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Old 07-05-20, 03:04 PM
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Originally Posted by wolfchild
I have 3 different bikes. I commute voluntarily few times per week because I enjoy it, I also ride recreationally, mountain biking, gravel, road....Here is a list of things I don't do: I don't use clipless I prefer platforms. I like both drop bars and flat bars. I don't shave my legs or any other body parts. I don't race. I don't use strava. I don't own any spandex costumes. I don't use carbon bikes I prefer steel and aluminium. I run errands and do some shopping on my bike sometimes. The most miles that I've ever ridden in one year was about 15 000 miles.... Am I a cyclist ??….I'll let you be the judge.
Where did I mention that you needed carbon? Or spandex or shaved legs? Or what pedals you have?

You've got bikes that you ride because you want to, you (presumably) lube the chain and air up the tires. You make time to ride.

You literally fit my definition perfectly.

Are you offended by that?
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Old 07-05-20, 03:08 PM
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Old 07-05-20, 03:13 PM
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The only objective of threads like this is to divide a population into two groups, one of which the OP has judged and found wanting.
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How many pages before this thread turns into a ping pong exchange of insults and then gets locked? I’m guessing 6 pages.
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Old 07-05-20, 03:17 PM
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Old 07-05-20, 03:20 PM
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Old 07-05-20, 04:42 PM
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Originally Posted by General Geoff
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Using a bicycle as a conveyance does, in fact, instantly make you a cyclist.

Just as walking instantly makes you pedestrian.
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Old 07-05-20, 04:50 PM
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Originally Posted by bobwysiwyg

Just as walking instantly makes you pedestrian.
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Does it make you a hiker, free runner (parkourist), race walker, ministry of silly walker, or Walker Texas Ranger?

I'm sure you see the difference now.

I used to ride with a guy who consistently walked sub 6 minute miles. He eventually got to the Olympics. No idea how he did.
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Old 07-05-20, 04:58 PM
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Originally Posted by rosefarts
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Does it make you a hiker, free runner (parkourist), race walker, ministry of silly walker, or Walker Texas Ranger?

I'm sure you see the difference now.
Runners, joggers, power walkers, and hikers are all subcategories of pedestrian. Just as racers, commuters, enthusiasts, tourists and bikepackers are all subcategories of cyclist.
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Old 07-05-20, 05:02 PM
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Originally Posted by MattTheHat
How many pages before this thread turns into a ping pong exchange of insults and then gets locked? I’m guessing 6 pages.
How dare you sully the game of ping pong like that!
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Old 07-05-20, 05:05 PM
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Originally Posted by General Geoff
Runners, joggers, power walkers, and hikers are all subcategories of pedestrian. Just as racers, commuters, enthusiasts, tourists and bikepackers are all subcategories of cyclist.
You're probably right. If I call myself an enthusiast, I feel like I need to gain weight and learn about Ham radios.

And I'm not fast enough to race.

It's kind of a crisis.
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Originally Posted by krecik
A good question indeed, either way it's not my religion so I'll be inclined to reject all it's rules and creeds as part of my religious freedom should a police officer try to enforce them on me.

Have you heard the good news about the realness of steel?

You're not one of those Carbonist heathens, are you?
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Old 07-05-20, 05:09 PM
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Originally Posted by rosefarts
You're probably right. If I call myself an enthusiast, I feel like I need to gain weight and learn about Ham radios.

And I'm not fast enough to race.

It's kind of a crisis.

You should have heard what I was calling myself a couple weeks ago when I realized that I had set myself up to ride the return 50 miles of a century in 95 degree heat and a strong headwind.
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Old 07-05-20, 05:12 PM
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Originally Posted by livedarklions
You should have heard what I was calling myself a couple weeks ago when I realized that I had set myself up to ride the return 50 miles of a century in 95 degree heat and a strong headwind.
I call myself things like that almost every day, for all kinds of reasons.
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Old 07-05-20, 05:13 PM
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Originally Posted by rosefarts
You're probably right. If I call myself an enthusiast, I feel like I need to gain weight and learn about Ham radios.

And I'm not fast enough to race.

It's kind of a crisis.
Language is a dicey, fluid medium of communication. That which is inferred is not always the same as that which was implied. One person's mental image of "cyclist" is different than another's. The connotations of certain words can eventually change their definitions completely, but I don't think 'cyclist' has reached that point on a societal scale yet (outside of niche slang).

Awesome and Awful technically mean the same thing, yet one is used in a positive way and the other in a negative way.
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Old 07-05-20, 05:56 PM
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Originally Posted by livedarklions
Is cyclism a pro or anti bicycle rider dogma?
Anything that ends with an ism is cultish and leads to fanatical set of beliefs and behaviour.
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Old 07-05-20, 06:03 PM
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Originally Posted by General Geoff
Runners, joggers, power walkers, and hikers are all subcategories of pedestrian. Just as racers, commuters, enthusiasts, tourists and bikepackers are all subcategories of cyclist.
I thought that only racers deserve to be called cyclists and all other subcategories are to be referred to as a person on a bike or bike rider.
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Old 07-05-20, 06:58 PM
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Originally Posted by rosefarts
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I'm sure you see the difference now.
Sorry, no. He's still a pedestrian, just a talented variant of same.
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There are cyclists. And then there are Serious Cyclists™.
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Where is I like to bike when you need him?
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Originally Posted by rosefarts
Stop the dude on a bike and ask him what he considers himself.
Better yet, stop a kid on a bike and ask him.

As we get older we get bigger, but we don’t always get smarter.

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Cyclist = someone who bikes in cycles
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