Are you a honker?

[anothersam]

(Raises hand.)

 

[Milkfloat]

I mix it up, usually honking on the steepest bits.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Your poll is flawed, theres no option for those of us that mix it up and do both, sometimes I sit and spin, sometimes I stand and honk.

 

[sheddy]

I currently use a bell, but I have had a clowns horn when younger.
Where we live is surrounded by geese and the novelty wears thin.

 

[anothersam]

Your poll is flawed, theres no option for those of us that mix it up and do both, sometimes I sit and spin, sometimes I stand and honk.

The poll isn't scientific. (It's a lark.) I never expected anyone to always do one or the other. Some people avoid getting out of the saddle at all cost: others, like me, get out at almost any excuse for a hill. I'm merely asking which way predominates.

 

[BrumJim]

I used to honk a lot more. On longer hills I like to stay in the saddle more these days.

 

[anothersam]

I used to honk a lot more. On longer hills I like to stay in the saddle more these days.

Why do you think you changed?

 

[BrumJim]

Why do you think you changed?

Short answer:
Lower gearing.

Long answer:
I'm doing much more long-distance riding now with a lot of climbing. Honking is great if you are doing a short rides with a big climb or two and your legs change to generate strength. I'm doing much longer stuff, which means that I need far more of those slow-twitch fibres and have consequentially lost a bit of outright strength. So it suits me better to sit and spin and get up faster, as opposed to standing, honking, and just getting there.

 

[welsh dragon]

I spin now, but when I started I would spin and invariably walk. Sometimes it felt like I was walking more than I was on the dam thing.

 

[Mo1959]

Spin the majority of the time with the occasional honk!

 

[DaveReading]

Didn't we use to call it "twiddling". Is that no longer PC ?

 

[Drago]

I used to honk very enthusiastically and wiggle my pert lycra clad tushie for the ladies to admire. For reasons not known I no longer do - I seem to keep my firm, peach-like behind in the saddle as I grind away these days. Not a conscious decision, just the way my riding style has changed over time.

A point of order - to a squaddie "honking" is vernacular for bitching or complaining, so do not be surprised if you get a filthy look if you ask a squaddie why they honk so much.

 

[mudsticks]

I'm a lady - I always do it sitting down.

 

[Sharky]

All 3, especially when I am on my SS or fixie

 

[mudsticks]

Didn't we use to call it "twiddling". Is that no longer PC ?

Fascinated to hear about the PC or otherwise connotations of 'twiddling' @DaveReading

What was the implication??