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How Fredly are you?
Other than wearing normal socks my most Fredly thing is the jerseys I wear. I have a few "real" ones with zippers and pockets but I have a ton of KMart soccer? jerseys AND they were on closeout....lol
http://www.kmart.com/shc/s/p_10151_1...ame=Activewear $3 for a jersey (or facsimile thereof) is ok by me! What's your Fredlyness? |
Originally Posted by OBXCycling.com
(Post 9791791)
What's your Fredlyness?
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Well played
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Originally Posted by GP
(Post 9791804)
I read this forum.
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I'm 0% fredly.
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Originally Posted by Flatballer
(Post 9791862)
I'm 0% fredly.
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what is fredly?
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I like the look of those K-mart tees. I guess that makes me Fredly too. I wear a plain white or blue Champion wicking t-shirt bought on sale from Target three years ago. I really don't like traditional cycling jerseys -- they're too tight (I know, that's the point), and tend to ride up on me.
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I was going to buy some, out of stock.
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Originally Posted by CameronC
(Post 9791968)
I was going to buy some, out of stock.
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Originally Posted by OBXCycling.com
(Post 9791976)
Not that I'm a shill.....but go to your local Le Mart D'K. They have them on clearance here. They have long sleeve ones for $12 or so as well.
I don't think I am going to drive to El Paso for a 3 dollar shirt...lol. |
Oh.
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Does riding a road bike in jeans and boots score me any Fred points ?
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Left side pic of OP's bike -- that's Fred.
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Good thread, I've been dying to ask, and remember I'm new to this forum. What exactly is a "Fred". I am assuming its a guy with full kit aka Posers?
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My appearance: 0.5% fredly. My performance: 90.5% fredly.
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Today i was riding on trainer while reading Clifford Simak. How fredly is that?
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Originally Posted by FR4NCH1SE
(Post 9792068)
Good thread, I've been dying to ask, and remember I'm new to this forum. What exactly is a "Fred". I am assuming its a guy with full kit aka Posers?
Fred is also the guy you ride with who will be able to fix any problem you may have while on the road. A poseur is a guy with all the gear but none of the skills or experience. |
Just as I am the standard that all roadies must exceed to be considered roadies, I am the standard that all freds must achieve to be a fred. I am the yin and the yang, the low bar and the high bar. So let it be written, so let it be done.
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Originally Posted by chipcom
(Post 9792288)
Just as I am the standard that all roadies must exceed to be considered roadies, I am the standard that all freds must achieve to be a fred. I am the yin and the yang, the low bar and the high bar. So let it be written, so let it be done.
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I will freely admit that I am a "Fred".
I personally know quite a few Cat 1/Pro racers and my riding is nothing like theirs. A couple of these guys even ride USPRO events. What they can do on a bike and what I can do are like night and day. Even though I hold a racing license and pin on a number I feel like I am the fat guy that plays slow pitch softball on the weekends in the summer and they are the guys in "the show". On the other hand nobody has ever yelled at me on the local hammerhead ride except for once where somebody said that I didn't slow down fast enough after pulling off the front of the rotation. Hence I consider myself an "Elite Fred". |
I read threads like this to see if I'm doing anything Fredly. (and I usually am)
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Originally Posted by FR4NCH1SE
(Post 9792068)
Good thread, I've been dying to ask, and remember I'm new to this forum. What exactly is a "Fred". I am assuming its a guy with full kit aka Posers?
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I wear a neon green wind vest.
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I'm doing two races this weekend. That's more Road Nazi than Fredly.
Maybe I'm a Froad Nazi. |
Originally Posted by patentcad
(Post 9792843)
Maybe I'm a Froad Nazi. |
My fredliness: Nice bike shorts w/ white t shirt, tennis shoes and running socks, padded foam handlebar grips, and a "slim" saddle I stole from a $70 Mongoose MTB. Call me The Fred.
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How Fredly are you?
Originally Posted by OBXCycling.com
(Post 9791791)
Other than wearing normal socks my most Fredly thing is the jerseys I wear. I have a few "real" ones with zippers and pockets but I have a ton of KMart soccer? jerseys AND they were on closeout....lol$3 for a jersey (or facsimile thereof) is ok by me!...
What's your Fredlyness?
Originally Posted by Jim from Boston
(Post 9027712)
I wear surgical scrub shirts to ride as roadies wear spandex jerseys. There, I’ve said it. Scrubs are comfortable, cheap and fairly aerodynamic.
As I was riding this AM, contemplating these essential questions, I thought: certainly there are the roadies, who are indeed “Beautiful People” and are splendid in their spandex and peletons; and there are Freds, kind of clunky but sincere and loveable. But there is IMO, a large segment of noble cyclists, e.g. tourists and commuters who are neither BP’s nor Fred’s, but certainly serious cyclists. I recalled how politicians in Massachusetts are derided as “hacks.” In a memorable speech to the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth, a former Speaker of the House proclaimed “I am not a hack, you are not a hack, we ought not be treated this way." Similarly, my manifesto is, "I am not a Fred you are not a Fred, we ought not be treated this way". So I propose a new name, currently applied to frequent business travelers—ROAD WARRIORS. I AM A ROAD WARRIOR—think Mel Gibson. I envision RW’s as linemen on a football team as compared to the glamorous backfield, as the infantry on the ground compared the glamorous top guns in the military, or Mission Control as compared to the glamorous astronauts in space travel. All contribute in their own way to the success of the enterprise. In the 1980’s I told a secretary at work that I am road warrior a la Mel Gibson and she smiled and said, “Yeah, right.” Yet I still believe. John Gardner once wrote: "An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because philosophy is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.” IMO, the society which exalts roadies and scorns road warriors will have roads only built for cars. |
I have a yellow jersey.
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Originally Posted by Jim from Boston
(Post 9793468)
How Fredly are you?
My Fred Manifesto: |
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