High and low part of your daily ride?

[Losidan]

What is yours then?
High point for me is the three miles on canal towpath. Lovely and quiet with great scenery twice a day.
Low point is a traffic light crossroads on a hill. There is always a long queue of cars up the hill. Two abreast on a road not wide enough for two so not an inch of room for a bike. I always resort to getting off and walking on the pavement. Walk through the lights and I am greeted by a 14% gradient 3/4 of a mile hill to contend with.
I would not give it up for anything though

 

[hackbike 6]

Dont know of any.I suppose getting there safely and without a p*nct*re is a high point.

Low two knobhead cyclists today one cycling off of the pavement into my path in Walthamstow and a bike courier cycling into my path while talking on his mobile at Waterloo and making some unfriendly comment at a guess of which I didn't hear.knob.

I swear London cyclists are getting worse.

 

[gbb]

Low point on my ride ?...there's a maybe 5 mile section on my 34 mile circuit, long, with no cover or hedges, flat to slightly uphill, boring, boring boring...and absolutely murder in the winter .
I always have a biting headwind on that section, bloody awful.

High point....any summer ride...anywhere
Actually..theres a section of another 28 mile loop, with little dips and rises, bends and some lovely scenery (usually see Red Kite at that point)...you can honk up the short hills, whizz down the dips, lean into the corners....great fun, its what cyclings all about.

I could go on....

 

[yenrod]

HIGH: A hill...

LOW: The traffic..

 

[sticky sherbert]

low, head wind and farmers spreading chicken shoot on the fields

high, burning off the high volume of biscuits I consume on a daily basis

 

[MessenJah]

High points: Monday morning when cycling is effortless, like there is no air resistance, barely any friction in the drivetrain, and my legs feel like they've been lubricated - the cranks feel really light and spinny. Cold weather. Light rain. Still air. Going fast without breaking a sweat. Completely flat roads; riding at your own pace without gravity's interference. Getting in a bus's slipstream on a windy day. Seeing female cyclists with a smile on their face.

Low points: Hills, either up or down. That sluggish feeling like your legs are full of cement, and like your tyres are at half the recommended pressure (despite the fact that they're definitely at the right pressure) and you're riding through treacle. Wind in any direction. Humidity. Heat. Traffic lights. Pedestrians who step out in front of you without looking. Shite motorists (touch wood, haven't come into contact with many lately). Punctures when you really can't be arsed. Crap mini-pumps. Being hungry and feeling your blood sugar drop. Eating too much, and having to ride with an overfull stomach. Diesel on the road. Leaving the house in the morning thinking you have just the right amount of clothes on for the temperature, but then it gets hotter (or colder). Finding out that your stupid badly designed cateye rear light has been flashing all day because the button is so sensitive that it would switch on if a fruitfly landed on it. Having to sit on the painful lump in your crease. Getting home and really wanting do more riding, but it's too late, there's nowhere to go and no-one to go with, and you're too tired anyway.

 

[swee'pea99]

Patient, courteous drivers.

The wind.

 

[AdamBlade]

high: The commute to work - majority downhill and can pick speeds in excess of 40pmh on a mtb. Also the final mile back home, through park and woods with generally very few people.

low: The previous 2 miles from the centre of Sheffield on the way home. Have to contend with buses in bus lane jumping infront and then stopping 20 yards up the road at a bus stop.

 

[grhm]

High: Making it all the way up the hill on my unneccessary detour to see if I can climb better/quicker/father than previously (500-600ft of ascent in 1/2-3/4 mile). Going 30mph+ on the way down.

Low: Getting to work and realising I've forgot my packed lunch or was too busy enjoying the down hill to stop and the sandwich shop.

 

[Baggy]

Highs on Thurs: No rain, a tailwind and seeing an interesting duck and a hairy caterpillar.
Lows: Going past a squashed cat for the 6th time.

 

[biking_fox]

High - flat bit of road, wide and fast no lights and a tailwind, dropping lycra clad serious cyclists.

Low - endless red traffic lights, Levenshulme, annoyingly slight incline - not enough to say your hill climbing but energy and speed sapping especially with a headwind and driving rain.

 

[nilling]

High: cycling alongside the river Ribble and passing cars in traffic

Lows: the headwind on the A584 - stop pedalling and the bike stops

 

[goo_mason]

High - just being on the bike and getting somewhere powered solely by my own hairy legs !

Low - some very icy corners in winter on my route, and any time there's a stiff headwind.

 

[GrahamG]

High - the lovely ladies of Bristol.

Low - the lovely hills of Bristol.

 

[goo_mason]

High - the lovely ladies of Bristol.

Low - the lovely hills of Bristol.

I kept looking for the next line which I imagined was going to say:

Chest-height: the lovely bristols

(I'll get me coat)