The Cycling Chat Thread
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TopCat
Putin fanboy
I had a Tomahawk. It was not a stable device.
TopCat
Putin fanboy
I am too old for Lycra. But regaining my strength and fitness is not proving as hard as I thought it would be.
I was actually running yesterday and using the park gym.
TopCat
Putin fanboy
Baby pic?!
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
TopCat
Putin fanboy
Well I'm in my sixth decade but that gives perspective.I regularly ride with a guy in his 80’s. If he can manage it, so can you
TopCat
Putin fanboy
Thanks ever so. What a cutie! Is Mum alright?
That's..... quite alot of meat
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Its been such a wet year, the mud on the trails here only properly dried out and went dusty in late August, yesterday it poured down from 10am until 7pm and went our for a ride today and the thick mud is back, everywhere. Harder work to ride and a thorough clean of the bike needed after every ride again....grumble, grumble, grumble...
but it was sort of perversely enjoyable.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
i need to get on my bike but I can’t 
will have to go for a walk or something, going a bit stir crazy and not sleeping.
maybe it’d be ok if I just went to the park and just tootled along very slowly.
it’s crazy if you’re used to riding every day, how much you begin to miss it even after just a few days. Realising that I NEED to cycle to stay alive - can’t do sports and running is no fun, so it’s my only exercise apart from rushing about all day at work and my constant movement even when i’m supposed to be still. But more importantly, I rely on it to keep my mental health in check. it’s an hour of meditation every day, have only ever been able to do it my getting on my bike and riding a very familiar route ie a commute. but i won’t be able to cycle forever so i will have to find something else to keep me going. A walk in the woods is nice, but it’s not as good as a ride in the woods.
will have to go for a walk or something, going a bit stir crazy and not sleeping.
maybe it’d be ok if I just went to the park and just tootled along very slowly.
it’s crazy if you’re used to riding every day, how much you begin to miss it even after just a few days. Realising that I NEED to cycle to stay alive - can’t do sports and running is no fun, so it’s my only exercise apart from rushing about all day at work and my constant movement even when i’m supposed to be still. But more importantly, I rely on it to keep my mental health in check. it’s an hour of meditation every day, have only ever been able to do it my getting on my bike and riding a very familiar route ie a commute. but i won’t be able to cycle forever so i will have to find something else to keep me going. A walk in the woods is nice, but it’s not as good as a ride in the woods.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
it’s not kind of woods unfortunately! they don’t even have any dens or hedge porn!
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Ridgeway
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Today I have that rarest of things, a day off, so I’ve been able to go out on the Monday club ride for the first time in ages.
50 miles, 2000 ft. Was a slow pace (just under 15mph) but that was because we were riding with Tony. 4 months ago he went down the road at nearly 30mph, breaking his arm, collar bone and 3 ribs, one of which punctured his lung in the process. The doctors told him he may not ride again, but he was back on his bike in 6 weeks and is doing both LEJOG and a trip to Ventoux next year.
Tony is 86 years old.
50 miles, 2000 ft. Was a slow pace (just under 15mph) but that was because we were riding with Tony. 4 months ago he went down the road at nearly 30mph, breaking his arm, collar bone and 3 ribs, one of which punctured his lung in the process. The doctors told him he may not ride again, but he was back on his bike in 6 weeks and is doing both LEJOG and a trip to Ventoux next year.
Tony is 86 years old.
Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
For some reason my brain was thinking a ‘Monday Club’ ride might consist of a racist faction of the Tory party.
Conservative Monday Club - Wikipedia
Norman ‘on yer bike’ Tebbit was actually a member…
sleaterkinney
Well-Known Member
Yeah, I'm off the bike too, adductor tear. It happened earlier this year and again a few weeks ago. Need to have a scan etc. It sucks.i need to get on my bike but I can’t
will have to go for a walk or something, going a bit stir crazy and not sleeping.
maybe it’d be ok if I just went to the park and just tootled along very slowly.
it’s crazy if you’re used to riding every day, how much you begin to miss it even after just a few days. Realising that I NEED to cycle to stay alive - can’t do sports and running is no fun, so it’s my only exercise apart from rushing about all day at work and my constant movement even when i’m supposed to be still. But more importantly, I rely on it to keep my mental health in check. it’s an hour of meditation every day, have only ever been able to do it my getting on my bike and riding a very familiar route ie a commute. but i won’t be able to cycle forever so i will have to find something else to keep me going. A walk in the woods is nice, but it’s not as good as a ride in the woods.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
weepiper
I fix the machines that fight climate change
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Since when have we started using kilometres?
Cid
Proper break this time
Well I mean about 95% of the rest of the world does. Bit daft we cling to the old ways… still, at least it’s not faranheit.
Meters to feet - x3 for ballpark, x3.3 for ballpark+
Km to miles - x1.5 for ballpark, x1.6 for ballpark+
Faranheit - don’t bother, it’s stupid
I’ll admit I quite like working out the conversions while I’m riding, good number brain exercise
Meters to feet - x3 for ballpark, x3.3 for ballpark+
Km to miles - x1.5 for ballpark, x1.6 for ballpark+
Faranheit - don’t bother, it’s stupid
I’ll admit I quite like working out the conversions while I’m riding, good number brain exercise
Cid
Proper break this time
Ooh, I’ve done that already. I have completed a challenge, quite chuffed.
