Are you one of these cyclists?

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Are you one of these cyclists?

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Let me know in the comments :D :D :lol:

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I've sen a few that fit some of the stereotypes.
They forgot the plodder.
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Where are these supposed cycling types seen, then? Not come across any of them in, oh, decades and decades of cycling. Perhaps they only exist in Youboob land, where every little thing is exaggerated with a Great Big Exaggeration Amplitude Knob, often applied to the Made-Up-Stuff product that somehow gets in to, then out of, the cameras.

If one is unwise enough to bring up the Youboob frontpage on the computer screen, there's a series of clipped images of various animated boobers included, most of whom seem to be doing a Vast Gurn and a Big Point with a Finger at summick. The boobfest may be a barometer of the degree of infantilism within a society, perhaps? Or is it one of the causes?

I mean - there's childlike and then there's childish, eh? :-)

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Cugel wrote: 26 Jan 2023, 11:44am Where are these supposed cycling types seen, then? Not come across any of them in, oh, decades and decades of cycling. Perhaps they only exist in Youboob land, where every little thing is exaggerated with a Great Big Exaggeration Amplitude Knob, often applied to the Made-Up-Stuff product that somehow gets in to, then out of, the cameras.

If one is unwise enough to bring up the Youboob frontpage on the computer screen, there's a series of clipped images of various animated boobers included, most of whom seem to be doing a Vast Gurn and a Big Point with a Finger at summick. The boobfest may be a barometer of the degree of infantilism within a society, perhaps? Or is it one of the causes?

I mean - there's childlike and then there's childish, eh? :-)

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Nope .They all look to fast.
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No women in the clip, and the only one similar is the nose diver.
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I just wish I hadn't watched that - now the youtube algorithm is going to start recommending more gurning youtubers rather than my usual fare of videos of weird and interesting folk renovating rusty things.
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briansnail wrote: 26 Jan 2023, 1:17pm Nope .They all look to fast.
Their eBiker certainly isn't. Fasting, that is.
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Cugel wrote: 26 Jan 2023, 11:44am ...
where every little thing is exaggerated with a Great Big Exaggeration Amplitude Knob
Wait 'til you see some stand-up comedy.
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