Rude tonsils at Northerns this morning

[Bat]

O my goodness future champ sound like we start of with a chip on the shoulder?

 

What an arrogant brainless P$:!k. I guess your favorite pastime after many beers is womanizing and abusing children.

[Madlight]

Anybody hurling abuse when passed should sell their bikes and get back in their beamers.

[LeTurbo]

Mountainbikers! This is why we roadies just ignore each other. Much easier.

[Gavmeister]

Rings a familiar bell, did Hakahana today, my wife did the fun ride. She had problems with her chain and asked two guys passing if they could help her, they just looked at each other, ignored her and continued on their merry way. I suppose they had no idea how to fix it themselves.

[No Hare]

Children learn about basic human interaction by copying the mannerisms of their parents.

Children suck up everything like sponges. And then they do precisely want they’ve learned, sometimes to the great embarrassment of their parents.

Therefore I asked: What is your manner and wording when you want a person to make way for you on the bike trail?

Now I ask want the precise wording of the young one was towards these two individuals?

 

And

 

I had a mate that at the age of 6 was deemed to be a piano virtuoso, he had a breakdown at the age of 12 and never played again. don't let your child come to you at the age of thirty and blame you for him/her not having a childhood.

[Vetseun]

O my goodness future champ sound like we start of with a chip on the shoulder?

You sound like the type that would also tell a 10 year old little girl to f off.

[Cejay]

O my goodness future champ sound like we start of with a chip on the shoulder?

Eish at a loss for words

[Uni]

Wow tonsil is being very kind. True we don't know what the girl said to them in passing but I would like to think no ego can be bruised enough to justify swearing at a 10 yr old girl.

[Vetseun]

O my goodness future champ sound like we start of with a chip on the shoulder?

As a 10 year old, the lass has every opportunity to become a future SA champ. I and you I suspect, missed the bus. Our chance came and went.Good on you young lady, may your cycling future be bright. ps: you can drop me on a climb any day, I will shout yes, but it will be encouragment to you. Stick with it, the future is yours.

[Jaco-fiets]

O my goodness future champ sound like we start of with a chip on the shoulder?

 

You must be one of the pricks that got dropped by a 10 year old on the climb. Judging by your avatar you probably ride with brandy and coke in your waterbottle. Kommin!

[Mojoman]

Rings a familiar bell, did Hakahana today, my wife did the fun ride. She had problems with her chain and asked two guys passing if they could help her, they just looked at each other, ignored her and continued on their merry way. I suppose they had no idea how to fix it themselves.

You could be right, the missus bought a chain breaker and had to fix her brother's (mid 30's..!) bike a while back!

[Beefy]

It always amazes me how many knobs are on bikes giving everyone a bad name. Another example.

[nickc]

O my goodness future champ sound like we start of with a chip on the shoulder?

 

All I can assume is that you have not taken your powerful pescription medication this morning.

[TALUS]

Since most of us is in agreement about the prickness of the two morons - my question: if your 10y old is dropping you by 200m, should you get involved in any altercations? (joking)

[ValeYellow]

O my goodness future champ sound like we start of with a chip on the shoulder?

I am guessing lone and Coetzee.jacque@gmail.com (the only person like lone' thread) have been dropped by many 10yr olds - perhaps even at Northerns recently? Did you guys perhaps miss out on competing at the recent XCO World Champs and are now sulking? lone and Coetzee.jacque@gmail.com - guys, get a life, you do not own cycle parks, and you should really grow up? Maybe you should own your own cycle park, and then invite all the other knobs to come join you guys for a verbal abuse ride - should be fun? Then when the first of you idiots reach the top of your 100m climb and it has taken you 30min to do so - shout, at the top of your lungs - STRAVA!!! King Of The Mountain!!!!

 

The cycling world really does not need your bad attitude and overall *** sportsmanship, now go away, leave us true cyclists alone and go drag race your chinas in your Beemers outside the local roadhouse. And when I mean drag race, yes, I do mean wear a dress and lipstick when you do so.

[Paul Ruinaard]

Been sitting on the sidelines on this one as it developed, cause I know that the behavior here is wrong so what I am saying here is not sanctioning this at all but rasinig another question as i had a similar experience on Saturday morning which i was mulling over.

 

What happened:

 

The ABSA development kids were out there with me on the single track near the Jukskei. They are fit and weigh nothing but I could hang with them on the single track on the twisties and in fact was way faster than them in the corners - age and experience versus youthful exuberance. Twice the one kid who shot past me on the uphill overcooked it in to the corner and i passed him again. Too much speed in the tight sections and to be frank they are riding hard tail klunkers against my hardware, it was unlikely he could corner as fast as I could. However on the uphills they would catch me and yell "Track".

 

After the third kid did this I told him that he needs to learn to overtake.

 

Am I being a grumpy old fart?

 

I never hesitate to overtake someone if I am fitter than them and faster than them. Especially if I have made enough noise to ensure they know I am there. Normally on singletrack. My theory is that these kids are going to go on and race and in a race they will be faster than some folks, and you don't overtake in a race by yelling track. You have to beat the person in front of you.To do that you have to overtake.

 

So i think that the whole idea of asking for track when you are behind someone is a bit crazy. Just overtake them. Overtaking is a skill that has to be developed as well. Its not easy. It requires planning and thought to execute an overtaking move and I have often screwed it up. In a race it is often challenging and if you haven't tried to get it right in practice settings you will likely screw it up.

 

Braking later to get to a corner first, block passing or sliding a bike are all techniques that take a lot of learning.

 

Maybe I rode dirt bikes too long, but you always held your line and the oke behind had to pass you.