Seriously Funny

[ny biker]

I wonder how many of these I've violated. Like the bags, and the shoes, and the pedals...

Silly you, spending your time riding your bike instead of worrying if your socks are the correct length and color...

[Owlie]

Silly you, spending your time riding your bike instead of worrying if your socks are the correct length and color...

I'm starting to think the "roadie" world is like middle school.

I'm just going to go back to riding in my not-quite-matching socks.

[zoom-zoom]

Rule #25...that's my fave!

[jessmarimba]

I will always violate rule #37.

As someone who grew up wearing glasses for as long as I can remember, it feels absolutely wrong to have anything underneath them. It even bothers me if my hair is stuck under the arms.

The socks/shorts rule cracks me up.

[Owlie]

I will always violate rule #37.

As someone who grew up wearing glasses for as long as I can remember, it feels absolutely wrong to have anything underneath them. It even bothers me if my hair is stuck under the arms.

The socks/shorts rule cracks me up.

I agree that it's more comfortable to put the helmet straps over them. On the other hand, DBF has a lot of facial scarring from his bike crash, and most--if not all--of it was from his glasses. Granted, the glasses he had at the time were the kind with very flexible frames. Given what happened, most other frames would have broken, but his actually twisted and dug into his skin.

[TrekTheKaty]

I'm starting to think the "roadie" world is like middle school.

I'm just going to go back to riding in my not-quite-matching socks.

I road with my sunglasses outside the helmet straps today. Surely that is the one thing that I was missing before--now I'll be part of the hip crowd.

I started wearing the visor on my road helmet last summer. I got tired of squinting for hours at a time during hot sunny summer rides, and I have enough brown splotches on my face. I don't care who is pointing and laughing at me.

I was just starting to take myself too seriously and was going to buy a helmet without a visor! Thanks for the reality check, NY

The best part is--DH showed this to me because he thought it was funny--BUT he takes quite a bit of this seriously He hangs out on bikeforum.com after all

I'll add #38: You use a handlebar bag or rack! My itty-bitty black handlebar bag drives my husband CRAZY (funny he's always digging in there for something)

[OakLeaf]

hahahahaha

I don't consider myself a snob at all and happily violate many of those rules ... but I have to say I looked askance when a woman showed up at our evening club ride (30-ish miles) on her brand new carbon Felt with a GINORMOUS handlebar bag (so big that it turned out later the reason she was slow was that it was dragging on her front tire ).

What in the world does she need in there for a two-hour ride? (If she were a photographer I might give her an SLR camera with two or three lenses ... which would've fit ... but that would be too heavy to carry on the handlebars anyway.)