May 2017
3:11pm, 2 May 2017
14,754 posts
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Atonal Miserabilist (AFKA TRO)
Apparently Glennfold it's fun.
I can think of far better things to do in the rain, such as riding up and down a dangerous dual carriageway without having washed, all for a free hot drink and a piece of bread pudding for 50p.
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May 2017
3:18pm, 2 May 2017
27,106 posts
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GlennR
Oh yes, that's exactly what a sensible person would do.
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May 2017
3:20pm, 2 May 2017
92,468 posts
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GregP
Much better off spending £12 a week to ride round and round a concrete aerodrome in the middle of a dozen or so other people whilst being rained on, in the hope that at the end of the 18-week season you'll win enough money that you'll only be £180-odd quid down in entry costs and still have enough spare cash to pay the hospital fees when the inevitable mass pile-up occurs.
See, crit racing really is the glamour branch of cycle sport.
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May 2017
3:22pm, 2 May 2017
92,469 posts
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GregP
[I won £30 last year - and it only cost £12 *18, plus £5 race registration plus £10 for the year's license. I've still got my 2015 dossard, so that saves me a tenner every year]
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May 2017
3:27pm, 2 May 2017
27,109 posts
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GlennR
How did you win £30? Spot prize for the most punctures?
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May 2017
3:30pm, 2 May 2017
11,970 posts
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Nicholls595
Someone should invent a cycling simulator. It never rains in your living room.
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May 2017
3:31pm, 2 May 2017
27,112 posts
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GlennR
What kind of tw*t would use a thing like that?
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May 2017
3:34pm, 2 May 2017
14,755 posts
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Atonal Miserabilist (AFKA TRO)
Plenty of rain on the indoor cycling simulator. Snow, a blue whale and an erupting Volcano as well. The only place where the stunning realism is a bit lacking is the Box Hill climb, where there are no wankers in cars trying to mow you down, and nobody stops at the café at the top.
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May 2017
3:36pm, 2 May 2017
11,971 posts
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Nicholls595
Does that answer your question Glenners?
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May 2017
3:37pm, 2 May 2017
92,474 posts
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GregP
Tenth in AG Glenn, purely - or at least largely - by turning up a lot.
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