Got called a "cheater" today

[mrgarci1]

Was e-biking to work as I always do, and I heard someone in the opposite lane yell out of their car window at me as they rolled past. It took me a second to understand it, but I'm pretty sure they yelled "Cheater!".

I think the irony was lost on them.

 

[dnmun]

jealousy is next to ignorance in category of 'most common human traits'.

 

[vanilla ice]

Lolz, thats hilarious. I bet they were a cyclist. Or at least I only get that kind of thing from cyclists.

 

[spinningmagnets]

Another facet of this irony, is that he was driving a vehicle rated by "HORSE-power" (was it a Pinto or Mustang?)

It could only be cheating if you used a stealth set-up to compete in a manual bicycle race. When a tri-maran won the Americas Cup sailing race (by a large margin) they were banned. When a 3-rotor Mazda rotary Wankel won the 24-hrs of LeMans, they were banned.

Ford made a high-RPM single-over-head-cam V8 engine for NASCAR, so...new rule: 2 valves per cylinder actuated by pushrods, same with turbo's, blowers, and bigger displacement.

Gun aficionados discuss the beautiful fine grain in hand-carved wooden stocks with a well-blued action, while Alaskan guides use synthetic stocks and stainless-steel actions.

The more I read about the "good old days", they were not as good as advertised in hollywood movies. There were some good points, but before those "evil" cars came along, Mark Twain said the manure and piss-stench in the New York streets from tens of thousands of cab & cart-horses was simply unbearable in the summer, especially combined with an unceasing plague of shit-flies.

 

[Ypedal]

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See comment at the very end of the video !

 

[mrgarci1]

Lol Ypedal, that's hilarious.

Yeah the guy must have been a cyclist, that's the only way it makes sense, but that's also what makes it so funny to me - like, that guy must view his bicycle as work if he views me riding mine without sweating as cheating.

 

[vanilla ice]

We've discussed this before here IIRC. Seems to me to be a pecking order ego thing. On the mup/bikelane the macho athlete guy establishes his place at the front among the other macho athlete dudes, gets blown away by old fat guy on ebike, instantly hates ebikes forever. Or something like this, you get the point.

I think you guys need "get one" stickers for the ass end of your bikes.. you know, the ole "if you can't beat em join em" persuasion. Or I guess just yelling GET ONE back at them works too.

 

[Lock]

When a tri-maran won the Americas Cup sailing race (by a large margin) they were banned.

Correction, "catamaran":
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In the world of `cycles... bans have also included wheels not made of wood, the derailleur, recumbents...

Read Toffler and Future Shock
tks
Lock

 

[317537]

Was e-biking to work as I always do, and I heard someone in the opposite lane yell out of their car window at me as they rolled past. It took me a second to understand it, but I'm pretty sure they yelled "Cheater!".

I think the irony was lost on them.

Yeah I get that and more sometimes. I get Why dont you pedal?

This over loudly stated comment often reminds me of why I like the username Ypedal. Irony lost on them is the best way to see thing, my new comback is why dont you freaking walk.

Or maybe they should cut holes in the bottom of their car floors and run the car about like in the flintstones :lol: .

Makes you wonder about laws about needing pedals and stuff.

 

[vanilla ice]

One of the reasons kick escoots are growing on me.. none of this legacy-bicycle rubbish to put up with. Cruise right past the same yelling idiots and not a peep.

 

[spinningmagnets]

"...Correction, "catamaran":..."

Lockster...you, sir...ARE CORRECT !!

And yes, I had forgotten one of my favorite examples, recumbents and fairings are banned from such bicycles races as the Tour-de-France because...they work !! (Carbon fiber? check !...Titanium? check !...aerodynamic fairing?...oh, HELL no !!)

 

[AussieJester]

When a tri-maran won the Americas Cup sailing race (by a large margin) they were banned.

YES but remeber who took it off you Yanks for the first time in 132 years i still remember the family huddled around the TV watching Australia II KA 6 take line honours in the final race and the then Prime Minister of Australia Bob Hawke publically stating on TV any "I tell you what, any boss who sacks anyone for not turning up today is a bum"" as the race was broadcast live and it was late at night/morning Ahhh the 80's good times hehee... /OT Rant (couldnt resist soz)

It is ironic a guy IN a CAR yelled this out ain't it...if your a "cheater" what that make him (other than the obvious)

Where i live in the hills twice a week (Tuesday and Thursday EARLY Morning) we have a heap of Lycras be a few dozen of them... on training run, they end up at the Brumbies bakery in Kalamunda carbo loading for the return trip to the flat lands, when i getz me new two wheeler I'm going Lyra hunting/filming... ill be hooking up the wheelchair, video camera proudly displaying my ACROD sticker in plain view(disabled parking permit) waiting on the main road into the Hills for them, will cruise up behind them then pull up next to them chook legs flapping aimlessly on the pedals, say something like "WoW thats a flash bike mate...nice garb you got on too have to get meself some of that kit" as i speed off up the hill wheelchair in tow to the Bakery for a lil "carbo loading of my own!... bet they don't have the nerve to call me a "cheat" kekekeke...

KiM

 

[Arlo1]

You lazy bugger

As they get into a elevator lol holy crap. She looks like she could take the stairs a few times more often lol!

 

[vanilla ice]

Lolzors.

 

[Zoot Katz]

When a tri-maran won the Americas Cup sailing race (by a large margin) they were banned.

YES but remeber who took it off you Yanks for the first time in 132 years i still remember the family huddled around the TV watching Australia II KA 6 take line honours in the final race and the then Prime Minister of Australia Bob Hawke publically stating on TV any "I tell you what, any boss who sacks anyone for not turning up today is a bum"" as the race was broadcast live and it was late at night/morning Ahhh the 80's good times hehee... /OT Rant (couldnt resist soz)
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KiM

I loved it when they proposed returning America's Cup. . . as a plate.

 

[AussieJester]

Would fit enough Beer in it as a mug so we thought it would be better as a plate to serve up bar snacks on at The Royal Perth Yacht Club I seen the replica of the cup they wouldnt even give us the real thing to keep LoL..


KiM

 

[dogman dan]

Heh heh, I never get called a cheater since I allways have the pedals spinning with my big front crank. But when I pass some roadies climbing a big hill, I allways call myself a cheater. Funny how the guy in a car minded you not pedaling, imagine how much more horrified he'd have been if you had on funny clothes, or even worse, had a different skin color. Sad how there's a little nazi in all of us, but we can choose to use our free will to resist that tendency.

 

[mrgarci1]

Heh heh, I never get called a cheater since I allways have the pedals spinning with my big front crank. But when I pass some roadies climbing a big hill, I allways call myself a cheater. Funny how the guy in a car minded you not pedaling, imagine how much more horrified he'd have been if you had on funny clothes, or even worse, had a different skin color. Sad how there's a little nazi in all of us, but we can choose to use our free will to resist that tendency.

Haha the only sense I can make of it is that he was a roadie that views his bike as work instead of fun. When I see someone else on a bike, I assume they're doing it to enjoy themselves. This guy seems to assume that anyone on a bike should be working, and was pissed that I was "getting away with" not doing so.

I hope it dawned on him later that he was just jealous and needed an e-bike of his own :wink:

 

[Grinhill]

Yesterday I was waiting at some traffic lights after moving right to the front of a long queue of cars. A large motorbike pulled up alongside after doing the same. He flipped up his visor and said great day for a bike ride, then see ya later as the lights changed.

I guess he didn't feel threatened as he left everyone else behind.

I still beat the first car across the intersection.