Back-stabbing among/within Cycling Clubs

kerry4sam

Okay now it's not often something would tick me off when Cycling, however, perhaps someone can shed some light please:

~ Up in Galway over the week-end for Croí and I was privy to slagging and b**ching about club-mates (not being up to par) and other clubs within same county being insulted also, just for being ANother club.

Club-'mates' were being insulted in my ears; but had their hands shook then without them knowing what was said about them previous to me.

Is this is norm within clubs? Are people that cut-throat & back-stabbing?!

It seriously ticked me off and put a real dampner on my w/end having to listen and see this. I never went to Galway for any negativity, but this is what happened.

If this is going on about club-'mates' , I can only imagine what was said about me then when this back-stabbing was so evident.

The sportive in question was tough enough for me personally on numerous levels, but this was something I didn't want to be involved in.

Are club-'mates' normally like this with each other? It just ticked me off and just left a bad taste in my mouth over the sportive I was attending. Felt I'd have been better not meeting anyone from any club there.

I did meet one gent in particular though on my cycle who whose own Dad went into work one day & never made it home (passed away in Hospital after a massive heart-attack and who he himself had a minor one some years back). It was that character that made my w/end being honest. Nothing negative; nothing insulting; just pure honest and genuine.

Thanks,
kerry4sam

Zyzz

Insulted in what way?

trihead

Are you sure they weren't 'taking the piss'? Slagging gone a bit ott?

on_the_nickel

Couldn't even imagine such goings on.

XtotheZ

Sure arnt there people like that in every walk of life

ROK ON

Sseriously.
Is this a genuine query or a p1sstake. I genuinely don't know.

Raam

ROK ON wrote: »

Sseriously.
Is this a genuine query or a p1sstake. I genuinely don't know.

I love you Rok On.













Total wanker that Rok On fella.

Lumen

Sometimes I am polite to someone in my club and then I think about what I would like to do to them behind their back.

Is that what we're talking about?

Raam

Lumen wrote: »

Sometimes I am polite to someone in my club and then I think about what I would like to do to them behind their back.

Is that what we're talking about?

Do you ever entertain these thoughts?

Lumen

Raam wrote: »

Do you ever entertain these thoughts?

They mostly entertain me.

Unknown Soldier

Seve Ballesteros -

“I look into their eyes, shake their hand, pat their back, and wish them luck, but I am thinking, 'I am going to bury you.”

that's someones sig on boards... I can't remeber who though...

DirkVoodoo

OP I think you've been watching too much Game of Thrones or House of Cards.

I don't know who said what about some fella out west, but one club slagging another is pretty much standard in any club/team and is normally taken in good spirit.

Again, no one else here was present and we only have your version of events, seems like a bit of a pointless thread.

Oh and that Raam, never liked him, typical Northsider.

CramCycle

If my club mates didn't insult me or speak ill of me I'd fear for their general intelligence.

buffalo

CramCycle wrote: »

If my club mates didn't insult me or speak ill of me I'd fear for their general intelligence.

It's not just your clubmates tbh.

manwithaplan

Lumen wrote: »

Sometimes I am polite to someone in my club and then I think about what I would like to do to them behind their back

Is this about sexy stuff?

Because my clubmates are all incurably ugly.

But I love them really.

The cnuts.