Am I not “racy” enough?
 

Every morning (almost literally) I wake up, put on spandex, and go out riding one of my “Tour de France-type” drop bar bikes. Every day I pass flat bar bikes of all sorts - mountain, hybrid, whatever. Not one of them has ever tried to race me. None has ever passed or dropped me. Do I just not look racy enough to get them fired up, or is there something else I’m missing about all these stories here from flat-bar riders? :foo:

It's got a good beat and you can dance to it. I'll give it a 90. Nice effort.

Maybe you and Cheez could have a race off?

Insufficiently garish attire?

You probably forgot to wave at them.

Try going shirtless, and leave the helmet at home. That ought to do it.

Consider it a compliment. Maybe you're so TdF looking that you intimidate them to the point of not even trying.

Does your bike look like it cost $15,000? Do you wear socks and do they match the rest of your kit, which you refer to as your kit?

Unless you're wearing a skinsuit and an aero helmet, I wouldn't go to the trouble of dropping you.

Well, this morning I was out in a one-piece sleeveless tri kit with a Giro Vanquish, face shield on. Nuthin’.

The bike was just my R2. Is that the problem?

Try a Speedo and a race number down your arm.

The problem isn't your kit or even your socks. It's that you are all by yourself. No sense wasting my energy if I can't smoke the entire peloton.

When was the last time you washed your Spandex?

Watch out for that lady holding the sign!

Make a loop where you ride in front of Vegan restaurants, the REI, and the farmers market and you'll soon be chased my a sea of black jorts wearing sandal-ista flat bar mafioso who'll drop your Lance Armstrong ass post haste.

Ooh, I do have some TriTats left over with no racing last year. I could use those!

:bday:

No disrespect, but the flat-bar/hybrid assassins must sense you are a tri-geek and are afraid you'll crash in front of them or try to pee off the bike or something.

Try making vroom vroom noises and screaming "on your left, flatbar!"

IBAMSTTAATMPTTTIASFCTCTTTPFRBTAOTAAP*




*In before a moderator sees the thread and although that moderator probably thinks the thread is amusing still feels compelled to close the thread to prevent further replies because threads about other threads are against policy.

Trying to come up with a new acronym since I B F T L is now censor-botted.

mgcid

Evading the censor is an impeachable offense.

Reported!

BTW…There is no F in that.

Cheez would to have ask his friend for permission first. :innocent:

Viz, I never meta thread I liked?

If it was me that you were passing on my flat bar bike... I would have not only raced you, but I would have beat you and dropped you.

You have a wattage adjuster/knob on your bike?