I'm scared of recumbents
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Get your hand off my tushie, Billy!
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Oh is that you . . . I thought it was Brandy's.
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No, facts are facts. I even siad bents are slower up hills for me.
The slamming was more along the lines that bents are not real bikes and thier riders are old, crippled and cant ride without wobbleing etc...BTW I'm 46 and no physical problems with either ride choice, I just like my bent better. However, if a bent allowes someone to ride who otherwise couldn't I'm all for it. Then I hear how bent riders act all superior when in fact that is not true at all. Still looking for those examples I asked for 2 post earlier...
The slamming was more along the lines that bents are not real bikes and thier riders are old, crippled and cant ride without wobbleing etc...BTW I'm 46 and no physical problems with either ride choice, I just like my bent better. However, if a bent allowes someone to ride who otherwise couldn't I'm all for it. Then I hear how bent riders act all superior when in fact that is not true at all. Still looking for those examples I asked for 2 post earlier...
It's the classic self-congratulatory bent-rider wankfest because they won a "race" in which they were the only competitors.
Don't like that link? How about this one: https://www.bentrideronline.com/messa...ad.php?t=19135
More of the same.
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Self congratulatory wankfest threads are as common and time honored in the Road forum as those discussing what components/accessories look best. Are you claiming such topics should be reserved for exclusive use by "traditional" roadies?
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I usually don't respond to the semiliterate ramblings of people who can't quite grasp the point, but it took three seconds to find this: https://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...=smoked+roadie
It's the classic self-congratulatory bent-rider wankfest because they won a "race" in which they were the only competitors.
Don't like that link? How about this one: https://www.bentrideronline.com/messa...ad.php?t=19135
More of the same.
It's the classic self-congratulatory bent-rider wankfest because they won a "race" in which they were the only competitors.
Don't like that link? How about this one: https://www.bentrideronline.com/messa...ad.php?t=19135
More of the same.
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I cry foul young man, your misrepresenting. That was actually me. I wasnt complaining, and it doesnt say i was, just pointing it out because it was amusing.
It wouldnt have mattered whether i was on a bent or not as i'm not a particularly strong cyclist - need more practice . The fact is i rather like cycling slowly and taking in the scenery. At the time i was going over one of the bridges that cross the thames and enjoying the view of the river
It wouldnt have mattered whether i was on a bent or not as i'm not a particularly strong cyclist - need more practice . The fact is i rather like cycling slowly and taking in the scenery. At the time i was going over one of the bridges that cross the thames and enjoying the view of the river
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I usually don't respond to the semiliterate ramblings of people who can't quite grasp the point, but it took three seconds to find this: https://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...=smoked+roadie
It's the classic self-congratulatory bent-rider wankfest because they won a "race" in which they were the only competitors.
Don't like that link? How about this one: https://www.bentrideronline.com/messa...ad.php?t=19135
More of the same.
It's the classic self-congratulatory bent-rider wankfest because they won a "race" in which they were the only competitors.
Don't like that link? How about this one: https://www.bentrideronline.com/messa...ad.php?t=19135
More of the same.
ah, meat and taters. and with a video to back it up. He does say not all were trying but 2 were. later he also says "At HnH I was chip timed through the 10 mile stretch of good pavement at 33mph avg" So its no surprise he smoked some roadies. heck he would have smoked most bent riders as well.
the second was a little more mean spirited but similar to many of the ones here which were more a poke in fun.
Anyways, thanks for pointing these out for me. I enjoyed reading them and learned something.
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I usually don't respond to the semiliterate ramblings of people who can't quite grasp the point, but it took three seconds to find this: https://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...=smoked+roadie
It's the classic self-congratulatory bent-rider wankfest because they won a "race" in which they were the only competitors.
Don't like that link? How about this one: https://www.bentrideronline.com/messa...ad.php?t=19135
More of the same.
It's the classic self-congratulatory bent-rider wankfest because they won a "race" in which they were the only competitors.
Don't like that link? How about this one: https://www.bentrideronline.com/messa...ad.php?t=19135
More of the same.
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Look, I =ought= to be an advocate for recumbents. I've tried them myself and I've recommended that others try them, especially if they have physical problems that keep them off uprights. I love seeing guys in their 80s still out there because I know that time may come for me. Yet the poisonous attitudes of a noisy part of the 'bent crowd are a huge turn-off.
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The only recumbent I've ever ridden with was a BF member who talked literally non-stop about how recumbents were so much better than regular bikes ... and we'd be so much faster if we were on recumbents like him ... and he knew these recumbents that embarassed other fast riders ... and ... and and ...
I'm a ****** and dropped him like a rock on a short semi-steep hill. He whined for the next half an hour about how he'd have done better if he'd put that other cassette on last night but didn't ... and recumbents really aren't slower on hills, that's a myth ... and just wait until the downhills, he'd smoke us for sure ... and ...
Mr. Recumbent pulled ahead on the last big downhill, so my buddy on a 90's Guerciotti with downtube shifters and 7 speeds hammered out and left him in the dust. At the bottom, Mr. Recumbent could barely even speak. I think he mumbled 'man... he's... fast.'.
Heh.
I'm a ****** and dropped him like a rock on a short semi-steep hill. He whined for the next half an hour about how he'd have done better if he'd put that other cassette on last night but didn't ... and recumbents really aren't slower on hills, that's a myth ... and just wait until the downhills, he'd smoke us for sure ... and ...
Mr. Recumbent pulled ahead on the last big downhill, so my buddy on a 90's Guerciotti with downtube shifters and 7 speeds hammered out and left him in the dust. At the bottom, Mr. Recumbent could barely even speak. I think he mumbled 'man... he's... fast.'.
Heh.
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Hey, all the hammock drivers I met Sunday were really nice guys. Every single one of them kept up a nice slow pace over the 100 mile route so that Cheri and I could pass them. I think some of them even went out of their way to leave early and wait for us. I'll tolerate no bad-mouthing of people so friendly and supportive of my ego.
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"Let us hope our weapons are never needed --but do not forget what the common people knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An armed citizenry is the first defense, the best defense, and the final defense against tyranny. If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government -- and a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws" - Edward Abbey
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[QUOTE=halfspeed;7435861]A meta-discussion about the value of such topics in general is one thing, but that's not what's under discussion here. We're talking about one particular type of wank-fest peculiar to the 'bent world that, apparently, coyboy doesn't believe exists.
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Please stop trying to think for me...I did ask for you to point them out because I was serious in that I have not ran into that much of that type post in my forum reading. I did not point out that I had only been reading bent forums some 9 months so I guess I was sandbagging... but in my second post I said and I quote : "I think the OP must be meeting a bad rider. I have nothing against DF's other than the fact that a few of thier riders seem to have the "holy than thou" attitude, but thats probably true of bents or any other form of HPV you could think of... "
I should have expected it though when you made the "semiliterate ramblings" comment
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Please stop trying to think for me...I did ask for you to point them out because I was serious in that I have not ran into that much of that type post in my forum reading. I did not point out that I had only been reading bent forums some 9 months so I guess I was sandbagging... but in my second post I said and I quote : "I think the OP must be meeting a bad rider. I have nothing against DF's other than the fact that a few of thier riders seem to have the "holy than thou" attitude, but thats probably true of bents or any other form of HPV you could think of... "
I should have expected it though when you made the "semiliterate ramblings" comment
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Hey, all the hammock drivers I met Sunday were really nice guys. Every single one of them kept up a nice slow pace over the 100 mile route so that Cheri and I could pass them. I think some of them even went out of their way to leave early and wait for us. I'll tolerate no bad-mouthing of people so friendly and supportive of my ego.
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Are you trying to pick a fight? I gota admit, I have never been personally insulted online before. Anyways, it was fun... Glad I was able to provide you with some meaure of self importance.
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Am I correct in thinking you and Cheri were on a tandom? From all I hear, those really are fast... BTW I never saw a tandom. In fact I have met a total of 2 bents (TE amd Corsa) and one trike (catrike) in all my riding. I do ride with another guy who is on a V-Rex. I do see quite a few roadies form Huntsville as they seem to like riding out our way. The few I have spoken with were friendly. And no, I haven't smoked any of them...yet...LOL
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Cool, I found the hammock version for me, too. No need to get a recumbent!
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You demand that I prove I'm not lying to you and you then ask if I'm attempting to provoke a fight when I find you irritating?
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fair enough, though I dont think I was that demanding. I asked an honest question and never downed any type bikers but appearantly that deserves name calling. As for irritating, I come by it honestly...there's my uncle Mu Tator, cousin Ima Tator, sister Adju Tator, my brother Devas Tator (he tears stuff up), my dad Dic Tator, and more distant kin Ro Tator and Spec Tator and of course me Mr Irra Tator.
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