Thank you for all your interesting replies, having given a general opinion and explained what I have seen at a bike show, and then being showered with personal abuse and even called a psychopath and threatened with physical violence says everything about those who ride electric bikes. It’s the kind of behaviour you get in a children’s playground, where abuse is their only way of expressing themselves.
I save my violence and abuse for the rugby field, which is where it should remain. All the teams have a drink together and discuss the match, and there is tough criticism and some very strong micky taking of each other but none of us start crying.
Your replies have given us all much fun and amusement. I printed out your replies and put them up on the notice board in our club bar and persuaded the landlord to let me read them all out over the PA. We ran a competition to see who’s was the favourite. The wining reply got a free pint. I drank the pint.
Standing on a chair I read them out and everyone cheered to give each of them marks out of 10 and depending on the loudness of the cheer marks were awarded. The results were fairly predictable, with the abusive ones getting the loudest cheer.
Everyone loved the psychopath one, it got a big cheer. The whole place was singing psychopath, psychopath, psychopath, it got good marks.
With the one threatening violence, they all were urging me on to take you up on it, with the rest of the team promising to nurse me afterwards in case I got hurt, but don’t worry your safe, I don’t do that kind of thing. I get plenty of scrapping on field but that’s all part of the game we all enjoy.
The clear winner and the one with the longest and loudest cheer was the one suggesting that “me and my kind” were responsible for the decline in ordinary people cycling. Statistics from ACT show a consistent increase in ordinary people cycling over recent years and this was given a further boost by the London Olympic Games. But why stick to facts when being a barrack room lawyer and spouting any old nonsense is more fun. I’m sure he will be able to find proof that if we have much more of this awful “cycling for sport business” that soon there will be no more ordinary cyclists left on our roads at all.
Better tell Team GB and all our world class and club cyclists to stop it immediately, in case they upset someone on an ordinary bike.
So standing on a chair with the winning reply taped on my shirt I drank the free pint for you. Down in one, with everyone cheering me on. It was a boisterous night, we all agreed that must do it again.
You clearly all live in your own little world of electric bikes where any criticism is taken incredibly seriously and won’t be tolerated. So I ought to be “terribly, terribly” sorry if I’ve upset you, but now I know how delicate you all are, I promise to upset you all again.
I did say there would be no more posts from me, and regardless this will definitely be my last one, despite being egged on by the boys to stick at it, but I am looking forward to receiving the next lot abuse from you all.
If I have time I’ll publish them all elsewhere on the internet as well, so everyone can read them and find out what you people are really like, and of course they’ll be used for the next “Who can be the most abusive” competition, we loved it, it made a great evening.
I save my violence and abuse for the rugby field, which is where it should remain. All the teams have a drink together and discuss the match, and there is tough criticism and some very strong micky taking of each other but none of us start crying.
Your replies have given us all much fun and amusement. I printed out your replies and put them up on the notice board in our club bar and persuaded the landlord to let me read them all out over the PA. We ran a competition to see who’s was the favourite. The wining reply got a free pint. I drank the pint.
Standing on a chair I read them out and everyone cheered to give each of them marks out of 10 and depending on the loudness of the cheer marks were awarded. The results were fairly predictable, with the abusive ones getting the loudest cheer.
Everyone loved the psychopath one, it got a big cheer. The whole place was singing psychopath, psychopath, psychopath, it got good marks.
With the one threatening violence, they all were urging me on to take you up on it, with the rest of the team promising to nurse me afterwards in case I got hurt, but don’t worry your safe, I don’t do that kind of thing. I get plenty of scrapping on field but that’s all part of the game we all enjoy.
The clear winner and the one with the longest and loudest cheer was the one suggesting that “me and my kind” were responsible for the decline in ordinary people cycling. Statistics from ACT show a consistent increase in ordinary people cycling over recent years and this was given a further boost by the London Olympic Games. But why stick to facts when being a barrack room lawyer and spouting any old nonsense is more fun. I’m sure he will be able to find proof that if we have much more of this awful “cycling for sport business” that soon there will be no more ordinary cyclists left on our roads at all.
Better tell Team GB and all our world class and club cyclists to stop it immediately, in case they upset someone on an ordinary bike.
So standing on a chair with the winning reply taped on my shirt I drank the free pint for you. Down in one, with everyone cheering me on. It was a boisterous night, we all agreed that must do it again.
You clearly all live in your own little world of electric bikes where any criticism is taken incredibly seriously and won’t be tolerated. So I ought to be “terribly, terribly” sorry if I’ve upset you, but now I know how delicate you all are, I promise to upset you all again.
I did say there would be no more posts from me, and regardless this will definitely be my last one, despite being egged on by the boys to stick at it, but I am looking forward to receiving the next lot abuse from you all.
If I have time I’ll publish them all elsewhere on the internet as well, so everyone can read them and find out what you people are really like, and of course they’ll be used for the next “Who can be the most abusive” competition, we loved it, it made a great evening.
