Odd cycling habits/rituals?

[i hate hills]

I sometimes talk to my bike, when I'm out in the car and alone I'll talk to that as well.

When your out for a walk do you talk to your shoes ?

 

[i hate hills]

When out on my own i do tend to speak to myself a lot and on occasion have had an argument with me. I hate it when you speak to fellow cyclists and they ignore you, so i give them a loud BBBBBBBBAAAAAAAA . I put on a posh voice and wish any walkers i meet a " jolly good morning to you sir / madam. Come to think of it this all may be the reason i'm cycling on my own a lot and being ignored by most folk i meet.

 

[roadrash]

I mentioned this in the left or right thread I think, but I have that as well. Bicycle or motorbike, I can only coordinate getting on from the left hand side. The second I try and mount it from the right hand side my brain goes in to some overthinking meltdown and I forget how all of my joints work. From that point on all bets are off, I'll either end up clumsily draped across the bike with a befuddled look on my face as to how it happened, or sprawled in a heap of limbs and frame on the floor begging for mercy. Knowing this, I will do anything I can to mount on the left side, although for some reason once in a blue moon I complete forget this and try to get on from the wrong side, realising my mistake at some point after my left leg has raised beyond 45 degrees, if I'm sensible at that point I'll give up and start again from the 'correct' side.

Thinking on this, what is particularly confusing about it is that I am pretty much ambidextrous and almost anything else that I do I can do adequately with my off hand (I'm also left eye dominant so while nominally right handed a lot of two handed things, shooting, pool, etc. I do left handed). I can only presume that it's so hard coded in to muscle memory to get on from the left that when I try from the right it's like I'm inventing the option for the very first time.

Iam exactly the same ,i cant get on the bike from the right hand side no matter how i try , same if im pushing it i have the bike on my right side

 

[Jefferson Meriwether]

same if im pushing it i have the bike on my right side

Me too. If I have my bike on my left I keep tripping over the flipping thing.

I've named my bike,, anyone else to the same?

I get the impression people who name their bikes are in the majority. I've named my bikes.

 

[Ern1e]

Mine is I just can not stand dirty rims !! rest can be as mucky as you know what but not the rims.

 

[e-rider]

Iam exactly the same ,i cant get on the bike from the right hand side no matter how i try , same if im pushing it i have the bike on my right side

+1

 

[e-rider]

I tut at dirty bikes

+1

 

[Cyrill666]

I tried getting on from the right yesterday - felt just plain wrong!

 

[Hilton116]

Does anyone have any cycling rituals or habits whilst out riding?

I quietly apologise to dead animals on behalf of whoever/whatever caused them to shuffle off their mortal coil as I cycle along - I realise that makes me sound like a bit of a mumbling crazy , but there you go.

See how long I can hold my breath whilst ascending Mont Ventoux

 

[Hyslop]

I tried getting on from the right yesterday - felt just plain wrong!

Quite agree.Maybe a bike fit should include the question"Which side do you dress/mount Sir".

 

[thegravestoneman]

Try shouting "PHEASANT " just to totally confuse the situation.

I say the full 'I am not a pheasant plucker but a pheasant pluckers son' thing to most pheasants I see on my travels, no idea why I started it but ...

 

[Brightski]

I'm a superstitious racer I'll always put my right sock, shoe and overshoe on first.. On race day, I'm even doing it for training now

 

[iamRayRay]

After hitting some nice speeds on Strava on my last 2 rides...
I've realised that I belt out Beethoven's 5th Symphony when I speed down the hills!!!

 

[Stonechat]

Many years ago at work when it was a long day I would sing the Beach Boys'
I wanna go home

I have been known to sing it as a long ride becomes a little tiring

 

[nickyboy]

I nearly always end up with some earworm or other. Here was today's

Hey porter, hey porter
Won't you tell me the time
How much longer til we reach that Mason Dixon line.....

Whatever gets you up the hills I guess