Am I reading your post correctly - motorcycling was an activity attractive to you only when you were conducting it illegally?My motorbike has been SORN since last September with no plans as yet to put it on the road.
Just no fun anymore .... bores the tits off me riding within the limits these days to be honest.
May just sell mine this year also?
Much rather get the push bike out these days and feel alive!
Getting back on topic;
I think the longer the layoff from cycling (many don't do bad weather) the harder that first ride is - I think we have all paced around the house muttering "c'mon ya fat b@stad" trying to get motivated after 6 weeks off the bike.
Every biker enjoys a little bit of illegality. So much power, so little weight and a tremendous buzz from seeing the horizon approach at an incredible rate of knots.Am I reading your post correctly - motorcycling was an activity attractive to you only when you were conducting it illegally?
Our club saw quite a drop in the numbers attending club rides this winter, especially January and February, but now the weather is improving numbers are rapidly reaching expected levelsIs it just in this part of the world, or has the increase in cycling we've seen over the past several years peaked and now started to drop? Since the backend of last year I've noticed that seeing a fellow rider, whether cycling myself or in the car is reverting back to a less that usual occurrence.
What's it like out in the world in general?
A bunch of us will be riding up there on Saturday, though we will not be struggling!Quite a few cycle clubs out on group rides around blackstone edge & cragg vale which was nice, watching folk on their shiny new bikes struggling up the hills after a winter of doing no exercise is my new jam...
Am I reading your post correctly - motorcycling was an activity attractive to you only when you were conducting it illegally?
And not just lowered, but the 30mph limits pushed further into the countryside, followed by 40, 50, 40 and back to 30.
Some years ago while discussing the topic, my friend commented on it .
"Some people buy a bike, get wet twice and go up one hill and afterwards the bike gets put in the shed, never seeing the light of day again".
There are many variants of the cyclist.
A bunch of us will be riding up there on Saturday, though we will not be struggling!
It IS a wee bit lumpy but 95% of it is on-road ...(cough) that terrain looks a bit rough for my soft backside, I'll be honest!
There are a few too many main roads for me there! I do Littleborough-Tod a lot and also Tod-Mytholmroyd but like to get up on the hills away from the traffic where I can.My weekend plan is to do an approx 50 miles (?) which will be Shaw, denshaw, Rishworth, Sowerby, mytholmroyd, hebden, tod, Littleborough, Milnrow, newhey & back to Shaw. Hoping for gentle breezes mainly...