I'm not in love anymore...

projectsome
projectsome Posts: 4,478
edited March 2012 in The Crudcatcher
I've looked at the bike several times this month and thought meh, cba with it.

There's no wow, I've got a bike, must go ride trails etc.

How do I convince myself otherwise??

I'm tempted to sell it but as soon as I do I know I'll regret it...
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  • Raymondavalon
    Raymondavalon Posts: 5,346
    Plan well before a ride, like fill the CamelBak the night before, give the bike a check over etc. The preparation motivates one to ride.
    Throw the bike into/onto the car
    Go out and ride.. time yourself on the route/loop, be disappointed and convince yourself you can do better
    Return home feeling knackered and knowing that today's ride has been a good one..

    Repeat the steps above...
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  • Jimbob_no5
    Jimbob_no5 Posts: 1,568
    im in the same boat, supposed to be going out on saturday, haven't touched the bike in about 3weeks now, just don't feel motivated to go do it, perhaps i should watch some bike related p0rn like 3MG or Rampage to get me in the mood
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  • njee20
    njee20 Posts: 9,613
    Mmmm, stagnant water, that makes me want to ride more :-)

    I'd say don't force yourself. Give it a chance, you'll want to ride again. No point making yourself do something you don't want to.

    Alternatively, try riding new places to bring a bit of variety in.
  • Thewaylander
    Thewaylander Posts: 8,594
    Normally when i get bored it's because i ahven't pushed my riding enough.

    Now for some these means fitness but for me no, fitness is nice but nothing to special beyond a point.

    Im talking techinically pushing my riding, alot of riders i meet do not push themselves techincally and this i think can cause riding to becaome boring and stagnent. so in other words go out ride to fast and crash a bit find the edge of your skills and push them a bit.

    Unless you progressing in some way or scaring yourself a bit(read scared Sh@~less) then it can become a repetative grind.
  • spongtastic
    spongtastic Posts: 2,651
    Do what I did, stop until you're going f**king s**t bat crazy sitting in doors. Then you'll want to go out.
    Visit Clacton during the School holidays - it's like a never ending freak show.

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  • cooldad
    cooldad Posts: 32,599
    Change will do you good.
    Sell the bike, become a crack whore.
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  • El Zomba
    El Zomba Posts: 164
    Give it a month, wait until it's warmer in the morning and enjoy the sun on your face, feeling fresh and inspired...

    ... then cack it on the first harsh climb and realise that sitting around feeling uninspired for the best part of two months has let your conditioning go to sh*t.
  • Jimbob_no5
    Jimbob_no5 Posts: 1,568
    Well im now a fair bit more inspired and motivated to go ride, spent a good while cleaning & fettling the bike and sorting my kit out :)
    Pinkbike

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    1) Drink is not my friend
    2) D-Locking cnuts ;)
  • agg25
    agg25 Posts: 619
    Watch a few bike dvd's, sure fire way. Or enter a race or enduro or something to give you a goal ;-)
  • thekickingmule
    thekickingmule Posts: 7,957
    Just give me your bike, then I'll post videos of me riding it, and you'll feel jealous and want it back. But you won't get it back because I'll give it to a Nottingham Policeman as a bit of payment to him not arresting me for stalking.
    It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
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  • bartimaeus
    bartimaeus Posts: 1,812
    Plan to ride with friends...

    Once you've agree 'next Wednesday, OK?' you'll make the effort to get out even if it's raining that night. Best of all your friends will be out too just because they agreed to it. No one will have 'wanted' to go out that evening, but after the first 15mins everyone will be having a good time even if the weather is crap...

    ... or you will all be miserable together, and just ride straight to the pub.
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  • spongtastic
    spongtastic Posts: 2,651
    Bartimaeus wrote:
    Plan to ride with friends...

    .

    Most people on here have no friends. Which is why they are on here. Apparently.

    sorry just realised this isn't THAT forum
    Visit Clacton during the School holidays - it's like a never ending freak show.

    Who are you calling inbred?
  • ste_t
    ste_t Posts: 1,599
    Sell your bloody xbox! If you have no modern warfare to play, you're more inclined to get outside
  • VWsurfbum
    VWsurfbum Posts: 7,881
    ste_t wrote:
    Sell your bloody xbox! If you have no modern warfare to play, you're more inclined to get outside
    Very much this ^^^^
    Is this something to do with your new 50" 3D TV? have you found a 3D porn channel, and the reason you cant ride is your right arm is so pumped it cant bend?
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  • TheNorthernTrain
    TheNorthernTrain Posts: 1,049
    It's the prep that puts me off. Just one day sling your bike in the car and go ride!
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  • njee20
    njee20 Posts: 9,613
    Why involve the car, just ride out your door!
  • Clank
    Clank Posts: 2,323
    njee20 wrote:
    Why involve the car, just ride out your door!

    Why leave the house?

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  • jay12
    jay12 Posts: 6,306
    MTFU
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  • castlelad
    castlelad Posts: 414
    jay12 wrote:
    MTFU

    +1 and go somewhere different.
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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,428
    Thewaylander wrote:
    Normally when i get bored it's because i ahven't pushed my riding enough.

    Now for some these means fitness but for me no, fitness is nice but nothing to special beyond a point.

    Im talking techinically pushing my riding, alot of riders i meet do not push themselves techincally and this i think can cause riding to becaome boring and stagnent. so in other words go out ride to fast and crash a bit find the edge of your skills and push them a bit.

    Unless you progressing in some way or scaring yourself a bit(read scared Sh@~less) then it can become a repetative grind.
    To sum up the above - MTFU and go downhilling :-)
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  • stubs
    stubs Posts: 5,001
    Buy some shiny new parts for your bike. Works for me I have just received a box of shiny wheels off superstar cant wait for saturday. I am going to go so fast on my 100 grams a pair lighter wheels time will be warped and we will all be killed by a solar flare.
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  • Thewaylander
    Thewaylander Posts: 8,594
    Stevo 666 wrote:
    Thewaylander wrote:
    Normally when i get bored it's because i ahven't pushed my riding enough.

    Now for some these means fitness but for me no, fitness is nice but nothing to special beyond a point.

    Im talking techinically pushing my riding, alot of riders i meet do not push themselves techincally and this i think can cause riding to becaome boring and stagnent. so in other words go out ride to fast and crash a bit find the edge of your skills and push them a bit.

    Unless you progressing in some way or scaring yourself a bit(read scared Sh@~less) then it can become a repetative grind.
    To sum up the above - MTFU and go downhilling :-)

    Pretty much :P
  • projectsome
    projectsome Posts: 4,478
    VWsurfbum wrote:
    ste_t wrote:
    Sell your bloody xbox! If you have no modern warfare to play, you're more inclined to get outside
    Very much this ^^^^
    Is this something to do with your new 50" 3D TV? have you found a 3D porn channel, and the reason you cant ride is your right arm is so pumped it cant bend?


    HA, I've only had the tv a week, lost interest in riding ages ago, before I got the xbox (seem to be getting bored of that as well :P ). At first I was enjoying time off the bike but now it just seems different.

    maybe it has something to do with my new (not so new these days) local trails. while they're faster, it's basically all blue so now it's just a case of faster or um faster.

    also not a fan of leigh woods, it feels too open now.

    maybe I'll find a new way to enjoy riding the bike, that day isn't today...
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  • projectsome
    projectsome Posts: 4,478
    Thewaylander wrote:
    Stevo 666 wrote:
    Thewaylander wrote:
    Normally when i get bored it's because i ahven't pushed my riding enough.

    Now for some these means fitness but for me no, fitness is nice but nothing to special beyond a point.

    Im talking techinically pushing my riding, alot of riders i meet do not push themselves techincally and this i think can cause riding to becaome boring and stagnent. so in other words go out ride to fast and crash a bit find the edge of your skills and push them a bit.

    Unless you progressing in some way or scaring yourself a bit(read scared Sh@~less) then it can become a repetative grind.
    To sum up the above - MTFU and go downhilling :-)

    Pretty much :P


    DH is not for me....
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  • Clank
    Clank Posts: 2,323
    When I lived down that way, I used to sit with the OS maps and build routes that took in as many bridleways and byways as possible. Found some cracking routes using Keynsham as the start and finish - the lanes there were rocky with big cobbles - down was good - up was a b*tch of a challenge. Then there were circuits from Priddy - a lot muddier and greasy. Burrington Coombe was a good spot to start from, too.

    Found some great spots for dumping bodies. 8)
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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,428
    projectsome wrote:
    Thewaylander wrote:
    Stevo 666 wrote:
    Thewaylander wrote:
    Normally when i get bored it's because i ahven't pushed my riding enough.

    Now for some these means fitness but for me no, fitness is nice but nothing to special beyond a point.

    Im talking techinically pushing my riding, alot of riders i meet do not push themselves techincally and this i think can cause riding to becaome boring and stagnent. so in other words go out ride to fast and crash a bit find the edge of your skills and push them a bit.

    Unless you progressing in some way or scaring yourself a bit(read scared Sh@~less) then it can become a repetative grind.
    To sum up the above - MTFU and go downhilling :-)

    Pretty much :P


    DH is not for me....
    What part of MTFU don't you understand? ;-)
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  • Thewaylander
    Thewaylander Posts: 8,594
    projectsome wrote:
    Thewaylander wrote:
    Stevo 666 wrote:
    Thewaylander wrote:
    Normally when i get bored it's because i ahven't pushed my riding enough.

    Now for some these means fitness but for me no, fitness is nice but nothing to special beyond a point.

    Im talking techinically pushing my riding, alot of riders i meet do not push themselves techincally and this i think can cause riding to becaome boring and stagnent. so in other words go out ride to fast and crash a bit find the edge of your skills and push them a bit.

    Unless you progressing in some way or scaring yourself a bit(read scared Sh@~less) then it can become a repetative grind.
    To sum up the above - MTFU and go downhilling :-)

    Pretty much :P


    DH is not for me....

    There are many levels of DH, and technically ranging. So don't talk rubbish a bit of Dh is suitable to all riders, it improves peoples riding by leaps and bounds. And from what you've mostly been saying you seem to be finding the smooth dummed trails to be totally dull. well then take a step up. Or just quit riding and sell your bike so we can move on :p
  • projectsome
    projectsome Posts: 4,478
    Thewaylander wrote:
    projectsome wrote:
    Thewaylander wrote:
    Stevo 666 wrote:
    Thewaylander wrote:
    Normally when i get bored it's because i ahven't pushed my riding enough.

    Now for some these means fitness but for me no, fitness is nice but nothing to special beyond a point.

    Im talking techinically pushing my riding, alot of riders i meet do not push themselves techincally and this i think can cause riding to becaome boring and stagnent. so in other words go out ride to fast and crash a bit find the edge of your skills and push them a bit.

    Unless you progressing in some way or scaring yourself a bit(read scared Sh@~less) then it can become a repetative grind.
    To sum up the above - MTFU and go downhilling :-)

    Pretty much :P


    DH is not for me....

    There are many levels of DH, and technically ranging. So don't talk rubbish a bit of Dh is suitable to all riders, it improves peoples riding by leaps and bounds. And from what you've mostly been saying you seem to be finding the smooth dummed trails to be totally dull. well then take a step up. Or just quit riding and sell your bike so we can move on :p


    Or perhaps I've tried DH and didn't find it to my liking.

    I'll give the bike a clean, stick new brakes on, take it for an epic spin and see if I enjoy it.
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  • Ryan Jones
    Ryan Jones Posts: 775
    Agree with some of these points, cleaning the bike up started things off then entering an enduro really started to get me taking food a bit more seriously as well as getting out more.

    That said, this is the crudcatcher so I'd also suggest hiding in the bushes nearby a ladies mtb training course, a classic if I do say so :P
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  • bennett_346
    bennett_346 Posts: 5,029
    projectsome wrote:
    Or perhaps I've tried DH and didn't find it to my liking.
    What was it about it that you didn't like? It isn't much different from a normal xc descent just harder.

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