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No! should I be?
lowey - Member
We dont stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
Exactly: fun = no stress and we don't have to die early.
CaptainFlashheart - Member
Just look at the trails and think to yourself, "This is why".
(Credit to Jo Burt for that one)
Captain flash heart, the fresh air while exercising is a revolution, I see people jogging through cities and I want to shout, don't breath more of it in you spazmastic, it's poisonous, fair enough if you're commuting ands have a choice between getting the bus and sniffing god only know what or cycle, I know what I would choose, but choosing to increase your intake of poisonous stinky stuff not good.
Bushwacked - Member
I went out on my usual ride (mainly XC) with my fullface and pads today with the intention of riding up the hill and then doing the DH runs back down. I remember passing some family and thinking about exactly this.
I don't care - if people want to cast judgements on someone who enjoys their life then let them - it ain't my problem, its theirs!
You only get one shot at life and as a certain sports brand would say "Just do it!"
One chance at each moment, do you want to do something that you know sooner or later will have you laughing until your sides hurt and feeling alive. Or wander around critisizing everything and everyone. Give most people an excuse to mouth off and they can't resist it.
If someone isn't happy should they be listened to? na if they can't sort their own sh1t out they can't sort anyone elses out.
ctznsmith - Member
I can't sit at home drinking beer and listening to records all the time!
I love the fact that I can go riding and my head will be miles away lost in thoughts of something else but still turning the pedals but yet another time all I will be concentrating on is the 'ride' and the world outside of that doesn't exist. Just seems to help me chill out and forget about any stress in my life.
I know what you mean, after the first crash, you tend to pay a bit more attention after the first big crash and you realize you could seriously copit! you learn to put everything else to the side and be of the moment.
mmb - Member
loads of reasons, adrenaline, the views, fitness, the way you feel during and after a sublime ride, being outside, and lets not forget girls in lycra (as if we could)
Let's not forget that the door when it comes to lycra swings both ways.
There are people for whom it should be illegal, not just because it scares me.
But yes, well proportioned women in lycra. I can think of worse places to be than behind them.
xherbivorex - Member
to be honest, i don't care what "most people" think of me anyway.
and equally, i have no thoughts on their chosen ways of occupying their time.
but to answer the question, i go out on my bikes because i want to. no other reason. i do it because i want to do it
Yes but isn't the individuals right to choose the foundation for freedom. Surely what we can and do choose to do, determines who and what we are?
I think you've hit the essence of the beauty of biking, most people go with the flow and only do what is excepted due to fear of criticism or of standing out. What choice does someone who'e been planted in front of the TV since they were born really have?
swamp_boy - Member
Its just good for the body and the head, 'nuff said. Just back from bumble along the local lanes, English countryside looking lovely as ever, if a bit dry and brown, leaned over a fence to look at the view and scratched a pig's back with a couple of pints at a pub at the farthest point, therapeutic in so many ways.
Also get the schadenfreude rides, when I've had enough on a hot afternoon and take off on one of my routes that crosses the M25 and its stationary both ways.
It's a release valve, the sh1t build up and build up. Driving don't even get me started. All the idiots everywhere, but you have something that's fun to look forward to.
and even when it doesnt make me particularly happy it gives a sense of achievement and if most people think I am daft they should try speaking to me then they ll know I AM DAFT
I just threw up in my mouth. Thanks for that.
