A bicycle rider.





Perhaps my personal "identity crisis" ( I'm "mixed" category in the other poll) began with owning and riding too many different types of bikes?

(including a road bike) :D

Riding with too many different types of riders?

I do ride the plain old Marin hybrid most often. :D

No recumbent yet...:p

Regardless, I am a pie eating/enjoying road bike riding 51 Y.O. that can't make myself take the internet and BB posting very serious. Maybe this is why I feel at home in the +50 forum and tend to wince when reading the Road Cycling forum and it gets hot. Not one to make type casts, just someine that enjoys people and riding.

Bill

Perhaps my personal "identity crisis" ( I'm "mixed" category in the other poll) began with owning and riding too many different types of bikes?

(including a road bike) :D

Riding with too many different types of riders?

I do ride the plain old Marin hybrid most often. :D

No recumbent yet...:p

How can you ride "too many" types of bikes or with "too many" types of riders?

I enjoy so many different kinds of riding...road, dirt, trail, path, singletrack, field, city, country, hilly, flat, long, short, performance, liesure, alone, in groups, pacelines... I would hate to give up any one of them.

The more the merrier. Variety is the spice of life.

Ya know what we need here to sort this out? (wait for it.......)
A Rhodes scholar.

How can you ride "too many" types of bikes or with "too many" types of riders?

I enjoy so many different kinds of riding...road, dirt, trail, path, singletrack, field, city, country, hilly, flat, long, short, performance, liesure, alone, in groups, pacelines... I would hate to give up any one of them.

The more the merrier. Variety is the spice of life.

+1 I did not know any of the "categories" until I found this place:eek:. I plan on racing on the velodrome this year. Does that make me a racerveloroadie?:D

+1 I did not know any of the "categories" until I found this place:eek:. I plan on racing on the velodrome this year. Does that make me a racerveloroadie?:D

Trackies are definately not roadies.

To me a roadie is a equipment schlepping set assembling electronics fixing extracurricular amusement procuring crew member for a traveling band or similar group.

When people write about roadies on bikes, I always have to guess what they are talking about.

I concur - never heard the term "roadie" in the context of cycling. I guess the Wikipedia definition needs editing: The road crew (or roadies) are the technicians who travel with a band on tour, usually in sleeper buses, and handle every part of the concert productions except actually performing the music with the musicians.
This catch-all term covers tour managers, production managers, stage managers, front of house and monitor engineers, guitar techs, bass techs, drum techs, keyboard techs, lighting techs, pyrotechnic techs, and security/bodyguards, among others.

Not fast enough, I fear.

I'm glad someone else here enjoys horticultural pursuits as well as cycling.

Yep - I do. I figure when my legs finally give out I can always sit on my old man foam pad in the garden and weed. :rolleyes:

I think I'm in transition. I'm over 50, bought and bike, and I'm starting to crave pie.

Bought the bike and only starting to crave pie. You still have a way to go then. It's the over 50 bit that is the problem- too definite a statement- unless you are over 60.

I am also a "roadie" for my wife's singing group. I handle the sound equipment and other stuff for them.

But, I hate yard work, so I am definitely NOT that kind of "Rhodie."

And, unlilke Bill CLinton (and others), I was never a Rhodes scholar, so I missed out on another "Rhodie."

And I never lived in Rhode Island - in fact I've never been there. Do they call folks in Rhode Island "Rhodies?"

How about folks living on the Isle of Rhodes?

Recumbent riders are an unusual breed. If one of them makes a statement, just reply, "Sure, whatever you say," and back away slowly.

Why would anyone care what someone else thinks when they say the word, "roadie?" To me it's someone who travels with a band on the road and helps carry heavy loads, and tries to get lucky with the groupies. Why would anyone care what I just said? Why would anyone take this post seriously? Why? Why? Oh, the humanity!