What gives you a buzz when cycling?

[Drago]

Completing my journey alive and, with luck, uninjured.

 

[Racing roadkill]

Buying a new bike, getting a few 'down the nose' looks, because I didn't need a mortgage to buy it, then happily passing the 'mortgage bikes' on a ride.

 

[marshmella]

My marathon winters

 

[I like Skol]

Being older (only 43!), heavier, untrained (i.e I don't train/work out) and not having the latest/lightest/top-end bike but still passing but not being passed on a weekend sunny climb up The Snake

 

[tallliman]

Just being outside enjoying the world.

 

[Drago]

Trig Points.

 

[PK99]

My mobile phone

 

[vickster]

My mobile phone

My mobile phone

My mobile phone

My mobile phone

@PK99 might be time to upgrade or turn the phone off as it appears to be multiposting

 

[adamangler]

When you find your rythm on a long steady climb. That sweet spot of it being on the edge of your comfort zone but not too hard you start grinding the gears or have to get out of the saddle. Then you get the bonus of a rest at the top.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

The descent of col de Rousset - I do it often enough that I'm not hanging on the brakes unnecessarily, and can enjoy the speed, without the gradient being steep enough to make it feel I'm not in control.

Please don't tell me you live near the Parc Naturel Regional du Vercors? I think I'm about to go bright green with envy. I've viewed some of it in Google StreetView, and it's spectacular.

 

[briantrumpet]

Please don't tell me you live near the Parc Naturel Regional du Vercors? I think I'm about to go bright green with envy. I've viewed some of it in Google StreetView, and it's spectacular.

Only part of the year... you might hate me if you have a read... https://unanglaisendiois.wordpress.com/

Here's the buzzy descent - it's my local hill.



(Sorry about the wind noise!)

 

[Katherine]

Get through the lights before they change.
Getting a good speed up before a hill to get me a bit of momentum to keep going before I start to slow down.
The views.
Cake.

But really, just being outside and riding my bike.

 

[Donger]

The sort of climbs where you get to see the progress you are making. I find long drags up through woods with no views the hardest, but give me a view down to the place I've climbed up from and I'm flying...... if you can call it that at 5mph. That's why I love the Alps, where I have climbed things that my body weight and BMI ought to make impossible, but the views just give you such a lift.

 

[r04DiE]

I went to Wales recently and, after 110km, passed some local (well, I assume he was local), pushing his bike up the mountain. Bit more gradient than London and the local lost

 

[double0jedi]

I still get a buzz riding from town to town. Just the thought that i used to make those trips in a car and now make them under my own steam makes me smile.