So anyway, i check the stats to see what and how and why people are washing up on the esoteric and niche shores of traumfahrrad dot com. And low and behold, i was getting a bit of ‘traffic’ from some sort of ‘banter’ forum. You can read the thread here, or I’ve pasted it below. It’s comedy gold.
by Gnostic Ascent @ Thu Nov 01, 2012 11:31 am
by nakedninja @ Thu Nov 01, 2012 11:43 am
Careless Whisperer @ Thu Nov 01, 2012 11:53 am
TKF @ Thu Nov 01, 2012 12:47 pm
by TKF @ Thu Nov 01, 2012 12:53 pm
by Gnostic Ascent @ Thu Nov 01, 2012 3:45 pm
TKF wrote:Also, how aidsy do most of them look?
It’s all about power to weight ratio going uphill. The aidsy bloke with the beard has a blog. Read this article about dropping weight off the bike and then about dropping weight off himself. Extreme.
Ghost @ Thu Nov 01, 2012 4:41 pm
Gnostic Ascent wrote:
TKF wrote:Also, how aidsy do most of them look?It’s all about power to weight ratio going uphill. The aidsy bloke with the beard has a blog. Read this article about dropping weight off the bike and then about dropping weight off himself. Extreme.
“The specialist nature of the task and the event appeals to that latent autism that all men possess.”
You will be featured in the Guardian at the weekend if you keep this up!! I have been telling to shave that beard off for ages
Hope you didn’t take offence at our comments? No malice was intended. As our humour can be very dry it’s easy to mistake it for abuse.
None taken. Made me laugh. There’s some fairly dry comments buried in here amidst the niche techno manorexia.
It’s actually a compliment to a hill climber if you tell them they look emaciated/ill/aids-struck. It suggests they’re on form.
Since Sunday I’ve put on about 70kg.