The HoT (TM) is now the most popular Friday morning ride in Canberra, as evidenced by this morning's numbers. However, there are a few rules you may want to follow if you are aiming to feel welcome at the HoT (TM).
The HoT (TM) is not a ride where you can sit in and get a free ride. You are expected to roll over and pull a turn every once in a while. If you don't want to pull a turn, stay at the back and stay out of the way.
If you want to take a position, it is not acceptable to point at a gap that is about half a wheel wide and pull in to said gap, causing everyone else to take evasive action.
To Boy George - we have no respect for a guy who pulls one soft turn all morning and then dominates the sprint. The HoT (TM) was designed to make the weak strong, and the strong stronger. Pull a freaking turn! Leave that sort of tactic for Wednesday or Thursday night, not in a training ride.
If you want to know how a newcomer should treat the HoT (TM), you need look no further than Andrew Circosta. Pulls turns at every opportunity, and then pulls again. A true champion.
That is all.
21 comments:
sounds like sour grapes to me.
One soft turn eh? Weren't looking in the mirror were we?
'Brethren' - like most women - I don't think you know what you want, pull a turn, don't pull a turn, stop attacking bla bla bla.
Dominate the sprint - I call it being there at the end, unlike you were.
Open a can and guzzle.
There you go, got a bite.
Dear Boy George,
If you don't like it...don't ride with us.
With love
Wayno
It’s about time someone used the correct spelling of my name when impersonating me. I like it
thats not how you spell my name!
I new the culture club was a bit girly, but I didn't think they were this woosey!
Wasn't the culture club that was bitching and moaning last wednesday as well?
Wasn't there only one culture club member there this morning? He didn't dominate the sprint...
You Gaylords are on drugs if you think that every one rolls through on the HoT......it's a dogs breakfast, and there is always a group sitting on the back.
Who are QUON? Are they the ones dangling off the back wearing blue?
You're quite correct, the HoT HAS become a dog's breakfast and there IS always a group sitting on the back. That is fine - those guys are working their butts off just to hang on (which is what the HoT is meant to be about). The problem lies in when these riders roll through and either pull a soft turn or try and come thru but don't have the legs. Basically, there are now too many people doing this ride for it to work properly. It worked perfectly when there were only about a dozen guys there (except for Doodle who would bomb on through at a million miles an hour!). This morning's ride sucked as there were more than 20 doing it and one hero A grader who did nothing all ride and saved his pennies for the sprint - as the post said, that should be left for racing and not the HoT
OMFG sooky sooky la la. whoever wrote this you need to dry your eyes princess. this post is a load of bollocks - except for the part about the guy in light blue sitting in the middle of the paceline doing nothing. that culture rider was doing more than the swarm of quon sitting on. in fact there was only 3 1/2 of you doing anything the whole ride.
hang on - last time we had a few of the band members there, there were no quon left at the end of the ride apart from a recently departed west aussie burglar.
I thought the ride was great, really good all round. Sure some struggled a bit and some weren't quite sure what to do but I had a great ride. Much better than the other Friday ride. Stop being so precious you cry babies.
tender love & passionate kisses,
Flouroboy
Fuck its hilarious hearing cyclists talk like hard men. You'd all be 65kg wringing wet. Couldn't bust the skin on a custard but talk it up like you're the next Mike Tyson.
Man up the lot of you homos
More like 55kgs with my clothes on you homophobe!!!
You forgot to include the saddle and bridle there Randwick...
hater of cycling poofs - if you are reading this you must have either come along to the HoT this morning or be a cyclist yourself - would this be a fair assumption?
You don't have to be either to recognise poofery.
Skinny little men who cry at the first sign of real aggro. Go back to living with your parents you bunch of homos
If you think we are poofs don't post - after all, only homos would associate with us..
I've come a long way from Adelaide - The HoT IS the Shambles - get it right!
I don't associate I just leave messages for you fags
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