Things you hate about cycling!

[rogerzilla]

Being unable to ride on roads I would have used years ago, due to the decreasing tolerance of car drivers and lack of any traffic policing. This means taking hilly back routes.

 

[youngoldbloke]

Potholes. Lumpy fixed potholes. (Why is it so hard to make them the same level as the road?). Top dressed roads.

 

[DCBassman]

Potholes. Lumpy fixed potholes. (Why is it so hard to make them the same level as the road?). Top dressed roads.

This.

 

[lazybloke]

3. You never really escape the feeling that you're not seeing anything you couldn't have seen by car.

I find quite the reverse, views are one of the delights of being on my bike.

 

[Joffey]

Rapha & cars

 

[Joffey]

I find quite the reverse, views are one of the delights of being on my bike.

Quite right. When driving you don't get to appreciate the views.

 

[kingrollo]

Getting up at 8am and still farting about getting ready at 0845 !!!

 

[TheDoctor]

Hills.
I spent about 45 minutes going up a hill, turned round at the top, and was back down in under ten.
This seems unfair. All hills should be in the correct (ie downwards) orientation.
Someone needs to get Escher on the case!

 

[alex_cycles]

Rain, headwinds, ice, potholes, the 1% of drivers, bike cleaning after a wet ride, other riders passing too close (doesn't happen much now I'm faster )

But it all pales into insignificance on a warm summer day when you're out doing a multi-hour ride in beautiful countryside.

 

[lazybloke]

Quite right. When driving you don't get to appreciate the views.

Yep, you can't always stop a car to appreciate the view, if you even notice it in the first place from within a low iron box.

Plus bikes can go places that cars can't, nicer places away from tyre/engine noise.

But back to things we hate, I'll go for temperature changes. This time of year you can go out at sunrise needing layers of winter garb, then later have to completely change into a thin summer layer and end up Carrying half a wardrobe.

 

[Moon bunny]

The obsession with speed. OK if you are genuinely racing, but your average on this morning’s commute was 0.3mph faster than yesterday’s, SBW?

 

[Alex321]

The obsession with speed. OK if you are genuinely racing, but your average on this morning’s commute was 0.3mph faster than yesterday’s, SBW?

Well don't obsess about it then.

I don't understand why it bothers you that some do, so long as they aren't going on about it to the extent of boring you.

 

[vickster]

Annoying, not hate but having to lug heavy locks even just to pop to the shops or park up for an hour for a coffee, so to stop some thieving scum. I king bike or even a wheel grrr

 

[Milkfloat]

peanut drivers, Ice, road debris, potholes, HS2 construction and Dennis Wise hills. Mainly it is the peanut drivers trying to kill me, but to be fair even they are pretty rare.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Punctures are my pet hate. Thankfully they are not too often.