention, I tell ya.