Anyone else spent ages waiting for "hot weather"to ride in then find it's too hot?
- Thread starter Accy cyclist
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Don't agree. Health wise I am of the opinion that it is probably unhealthy to exercise say 10 times a year. Your heart just isn't used to it. You are supposed to build up slowly and regularly. Again don't agree with the mental health suggestion. Simply not often enough. Remember I said summer only and when the weather is just right. I assume weekends only. I think they are called weekend warriors. Met one once going down a steep hill he was coming up. Said to me "it is easier cycling down than up". His girlfriend said the same. Half wits. Wouldn't mind but they were walking up the hill!
summerdays
Cycling in the sun
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- Bristol
It's still exercise and still possibly more than they normally do. And some get the bug and continue. I was a once a year cyclist who did the hire the bike and cycle along a cycle path annually on holiday. Yes I wasn't fit, but neither did I need to see a doc before I attempted it. If you go out 10 times a year then you tend to take it easier than the regular cyclists. I've gone out on a ride with friends who don't cycle regularly, and you just need to lower your speed considerably and take into account that they might want to stop quite frequently. Not make a big issue over it. The last ride with friends one ended up turning back after 2 miles and I felt really bad that he didn't think that we wouldn't be happy to adjust to his speed. I don't mind I just see it as a social.
My main concern about the new cyclists is their road awareness and not thinking that the highway code applies to them on a bike (whereas if they were in the car then it would apply to the cyclists they see). And a lift in mental health however temporary has to be a good thing too.
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Accy cyclist
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- The hills of Accrington
Not really skills more like common sense such as riding in the left hand and not the right hand cycle lane(and when you confront them they know they've been nobbers but wont back down),looking over the right shoulder before turning right,not swapping from the road to the pavement constantly,not having dehydrated "devil dogs" running behind their badly maintained mountain bikes,not talking on the phone and swilling Special Brew while cycling to name but a few.
If you mean both at the same time, THAT is a skill!
Most, if not all the things you said really don't relate to "real" cyclists. They are not the people who will go out and try and beat their personal best or even go out for a days cycling. So they have no interest in learning skills/common sense. More the other way round.
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Accy cyclist
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- The hills of Accrington
"Most, if not all the things you said really don't relate to "real" cyclists."
That was my point. I wasn't referring to the regular cyclists but the every blue moon bad ones.
That was my point. I wasn't referring to the regular cyclists but the every blue moon bad ones.
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Accy cyclist
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- The hills of Accrington
It has to rain later today!
Brandane
Legendary Member
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- Costa Clyde
It is raining, heavily 
. No bike riding for me in this. Missing you already 
, come back soon!
. No bike riding for me in this. Missing you already , come back soon!
Brandane
Legendary Member
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- Costa Clyde
As a fellow sufferer, I sympathise. Do you not use Piriton or similar?
summerdays
Cycling in the sun
- Location
- Bristol
It's so hot and sticky that I'm sweating and the only bit of me moving at the moment is my finger!
SatNavSaysStraightOn
Changed hemispheres!
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- ɐᴉlɐɹʇsn∀ 'ɐɹɹǝquɐƆ
just started with a light shower here. raintoday.co.uk shows it is unlikely to last long sadly!
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I do - but if I am outdoors for an extended period it doesn't seem to make much difference.
