[Closed] Really, really stupid stuff you think about when riding...

ah crap I didn't get the pastry out of the freezer better pedal faster

When I was at school it was the ugliest girl in the class, now it's my fav pronstar 😉

^^^ Yourself?

Why aren't foxes domesticated, I would love to own a fox.

GW - Member
When I was at school it was the ugliest girl in the class, now it's my fav pronstar

Are they the same person? 😈

Foxes smell

I'm constantly considering ways to evade Them...

When I was at school it was the ugliest girl in the class, now it's my fav pronstar

at your age I suppose drooping problems are gonna happen!

Rob Hilton - Member
Foxes smell

What of? have you ever smelt a fox

Any singletrack going through a pair of trees = some kind of portal, but only at certain times.

First hour working through various current problems with work and stuff, then pizza generally, actually Pizza most of the time 😳

muckytee - Member

Rob Hilton - Member
Foxes smell

What of? have you ever smelt a fox

They smell of Foxes 🙄

Unfortunately I've recently started recounted the mind numbingly spirit crushingly, scrotum shrivellingly embarrassing things I've said/done in my youth (Late teens/pretty much all of my twenties) there's a lot, end up soft pedalling for a while til I get over it.

i have a habit of getting shit songs stuck in my head, the worst offender would be hall and oats

"you're outta a touch, im outta time,
im outta my head, when you're not around
you're outta a touch, im outta time"

this monstrosity was on repeat in my head for 3 hours because i dont know any of the other words 🙁

Could be worse, it may be the Robbie Williams/Take That I was subjected to at work many years ago. Whenever I get an aural flashback I know that a pratfall into a prickly bush is soon to follow...

I count, don't start a 1 or anything normal, just find myself counting from anywhere between 2-100.
It's gotten kinda weird as it's become an unconscious habit, & I've no idea how to stop it.

The theme tunes from Zingzillas, Chuggington, Octonauts, In The Night Garden etc etc etc

I usually have the most catchy/annoying song I've heard on the radio recently stuck in my head when I'm riding. Or when I'm pushing hard on the road bike it's usually the line "aint nothing gonna break my stride, aint nothing gonna slow me down" from Every Time I Die's The Good Life that goes through my head loads 😆

The theme tunes from Zingzillas, Chuggington, Octonauts, In The Night Garden etc etc etc

I think about how cool I must appear to anyone I meet out on the trails.. so if you see me out and about and I look a little aroused.. you know why

_tom_ - Member
I usually have the most catchy/annoying song I've heard on the radio recently stuck in my head when I'm riding.

Round Cannock on Tuesday it was a pretty solid two hours of the current Katy Perry chorus.

slainte 😯 rob

I get the most repetitive song possible in my head and time it to pedal strokes. Annoying when it sticks for days though...

Actual thoughts get pretty bizarre, night riding especially - what happens if there's a bear in the woods? Lottery win plans often go through my head, generally anything to distract me from the fact a hill is beating me!!

Riding Time = Top Thinking Time

Rivalled only by bath time and walking time. Walking and bath tend to result in quite focused, detailed, problem solving thinking. Normally work or similar technically complex stuff. Some great ideas and solutions have been formulated here.

Riding time, on the other hand, equally complex thought time, but more philosophical. Sometime work / problem solving related, but lots of lateral and tangential connections.

I think my brain loves it when my body is busy

Sometimes forget where I am on my local loop.

Not forget as in 'lost' but charge up to a flowing right-hander on autopilot before realising it's a tight left-hander.

Having more than one bike also has its disadvantages when one commits to that four foot drop-off on one's XC hardtail having slayed it the day before on one's FR bike.

Round Cannock on Tuesday it was a pretty solid two hours of the current Katy Perry chorus.

Yeah it's usually a Katy Perry song for me as well for some reason 😆

I usually have 5 second loops of lyrics/songs going round my head.

Yesterday it was this...

Funny, don't really get the music thing going on

i have a habit of getting shit songs stuck in my head

This. Only ever a single chorus or half a verse. Very annoying.

what's that fluttering in my chest ............... 😯

cake and a brew

Did i lock the car?

Even though i always double check before..

I think up ways to find time to ride more which seems like sure fire winners until they are thwarted within a day or two.

On the Downhills i'm usually thinking "whhhoooppeee" and feeling like i'm 12 again.

On the uphills i'm usually thinking, why am i blue and should my lungs be on the outside of my body?

Towards the end of the ride i'm thinking, should i undo the benefit of all this exercise i've just done and have a cheeky "sports pint?"

Out on a ride the other day I was drawn into a weird fantasy of being able to tap dance really well, you know like Fred Astair. All my friends where gathered round me,'at the bar of my fantasy pub' cheering.
Not sure if it was due to a lack of oxygen getting to my brain on an uphill?

Spent most of last nights' race at Haldon thinking 'am I having a heart attack..?' But after the cramp/stitch passed, mainly thought about the substantial fried sandwich I'd be eating the following morning.

Pleased to report that sausage, bacon, egg, tomatoes, mushrooms and black pudding on three tasted soooooo good. (Hey, it's a rare treat eh?) 8)

"whose on STW"??? when they should be out ridin.

As a deluded fantasist with a constant internal monologue, I sometimes fantasise that I have inexplicably been picked for a tour de france team, and though I am clearly in last place (no other riders around) I have to keep going to make the cut off else my team will suffer.

I have also been known to imagine what it would be like to be chased by a helicopter over the moors and how I would best evade its cannons, although I did once suffer a number of "straffing runs" from an A10 back in the day, I guess a cyclist is a harder target to lock onto than a tank, and therefore makes good practice. As a result of this I'm constantly checking the skies.

This week I've had the small potatoes theme in my head, constantly. Sometimes I sing it out loud, including the harmonies, this i find works better than a bell.

Loving the "sports pint"!

My arms get in the way when I sleep, it would be awesome if I could remove them at night, and pop em back on again in the morning...

the worst one I have.... Is my tongue supposed to sit in my mouth like this?.... Go on and try it. Just close your mouth and think about your tongue and all of a sudden it feels really really weird....

Some brilliant stuff in here 😆

I usually make plans for career, fitness, relationship etc that will vastly improve my life in general and then forget about everything I've planned as soon as I get off the bike. It's the same with running.

I also seem to spend a disproportionate amount of time worrying about which walker/landowner/dog-walker/other cyclist I might piss off by going up here/down there/round there which I'm pretty sure is a warped sense of fear I've developed from reading too many threads on here, as I don't ever actually recall getting into any kind of altercation or confrontation in the past. I just can't seem to help it though.

Normally get songs stuck in my head too 😐

Today I was wondering why you never see dwarf things in nature, like dwarf crows or dwarf trees? I also wondered if animals can only recognise dwarfs in their own species, e.g. would a dwarf whale be descriminated against by non-dwarf dolphins, or do dwarf dolphins have massive secret gang wars with dwarf whales that mankind knows nothing about? I only reached the conclusion that I now want a dwarf cat 😀

Now dwarf looks funny as ive written it so much.

@schnor - Statistically, 6 out of 7 dwarves are not Happy....

@ Chives - a race at Haldon? Part of a series? - wondering how I missed it

On the road bike it's usually music, today I got through quite a lot of 'Tommy' once I'd got past about a hundred repeats of 'Tommy can you hear me? Dun dun dun de diddle da'

On the mtb in the woods it's usually trolls or when I'm doing my local loop round [url= http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/374622 ]here[/url] I'm on the lookout for someone who wants a race or running from something that's right on my back wheel. And as I mentioned on Juan's thread Star Wars Speeders!

Ontor, yeah, I only noticed it on (wonders if the mods will allow a mention) XCracer about four days ago. I don't know if there's some politics at foot, but it doesn't seem to have got much attention.

I was gutted that the Fully Sussed series was (is) a non-starter for me; I just have prior engagements/work that coincide with almost every date (first three included).

so I was delighted that there were to be another 'evening series'. Mid Devon Cycling Club are organising them, next round's on 30th May at South Dartmoor College, check out the MDCC website for details.

Back on-topic, the other thing I think about is (given that Archimedes said it's not) is it possible to arrive at 10 degrees (angle) using just a pair of compasses and an ungraduated straight edge.

A colleague at work found an example on't interweb, but i drew it on CAD and it's not accurate to any decimal places.. (WHY OH WHY?????) 😳

thanks chives- funny that one I didn't see it on MDCC website either - will have a better digg.

They're calling it the 2XC2012 Series I think. No results yet, but I got in ahead of the guy I was dicing with last year, so that's a start. 😀

When on night rides I usually end up planning how I'd deal with groups of neds (chavs) using my drinking bottle as a makeshift club as I blind the would be attackers with my light. If I had time I'd reach for my pump and use it like a telescopic police baton swinging left and right, smashing kneecaps leaving my attackers writhing in a burberry tangle on the floor.

I also construct defiant speeches that I'll one day stand up and rant at our enforced company 'lets all be one big happy team' meeting in the face of the management who are looking after themselves very nicely as they cut the pay of the workers on the lower bands.

Aliens too. Nice looking ones clad in lycra like in Sci Fi films. My god I'm weird.

i have a habit of getting shit songs stuck in my head,

This

My arms get in the way when I sleep, it would be awesome if I could remove them at night, and pop em back on again in the morning...

It's simple you remove your left arm with your right hand and your right arm with your left hand. I didn't even need to go for a ride to work that one out.

I often find myself wondering at the ability of the wind to know which way I'm about to turn so it can change and allow me to head straight into it.

And I often think that I can't believe that 27 years on that I still enjoy riding on the downs around my house just as much as when I started.