Has A Bike Ride Ever Made You Cry ?

[mickle]

Never cried on a bike ride but cant watch a whole episode of One Born Every Minute without a sniffle. And sometimes X Factor. Which really is shameful.

 

[mickle]

I did cry at a view once in Canada.

 

[phil_hg_uk]

I've got a photograph of a favourite Scottish great-uncle opposite me on top of my TV. He is pictured standing alongside his old 3-speed sit-up-and-beg bicycle. I reckon that he must have been at least 80 when the photograph was taken.

I remember that he was still riding until his mid-80s when he fell off into a ditch for the 3rd or 4th time. His sense of balance was letting him down. His GP patched him up for the last time and said "Och, I think it's time to hang up your wheels!"

I think the advice should have been "Och, it's time to swap the bicycle for a tricycle!"

(He lived until his mid-90s.)

I started reading this and I was wondering what your great-uncle was doing sat on top of your tv ........... then I re-read it a couple more time.

 

[MattHB]

When I missed my pedal while trying to clip in standing up...

That made me cry

 

[MisterStan]

When I was about 10, I was out playing with my brother, we were cycling home and the front wheel of my BMX went into a hidden dip in the grass (a pothole in the grass if you will) momentum took over and the handlebars turned 90 degrees belting into my abdomen - cue a bloody painful walk home in tears, a hospital visit and a hernia! I didn't actually start crying until I pulled my t-shirt up and my brother laughed at the 'funny lump'.

 

[phil_hg_uk]

Many years ago me and some friends were messing about in the local park when someone decided it would be a good idea to try to cycle the crazy golf course, one obstacle in particular had a big dip in the middle of it so he had a very intimate moment with the handlebar stem

 

[ColinJ]

Its the only time I've cracked early, normally even if I'm having a bad day I'll get round, though I might be a bit slow.
At the time I was a young fella with a family and a mortgage, work was very busy and I was working all the overtime I could get, I think I was working six days most weeks and averaging around fifty six hours a week, I'd worked the day before and probably was knackered before I started.

Ah, pre-ride-exhaustion would certainly account for it!

 

[shouldbeinbed]

I've cracked and walked the last 3 miles of a 60 miler that I was doing on my folder, I hadn't fed properly and went a bit quick at the start and it bit me on the backside. I just had to stop and walk or I would have broken down.

The same bike might be about to make me cry for a different reason. I fear it needs a new dualdrive hub an I'm skint.

 

[Kestevan]

Closest I've ever come was when I realised I'd taken the wrong turn on my first sportive.....

http://www.cyclechat.net/threads/my-first-sportive.71074/

 

[snapper_37]

When we got lost over the Marin MTB trail and it was getting dark. Was very, very pleased to see a ranger.

 

[Arjimlad]

Not cycling but I know exactly how you felt.

When I completed the Longmynd Hike for the first time, about 9 years ago now, I was very tired & emotional.

It's 50 miles up & down 9 hills in the Longmynd and very demanding. I went with a group of youngsters who I used to play 5-a-side with who were all much faster & fitter than me - but out of 12 of us only 3 finished and I was one of them - did it in 23h 15 or so.

The thought of "Flippin' eck, I've only bloody gone & done it!" at the end was joyous and elating. All these stunned 20 somethings had burnt out at 20-30 miles whereas I had just kept plodding on.

The next time round I caught my foot in a rabbit hole on a hillside at night & twisted my knee, so couldn't finish. My best time ever was 20h54 mins.

 

[Saddle bum]

Has A Bike Ride Ever Made You Cry ?

Only when I hit my thumd when tapping on a cotterless crank. Quite exquisite, the pain was.

 

[MontyVeda]

when i was a kid i went fishing one day in half term with a lad from school. It was bitterly cold and lurking by a river bank for a few hours didn't exactly warm me up. I got home after cycling 5 miles without gloves and was frozen solid and just burst into tears ... problem is, the lad i went fishing with had a bit of a reputation for being a bit of a bully (well deserved, he was a to$$er!), so my mother instantly assumed he'd been picking on me and rang his mother... when i returned to school, he really did bully me

 

[ushills]

Sprinting against a mate on a 100 mile reliability ride I fell about 200 years from the finish line, cried in frustration of falling so late into the ride and at stupidity.

 

[BigonaBianchi]

yep...the day i saw the first road sign with the word 'yorktown' on it.