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One of my Hobbies is walking, great way to see the country side and the Woodland of this Country, about 6 weeks ago I damaged my knee while out blackberry picking, i won't go into detail, seem's I twisted my Knee pretty bad.

I did do a lot of cycling to work, but now it is just a trip up the town now and again, untill this morning I thought to my self get that bike out and do a good trip, i must have done about 10 miles and my knee stood up nicely, but try walking on it and it still is painfull.

The question is how many of you guys cycle ?
 
I did a few years back... getting a new Boardman bike in January... thing is living up here you dont really get the weather. It rains 50% of the year... snows 25% of the year and is dry but very windy the final 25%!! Joys of living on the coast. But... I aim to get back into it.
 
I have a bike, but it spends most of its time in the shed. Run and walk regularly though. I should think of the bike more often though, as they say it's better for your joints etc.

Your blackberries were ripe for picking 6 weeks ago! Some are still ripening here!
 
hedgehog(FGM) said:
..The question is how many of you guys cycle ?
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Not me mate, I'm only a 5-minute walk from the city centre so there's no reason to use a bike, and I don't go further afield, I haven't been out of Plymouth for about 5 years.
In the distant past I used to cycle to work and was even in a cycling club at one point, my personal best for a 10-mile time trial was 25mins 17secs which works out at 23mph.
I also did a lot of cycle-camping too in those days, mostly all over England and Wales. Longest was from Leicester to Paris and back in 1975, totalling 800 miles spread over 8 days.
This is me in action in '74-

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I bought my Mongoose this spring - and had a nice summer full of riding and biking tourism through our mountains and seas :) It also helps me a lot in the city too - as i'm not a car driver, public transport was driving me crazy :RpS_mad:

I think that bike is the coolest invention ever ... until the lightsaber, it will be even more cool :)
 
I started just again before a few weeks after repairing my good old mountain bike. And it´s a great feeling if You need only 20 minutes for a route the car drivers need between 30 and 60 minutes. :))) From the public tranportation we haven´t to speak. It needs to every day and time about 45 minutes. And sometimes it is funny to watch the big eyes of the car drivers if You ride Your bike with only short trousers and a T-Shirt on during they are sitting in the cars with full opened heater. I´ll try to ride my bike this style so long as possible - and perhaps I can do it through the winter. :))) I´m curious of what for eyes they will make then. :)))
 
Two foreign girl cyclists photographed from my window 10 minutes ago, (their accents could have been German), they were flirting with the builders working on the roof next door, and eventually pedalled off giggling, ha ha..

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PoorOldSpike said:
Not me mate, I'm only a 5-minute walk from the city centre so there's no reason to use a bike, and I don't go further afield, I haven't been out of Plymouth for about 5 years.
In the distant past I used to cycle to work and was even in a cycling club at one point, my personal best for a 10-mile time trial was 25mins 17secs which works out at 23mph.
I also did a lot of cycle-camping too in those days, mostly all over England and Wales. Longest was from Leicester to Paris and back in 1975, totalling 800 miles spread over 8 days.
This is me in action in '74-

cyclng74.jpg
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You racing Cyclists are good, When I was a boy a gang of us cycled to Southend from London about 40 miles, we took food and drink with us, also we had in our group a racing cyclist and you know at lunch time when we were half way there, he would go back home have is lunch and he caught us up before we got to Southend, Amazing bloke he was
 
There was a big row in this years Tour de france mate, leader Andy Shleck's chain came off and his rival Alberto Contador accelerated away without waiting for him and eventually won the race.
He didn't break any rules but half the cycling world says he should have done the decent thing and waited or at least slowed down. The other half say he shouldn't have waited.
Me, I'd have waited.
PS- Contador tested positive for drugs after the race, so he might be stripped of the win anyway, ha ha..:)

 
My girlfriend and I just bought a bike because we were down a car and her school and my work aren't far from home. It's working out really well, especially since we both are in dire need of the exercise! Can't say I'd call myself a cyclist though. It's really big in my hometown of Wilmington, NC, with youngish people - especially those who have just grown out of their "punk" teens. They all have mad tats, piercings, eat vegan, drink a lot, stick it to the man and the system, work on their bikes, and ride them. A lot of my friends jumped on that bandwagon but I wasn't feeling it.

The video - If he waited, he would've gotten passed by all the others coming up behind him, right? Unless they waited too... stop the race for one mechanical failure? Bring in the "Pace Bike?" Seems more trouble than its worth. These things happen in competition. The guy caught a very lucky break, as far as I can tell.

But if it was just the two, I'd wait.
 
AntiG3n said:
..things happen in competition. The guy caught a very lucky break, as far as I can tell.
But if it was just the two, I'd wait...
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Yeah the controversy is still raging. It's like two marathon runners who pull right away from the rest of the field and are running side by side, but then a dog trips up one of them and leaves him dazed on the ground for a minute or two. Should the other guy slow down to wait for him or just say "hard luck mate", and sprint off to win?

PS- In the world cycling championships about 25 years ago, the Germans were easily beating the Brits in the 4-man team pursuit but then a dozy track official sent the whole German team crashing when he stuck his butt a few inches onto the track while adjusting sandbags. The Brits coasted on past and went on to win but refused to take first place on the podium and insisted the Gers get the gold medal, that was great sportsmanship..:)
 
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