Rain drops
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I can't help wondering whether cycling follows the same '7 year itch' rule, as enthusiasm wanes, the longer a person stays the course? This clearly applies to many who follow other passions. For example windsurfing. I became addicted to it in 1982, along with very many others, yet now, 40 years later, all of those I once knew have long since given up, and left to follow some other passion. I'm the only local left with the same(ish) enthusiasm, which now, when alone, is harder to maintain.
Is cycling perhaps an exception? Does enthusiasm simply wax and wain, but always burst back out again, after any period of 'switch off'? I would say so in my own case. I remember (just a brief incident) having a three wheel trike at the age of four, and inevitably almost living on my roadster two wheeler in my early teens (as all of us did at the time) until reaching the magic motor cycle licencing age, then goodbye cycling! (A clip on 50cc Mini Motor for £19.)
The urge burst out again in my 30's, on and off for a few years, but fully kicked back in in my 60's, and has seemingly grow ever stronger since. (Rekindled teenage memories - scents and feelings all coming back out of the memory banks.) I can't help thinking that the love of pedal powered two wheel movement is an itch that defies all blandishments to grow up, and act your age!
P.S. No intention of joining a political echo chamber. Not interested. If receive abuse here will simply walk (ride preferably) away. No big deal.
Is cycling perhaps an exception? Does enthusiasm simply wax and wain, but always burst back out again, after any period of 'switch off'? I would say so in my own case. I remember (just a brief incident) having a three wheel trike at the age of four, and inevitably almost living on my roadster two wheeler in my early teens (as all of us did at the time) until reaching the magic motor cycle licencing age, then goodbye cycling! (A clip on 50cc Mini Motor for £19.)
The urge burst out again in my 30's, on and off for a few years, but fully kicked back in in my 60's, and has seemingly grow ever stronger since. (Rekindled teenage memories - scents and feelings all coming back out of the memory banks.) I can't help thinking that the love of pedal powered two wheel movement is an itch that defies all blandishments to grow up, and act your age!
P.S. No intention of joining a political echo chamber. Not interested. If receive abuse here will simply walk (ride preferably) away. No big deal.