Grrrr! I hate this too. You'd want to hope that the guy has a cupboard full of trophies to back his loud mouthing.
When I used to run the downhill scene here I had many "next big thing" kids that would have the full backing of their overpaid parents. These shithead kids would do shuttles all day long with the mother driving too fast up & down the shuttle road just to jam that extra lap in that would make the kid world champ. They had no basis to exclaim the skill of the kid other than doing an actual bike race and most of them would show up acting all that and get fucking towelled by washed up beer drinkers
. The Strava fucking comes along.
Every fucking douchebag on earth now thinks they are gunning for rainbow striped just because an inaccurate app that records your movements from a satellite 2,663,278km away says you are faster than a guy who did the same ride vaguely 3 years ago. Ha, fuck of losers. Again, do a bike race. Anyway, I had one super jerk who had the super jerk mother to back him. I've got a closed track prepping it for a big race and this cock of a kid rolls up to me asking if it is cool to ride the track. I say nope, get the fuck off the fresh work and never ride closed stuff you snotty little prick. And yeah, I've got signs up and the track is blocked. This is the kind of kid that bought a $7,000 bike from a shop and got a free tyre so he could mention the store on is shit social media. He then puts GoPro videos online of him riding and speeds the footage up. He posts on pages saying to watch this space as he's pretty goo, h's coming for your trophy etc etc. Next thing the Mum walks onto the fresh stuff I've built sucking p to me asking if I can introduce the dumb fuck kid to the Aussie coaching staff so he can get a headstart on being picked for a team. I don't tend to keep my thoughts to myself and I told her to straight up fuck off. She was pretty taken back by it so I let her have it. I said I wouldn't help a kid who exclaims how good he is but has never actually done a fucking thing and rides B lines slowly. I said to do the next race and actually show what he claims he's worth. I also said to turn that ridiculous false Strava shit off as it's frying his brain. She disagrees and says Strava is accurate and can't be cheated. Ha! Idiot.
The bike race comes along, he brings the whole family including the cousins and the neighbour and the sister's family to witness the success. Some of my races attracted some of the quickest cats in Australia for a simple clubby and sure as shit this kid talked the talk in the shuttle bus. Idiot. We had about 15 elite guys that day and two elite girls plus all the punters just enjoying a day. We did two timed laps and you pick the quickest time as your result. I intentionally gave him a race plate that meant he'd go first in the first run so he could watch every single person go faster than him. They did and sure as fuck the mother steps in in front of everyone at the timing tent to have a bitch about the timing saying "he looked heaps quicker than those guys" pointing towards half of the Aussie junior team racing in T shirts. I cackled at her and suggested she plugs his GoPro into the laptop screen and we all watch his run and count the time. She backed off and said "he'll beat the whole fucking lot of you wankers" and storms off
The degenerate family looked so distraught. Next run kicks off and based on how you finished the first run is where you start. Sure enough he comes second last after one of the quick kids bins it. Mum makes fucking scene before the podium at which point a Dad of an actual quick kid says to plug his GoPro in and lets see just how fast this shit talking kid rides. Now don't for a second think the 16 year old kid is hard done by here, he is a complete fucking cockhead and needed this lesson. She keeps chucking wobbly and demands we look at the Strava times of the people on the day. Another lesson here is to look before you leap folks. His Strava time is within a few seconds of the race run time and the times for those that ran Strava on the day are the same and he's well off the pace by a good 30 seconds. She hangs around for the podium stuff and booed at the first kid. The dad of the podium kid got shirty and got her to leave. A few days later she emailed the boss of the club lodging a complaint. Guess who the boss is and guess who is the only one that sees those emails? Yeppo; me. She never got the gist of the situation and I never EVER saw them again doing anything relating to bikes. They got the bike six months prior and I found out they demanded a refund from the shop saying the bike wasn't as fast as the brochure says. They got no refund and tried Fair Trading etc. Fair dinkum, this is what Strava and a dickhead mother did for this kid and I was pretty chuffed I played a good hand in shutting them down. Fucking degens.
