My cyclist's confession, what's yours?

[JtB]

Sometimes when I'm out cycling and I catch up to a younger cyclist in front I don't like to overtake out of respect for their youth. But more often than not the temptation to show them youngsters what we old timers are made of is too great and I just can't help myself.

 

[pauldavid]

Sometimes when I'm out cycling and I catch up to a younger cyclist in front I don't like to overtake out of respect for their youth. But more often than not the temptation to show them youngsters what we old timers are made of is too great and I just can't help myself.

And as you pass the youngster thinks to himself "give the old goat his moment, let him feel faster than me he doesn't look like he's got long left the poor old sod"

 

[ColinJ]

I'm waiting for the confessions of CycleChat's non-cyclists!

(I was a temporary member of the non-cycling club, but am cycling again now.)

 

[Night Train]

I don't like cycling locally, I'd sooner drive then cycle locally but I do try to cycle when it is reasonable to do so.
In York I will quite happily cycle everywhere by choice, when not walking everywhere.

That will change when Arch moves in. Arch will probably cycle everywhere and I will happily ride behind her...

 

[Arch]

What, the same way you always let me go upstairs first?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Get a room you two!!

Annyway, on a similar vein, when I'm following someone young with a nice.... bottom bracket, I suddenly decide I'm in no real rush. This is ok, until they insist that I go ahead of them as they feel they are holding me up.
Either that or you are cycling along and discover that all the people with the best bottom brackets are going in the opposite direction, but you have to be somewhere so can't make a sneaky about turn, pretending you are on a training run/have a technical problem/simply have had enough and want to go home etc etc

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Get a room you two!!

Annyway, on a similar vein, when I'm following someone young with a nice.... bottom bracket, I suddenly decide I'm in no real rush. This is ok, until they insist that I go ahead of them as they feel they are holding me up.
Either that or you are cycling along and discover that all the people with the best bottom brackets are going in the opposite direction, but you have to be somewhere so can't make a sneaky about turn, pretending you are on a training run/have a technical problem/simply have had enough and want to go home etc etc

Couldn't agree more, and it's even better to stay behind when they have nice spokes...

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Also, the last time I wore lycra shorts, I was about 8. I do NOT wear lycra shorts, in fact, I don't wear shorts in general, and also, don't even get me started on those 'one piece' thingimybobbers!

Basically, anything that shows my legs is a no go area, sorry!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Also, I have never followed any of the 'rules' about training/nutrition. Ever.

There are cyclists, and then, there's me!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

When I am on a cycletrack that I know at night, I often switch my headlight off, let my eyes get used to the dark, and then cycle the path by sight. 'Tis amazing how much more you often see than if you are relying on a beam of light.

 

[TVC]

As a cyclist, I get really annoyed by other cyclists who don't use their lights.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

As a cyclist, I get really annoyed bybother cyclists who don't use their lights.

When coming across other cyclists, I will switch my lights back on to indicate my position. If, however, you are going in the same direction as me, and are just being a moaning minnie about it, then I will ignore you, but not before perhaps giving you some choice words before I do

 

[Moon bunny]

To TVC
Keep away from the lake district next weekend then, Hover Fly and I have a couple of moonlit rides planned.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Moonlit rides are great, why would you need any lights at all there?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I don't own any lights worth more than about £20, and wouldn't be seen dead lit up like a Christmas tree like you see some people just to go along a cycle path (roads are different, but even then, I try and not to look like too much like someone with a Christmas light fetish), and I most certainly do not own any of these lights that are so powerful you can probably see them from Jupiter!