London Fixed-gear and Single-speed

is that Australian humour?

I prefer Les Patterson, now he was funny

Fucking savages.
She was only marginally funny in Fast Forward.

It's clearly meant as humour, if we can't laugh at this kind of shit then we really are the smug eco warriors people see us being...

Have you ever been to Australia? That ^ is serious or will be taken as such.

I know it's not the most cycle-friendly place on earth...

I'm going to let this go on balance for the pure joy this sketch brings into my life

Just what I want to see when I've woken up. Two burly women shouting at each other.

I can safely say that a large proportion of drivers in Australia need no encouragement! Since moving here I have pretty much been heckled, honked at and almost killed on a daily basis, and hit twice (and that's lucky considering the number of near misses I encounter each day as a courier). I've been called a faggot so much I'm starting to believe it. Do they know something I don't? There's a few cars around with 'anti-spandex' stickers, which feature the no cycling symbol.

But to be fair there are also a lot of roadies here, and a lot of people who stop you in the street to ask about your 'fixie'.

Mmm faggots.

I reiterate: Fucking savages

I lived there for 10 years and fucking hate that country.

If you weren't interested in footy, cars and surfing you don't exist in their spectrum of expected behaviour.

The amount of times I had people try to run me over when out skateboarding or cycling(even mounting the curb sometimes whilst I was skating on the pavement).
Numerous occasions having shit thrown at me from passing vehicles, including beer bottles..
People taking swings at you just walking through town with a deck under your arm.

A land of fucking, fucking, savages.

Nice beaches and weather though.

... its not even funny, why are people laughing..... mabye i should write into the sun ranting about cars driving in the middle of lanes or bike lanes, instead of the lane which tax payers money went to and jumping reds. They can look at my sweaty arse, i have to breathe in cars fumes and see their fugly fat faces. This shouldnt even be on TV, IF i was on TV and advised anybody to try and purposly cause anyone injury or death what would happen!? RAGGEEE!!!!!! =D

happening now
On Bike Victoria's forum 13 pages in 48 hours regarding that performance.
Not a good career move considering her new show is not rating

OMFG! Im in college and just LMAO for like 5 mins at that, it hurts now. any info on it? is it gunuine?

I actually love these. As a kid Mum would cook my sister and I faggots, mashed potato and peas. Delicious.

weekly satire, recent past episodes are here

I wouldn't go that far. There's just a lot of silly people out there. But the nice ones equal it out by being very nice.

Plus the opposition you get kind of reinforces the love of riding and makes the scene that much tighter.

I guess I could be mistaken for the one on the left.

That is just my 10 years of experience having to deal with every thug-bogan and surfie-dickhead.
People driving v8 cars on massively wide roads that still couldn't share or take a precious few seconds to allow you to clear an intersection.
I skateboarded, rode for pleasure and worked as a courier from '95 to '98.

I believe London roads to be far safer on the whole than Australian.

I spent a weekend in Lugarno once; we were practically ushered in and out of town by big foreheaded locals playing Dueling Banjos.

Mrs Potato Head gets angry over nothing. The menopausal sausage lover.

why were they shouting like it was some kind of evangelical gathering?

Mrs Potato Head! hehehe. When I was in Australia I really noticed that no one gives a shit about cyclists, or aboriginals. Other than that it's a great country.

I'm not offended by the sentiment. I am offended by how moronic and unfunny it is.

she was born in liverpool

Boring and unoriginal. I just wish these people knew a little more. Oh well. Cycling is increasing, and one day hopefully people will be rather better informed about it.

I hope she realises that kath and kim was the only funny thing she will ever create and slips further into the quagmire that is obesity due to excessive comfort eating.

I hope she pours too much vinegar on her chips.

Don't you start ... :)

check out the history!

Fuck yeah. Especially good with chips.

this sort of thing is really disappointing.

but, let's get some perspective. not even two weeks ago there was an english TV personality making similar statements in the national press. there was even a thread started on this forum saying the same thing about lycra-clad cyclists in Richmond Park. so let's not get "all the Aussies are fucking savages and racists!" about this - there are stupid, ignorant, thoughtless fucktards everywhere.

some context: Beach Road is THE main drag for serious recreational and training riding in Melbourne. On weekends it is like a bicycle freeway, and there have been incidents of bad behaviour by cyclists including one which caused the death of an old man who was struck while crossing the street. so the Beach Road thing is a bit of a magnet for anti-cyclist rage.

of course Magda is completely wrong in her point of view, and of course it's fucking stupid of her to imply that cyclists are fair game or don't deserve to be on the road. i grew up riding on Melbourne roads and i've been sworn at, had bottles thrown at me, had plenty of narrow misses, but it happens just as often in London.

It can't get any worse - ugly, Polish and Australian.

fixed.

Geee, it gets worse then

worse still, she was born in Liverpool.

oops!

I'm an australian, (living here) and although I agree there are some tossers amaongst us, there are also a lot of decent people who care deeply about our fight against racism, our indiginous cultures and our responsibilities to the rest of the worlds needy.....oddly enough these people are usually also cyclists in some form?!?!

Magda is currently an ambassador for weight loss program called Jenny Craig here in Australia. I have joined their forum and made them aware of her little rant and the obvious contradiction to her current employment.

I'm sure she will have some explainging to do as our countries obesity problem is Second only to the US. I will also be contacting our minsiter for sport to request an apology from Jenny Craig and Magda.

Keep up the good work fellas,

*yawn*

*yawn*



It was a joke, and a shit one. There are fuckwits in every country. Lets not get our knickers in a twist.

twisty knickers.

Twisties FTW! They shit all over Quavers.

Good luck then! I'm Polish, an ugly one, nurtured by Australians, married to a Black Brit, so I can say what I want and it's not going to be racist :-P But I'm still a fattist, me!

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/nati...1001-gd4w.html

Magda to participate in national Cycle to Work Day... wearing lycra.

Awesome, maybe she can lose some of that fat...

Maybe Australia is wonderful now, was shit when I was there.

Have a fuckin Redskin, mate.

nuff said?

cannot work out why the fuck you stayed for 10 years if they disliked you so much there?

calling it a land of fucking savages - jesus. i've lived in a few places around the world and could shit on all off them but i also see good points in them all. though some (not you it seems) show respect to them and their differences.

yes - he is world champion.

ma3k is a good dude, texas. no need to fire up too much. but we melbournites need to remember that our city is pretty different to some other parts of australia. that's why i like it...

Thank god.

Everytime I start to think Australia is a place I might want to visit some day some twit has a rant against cyclists or I meet Balki again and realize I can save hundreds of pounds on airfare.