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You Might Be A Cycling Poser When:

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    3_days
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    YOU MIGHT BE A CYCLING POSER WHEN:

    1) You customize your bottle holder in order to accommodate Jack Daniels or Jim Beam bottles ...

    2) In bright yellow, and on the buttocks of your cycling shorts, it reads "JUST DO IT."

    3) Your biggest crash came while riding no-handed, trying to count to "7" with your fingers while riding at 25 mph ...

    4) You pay your friends to dress in costumes, and to run along side you and cheer while you climb the local hills ...

    5) You use performance enhancing drugs to help you "get in" your MONTHLY 25 miles ...

    6) You shop around for the lightest ashtray to mount onto your handlebars for those times when you can't get out of the saddle to smoke ...

    7) You swear your frayed "painted on" jean shorts from the 80's are more aero than any cycling shorts out there ...

    8) You have ever taken your $4,000.00 road bike through a McDonald's drive-thru ...

    9) You repeatedly try and bet the neighborhood BMX kids that you could beat them in a race ...

    10) You shave your cycling legs religiously but style your hair and beard to be "just like Willie Nelson ..."

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  2. davidd86
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    Dunno. The main thing is something you see from 500 yards away, at least here in NJ: they're pushing much too big a gear, their knees are splayed too wide, and their elbows are splayed too wide. It's amazing how easy it is to tell if you're coming up on an experienced rider, totally regardless of their bike and outfit. If it does not look like a regular roadie, I will hang back and wait for an opportunity to pass giving him or her a very wide berth. If they are an experienced rider, I will usually cut it closer as they are far less likely to veer and it is extremely annoying to have a car tailing you unless you know why it is there.

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  3. crb189
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    There's already a fairly lengthy message thread on this subject. Search "Poser" and you'll see it, it's by frenchcycling, or some name similar to that.

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  4. Sublime99
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    when you post a post like this when there is one already.

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