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You know you are an experienced cyclist when...
...you've eaten the Haribo before you check Wiggle sent you the right item.
If you're new please join in and if you have questions pop them below and the forum regulars will answer as best we can.
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- David9694 4 hours 37 min ago
Further to A Look at Logical Fallacies a couple of months ago. My theory is that 5...
- CumbrianDynamo 4 hours 43 min ago
Trump has a thing against bikes because he's so unbalanced he's unable to ride one.
- wtjs 4 hours 53 min ago
A dangerous, reckless and aggressive BMW driver. Who saw that coming?!
- wtjs 4 hours 58 min ago
canny Lancashire drivers have saved some cash by not bothering with paying VED or getting a MOT? This is VW Passat KP58 GGA
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its aggressive because its basically a left hook onto a roundabout. The driver is basically giving you the choice move out their way or be hit,...
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What a disgusting comment. Perhaps he should have to meet with the families of some victims of poor driving.
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You just get out there and ride without worrying about gearing or anything as we could do it on a 5 speed (or Sturmey Archer 3 speed) back in the day (bring on the single speeders)...
You do all of fred whitton on a 40-18 and come nowhere near last.
When driving in an unfamiliar area you start working out gearing for climbs and lines for descents and how many miles you need to have warmed up before tackling said climb.
Your bike is much more expensive than your car and does many more miles!
When you don't bat an eye-lid when the LBS phones you to say that your bike service will cost twice as much as your car service did. (New wheelset, freehub, chainring, cables & guides etc..)
LUL WUT??? why would you even let someone else touch your bike? It kills me to go to a garage to get something done to my car if I'm not able to do it myself.
BUT ON A BIKE?
Hand in your mancard already...
1. Who says I'm a man with a man card to surrender?
2. I do plenty of maintenance on my bikes myself.
3. We don't all have the luxury of time to spend on maintenance, I do have the luxury of being able to afford to pay for someone else to do it.
4. I'm supporting my excellent independent LBS by having them do it.
5. Welcome to the site itaa, hopefully your subsequent posts will be more constructive than your first.
Your winter bike has Ultegra and mid section aero wheels.
You have dry socks with you on your commute, and stop to empty your shoes and change into them once the rain has stopped
When you no longer need a power meter, Strava, or GPS
...when you buy a powermeter - and understand what the data means!
...when you get up and your legs feel ok, so when you get on the bike you decide to push it, and after 30-40 minutes you realise you needed more recovery time before pushing it...
When you fundamentally disagree with about 95% of what the sales staff/mechanics tell you in the local shop (or is that also 'being an engineer'?
...when you start taking derailleurs to individual pieces to fix them.
that just makes you an engineer
When some one on a fixie does a track stand well beyond the stop line and you still leave him for dust. Or is that just me that gets great pleasure in leaving these people for dust.
When you have managed to get n > s-1 at least once
When you realise that post s, n+1 can theoretically approach infinity, with the only constraint being n+1 must be less than your shed's capacity...
I like what you've done there, s-1....
When you can remember how you managed rides before Strava
when you know to get over yourself and just ride whatever bike you want where and when you want
when you can't finish a sentence because you're out for a ri
...within a split second of reading an article title, you know it is going to spiral into yet another helmet debate, know exactly what points are going to be made and, recognising the pointlessness of contributing to them, quickly click on another link instead.
When you realise your entire pub conversation is totally unintelligible to the average punter.
When you know all the fancy-shmancy names for bike parts, like those rubbery bits that go on your wheels.
Spokey Dokeys?
when you car is over 3 years old and has only 18k miles on it yet you have travelled 23k miles on your bike(s).
... you use heart rate / cadence / power to assess your ride when we all know that speed wins!
you realise that if you claim to be an experienced cyclist you're wrong
When nothing written on a cycling forum surprises you any more.
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