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[citoyen]

Gentle ribbing IS banter! Banter can be gentle, vicious, well-aimed, badly-aimed, cruel, or loving.

[ No, I'm not going to let this lie! ]

Yebbut the B-word is badly overused and is often a byword for the kind of crass, idiotic, unfunny "humour" you'd expect to be subjected to if you were down the pub with Andy Gray and Richard Keays, hence I prefer to avoid it.

d.

[eeymsmo]

EDIT - doh!  This doesn't seem to be working. It just puts up the little "picture here" icon, on my PC anyway.  I'm sure I've done this before and I can't see what I'm doing wrong. I can't find the FAQ "sticky" about posting photos. Can anyone more clued -up advise?

It looks like they're password protected. If I follow one of the links you used  - http://opa.cig2.canon-europe.com/item/onJmgYy1wqmJmawS - I get told "A user authentication error or session timeout has occurred.".

They'll work for you as you're logged in to the service.

[iddu]

EDIT - doh!  This doesn't seem to be working. It just puts up the little "picture here" icon

Your embedded URL's are incorrect (tags whitepaced for exposure)

[i m g]http://opa.cig2.canon-europe.com/item/LDukcwx2po0L1iXx[/i m g] requests user login. 
Most likely just missing relevant filename.extension, e.g.  [I M G]http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r200/iddu/20110516%20-%20Misc/DSC00003.jpg[/i m g]

[Edit: x-p with eeymsmo]

[fungus]

On the subject of distance, 25% of the rides I organise are 50km. Perhaps I should run them with a stock apology for time wasting.... 

I think the 50k rides are our most popular ones.  It's a good way to introduce kids & beginners to the joys of Audax without half killing em 
50k one year 100k the next, etcetera, etcetera .....  not everyone is capable of or has the time to train for the longer events, doesn't mean they're putting in any less effort to finish in time though.

[citoyen]

...and some 100k events, especially hilly ones, are used as training rides by roadies who would be easily capable of longer distances.

It really doesn't matter who is doing these events or why - they don't need to justify themselves to anyone. Especially not the mardy old twats you sometimes encounter on audaxes.

d.

[mattc]

I think we're in danger of fighting a threat that isn't there. At the risk of fanning the fire:

No-one is bashing sub-200k events! No-one wants to have less of them. No-one thinks you are sub-human if you haven't ridden 200k+.*

Can we move on? Please?


_{*Except possibly fboab.}

[fboab]

_{*Except possibly fboab.}

Hey, I think you're sub-human if you

• ride sub 200k events
• ride a tandem
• ride a recumbent
• have white frame, bar tape or saddle
• ride faster than me
• ride slower than me
• have a beard, brooks, or carradice
• wear a helmet, or hi-vis
• are male
• are female
• are thinner than me
• are fatter than me

I'm pretty indiscriminate in my discrimination.

[mattc]

Your discrimination is almost audacious in its breadth and range.

[fboab]

*bows*

[Ian H]

It doesn't actually matter what you think. What you shouldn't do is be rude or belittling to others.

Mind you, there are famous stories of bad-tempered unsocialised auks. One such would ride alongside a complete stranger and start a 'conversation' about how that person's frame was too small/large, saddle too high, wrong tyres, etc. He's been punched on the nose at least once in response. Nice enough bloke when you get to know him. He posts occasionally here.

[Mr Bunbury]

Ian, did anybody ever tell you that talking about yourself in the third person is the second sign of madness?

[Mr Bunbury]

N.B. The above is an example of banter which may or may not be taken the wrong way!

[mattc]

An attempt at (relative) positivity:
The internet abounds with tales of sportifs pissing off the public; with litter, wrong-side-of-road riding, clogging up popular roads, RLJing, peeing in full view of female sheep etc etc ...

(There's a recent thread on Tri-talk if you want to get upto date.)

"Audax - we're only rude to each other".

[fungus]

"Audax - we're only rude to each other".

Is that our new mission statement 

[JJ]

Does anyone on here really think that long-distance cycling (or indeed an internat forum) predominantly attracts the socially ept with a gift for empathy?  I think one needs to bear in mind that the person with whom one interacts on a ride may well need help with interactions, and one may oneself be similarly challenged, all unawares.

Right! I'm off now to learn another few pages of the phone book.

[hellymedic]

..................Plodding Pedro took a much closer one of just us - but clearly good taste, and the fear of emotional harm to sensitive readers has made sure that one wasn't published! Phew! 

That would be this one ..... 

... or perhaps this one ..... 

EDIT - doh!  This doesn't seem to be working. It just puts up the little "picture here" icon, on my PC anyway.  I'm sure I've done this before and I can't see what I'm doing wrong. I can't find the FAQ "sticky" about posting photos. Can anyone more clued -up advise?

1) Upload pic to website eg flickr
2) Determine URL of pic and copy to clipboard
3) Stuff URL between img tags by clicking pic icon and pasting URL

[Grandad]

1) Upload pic to website eg flickr
2) Determine URL of pic and copy to clipboard
3) Stuff URL between img tags by clicking pic icon and pasting URL

If you use Photobucket once you have loaded a picture clicking on it gives a menu that includes an image number. Clicking on this copies both the number and the img   "wrapping"  commands - paste this and it's a one click job..

[Manotea]

By a wonderful example of serendipity (or not), opposite the letters page is a full page article celebrating Scotland's newest Audax, The Highwayman 100km.

[Tewdric]

An attempt at (relative) positivity:
The internet abounds with tales of sportifs pissing off the public; with litter, wrong-side-of-road riding, clogging up popular roads, RLJing, peeing in full view of female sheep etc etc ...

(There's a recent thread on Tri-talk if you want to get upto date.)

"Audax - we're only rude to each other".

I was somewhat disappointed to turn up at the finish of the Brevet Cymru to give Blacksheep a couple of hours respite, fully prepared to give unconditional love and care to tired, fractious and downright rude riders, to find that  everyone who came in was in good spirits and, in the odd case, even quite chirpy. 

[jogler]

Good spirits?chirpy?
If I ever get to the stage where I can do this ride within time I expect to be bloody ecstatic at the finish...
for at least 2 minutes

[fboab]

everyone who came in was in good spirits and, in the odd case, even quite chirpy.

Freaks! I hate people like that!

[hellymedic]

When I completed the Brevet Cymru, Giraffe said that he'd never seen me so exhausted before.
He had seen me in other exhausting rides so I must have been fairly far gone.

[PloddinPedro]

Thanks iddu and eeymsmo for the advice, but I'm still stumped. I have a vague recollection that there's a size limit for any image to appear in the thread itself, so I've recopied it down to 93KB and reposted it to Flickr.

......................
1) Upload pic to website eg flickr
2) Determine URL of pic and copy to clipboard
3) Stuff URL between img tags by clicking pic icon and pasting URL

Ok, I've tried Flickr instead - the image is at http://flic.kr/p/bVkZVC which seems to work OK

But if I put it between tags to get the image embedded in this thread, I just get this:

[mrcharly]

Thanks iddu and eeymsmo for the advice, but I'm still stumped. I have a vague recollection that there's a size limit for any image to appear in the thread itself, so I've recopied it down to 93KB and reposted it to Flickr.

......................
1) Upload pic to website eg flickr
2) Determine URL of pic and copy to clipboard
3) Stuff URL between img tags by clicking pic icon and pasting URL

Ok, I've tried Flickr instead - the image is at http://flic.kr/p/bVkZVC which seems to work OK

But if I put it between tags to get the image embedded in this thread, I just get this:

Such a sweet pair, the one on the back looks positive angelic. Just proves, appearances can deceive.


That was painful.

Something screwy about Flickr. I had to get the flickr 'embed this in html' code then extract the link from that. Much prefer picasa

[Mr Bunbury]

Pedro's problem is that he's using the url for the flickr page with the image on it, not the url of the actual .jpg image itself.