How do you keep riding fun?

Redhog14

Try slow racing - I do this with the kids to enhance their balance and mine- between two points you have ride as slowly as you can, no stopping for more than 3sec, no feet down and no big deviations from lines.
This week I also went out with my local club and bonked big time after 3 hours, it made the lonely ride home interesting :?
TBH though I do find MTB more "interesting" and "fun" than road riding, in Scotland you can pretty much ride anywhere you like so there is a constant source of new routes to be try.
Going to look up this Strava thing, sounds good.

GiantMike

I've started riding to my girlfriend's house. Mainly when the wife's using the car.

snoopsmydogg

KHodge wrote:

How about setting yourself a goal such as a multiday ride, or weight loss?

one of my current goals is in there

Anonymous

KHodge wrote:

That's why we do it right? Because it's fun. But if you always feel the need to train hard and long to succeed in a big event you can lose some of the fun of it all. What do you do to keep it fresh and enjoyable? Best answers might be used in Cycling Plus!

Wrong.

You do it to feel pain to remind yourself that you are alive. You do it when everything comes together and you feel like a cycling God for a few moments of utter perfection, you do it to sh*t all over your mates on that climb, get to the top and disappear. You do it, so when you get back to work on Monday after racing/club run/sportive on the weekend, spending a few hours at the end of your physical rope, and a colleague asks good weekend ? You can think, Good ?, good ?, you'll never know how good matey unless you ride yourself. Riding is like kicking a big bad dog time and time again, push, push and push again for some seconds of pure endorphin fuelled panacea that nothing else will ever touch. Fun? Fcuk that, its pain and torture and sweat and heartrate and its fcucking excellent.

king_jeffers

I started jumping red lights, hoping on and off the kerb. I find this really puts an edge on my ride

Seriously... switched from a MTB to a road bike, downloaded Strava. Never knew I was so competitive :twisted:

Yossie

DMC -2.0 up above is right - bollox to this nice scenery tat riding along with a gay club rubbish: its about going out with your mates having a laugh but at the same time you know that you are out to crush each other and inflict as much pain and humiliation onto each other as possible. Then going racin' and crushing the clubbites and showing them severe pain before heading off and laughing your head off with your mates about it all.

Rule 5 applies at all times.

Pain, is after all, just weakness escaping the body.

You are there to crush everything and everyone in sight. If I want to ride slow I'll become old.

That and masturbation in fields. One of the two really. Depends if its raining or not.

KHodge

Revisiting this - any new thoughts on keeping things fun? Thanks

alihisgreat

Strava.

nevman

Cycling up to the pharmacy to collect the pills for my bad back caused by....cycling.Oh the delicious irony.

Pross

Change positions, dress up, introduce toys or try other women (oops, I mean bikes). :oops:

mattshrops

Get out well before its light. Real quiet and see the sun come up/

This week i had a barn owl appear over the hedge and fly along side me, just for a few seconds, magical.

nunowoolmez

Play chicken with the traffic

jordan_217

dmclite-2.0 wrote:

KHodge wrote:

That's why we do it right? Because it's fun. But if you always feel the need to train hard and long to succeed in a big event you can lose some of the fun of it all. What do you do to keep it fresh and enjoyable? Best answers might be used in Cycling Plus!

Wrong.

You do it to feel pain to remind yourself that you are alive. You do it when everything comes together and you feel like a cycling God for a few moments of utter perfection, you do it to sh*t all over your mates on that climb, get to the top and disappear. You do it, so when you get back to work on Monday after racing/club run/sportive on the weekend, spending a few hours at the end of your physical rope, and a colleague asks good weekend ? You can think, Good ?, good ?, you'll never know how good matey unless you ride yourself. Riding is like kicking a big bad dog time and time again, push, push and push again for some seconds of pure endorphin fuelled panacea that nothing else will ever touch. Fun? Fcuk that, its pain and torture and sweat and heartrate and its ******* excellent.

Oooh, I like the cut of your jib.