{"id":1922,"date":"2020-09-08T15:21:16","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T15:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/ie\/?p=1922"},"modified":"2020-09-08T15:21:16","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T15:21:16","slug":"how-to-recognize-a-keen-road-cyclist-in-the-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/ie\/2020\/09\/08\/how-to-recognize-a-keen-road-cyclist-in-the-crowd\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Recognize a Keen Road Cyclist in the Crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Watch out for these signs that will tell you that your new account manager is an avid road cyclist.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>1. He looks like a jockey, but doesn\u2019t have the faintest idea about horses.<\/p>\n<p>2. Every other week, she survives a near-death experience with a lorry.<\/p>\n<p>3. He&#8217;s happy to eat pretty much anything as long as it contains some pasta, a banana or a combination of both.<\/p>\n<p>4. You can bet she can get up from the ground and carry on doing whatever his boss tells him to do despite having a scraped elbow, swollen eye and broken ribs.<\/p>\n<p>5. Her resting heart rate is similar to that of a dead person.<\/p>\n<p>6. He&#8217;s absolutely OK with being home alone, standing in front of a mirror dressed in close-fitting clothes.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1924\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1924\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2020\/09\/pexels-nishant-aneja-2517923.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1924\" src=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/14\/2020\/09\/pexels-nishant-aneja-2517923-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Road cyclist\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/14\/2020\/09\/pexels-nishant-aneja-2517923-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/14\/2020\/09\/pexels-nishant-aneja-2517923-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/14\/2020\/09\/pexels-nishant-aneja-2517923-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/14\/2020\/09\/pexels-nishant-aneja-2517923-272x182.jpg 272w, https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/14\/2020\/09\/pexels-nishant-aneja-2517923.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1924\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Can you recognize a road cyclist in a crowd?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>7. Instead of cogwheels and food, she says cassette and nutrition, and knows what those mean.<\/p>\n<p>8. Despite his firm decision to avoid talking about cycling, he attempts to explain the latest stage of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.letour.fr\/en\/\">Tour de France<\/a> news to the attenders of a barbecue party who are watching a football match.<\/p>\n<p>9. Even her latest spurt to the restroom is kind of a challenge.<\/p>\n<p>10. Strange-looking metal racks are permanently attached to either the roof or rear part of her car.<\/p>\n<p>11. Unlike your average man, he can distinguish 50 shades of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2020\/01\/10\/would-you-dare-to-draw-on-a-carbon-fibre-superbike-worth-31500\/\">carbon<\/a> (fibre).<\/p>\n<p>12. The tan lines on his arms and thighs are so prominent it seems he miraculously survived a scary atomic bomb test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch out for these signs that will tell you that your new account manager is an avid road cyclist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":1930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"global-categories":[],"class_list":["post-1922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-road-cycling"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.3 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How to Recognize a Keen Road Cyclist in the Crowd -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch out for these signs that will tell you that your new account manager is an avid road cyclist.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/ie\/2020\/09\/08\/how-to-recognize-a-keen-road-cyclist-in-the-crowd\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How to Recognize a Keen Road Cyclist in the Crowd\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Watch out for these signs that will tell you that your new account manager is an avid road cyclist.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/ie\/2020\/09\/08\/how-to-recognize-a-keen-road-cyclist-in-the-crowd\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"\u0160koda We Love Cycling - 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