The people at my work have started stopping me in the hallway or sticking their heads around my office door to talk to me, babbling over my magazine in the canteen. All because of these guys.

I want it to go back to the good old days where they just thought I was weird for wheeling my bike down the corridor or wearing funny shoes and ripped denim shorts. Now I am supposed to be a font of knowledge for them all to sup at.

Guess it is good for cycling, but I do have some boring bastards where I work.

Anybody noticed similar at their jobs?

yep... my boss who dislikes my cycling asked me to explain the velodrome sprints he was watching today. AND informed me about the new velodrome in London.

Yeah, it's a pain in the arse isn't it?
Damn them and their success.
How I long for the years of dismal failure...

Better they're interested in cycling in a good way rather than hating you for clearly being better than them :)

One of the mags I work for organised a track day for architects at Herne Hill the other week... One particularly annoying colleague now likes to impress me with her knowledge of track cycling history cuz she's had to research it for the article they ran, she doesn't even own a bike... I think it's all good tho', the GB cycling team deserve the recognition...

There's only 3 of us at work and we all cycle, one is a motorcyclist. None of us, however, can fathom the Madison!

I'm the only cyclist here *sob*
City cunts.

Surely there must be some triathletes amongst the super-driven city-types?
They are kind-of cyclists..

don't worry, it'll all be back to normal* by next week.


*"cyclist cunts getting in the way, running red lights, should be forced to wear numberplates etc"

Nobody here cycles either.
A bugger trying to set up ride2work.

3 cyclists in my firm: Me, Mr Hybrid and Mr Brompton.

I seem to be the only one of our trio to avoid chatting inane bollocks about the events. Not to mention the others are ill-informed and were not aware of the inability to coast on a track bike.

No triathletes here... Just rotund pundits.

No they're not. ;)

Really? Could have fooled us...

^ Zing

lucky for me my boss understands it so i dont have to explain it. do have to explain rules like falling in the first lap though.

I am the only one that cycles here, although there seem to be several from JPM (who share my addy) I still got nasty "why is she in here" looks in the lift this a.m... but i love that bit.

i got, why are they going so slow if its a race??? ;)

Building?

outed - it's totally Building.

I'm with you there.

Finally out of the closet, I think andyp wound up in one of the shots actually...

at least once a day i find myself saying, 'yes i cycle all year round, even in the winter', as if to say cycling is only meant for spring and summer.

Me and pajamas riding through New X last night after drinkies had some pissed bloke shout
"Nice one, fuck yeah, win some more medals for us lads, yes!"

Strange days.

Quality... :D

Maybe whilst the Olympics is on instead of "do a skiiiid !", people should shout that to each other...

WSMM!

Was I scrabbling around looking for lost chain ring bolts per chance? ;-)

I spent ten minutes of an otherwise dull meeting this morning explaining what the different races are, and why Chris Hoy doesn't do the Tour de France. It was way better than the agenda. There's about 50 cyclists where I work, but we are down to two fixers (from a peak of four) me & a bloke with a genesis flyer. There are a couple of hardcore roadies (a cat 1 and cat 3) and a guy who's done a sub-10 hour iron man, so there's no shortage of people to talk hubs with.

I didn't give them the chance. I always end up babbling non-stop about the Olympics for about 15 minutes as soon as I get in (a combination of post-commute euphoria and a current obsession with the contents of Laoshan velodrome). It's embarrassing - I've long considered myself post-national, above patriotism, and utterly uninterested by sport. Yet here I am...

post-national? so nations don't exist?

if thats true then i don't need to worry about the home office changing the form i need to fill out.

loads of my fellow couriers have suddenly started talking expertly about track racing but mention Bruno Risi to them...

all I get all day is opinionated comments on the races, especially on the sprint races:

"that was a really slow race"
and
"the one who's behind always wins"

still. I can't complain as they all drive BMW's and 4x4s in the home counties...

We have a couple of 60 inch screen and a skybox I try and get the Frenchies, Germans, Polish, Russians and Italians to get interested in the British track team but then there eyes glaze over and they just yawn and the Russian goes back to watching the occupation of Georgia. We have one Italian though who was an indoor track champion which is kinda cool he loves my HHSB..;)

This morning all the British paper are going on about cycling its like the old mother country woke up and realised that we are actually good at something!

Ha! Indeed! I'll try and post the feature up later... I think it's you, anyway...