Do you get a thrill riding your bike.

isotonik
isotonik Posts: 50
edited August 2016 in Road general
:oops: after all these years from a wee lad I still get it.

especially riding at night.

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  • fat daddy
    fat daddy Posts: 2,605
    Yeah :D

    I really look forward to going to work every day as I get to ride the bike .... And it's 5:17am now and I have got up to go for a ride before work .... Not in training for anything, I just like to ride
  • lincolndave
    lincolndave Posts: 9,441
    if you enjoy it , you will get a thrill, I suppose we are all big kids when it comes to our bikes, well I am :)
  • fat daddy
    fat daddy Posts: 2,605
    oh and sometimes I pop to the garage just to have a quick look at the bikes before coming back inside again ... none of them are that impressive as bikes go but I still like to go look at them.
  • Garry H
    Garry H Posts: 6,639
    No, just an overbearing sense of smugness :D
  • homers_double
    homers_double Posts: 8,290
    fat daddy wrote:
    oh and sometimes I pop to the garage just to have a quick look at the bikes before coming back inside again

    Glad it isn't just me then.
    Advocate of disc brakes.
  • mrb123
    mrb123 Posts: 4,821
    fat daddy wrote:
    oh and sometimes I pop to the garage just to have a quick look at the bikes before coming back inside again ... none of them are that impressive as bikes go but I still like to go look at them.

    I sometimes stroke them too.
  • arthur_scrimshaw
    arthur_scrimshaw Posts: 2,596
    MrB123 wrote:
    fat daddy wrote:
    oh and sometimes I pop to the garage just to have a quick look at the bikes before coming back inside again ... none of them are that impressive as bikes go but I still like to go look at them.

    I sometimes stroke them too.

    I can see where this is heading........
  • gethinceri
    gethinceri Posts: 1,665
    Arthur Scrimshaw wrote:
    MrB123 wrote:
    fat daddy wrote:
    I still like to go look at them.

    I sometimes stroke them too.

    I can see where this is heading........

    Are you an owl?
  • turbotommy
    turbotommy Posts: 493
    For me it's when I leave London. On my own or in a group, but when I'm out in the countryside. Preferably on a weekday. Big smile on my face. Cheating life!
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  • pilot_pete
    pilot_pete Posts: 2,120
    I got an unexpected thrill yesterday as my front wheel hit the concrete lip on a towpath which launched me over the bars in a style which will have Tom Daley fearing that gold may not be a certainty with me around. The Trent and Mersey is actually cleaner than I thought it would be...!

    PP
  • debeli
    debeli Posts: 583
    I find cycling utterly dull. I've been riding regularly since childhood (now in my fifties) and still seek that buzz that some people claim to get from cycling.

    Today, for example, I rode about 35 miles as I often do on a Sunday. I was on an alloy road bike with 9-speed Veloce gubbins on it and a 53/39 chainring. Few cars on the road and the rolling hills one expects to find in the Marches.

    The bike was in excellent order and my legs felt good. I found that I was climbing with verve and descending rather more rapidly than is prudent at my age. The bike felt like it was on rails and the water in my bottle was cool.

    And do you know what? It was utterly, utterly boring. I shall make the same trip (or a similar one) several times in the coming week and expect to be as bored by each subsequent ride as I was by the last.

    Surely there must be a better way of spending one's time...
  • diamonddog
    diamonddog Posts: 3,426
    Pilot Pete wrote:
    I got an unexpected thrill yesterday as my front wheel hit the concrete lip on a towpath which launched me over the bars in a style which will have Tom Daley fearing that gold may not be a certainty with me around. The Trent and Mersey is actually cleaner than I thought it would be...!

    PP
    :D:D:D
  • Alex99
    Alex99 Posts: 1,407
    Debeli wrote:
    I find cycling utterly dull. I've been riding regularly since childhood (now in my fifties) and still seek that buzz that some people claim to get from cycling.

    Today, for example, I rode about 35 miles as I often do on a Sunday. I was on an alloy road bike with 9-speed Veloce gubbins on it and a 53/39 chainring. Few cars on the road and the rolling hills one expects to find in the Marches.

    The bike was in excellent order and my legs felt good. I found that I was climbing with verve and descending rather more rapidly than is prudent at my age. The bike felt like it was on rails and the water in my bottle was cool.

    And do you know what? It was utterly, utterly boring. I shall make the same trip (or a similar one) several times in the coming week and expect to be as bored by each subsequent ride as I was by the last.

    Surely there must be a better way of spending one's time...

    Hmm, I think you may need to change something to keep it 'fresh':
    1) Chage that cool water for Port
    2) Tell the missus that you'll be two hours, but be 2.5 hours
    3) Try the whole ride with a cadence of 40 in 53x11
  • fat daddy
    fat daddy Posts: 2,605
    Alex99 wrote:
    Hmm, I think you may need to change something to keep it 'fresh':


    Strava .... you can guarantee that someone today was

    (1) climbing better
    (2) descending faster
    (3) had cooler water

    than you ..... you need to beat them !!!!

    and at the end, see how many bits of cake they had ... and have one more !
  • jimnm
    jimnm Posts: 29
    I love getting my leg over ( the bike that is lol) even when feeling tired, it brings me back to life :) same goes for my motorbike, but get a bit bored on that, just sat there! Prefer Road bike every time.
  • Lookyhere
    Lookyhere Posts: 987
    Debeli wrote:
    I find cycling utterly dull. I've been riding regularly since childhood (now in my fifties) and still seek that buzz that some people claim to get from cycling.

    Today, for example, I rode about 35 miles as I often do on a Sunday. I was on an alloy road bike with 9-speed Veloce gubbins on it and a 53/39 chainring. Few cars on the road and the rolling hills one expects to find in the Marches.

    The bike was in excellent order and my legs felt good. I found that I was climbing with verve and descending rather more rapidly than is prudent at my age. The bike felt like it was on rails and the water in my bottle was cool.

    And do you know what? It was utterly, utterly boring. I shall make the same trip (or a similar one) several times in the coming week and expect to be as bored by each subsequent ride as I was by the last.

    Surely there must be a better way of spending one's time...

    Seriously, why do you do it? take up off road running or mtb ing? or even Golf, fishing whatever! life is far too short to be dciking around doing something you find dull.

    You could find yourself in a stroke ward wondering why the xxxx did i waste all those hours cycling.
  • debeli
    debeli Posts: 583
    Lookyhere wrote:
    Seriously, why do you do it? take up off road running or mtb ing? or even Golf, fishing whatever! life is far too short to be dciking around doing something you find dull.

    You could find yourself in a stroke ward wondering why the xxxx did i waste all those hours cycling.

    You'd think, wouldn't you?

    I thought that too. I've been riding an MTB since the days of rigid forks. Reluctantly, screaming in defiance, I allowed myself to be dragged into the age of front suspension and (much later) disc brakes. I used to do quite a few enduro cross-country comps up around the Beacons. Not really fun. More like losing a highly attritional fight against a psychopath for several hours on end.

    Off-road cycling, with which I persist despite my better judgement, seems as dull to me as road cycling.

    Stupidly, I got my children (now all much older) interested in cycling and did a 20-mile loop with my daughter yesterday. Sunny weather, slightly too windy, but overall an utterly dull experience. I am not looking forward to the next time I go out, alone or with one of my offspring.

    I like the sound of golf, though. And it's an olympic sport!
  • arthur_scrimshaw
    arthur_scrimshaw Posts: 2,596
    Pilot Pete wrote:
    I got an unexpected thrill yesterday as my front wheel hit the concrete lip on a towpath which launched me over the bars in a style which will have Tom Daley fearing that gold may not be a certainty with me around. The Trent and Mersey is actually cleaner than I thought it would be...!

    PP

    But seriously, how's the bike?
  • supermurph09
    supermurph09 Posts: 2,471
    Once I find some smooth tarmac the enjoyment level goes up, however at the moment I'm either navigating Paris Roubaix or praying that the newly dressed gravel roads don't kill me or my bike.
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  • mamba80
    mamba80 Posts: 5,032
    Debeli wrote:
    Lookyhere wrote:
    Seriously, why do you do it? take up off road running or mtb ing? or even Golf, fishing whatever! life is far too short to be dciking around doing something you find dull.

    You could find yourself in a stroke ward wondering why the xxxx did i waste all those hours cycling.

    You'd think, wouldn't you?

    I thought that too. I've been riding an MTB since the days of rigid forks. Reluctantly, screaming in defiance, I allowed myself to be dragged into the age of front suspension and (much later) disc brakes. I used to do quite a few enduro cross-country comps up around the Beacons. Not really fun. More like losing a highly attritional fight against a psychopath for several hours on end.

    Off-road cycling, with which I persist despite my better judgement, seems as dull to me as road cycling.

    Stupidly, I got my children (now all much older) interested in cycling and did a 20-mile loop with my daughter yesterday. Sunny weather, slightly too windy, but overall an utterly dull experience. I am not looking forward to the next time I go out, alone or with one of my offspring.

    I like the sound of golf, though. And it's an olympic sport!

    thats a shame, just did a french sportive with my 16yo daughter and it will be a memory that live with me for ever, you only get a few years with your kids, make the most of it, no guarantees that either you or your kids will be around forever.

    my advice to you would be to get yourself a challenge and to look at whether you are depressed or not.
  • ForumNewbie
    ForumNewbie Posts: 1,664
    mamba80 wrote:
    Debeli wrote:
    Lookyhere wrote:
    Seriously, why do you do it? take up off road running or mtb ing? or even Golf, fishing whatever! life is far too short to be dciking around doing something you find dull.

    You could find yourself in a stroke ward wondering why the xxxx did i waste all those hours cycling.

    You'd think, wouldn't you?

    I thought that too. I've been riding an MTB since the days of rigid forks. Reluctantly, screaming in defiance, I allowed myself to be dragged into the age of front suspension and (much later) disc brakes. I used to do quite a few enduro cross-country comps up around the Beacons. Not really fun. More like losing a highly attritional fight against a psychopath for several hours on end.

    Off-road cycling, with which I persist despite my better judgement, seems as dull to me as road cycling.

    Stupidly, I got my children (now all much older) interested in cycling and did a 20-mile loop with my daughter yesterday. Sunny weather, slightly too windy, but overall an utterly dull experience. I am not looking forward to the next time I go out, alone or with one of my offspring.

    I like the sound of golf, though. And it's an olympic sport!

    thats a shame, just did a french sportive with my 16yo daughter and it will be a memory that live with me for ever, you only get a few years with your kids, make the most of it, no guarantees that either you or your kids will be around forever.

    my advice to you would be to get yourself a challenge and to look at whether you are depressed or not.
    mamba80, I don't really think Debeli is being serious.
  • mamba80
    mamba80 Posts: 5,032
    ForumNewbie wrote:
    mamba80 wrote:
    Debeli wrote:
    Lookyhere wrote:
    Seriously, why do you do it? take up off road running or mtb ing? or even Golf, fishing whatever! life is far too short to be dciking around doing something you find dull.

    You could find yourself in a stroke ward wondering why the xxxx did i waste all those hours cycling.

    You'd think, wouldn't you?

    Stupidly, I got my children (now all much older) interested in cycling and did a 20-mile loop with my daughter yesterday. Sunny weather, slightly too windy, but overall an utterly dull experience. I am not looking forward to the next time I go out, alone or with one of my offspring.

    I like the sound of golf, though. And it's an olympic sport!

    thats a shame, just did a french sportive with my 16yo daughter and it will be a memory that live with me for ever, you only get a few years with your kids, make the most of it, no guarantees that either you or your kids will be around forever.

    my advice to you would be to get yourself a challenge and to look at whether you are depressed or not.
    mamba80, I don't really think Debeli is being serious.

    well, i stand corrected then but quite odd behaviour if your right.
  • debeli
    debeli Posts: 583
    ForumNewbie wrote:
    mamba80, I don't really think Debeli is being serious.

    I fear that ForumNewbie has hit the nail on the head.

    I apologise to anyone who thought my posts in this thread serious.

    I enjoy riding a bicycle and the children (now young adults) I encouraged to ride are all still keen cyclists.

    Last night in fading light (we'd thought we'd only be sorting the bike for a few minutes, but it got quite involved) my daughter made a complete mug of me by threading a Campag Ergo gear cable into the lever while I was fussing about in the garage fetching a torch as I couldn't see the workings.

    I delight in riding a bicycle and it thrills me that my offspring take some pleasure in it too. Not mad, carbon-missile, energy-gel, groupset-upgrade pleasure, but the quiet thrill of an evening ride and the occasional blast of a decent TT time on an unadapted road bike.

    Lovely, lovely, lovely.... Apologies again if anyone took my other posts seriously.

    As to being a bit odd to spoof the thread, are well all not (by definition) slightly odd to be posting on these threads in the first place?

    I certainly am.
  • chrisaonabike
    chrisaonabike Posts: 1,914
    Debeli wrote:
    More like losing a highly attritional fight against a psychopath for several hours on end.
    This is the phrase I've been searching for!

    All my cycling is like this. Mostly, I think, because I ride nearly every ride as a personal TT, so I'm always pushing nearly as hard as I can (I'm probably not, of course, but it still hurts most of the time, and I'm still pretty slow).

    I still enjoy it, in a perverse sort of way, but mostly when it's over.

    It doesn't hurt as much afterwards as it did when I used to run with shin splints, either, which is a bonus. Although the sore neck is a bugger.
    Is the gorilla tired yet?

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