Cycling and Alcohol

[solmisation]

I have just started reading Cyclecraft, on page 1 it informs me , and I quote "cycling regularly is the single most effective action you can take to increase your life span. Cyclists, on average, live longer than non-cyclists", then today on the breakfast news the reported that "Drinking alcohol every day cuts the risk of heart disease in men by more than a third" and that " large quantities of alcohol could be even more beneficial for men".At this rate I may live forever.Just off for a few "small" Malts

 

[ianrauk]

*ahem*
Ianrauk checks his signature..

 

[Renard]

Do you really want to live longer though? It just means a few years longer in a nursing home lying in your own pish. I hope I die on my bike or falling off a mountain while I'm still fit and healthy.

 

[goo_mason]

Well, tonight on the way home I met two neds (aka chavs) on MTBs, tracksuit-clad with the trackie-bottoms tucked into their white socks, no lights at all in the dark.

They each had an almost-finished bottle of Buckfast in their bottle cages.

Made me smile, that did!!

They're obviously aiming to live forever too.

 

[dav1d]

Do you really want to live longer though? It just means a few years longer in a nursing home lying in your own pish. I hope I die on my bike or falling off a mountain while I'm still fit and healthy.

I once read of a guy who cycled until he was 100 (only stopped cos he died!), and no nursing home in sight!

 

[TheDoctor]

I happen to know that a bottle of Newcastle Brown Ale fits perfectly in a standard bottle cage.

 

[Hover Fly]

Do you really want to live longer though? It just means a few years longer in a nursing home lying in your own pish. I hope I die on my bike or falling off a mountain while I'm still fit and healthy.

Neither of the two blokes I knew who died after falling off a mountain shouted "This is how I want to die!" on the way down or lay in the ambulance saying "It's been a good life and I want to go now."

 

[Keith Oates]

I happen to know that a bottle of Newcastle Brown Ale fits perfectly in a standard bottle cage.

Is that what you used when you up Mont Ventoux!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Dayvo]

Travelling through France and Spain, me and my mate always started the day with deux croissants, black and a LARGE brandy for breakfast!

 

[upsidedown]

Well, tonight on the way home I met two neds (aka chavs) on MTBs, tracksuit-clad with the trackie-bottoms tucked into their white socks, no lights at all in the dark.

They each had an almost-finished bottle of Buckfast in their bottle cages.

Made me smile, that did!!

They're obviously aiming to live forever too.

They should move Buckfast Abbey to Scotland from it's current Devon location, wouldn't half cut down on the "food miles".

 

[mad al]

Cycling and alcohol?

 

[postman]

Note to my GP.

I suggest that cycling should be on the NHS.
So write me a prescription for a new road bike.
One item £7-20.

Now a prescription for a pint £7-20.Don't think i could swallow that one.

 

[Landslide]

Now a prescription for a pint £7-20.Don't think i could swallow that one.

Depends what it's a pint of...

 

[Coco]

... large quantities of alcohol could be even more beneficial for men".At this rate I may live forever.Just off for a few "small" Malts

You're from Pailsey - isn't it mandatory?

a few years longer in a nursing home lying in your own pish. .

Its better than lying in someone else's pish.

 

[ComedyPilot]

I have just started reading Cyclecraft, on page 1 it informs me , and I quote "cycling regularly is the single most effective action you can take to increase your life span. Cyclists, on average, live longer than non-cyclists", then today on the breakfast news the reported that "Drinking alcohol every day cuts the risk of heart disease in men by more than a third" and that " large quantities of alcohol could be even more beneficial for men".At this rate I may live forever.Just off for a few "small" Malts

Do you really want to live longer though? It just means a few years longer in a nursing home lying in your own pish. I hope I die on my bike or falling off a mountain while I'm still fit and healthy.

I like Vikeonabike's sig line, quite apt for this thread:

"The Allfather wove the skein of your life a long time ago. Go and hide in a hole if you wish, but you won't live one instant longer. Your fate is fixed. Fear, profits a man nothing."