magicbastarder wrote: » i passed someone last night, also on a bike, who was smoking as they cycled. trying to find a balance between fitness and vices, maybe.
ThisRegard wrote: » Couple of years ago I used to do bootcamp sessions after work in order to get out training with a group. I got chatting afterwards one evening so was late getting trotting to my car. I caught up with two clowns, a bloke and a girl, who after doing a similar session were strolling back having a fag each.
nee wrote: » I don't get why you'd judge someone for it. It's their (admittedly bad) choice. Live and let live etc. etc.
nee wrote: » I smoked for years and maintained a very decent level of fitness. Maybe they were in the process of giving up, maybe they weren't but don't think it's fair to judge them for it! I also used to smoke on my commute home on the bike. I have given up, and have no intention of smoking again but I don't get why you'd judge someone for it. It's their (admittedly bad) choice. Live and let live etc. etc.
LollipopJimmy wrote: » Yet you have no problem judging Tri athletes! :pac:
CramCycle wrote: » Did the bike stall? That was crazy, can't believe how most got up so quickly. EDIT: Stall it was, just seen the story.looks like the race was just 12 seconds in when they came down.
Wishbone Ash wrote: » I did that for years. It was awkward in winter when wearing gloves.
magicbastarder wrote: » did it not cause the cigarette to burn away very quickly?
daragh_ wrote: » Guerciotti Khaybar My current race bike. Running Shimano 105 (new in April). Comes with Fulcrum Quattros, Look Classic pedals, Deda Carbon Seatpost and a Carbon Saddle. Italian made hi-mod Carbon Frame and forks. I've mostly used it for racing but it's very comfortable on long endurance rides.http://www.adverts.ie/road-bikes/guerciotti-khaybar/10898156
CramCycle wrote: » Even seen one person with a pipe and while, as an ex smoker, I detest it now, it did look quite elegant.
RobertFoster wrote: » I had a friend when I was a kid whose dad used to cycle everywhere, often with a pipe fixed in the corner of his mouth. Not particularly elegant, more rustic in my eyes. My memories of him include the smell of pipe tobacco, how his coat used to billow out behind him when he cycled, and how he'd point at you rather than wave as he went by.
Wishbone Ash wrote: » It was a fixie race with no brakes - probably contributed to the pile up.
RobFowl wrote: » And thought of this
Wishbone Ash wrote: » My oul lad used to smoke the pipe on the bike - it wasn't very elegant either. He also had that stale tobacco scent which I thought was how fathers were supposed to smell when I was a child.
Chuchote wrote: » I don't judge smokers. I just think they're assholes :pac:
Hager wrote: » And is that your considered opinion on anyone that is misfortunate enough to succumb to any addiction, or is it reserved solely for smokers?
Chuchote wrote: » It was a dark joke, but to answer you seriously: I'd mainly blame the government for drug addiction; it can look straight across the sea to Portugal, where a carefully thought-out and targeted decriminalisation ended the pyramid scheme that is drug sales, cut the legs from under the criminal hierarchy and returned the country to sanity As far as smoking is concerned, before Doll & Hill and the longitudinal British Doctors Study first reporting in the 1950s and the 1964 Surgeon General's Report …it might have been understandable for young people to start smoking, and to continue what we now know to be a suicidal practice. But to see young, fit people taking up smoking and justifying it just horrifies me, and lowers those people in my opinion. I don't know what addiction consists in – a frantic desire for a product, the feeling it gives? violent withdrawal symptoms if the use of the product is stopped? self-delusion about its effects? an utter inability to stop using the product?
Weepsie wrote: » Do you drink at all chucote? Ive read about Portugal and it's success but I was also offered more drugs there in 3 days last week than I was at Glastonbury which is really saying something
Hager wrote: » I'm not for one minute suggesting that smoking is a harmless pursuit or that it should not be discouraged but your above post does not explain the smug superiority that you displayed when you dismissed all smokers in an abusive manner.
Hager wrote: » I'm asthmatic. I'd give anything to have healthy lungs and respiratory system. People who deliberately destroy theirs annoy the hell out of me.
RobFowl wrote: » Saw this And thought of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTN6Du3MCgI
Chuchote wrote: » I wasn't offered drugs in Portugal.
magicbastarder wrote: » walking around lisbon on a work trip earlier this year, we were offered drugs probably ten times in ten minutes.
CramCycle wrote: » Walk around any train station in Brussels, O'Connell St in Dublin, certain parts of London. I was never offered drugs in Lisbon and I was there for a week with work. This said I have no doubt if I went looking I would find it, same as any other European city.
