What makes you want to ride...

AndyBike

.blitz wrote:

Whytepeak wrote:

What is it that provokes a desire to get out on your steed?

There's no desire, it's what I do. Everything else is an interruption.

Got to agree 100%, been riding bikes nearly as long as I have been walking, its so right.

Rich9

Being sat on lazy arse for too long, either in the car or in front of a computer, got me the initial bug to get into bikes. So that boils down to my quest to get fit.

As said before - its the sense of achievement of going out and doing something positive while every other lazy arsed git is watching SKY or in the pub.

Cant beat a good dollop of fresh air on nice bright Sunday morning too

robertpb

In 1956 when I was 5 years old, my family were on holiday in Wales, it was wet so we were visiting castles.

We met an older chap, brown as a berry in cycling shorts wandering around the ruins as we were. He chatted to my parents for some time.

When we went to leave the custodian stopped us and asked if we'd seen the older gentleman, my father said he had and had spoken to him.

Well he said you would not think he was 84 would you and that each year he tours the whole of the British Isles.

The older gent had left a few minutes before us on his drop handled tourer, we set off in our Ford Thames van but it was a few miles down the road before we caught up, he was steaming along at a fair pace.

There is nothing better than this inspiration to get you out riding.

spongtastic

gets rid of the stress built up over a week at work. 2 hours releasing pure pent up agression means I'm nearly always happy.

getting fit. I spent 4 years working in London sitting on my rear all day, 4 hours on the train, 8 hours in the office. Couldn't run, a ride of 5 miles almost killed me at first. I can now pedal until my legs fall off and run 10 miles without turning bright red.

but the main thing is acting like a big kid and getting covered in mud.

spongtastic

gets rid of the stress built up over a week at work. 2 hours releasing pure pent up agression means I'm nearly always happy.

getting fit. I spent 4 years working in London sitting on my rear all day, 4 hours on the train, 8 hours in the office. Couldn't run, a ride of 5 miles almost killed me at first. I can now pedal until my legs fall off and run 10 miles without turning bright red.

but the main thing is acting like a big kid and getting covered in mud.

Justinjured

One of the main reasons is the shitty traffic in rush hour going and coming out of Plymouth.
You get all sorts of numptys on the road, tarvelling up you ass, undertaking you because they think there journey time is going to be massively improved, and then there are the sections where you move at 2mph for 15 minutes at a time.

The alternative is riding cross country avoiding all the numpties and their cars, apart from passing them all on the road sections, and actually doing a journey thats infinately more enjoyable!