What is your least favourite part about cycling?

Male cyclists (often on crappy hybrid bikes and/or dressed in Lycra) who bust a gut to try to overtake me because I am a woman, nodding frantically as they do so, jumping red lights, taking unnecessary risks etc. and invariably, if they do manage to overtake, immediately slow down right in front of me. Idiots.

My guess is that it's got nothing to do with your feminine ways as the same happens to me, no mater if I'm bearded or not or if I've shaved my legs and wearing fishnets.

Dick head cyclist* are dick heads no matter what, where, who or why.

They're probably the same dick head as turns with out indicating when driving or swerves into my path because they are checking girl/s out.

Punctures - not my own, but those of housemates, friends, relatives, distant relatives, the work colleagues of distant relatives, the mothers of the work colleagues of distant relatives and so on. Because "I'm into cycling" it means I fucking love mending everybody else's punctures, doesn't it?

At least fat BSO tyres are easy to mount.

Having poppadom wrists that break every time some twat knocks me off my bike. 3 in the past 2 years. Fuckers.

the pain cave

If you is scared of the pain cave you are doing it wrong. Only once in the pain the pain cave can you find your way out, wich is the single most satisfying thing on a bike. Its like finding extra gears.

The thing I hate most about cycling is not owning some pristine white cycling shoes.

Putting wet clothes back on to cycle home from work, when it rains in the morning.

Y u no have radiators at work?

God, you lot really need to toughen up.

While putting on wet clothes, fixing punchers at the side of the road, sliding down an icy hill, fighting with nodders, paying for broken parts, riding in the pissing rain with water dripping from the peak of your hat, fighting the snow with frozen toes and fingers that dont want to grip the bars, just think, this is what makes us hard, this is what its all about, this is why people sat in there cars give us looks like we are fucking crazy, why work mates look dumb founded while you explain how you got to work in the worst stom of the winter and why we sling a leg over the top tube every day instead of getting the bus.

I don't like that fucking song by Queen. The Pink Floyd one's a laugh though.

My guess is that it's got nothing to do with your feminine ways as the same happens to me, no mater if I'm bearded or not or if I've shaved my legs and wearing fishnets.

Dick head cyclist* are dick heads no matter what, where, who or why.

They're probably the same dick head as turns with out indicating when driving or swerves into my path because they are checking girl/s out.

Possibly, but even DJ has observed how these twits behave towards me. Maybe they are indeed just dick heads no matter what. I wouldn't give a crap if they didn't sometimes jeopardise my safety.

I don't like being told by non-cycling friends/acquaintances/colleagues that I "must be mad to cycle in London". It's hardly worth arguing with these people.

God, you lot really need to toughen up.

While putting on wet clothes, fixing punchers at the side of the road, sliding down an icy hill, fighting with nodders, paying for broken parts, riding in the pissing rain with water dripping from the peak of your hat, fighting the snow with frozen toes and fingers that dont want to grip the bars, just think, this is what makes us hard, this is what its all about, this is why people sat in there cars give us looks like we are fucking crazy, why work mates look dumb founded while you explain how you got to work in the worst stom of the winter and why we sling a leg over the top tube every day instead of getting the bus.

exactamundo, +1000, repped

having 50 inch thighs is making finding a pair of these trendy tight cycling jeans a bit tricky , other than that its all good

yep... I have developed a ladies arse.

Having people shout from their white vans "pay some fucking road tax."

God, you lot really need to toughen up.

While putting on wet clothes, fixing punchers at the side of the road, sliding down an icy hill, fighting with nodders, paying for broken parts, riding in the pissing rain with water dripping from the peak of your hat, fighting the snow with frozen toes and fingers that dont want to grip the bars, just think, this is what makes us hard, this is what its all about, this is why people sat in there cars give us looks like we are fucking crazy, why work mates look dumb founded while you explain how you got to work in the worst stom of the winter and why we sling a leg over the top tube every day instead of getting the bus.

great post.

People who don't cycle telling me that fixed gear bikes are inferior to geared bikes "because if fixed gear was so great why would they have invented gears"

and other completely unfounded reasons why riding fixed is less good than riding other bikes

They've got a point though haven't they? I mean, look at that Tour of France. The chap in the yellow shirt is never on a fixie.

Having people shout from their white vans "pay some fucking road tax."

I do that!

They've got a point though haven't they? I mean, look at that Tour of France. The chap in the yellow shirt is never on a fixie.

I'm not saying there aren't reasons that geared bikes are better than fixed bikes for a great multitude of reasons, just that fatheads seem to think that because fixed and singlespeed came first they are obsolete mechanisms with no value for everyday cycling. They just talk out of their arses having not actually experienced it or knowing the reality of it, which angers my small brain.

It makes perfect sense to wear lycra when cycling, what's wrong with it?

Yes it makes perfect sense. I just don't like it.

My guess is that it's got nothing to do with your feminine ways as the same happens to me, no mater if I'm bearded or not or if I've shaved my legs and wearing fishnets.

Dick head cyclist* are dick heads no matter what, where, who or why...

Are you on a Brompton at the time by any chance?

My g/f often complains that blokes will go to ridiculous lengths to re-overtake her - and I've witnessed it when we've ridden together (I'm usually pootling along behind, gobsmacked).

The only time I've noticed it happening to me is when I'm on the Brompton - it seems to invoke a "oh look a silly bike, I HAVE to get in front of it... oh shit, we are now going over 12mph and my legs have gone!" sort of attitude.

Most people hate being passed by a Brompton and many often take it as a challenge to race to get infront again.
But no it happens on any bike I ride.

Thing I hate is when I can't ride, and I know what I am missing. Then I wish I had never started.

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+2 on the ball chaff and other cyclists!

i hate hail when riding, rain is ok, but hail hurts so much more.

Wow - in to the 4th page of this thread in less than 24 hrs.
Maybe we should all walk to work?