Just Why?

[All uphill]

Liking your own ways is not being miserable, it's your choice. I find it annoying to be labelled as miserable, weird or strange just because you don't follow the crowd like a sheep.. Be a maverick that's what I say

How do I give this ten likes?

 

[JPBoothy]

I have a love / dislike feeling for cycling, most of time I really like it, sometimes I can’t be arsed. About 18 months ago I discovered that I really enjoy taking old bikes apart and doing them up and getting them going again, I think I enjoy that more than riding at the moment.

Having just spent quite a lot of money on a new bike I feel duty bound to ride it, when I do I really enjoy it, but sometimes getting out the door can be a bit of a fag.

Yep, I know that feeling too.. At least with your bike, once it's bought it can lie there costing you nothing until you're good and ready to give it go. With a Gym membership you keep paying regardless.

 

[wafter]

Escape.

 

[slowmotion]

It makes me happy. Simple.

 

[Kryton521]

Mental health. Nothing else "lifts" me the way a cycle ride can and does. There have been days when I've struggled to get out of the front door, [even summer/sunny days] but when I get on and go......... There's nothing else like it. It's as though I can leave the blackness behind. Not just for a few hours but days at a time.

 

[Hugh Jampton]

Much the same as others on here, always on a bike as a kid. Raleigh Budgie and then a Tomahawk in the 70s. A Grifter and then my first road bike a Raleigh Arena in the 80s. Then regressed into BMX. An Old Postie bike, when I was cycling to my first job in Tescos. Sprayed completely silver, including the tyres .

Living in the Epping Forest area, I was an early adopter of MTB, starting with a Marin with no suspension, then a Cannodale and then back to a full suspension Marin. Into Road bikes in the late 90s and from then a mixture of road and MTB.

Now, in my 50s Mountain biking is proving a little harder to recover from, so pretty much road and light trails.

I have the forest and huge area of the Essex countryside to ride around. I cannot think of much that is more enjoyable.

 

[mjr]

I started cycling as a kid, and just never gave it up. That's it.

Similar, although my big motive to start riding further was that it was 50-50 whether the school bus would get me to exams on time or still be sat in the nearby city's traffic. Then it was an easy way to get to factory temp jobs. Then at uni it was obvious. My bike even spent most of its time in open sheds outside halls and lecture theatres with only a thin chain and puny padlock and remained unnicked. Then keeping healthy became a major reason to keep riding. It's just so obviously the easy way to travel shortish distances easily, isn't it?

 

[RoadRider400]

Because I like to potter about the countryside and I cannot walk at 15mph.

 

[SkipdiverJohn]

Because it's an enjoyable, practical & very cheap way of covering relatively short distances, whilst also allowing me to eat all the sinful high calorie foods I like - and drink plenty of beer without putting on too much weight. 👍

 

[Blue Hills]

Because I like to potter about the countryside and I cannot walk at 15mph.

Yes, and i find walking pace too slow/boring. Speed range of a bike is just perfect. Have never wished for more speed to better appreciate the wonders of nature.

 

[Hugh Jampton]

Compared to hauling a Grifter over your mates a Chopper would be a doddle

Jeez, but a Grifter was heavy. Skinny little me, screaming around the local woods. I ended up looking like this: