Smoking whilst cycling?

mogrigg

On a few occassions, whilst approaching my destination I've notice the distinct smell of cigarettes. With only a fellow cyclist in front of me I was amazed to find that it was him smoking, whilst cycling :shock: . How can people do this?. I have just enough oxygen to keep going let alone puff away on a cigarette! Is this some additional cardio challenge I'm missing out on or just plain stupidity? To me I feel it's the later. Disgusting habit!! But I had to laugh!

JoeSoap76

Always makes me chuckle when I see people on bikes smoking. It just seems counter-productive.

Funniest 'smoking whilst exercising' situation I ever saw though was a couple of blokes who jogged past me early one morning... lycra'd up, sweat poring, clutching bottles of water in one hand... and cigarettes in the other. I chortled on that one for hours.

spen666

mogrigg wrote:

On a few occassions, whilst approaching my destination I've notice the distinct smell of cigarettes. With only a fellow cyclist in front of me I was amazed to find that it was him smoking, whilst cycling :shock: . How can people do this?. I have just enough oxygen to keep going let alone puff away on a cigarette! Is this some additional cardio challenge I'm missing out on or just plain stupidity? To me I feel it's the later. Disgusting habit!! But I had to laugh!

Is there something significant in the section I have highlighted?

Are you cycling to a cigarette smokers convention?

mogrigg

Are you cycling to a cigarette smokers convention?

Ironically, there is a tabacco factory around here!!!

Surf-Matt

I often see "surfers" (i.e. beginners!) smoking just before they get in the sea - with wetsuits on and boards under arm.

Always handy to have even less lung capacity when you get battered by a wave or two :roll:

kentristar

my friend does that - bike to him is just a mean of transportation. you will never find those people on these forums. only thing that disgust me about smoking cyclists is that I know they just throw it anywhere when finished.

attica

Did the Action Medical Research 100 miler, Bristol to London a couple of years ago, was amazed to see a bloke spark up at the Marlborough feed station.

Guess he had the wrong spelling of Marlboro!

Either that or it was some sort of bizarre "cancer offsetting" (like "carbon offsetting"!!)

trail jacker

thats probably one of the worst thing you can do to your lungs, except for smoking whilst not doing exercise....
when you breath normally (at rest) you only replace a small percentage of the air in your lungs - your 'tidal volume' is low. when you exercise, you breath deeply and replace lots of air in your lungs (about 70-85% = very high tidal vol.), so if you smoke during exercise your taking all those mutagens in the smoke down to the bottom of your lungs, so when you stop they stay there, which is terrible for the tissues that make up the gas exchange surfaces in the lungs.
...so id give that a miss

nwallace

Arrived at the summit of Glas Maol to receive the smell of cigar. Being odd in liking the smell of Pipe and Cigar baccy it was quite plesant.
Similarly someone in the hospital smokes Hamlet in the bogs.

Aidanw

The real problem is your cigarette burns down so fast as you pedal along!

Cheeky Tosser

Ive got a nice red anodised ashtray fitted to my bars. I think Hope are thinking of adding one to their product range

ThatGuyOnABike

smoking while riding is just wrong... and so is smoking. i once saw a person with a bag full of beer bottles over one handle bar and trying to smoke. looked so unstable and reckless. but like somone above said, we'll never see folk like that on these forums. they aren't cyclists, their just people with bikes.

prj45

I was on a critical mass once (the first and last after some of the behviour I saw) but the one thing that struck me was a lady with a nice bike with a basket on the front which had a notice on it that said "Stop Pollution"...


...and she was smoking a fag...

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Cyclegent

ThatGuyOnABike wrote:

smoking while riding is just wrong... and so is smoking. i once saw a person with a bag full of beer bottles over one handle bar and trying to smoke. looked so unstable and reckless. but like somone above said, we'll never see folk like that on these forums. they aren't cyclists, their just people with bikes.

Beg to differ - I used to smoke cigarettes and cycle fairly often while an undergraduate and frequently had bags of beer cans or a wine bottle slung over the handlebars as well. I eventually gave up the fags for a pipe, though I don't smoke it while cycling - too much fiddling around and relighting involved. I have seen old footage of pipe-smoking cyclists but can't understand how they kept sparks out of their eyes....

patchy

Cheeky Tosser wrote:

Ive got a nice red anodised ashtray fitted to my bars. I think Hope are thinking of adding one to their product range

I hear carbon fibre's all the rage...

ride_whenever

I've been known to have one whilst cycling around, but I'm currently having a relapse...

Sea_Green_Incorruptible

Gone are the days when it was perfectly acceptable to sneak a cheeky fag even during the Le Tour. http://photo.net/street-documentary-pho ... rum/00LWes Sigh.

I can't help feeling we've lost something somehow...

(though I had a brief moment of excitement earlier today when I thought a Garmin rider was about to spark one up, only to realise that he was opening an energy bar rather than fumbling around for a ciggy in the box...).

andrewc3142

Eddie Merkx. Smoked like a chimney and cycled pretty well too.

dondare

My Grandfather used to smoke a pipe whilst riding his bike. He told me that he burnt the bowls through doing this and had them replaced under the makers guarantee until the tabaconist found out what he was doing.

Parkey

Did anyone see the nun at the start of the London to Brighton bike ride? The one driving around a self propelling piano smoking a cigarette and proclaiming "no smoking!" in a very monty python voice.

graham_g

I'm a bit of a part-time smoker - always have some Golden Virginia in for the odd roll up (or herbal) and only smoke maybe half a dozen a week at most.
Quite agree with the smoking before/during exercise, that's a tad uncomfortable to say the least. However, it's not unusual for me to get back from a long ride and relax with a cup of tea and a roll up.

zaynan

Didn't Cippollini occasionally smoke on his training rides?

Smoking on a bike is probably no worse than cycling through the London traffic fumes!

Clever Pun

Parkey wrote:

Did anyone see the nun at the start of the London to Brighton bike ride? The one driving around a self propelling piano smoking a cigarette and proclaiming "no smoking!" in a very monty python voice.

yes with the candelabra... the whole starting area made me think I was at a festival. almost felt the need for beers and some green

chronyx

patchy wrote:

Cheeky Tosser wrote:

Ive got a nice red anodised ashtray fitted to my bars. I think Hope are thinking of adding one to their product range

I hear carbon fibre's all the rage...

That stuff'll kill you

http://www.bikebiz.com/news/29551/Carbo ... scientists

Lif30057840

Graham G wrote:

However, it's not unusual for me to get back from a long ride and relax with a cup of tea and a roll up.

*agrees.
I love these ppl who say how disgusting smoking is...do u all drive electric cars? :P

will-i-am

Postby ThatGuyOnABike » Sun Jun 29, 2008 12:00 pm
smoking while riding is just wrong... and so is smoking. i once saw a person with a bag full of beer bottles over one handle bar and trying to smoke. looked so unstable and reckless. but like somone above said, we'll never see folk like that on these forums. they aren't cyclists, their just people with bikes.

you are ignorant. I ride, i drink, and i smoke, often simultaneity.

I volunteer weekly at a community bike shop and am very passionate about cycling in general. I burn a cig most days, on my way to class. You are judgmental and inevitably incorrect with your reckless blanket statements. Maybe thats why smoker would avoid this forum.

Don't be so judgmental, you smug schmuck.

TheStone

Graham G wrote:

However, it's not unusual for me to get back from a long ride and relax with a cup of tea and a roll up.

There's something nice about a cigarette after a long ride. Seems to relax the lungs.

It's not for me, but not that uncommon to see people smoking in european sportives.

rick_chasey

mudcow007

there is a charity ride every July in Liverpool, over to Chester - 56 miles

you start in Liverpool then go through the Mersey tunnel which is quite steep coming out on the Wirral side. the amount of people stopped coughing an spluttering, then start smoking straight away is shocking

leodis75

will-i-am wrote:

Postby ThatGuyOnABike » Sun Jun 29, 2008 12:00 pm
smoking while riding is just wrong... and so is smoking. i once saw a person with a bag full of beer bottles over one handle bar and trying to smoke. looked so unstable and reckless. but like somone above said, we'll never see folk like that on these forums. they aren't cyclists, their just people with bikes.

you are ignorant. I ride, i drink, and i smoke, often simultaneity.

I volunteer weekly at a community bike shop and am very passionate about cycling in general. I burn a cig most days, on my way to class. You are judgmental and inevitably incorrect with your reckless blanket statements. Maybe thats why smoker would avoid this forum.

Don't be so judgmental, you smug schmuck.

+1 This.

I smoke, not while riding though but I have a smoke before I set off and after. You find after 5 minutes your lungs are back to capacity and all is well.

"they aren't cyclists, their just people with bikes"

Thee most pathetic statement I have read on here.

Headhuunter

I saw a couple of guys smoking at a feed station well into a 100 mile sportive last year... I did a bit of a double take! They were all lycra-ed up in Castelli or Rapha or some other overpriced bike gear next to their carbon wonder machines... I like the occasional fag, perhaps a couple a month when I'm out with someone who smokes but not whilst on a ride!