View Full Version : Where has your engine gone? What's causing the cycling craze?
Just curious really. Lots of forum members seem to have given up powered two wheeling, preffering pedal power.
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Wideboy
02-08-12, 08:04 PM
homosexuality
Fruity-ya-ya
02-08-12, 08:06 PM
homosexuality
PMSL
I take it the Baron prefers a throbbing engine between his thighs rather than his thigh throbbing.
Sid Squid
02-08-12, 08:07 PM
homosexuality
The one and only correct answer.
andrewsmith
02-08-12, 08:15 PM
homosexuality
Sounds correct!!
I do ride a little bit to see how much I can injure myself in 5 miles
Jackie_Black
02-08-12, 08:18 PM
It's not a recent thing for me. I've always had two wheelers. Motorized or otherwise, although i've only taken up road bikes in the last 5 years (about the same time i've had my bike licence). Perhaps the two are linked.....
homosexuality
I must have been closet gay for as long as I can remember and not realised it, thanks for the help!
Seriously though it can be very addictive.
Specialone
02-08-12, 08:33 PM
homosexuality
Yep, why struggle with pedal power when an engine will make it easy :confused:
Wideboy
02-08-12, 08:34 PM
nah i used to do it, used to ride to work when i lived at my old house (7 miles there, 7 miles back) but i soon got fed up of getting to work nackerd and then doing 12 hours and riding home. I push iron to the shops but thats only a vain attempt to pre-burn off the heineken im about to buy.
it easier to jump in the car, teach a lion to use a riffle and i doubt you'll see them chasing prey down, survival of the fittest, i pay my taxes :lol:
widepants
02-08-12, 08:44 PM
:cool: nah i used to do it, used to ride to work when i lived at my old house :cool: (7 miles there, 7 miles back) but i soon got fed up of getting to work nackerd and then doing 12 hours and riding home. I push iron to the shops but thats only a vain attempt to pre-burn off the heineken im about to buy.
it easier to jump in the car, teach a lion to use a riffle and i doubt you'll see them chasing prey down, survival of the fittest, i pay my taxes :lol:
you also used to be slim:smt030
Fallout
02-08-12, 08:45 PM
Ok, road riding I do not get. It's basically a tiring much more boring version of riding a 50cc scooter, and you have to wear completely humiliating clothes, and get punctures about every 50 yards. But MTBing I do get. I used to really enjoy it when I was younger, but you have to be fit. I dread the idea of riding an MTB now because I know I would be fecked the first hill I got to.
But still, I agree with gavs valid point about gheyness.
missyburd
02-08-12, 08:46 PM
Too many pies?
Wideboy
02-08-12, 08:49 PM
you also used to be slim:smt030
its relaxed muscle
Fallout
02-08-12, 08:51 PM
Too much sitting on my **** in front of a computer, withering away. I'm like that sloth guy in Se7en.
Jackie_Black
02-08-12, 08:54 PM
Ok, road riding I do not get. It's basically a tiring much more boring version of riding a 50cc scooter, and you have to wear completely humiliating clothes, and get punctures about every 50 yards.
Can't explain why its good, it just is. Give it a try.
Specialone
02-08-12, 08:58 PM
its relaxed muscle
Mate, you have a mans physique like me :)
Not like these male waifs who race road bikes and eat half a lettuce leaf.
Mate, you have a mans physique like me
Not like these male waifs who race road bikes and eat half a lettuce leaf.
Get a room you two gheybers
Specialone
02-08-12, 09:07 PM
Get a room you two gheybers
Bolox Matthew, just cos you are a failed male waif road rider ;)
Bolox Matthew, just cos you are a failed male waif road rider ;)
Harsh but true :smt019
andrewsmith
02-08-12, 09:10 PM
Mate, you have a mans physique like me :)
Not like these male waifs who race road bikes and eat half a lettuce leaf.
I can see you being beaten up in the Mods corner
Wideboy
02-08-12, 09:10 PM
yeah!! you muesli eating quiff wearers
high five phil *high five*
push bikes are for kids motorbikes are for grown-ups, simples.
The one and only correct answer.
:lol: For sure, London roads are empty, ENJOY! :)
Specialone
02-08-12, 09:50 PM
I can see you being beaten up in the Mods corner
Yep, I do expect my mod rights to be removed once fizz sees this lol.
metalmonkey
02-08-12, 10:09 PM
Ok, road riding I do not get. It's basically a tiring much more boring version of riding a 50cc scooter, and you have to wear completely humiliating clothes, and get punctures about every 50 yards. But MTBing I do get. I used to really enjoy it when I was younger, but you have to be fit. I dread the idea of riding an MTB now because I know I would be fecked the first hill I got to.
But still, I agree with gavs valid point about gheyness.
I'd rather risk that than suffer the issues of not doing any execrise and droping dead or slowly dying becasue I did nothing. I have always been active anyways, I need a sport to replace one that I could no longer do makes sense, anyways I'm pretty fit now, but another stone lose and lots more riding before I'm any good! Oh its an addiction much like riding motorcycle:cool:
kiggles
02-08-12, 10:13 PM
i know men is leathers is a tad gay but motorcycles are cool. But cyclists in tight shorts and tops....... and cycling isnt cool......
Jayneflakes
03-08-12, 12:10 AM
Official Forum Homosexual here. :rolleyes:
First of all, cycling makes your heart stronger, it gives you a good level of fitness and keeps you toned.
All of this is beyond the ability of usual average, over weight, couch hogging, sausage munching, heterosexual. :-s
In my time I have ridden Tandems, Mountain Bikes, Road Bikes, Cyclocrossers, Clown Bikes, Recumbents and Penny Farthings.
Road bikes can be brutal fun, the swift speed changes and power delivery can cause a real surge of adrenalin. Tandem riding gets you out on a bike with two engines, with two fit cyclists, flat road speeds can exceed forty. Get an off road tandem and suddenly you have a death machine!
Cyclocross is just plain mental, riding a road bike over the same ground that I rode my MTB gave me a serious buzz. At the MTB world championship race at Newnham Park in 92 or 93, I raced two girls from Team Cannondale around the course, I was on my crosser and they were on their XC bikes. Neither of them could understand how I kept up.
I am still working on my recumbent project, but am now on my second frame design after the first one failed to work as well as I wanted. I recently tried a modern Penny Farthing, which was a load of fun and made me really want one.
My Mountain Bike is a magnificent beast of a bike, but sadly due to having had a lot of surgery, I am not able to ride anymore. However, riding off road was one of the greatest pleasure I had. Being in the middle of no where on Dartmoor on my bike always made me feel so alive. I took a hetro friend out there one day. He thought that he was pretty hardcore and would easily beat little old me down a track. I had to stop and wait for him three times and in the end, I got fed up and just went for it. He finally arrived about five minutes after I finished, somewhat less vocal about his prowess.
Lesson learned, don't go riding with one of those loud mouthed hetros. :nomore:
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EssexDave
03-08-12, 12:43 AM
Have you never seen a hotty girl on a push bike in lycra?
That bum wiggling in front of you is more than enough motivation...
Bordtea
03-08-12, 03:05 AM
Homosexuality sounds about right
BanannaMan
03-08-12, 04:45 AM
push bikes are for kids motorbikes are for grown-ups, simples.
That image may be changing in the UK in the very near future.
Look for push bike sales to soar over the next few years thanks to Bradly Wiggins winning the Tour'de France and 7 Olympic Medals this year (4 Gold!!!).
At 32 years old he is currently the greatest cyclist in the entire world and the most successful Olympic Cyclist of all time.
Well done! :notworthy:
Push bikes are going to be very much 'in style' and very soon.
Fallout
03-08-12, 07:33 AM
@Jayne - Hetrosexuals are lame! I think we need to do a tutorial video together, complete with Duke and the owl.
Have you never seen a hotty girl on a push bike in lycra?
That bum wiggling in front of you is more than enough motivation...
That's the stuff of movies though. I can honestly say, I've never had the pleasure of that sight. Sometimes I see a nicely shaped lycra ass, then ride past to see it belongs to a curvacious man. :smt102
Wideboy
03-08-12, 09:15 AM
That sounds like cyclist admiration talk to me!
metalmonkey
03-08-12, 09:55 AM
Sounds like envy to me;)
Jayneflakes
03-08-12, 10:21 AM
@Jayne - Hetrosexuals are lame! I think we need to do a tutorial video together, complete with Duke and the owl.
Now that sounds like a plan! :cheers:
Just one thing, Alby the Owl poos every ten minutes and when she farts, you would not believe the stench! :smt078
Have you never seen a hotty girl on a push bike in lycra?
That bum wiggling in front of you is more than enough motivation...
I was cycling uphill and a woman overtook me, I managed to stick behind her for a good 3 minutes with my gopro camera. The lens was slightly fogged from morning condensation though.
andrewsmith
03-08-12, 02:45 PM
I was cycling uphill and a woman overtook me, I managed to stick behind her for a good 3 minutes with my gopro camera. The lens was slightly fogged from morning condensation though.
you sure?
You not riding Obree style instead ;)
maviczap
04-08-12, 05:08 PM
Have you never seen a hotty girl on a push bike in lycra?
That bum wiggling in front of you is more than enough motivation...
Yep, I followed one up a climb in France, ask Luckypants :p
Who needs an engine when you can descend on 23mm of tyre at 40 - 50mph nowt ghey about that :smt003
Paul the 6th
04-08-12, 05:23 PM
On a serious note I've gotten into it as a means of keeping fit but also because throwing the bike down some technical trails or cross country stuff is really engaging & requires good balance/reflexes/properly good forward observation for roots & rocks etc. when you're fully in the zone you reach a similar zen state to when you're in the groove on a trackday/spirited road ride.
And I'm slowly finding that the skill set from motorbike is influencing my mountain biking (target fixation is everywhere if you start moving fast enough through a tricky environment) & vice versa.
Oh & while we're at it, all the top MotoGP/superbike/road racing riders must be flaming homo's as well since the majority of them seem to go mountain biking or cycling ;)
maviczap
04-08-12, 06:02 PM
Oh & while we're at it, all the top MotoGP/superbike/road racing riders must be flaming homo's as well since the majority of them seem to go mountain biking or cycling ;)
Aye Guy Martin well know to be a bit light on his feet ;)
Don't think my wife see's him as a bit of a ghey :D
EssexDave
04-08-12, 10:08 PM
Oh & while we're at it, all the top MotoGP/superbike/road racing riders must be flaming homo's as well since the majority of them seem to go mountain biking or cycling ;)
Include a lot of car drivers - as far as I know Hamilton and Button cycle regularly for training.
maviczap
05-08-12, 12:56 PM
Include a lot of car drivers - as far as I know Hamilton and Button cycle regularly for training.
Plus Webber, maybe Vettel, all well known ghey's ;)
fizzwheel
05-08-12, 02:44 PM
Fashion, cycling has been equated to the new "Golf" its fashionable and with the success of Team GB & Wiggin's I cant see that changing.
Cavenish was behind the start of this with his sprinting ability and also taking the green jersey in the TDF last year.
All thats happened is that the majority have suddenly understood what the minority of us that were into cycling already knew.
Cycling is fun. I cant see it changing with the cost of fuel rising all the time, running a car is getting expensive and cycling is also a cheap way to get about, especially with many companies running bike to work schemes now to.
Small Clanger
05-08-12, 02:59 PM
And recently I've certainly perceived a change in the attitude of drivers towards cyclists, i.e. more room allowed, more eye contact and politeness at r'bouts and junctions etc. And for Harrogate that is remarkable.
Maybe, as more drivers take to cycling, they're paying more attention to those pedalling about. Who knows.
BTW, just finished "Racing Through the Dark" by David Millar with help from Jeremy Whittle (author of "Bad Blood")
One of the best sports books I've ever read. Highly recommended.
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