Your Cycling Motivation?

[Reynard]

I just love cycling.

It's my "me time", a way of just getting away from it all. And the world always feels like a much better place after a ride.

Cycling helps me keep fit in a way that suits me. It means that I am not tied to classes at times that don't suit, nor do I have to worry about fees or subscriptions. I can just jump on the bike and toddle off for a ride whenever I want to.

Plus the bike is always there for errands / backup transport should it be required.

And cycling allows me to have that slice of cake without feeling quite so guilty about it...

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

Cycling puts my mind at rest. It's just me, the power I produce, and the world I see around me. It's a grounding, an exhilaration, a freedom.
Distance and time do not matter.

Returning to cycling in 2001 saved me from depression and probably worse.

If I don't cycle I miss it and want to do it.

 

[PaulSB]

I love cycling. Nothing more.

 

[Randomnerd]

It gets me out, taking exercise in the fresh air, but most of all it's cheaper than therapy. Just.

You need to buy more stuff for your bike, and more bikes.

 

[Randomnerd]

Vanity
Insanity
Profanity

I imagine I look good in tight merino, astride my steel stallion
I imagine I might remain sane by thrashing along with my lungs akimbo, heart pumping beyond its limit. “This is good for me”
I imagine that many a very close pass allow me free rein to shout “c**t” or “f**kw*t” in public

 

[Pedropete]

Keeps my head straight and stops me collapsing into a heap of knackered joints. ‘Mechanical strengthening’ the GP calls it. Best bit for me is when I’m alone on the road and all I can hear is my tyres, my chain and my own breath... or wheezing.

 

[User6179]

I just like wearing tights......

 

[Crankarm]

Be stupid to own 6 bikes and not ride them.

Do you own 6 bikes?

 

[stoatsngroats]

It’s my sanity, and mental well-being. It allows me to see the world around me, which I don’t notice when I drive.
It gives me health, 15 stone once, now 11.
I hav e a great bicycle, and have had many over the years.
Apart from rides with the OH, it supports my need to be away from other people, as socialising and I don’t really mix!

It’s fantastic fun, and allows me to feel my proper age, which should be 10,but it’s actually 4 decades more than that.
It never fails to make me feel amazed at where my body can take me, and standing in places miles from my start point, with nothing but my bike is so wonderful.

 

[screenman]

Do you own 6 bikes?

Yes.

 

[screenman]

I can honestly say I have never felt a love for cycling.

 

[Andy in Germany]

It started because of a rather sudden realisation about pollution and cars.

Then rediscovering that I really love to ride.

I also love the fact that it costs almost nothing per kilometre, and that I can fix my own bike if there is a problem.

 

[SkipdiverJohn]

I can honestly say I have never felt a love for cycling.

Why choose to do it then? I will never voluntarily do any activity I don't enjoy, as I see it as a waste of time I could instead spend on doing something I did enjoy.
I've always enjoyed riding a bike, ever since I was very small - plus it's a useful way to get around locally running errands, going for a beer, fetching small amounts of shopping that I can't be arsed getting the car out for.
The fact that it improves my fitness and is very gradually reducing my weight is an added extra - and if you do your cycling like me on mostly old secondhand bikes the cost is virtually nothing per mile. I'd probably wear out more shoe leather per mile than I wear bike tyres.

 

[screenman]

Why choose to do it then? I will never voluntarily do any activity I don't enjoy, as I see it as a waste of time I could instead spend on doing something I did enjoy.
I've always enjoyed riding a bike, ever since I was very small - plus it's a useful way to get around locally running errands, going for a beer, fetching small amounts of shopping that I can't be arsed getting the car out for.
The fact that it improves my fitness and is very gradually reducing my weight is an added extra - and if you do your cycling like me on mostly old secondhand bikes the cost is virtually nothing per mile. I'd probably wear out more shoe leather per mile than I wear bike tyres.

I did not say I did not like it, just never felt a love or it. I enjoy the physical side of it, certainly the racing side when I was doing that, never once been shopping by bike that I can remember nor used it for commuting.

Love I save for my wife and and close family.

 

[raleighnut]

Needing to go somewhere, unlike many on here I don't drive.