New Biker, Was recently shunned!

[Pedal Wench]

How completely rude! How can some people be so rude??? You should be SO proud that you went far beyond your previous limits - they probably could only do the 25, and their words were the only powerful things they had. Grrr. Makes me made. Especially since I have four pink bikes. Two of them are replicas of the PROFESSIONAL T-Mobile race team, and one of them with the colors of the PROFESSIONAL Lampre men's race team. Yeah - real racers race pink bikes!

Oh yeah - you didn't have a negative first-time experience. YOU rocked. THEY were the ones with the problems!

[indigoiis]

Uh, how old were these... women?

You know, the new Trek Pilot, which retails for around a thousand bucks, is pepto bismal pink. And after test riding it, I can tell ya, it's no ribbon bike.



Congrats on your first quarter plus century. Keep enjoying your fuji finest. I test rode one of those, too, and really liked it. I'm new at this, too, and appreciate the desire to be a part of things -- the nice thing about TE is, you ARE!

[bicyclulz]

Thanks for the encouragement and nice words!

I am going to try a few routes this weekend. There was this great website called babesonbikes.com and they have a few cue sheets for rides in Arlington and in the Northern VA.DC.MD Area so I am really excited!

Also.....bf is getting me to try out some clipless pedals this weekend...wish me luck in not tipping over!!!!!

p.s these women were definitely in their late 20s/early 30s and should have learned how to not be such school yard bullies!

[mimitabby]

wow, what aZZholes!

I ride a gaudy bike and I know a lot of men who do too. Please know that
most of us bicyclists are not like that!

enjoy your new bike and your new passion. I hope you meet many more bicyclists who enjoy biking enough not to make asinine and nasty comments about other riders...

[East Hill]

All I can say is--it's obvious they weren't TE ladies.

Not proper TE ladies, at any rate .

So never mind them, just get out there and enjoy your PINK bike.

East Hill

[Eden]

don't worry about people like that - they are most likely insecure and try to bolster themselves by putting down others.
Just take that pink bike out and show them what you're made of. At 5' tall and a little over 100 lbs, I do not cut an imposing figure by any stretch of the imagination and I often hear comments about my "cute little bike", but most people find rather quickly that it does not pay to underestimate me - I won 3 state championship medals this year

[silver]

don't pay any attention to these people! Up with Pink Bikes (I don't have one)

There are some really snobby cyclist out there. But I think there are soooooo many more friendly cyclists!

Where's a picture of TrekJeni's purple bike with the purple streamers on the handlebars? She can stream past most of the riders out there on that baby.

I get the snobby thing from road cyclists quite a bit, because......I'm thin, I'm a triathlete, I was riding with someone who was killed..... Then I get the snobby thing from the tri folks because I don't ride a tri bike. Oh well!

here's another pink bike thread

http://forums.teamestrogen.com/showt...ight=streamers

I could only find a picture of Jeni's bike from her wreck pics:

http://forums.teamestrogen.com/showt...ight=streamers

[bicyclulz]

Just wanted to let you all know that your words of encouragement have been amazing....

....wish me luck...i try clipless tonight!

[mimitabby]

how about this bike

[PinkPilot]

Uh, how old were these... women?

You know, the new Trek Pilot, which retails for around a thousand bucks, is pepto bismal pink. And after test riding it, I can tell ya, it's no ribbon bike.

Trust me (and the rest of us who bought this no longer available 2007 Trek Pilot 5.2 WSD, although that's a picture of the 2006 model)......she retailed for three times that!!!! And she's an all-carbon powerhouse and light as a rose petal. With an experienced rider--or maybe someone p*ssed off enough after their comments to be raging with adrenaline--she would leave them whimpering in her wake!

I'm new to cycling entirely myself and I can totally identify with you since I have not yet ridden in any event like this. I'm outraged.

There was a thread a few days ago about "motivation". Like you this past weekend, bicyclulz, I just now figured out what mine is! Ride on, FUJI Finest!!!!!!!!!