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Sign found by Twitter user @trivers1985Biggin Hill resident rails against ‘lycra louts’
At least one Biggin Hill resident seems to have taken against ‘lycra louts’ and has gone to the trouble of putting up a sign informing local cycling clubs that they are not welcome. The person responsible feels cyclists block roads and pollute the countryside ‘with orange plastic signs’ – a reference to the route markers used in organised cycling events.
The sign was discovered by cyclist and Twitter user @trivers1985 at the top of Westerham Hill near an Indian restaurant called Shampan At The Spinning Wheel.
Come across this while out #cycling in #bigginhill this morning while out on a #cycling did make me laugh 
pic.twitter.com/5jvDqVyXpE
— rivers (@trivers1985) October 16, 2014
There is an obvious irony in putting up a sign to object to people putting up signs. Twitter user, @Binstedman, suggested to @trivers1985: “you should have taken it down to keep them happy” while @greycells commented: “the temptation to stick a more honest notice about pollution would be too great.”
Reporting on the story, the Sevenoaks Chronicle are running a poll asking: 'Do you think cycling clubs are a menace on our roads?' At the time of writing, 63 per cent of respondents had answered 'yes'.
They and the person who put up the sign will be disappointed to learn that all three routes on next year’s London Cycle Sportive will tackle Biggin Hill. With the sportive having been sold out both this year and last, hordes of ‘lycra louts’ are pretty much guaranteed. Details pertaining to signage along routes are not yet known.
Alex has written for more cricket publications than the rest of the road.cc team combined. Despite the apparent evidence of this picture, he doesn't especially like cake.
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Frankly that's as bad an attitude as the original poster guy.
There are plenty ASSHOES in clubs as well as on Sportives.
And last time I looked, they were usually marshalled, they may also have a lead car.....albeit with a long strung out 50 mile tail.
Having done a bit of both, club events cause trouble with other traffic, just because they do, Sportives seem to cause more grief between riders as they aren't schooled in group riding.
I'm also getting increasingly pissed off by the way some clubs seem to expect individual riders to vanish as they pass, we aren't all gringos.
Asshoe? Is that a tool for clearing the arse of weeds? A boon for the ageing club and sportive rider I'll be bound.
Plonker, sportives are great demonstrating how many cyclists there are in this country. No one is racing accept their own limitations.
Mass events are very well supported by locals cheering cyclists on, well that was my overall impression of the thousands who lined the ride london event this year.
Plonker, sportives are great demonstrating how many cyclists there are in this country. No one is racing accept their own limitations.
Mass events are very well supported by locals cheering cyclists on, well that was my overall impression of the thousands who lined the ride london event this year.
Interesting use of words claiming ownership over the roads. If the ride organisers have council permission to put signs up and someone takes them.down is that not vandalism at best and possibly even outright theft. Shows who the real louts are doesn't it
Blocking our roads?!?! What a fuckwit! Might be going out of my way to go to Westerham a lot more!
Voted multiple times and will email the rag with some choice comments
I thought it was an excellent bit of laminating though.
Haha! Yes. I have voted multiple times. All you need to do is refresh the page in Firefox on a Mac.
Cyclists are an easy target for the NIMBY bullies! Like all bullies they are not prepared to show their faces or leave the comfort of their cars.
Now 80/20 for the No vote.
I'm looking forward to the follow up story.
4 hours later it is 90/10.
Pathetic and laughable as it is, it still represents cyclist haters pure and simple. Hate for the sake of hate. I'm not sure if its jealousy, the "your not like me therefore I hate you" mentality, or what. But its the attitude we see all too often of hating for no logical reason whatsoever.
We are an outgroup. Wearing lycra and cycling on the road somehow brings out some people's prejudices. Replace 'lycra louts' with olympic athletes or marathon runners and it seems pathetic and churlish. Change it to a persecuted minority and it takes on a more sinister tone. Yet, like the horn-leaning punishment pass drivers, none of them would dare to behave in the same way towards a group of 6'8" rugby players on the street. They are all cowards really.
Its so laughable its a joke. However replace "Lycra Louts" with the name of Wing Commander Guy Gibson's Dog and the Police would have been all over this 3 mins after the sign went up. Funny how its acceptable to be abusive and belittle certain minority groups but not others.
I'm starting to think there should be some sort of direct action group to start standing up to these bullies, meeting fire with fire so to speek
I was slightly disappointed to not find a "VOTE UKIP" at the bottom.
Some old tosser's winding the residents of SevenOaks. Just because they can't ride themselves they want everybody else to stop riding as well.
Just found this:
http://www.sevenoakschronicle.co.uk/Anger-aimed-lycra-louts-polluting-Bi...
Feel free to vote, I won't say anything for fear of accusations of bias.
EDIT: Don't know whether you can vote more than once either.
You can vote multiple times. Either use a different browser or clear your cookies
Well-known shortcoming of Polldaddy.
re: voting multiple times - or copy the web address, go Incognito (Private Browsing, etc) and fire away as many times as you like. Like shooting the proverbial fish in a barrel.
They might get suspicious when the no vote passes 100%. Yes, I'm really awesome at maths
How are they going to differentiate between lycra louts and lycra niceys?
Lycra louts have cans of cider in their bottle cages.
Guess I'll go back to polluting the countryside and slowing everyone down in my car then
If that was near me I'd print out 200 orange arrows and stick them all over that pole - except for the part where his notice is.
Or maybe I'd point the 200 arrows at his notice, and below them stick another notice that said "COCK".
Oh dear another spineless coward that wants to rant & rave with anonymitiy by posting signs, internet comments or hiding locked inside their car.
It is about time that the Police started charging these anti social moron's who seem to think that others are not allowed to use "their roads" with hate crime, after all that is what it is. That would start getting these bully's attention.
Arrows?...What Arrows.....? I didn't even see the Indians.......
....or should that be Indigenous American Population....? All too PC for me.....
No arrows. You 'erd. No f'ing arrows.
the irony.....
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