What excites you about cycling the most?

TheLondonCyclist

Give your views on what excited you the most? mine is speed!

charlie_potatoes

TheLondonCyclist wrote:

mine is speed!

Mine is Lycra

kayo74

Slapping udder cream on!!!!

NewTTer

Mine is coming here and seeing if someone has started a nonsensical thread

rrsodl

NewTTer wrote:

Mine is coming here and seeing if someone has started a nonsensical thread

+1

smidsy

NewTTer wrote:

Mine is coming here and seeing if someone has started a nonsensical thread

that you took time to post on :roll:

My fix is what new shiny thing I can buy next :shock:

But for a more actual cycling point it's knowing I am getting fitter and can cycle for longer at a better pace.

declan1

I have no idea.....

NewTTer

smidsy wrote:

NewTTer wrote:

Mine is coming here and seeing if someone has started a nonsensical thread

that you took time to post on :roll:

My fix is what new shiny thing I can buy next :shock:

But for a more actual cycling point it's knowing I am getting fitter and can cycle for longer at a better pace.

Just added to the excitement didnt it, and you responded :roll:

TakeTurns

Quite a lot of things, some are indescribable.

I've always liked the freedom of being able to go anywhere...until you fatigue of course.

Bozman

That second between falling off the bike and hitting the deck....... "this is going to hurt".

BillyMansell

At the moment absolutely nothing, but that's dysthymia for you.

Gabbo

Reaching the top of a monstrous hill and looking behind to see what I have just climbed.

rsands

going down a hill at 50mph

lemon63

kayo74 wrote:

Slapping udder cream on!!!!

- on your bits or someone else's ? :shock:

whojanicanackerov

The sense of achievement,Improvement,The camaraderie The views in the countryside.The speed.
Maintaining my bikes and buying new kit.

tim_wand

The beauty a simple efficiency of the machine, I can get all romantic about bikes and automatic wrist watches,

Two of the greatest engineering inventions ever to my mind.

AnthonySinglegear

The silence from having the wind behind you.

Frank the tank

A well greased bottom..........................bracket.

pete_s

That whirring noise that the jockey wheels on derailleurs make. It's better when you're in a group and then it's louder.

fevmeister

Descending then getting home exhausted after having some food and a shower and sprawling out on the sofa with coffee!

Brian B

The scenery on the routes I do and the roads that take me over the high places and moors of Blighty. Been abroad to Europe on my bike but there is something about the wind swept vistas of Britain.

Oh and the feeling you get home when you have done a hundred plus miles in the saddle and your tired, hungry but buzzing also.

Joeblack

Female cyclist in Lycra!!

Yes I said it, all you pu22y's with your "the scenery" or "the achievement of making up a climb" bullsh#t!! If a woman in Lycra doesn't top the list you need to check yourself!!

Neale1978

Joeblack wrote:

Female cyclist in Lycra!!

Yes I said it, all you pu22y's with your "the scenery" or "the achievement of making up a climb" bullsh#t!! If a woman in Lycra doesn't top the list you need to check yourself!!

I Guess this is your courage 'roaring'. My hero x

Joeblack

Neale1978 wrote:

Joeblack wrote:

Female cyclist in Lycra!!

Yes I said it, all you pu22y's with your "the scenery" or "the achievement of making up a climb" bullsh#t!! If a woman in Lycra doesn't top the list you need to check yourself!!

I Guess this is your courage 'roaring'. My hero x

Suppose so :roll:

Btw the kiss was too far, I mean it was kinda humorous in a sarcastic way but being as only 12yo girls put kisses at the end of their texts it's kinda puts you in that category..... Sorry to break it to you like that, it's not going to affect our friendship or anything I just needed to out it there for you

Neale1978

I mean it was kinda humorous in a sarcastic way

Exactly so.. actually not in the 12 year old girl category. Also.. a single kiss shows a certain level of maturity compared with say laying down, three or ten

TakeTurns

Neale1978 wrote:

I mean it was kinda humorous in a sarcastic way

Exactly so.. actually not in the 12 year old girl category. Also.. a single kiss shows a certain level of maturity compared with say laying down, three or ten

Agreed. xxx

Neale1978

TakeTurns wrote:

Neale1978 wrote:

I mean it was kinda humorous in a sarcastic way

Exactly so.. actually not in the 12 year old girl category. Also.. a single kiss shows a certain level of maturity compared with say laying down, three or ten

Agreed. xxx

Very sweet, thank you haha

fevmeister

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neeb

TheLondonCyclist wrote:

Give your views on what excited you the most? mine is speed!

But you can go much faster on... just about any other form of mechanised transport!

So I think we need to elaborate a bit further..

A bicycle allows you to go faster than anything else does, powered only by your own body. That has to be the essence of it. When you ride a bike it really is part of you, in a way that a self-powered vehicle can never be. Your legs, heart, lungs, metabolism, senses and ultimately your mind are enmeshed with the machine through constant feedback loops. The extension of your body image into the bike is hugely more complex and profound than with a car or a motorbike, because it involves your whole cardiovascular and muscular system as well as just your senses and nervous system. You genuinely become a human animal with wheels, not just a controlling passenger. The only other thing I've done that comes close is inline skating. With a bike you are more powerful, but further removed from the basic human condition than you are with skates - both have their attractions.

<note to self - must avoid threads like this after drinking wine - serious purple-prose hazard.. >

CiB

It's the combination of speed & distance. Lots of either is ok, lots of both is great but take either away and you're left with a disatisfying short quick blast or a long slow drag. Speed + distance. That's where it's at.

Scenery, totty and proper pubs is a bonus. All are available without the benefit of a bike.

declan1

neeb wrote:

TheLondonCyclist wrote:

Give your views on what excited you the most? mine is speed!

But you can go much faster on... just about any other form of mechanised transport!

So I think we need to elaborate a bit further..

A bicycle allows you to go faster than anything else does, powered only by your own body. That has to be the essence of it. When you ride a bike it really is part of you, in a way that a self-powered vehicle can never be. Your legs, heart, lungs, metabolism, senses and ultimately your mind are enmeshed with the machine through constant feedback loops. The extension of your body image into the bike is hugely more complex and profound than with a car or a motorbike, because it involves your whole cardiovascular and muscular system as well as just your senses and nervous system. You genuinely become a human animal with wheels, not just a controlling passenger. The only other thing I've done that comes close is inline skating. With a bike you are more powerful, but further removed from the basic human condition than you are with skates - both have their attractions.

<note to self - must avoid threads like this after drinking wine - serious purple-prose hazard.. >

Basically he's saying that you feel like you're connected with your bike...