Author Topic: audaxspotting (inevitably)  (Read 32500 times)

rogerzilla

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audaxspotting (inevitably)
« on: 18 May, 2009, 08:16:34 pm »
Choose life.  Choose audaxing.  Choose mudguards.  Choose Brooks.  Choose a fucking big saddlebag, choose a map trap, choose route sheets, choose XR, RB, S/O and dynamos.  Choose rain, wind, sleet and snow.  Choose the only type of bike that never gets stolen.  Choose Sudocrem.  Choose a lucky hat and a gilet that went out of fashion in the 1980s.  Choose flapjacks in a range of fucking flavours.  Choose a 600 and wonder what the fuck you're doing up a Welsh mountain in the dark.  Choose sitting in a village hall trying not to make eye contact with your mind-numbing, spirit crushing fellow riders, drinking orange juice out of a Tetrapak.  Choose rotting away at the end of it all, babbling about the 50/50 rule in some urine-soaked bus shelter, nothing more than an embarrassment to the fucking sportives they spawned to replace you.

Choose your future.  Choose audaxing.
Hard work sometimes pays off in the end, but laziness ALWAYS pays off NOW.

Re: audaxspotting (inevitably)
« Reply #1 on: 18 May, 2009, 08:18:45 pm »
Very very good!   ;D

Chris S

Re: audaxspotting (inevitably)
« Reply #2 on: 18 May, 2009, 08:26:18 pm »
Quick - someone grab a Gimp/Photoshop-a-like, the original Trainspotting artwork, and some cycling shirts. I feel a new AUK shirt coming on...  :thumbsup:

Hell I'd wear one. And that's more than can be said for (a) the YACF shirts and (b) the current AUK shirts.

Re: audaxspotting (inevitably)
« Reply #3 on: 18 May, 2009, 08:30:06 pm »


There you go :)

rogerzilla

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Re: audaxspotting (inevitably)
« Reply #4 on: 18 May, 2009, 08:31:30 pm »
I think it's very very wude and the ladies who make the tea wouldn't like it  ;D
Hard work sometimes pays off in the end, but laziness ALWAYS pays off NOW.

Re: audaxspotting (inevitably)
« Reply #5 on: 18 May, 2009, 08:32:55 pm »
if you could get it embroidered onto a badge, I'd stitch that to the back of my carradice  ;D

Chris S

Re: audaxspotting (inevitably)
« Reply #6 on: 18 May, 2009, 08:34:26 pm »
Arrrgh! I Want One NOW!

Shirt, sticker, badge - whatever.

chris

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Re: audaxspotting (inevitably)
« Reply #7 on: 18 May, 2009, 08:40:56 pm »

Chris S

Re: audaxspotting (inevitably)
« Reply #8 on: 18 May, 2009, 08:42:31 pm »

chris

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Re: audaxspotting (inevitably)
« Reply #9 on: 18 May, 2009, 08:46:03 pm »
if you could get it embroidered onto a badge, I'd stitch that to the back of my carradice  ;D

here, but if we're going for a batch then perhaps we should moderate the language a bit (but they will print anything!).

Re: audaxspotting (inevitably)
« Reply #10 on: 18 May, 2009, 08:49:17 pm »
Thats two tee shirts we're gonna have to do now :thumbsup:

Re: audaxspotting (inevitably)
« Reply #11 on: 18 May, 2009, 08:52:13 pm »
In the YACF stylee and without the use of f words maybe? 

iddu

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Re: audaxspotting (inevitably)
« Reply #12 on: 18 May, 2009, 08:59:38 pm »
Arrrgh! I Want One NOW!

Shirt, sticker, badge - whatever.

Yes!!! +1.
You'll be starting a clothing sweatshop in yer garage next  ;)
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Andrij

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Re: audaxspotting (inevitably)
« Reply #13 on: 18 May, 2009, 09:03:47 pm »
 :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
;D  Andrij.  I pronounce you Complete and Utter GIT   :thumbsup:

simonp

Re: audaxspotting (inevitably)
« Reply #14 on: 18 May, 2009, 09:09:44 pm »
That needs to be made into a jersey.

Pls to also make a fixiespotting one.

Re: audaxspotting (inevitably)
« Reply #15 on: 18 May, 2009, 09:16:57 pm »
I'd buy that shirt!
Garry Broad

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Re: audaxspotting (inevitably)
« Reply #16 on: 18 May, 2009, 10:08:29 pm »
Could it not be engraved on Hummers' gusset?
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zzpza

Re: audaxspotting (inevitably)
« Reply #17 on: 18 May, 2009, 11:40:06 pm »
a new jersey design?

LEE

Re: audaxspotting (inevitably)
« Reply #18 on: 19 May, 2009, 10:23:21 am »
Excellent.

Remove the expletives or insert aserisks (because I suspect it may affect its chances of being published) and submit to Arrivee immediately.


"Choose Frijj Milkshakes on a Garage Forecourt"

rogerzilla

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Re: audaxspotting (inevitably)
« Reply #19 on: 19 May, 2009, 05:51:09 pm »
I wanted to work garages in there somehow, but it would have involved food and I *had* to have the orange juice and village hall.

But no, I wouldn't wear it or associate my name with the potty-mouth language version  O:-)
Hard work sometimes pays off in the end, but laziness ALWAYS pays off NOW.

red marley

Re: audaxspotting (inevitably)
« Reply #20 on: 19 May, 2009, 06:53:45 pm »
I like the Frijj milkshakes on a Garage Forecourt addition.

For what it's worth, I just don't get the 'no eye contact in a village hall' thing. I don't think it's my sense of humour failure, but I've just not noticed anything like that on any audax (maybe I need to make more eye contact). The rest is great though.

rogerzilla

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Re: audaxspotting (inevitably)
« Reply #21 on: 19 May, 2009, 07:43:01 pm »
It's a stereotype and, like all the best ones, it's made-up.  All audaxers are miserable sociopaths, y'see.
Hard work sometimes pays off in the end, but laziness ALWAYS pays off NOW.

border-rider

Re: audaxspotting (inevitably)
« Reply #22 on: 19 May, 2009, 07:44:39 pm »
Check out the eyelines in the first photos on the BCM pics thread :)






rogerzilla

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Re: audaxspotting (inevitably)
« Reply #23 on: 19 May, 2009, 07:51:11 pm »
 ;D  ISWYM
Hard work sometimes pays off in the end, but laziness ALWAYS pays off NOW.

Re: audaxspotting (inevitably)
« Reply #24 on: 19 May, 2009, 07:59:21 pm »
Arrrgh! I Want One NOW!

Shirt, sticker, badge - whatever.
I'd buy it. A cloth badge would be perfect. I'd buy one for each Carradice cotton duck bag I have, so there's a couple of sales already.
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