Road Cycling Essentials

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topgun06 said:
It's weird as I used to do casual mountain biking many years ago and for that I would wear jeans or trackies. Never have done for road cycling though and I could only imagine it being unpleasant! :confused:
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i really can't see how it is any different? i mean you still sit on a seat and thats about it.. :D
 
George Hincapie said:
Good. Should shut up the clueless fanboys that moaned to the Mods and got me suspended when I set them straight in the seperate LA thread.

Armstrong is an arrogant, cheating, lying bully.

Just finished reading David Millar's autobiography. A good read.
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They did what? That thread was hilarious with people coming in who had clearly never read a thing about LA outside of his own PR guff.

Enjoyed Millar's biography, still not sure where I stand on the whole doping bans and so on.
 
rogan said:
I commute 90 minutes every day in your average pair of jeans on my bike that fits perfect!

Done 5+ hour rides, london to brighton etc, wearing the same jeans rolled up an casual tshirts

You really dont need lycra to ride a road bike!
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I think you are trying to pull the jeans over my eyes ;)
 
Vonhelmet said:
Thinking of unsuccessful rides... We had a bit of a sobering moment on ours, passing a cyclist who'd come off. There's a long descent where you can really build up speed if you want - a mate claims he's done 50 down there - and there's a cattle grid near the bottom. I guess he slid on the grid, or caught a wheel or something, but he'd smashed the front of his helmet and was bleeding all over his face. His bike looked a bit mullered as well. Nasty stuff.
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Was he down and out when you found him? Sound awful did he need an ambulance?
 
King85 said:
Was he down and out when you found him? Sound awful did he need an ambulance?
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He was already being attended to and an ambulance was on the way. He was conscious and talking but with the state of his helmet there's no doubt he'd be dead or seriously wounded if he wasn't wearing it.
 
King85 said:
Was he down and out when you found him? Sound awful did he need an ambulance?
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He had other people with him and had traffic stopped in both directions, so I think it had happened a bit before we got there. He was conscious and seemingly with it, but he didn't look in a hurry to move anywhere.

Edit: beaten by Damien.
 
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Vonhelmet said:
Thinking of unsuccessful rides... We had a bit of a sobering moment on ours, passing a cyclist who'd come off. There's a long descent where you can really build up speed if you want - a mate claims he's done 50 down there - and there's a cattle grid near the bottom. I guess he slid on the grid, or caught a wheel or something, but he'd smashed the front of his helmet and was bleeding all over his face. His bike looked a bit mullered as well. Nasty stuff.
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Was that on the lane when you come down from Belmont and go towards rivington?
 
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