What keeps you off the bike?

[Jason]

rush hour traffic and darker nights keep me off the bike. even in the summer, I generally wait until the crazies have zoomed home for tea, before I start my rides (around 6:30pm)
Now the nights are drawing in, I am waiting until the weekend, or a day off to ride :-(
For the first time in 3 years, the thought of using my basic turbo trainer is actually appealing

 

[johnnyb47]

It's rain that keeps me off the bike. Cycling in the rain is a big no no :-) :-)

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Sharks on rollerblades

 

[tallliman]

Sharks on rollerblades

Can't you outrun them?

 

[FishFright]

Mental health issues are the most common reason's for not going for a ride. Some days getting out there is just too much . I have learned that on those days going out for a pedal is exactly the wrong thing to do.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Can't you outrun them?

The sharks get into aero tucks when in Prey mode...

 

[Dave 123]

Chest infections. Seem to have had one for the past 3-4 winters.
I try to keep going, but eventually I lose!

 

[roadrash]

permanent pain from this, although the last few weeks ive been getting out more

 

[Deleted member 1258]

[QUOTE 5014755, member: 9609"]Nothing.

another 45 knocked out this morning[/QUOTE]

I got 56 miles in this morning

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Illness, if I'm unwell or one of the family is and needs my support. These days, now I'm retired and not commuting every day its rain that has me missing rides, I'm now riding for enjoyment not transport so I tend to miss if its wet and go out another day.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Bone idleness.

 

[Racing roadkill]

Ice, risk of ice, thick fog, big injury, serious illness, not being physically able to be in 2 different places simultaneously. Other than that, nothing stops me.

 

[gavroche]

Bad weather and lack of daylight when clock goes back this weekend.

 

[Vantage]

Everything lately.
The 6 hours between dropping Erin off at school and picking her up again are filled with doc appointments, housework, decorating, crap weather or more often than not...feeling like hell. Sometimes it's a mix of all of that.
Weekends are lost to my fiancee who thanks to working nights spends a fair chunk of the weekend sleeping.
Evenings I just want to sit in and watch a film in peace and quiet or trying to understand the latest pile of homework that far exceeds my knowledge.
When it isn't all that, I just don't feel like mixing it up with hundreds of absolute c***s in their big heavy barely under control vehicles. It didn't bother me at one time but the f*****s are getting worse.
I'm seriously considering selling the Vantage (which incidently hasnt moved an inch since the 6 oct )and using the money to put towards a mountain bike to better enjoy the trails.

 

[Buck]

Time. Busy at home, busy at work leaving little time to shoe horn cycling in but I do my best and enjoy it more for it not “being on tap”!