I love to start riding the bike again but just not got the time. If I did have the time I'd probably go to gym (or pub) instead anyway
I got knocked off mine a few months ago and have just got back into it, was pretty badly messed up, all I'll say is you need to be 'bike fit', I do other sports and use a gym but riding the bike up significant hills after 5/6 months is a killer, not pretty.
Going back a few years (about eleven) to before I got a car, I was always on my bike. I lost count of how many times I got road rage Once going round a roundabout whilst clearly signalling and having the right of way, a car was pipping at me and shouting get out the way before deciding to overtake despite turning off at the next exit missing my front whe by milimetres. In anger, I slammed my bike down shouting and waving my arms at the ****. And no, he/she didn't have the bollox to stop!
I got this one for the road please log in to view this image Just took it there because it needs a service anyway, brakes as well so rather than **** about for £ 20 they reckon they'll sort it all When I could play footie I did more on mountain bike as I thought it did my legs better and enjoyed it more so roadbike been stuck in shed for a while I know what you mean about road rage, I get it a bikers in my car and then at drivers on the bike
Yeah Ive not done the road for about 10 months now. And for over 7 months not done anything due to leg break How you get knocked off? What injury you get?
Best thing that happened to me was getting a half eaten can of salt and vinegar Pringles chucked at me as I was waiting at a red light. Seriously though, there are some proper idiots out there both on bikes and in cars. I got ploughed into by some noob who'd come through a red light at a junction, went up into her windscreen, smashed it, bounced off into the road. End result fractured shoulder, collarbone, cuts, swelling, paaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiin. See you've got a triple on their DR, the old granny gear you cheat!
I once cut in front of a motorbike (blind spot) but saw him last second so pulled back in and put my hand up to say sorry. At the next set of traffic lights he pulled up alongside me and starting banging on my window. I'd only been driving about a month and was still a scrawny kid, plus he didn't take his helmet off and he was a big ****er so I stayed in the car with the door locked
This guy's quite an amusing motovlogger if you want to try and empathise [video=youtube;Awf4uyUiNEg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Awf4uyUiNEg[/video]
Good stories Painful Pass and Move In relation to the triple im not sure, they're the easy gears then? Im not really sure on roadbikes but on my mountain bike have as many as poss as I think you need them if you're doing testing trails. I like to have the option as well, I still try to make it hard for myself Used to race on bmx's back in the day and they were only thing, pedal as fast as ****! My mate got knocked into by a driver and he turned round first to eith apologise if they looked meaty or moan if they didnt. they didnt so he was all like what the **** you doing etc Mind you, this is the same friend who when we were out in a pub he kept looking at this bloke (who was acting a nob head) saying look at the ****ing **** and he strated staring back and he was all like whats he ****ing looking at until he came over and said, what the **** you looking at to which my mate replied nothing mate, im short sighted and left my glasses at hme Wimp!
Been a few knocked off their bikes by cars around here that have been killed. Because of this and the fact that I stopped riding so much eleven years ago, whenever I do go out I tend to stick to the paths nowadays
The smaller the ring (ooh er) the easier the peddling, amongst hardcore roadies you'd be frowned upon for having a triple and they'd be trying to convince you to change your groupset , but the important thing is what you're comfy with. Most use a double and try to stay on the big ring (front) as much as poss. Funny stories DR, I used to be a bit like your mate I think, was out in a club once and some prick knocked my drink all over me... in that sort of drunken situation normally they apologise, as he tried to do, then you reciprocate except I just got in a nasty mood with him, refused to shake his hand over it and made him want to start on me. A pal of mine had to intervene before anything else happened.
Sensible but I've heard road rage stories of drivers getting up on/into cycle paths just because. I drive and like driving when the roads aren't congested but hate cars, they're detrimental to everyone and everything except the people using them. The other issue there is that cycle paths/lanes are so badly maintained and littered with the junk that gets swept off the road, glass and metal shards from collisions, all the masses of dead leaves in winter that are slippery. Whenever I'm out now I'm nervous and a bit jumpy with cars coming out of junctions and side roads. Was a pretty alert cyclist before, god knows what that makes me now, OCD I guess.
A lad that worked for the same plastering firm as me took a 6 foot plank home to do a job in his house, he tied the plank onto his Honda 50 bike.....so far so good? Nope the stupid **** tied it on widthways and got collared on the way home, he's lucky he didn't get far or him or an innocent pedestrian might of got killed, it was on Police, Camera, Action on the telly and I can't be arsed looking for it on YouTube tbh..
Think ive seen that PMK on said programme And Pass and Move you shuldve styed cool and got another drink, best tric is when youve nearly finished and you brge into someone nd they offer to buy and you accept!
If your running short of notes in a crowded pub ask your mate to give you a £20 note, tear a corner off it and give him it back then let him get a round in with the £20, then when its your shout pay for it with a tenner but keep the corner of the torn £20 in between your teeth and when the barman comes back with your change of ten tell him it was twenty and you can prove it, remove the corner from your teeth and when he goes to the till hey presto he apo!ogises and gives you your tenner back plus the drinks and change from the extra tenner. Just read how to do it but I don't know if I'd have the cheek to try it.
