What is your least favourite part about cycling?

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

+1 .Also crazy drivers that have a compulsion to accelerate and 10 seconds later have to come to a stop a traffic lights.

With regard to the manning the fuck up post, seriously guys, its so true. Try barely being able to ride for 2 months (or more....) due to injury every time you think its safe to ride again you go out and gets worse again. The most frustrating thing I've ever experienced. I would say I have more Passion for cycling than anything else and the thought of not being able to cycle is a depressing one.... but then even with that I am still thankful that my injury will heal, I feel the most for those with permanent debilitating injuries....

Sorry for the rant eh.

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.

That's because the UCI is afraid of superior fixie-technology and so they've banned it. They just want to stop the future. They only allow Chris Hoy to ride fixied because they know he couldn't win otherwise.

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

I do that!

I thought it was just me. I've got a sticker on my back doors too. It says 'Do a skid - after you've paid some fucking road tax'

being a bit shit at maintenance.

I enjoy a bit of fettling, but it rarely improves the situation.

I do most of my maintenance whilst pissed.

I hate epically failing at maintenance and realising that I need to ride to work on a hybrid the next morning

o tempora, o mores :(

With regard to the manning the fuck up post, seriously guys, its so true. Try barely being able to ride for 2 months (or more....) due to injury every time you think its safe to ride again you go out and gets worse again. The most frustrating thing I've ever experienced. I would say I have more Passion for cycling than anything else and the thought of not being able to cycle is a depressing one.... but then even with that I am still thankful that my injury will heal, I feel the most for those with permanent debilitating injuries....

Sorry for the rant eh.

Mannup

That looks like my ex

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.

But Tim, you do look like a girl.

This thread needs some Chopper more like:

Chopper Reid - Harden the fuck up, Australia - YouTube

I found this thread invaluable last night as I was sat on my turbo in my cellar doing aerobic ladder repeats. Normally I think of turbo sessions as a necessary evil. I never really enjoy doing them but I have to.. While sweating buckets and in a shallow corner of the pain cave I remembered this thread and remembered what I love about cycling and racing.. I smiled.. I laughed.. I enjoyed my turbo session..

did you let out a little roar when you finished that post?

:-)

The low wages

beats workin'

did you let out a little roar when you finished that post?

What a bad name to call your penis.

At the moment, having spazmos in these* fucking* things elbowing their way past me at every red light:

Throw a toaster in your bath, fuckers.

You are aware there is a hold on band at the back of those things? Where the mesh pocket is. Grab onto as they go past. Free ride LD

I hate thinking I can index my gears myself.
Failing to get my wheel straight on the bike even following SB's guide.
Some ass on a mountain bike winding his big ring on a downhill 'just' getting past me, then slowing up.

really fiddly seatpost clamps

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.

I love being overtaken by someone giving it the beans on a Brompton. I got caned up the hill from Old St to Kings cross by someone on a folder a few months back. He was flying. Stopped at the lights and I only just had enough breath left in my lungs to tell him I thought he rode like a don. Made me smile all morning. Proper stealth athlete.

"seized" components..

they dont seize. they just become at one with each other

yeah? well I need my at one seat post to drop down 5 mil

Punctures.

Not cycling as much as I would like to.

Shitty cyclists

The cleaning that must be adhered to, post off-road shenanigans of any description. West coast of Scotland ='s rain and mud pretty much year round.

Puts me off from indulging more.

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.

Scoot, you've been trolled by Wigan's famous Will.