lol - i used to be a roadie and some of them are weirdo's - they have this thing about mountain bikers being unfit, posers in their baggy shorts n muddy t-shirts.

I can't really explain it.

I think that riding on the roads mile after mile just makes people turn into loonies lol.

A mate of mine entered a road race and at the starting line, cos he didn't have shaved legs people started murmering, watch out for the mountain biker etc etc.

Weird culture.

Another mate of mine was an ironman tri-athlete and he used to ride his mtb into work each day. Everytime he saw a roadie he used to specifically make sure that he blew the guy away - nothing more humiliating than a roading being blown away by a mtb'er.

I think there was a lad back in the 90's called Dave Baker or something - he was a MTB pro rider. He used to go on road training runs for endurance work, he would purposefully catch up the lads who were out training as a team on their road bikes, sit with them for a bit and then just fuck off up the road making them look slow, all the time on his knobly tires etc lol

RW