Rate My Aero

Send us your cycling and bike pics for praise and critique. Points for aero, style, kit, location..... 0-10.

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Send us your cycling related pics.
Just your bike, or with you on it too.
Funny, serious & anything in between, we will rate the best ones sent in and score them 0-10 on -
• style
• kit choice (matching for group)
• location
• aero
• position
• gurning
• bike
#ratemyaero

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Upright position ❌
Baggy jersey ❌
Wooden bike ❌
Non aero frame ❌
Quiff ✔️
Steely look of determination ✔️

A good effort but this toddler clearly has a lot to learn.
Kids must be made to use the drops at an early age, get aero grow faster.
A future 10/10!?

Overall 3/10

[Hａｒｒｙ Bｕｔｔｅｒｗｏｒｔｈ @hbscouse]

@Alice_Staniford @RateMyAero Consider it done 😃

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Kit match ✔️
Helmet/back gap ✔️
Blue skies (rare) ✔️
Flat numbers ✔️
Riding on nose of saddle ✔️
Front rider diff helmet ❌
Lined up ❌

Yea yea we know it’s mid change hence not a nice straight line. Front rider needs a matching lid for a near perfect score.

Overall 8.5/10 💪🏻

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Position ✔️
Helmet/back gap ✔️
Euro Bare hands ✔️
Stealth bike ✔️
Concentration ✔️
Bike/kit combo ✔️
Crazy long aerosocks ❌

As close to perfect as it gets. Half the length of the oversocks to lose a watt and gain a point 💪🏻

Overall 9:10

[Neil Lauder @Lauder82]

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Wheel/bike colour combo ✔️
Bidon colour ❌
Deep sections ✔️
Stem pointing up ❌
Sign wonky ❌
A love of overgrowth ❌
Aero rear light ✔️

Overall 4.1/10 for bants 😉

[Thomas Jacob @TJacob793]

@RateMyAero Let me give you better photo I'm not happy with a 4

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Nice fence ✔️
Good road paint ✔️
Nice kerb ✔️
Being one of the worlds most vile creatures ❌❌❌

If we could rate this at minus a billion it would not be enough.
Hopefully we can rate it low enough he ends up in the depths of hell.

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Happiness ✔️✔️✔️
Glove/jersey combo ❌
Not enough/any bike in pic ❌
Good mirror of sunglasses ✔️
Charity ride ✔️
On the wheel ✔️

If this was rate my happiness on a bike, then we have a strong contender.
However I think the photographer forgot about the bike 🙄

Overall 5/10

[Dan Young @danyounglol]

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Deep sections ✔️
Blue skies ✔️
Stem pointing up ❌
Too much foliage ❌
Chainset/mechs lost to nature ❌
Good colour combos ✔️

Bike looking good, marks down for upturned stem, however too much background, grass and not enough bike.

Overall 4/10

[Thomas Jacob @TJacob793]

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Sent in by Darth Sidious.

Flat back ✔️
Jersey/shorts/bike combo ✔️
Unaero cape ❌
Aero helmet ✔️
Level of evil ✔️

Top marks for Mr Vader here, great position and kit/bike match. Long cape will only add drag and get caught in the chain, loosing serious marks.

Overall 5/10

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@mattlimacher
Aero lid ✔️
On the drops ✔️
Lining it up ✔️
No gloves Euro style ✔️
Matching shoes ❌
Concentration ✔️

The shoes are the only minor criticism and what stops a perfect 10! Fluro would have made this the 100%.

Solid 9/10

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Sent in by anon.
Jersey/shorts combo ✔️
Sock colour ❌
Sock length ❌
Arm warmer/glove match ✔️
Socks 3 sizes too big ❌

From the knees up this is an 8-9, however socks too big for feet, and total wrong colour.

Overall 2/10

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Helmet/Jersey/bike combo ✔️
Euro No gloves ✔️
Banking over ✔️
Helmet number!? ❌
Parting the clouds ✔️

Another top effort.
Banking over, lined up behind always scores highly.
Overall 9/10

[Ralph @Ralphbert_]

@RateMyAero Racing Ralph

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Jersey sleeve length ✔️
Attacks following behind ✔️
Jersey/shorts combo ✔️
Sunshine ✔️
Grass verge needs a trim ❌

Top bombing here. Added points for the attacks following behind.
If only the shoes were black, pink or blue, would have been full marks 💪🏻

Overall 9/10

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Jersey/bike combo ✔️
Cable/chainset/etc colour match ✔️
Spacers above stem ❌
Saddle - bar drop ❌
Happiness ✔️✔️✔️

Solid effort here. Attention to detail on matching bike component colour and jersey colour is superb.
Marks down due to steerer tube length.
Overall 8/10

[ᗩᒪIᑕE ᔕTᗩᑎIᖴOᖇᗪ @Alice_Staniford]

@Lee87Charles @RateMyAero @cycling_weakly_

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Sportive numbers unaero ❌
Shorts/glove combo ✔️
Bin bag rain cape ❌
Eyewear choice ✔️
Out in all weathers and loving it ✔️

Marks lost for unaero numbers, and flappy rain cape. Gabba it up and get low!!! 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
Top marks for getting out there.

Overall 4/10. https://t.co/treKdCvIJ6

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Patriotic helmet ✔️
Shoe/sock/shorts/jersey/bike/helmet combo ✔️
White arm warmers ❌
Not looking where you’re going ❌

kit/bike combo is just superb, take note people.
Slightly marked down due to white arm warmers,which would look like a tramps underpants when wet.
Overall 9/10

[Tim Bailey @chunkiebailey]

@RateMyAero Please be gentle,TT up the rhigos mountain. Hurting quite a bit a this point 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🚴🏻‍♂️😂

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Pink jersey ✔️
Scenery ✔️
Matching bike/bar tape combo ✔️
Clothing/bike combo ❌
Blue sky ✔️
Scenery (again) ✔️
Sunglasses wearing the rider ❌

A solid effort, 10/10 for scenery, points lost for bike/clothing miss match.
Overall 7/10.

[JimRidesBicycles @miniboyjim]

@RateMyAero Cheap Chinese kit, second hand Italian bike..having the in-laws living in Croatia...couldn't be happier.

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Jersey sleeve length ✔️
Shoe/sock combo ✔️
Sportive number not aero ❌
Concentration level ✔️
Slight yellow/green clash of jersey/bike ❌
Decent position ✔️

Overall 7/10. The sportive number takes off points for serious aero neglect.

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Aero bodysuit ✔️
Aero gimpsuit ❌
Matching sunglasses ✔️
Matching shoes ❌
Man bag ❌
Bike “paint job” done with tape? ❌
Bravery ✔️
Ability to breathe ❌

Overall 2/10 #ratemyaero

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@Lee87Charles
Head position on point ✔️
Little ring for descending 😱❌
Sock length ✔️
Shoe sock combo ✔️
Deep sections ✔️
On the brakes ❌
Blurry fast background ✔️

Overall 8/10