No bike, rubbish weather. What do you do?

I’d got a long weekend of riding lined up however my bike got stolen on tuesday and with the insurance not paying out i’m bikeless for the forseeable. What does everyone do when they’re not on their bike? I’m in a flat so there is no house work/ shed to play around in

Not the Mojo?

If weather is too crap to ride I go swimming. Can’t do it for whole weekend though !

Can you not rent a bike at a local trail centre?

Surf/ windsurf/ sup

Not the mojo my hardtail, I don’t keep the Mojo with me now since my hardtail got stolen (student). Might potentially look at hiring a surfboard but the nearest wave is a decent way away and I dont have a car. Hiring a bike at a trail centre is a good shout, i’ll look at trains

local climbing wall?

swimming is my other exercise but I rarely do it.
Usually when I’m on holiday I’ll put in a quick mile each morning in the pool. Unless the sea is handy in which case I’ll just swim along the coastline for an hour.

Outside of exercise…read, XBOX, draw, take dog for walks, watch films.

If you’re single,eating,drinking and mindless sex.If you are in a relationship,you might have to throttle back on the sex alittle.Before anyone says sex is not exercise,it depends entirely on how you do it.

Before anyone says sex is not exercise,it depends entirely on how you do it

You take a very long run up?

And for the OP, go walk up some hills. Quite under rated round here.

run!

this was great today, very wet and muddy

http://brutalrun.co.uk/

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid2513628667001?bckey=AQ~~,AAACK2FgrRk~,zMYAvvLCUEnwf6PiJylzLIv2R3ooD-Fl&bctid=2841630869001

Wow, that’s some link. Worth a watch and safe at work etc etc

+1 for going running.

Run, cross country i.e. you could run your local MTB route, nice and steady if you’ve not done much of it recently though.

Trail running.

pub?

Time with the kids and before that I would have gone for a walk in the hills if weather not too shocking. Either that or go see some non cycling friends or relatives.

What a silly question to ask when Terry Pratchett has a new book out!

Sleep

Go and do some trail work.

**** female students.

Make a nice quiche?

Go and run on the trails you normally bike. It’s actually great fun, is a fantastic work out and there’s no filthy bike to clean afterwards.

Silly question. Get high, masturbate, watch movies, play video games, drink alcohol, eat.
Not necessarily in that order.

Dont leave a bike in a courtyard, shed, 8 storeys away in a carpark etc?

Sorry.

get one of these

cheap pad set, wrist guards and helmet from Sports Direct etc..good fun in the dry.

Good price and it’s decent too. Rather than cheap childrens toy tat.

Go for a walk/run round your local stuff but explore a bit and look for new routes or hidden gems. Found some great stuff in the local forest doing that.

I keep riding but on a cheap winter bike….can recommend an old genesis io, you could ask for some cash for Xmas and should be able to pick one up for £250 though I bought mine in off season in summer…just cause its cheap doesn’t mean it is rubbish

Also change what you ride, I tend to do more base training / higher % fire road than summer as most of my local trails get hub deep in mud.