Meeting fellow cyclists

[Ganymede]

What's up?

Aw, thanks for asking - shoulder surgery on Friday. Nothing serious but it will keep me off the bike for at least a month, if not more.

 

[totallyfixed]

Does "not fast enough" upset other freewheeling group riders as much as me? It makes me want to scream that racing clubs are not the only groups!

This being the difference between forums and real life, the term "not fast enough" is never spoken in real life, certainly not on my forum rides. Someone is always going to be the "slowest" rider, it matters not one jot on the rides I organise, speed is not of the essence at all. What we do offer is a fairly large bank of knowledge on all things cycling, cakes at the finish and, the most important bit, no one is made to feel slow.
Small groups scare people because they feel more exposed, whereas in a large ride the feeling is that there will always be someone who will be as slow as them, this is why large numbers attract yet larger numbers.

 

[Scotchlovingcylist]

For me its all about the 'me time'. Away from distractions and people, I hate people.
Seriously though I have a socially demanding job which I love and spend a lot of time with friends and my wife which I love so the chance for some alone time to decompress is bliss for me.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Small groups scare people because they feel more exposed, whereas in a large ride the feeling is that there will always be someone who will be as slow as them, this is why large numbers attract yet larger numbers.

The Fridays LonJOG ride has left me with many many memories. The day in TF's company in Rutland, which I mistakenly thought was flat, was a very memorable one.

 

[ColinJ]

This being the difference between forums and real life, the term "not fast enough" is never spoken in real life, certainly not on my forum rides. Someone is always going to be the "slowest" rider, it matters not one jot on the rides I organise, speed is not of the essence at all.

Funnily enough, I have always been one of the slowest riders on my CycleChat forum rides - many of you didn't know me the last time I was fit!

 

[totallyfixed]

The Fridays LonJOG ride has left me with many many memories. The day in TF's company in Rutland, which I mistakenly thought was flat, was a very memorable one.

You did pick one of the lumpiest bits to come through, all the steeper hills are short and the longer ones are shallow in Rutland.

 

[I like Skol]

I have enjoyed a few forum rides and nearly always find fellow cyclechatters to be agreeable company. I have also organised a few rides and as TF commented in the OP, the turnout after initial enthusiasm can be dire (although the fact I often pitch my rides on New Years day, in terrible weather and tackling some of the hilliest parts of the locality doesn't help ).
I would like to get along to more forum informal rides but I guess I am in the same boat as most other members, work, family, and the responsibilities of life, do their best to claim the freetime you would like to set aside for a 'jolly'?

Having said that, I will be going to Llandudno on Apr 25th

 

[w00hoo_kent]

I wonder if there would be interest in a meet up rather than specifically a ride. Find somewhere with multiple possible routes out of it, decide on a bunch of them and then suggest anyone who wants to meet up in a particular time slot does and if people also want to ride out then they can pick one of the routes and go for it. If it turns out others come along for the ride then all good. Might allow people to socialise and ride as they wish.

When it's warmer, naturally.

 

[cyberknight]

Met a couple around here @simon the viking and @MickeyBlueEyes but as yet we have not had a ride although i have suggested it a few times i think fitting one in around various work /family commitments has been the issue .

 

[Vikeonabike]

I met this strange bloke in Rutland a couple of times...Well I might have done... I'm possibly a fictitious character, so I might not have done...

 

[simon the viking]

Met a couple around here @simon the viking and @MickeyBlueEyes but as yet we have not had a ride although i have suggested it a few times i think fitting one in around various work /family commitments has been the issue .

We will have to sort something out this summer.........

 

[vernon]

I alternate between riding in largeish group rides like Audaxes and FNRttC and riding solo. Most of my riding is solo but my rides with the Fridays have been memorable. I've met a lot of the southern CC members on FNRttC rides in London and up here in Yorkshire. The other cycling community that I mix with are the riders who enter the York based Audaxes one or two of them use CC and others use YACF.

I've met @Cubist socially for a curry and a pie exchange and we discussed organising a CC curry meet at the Kashmir in Bradford though neither of us have done anything about it. @CharlieB called in at leeds to see the last UK Chumbawamba gig a couple of years ago. @Piemaster might materialise in Leeds on Easter Sunday for a Pie and Cider Festival and I have, in the past threatened to organise a pie ride though I'm too easily distracted by the ephemera of life's rich tapestry.

 

[I like Skol]

in the past threatened to organise a pie ride

Yes please....

 

[Piemaster]

A trip into the city for me is now known as the 'Pie Ride'. Mostly as I will come back with a pie from my favourite pie shop.
@vernon Won't be able to make the festival unfortunately. My Company has my flights booked back to work on the 4th. Sniff

 

[vernon]

A trip into the city for me is now known as the 'Pie Ride'. Mostly as I will come back with a pie from my favourite pie shop.
@vernon Won't be able to make the festival unfortunately. My Company has my flights booked back to work on the 4th. Sniff

Shame.