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Conference noted::bicycle

Title:	Bicycling
Notice:	Bicycling for Fun
Moderator:	JAMIN::WASSER

Created:	Mon Apr 14 1986
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	3214
Total number of notes:	31946

2301.0. "Race excuses" by MASALA::GGOODMAN (Born Victim) Mon Jun 08 1992 16:07

    
    
    	OK, let's all be honest now. How's about posting your worst excuses
    for doing badly in a race.
    
    	One I heard on a local midweek race was of a rider who had been
    hammered when expected to break the course record. His was that he lost
    a minute after pulling his wheel which made him lose his rythym. No one
    had the guts to point out to him that he was riding vertical drop outs.
    Pull the wheel, and it falls out the frame...
    
    	One from the Scottish 25 Champs on Sunday that I was timekeeper for
    came from another local rider (Fife produces some whingers*) on how a
    car following his minute man stopped him from breaking the hour (he got
    a 1-0-11). Of course it was asking too much for him to pass the car as
    well, and had nothing to do with the extra stone that he's carrying...
    
    Graham.
    
    * WHINGER - (whin'jer) adj. Old Scots word for one who moans a lot.

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
2301.1	FROM MY PERSONAL ARSENAL	WMOIS::GIROUARD_C		`Mon Jun 08 1992 16:31`	15
	Although I personally prefer to use the word "explanation" rather than excuse, I'll divulge a few of my favorites: o Stomach Flu o Just tired - Overtrained that week o Beer the night before o Couldn't thread up - too many squirrels in the pack o Missed a shift o Pulled too long o Just adjusted seatpost, or stem height, or saddle distance, or new shoes, or (insert favorite equipment excuse here) o Frame of mind bad - didn't want to do the race anyway Chip
2301.2	wheel fell off	NOVA::FISHER	Rdb/VMS Dinosaur	`Mon Jun 08 1992 17:04`	6
	I knew a fellow who explained, after a poor time trial, that his front wheel's quick release hadn't been tight and his wheel fell off. I couldn't bring myself to asked how he avoided being bruised. ed
2301.3		MOVIES::WIDDOWSON	Its (IO$_ACCESS\|IO$M_ACCESS) VMS	`Mon Jun 08 1992 17:07`	11
	I never did well enough in a race to have any form to need to defend but my favorites included `Bad eating', `over-training' and `the <expletive> of a second cat who won the race had hidden a motor under his saddle'. My current favorite (for not racing rather than doing abysmally) is that the weather (or workload if the weather is good) doesn't let me spend enough time training... On a related issue there was also the persistent rumour of the 3rd cat (in france there are a lot of 3/4 cat races) who always managed to do just enough to not get promoted into 2nd.
2301.4	can't use 'age'	NOVA::FISHER	Rdb/VMS Dinosaur	`Mon Jun 08 1992 17:09`	4
	Yeah, and it's hard to use 'age' when the 10 guys in front are all older. :-) ed
2301.5	Mysterious puncture	MASALA::GGOODMAN	Born Victim	`Mon Jun 08 1992 17:34`	7
	No one ever thrown their spare tub/inner tube over a wall and claimed to have punctured. Never used it myself of course, just asking... :*) Graham.
2301.6	Waste of a good excuse...	SUSHI::KMACDONALD		`Mon Jun 08 1992 18:03`	6
	> -< wheel fell off >- Came close to seeing this one used - in fact the guy's front wheel DID come off, and he crashed pretty bad, but he caught the pack again and won the race, so didn't need to use the excuse. Seemed a waste to me :-) ken
2301.7		MOVIES::WIDDOWSON	Its (IO$_ACCESS\|IO$M_ACCESS) VMS	`Mon Jun 08 1992 18:04`	3
	I have heard it said of a certain international-level downhill ski-er that when training (by cycling up Iseran) he would drop to the back of the group, then off it and then would mysteriously puncture....
2301.8	Tri-excuses	ODIXIE::RRODRIGUEZ	R-SQUARED	`Mon Jun 08 1992 18:16`	0