Does anyone apart from me just get on their bikes and ride them?

[Psycolist]

I do love a gadget, so yes I have a computer on each bike, but in terms of keeping records or PB's or average speeds or any sort of record keeping, NAH ! I just love to ride. I am more focused on how my rides feel in terms of comfort and ridability, than in wether I am riding any further or quicker. But I do love a gadget ! ;>) Can anyone recommend a cheap video camera for handlebar mounting ?

 

[mjr]

Can anyone recommend a cheap video camera for handlebar mounting ?

MD80

 

[bpsmith]

I have every ride recorded over the past 2 years. Sometimes I go out to try and be fast, other times not. The fact that I have the Garmin running does not affect my enjoyment.

In fact, it's often surprises me to see PB's set on rides that I wasn't trying too hard.

It's all down to your mentality really. If not recording the ride makes you feel more enjoyment then so be it. Any pressure is all your own. Nobody else cares if you were slower/faster really.

 

[snorri]

. That way, I hope I will enjoy my cycling more .

Careful, you could get older sooner by taking that route, or at least speed up the loss of general health and fitness.

 

[tyred]

I remain convinced that regular cycling keeps my weight down by keeping me away for prolonged periods from all the readily available snacks in my kitchen.

I bought a huge Carradice saddle bag so I could take most of the contents of my kitchen with me when going for a ride

 

[itchybeard]

Irrespective of logging mileage or tyre wear or strava segments or cadence or.........

I know I'm not in training or trying to maintain heart zones or optimising my power vs aero position, but so many people seem to keep logs of this and records of that and know to the n'th degree how far they are off a KOM on strava or their Eddington number or the duration of every ride and when it rained on them back to 4th of March 1977 just after teatime.

I feel like some sort of oddball because I just go out and pedal to where I want to go and get off and do what I need to there and then get on and pedal home again or I just go out and pedal around for the sheer darned heck of it without giving the slightest thought to whether I'm 5 seconds faster than last week and am up to 3rd on the towpath KOM or whatever.

Why am I so easily satisfied? & darn my uncompetitive nature.

i hear yer..