Sports Debate - Is Cycling a Sport

[MontyVeda]

for me it's most definitely transport.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Riding to work isn't a hobby.

It is for me

Sara is right: riding to work is not a hobby ... your weekend 100 mile rides are the hobby

 

[ianrauk]

Sara is right: riding to work is not a hobby ... your weekend 100 mile rides are the hobby

no it's the over way round. To work and back is hobby..100 milers are work.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Cycling's a sport if you make it one. On some commutes, I'll do my cruising speed no matter what happens , but on others the competitive streak asserts itself when I see a cyclist ahead or behind .

 

[swansonj]

Who cares? We get too hung up on words. Cycling is cycling.

This. Definitions, particularly definitions that impose dichotomies, are arbitrary creations. Surely the magic of cycling (along with walking) is that it transcends the sport/non-sport dichotomy? It has many of the characteristics of sport (requires fitness, incentives to improve the fitness, opportunities for competitiveness, a professional sector to follow and be inspired by) and characteristics of non-sport (functional, environmentally friendly, opportinities for non-competitiveness, saves money, a way of enjoying the countryside). Our commutes to work are simultaneously business and pleasure, as well as economics, environment and health, and it's only the limitations of human thought patterns and language that have difficulty coping with that (I blame Mrs Thatcher).

 

[ufkacbln]

First mistake - arguing with someone who plays wiff-waff. Social inadequacy guaranteed.

Could have been worse.

Synchronised aquatic gurning is considered a sport!

 

[Keith Oates]

Cycling is what you want it to be and 'a sport' is one of the options!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Octet]

"My hand, it's MUTATING!"

 

[ufkacbln]

"My hand, it's MUTATING!"

Too much time on the web?

 

[Octet]

Too much time on the web?

Too much time watching Sci-Fi movies