What's the obsession middle aged lads have with cycling?

RacoonQueen · 23-07-2018 05:52PM

Ray Bloody Purchase wrote: »

Our road network doesn't exactly lend itself to safe cycling,

Probably because it wasn't designed for high volume of motor vehicles, many roads are more suited to smaller vehicles, like bikes.
Maybe cars should stay off those roads?

magicbastarder · 23-07-2018 05:54PM

partyguinness wrote: »

Yeah I defo get a more sense of satisfaction after a run. I do have a bike that I occasionally get out on but it is very very rare. After a cycle for some reason I do not feel like I have pushed myself at all and it's all been a bit too easy...bit of an anti climax really. But as I have not cycled half as much as run I should keep an open mind.

do you have any hills near you? i have always found it quite rewarding on the bike to tackle a hill.

partyguinness · 23-07-2018 05:56PM

ArnoldJRimmer wrote: »

As someone who loves cycling and is slightly tubby, and being generous on myself, 'approaching' middle age, I agree with the above.

While running is now more difficult for me to do, due to repeated instances of plantar fasciitis, I've always absolutely hated it. Cycling is much more enjoyable and easier on the body, but is never going to contribute to significant weight loss. And I'm okay with that as long as it keeps me fit.

Yeah I will often see groups of cyclists I know on Strava out having lunch etc with a few beers and then heading back. Maybe some sight seeing.

You most definitely do not see runners doing that.

'Lets all do a cheeky 10 mile run out to Ballyville, grab lunch covered in sweat, a few sensible drinks and run 10 miles back again.' No runner said ever.

Cyclists defo seem to have more fun and if you can combine exercise and fun then great. A bit fcking jealous to be honest now that I think about it.:mad:

Silent Running · 23-07-2018 05:58PM

RacoonQueen wrote: »

Probably because it wasn't designed for high volume of motor vehicles, many roads are more suited to smaller vehicles, like bikes.
Maybe cars should stay off those roads?

Yeah, let's take everything bigger than a bike off the roads. Now, get on your bike and get that 40 tonnes of steel to Cork. Good lad.

OldMrBrennan83 · 23-07-2018 05:58PM

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The Kop · 23-07-2018 05:59PM

That was some rant from AndrewJRenko...pissed myself laughing.
Hey Andrew you left out the bit about hoe motorists that wear Golf Jumpers spook you.

RacoonQueen · 23-07-2018 05:59PM

Silent Running wrote: »

Yeah, let's take everything bigger than a bike off the roads. Now, get on your bike and get that 40 tonnes of steel to Cork. Good lad.

*off those roads* as in the smaller, narrower roads which have never been upgraded to accommodate motor vehicles.

23-07-2018 06:02PM

PlaneSpeeking wrote: »

It's not Pavlovian - that is automatic.

This is a well thought out response to leaving a LUAS and being hit by a cyclist.

Yeah, that happens every day too. They always mention it on the news.

PlaneSpeeking wrote: »

I don't get the disbelief ??

http://www.thejournal.ie/woman-critical-collision-cyclist-3920019-Mar2018/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Jqtu4bqv-Q

https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/young-woman-knocked-down-cyclist-12943045

The last one concerns me as I cross O'Connell St twice daily and the rules of the road are roundly ignored.

Plus the many interactions resulting in near misses, or the bruised a**e I had from the eejit going over the Millennium Bridge like it was the last stage of the Tour de France and me falling to get out of the way.

I'm not saying all cyclists are like this but I am very tired of the constant victim complex cyclists seem to have - some of ye are morons. Some drivers are morons but I've yet to see a Volkswagen drive at me on a tram platform!!!

Indeed, some drivers ARE morons, especially the ones that manage to kill about 40 pedestrians each year on Irish roads, and maim many more.

PlaneSpeeking wrote: »

"But cars are as bad!" - exhibit A.

No-one is saying that 'cars are as bad'. Cyclists don't quite manage to kill 3 or 4 people each week on the roads. It's a long way off being 'as bad'.

PlaneSpeeking wrote: »

Plus a car is run by a complex system of engineering. A cycle by the rider. There are differences.

Yes indeed, there are differences. The main difference is that motorists have killed more than 4,000 people in the last 15 years in Ireland, while cyclists have killed zero people in the same period. That's a fairly significant difference for any complex engineering system.

P_1 wrote: »

Look at the end of the day a twat is gonna be a twat, be it on a bike, in a car or even walking down the road.

Indeed - though the twats on bikes or on foot aren't the ones killing 3-4 people each week on our roads

aroundthehouse wrote: »

cyclists seem to think its ok to swarm the doorways of cafes and petrol stations and make life difficult for other patrons, plus they seem to think that just because they are wearing cycling gear that they can fart the place up, i dread being stuck in a queue behind a cyclist because they just stink the place up with fart

Oh it's the farting now - this just gets better and better.

Sal Butamol wrote: »

That's a cycling thing. We deliberately end our cycle by choosing a cafe, dismount and huddle by the door having spent three hours on the saddle thinking up ingenious ways to piss off cafe dwellers. We always choose going with buying a coffee and sitting down to enjoy it which bizarrely pisses off people no end.

One time one of the lads just met us there in normal clothes and tried the same thing but it wasn't half as effective.

Don't forget about the farting thing too.

Omackeral wrote: »

There's no need to be cyclist

Yeah, who'd want to halve their risk of cancer in this day and age.

MadDog76 wrote: »

One of the saddest sights on the road is a cyclist, dressed like he's doing the Tour De France, just going to work..... I find myself embarrassed on their behalf.

I generally get more embarrassed for the idiots sitting in metal cages, working on their obesity, diabetes and cancer rates while staring down the arse-end of the car in front. I wear lycra when cycling to work because it's the only material that will dry during the day. I don't give a toss what you think about my clothing.

ewc78 · 23-07-2018 06:03PM

partyguinness wrote: »

Yeah I defo get a more sense of satisfaction after a run. I do have a bike that I occasionally get out on but it is very very rare. After a cycle for some reason I do not feel like I have pushed myself at all and it's all been a bit too easy...bit of an anti climax really. But as I have not cycled half as much as run I should keep an open mind.

Trying to see if I can enter a a tri next year but it's my swimming I am working on atm.

I swim like a rock otherwise I'd like to do a Tri. Haven't time to learn how to swim, always to busy training for the next Marathon that I promised myself I wouldn't sign up for.

Silent Running · 23-07-2018 06:03PM

RacoonQueen wrote: »

*off those roads* as in the smaller, narrower roads which have never been upgraded to accommodate motor vehicles.

Ah OK then, get on yer bike and deliver that new kitchen to Mrs. Renko out in the country, down the single track road. And when you've done that, Mrs. Magic needs her washing machine. She's only 90kms away, no bother to you.

P_1 · 23-07-2018 06:05PM

Patww79 wrote: »

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Would you ever get over yourself. Those narrow, quiet roads are the best to be cycling on. Besides if you're driving fast on those roads I'm going to have to borrow a line or 2 from Paul Gogarty's famous Dail speech and replace "Deputy Stagg" with "Patww79"

23-07-2018 06:05PM

The Kop wrote: »

That was some rant from AndrewJRenko...pissed myself laughing.
Hey Andrew you left out the bit about hoe motorists that wear Golf Jumpers spook you.

Interesting how you seem to keep bring up this issue, but see nothing wrong with the obsession of large numbers of posters about men's lycra covered crotches - just a tad hypocritical, no?

The Kop · 23-07-2018 06:06PM

AndrewJRenko ranting again

I love the way he completely ignores anything about bad cycling and turns it into a rant about cars. It's hilarious how much of a hypocrite he is.

RacoonQueen · 23-07-2018 06:07PM

Silent Running wrote: »

Ah OK then, get on yer bike and deliver that new kitchen to Mrs. Renko out in the country, down the single track road. And when you've done that, Mrs. Magic needs her washing machine. She's only 90kms away, no bother to you.

Horse and cart. Be grand. Strong oul things.

OldMrBrennan83 · 23-07-2018 06:08PM

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P_1 · 23-07-2018 06:09PM

partyguinness wrote: »

As I am now 40 I guess I can almost qualify as middle aged. I took up running when my football days came to an end.

A good few of the crowd I run with do running, swimming and cycling and enter triathlons. Most seem to ditch running once they get into cycling.

Here is a few points- I don't cycle as I just do not have the time. I run HM and marathons.

Advantages to cycling over running

1. More sociable- you can cycle say 20 miles with a gang have lunch and a beer and cycle back. That ain't happening with running.

2. Yes it is easier on the joints
3. You can free wheel more if you are tired and still keep moving.

4. You can gels and fuel with you on the bike
5. A 20 mile cycle is helluva a lot easier than a 20 mile run
6. I may be wrong on this but when running and preparing for events a runner has to really watch eating and timing of meals leading up to an event. Cyclists I know don't have to watch this as much it seems.

Now this is not a criticism or trolling but cycling is more forgiving than running on the body.

Having said that I do not want to die under a HGV so I'll stick to running.

Running seems (based on my own completely non-science or evidence backed research and observations) to help with weight lose more than cycling as I defo see more (ahem) tubby cyclists than runners but at least they are getting out there.

I wonder if cycling is more friendly to the, ahem, more generously proportioned athlete than running would be. As you mentioned, cycling is much more forgiving on the body so I dare say most folk who would have more for their knees to support probably shouldn't jog which is probably why you don't see too many larger people out jogging.

OldMrBrennan83 · 23-07-2018 06:09PM

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P_1 · 23-07-2018 06:10PM

Patww79 wrote: »

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Again, where did I say I want all the roads. All I'm saying is that flying down a boreen at 100kph isn't the nicest thing to do.

You do seem rather wound up a chara, perhaps you should hop on the bike for a bit. It does wonders for the mind, body and soul

P_1 · 23-07-2018 06:11PM

RacoonQueen wrote: »

Horse and cart. Be grand. Strong oul things.

HTFU and dig the cargo bike out :pac:

OldMrBrennan83 · 23-07-2018 06:12PM

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07Lapierre · 23-07-2018 06:13PM

MadDog76 wrote: »

One of the saddest sights on the road is a cyclist, dressed like he's doing the Tour De France, just going to work..... I find myself embarrassed on their behalf.

I’m a keen cyclist. I’ve a wardrobe full of cycling kit! I cycle to work.... why the hell would I not wear cycling kit while cycling????

P_1 · 23-07-2018 06:14PM

Patww79 wrote: »

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You strike me as a rather hateful character. I do hope I never have the misfortune of encountering you on the road lest your ego be devastated by a verbal evisceration of the size of your manhood.

P_1 · 23-07-2018 06:16PM

07Lapierre wrote: »

I’m a keen cyclist. I’ve a wardrobe full of cycling kit! I cycle to work.... why the hell would I not wear cycling kit while cycling????

If your commute is longer than 10k fair enough, if it's less, ah c'mon now. Nothing worse than seeing Freds decked out to the nines for their downhill spin from Goatstown or Howth when you're going into work.

Whisper it but the gobshiites often hold you up, schoal at every set of lights and then hold you up some more

magicbastarder · 23-07-2018 06:21PM

any serious cyclist with a commute of less than 10km would have to put in a few laps of howth on the way to work to make it worth it, to be fair.

OldMrBrennan83 · 23-07-2018 06:23PM

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07Lapierre · 23-07-2018 06:25PM

P_1 wrote: »

If your commute is longer than 10k fair enough, if it's less, ah c'mon now. Nothing worse than seeing Freds decked out to the nines for their downhill spin from Goatstown or Howth when you're going into work.

Whisper it but the gobshiites often hold you up, schoal at every set of lights and then hold you up some more

I hate to admit it, but it’s probably me holding up the other cyclists!

just because I cycle a lot doesn’t mean I’m any good at it!

Iwouldinmesack · 23-07-2018 06:25PM

@ AndrewRJenko, using the death of one young woman cyclist to is going a bit to far to demonstrate a point, may she rip. From what ive seen personally the majority of cyclist are not young women but young men, middle aged men and middle aged women.

Muahahaha · 23-07-2018 06:27PM

aroundthehouse wrote: »

not in large groups, if a bunch of travelers came into a shop and all started blocking the doorway and farting in peoples faces i bet you would have something to say about that

Thats a bit unfair. When Im out for a cycle the highlight of the day for me is always the lunch break where I get to go into a shop, stick someones face between my legs and fart in it. Surprisingly people dont seem to mind at all which must be why the practice is so common amongst cyclists. Hell I even saw a stage of the Tour de France where the entire peleton stopped off in a French village to fart in the locals faces.

RacoonQueen · 23-07-2018 06:38PM

Silent Running wrote: »

Ah OK then, get on yer bike and deliver that new kitchen to Mrs. Renko out in the country, down the single track road. And when you've done that, Mrs. Magic needs her washing machine. She's only 90kms away, no bother to you.

P_1 wrote: »

HTFU and dig the cargo bike out :pac:

https://youtu.be/5PkTwJ347Vk?t=20

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/barmy-cyclist-spotted-with-fridge-freezer-175371

23-07-2018 06:39PM

I have my own issues with some cyclist's however in answer to op question these middle aged guys are trying to stop the middle aged spread, get fit and generally get fitness levels up. All of this is good.

I do have is with the way some of these cycle but that is for another thread. In general it is a good thing that these middle aged guys are doing what they are doing

What's the obsession middle aged lads have with cycling?

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