What is cycling to you?

[SpokeyDokey]

Cycling is just one of my five main exercise routines - bike, turbo, treadmill, multigym & hiking.

I am not in love with, or obsessed with, any of them.

 

[wiggydiggy]

Just sitting on the bike and peddling somewhere for the pleasure of it I suppose. The act of riding the bike for nothing more than the satisfaction of it.

I use my bike for other things like I do commute on bike occasionally, but i call that commuting I just happen to be on a bike. Same as if I ride to the shops, I'm having a quick ride but I mostly think of it as going shopping.

So cycling is any time I'm peddling my bike for no reason other than I want to sit on my bike and have a ride 🚴

 

[YMFB]

it’s exercise and I commute when possible.
Allows me to eat far more than I could otherwise
like skiing and motorcycling it takes my mind off work

 

[Paulus]

Slight extension to the topic

but do people ride "the right bike for the ride"
or just jump on their favourite ( or only ) bike - and use that for everything?

Mine (as said before!) is a Raleigh Motus ebike (UK legal and not fiddled with

and I just jumped on it when I got it and rode it

I ride it everywhere and on tyres that "are not ideal" for the tracks and tow-paths I ride on
but stuff it


I grew up with a Peugeot bike with drops and flat pedals and rode all over the Wirral and Nottingham on whatever track/path turned up
rough or not


I never even changed the saddle - although it is getting a bit knackered now

what do otehrs ride?

Over the years I have had several what could be called racing bikes, two of which I still have, a Condor Italia and a Condor Classico. A Dawes Audax for that purpose and my old 1975 Galaxy, also its replacement Galaxy from 1985. A Brompton for when I have you use a train or bus. Plus a couple of other stragglers I have picked up along the way. A Falcon Black Diamond from 1979 and a Raleigh Royal I rebuilt 6 years back. They all get used on a weekly or monthly basis.

 

[sevenfourate]

Allows me to eat far more than I could otherwise

Yes !

I’m convinced ‘most’ Cyclists / Runners etc aren’t in love with their sport. But are obsessed with cake. And biscuits, sausage rolls, bags of chips, apple pies………..

 

[Ian H]

For me, it's everything. Commuting. Leisure. Utility and Touring. I would honestly be lost without cycling.

This kind of thing. I was never a regular commuter, but I can add in time-trials and road-racing, club-runs and pub-runs. Plus all the bike maintenance and committee stuff.

 

[cyberknight]

Stress relief .

 

[Big John]

A bit of all of the above with the exception of commuting. I did that for 35 years but now, thank god, I'm retired so I don't need to dress like an Eskimo first thing on a winters morning. I can laze in bed reading forum posts in a morning now 🥳

 

[chriswoody]

My happiness machine and I in our happy place.

Cycling is also way to get to work or transport for picking things up, It's a de-stress machine and a means to go beyond the horizon and explore.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Throughout my twenties and thirties and into my forties, club cycling was my whole life. Which is why, in my sixties, I find it so disappointing that clubs have no place for the likes of me now.

 

[Dirtyhanz2]

Everything
love bicycles when not riding literally thinking about where am going to ride next
I can sit for hours just looking at my bikes
To me bicycles are art and love

 

[oxoman]

Throughout my twenties and thirties and into my forties, club cycling was my whole life. Which is why, in my sixties, I find it so disappointing that clubs have no place for the likes of me now.

That's sad, luckily in some areas new more social riding groups are forming. There's a fair few clubs that do have a more social side rather than just the go faster brigade. Might be worth looking around a bit. Personally never been a club rider but a new more social group is opening nearby and im thinking about it.