Quiz: Are You a Cycling Snob
08-25-15, 07:10 AM
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Quiz: Are You a Cycling Snob
All right ... here's a deeply scientific and definitive quiz to determine if you are a cycling snob or not.
Quiz: are you a cycling snob? - BikeRadar
Have fun with it!!
Quiz: are you a cycling snob? - BikeRadar
Have fun with it!!
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08-25-15, 07:18 AM
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You have a strong love of cycling but you hate the pretentious crowds with their caps and pulled-up socks – you'd rather be out on your bike than sipping espressos.
08-25-15, 07:23 AM
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08-25-15, 07:33 AM
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I'm so much of a cycling snob that that poll doesn't have snobby enough answers. I stopped at the Strava question, where there was no "strava is for freds" answer choice.
Edit to add: totally not kidding
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08-25-15, 07:33 AM
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08-25-15, 07:34 AM
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Same as the others above. Some of the questions need more choices. Like the one about hats. None of the choices came close to reflecting my feeling about them.
08-25-15, 07:47 AM
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08-25-15, 07:55 AM
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Anti snob
You have a strong love of cycling but you hate the pretentious crowds with their caps and pulled-up socks – you'd rather be out on your bike than sipping espressos.
You have a strong love of cycling but you hate the pretentious crowds with their caps and pulled-up socks – you'd rather be out on your bike than sipping espressos.
08-25-15, 07:59 AM
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gateaux
Anti-snob here.
Chapeau? I thought that the word was gateaux. As in "Incroyable! Gateaux, monsieur. Gateaux."
Do I win anything?
Chapeau? I thought that the word was gateaux. As in "Incroyable! Gateaux, monsieur. Gateaux."
Do I win anything?
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08-25-15, 08:01 AM
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If you're a cycling snob, you're likely a snob every other facet of your life as well. I'm extrapolating, but it makes sense.
Anti-snob here.
Anti-snob here.
08-25-15, 08:19 AM
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Wow. That was painfully stupid.
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08-25-15, 10:09 AM
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You know a good bike when you see one and you value comfortable kit, but you're not a fan of over-expensive cycling fashion. You remember bikes are for riding, not for staring at.
08-25-15, 10:20 AM
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I got uber snob. Not surprised.
08-25-15, 11:23 AM
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"You know a good bike when you see one and you value comfortable kit, but you're not a fan of over-expensive cycling fashion. You remember bikes are for riding, not for staring at."
08-25-15, 11:55 AM
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Anti snob here, which isn't quite true. I do like and appreciate a high end bike, even though I don't own one. I have absolutely no idea what Chapeau means and I don't even care to look it up.
08-25-15, 12:30 PM
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I don't think I want to be either of these guys
08-25-15, 12:48 PM
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"You know a good bike when you see one and you value comfortable kit, but you're not a fan of over-expensive cycling fashion. You remember bikes are for riding, not for staring at."
08-25-15, 01:04 PM
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I gave up at the second question. Strava is? I have never even looked at Strava, pay no attention to it and don't care at all if others like it, use it or talk about it. None of the answers remotely reflect that. Then I apparently accidentally hit an answer button and saw the next question. Again, what I do is not an answer.
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08-25-15, 01:20 PM
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I registered as an anti-snob. I think that's more because I don't care what other people do not because of what I do.
You'll always see me in decent kit, but not team kit and wearing off white socks, but rock your polka dot jersey if you want, just stay off my wheel.
You'll always see me in decent kit, but not team kit and wearing off white socks, but rock your polka dot jersey if you want, just stay off my wheel.
08-25-15, 02:10 PM
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08-25-15, 05:32 PM
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Uber Snob. I knew that.
08-25-15, 06:25 PM
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Uber snob, but I cheated.
Didn't want a boring result, so if I knew that's where my choice would put me, I chose the more likely of the extreme responses, regardless of how true they were.
Re-took it and sure enough - boring: "Not a snob: You know a good bike when you see one and you value comfortable kit, but you're not a fan of over-expensive cycling fashion. You remember bikes are for riding, not for staring at."
Didn't want a boring result, so if I knew that's where my choice would put me, I chose the more likely of the extreme responses, regardless of how true they were.
Re-took it and sure enough - boring: "Not a snob: You know a good bike when you see one and you value comfortable kit, but you're not a fan of over-expensive cycling fashion. You remember bikes are for riding, not for staring at."
Last edited by kbarch; 08-25-15 at 06:29 PM.