Jan and Klodi's Party Bus - part II **off topic discussion**

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/29/hail-to-the-chief-cyclist-gives-trump-the-middle-finger

There's expressing dissatisfaction and then some!

Happy birthday Ron Zijlaard, 74 today and still racing derny bikes. Took the win in the 6 Day London Derny B Final a second ago.

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Just read the statement on twitter.
What is it? Cycling is bigger than ever with phenomenal participation in all aspects of the sport.
Yet apartmfrom sugar daddies, stable medium term sponsors are leaking from the aport.
That is deeply disfunctional. Structural weakness of the pro and semipro game being brutally exposed.

Tiagra comes in flat disc mount only, so wont fit your cdf unless you change the calipers. A pair of hy/rd is 130e from Taiwan these days...

There are no flat > post mount adaptors as far as I know... But then I've heard that calipers can be swapped easily for any post mount version, like from Alivio / Acera MTB groupset.

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

I am finding it so difficult to motivate myself to get out on the bike at the minute. To be fair I have a lot going on and commuting isn't an option, well it is but it's about 500yards so pretty pointless.

I got out and did 40kms on Sunday, relaxed pace, really enjoyed myself, went to the gym Monday with plans to get out on the bike after for another relaxedish spin but I ended up leaving everything on the gym floor, it was like self sabotage halfway through my session, making myself push harder and harder so I'd have an excuse not to go out.

Taking on the Doing the almost 400kms in 2 days (I know that's not much for you seasoned fellers) on very little notice took a lot out of me mentally and I seem to be paying the price now.

2 genuine questions:

1. Why do you gym?
2. Why do you cycle?

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

I gym because I genuinely feel better when I'm training, I'm more productive in work and I don't feel lethargic. I struggled with my weight for years and now I'm getting to a stage where people don't refer to me as the fat bloke anymore.

Cycling I really enjoy, the physical feelgood factor along with the mental cleansing. I just seem to be afraid of it at the minute

I did the gym thing for years and the being built like a brick **** house thing (even now some people tell me they assumed that I must do a lot of weights) although I never really stopped thinking of myself as the fat lad.

But it was always artificial and only latterly in that part of my life did I start focusing less on training that made me feel like I could break through walls and more on stuff that would actually help me (a long two years of rehab certainly nudged me along).

Then I started doing training that made me feel light and quick instead of blunt and strong (initially mostly plyo circuits) and this led to me realising that the sports I'd loved (running, climbing, swimming) had all been about a sense of freedom.

Something cycling gave me in spades. So now I cycle for the freedom it gives me from everything else.

And any other training I do is task focused e.g. to support my cycling, to maintain my damaged joints or for a specific obligation or undertaking.

That means for me I never feel a conflict between cycling and other training. Cycling is something I love. The other training I enjoy but view as supplementary.

My love of cycling fuels almost everything else I do.

Goals and targeted events are fine and useful but if you're not being paid to do it, you should be chasing joy, not metrics in and of themselves.

My 2c try something different on the bike, if you have a hybrid give some singletrack or towpath a go.

When I got up at 05:30 so I could spend 2hrs on the trails in the park this morning it wasn't for how I'd feel after, it was for how it felt at the time.

That's the difference for me.

RobFowl wrote: »

Don't tell anyone I said this but take a few weeks off the bike.
Do the gym and keep fit in other ways.
Trust me the4 bike will call you back when you are ready.....

^^also this.

Just don't trust him when he tells you to swim back to the bike then go for a run immediately after

Lusk_Doyle wrote: »

Is gym now a verb? I gym, you gym, he/she gyms...

Jim gyms in the gym.

http://www.adverts.ie/14111438

Have I overpriced?

What a load of bo***cks! Kids are getting obese, and that’s a problem, but we can’t deal with kids cycling.

Ditch a couple of parking spaces, add in a few bike stands to them, and it’s sorted!