CyclingTips article: Forget the Velominati’s Rules, you’re not doing it wrong

[Kalahari Vegmot]

It’s hard to pinpoint the exact moment I started hating “The Rules” and everything they represent.

As time has passed and The List has gotten longer (and painfully more earnest), an insidious thing has happened: More people have started to take the document, and what it represents, too seriously.

In a 2015 interview, a Velominati cofounder bragged that “The List” was generating 850,000 pageviews a month. (To me, the habit of these guys calling themselves the “keepers” of The List is too pretentiously lame to approximate an inside joke.)

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Read the full article on CyclingTips: https://cyclingtips.com/2017/03/commentary-forget-velominatis-rules-youre-not-wrong/

[Theunissa]

Mayne i should go do some road races with my safety shoes, torn and stained baggy shorts and back pack with almost everything you need to fix a bike and enough water for a group and rent it out to broken down riders. I see a new business in my future

 

 

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[Yusran]

I'm generally not one to post on hub threads, but in this case I absolutely could not agree more.

[porqui]

Kalahari Fightermoth  --   CHILL !!

 

Come ride with me.

[Brickleberry]

ALOT of cyclists are knobs. Some are rad , find rad ones , and ride bikes with them.

[EvanB]

If they aren't complaining about Trump, now the 'list' is an issue...

[Cippo]

I like the 'Rules'.

[BigTom]

"Back when they first emerged — founders Frank Strack and Brett Kennedy launched in 2009, I think"

 

Quite sure "the rules" have been around longer than 2009.  Anyone know for sure?

[intern]

The Rules are the Rules. They do not pertain to 'cycling', as some have narrowly (and mistakenly) interpreted them. They are a blueprint for a Happy and Successful Life. Follow the Rules, Always, and you shall be Prosperous and Content.

['Dale]

I don't like rules ????

 

And The Rules are important

It's inspirational

It's about tradition

About customs and ways within a unique culture

 

Use it loosely

Laugh about it

Chirp your cycling buddies about being scared of wet roads

 

Don't turn it into dogma

Don't be an arsehole

[BigTom]

I don't like rules

 

And The Rules are important

It's inspirational

It's about tradition

About customs and ways within a unique culture

 

Use it loosely

Laugh about it

Chirp your cycling buddies about being scared of wet roads

 

Don't turn it into dogma

Don't be an arsehole

Well said - think the author of the article should read your post! 

[Cippo]

I don't like rules

 

And The Rules are important

It's inspirational

It's about tradition

About customs and ways within a unique culture

 

Use it loosely

Laugh about it

Chirp your cycling buddies about being scared of wet roads

 

Don't turn it into dogma

Don't be an arsehole

Well said.

I don't impose the rules on others.

Each to his own.

[Cippo]

"Back when they first emerged — founders Frank Strack and Brett Kennedy launched in 2009, I think"

 

Quite sure "the rules" have been around longer than 2009.  Anyone know for sure?

The webpage says 1995.

[porqui]

We are the Keepers of the Cog. In so being, we also maintain the sacred text wherein lie the simple truths of cycling etiquette known as The Rules. It is in our trust to maintain and endorse this list.

[intern]

I don't like rules

 

And The Rules are important

It's inspirational

It's about tradition

About customs and ways within a unique culture

 

Use it loosely

Laugh about it

Chirp your cycling buddies about being scared of wet roads

 

Don't turn it into dogma

Don't be an arsehole

You see, even this is provided for in The Rules:

 

Rule #43 // Don’t be a jackass.

 

 

But if you absolutely must be a jackass, be a funny jackass. Always remember, we’re all brothers and sisters on the road.

 

 

Remember, without rules, all we have is chaos. Without The Rules, all we have is chaos on the road and off of it (and silly long knickerbocker socks, also chaotic).

[bikebloke]

"Back when they first emerged — founders Frank Strack and Brett Kennedy launched in 2009, I think"

 

Quite sure "the rules" have been around longer than 2009.  Anyone know for sure?

 

"the rules" on their website may have been around since 2009 ...whoopee for them (and their commercialization of everything worthwhile )  

 

the cycling traditions that they have adapted to their use have been around a lot longer and

lots of those traditions where taught to many of us as junior riders by older riders way before 2009 or 1995

 

without history and tradition we  have nothing to build on