Favourite and least favourite sound

Plumby Baby

Favourite:
Tyres gliding effortlessly on my SS down a slight smooth gradient with no wind in my ears on a country road. THAT is the moment bikes were built for.

Least:
Twang of a dead spoke

Robstar24

favourite: sound of silence on a country lane, meaning no traffic

least: that horrible sound you get in a race when someone crashes behind you, bike frames hitting the asphalt, the calls of 'easy' by surrounding riders etc... what's worse is seeing someone crash in front of you in a race and knowing that you won't be able to avoid it.

chadders81

Worst noise is creaking bottom bracket.

Can't argue with your favourite noise.

gtvlusso

Favourite: My daughters laugh

Worst: the tirade that I let out straight in the face of the p*ncture fairy.....

Wallace1492

Keeping it relatively clean......

Favourite: The pop of cork on a lovely full bodied bottle of red wine

Least Favourite: Alarm Clock on a Monday morning

rjsterry

gtvlusso wrote:

Favourite: My daughters laugh

Worst: the tirade that I let out straight in the face of the p*ncture fairy.....

This.
What a soppy pair

Other favourites include:

A large steam engine - the big static ones used for pumping or winding.
Pebbles on Beer beach clattering together when you walk on them
Cycling related: the roar of wind in your ears when descending at speed.

Least favourite:
Well let's just say I can see why they use the sound of babies crying at Guantanamo.
Any badly maintained bike part or other machinery that doesn't sound 'right'.

clarkey cat

Favourite: the moment's silence before I know the dutch oven I've performed on the missus is about to hit home.

Least favourite: the moody silence for the next twenty minutes.

CiB

Favourite (in this context at least) - the near silent whirr of the gears & wheels as I fly effortlessly along at speeds in the mid-20s, and the satisfying clunk of a gear change that involves neither chain rubbing nor second attempts to get it to drop into gear.

Worst - the one that goes swishuwishuwishuwishuwishuwishuwish when you realise that a tyre is rapidly deflating and that enjoyment is on hold for a while.

There are better noises in this life, but it's a bike forum, so I won't add the bark of a BDA-powered Escort on full chat as 'satisfying', esp if it's one that I built myself.

Bikequin

Favourite: The click of dropping down a gear whilst scalping someone during SCR in the morning.

Worst: Jonathon Davies's rugby commentary.

Harveytile

Favourite: Squeaky sand (you know the kind that squeaks when you walk on it?)

Worst: The click of a car door opening just yards in front of you... :shock:

BigJimmyB

Wallace1492 wrote:

Keeping it relatively clean......

Favourite: The pop of cork on a lovely full bodied bottle of red wine

Least Favourite: Alarm Clock on a Monday morning

Right now that's a defo +1

Especially the alrm clock nest Thu when I have a 15-hour day to Bothwell St (as Glaswegian you'll know it) and back to Essex cos my firm are too tight to let me stay overnight.

verloren

Fave: The silence you get when you're cruising along with a tailwind

Least Fave: The ticking/creaking/whatever that sure sounds like your bottom bracket, but isn't. But what is it?

Wallace1492

BigJimmyB wrote:

Wallace1492 wrote:

Keeping it relatively clean......

Favourite: The pop of cork on a lovely full bodied bottle of red wine

Least Favourite: Alarm Clock on a Monday morning

Right now that's a defo +1

Especially the alrm clock nest Thu when I have a 15-hour day to Bothwell St (as Glaswegian you'll know it) and back to Essex cos my firm are too tight to let me stay overnight.

Can almost see Bothwell Street from where I sit.... just round the corner. And the good news.... not driving sleet today!! Though may be back over weekend.

flimflam_machine

Favourite(s): The "gug gug gug" sound as you pour the first glass out of a bottle of wine or my baby chuckling.

Least favourite: The "bong" noise that my computer makes when it finds yet another problem with my programming. I'm developing a Pavlovian anger response to this one.

UndercoverElephant

Favourite: The agonised screams of the fallen SCR foe.
Least favourite: Jamie Oliver.

secretsam

Favourite: my son's giggle

Least: the sound of my voice as I nagged him to HURRY UP AND GET DRESSED this morning.

And the f'cking cough I've had for over a week, 2 lots of antibiotics and it's still with me.

:evil:

Moodyman

Like:

The rhythmical whirring of the turning crank on a smooth and quiet country rode.

Dislike:

Revving engine behind on busy city roads.

Kieran_Burns

Favourite noise: that whirr when you're riding on schmooth tarmac (barely heard, always imagined)

Least favourite: my breathing. I hate sounding permanently like an asthmatic warthog

pst88

Least favourite: sound of a car screeching to a halt and that heart stopping moment where you don't know if it's gonna stop in time or not.

TLDNMCL

Favourite:
<Anorak> Hawker Hunter "Blue note" being produced <Anorak>

Least favourite" Oi, TLDNMCL, it's your round..."

Marcus_C

Favourite: po po po po po po po po po (gradually ascending)

Least Favourite: A lorry's engine about 10 feet off my back wheel.