When cyclists go bad.

[merc_man]

Or indeed, just a little bit off.

They can be a hot topic around here so I thought you lot would like to see how a load of them who got kicked out of my local reacted by going to the press

[Carrot]

Ooo I am in!

This thread should be as fun as the breastfeeding in public, and the smoking threads

[RizzoTheRat]

Love some of the comments

Article said:

She said: “We’d never been so insulted in our lives"
Really? Are you telling me that the worst name you've been called is smelly? Surely as a cyclist you get sworn at every day by other roads users?

[rhinochopig]

Fair enough. I tend to sit outside if I've been out for a pedal for that very reason.

[SystemParanoia]

i would have demanded a refund for my drink... and then finished my drink whilst leaving with my money. hurrah

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SystemParanoia said:

i would have demanded a refund for my drink... and then finished my drink whilst leaving with my money. hurrah

They were only asked to sit outside

[SystemParanoia]

ahh. i'd have gone outside then ... or asked if i could borrow his shower and his daughter for half hour

[Jim the Sunderer]

NeMiSiS said:

Maybe that is why they ride two abreast, so they are not down wind of each other.

It's because they're a pair of tits.

[SystemParanoia]

i go for 2-3 hr rides all the time.. i have never smelt racid tho...

yeah, there's the fresh funk of someone whos been working out.. but that doesnt stink as-such... its when you add that funk, to someone who didn't wash last night that it becomes putrefying!

[miniman]

Come on, who is "Ooh Friend"?

[alfaman]

The episode has a bit of a funny smell about it ( pardon the pun ) - [exercising on a bike etc doesn't usually cause bad BO after an hour or 2 ]

I used to regularly ride with a mid week mtn bike group when between jobs - we'd always pre-book a pub for a stop after the ride ( 10 - 15 riders usually) - never had any problems with the pub landlords - who were always glad to have a reasonable size group having lunch + a few beers, during a quiet time of the week

.. although if the weather had been really hot - we'd often freshen up before lunch , and would never bring wet / muddy gear in : if the weather was bad

[s3fella]

It's crap. BO smelly fkers dont smell of BO because they have been exercising for an hour or two. They stink because they exercised for an hour two yesterday or the day before, and have not properly washed since! Or they dont wash their lycra gussets properly.

BO is NOT the smell of sweat. BO is the smell of bacteria that grow and feed in the sweat and develop to a pungent level after many many hours.

May I just add "uuuggggghhhhhh, dirty smelly lycra clad fkers".

Edited by s3fella on Wednesday 29th September 21:21

[Rabbitinthenight]

Referring to some of the posts on that site is asking some smelly cyclists out to the front of the pub actually "racist"? Perhaps we can now refer to cyclists as a different subculture or micro-class, or would that be derogatory? - how about a religion? The New Cyclists Advocates Church! They could build Cyclic Churches (funded by the government of course) and go to church every afternoon, in Lycra(Trademark) when they're not busy getting in the way of ordinary car, bus, and lorry drivers(who incidentally pay a road fund license....room for improvement there wouldn't you say)or riding on the pavement frightening pedestrians.

Ok, I condone the cyclists who ride a couple of miles to work and back again as is their conviction to help the environment etc fair play to them. The idiots who want to pretend that they are part time Eddy Merckx and join cycle clubs when they're 50 years old wtf. What "I'm not far away from dying, I haven't done any exercise in my life I better start exercising now "mid-life crisis". Ooooh, I'll take up cycling" These are the idiots who used to drive their rep-mobiles up and down motorways and through towns frightening the commuter cyclists half to death. They then expect to drive out in their gas guzzling 4x4's and park up in the forest. Then ride their bikes on banned areas for bikes. Taking no regard for the laws of the road and wonder why they are held with small regard for their activities.

Do I really want to be accosted, when I'm trying to enjoy a pint, by some dripping, sweating, 50something dressed in thigh hugging budgie smuggling lycra shorts with a stupid helmet and sweating and panting like a rapist sitting next to me..I think not! Some of you might enjoy it though..

Edited for rant syndrome .. it's a real disease..Honest

Edited by Rabbitinthenight on Thursday 30th September 02:31

[Rabbitinthenight]

And yes before anyone says it ..I know pushbikes can't go on motorways I was merely trying to illustrate the fact that ....oh bugger (ok I give up expect flame any moment now)

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John210 said:

As one of the cyclists concerned and to redress the balance:
I did speak to the only two customers in our part of the bar who were sitting right next to us - two ladies - they were as nonplussed as us and confirmed we did not smell. I did not see any other customers.

So then they go around pestering the other patrons with their crap? I'd post it there but I can't be arsed signing up.

[KrazyIvan]

Cyclists get on high horse shocker, could be worse, they could be horse riders nopw they really do stink.

[Parrot of Doom]

Good, the filthy sods probably hadn't washed their clothing for that day. I cycle all the time, and I only ever start to smell if I wear garments that haven't been washed.

[merc_man]

Apparently The Sun has picked up on this now. Good grief.

Spoke to a couple of customers in the pub last who were there when this happended. They confirmed the godawful stench emanating from these silly sods.

[Mojocvh]

"but said they had barely taken a sip of their coffees and beers "

Hmm, indeed.

[Carrot]

I can't find the link (don't have time, working), but I do remember a televised one a while ago about a woman who got told to leave a tour bus because she stunk of BO.

It went to TV, and the tour company apologised etc, however they could not find any one of the other passengers that were willing to testify that she didn't stink.

Another great victory for lack of personal responsibility there, don't bother washing, and when you get told - just claim harrasment. ££ in the bank right there!