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Posted 7 months ago #
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Getting back to the pub carpark after a wet muddy night ride, soaked to the skin and shivering like a shiteing dog and loading the car and getting changed into dry gear only to have to unload the wet muddy bike and gear once you get home after having got warm in the boozer after a couple of scoops. No fun at half 11.
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Nothing. Really, there is nothing I dislike. I'm just not getting enough of it.
OK there is one thing: wasting hard earned altitude on boring descents.
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Cleaning the bike..
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Actually, you're not wrong Crikey. I'm shattered after a weekend riding with a full camel bak. The knee pads can't have helped either.
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not enough Sundays in the week to go riding.
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Cleaning the bike.
This is less of an issue if you largely don't bother*, But I'm fortunate to have the use of a garage to store my filthy machines.
*I do clean the drive-train and the suspension stanchions. And pick off the bigger lumps of mud.
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Sticky pistons.
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Some of the twunts who frequent cycling web-forums.
Nay-sayers and doom-mongers who resent progress and change in the technology used and the attitude of the sport itself.
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Snobbery
Inverse Snobbery
Cliques
Cleaning bikes
Cleaning kit
Traveling to the trails
User conflict
Breaking bits
Wearing bits out
Crashing
Not being to keep up with the latest kit developmentsPosted 7 months ago # -
Punctures
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Cars
Arseholes
Sloppy emulators
Selfrightous pricks
Dickweeds
CockbagsSo basically crap people and thorns.
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And not forgetting
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The only real thing I don't like is getting home and having to wash the bike, freezing cold when all you want to do is get warm.
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always needing more bikes.
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"the next big thing"
i'm all for innovation, development yadda yadda, but i'm not keen on the guff that surrounds the marketing horseplop thats delt out.Posted 7 months ago # -
Other bikers who ignore a cheery "Hello".
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Not being able to because of bl.... family commitments!!
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people who scoff when I don't return their cheery hello, because I'm trying to recover from riding up a hill over LT threshold.
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Wot ton said.
And replacing broken parts is pretty annoying.
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Maintenance and the accompanying expense
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Dickhead car-drivers, and the various other motorized forms of attempted murder we have to watch out for.
Arsey walkers and horse-riders, although there's really not many of those about where I ride nowadays, and I can't remember the last time I had a proper run-in.
Things breaking or not working right, either on the bike or on me. I like fixing and tinkering, though; I just don't like it when busted stuff spoils a ride.Those are all pretty minor annoyances in the grand scheme of things. Everything else about it is pretty smashing really...
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Uphills.
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Cleaning my bike.
Not having an uplift nearby.
Breaking myself and having months of from riding.
Not being able to pull big whips!(this will be remedied by next year
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Ticks, Cleggs and Midges.
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Everyone else riding the trails that were nice and quiet in the 80s
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The idea that somehow riding your bike at the speed and over the terrain you enjoy isn't good or 'rad' enough. That could be why I prefer to ride on my own. If I want to ride the bike of my choice and mince my way down a slope because I don't fancy a crash, then surely that's my perogative?
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Cleaning my bikes at night in the cold in readiness for the next ride. Thankfully, so far, it's not been so bad. And the other thing that really bugs me are people worrying about the type of bike they ride, along the lines of "I've just bought x and have ridden it once and decided that it's too much bike for me because I might be tempted into doing something silly or I only ride at trail centers and all the magazines say I only need a singlespeed 29er with no suspension" If you like it, just ride it.
Oh, and why is it so bloody expensive!?
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Many of the above, upgraditus a fair bit recently
Having ridden 'properly' for ~5 years I thought uphills might have become easier by now. They seems just as painful, admitedly I might be spinning a lot more in SPDs and a gear or two higher but ..
Cycling not doing anything about my michelin man tyre
Not really being upto singlespeeding
Riding solo, too often recently
Not knowing anybody with offroad lights
Riding with my brother for more than a day or two at a time - the level of incessant faffing gets to me
Other riding mates who at the merest hint of a cold, a chance of rain or temperatures less than ~10degC aren't interested at all
The winter bogginess of many ROWs
My job having loads of overtime when the weather is good for going biking
Wanting to find/ride new (to me) trails all too often
Snow, when its deep enough that its just in the way
Ice, and all too often on the best bits .. I give them a good go, but my falling reactions are getting slower
Breaking things
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Nothing! Nothing at all! I've just spent tonight bringing up the rear. As always. Loved it! As always! On an inappropriate bike. As (nearly) always. Because it's my only bike* But I LOVE IT!
Now FFS Stop moaning and get on with it
* road bike doesn't count
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ermm...................................
not being out evey day.
injuries.
not having the latest must have kit.
dabbing.Posted 7 months ago # -
snobbery, wild assumptions about my physique, slow people who don't pull over, fast people who think they have right of way because they can ride faster than me, people who can wheelie, roadies who don't say hello, mountain bikers who don't say hello, miserable sods, I could go on
Posted 6 months ago # -
Dog walkers!
Effing dog walkers who cannot control their animals. Their dogs (there are usually more than one) come running toward you get in front of you wheels and as you make your very best effort not to run it/them over the owner stands there shouting at said animals and giving you a look of disgust. This is not at speed either - this can be bimbling along chatting pace. Keep your dogs under control you muppets!
Dog walkers #2 - allowing your animals to crap in public and not cleaning it up. I don't care if it's a footpath brindleway or kids play park it's just not acceptable - at all.
I'm usually quite a calm person but these people make my blood boil.
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Winter, injuries, feckling, upgraditus.
I just had to google "feckling" to see what I was missing
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dog eggs
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Thick mud, I don't find it fun.
Having to drive at least 45 minutes to the nearest half decent trails, hour and a half to two hours each way if I want proper hills.
Expensive parts.None of that really applies to bmxing though, just mtb.
Posted 6 months ago #
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