Does anyone else get that natural high
08-23-08, 03:41 PM
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Does anyone else get that natural high
when you wip by some road bikers on their weekend rides, you know the ones all sporting their spandex gear, on your fixed bike?
08-23-08, 03:43 PM
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sometimes. but its nowhere as good as dropping tarck kids who get kicks out of passing roadies who have already probably ridden 60+ miles at that point while i am on my 3 speed.
08-23-08, 03:44 PM
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for all you know they could be on a 60 mile pace while you're just haulin ass to get to your friend's house.
edit:not fast enough
edit:not fast enough
08-23-08, 04:06 PM
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I get a bigger high from farting.
Seriously, racing someone you don't know isn't any fun. Mashing in a group is way more fun.
Seriously, racing someone you don't know isn't any fun. Mashing in a group is way more fun.
08-23-08, 04:16 PM
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You should figure out which group it is so you can do a complete ride with them and blow their wheels off for the whole deal. That should shut them up.
08-23-08, 04:23 PM
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the only time I would ever get a "high" is when ghetto kids try to race me (I commute through ~15 blocks of hood) on walmart bikes and I easily pass them. Even then it's not some ethereal "natural high," more like a "ha, ha, ha."
08-23-08, 04:52 PM
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hello
I'm a spandex wearing roadie who happens ride a fixed gear.
I blow by fellow spandex wearing roadies on hybrids all the time.
I blow by fellow spandex wearing roadies on hybrids all the time.
08-23-08, 04:53 PM
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Yeh, I know the feeling, I do love it even taking into consideration the possible length of their journey, them with their full Carbon fibre, spandex gimp suit non-sense..
Best pass for me was getting a chase off a cop on a mountain bike for whipping through a red light on my fixie, heard some shouting behind me and realised he was chasing me! I was almost home so sprinted off away from him, across the road, through a little lane and up my street into my house! I was seriously wrecked after (was on the way home from a longish trip beforehand) but was hilarious thinking back on it!
Best pass for me was getting a chase off a cop on a mountain bike for whipping through a red light on my fixie, heard some shouting behind me and realised he was chasing me! I was almost home so sprinted off away from him, across the road, through a little lane and up my street into my house! I was seriously wrecked after (was on the way home from a longish trip beforehand) but was hilarious thinking back on it!
08-23-08, 05:24 PM
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seriously, there's nothing tackier than posting about "beating someone" who doesn't know you and didn't agree to race you so you can feel a little bit better about yourself amongst a group of strangers on the internet.
really, get a life.
*ed: not to say that all roadies are real riders, but anyone who actually rides knows that there are riders and non riders. some wear spandex, ride $7,000 carbon and average 25mph on 30 mile rides, others can't pass 20mph or climb the smallest of hills without getting off to rest. you pass some, some pass you, and with others you paceline together. just a disclaimer.
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08-23-08, 05:25 PM
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08-23-08, 05:51 PM
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08-23-08, 06:05 PM
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I think the post was a joke... Hopefully?
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Why not join a Roadie Group ride? Your fixed gear will surely whip them.
08-23-08, 06:28 PM
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Wow tough crowd. Okay to be clear I have nothing against spandex riders,I was one myself for many, many years and used to race. Second I dont just get on my bike to ride to my friends house. When I do ride my fixed its always more than 20 miles and that is just for the hell of it.
Sorry to offend anyone.
Sorry to offend anyone.
08-23-08, 06:30 PM
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Hell yeah! I get that high if I pass anyone riding a bike - it's such a rare occurance.
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Wow tough crowd. Okay to be clear I have nothing against spandex riders,I was one myself for many, many years and used to race. Second I dont just get on my bike to ride to my friends house. When I do ride my fixed its always more than 20 miles and that is just for the hell of it.
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This is Africa, 1943. War spits out its violence overhead and the sandy graveyard swallows it up. Her name is King Nine, B-25, medium bomber, Twelfth Air Force. On a hot, still morning she took off from Tunisia to bomb the southern tip of Italy. An errant piece of flak tore a hole in a wing tank and, like a wounded bird, this is where she landed, not to return on this day, or any other day.
This is Africa, 1943. War spits out its violence overhead and the sandy graveyard swallows it up. Her name is King Nine, B-25, medium bomber, Twelfth Air Force. On a hot, still morning she took off from Tunisia to bomb the southern tip of Italy. An errant piece of flak tore a hole in a wing tank and, like a wounded bird, this is where she landed, not to return on this day, or any other day.
08-23-08, 08:41 PM
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I ride a ss and with me its the other way around! All the road biking spandex wearing guys and girls seem to make it theire mission to pass me at top speed! 
I just keep on riding, keeping up a steady pace and enjoying my ride! 
I just keep on riding, keeping up a steady pace and enjoying my ride!
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08-23-08, 08:51 PM
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Wow tough crowd. Okay to be clear I have nothing against spandex riders,I was one myself for many, many years and used to race. Second I dont just get on my bike to ride to my friends house. When I do ride my fixed its always more than 20 miles and that is just for the hell of it.
Sorry to offend anyone.
Sorry to offend anyone.