Freds...are everywhere.
03-01-08, 08:28 AM
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Freds...are everywhere.
I have been glancing at the recent "Fred" threads, then double checking myself for IFS (Incipient Fred Syndrome). Then I got the latest issue of Rock and Ice - and there is a long article on Gumby spotting. A gumby is the climbing Fred. Dam it, I am a Gumby on at least two counts - Trad climbing and one other i won't mention....
Just when you thought you were too frickin cool. Heading out to buy a helmet mirror now....
Just when you thought you were too frickin cool. Heading out to buy a helmet mirror now....
03-01-08, 09:55 AM
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In the immortal words of Frank Zappa:
"I have a message to deliver to the cute people of the world...if you're
cute, or maybe you're beautiful...there's MORE OF US UGLY MOTHER****ERS
OUT THERE THAN YOU ARE!! So watch out."
Az
"I have a message to deliver to the cute people of the world...if you're
cute, or maybe you're beautiful...there's MORE OF US UGLY MOTHER****ERS
OUT THERE THAN YOU ARE!! So watch out."
Az
03-01-08, 01:33 PM
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it's rant time!
a lot of roadies snub freds because they don't follow some set of ridiculous fashion rules. the rest of the world snubs roadies in part because their clothes look freakin stupid.
the fact that the term "fred" exists is indicative of the reality that a great number of cyclists are arrogant, self-obsessed pricks in a perpetual ego stroking contest--a distraction from the fact that they are actually the world's biggest dorks. anyone who isn't aware of, or chooses not to buy into their egomaniacal circle jerk is deemed a fred, since cycling for the fun of it, and without basing your sense of self-worth on how "cool" you look doing so, is simply abhorrent. (and what looks cool to jerk-off roadies tends to look laughable to everyone else on the planet)
depending on my mood and when the last time i did laundry i may or may not be a fred at any given point. but i know from experience that just because your bike matches your kit for a team you're not on does not necessarily make you a better climber than mr. cotton socks here.
a lot of roadies snub freds because they don't follow some set of ridiculous fashion rules. the rest of the world snubs roadies in part because their clothes look freakin stupid.
the fact that the term "fred" exists is indicative of the reality that a great number of cyclists are arrogant, self-obsessed pricks in a perpetual ego stroking contest--a distraction from the fact that they are actually the world's biggest dorks. anyone who isn't aware of, or chooses not to buy into their egomaniacal circle jerk is deemed a fred, since cycling for the fun of it, and without basing your sense of self-worth on how "cool" you look doing so, is simply abhorrent. (and what looks cool to jerk-off roadies tends to look laughable to everyone else on the planet)
depending on my mood and when the last time i did laundry i may or may not be a fred at any given point. but i know from experience that just because your bike matches your kit for a team you're not on does not necessarily make you a better climber than mr. cotton socks here.
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03-01-08, 01:43 PM
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^^If I am an arrogant, self-obsessed fred, I won't need to pick on anyone. Right?
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I have been glancing at the recent "Fred" threads, then double checking myself for IFS (Incipient Fred Syndrome). Then I got the latest issue of Rock and Ice - and there is a long article on Gumby spotting. A gumby is the climbing Fred. Dam it, I am a Gumby on at least two counts - Trad climbing and one other i won't mention....
Just when you thought you were too frickin cool. Heading out to buy a helmet mirror now....
Just when you thought you were too frickin cool. Heading out to buy a helmet mirror now....
03-01-08, 02:09 PM
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It is funny. " Freds...are everywhere." Probably a hundred million 'Freds' in the world would assume you are a pro of some sort - why else would anyone wear such ridiculous clothing on a bicycle littered with someone else's names and take it out on weekends to really go nowhere.
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it's rant time!
a lot of roadies snub freds because they don't follow some set of ridiculous fashion rules. the rest of the world snubs roadies in part because their clothes look freakin stupid.
the fact that the term "fred" exists is indicative of the reality that a great number of cyclists are arrogant, self-obsessed pricks in a perpetual ego stroking contest--a distraction from the fact that they are actually the world's biggest dorks. anyone who isn't aware of, or chooses not to buy into their egomaniacal circle jerk is deemed a fred, since cycling for the fun of it, and without basing your sense of self-worth on how "cool" you look doing so, is simply abhorrent. (and what looks cool to jerk-off roadies tends to look laughable to everyone else on the planet)
depending on my mood and when the last time i did laundry i may or may not be a fred at any given point. but i know from experience that just because your bike matches your kit for a team you're not on does not necessarily make you a better climber than mr. cotton socks here.
a lot of roadies snub freds because they don't follow some set of ridiculous fashion rules. the rest of the world snubs roadies in part because their clothes look freakin stupid.
the fact that the term "fred" exists is indicative of the reality that a great number of cyclists are arrogant, self-obsessed pricks in a perpetual ego stroking contest--a distraction from the fact that they are actually the world's biggest dorks. anyone who isn't aware of, or chooses not to buy into their egomaniacal circle jerk is deemed a fred, since cycling for the fun of it, and without basing your sense of self-worth on how "cool" you look doing so, is simply abhorrent. (and what looks cool to jerk-off roadies tends to look laughable to everyone else on the planet)
depending on my mood and when the last time i did laundry i may or may not be a fred at any given point. but i know from experience that just because your bike matches your kit for a team you're not on does not necessarily make you a better climber than mr. cotton socks here.
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it's rant time!
a lot of roadies snub freds because they don't follow some set of ridiculous fashion rules. the rest of the world snubs roadies in part because their clothes look freakin stupid.
the fact that the term "fred" exists is indicative of the reality that a great number of cyclists are arrogant, self-obsessed pricks in a perpetual ego stroking contest--a distraction from the fact that they are actually the world's biggest dorks. anyone who isn't aware of, or chooses not to buy into their egomaniacal circle jerk is deemed a fred, since cycling for the fun of it, and without basing your sense of self-worth on how "cool" you look doing so, is simply abhorrent. (and what looks cool to jerk-off roadies tends to look laughable to everyone else on the planet)
depending on my mood and when the last time i did laundry i may or may not be a fred at any given point. but i know from experience that just because your bike matches your kit for a team you're not on does not necessarily make you a better climber than mr. cotton socks here.
a lot of roadies snub freds because they don't follow some set of ridiculous fashion rules. the rest of the world snubs roadies in part because their clothes look freakin stupid.
the fact that the term "fred" exists is indicative of the reality that a great number of cyclists are arrogant, self-obsessed pricks in a perpetual ego stroking contest--a distraction from the fact that they are actually the world's biggest dorks. anyone who isn't aware of, or chooses not to buy into their egomaniacal circle jerk is deemed a fred, since cycling for the fun of it, and without basing your sense of self-worth on how "cool" you look doing so, is simply abhorrent. (and what looks cool to jerk-off roadies tends to look laughable to everyone else on the planet)
depending on my mood and when the last time i did laundry i may or may not be a fred at any given point. but i know from experience that just because your bike matches your kit for a team you're not on does not necessarily make you a better climber than mr. cotton socks here.
03-01-08, 04:37 PM
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Really, everyone's just a Fred of someone else.
03-01-08, 04:57 PM
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I snub Freds because all they do is rant about this whole "fred thing".
03-01-08, 05:08 PM
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Today, my bike had a massive british saddle bag and full silver fenders...
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..but I rode 103 miles and over 4,000' in freezing cold 15-30 mph winds, most of them time those were headwinds up hill.
Oh, and I averaged just under 16 mph for the ride, only 40 minutes off the saddle.
**** you posers.
/Bragging
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..but I rode 103 miles and over 4,000' in freezing cold 15-30 mph winds, most of them time those were headwinds up hill.
Oh, and I averaged just under 16 mph for the ride, only 40 minutes off the saddle.
**** you posers.
/Bragging
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I have been glancing at the recent "Fred" threads, then double checking myself for IFS (Incipient Fred Syndrome). Then I got the latest issue of Rock and Ice - and there is a long article on Gumby spotting. A gumby is the climbing Fred. Dam it, I am a Gumby on at least two counts - Trad climbing and one other i won't mention....
Just when you thought you were too frickin cool. Heading out to buy a helmet mirror now....
Just when you thought you were too frickin cool. Heading out to buy a helmet mirror now....
“People in these niches are very passionate about their gear, and sometimes the opinions can get pretty raw,” Mr. Mann said in a phone interview from the company’s Berkeley, Calif., headquarters. “On the Internet, at least from a small business’s perspective, the unfiltered conversations tend to be the most informative.”'
So are you mining this conversation, or what? You going to turn around a sell me some Freds?
03-01-08, 05:16 PM
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Today, my bike had a massive british saddle bag and full silver fenders...
.
..but I rode 103 miles and over 4,000' in freezing cold 15-30 mph winds, most of them time those were headwinds up hill.
Oh, and I averaged just under 16 mph for the ride, only 40 minutes off the saddle.
**** you posers.
/Bragging
.
..but I rode 103 miles and over 4,000' in freezing cold 15-30 mph winds, most of them time those were headwinds up hill.
Oh, and I averaged just under 16 mph for the ride, only 40 minutes off the saddle.
**** you posers.
/Bragging
03-01-08, 06:05 PM
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Today, my bike had a massive british saddle bag and full silver fenders...
.
..but I rode 103 miles and over 4,000' in freezing cold 15-30 mph winds, most of them time those were headwinds up hill.
Oh, and I averaged just under 16 mph for the ride, only 40 minutes off the saddle.
**** you posers.
/Bragging
.
..but I rode 103 miles and over 4,000' in freezing cold 15-30 mph winds, most of them time those were headwinds up hill.
Oh, and I averaged just under 16 mph for the ride, only 40 minutes off the saddle.
**** you posers.
/Bragging
I rode a century in January after it snowed on a MTB for 30 miles and a fixed gear for the remaining 70. Nice and windy. Never topped 30F.
The time was.......
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9.5 hrs.
lol
I think I just burned myself. Oh well.
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Jeezus, yes!
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