Tour de-france type of riders, what's their deal?
05-06-21, 04:03 PM
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What? Are you mad because they may have money or is it the better bike or is it better clothing or are they just faster than you? Who the heck cares where what you want ride a nice bike and enjoy the heck out of life. If you want to sprint to the light go for it, if you want to ride slow and look at tulips, why the f not. Do whatever you want so long as it doesn't harm others.
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The OP just needs to understand that it is not necessary for him to understand.
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Even where I live, winter is over. So why are we still getting threads like this? Shouldn't the doofus-types be out riding?
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winter came back & added high winds. It'll tease with 3 days of spring like weather then back to ice cold & windy grey skys.
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They make bikes under $1000? My custom skinsuit cost that much.
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What? Are you mad because they may have money or is it the better bike or is it better clothing or are they just faster than you? Who the heck cares where what you want ride a nice bike and enjoy the heck out of life. If you want to sprint to the light go for it, if you want to ride slow and look at tulips, why the f not. Do whatever you want so long as it doesn't harm others.
For the record, I'm against butt-chugging even if it doesn't harm others.
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Tour de France - type riders who are also Van Halen - type guitarists are fine. It's those Liege-Bastogne-Liege - type riders who are also Yngvie Malmsteen - type guitarists that really bother me a great deal. With their scalloped top tubes...
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I call them "wanna be tour de-france riders" i see every day a few who dress fancy expensive riding clothes and ride bikes that cost more than grand and ride as if they trying to set world record in speed, (often are running trough red light).
They all are skinny and probably would be fast riding any bike, but when they invest in lighter bikes this get's them even faster.
Never understood this what this riders are all about, are they try to set world record in speed or something, i doubt that they ever will participating in any cycling sport events.
I know there's such thing as bicycle industry and marketing that popularize this, e.g. fishing industry for example and if you go to fishing store you see thousands of lures, hooks, and different types fancy rods when in reality do you really need to make it so complicated to catch a fish?
I know this is also some kind of popularized thing, but what is it all about?
They all are skinny and probably would be fast riding any bike, but when they invest in lighter bikes this get's them even faster.
Never understood this what this riders are all about, are they try to set world record in speed or something, i doubt that they ever will participating in any cycling sport events.
I know there's such thing as bicycle industry and marketing that popularize this, e.g. fishing industry for example and if you go to fishing store you see thousands of lures, hooks, and different types fancy rods when in reality do you really need to make it so complicated to catch a fish?
I know this is also some kind of popularized thing, but what is it all about?
Can anyone who is bilingual translate this into English for me?
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I did say PRETEND Van Halen.
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I think are the cicling peoples who make trough red lites districts in are there fancy spandecks and $1001+ usd bikecycles but imaginationing never the racings are that making some offensive to op is.
... well, something like that, at any rate. Just my attempt at a brief summary.
... well, something like that, at any rate. Just my attempt at a brief summary.
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Being skinny immediately equals an eating disorder? Nope. It has more to do with being an endurance athlete and the calories burned in that activity. High-level cyclists tend to take their eating pretty seriously in order to properly fuel the machine for maximum performance.
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