UK cycling culture

[WeeE]

Cake - highly respected
Tea - valued by the gallon
Chocolate - socially virtuous (if not so high-profile as the other 2)

I'd have bought a bike a lot sooner if I'd realised that cycling's such a corner of 21st-century civilisation, where my three favourite things in life aren't to be scorned or naughtified.

 

[WeeE]

You forgot the beer!

True, but I'm a cheap drunk (get pished on half a lager) and seldom drink. But I can't go a day without cake or chocolate and at least six pints of tea.

 

[Dayvo]

Hello WeeE!

You'll fit right in here!

Get yourself signed up on one of the Scottish CC forum rides and see if you can cut it with the veterans of over-indulgence!

 

[WeeE]

Get yourself signed up on one of the Scottish CC forum rides and see if you can cut it with the veterans of over-indulgence!

Thanks, Dayvo, but they'd not thank me for tagging along just yet. Not only am I still clueless on roads beyond a few known neighbourhood routes, I'm still doing well going a six mile round trip, and it takes forever. Still get wobbly-legged / sick at the drop of a hat, and gotta get off just about every mile or every hill. (But thermal tea-mug always handy.) On a bad day I need a bit of a lie-down back home before making a cuppa - how bad is that???!!! But getting there...

 

[yello]

I don't drink tea on cake stops because I'd be peeing for the rest of the ride! Coffee doesn't have quite the same effect for some reason. At the risk of outing myself, my preference on winter rides was actually hot chocolate!

 

[WeeE]

Whether you eat chocolate or drink it, it's still lovely!

 

[marinyork]

The tags for this thread are cake, chocolate, civilisation, culture and tea .

 

[ComedyPilot]

Go for it WeeE. Just keep it up and it'll get easier. 6 miles will barely be a warm up in a few months.

 

[TheDoctor]

Thanks, Dayvo, but they'd not thank me for tagging along just yet. Not only am I still clueless on roads beyond a few known neighbourhood routes, I'm still doing well going a six mile round trip, and it takes forever. Still get wobbly-legged / sick at the drop of a hat, and gotta get off just about every mile or every hill. (But thermal tea-mug always handy.) On a bad day I need a bit of a lie-down back home before making a cuppa - how bad is that???!!! But getting there...

That'll be low blood sugar levels. Eat more cake!!!

 

[WeeE]

Thanks, comedypilot - all the encouragement really helps!

And doctor's orders have never been so much fun!

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Cake - highly respected
Tea - valued by the gallon
Chocolate - socially virtuous (if not so high-profile as the other 2)

I'd have bought a bike a lot sooner if I'd realised that cycling's such a corner of 21st-century civilisation, where my three favourite things in life aren't to be scorned or naughtified.

You forgot the good company that goes with the Cake, tea and chocolate.