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So what's your Excuse for Not Cycling ?

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  • #2
    godihatedehills
    Registered Users Posts: 370 ✭✭godihatedehills


    9. I’m a woman

    Good news Caroline, we're off the hook :)


  • #3
    ednwireland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,458 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    8. First I have to go on a diet

    defo

    4. Cycling is tiring
    It may look like it, but it isn’t the case. In fact, cycling gives you energy. The cyclist wins strength every day. Not only physically, also mentally. The harder the effort, the sharper the mind. Your boss will be happy too: the more you ride, the better your performance at work

    thats just BS if your not tired your not going fast enough / hard enough

    My weather

    https://www.ecowitt.net/home/share?authorize=96CT1F



  • #4
    gamgsam
    Registered Users Posts: 292 ✭✭gamgsam


    How very dare you? I am cycling.


  • #5
    serendip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 287 ✭✭serendip


    ednwireland wrote: »
    thats just BS if your not tired your not going fast enough / hard enough

    A little harsh, perhaps? Surely it depends why you're cycling.


  • #6
    Lumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,142 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    4. Cycling is tiring
    It may look like it, but it isn’t the case. In fact, cycling gives you energy. The cyclist wins strength every day. Not only physically, also mentally. The harder the effort, the sharper the mind. Your boss will be happy too: the more you ride, the better your performance at work
    ednwireland wrote: »
    thats just BS if your not tired your not going fast enough / hard enough

    Indeed, as many weekend afternoons of utter uselessness can testify.


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  • #7
    Danbo!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,942 ✭✭✭Danbo!


    Gents, look away now.... (you've been warned)

    Last week I got a blinding pain where men shouldnt feel pain, which resulted in me paying a doctor 55 euro to give me a good fondle. Prognosis - Testicular Torsion, ie twisted. Need an operation to sort it, after that itll be six weeks off the bike. Shite.


  • #8
    Captain Havoc
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 11,393 Mod ✭✭✭✭Captain Havoc


    The dog ate my bike

    https://ormondelanguagetours.com

    Walking Tours of Kilkenny in English, French or German.



  • #9
    seanhunt
    Registered Users Posts: 22 ✭seanhunt


    its too windy


  • #10
    ednwireland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,458 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    serendip wrote: »
    A little harsh, perhaps? Surely it depends why you're cycling.

    nope not at all, i refer you to the following threads m'lud (commuter races)

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055850176&highlight=commuter+races
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055443804&highlight=commuter+races

    :D

    which is rich coming from a fat lazy feck like me !

    My weather

    https://www.ecowitt.net/home/share?authorize=96CT1F



  • #11
    Caroline_ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,400 ✭✭✭Caroline_ie


    My favourite ones at the moment are:

    I'm racing tomorrow
    I'll do an extra long one tomorrow ...

    Will have to try the I'm a woman one ... and No Dirk, you can't pull that one off.


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  • #12
    cdaly_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,440 ✭✭✭cdaly_


    ednwireland wrote: »
    Your boss will be happy too: the more you ride, the better your performance at work

    After you've had that snooze under the desk...


  • #13
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,191 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Bless me forum, for I have sinned, it's been 6 months (and 23 days) since my last spin. I'd like to blame it on traffic, weather, getting old and kids, but the simple truth is my tyres were falling apart and I'd no money to replace them. But now they are retired (sorry) and new ones are in place, so I'll do 20k tonight for my penance.

    Just back from said 20k and body and bike still in one piece! Looking forward to tomorrow's doms. :rolleyes: Anyone else get doms in the back of the neck? (I've a big head!)


  • #14
    ROK ON
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,831 ✭✭✭ROK ON


    Have done about 300km in past few days with 5000m of climbing in driving rain, freezing fog and sleet.
    I am old slow and fat.
    HTFU ye have no excuses.

    BTW I hate cycling! I just like wearing lycra.


  • #15
    jwshooter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,612 ✭✭✭jwshooter


    i had to bury the cat :(


  • #16
    DualFrontDiscs
    Registered Users Posts: 932 ✭✭✭DualFrontDiscs


    ROK ON wrote: »
    Have done about 300km in past few days with 5000m of climbing in driving rain, freezing fog and sleet.

    I too often get lost whilst cycling.


  • #17
    ednwireland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,458 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    i have a sore throat (damn infection hazard of an OH)
    desperately hoping it clears up by sunday :mad:

    My weather

    https://www.ecowitt.net/home/share?authorize=96CT1F



  • #18
    Poly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,807 ✭✭✭Poly


    Scared of getting run-over


  • #19
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Pherekydes wrote: »
    Just back from said 20k and body and bike still in one piece! Looking forward to tomorrow's doms. :rolleyes: Anyone else get doms in the back of the neck? (I've a big head!)
    Yes, if I decide to use the drops for extended periods, I'll have a stiff neck the next day. Still only getting used to it though. They're clearly muscles I don't use otherwise.


  • #20
    Jawgap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,297 ✭✭✭✭Jawgap


    work & study - damn the person who semesterised the Irish academic year.

    I did have a cracked rib or two for a while, but I'm not sure I can use that execuse anymore.

    By the way - how come when I'm out for a spin the only people I run too are

    a) .....only out for a "recovery" spin;
    b) .....coming back from injury or illness;
    c) ......only getting back into it (cycling);
    d) .....just getting into it.


  • #21
    L'Enfer du Nord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 587 ✭✭✭L'Enfer du Nord


    Mass is on...
    Not that I’m going to mass, just that I want to avoid the SUV borne congregation on their way to and from Mass.

    Walked past a church recently near Padua in Italy (very flat area), lots of people arriving by bicycle. Don’t know if I’ve ever seen someone parking a bike outside a church in Ireland. Do any churches have bike parks?


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  • #22
    Wicklowrider
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,029 ✭✭✭Wicklowrider


    X ray showing titanium rods at back of spine and titanium plate at front.


  • #23
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,805 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    Stee wrote: »
    Gents, look away now.... (you've been warned)

    Last week I got a blinding pain where men shouldnt feel pain, which resulted in me paying a doctor 55 euro to give me a good fondle. Prognosis - Testicular Torsion, ie twisted. Need an operation to sort it, after that itll be six weeks off the bike. Shite.




  • #24
    daragh_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,124 ✭✭✭daragh_


    I've got a bit of a sniffle?

    Also I was in England over the weekend and had no bike. I was offered a quick spin on a full suspension MTB but it just felt all wrong...


  • #25
    buzzingnoise
    Registered Users Posts: 121 ✭✭buzzingnoise


    daragh_ wrote: »
    I've got a bit of a sniffle?

    Also I was in England over the weekend and had no bike. I was offered a quick spin on a full suspension MTB but it just felt all wrong...

    it's ok, there's no need to feel bad about it, it wasn't your fault, someone lead you astray.
    i spent three months in the shower after my last muckbiking experience.
    we should form a support group!


  • #26
    daragh_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,124 ✭✭✭daragh_


    buzzingnoise wrote: »
    it's ok, there's no need to feel bad about it, it wasn't your fault, someone lead you astray.
    i spent three months in the shower after my last muckbiking experience.
    we should form a support group!

    It's family pressure. My little sister is a rabid Truffle Hunter (her phrase :D). She keeps sending me these huge baggy shorts and is horrified by my Lycra gear.


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