View Poll Results: Are You a Roadie?
Of Course!
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72.50%
Heck No.
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7.50%
Maybe, it depends.
22
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Don't ask, Don't tell
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Are You a "Roadie"?
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You know, it strikes me that we are wasting time here, as usual. This thread is clearly trying to identify something in the most unspecific way. No good at all.
I think that, perhaps, we could benefit from a system of binomial nomenclature as instituted by Carl Linnaeus in his taxonomic studies. What kind, or classification--specifically--of roadie are we trying to identify? We could do something like the following, for example:
rodentia lapilliarum - Road cyclist, gravel
rodentia sedentalis - Armchair cyclist, or one that doesn't actually ride much but prefers to bloviate on internet fora
You get the picture . . . .
I think that, perhaps, we could benefit from a system of binomial nomenclature as instituted by Carl Linnaeus in his taxonomic studies. What kind, or classification--specifically--of roadie are we trying to identify? We could do something like the following, for example:
rodentia lapilliarum - Road cyclist, gravel
rodentia sedentalis - Armchair cyclist, or one that doesn't actually ride much but prefers to bloviate on internet fora
You get the picture . . . .
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Oh, good heavens. Rodentia is already taken, I see. By RATS, it seems. I'll come up with something; give me a moment . . .
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I ride a road bike, therefore I am a roadie.
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It probably STILL hasn't been long enough since this was published for me to get away with holding this opinion, but... I don't think Roadie is all that great of a book. Didn't speak to me, anyway. And while my MTB racing teammate thinks I'm "too adventurous of a bike handler" to be a roadie, and many of the roadies I know would consider me more of a cyclocrosser, the fact remains I've been racing road bikes to one degree or another for nine years, now. And I don't own a mountain bike. So I probably qualify as a roadie.
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I'd call my kid a cyclist. He is likely a roadie, but he sure likes the dirt too.
I ride a fraction of what he does.
I ride 100% on a UCI legal mass start road bike (sans sometime a saddle bag).
I'm more a roadie than he is.
I ride a fraction of what he does.
I ride 100% on a UCI legal mass start road bike (sans sometime a saddle bag).
I'm more a roadie than he is.
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Is this a trick question?
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You guys need to HTFU. You act like you're afraid to get an infraction or something.
This is the Road Cycling forum, dammit. Here's how you do it.
Mountain bikers suck!
Gravel bikers are stupid!
Cross bikers are confused.
All the rest don't even count!
It's road bikes or NOTHING!
Any questions?
This is the Road Cycling forum, dammit. Here's how you do it.
Mountain bikers suck!
Gravel bikers are stupid!
Cross bikers are confused.
All the rest don't even count!
It's road bikes or NOTHING!
Any questions?
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The Vexatious Subject of the Taxonomy of Cyclists.
A roadie is someone who rides a drop bar road racing bike with gears while wearing lycra and who isn't fat.
A MAMIL could be called a roadie but they are usually a bit fat so they lack the lean figure of a true roadie and are therefore referred to as MAMILs.
A roadie with aerobars (even clip-ons) or a sleeveless jersey is a triathlete.
Someone who rides a single speed or fixed gear bike and does not wear lycra is a hipster or a bike messenger.
Someone who rides a fixed gear bike while wearing lycra is lost and should be directed to the nearest velodrome.
A roadie is someone who rides a drop bar road racing bike with gears while wearing lycra and who isn't fat.
A MAMIL could be called a roadie but they are usually a bit fat so they lack the lean figure of a true roadie and are therefore referred to as MAMILs.
A roadie with aerobars (even clip-ons) or a sleeveless jersey is a triathlete.
Someone who rides a single speed or fixed gear bike and does not wear lycra is a hipster or a bike messenger.
Someone who rides a fixed gear bike while wearing lycra is lost and should be directed to the nearest velodrome.
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Faster on the way down the hill, but slower on the way up the next one you mean?
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The Vexatious Subject of the Taxonomy of Cyclists.
A roadie is someone who rides a drop bar road racing bike with gears while wearing lycra and who isn't fat.
A MAMIL could be called a roadie but they are usually a bit fat so they lack the lean figure of a true roadie and are therefore referred to as MAMILs.
A roadie with aerobars (even clip-ons) or a sleeveless jersey is a triathlete.
Someone who rides a single speed or fixed gear bike and does not wear lycra is a hipster or a bike messenger.
Someone who rides a fixed gear bike while wearing lycra is lost and should be directed to the nearest velodrome.
A roadie is someone who rides a drop bar road racing bike with gears while wearing lycra and who isn't fat.
A MAMIL could be called a roadie but they are usually a bit fat so they lack the lean figure of a true roadie and are therefore referred to as MAMILs.
A roadie with aerobars (even clip-ons) or a sleeveless jersey is a triathlete.
Someone who rides a single speed or fixed gear bike and does not wear lycra is a hipster or a bike messenger.
Someone who rides a fixed gear bike while wearing lycra is lost and should be directed to the nearest velodrome.
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Only if the FG is your winter training bike and has mudguards (preferably) may you still be considered a roadie. Or if you a doing a hill climb. Riding a fixed gear in summer while wearing lycra and not doing a hill climb puts you at risk of being considered a very confused individual.
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Pretty simple back when:
Trackies specialized in racing on the Velodrome and Roadies wished they would stay there instead of racing Criteriums on the road as well.
The distinctions now are:
MUP-ie, Sidewalk-ie or Road-ie in the paved surface operation of bicycles?
That really lacks any of the panache, hard work and pinning on of numbers and having at it in competition when the term "Roadie" meant something very specific, being beaten like a gong in every sprint finish by a "Trackie".
-Bandera
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You guys need to HTFU. You act like you're afraid to get an infraction or something.
This is the Road Cycling forum, dammit. Here's how you do it.
Mountain bikers suck!
Gravel bikers are stupid!
Cross bikers are confused.
All the rest don't even count!
It's road bikes or NOTHING!
Any questions?
This is the Road Cycling forum, dammit. Here's how you do it.
Mountain bikers suck!
Gravel bikers are stupid!
Cross bikers are confused.
All the rest don't even count!
It's road bikes or NOTHING!
Any questions?
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Of course we'd have to have a thread to define fat as well, but I think we have all seen very lean riders who are not that fast and not-so-lean riders that are.
This is a local 50plus racer that does some of the cat 2 races. While he became world famous (or cycling famous) as a track rider - he's a roadie now.
This thinner rider not a roadie.
Also not a roadie:
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I only ride road bikes. Wouldn't consider anything else. And I love to ride. But I might be too slow to be a true roadie.