Am I not “racy” enough?
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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?
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It's got a good beat and you can dance to it. I'll give it a 90. Nice effort.
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Insufficiently garish attire?
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Try going shirtless, and leave the helmet at home. That ought to do it.
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Consider it a compliment. Maybe you're so TdF looking that you intimidate them to the point of not even trying.
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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?
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Unless you're wearing a skinsuit and an aero helmet, I wouldn't go to the trouble of dropping you.
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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.
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When was the last time you washed your Spandex?
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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.
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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.
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Try making vroom vroom noises and screaming "on your left, flatbar!"
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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.
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