I enthusiastically say hello to proper roadies knowing I won't get a reply as I'm riding in baggy shorts.
I like this thread.
I do not own, or ever have, a single Cotic bike.
And I pay someone to go out bikepacking and take photos of tarp set ups, etc., in glamorous remote locations and load them up to my IG account.
I am strictly carbon road bike and and credit card touring.
Similar to an earlier post, I have more cycling shoes than non cycling shoes.
I only have 1 pair of non-cycling shoes. Well, boots, brogue style for when we go somewhere nice. Everything else is Five Tens.... My day to day Five Tens are next years riding ones and replaced at Xmas each year 🙂
I have at some point worn every pair of shoes I own on a bike. Including flip flops and work boots.
And I haven’t ridden a bike since Friday.
I miss those little windows on gear shifters that tell you what gear you're in.
I ride my road bike wearing baggy shorts, MTB helmet and non-roadie upper attire...and purposefully say hi to every roadie I pass.
Oh, and my 3x9 drive train is just awesome on my commuter
I miss those little windows on gear shifters that tell you what gear you’re in.
Ha, me too
Related to some previous posts, I only own 3 pairs of cycling shoes and the newest pair is over 6 years old.
I do however own 16 pairs of running shoes.
I used to scream “rule 9” at people and gloat about how I’d always ride in bad weather. I now basically don’t touch my bikes from October to March unless it’s for commuting and even that is kept to a minimum.
I think a mtb looks naked and sad without mudguards.Kind of like a body without clothing .Those who ride,particularly in winter without guards are beyond my comprehension.Why ruin yourself and the bike?What the hell are you thinking?
Despite practising every now and then, I still can't do a wheelie. But I really want to be able to do one
If you removed my commuting mileage from my general cycling mileage, I doubt I'd do more than a couple of hundred miles a year
Bike maintenance is not high on my list of priorities. My MTB is still running the original 1x10 set up from 2014 and my commuter is unloved. It has NEVER been cleaned properly, it's probably done over twelve thousand miles now. I just replace bits when they break or wear through
I miss those little windows on gear shifters that tell you what gear you’re in.
Have they stopped doing these? I like them on my MTB!
I tried a steel frame and hated it.
I miss those little windows on gear shifters that tell you what gear you’re in.
I can send you a jiffy bag full of them if you like.
The last bike I bought was a lightweight carbon full suspension 29er (Cannondale Scalpel SE) with the intention of doing some epic multi day rides bike packing, the furthest it has been is Glentress. It rides well but not to the point where daydream at work thinking about it and the trails I'm going to ride like I have in the past. Should have bought a Cotic Solaris and saved myself a grand. 😥
Just checked out the Cotic website and the purple Solaris looks beautiful, thankfully they don't have my size.
Best bike I've ever owned was a Puch Pacemaker 5 speed.
Long. Low. Slack.
Thanks for describing my gut.
I'm akchlly ridin me boyk rite now
I ride solo not because I am faster than other riders or go long distances. I am overweight, hardly go out and when I do it is only to the cafe. I ride solo because I have an objectionable personality.
I rode full speed into a dog poo bin while riding back from the pub a few years back. Had forgotten my lights and that the bin was there. Front wheel hit the bin and I went flying over the bars landing a few meters down the track. Dusted myself off, checked no one saw me and got back on the bike.
Just remembered one:
When I joined this forum, I was 65% sure that regular Bez was the actual Happy Mondays' Bez.
What percentage is it now?
Ha, about 4
My skills as a mechanic lag behind my ability to say "I can do that".
Whilst (road) cycling yesterday, I had my GPS watch on a different screen/layout. I had been smugly congratulating myself for maintaining a very consistent 20.30 mph average speed for a large portion of the ride. Then I realised it was just telling me that sunset was at 20:30 that day.
I’ve never ridden a bike with a dropper. My last three mountain bikes haven’t even had a quick release seat post clamp.
It's lockdown, everyone seems to be riding their bikes loads...none of mine, bar my cargo bike for the weekly trip to the shops, have been used in 4 weeks.
I think a mtb looks naked and sad without mudguards.Kind of like a body without clothing
thanks for explaining what Naked means.. 😀
I cant wheelie and would love to be able to do so.
I go out at 6AM and practise my Ryan Leech manoeuvres.... primarily to avoid any pointing and laughing.
I am 50 next year!
I can't do a wheelie properly. 🙁
Im going to dust off the mtb today for the first time since last august. If i can find the keys for the locks.
Prior to that it was for HONC last year... and that were the only 2 rides it saw in 2019.
I don’t have a functioning MTB.
Whilst (road) cycling yesterday, I had my GPS watch on a different screen/layout.
Yes, the other day I was wondering why my heart rate was rising so slowly on a climb. It took me a while to realise I was looking at the distance - that 108 was actually 1.08.
I miss those little windows on gear shifters that tell you what gear you’re in
My main bike has a thumbshifter and 6 gears. Very easy to see what gear you're in 😎
I can't bring myself to spend £25 on missing bolts etc. for one of my droppers because I have another one on another bike so I can just swap the hardware over. Of course I can never be bothered so I have an ornament of a nice bike for the sake of a few quid.
I keep looking at new FS mtb even though I live in Suffolk which is flat and not rocky and I haven't been to a trail centre for years!
y day to day Five Tens are next years riding ones
Other way round.
I have based rides on the wind strength and angle being just right for certain strava segments. Quite a few rides. Shoot me.
I occasionally create a Strava segment that I know only I will have ridden, so I can bask in the glory of the KOM.
I do draw the line at duplicates though, that annoys me.
I claim not to be influenced by marketing guff, but then mentally judge bikes at least in part by how a manufacturer behaves and who or what they sponsor.
Although brands can only lose points in my mind, not gain them.
I have socks that I only wear on the MTB and socks I only wear on the road bike...
In my head this is fine .
I've bought at least four bikes, then sold them on months later... Unridden!
I was jaked for most of the last festive 500. Both myself and my riding chum packed a hipflask on each day invariably ending at a free house for beer.
I have socks that I only wear on the MTB and socks I only wear on the road bike…
In my head this is fine .
That isn’t normal?
Cycling clothes take up 2/3 of my wardrobe space.
I have a drawer specifically for cycling gloves, and it's full.
The other day I was bemoaning to my long suffering wife that I've got far too many tyres. I've just ordered some more.
I have too to many bikes the same, with too much travel. Every MTB ends up heavy due to stuff breaking and bein 'upgraded'. I have a spare full suss, which if I'm honest is too small but I like it so can't sell it..
I haven't sold a bike in 25 years
I was a fair way into a road ride the other day, when I noticed I had odd shoes on.
In my garage I have enough parts to pretty much rebuild my car, including spare diffs, cylinder heads, bottom ends etc.
The bike stuff dwarfs that.
I have sold bikes after spending less time riding them than I did building them
In the same vein, I've upgraded parts that I'd bought, fitted, then never used and removed again to upgrade.
My bikes coming up 4 this year and the suspension has never been serviced :embarrassed emoji:
Still working decent though.
I enjoy wrenching on my bikes almost more than what I do riding them and my OCD isn't helping. Since the start of Covid I have rebuilt all my bikes which include servicing of forks/shocks, replaced/greased all frame bearings, fully serviced/bled all the brakes, new gear cables and housing and trued all the wheels to within a micron of their lives. Hopefully we can get back to normal soon..........
I spend far too much time and money farting around with retro MTBs.
It's always been far easier for me to find the motivation to fix a bike than to actually ride it!
I've cut the rear brake hose too short on my current frame build twice now! It's one with left side internal rear cable routing which is a pain to get clean. It looked perfect until I realised my shimano caliper mount wasn't cutting it with the Hope E4 and the proper Hope one I just installed shifts the caliper up and back taking a couple of inches of hose with it. Gah! I'd already bled it too. First time round I tried to reuse olives and the jammed up between cable an ferrule, when I pulled the ferrule back to look, olive went with it and wouldn't slide back up. Had to cut them off.
In 16 years of riding bikes with suspension, I've had two such bikes, had 4 different builds, and never once had the forks serviced.
Which is possibly why they never feel right.....
I have more cycling shoes than my wife has shoes in total!
Yesterday I found two quite expensive cycling jerseys that I’ve never worn
I haven’t ridden my mtb since Jan and the thing I’m missing most is countryside trails with some scenery, yet before lockdown I always tried to find the techiest trails I could.
Tore a tyre on a road ride today and made it 16 miles home using an empty gel sachet as a tyre gaiter 😳😳
I bought my first pair of MTB trousers a few months ago & I'm amazed at how they don't give me hungry bum 😁
I really want to find an old size XS orange five; and build it up as a 1x11 26in childrens mountain bike. Carbon here, tubeless there. Must be a bucket of cheap 26 stuff knocking around.
I don't have any children, and every time my girlfriend asks about them I run away to play with my bikes again.
For lockdown I cleaned up the garage and found that I had 8 saddles spare. I also forgot that I had a pair of wheels repaired at the LBS under warranty and almost a year later they reminded me to pick them up.
My bikes are more capable than me. Despite having an aeris and having big alps plans I suck at jumping and manuals / drops.. better off on an xc bike.
I sometimes worry I like buying and planning new bikes more than riding them.
In winter I dump my muddy hardtail straight in the garage.
Last week I added a new segment on Strava on a freshly built track ... that I hadn't worked on. One of the people that did build it has since added a duplicate.
And i think it's quite funny.
I've done WC level DH tracks and 8m gaps but I can't wheelie...