jenks
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As the resident cycling obsessive I can only concur. Many things I could live without but I would find it very hard to live without my bike(s)
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I started becoming interested in cycling when I was watching "Kikis delivery service", the finest film of the 21st century (@craner)
There's a bespectacled boy who winds up befriending (and who knows what else) the titular teenage witch, and he's always zipping about on his bike
There was a scene in particular where they're flying down the hills on his bicycle in the sunshine that made me think "ah that must be quite fun"
And lo! It was fun
There's a bespectacled boy who winds up befriending (and who knows what else) the titular teenage witch, and he's always zipping about on his bike
There was a scene in particular where they're flying down the hills on his bicycle in the sunshine that made me think "ah that must be quite fun"
And lo! It was fun
jenks
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I spend far too much time watching ridiculous downhill MTB videos that scare me silly.
I think like many sports/pastimes there is a potential to become obsessive. Always a new piece of kit, something that will make you go faster or look better. I think it’s also about doing something for yourself - the bike (or whatever it is) gives an uncomplicated pleasure, it’s not freighted with irony or an intellectual position. It’s fun - until you break your wrist…
Cycled about 15 miles thru the South downs, vineyards, rivers, chalky byways, then along the seafront. And this evening, a quick 30 minutes after dinner as the sun set. Yesterday, along the front to the beach at Hove. If I don't cycle at least once a day, I can feel deterioration setting in. I used to cycle in London a lot, it had the advantage of infinite routes.
Something I cannot work out in retrospect is why I never cycled as a student. The nineties was a cycling nadir, it never even crossed my mind.
Something I cannot work out in retrospect is why I never cycled as a student. The nineties was a cycling nadir, it never even crossed my mind.
I rarely wear a helmet, but I do have good lights. I probably would wear one in London, on balance.
jenks
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I love that Fournel book.
OK you've convinced me, @william_kent ill have those wheels sir
yyaldrin
in je ogen waait de wind
except there's always so much wind, i hate that so so so much. give me hills and mountains over that thunderous everlasting neverending terrible wind anytime.
jenks
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Living by the estuary, meaning that nearly all rides start/finish with a five mile stretch of headwind/tailwind, I do understand this. The trick is not to fight it. drop the gear, pick up the cadence and just accept you're not going fast.
This race became comical - skinny blokes, light bikes and a howling wind
https://youtube.com/shorts/-siJ40S6-oQ?si=zyuA7HrxYFD1_sTm
mixed_biscuits
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This must explain the rudimentary nature of Dutch hairstyles.
jenks
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They are great bikes - design on them is impressive. Very convenient and hold their value of you ever look to resell.
One downside to consider: they are very desirable items meaning that thieves love them. Unfortunately i found this out when my son had his bikejacked from him on the way to work one morning. Two guys in balaclavas rode alongside him on his early morning commute on the Holloway Rd and made it very clear they would do him harm if he didn't hand over the bike - very scary indeed. Police did fuck all.
