YOU can get slower at cycling! Here's how.
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Ming the Merciless
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24 Ensure you apply the brakes at all times
Ming the Merciless
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25. Have 3 or 4 pints mid ride
Shortandcrisp
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26. Actually enjoy your ride.
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Cycling_Samurai
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Oh I like that one. I do a 50 miler that turns around in a small town. The roads in that small town are lovely stretches which cause me to slow down. It happens without me even thinking about it. It's like a magical spell or something.
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Drinking and riding eh? I'be nit trid dit.
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SkipdiverJohn
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27) Transport a length of motorcycle chain and a Chubb padlock slung over your neck, with two more Chubbs in your rucksack. Don't ask me how I know this slows you down..
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Cycling_Samurai
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28) tether a slow cyclist to your bike (also the tandum bike qualifies).
I've passed many a tandum bike. Especially up hill. Mostly men and women with the woman on the second position. Only once with two men. Haven't seen two women. I've not seen anyone tether a bike to a bike. But I have seen a skateboard pulled.
I've passed many a tandum bike. Especially up hill. Mostly men and women with the woman on the second position. Only once with two men. Haven't seen two women. I've not seen anyone tether a bike to a bike. But I have seen a skateboard pulled.
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Ming the Merciless
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Cycling_Samurai
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30 - Injure your leg and don't ride for 6 days.
Unfortunately happened to me recently
Unfortunately happened to me recently
bikingdad90
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31. Your children develop a cough and temperature and need to go for yet another PCR test (no 7; and all negative so far).
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Cycling_Samurai
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how does that make you slower on your bike exactly???
bikingdad90
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It’s slows me down to 0mph as I can’t ride outdoors and no turbo
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Cycling_Samurai
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Good point. Hope the little ones are alright.
(What number we up to?) - Don't give a shoot about all that stuff and just enjoy what you do.
Took me ages to learn that lesson, even though I thought I didn't listen to the train harder/ride faster advice in the first place.
When you ride, particularly when starting out, there's an understandable seduction to all things bike; you like riding and magazines are full of training tips, nutritional advice, etc etc etc. So you get lured in, thinking that's what riding a bike is about. And, for you, it's not. It can have the opposite effect and destroy your pleasure.
So forget it. Ignore it. Do what you do (fast or slow) and enjoy. Of course, if you're into 'ride like a pro' then by all means fill your boots. Go for it. But for pootlers like me, people that enjoy the simple pleasure of stopping for a pee and listening to the quiet that surrounds you, then a great deal of the bookshelf advice is simply not applicable.
Took me ages to learn that lesson, even though I thought I didn't listen to the train harder/ride faster advice in the first place.
When you ride, particularly when starting out, there's an understandable seduction to all things bike; you like riding and magazines are full of training tips, nutritional advice, etc etc etc. So you get lured in, thinking that's what riding a bike is about. And, for you, it's not. It can have the opposite effect and destroy your pleasure.
So forget it. Ignore it. Do what you do (fast or slow) and enjoy. Of course, if you're into 'ride like a pro' then by all means fill your boots. Go for it. But for pootlers like me, people that enjoy the simple pleasure of stopping for a pee and listening to the quiet that surrounds you, then a great deal of the bookshelf advice is simply not applicable.
