That sounds brilliant!....well,the speed and the general idea of the thing,the broken bones?Well no obviously.But into each sunny life,a little gloom will come (of you lived in Carlisle you'd know that).I would love to have a go all the same.If you think people see cycling as weird, try flying kites as a hobby!
In my six years of kite buggying I managed 50mph on newgale beach, got lifted 20ft by a particularly large (9 square metres) kite in barely 5mph wind and broke more bones than rugby and cycling combined!
And they still thought it was childish...
Non cyclists look upon cyclists as weird
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petek
Über Member
- Location
- East Coast UK
Non-paid-professional MAMILs have always struck me as being a bit weird.
For the hobby-bicyclist, tweed is far more weatherproof and practical than is lycra.
Ordinary cyclists though... salt of the earth.
For the hobby-bicyclist, tweed is far more weatherproof and practical than is lycra.
Ordinary cyclists though... salt of the earth.
bigjim
Legendary Member
- Location
- Manchester. UK
I love the gym. Go regularly. Sometimes drive, car or motorbike. Sometimes I take the bus or ride the bike. The bike is a bit dodgy as they are always getting knicked. I lift weights and feel great afterwards. I don't like riding in the rain or snow, so the gym is where I'm at on the days when I don't want to ride the bike. On a dark rainy day it's great to step into the gym where the lights are bright, music playing and nice people chatting to you. Feels pretty good as well to sit in the Sauna or Jacuzzi after a good workout or swim and watch the good old, cold English rain lashing against the windows.
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Rain always looks worse than it is when viewed through a window.
bigjim
Legendary Member
- Location
- Manchester. UK
Can't see myself washing tweed shorts and shirts out in the sink while on tour. Oh, and expecting them to be dry in the morning.
classic33
Leg End Member
I used to get a lot of "are you mad?" when people realised I'd cycled to wherever it was I was meeting them - generally within a 10 mile radius ofmy house too.
More recently though i find people seem more impressed than anything else that I cycle to work. I almost feel I have to apologise on the days I cadge a lift.
More recently though i find people seem more impressed than anything else that I cycle to work. I almost feel I have to apologise on the days I cadge a lift.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Or just get yourself a boyfriend named 'Jim' ...
Pumpkin the robot
Guru
So an "ordinary cyclist" cannot wear lycra?
Fa
Same guys in cycling gear..... what's the difference ?
Fat guys in full kit playing 5 a sides ....normal.
Same guys in cycling gear..... what's the difference ?
classic33
Leg End Member
That would then be going to Jim every morning, not the Jim though.Or just get yourself a boyfriend named 'Jim' ...
Apollonius
Guru
- Location
- South Staffordshire
What strikes me as the weirdest thing - and it is nothing to do with kit - is the kind of distances you take as normal. A relative of mine got her BSO out recently and puffed and struggled all the way to a nearby park. Describing herself as exhausted and drained, she reckoned she had done about a mile. And, indeed, that can often be the experience when you first start out. Maybe, like for her, that is the final cycling experience. Not many habitual cyclists can recall how every slope was a hill. (I saw a couple pushing BSOs over a canal bridge hump the other day.)
We stopped for a rest on a hilly sportive a couple of weeks ago. A passer-by asked how far we were doing. 50 miles, I said. I don't think she believed me.
Try driving to a place you habitually ride to. It seems a very long way in a car! yet, part of the therapy of cycling is to slow down and see the world at a more "human" pace. The ride is the journey, and is the experience. Life itself. Inside a car, the journey is a frustrating and resented waste of time. You see little. You are not engaged with the landscape or the experience. "Put the radio on!"
We are weird because we see the journey as a part of life. An end not a means. You can get on your bike and spend a couple of hours riding a circular route to get back to where you started from. To do that in a car would be seen as a pointless waste of time and fuel.
We stopped for a rest on a hilly sportive a couple of weeks ago. A passer-by asked how far we were doing. 50 miles, I said. I don't think she believed me.
Try driving to a place you habitually ride to. It seems a very long way in a car! yet, part of the therapy of cycling is to slow down and see the world at a more "human" pace. The ride is the journey, and is the experience. Life itself. Inside a car, the journey is a frustrating and resented waste of time. You see little. You are not engaged with the landscape or the experience. "Put the radio on!"
We are weird because we see the journey as a part of life. An end not a means. You can get on your bike and spend a couple of hours riding a circular route to get back to where you started from. To do that in a car would be seen as a pointless waste of time and fuel.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
They called 'The Fonz' THE Fonz!
I'd be much more impressed if you cycled to Firhill to see the Maryhill Magyars!
I often cycle along the canal past Firhill..... without stopping!
