Wednesday, December 17, 2008

The Waxing Roadie-Douchization of Cyclocross

It's hard to define the lines between the road attitude, the cyclocross attitude, and the mountain bike attitude. Lots of people, myself included, belong to all three subsets. Stereotypes abound - MTBers smoke pot, roadies are pretentious, etc - but they are accepted as stereotypes, not as reality.


I think we can all agree that the fights at Nationals were not in the spirit of cyclocross. Heckling during an interview? Fistfights?! One might characterize that as fitting in the realm of Roadies. It was, dare I say it, churlish.

You know who the innocent victims were in all of this? the bikes.

Update: Can anyone please enlighten us as to what in the hell happened between Myseron and Baker? The elder Wells' blog mentions a mid-race fistfight, but that's all I've been able to find. Inquiring minds demand to know!

Update 2: Oh, I see.

5 comments:

El Serracho! said...

ludicrous. lame. regrettable.

but come on, roadies? in overalls? puhleeze.

CaptainChaz said...

Totally lame.

At least there will be a change in venue for next year. Perhaps the new location will have less drunken, overweight, plumber-crack-sporting, handmade-bike-destroying roadies in overalls.

We can only hope

Hardtail For Life said...

They heard race and thought NASCAR. You know those NASCAR fans...sorry Don, couldn't resist.

ntw said...

I just hope none of your bikes were crunched by that very large man... that's right behind the Verge trailer where our stuff was.

Andy said...

you can see my bike in the right corner! And on behalf of overall wearer's everywhere, I apologize for this idiot.