rogerzilla
Legendary Member
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.
Things you hate about cycling!
- Thread starter Cathryn
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youngoldbloke
The older I get, the faster I used to be ...
Potholes. Lumpy fixed potholes. (Why is it so hard to make them the same level as the road?). Top dressed roads.
DCBassman
Guru
- Location
- The lumpy far South West
This.
lazybloke
Considering a new username
- Location
- Leafy Surrey
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.
- Location
- The TerrorVortex
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!
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
Veteran
- Location
- Oxfordshire
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.
)But it all pales into insignificance on a warm summer day when you're out doing a multi-hour ride in beautiful countryside.
lazybloke
Considering a new username
- Location
- Leafy Surrey
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
Judging your grammar.
- Location
- Basking in my own brilliance.
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
Veteran
- Location
- South Wales
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.
- Location
- Inside my skull
Punctures are my pet hate. Thankfully they are not too often.
