What does your significant other think of your cycling hobby?

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vickster

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Because I try go to bed early and I can't fall asleep, so I just crawl into bed when Im about to pass out from exhaustion and I study at night sometimes, but lately, it has been just a lot of amazon prime- random documentaries e.g. obesity in China, cycling docs and just any doc that looks good.

Takes over an hour to cycle out of London for me, if not close to 2 hours.
Sounds like you need to reset your sleep patterns 👍
you said you cycle for 4 hours, so you can get far out. Otherwise get the train somewhere out, do a circuit and get the train back
 
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oreo_muncher

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My daughter is at Nottingham Trent Uni.She went back there a few weeks ago:becool:She's doing everything online at the mo' but is in her 2nd year accommodation with three friends from Uni.She prefers to be there than here:okay:

Re the Rapha and Castelli stuff...don't be fooled by the "sale" prices.Their stuff is waaaayyyyyy overpriced and made in the same place as cheaper stuff:okay:
A friend of mine has just visited the factory in Lithuania where Castelli is made(hardly Italian now is it:ohmy:) with a view to them supplying our cycling kit.We can have an exact Castelli Gabba/Perfetto copy jacket,in CC livery,for around £65 each.Bear in mind we might only order 70-100 of each item too.Assos/Castelli/Rapha are charging 2 or 3X more for a badge basically:angry::angry: Save your money:notworthy:
So what brands do I buy?
 

Ming the Merciless

There is no mercy
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I got a Raleigh (steel but then everything was) 10 speed racer for my 18th birthday a couple of months before University. It cost £30 which according to the Bank of England inflation calculator would be £97.15 these days. I had no cycle specific clothing at all. No water bottles. Just a rear rack and crappy panniers mostly used for my student shopping.

Other than rent, food and beer, and University society payments I had no other outgoings. We would put newspaper down pool table pockets to play indefinitely for 10p.

I didn’t work but also had no expectations of building savings or buying nice things. Savings didn’t begin till I was in a job post university.

I went everywhere by bike or foot unless hitch hiking further afield.
 
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Ming the Merciless

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Here you go, me and my 10 speed racer on my 18th birthday. I’m wearing all the kit I’d wear on the bike back then. It’s a poor shot of the prints via my iPad so excuse poor colours. Note lack of cars blocking every spare bit of road.
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screenman

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My wife treats me to a new bike as a surprise present from time to time, normally a birthday with an 0 or a 5 in it, so I guessshe is happy with it. We have a lot of quality time together and day dates most weeks, after 46 years we get on very well and laugh a lot together.
 
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oreo_muncher

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Hmmmm, well I'm very much a night owl as well, so I can't criticize that bedtime. Well, not too much anyway... :whistle:

I do most of my best writing in the evenings.

Looks like SW London, so what about getting on a train to Winchester or Alton and riding home? I love cycling around the Winchester area - I do the odd cycling awayday, but not this year for obvious reasons. I've stayed much closer to home.
When cycling to Winchester- what places do you usually cycle through- I want to avoid A roads as much as possible, not pleasant cycling in lots of traffic and it feels colder.
 
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oreo_muncher

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My wife treats me to a new bike as a surprise present from time to time, normally a birthday with an 0 or a 5 in it, so I guessshe is happy with it. We have a lot of quality time together and day dates most weeks, after 46 years we get on very well and laugh a lot together.
What bikes has she gifted you :biggrin:
 

RichardB

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I’ll have a look thanks.

Well worth a read. It explained a lot to me about myself which, even after 60 years, I hadn't quite worked out. Stuff that I thought was a fault in me turns out to be just the way I am wired up, and once you understand that it makes life a lot simpler. All noisy, hearty, party-animals should read it too, even though it's not about them.
 
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