The part/type of riding that gives you the most pleasure
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Ever the optimist, let's start an opposite thread, me first.
Wheelies.
There are lots of general things I love about cycling (cheap personal freedom et cetera) but I still love pulling big stand up wheelies in front of the neighbour's kids and getting cheers and whoops.
I've got a grin on just writing this.
Your turn...
Wheelies.
There are lots of general things I love about cycling (cheap personal freedom et cetera) but I still love pulling big stand up wheelies in front of the neighbour's kids and getting cheers and whoops.
I've got a grin on just writing this.
Your turn...
Agree that wheelies are very satisfying.
I've tried a few different aspects of cycling, I went through a trials phase and found that being able to show off using street furniture for example benches/walls etc was quite a lot of fun.
More recently though I have been doing far more downhilling and have discovered the Forest of Dean cycle centre - now the thrill of pure speed and trying to find the smoothest/fastest line is great.
dave
I've tried a few different aspects of cycling, I went through a trials phase and found that being able to show off using street furniture for example benches/walls etc was quite a lot of fun.
More recently though I have been doing far more downhilling and have discovered the Forest of Dean cycle centre - now the thrill of pure speed and trying to find the smoothest/fastest line is great.
dave
d hill, turning around and going back up it again.The camaraderie between riders!
In an age where a lack of patience and pressures on our time seem to press ever harder from all sides, just getting on my bike, and going for a cycle with friends or even strangers hits the spot for me! No matter how hard and tedious a day in the office has been, no matter how many discusions have turned into auguments, differences of opinion into entrenchment, then after a couple of miles just pushing the pedals around, and feeling the world go by under my wheels is a complete release ;-)
In an age where a lack of patience and pressures on our time seem to press ever harder from all sides, just getting on my bike, and going for a cycle with friends or even strangers hits the spot for me! No matter how hard and tedious a day in the office has been, no matter how many discusions have turned into auguments, differences of opinion into entrenchment, then after a couple of miles just pushing the pedals around, and feeling the world go by under my wheels is a complete release ;-)
I'm usually a reasonably mature, sensible cyclist, on both my roadie and MTB.
There are, as already said, pleasures from giving it large downhill on a fast roadie, and indeed similar on an MTB.
However, occasionally (and I do mean once in a blue moon) I go out with a couple of mates, and despite us all being around 40 and hence should know better - sometimes we ride into town on our MTB's, and go mental through pedestrianised shopping centres, along pavements, down the massive concrete steps of the local Courts, down the huge grassy hills of a local College campus, along the gravel riverside footpath at silly speeds, and even through the Cathedral Grounds...
If we haven't annoyed a selection of pedestrians enough that they've shouted obscenties at us, then we haven't done it properly
Bad, very bad. But such good fun too. It's like having the Devil himself sitting on my shoulder for an hour
There are, as already said, pleasures from giving it large downhill on a fast roadie, and indeed similar on an MTB.
However, occasionally (and I do mean once in a blue moon) I go out with a couple of mates, and despite us all being around 40 and hence should know better - sometimes we ride into town on our MTB's, and go mental through pedestrianised shopping centres, along pavements, down the massive concrete steps of the local Courts, down the huge grassy hills of a local College campus, along the gravel riverside footpath at silly speeds, and even through the Cathedral Grounds...
If we haven't annoyed a selection of pedestrians enough that they've shouted obscenties at us, then we haven't done it properly
Bad, very bad. But such good fun too. It's like having the Devil himself sitting on my shoulder for an hour
getting to the turning point halfway through a ride, and realising the fresh legs, effortless speed feeling wasn't a tailwind, it was you 
.
Also, possibly a weird one, but... cycling around town can be quite satisfying when courteous drivers and good legs mean you're negotiating for space on an equal footing. Especially when queues build up and there's space to filter
.Also, possibly a weird one, but... cycling around town can be quite satisfying when courteous drivers and good legs mean you're negotiating for space on an equal footing. Especially when queues build up and there's space to filter
The view from the top of the hill, when you've had a hard but satisfying ride to get there.
I've only just started using a MTB for the first time in about 10 years, and on Sunday I felt like I was flying down a track in the New Forest. It felt great. (I was probably only doing 15 mph, but it felt fast!)
I've only just started using a MTB for the first time in about 10 years, and on Sunday I felt like I was flying down a track in the New Forest. It felt great. (I was probably only doing 15 mph, but it felt fast!)
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