Idiots at the CTCT

[Pure Savage]

Would be so cool to have a Zwift group. Have them start at 2A and watch them diesel their way past all the 'racer' groups. Hehe.

I think in real life they would get to hospital bend and end up in a pile. Also found zwifters develop a deadly allergy for the front of the group into the wind. They get to about 3rd wheel see their watts climb and then are unable to roll through and freeze in third wheel.

 

To be fair, some people are just geared for mtb vs road. Same for zwift I guess

[RocknRolla]

Without the OP knowing, this thread title was quite prophetic.

[SwissVan]

why do so many people struggle to click the multiquote button? how do you even ride a bike if you can't click the bigger button next to reply?

People are quick to complain about fun riders and etiquette, wrong and right, but can't even make use of contemporary software and online etiquette.

Modern times and people use their phones

No multiquote button, no like button

????

[Kranswurm]

Modern times and people use their phones

No multiquote button, no like button

 

There is a like button....although its disguised

[CAAD4]

That seems to be the issue, we tend to forget that some guys aren’t there to have fun, they are there to race. They may not win anything, but most of them are racing to beat their mates, or their own PB, or whatever reason they feel they need to give everything.

 

Chasing that PB may be the closest that person might ever come to achieving something in his life, it may be something that he has spent his whole life attempting to achieve. Just maybe, for that split second when he crosses that line and he realizes he has done it, he is the happiest he has ever been in many years. And while it seems ridiculous to a lot of us, always remember that your circumstances are completely different to others and how you go through life and experience it is different to anyone else.

 

So just take a step back next time you wonder why someone is going full on from 6C, or someone who is doing 7 hours from 2A.

OH the drama. I thought I heard violins.. Spent his whole life to achieve, at the world fun ride Champs??

 

Friday fun.

[SwissVan]

There is a like button....although its disguised

Only for the Ultimate members?

[Long Wheel Base]

Only for the Ultimate members?

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[DieselnDust]

OH the drama. I thought I heard violins.. Spent his whole life to achieve, at the world fun ride Champs??

 

Friday fun.

 

 

Yes some have the theme from Chariots of Fire playing in their head the whole way around. 

everyone starts somewhere so achievement is relative. This years Fun Ride World Champs PB is next years Cape Epic Conqueror. Everyone's different 

[Dirkitech]

Modern times and people use their phones

No multiquote button, no like button

The mobile site doesn't have multiquote? Interesting, thanks for teaching me that I don't have the luxury of using my phone during office hours and every other time, the phone isn't on me.

Also, I apologize for any phone users I may have inadvertently insulted!

 

By the way, the modern era ended around 50-200 years ago.

[Tim Brink]

Yes some have the theme from Chariots of Fire playing in their head the whole way around. 

everyone starts somewhere so achievement is relative. This years Fun Ride World Champs PB is next years Cape Epic Conqueror. Everyone's different 

I had Romancing the Stone, from about Glencairn all the way to the bloody finish. Thank you, Long Wheel Base.

[seven]

why do so many people struggle to click the multiquote button? how do you even ride a bike if you can't click the bigger button next to reply?

People are quick to complain about fun riders and etiquette, wrong and right, but can't even make use of contemporary software and online etiquette.

 

 

The mobile site doesn't have multiquote? Interesting, thanks for teaching me that I don't have the luxury of using my phone during office hours and every other time, the phone isn't on me.

Also, I apologize for any phone users I may have inadvertently insulted!

 

By the way, the modern era ended around 50-200 years ago.

 

Why do you always have something condescending to say about forum users?

[Mamil]

Post of the day!!

 

Without the OP knowing, this thread title was quite prophetic.

[Kranswurm]

I had Romancing the Stone, from about Glencairn all the way to the bloody finish. Thank you, Long Wheel Base.

Love on the rocks....

[Eldron]

Why do you always have something condescending to say about forum users?

It's really contemporary and modern to be condescending ;-)

[dirtypot]

I think in real life they would get to hospital bend and end up in a pile. Also found zwifters develop a deadly allergy for the front of the group into the wind. They get to about 3rd wheel see their watts climb and then are unable to roll through and freeze in third wheel.

 

To be fair, some people are just geared for mtb vs road. Same for zwift I guess

 

Don't paint all Zwifters with the same brush.  I Zwift a lot, and I did plenty of pulling at the front of my group for long sections at a time (very very small breakaway group) into the wind. 

[Shebeen]

Why spend the 3k on a compact crank for two overcrowded fun rides a year? I don't mind riding single figures on my bike, even though it seems to bother you. You see I'm not racing, I'm riding and enjoying myself.

Thanks for pointing my point out, you should be enjoying your bike and not having the right gearing is going to get in the way of that.

I don't think someone spending big cash on a bike is going to baulk at the cost of a second crankset, (even if they didn't just swap it out at purchase).

Argus course is not that hilly, so if you can't ride your bike up those hills then you're going to battle all year round (unless you live in holland)

 

So Sagz is super popular, and has surely sold a megatonee of S-Works that are in triple figures at the tillpoint.

 

let's check out his bike from TdF 2018

https://www.bikeradar.com/road/gear/article/tour-de-france-bikes-peter-sagans-specialized-s-works-venge-gallery-52597/

 

according to this handy little tool http://www.gear-calculator.com/

gearing - 54/42 and 11-28 cassette

now the slowest speed of that bike - @ 60rpm is 13km/h

 

ok, but he's a sprinter and probably swaps out his cranks and cassettes for the hilly stages, right? So let's look at froomedawgs Dogma then

http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/chris-froomes-giro-ditalia-pinarello-dogma-f10-x-light-gallery/

http://src.media.cyclingnews.com/2018/04/19/1/img_7034.jpg

the speed of this bike at 60rpm = 11km/h

52/38 with an 11-30

 

edit:not saying guys who ride superbikes are idiots, i just think they should match their gear ratios to their ability