What is your least favourite part about cycling?

The drug tests

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.

BMMF? He obviously wouldn't call that a hill, of course.

Dunno whether it was BMMF or not. Had some mad skillz though. (was months ago but it obviously stuck with me).

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

Oh shit. I was too busy still arguing furiously with the imaginary person in my head that I failed to notice the sarcasm.

Well trolled.

What do I hate about cycling?

That I have failed to enthuse my wife sufficiently so that she can share my passion for cycling as much as I would like her to.

In answer to the OP. Too many tits cycling in London. Over the last few months there seems to have been an increase in severe weapons that have the cycling skills of a pissed up chimp!

I swear, in the next few months I will see some-one get knocked off and it will absolutely be there fault

What do I hate about cycling?

That I have failed to enthuse my wife sufficiently so that she can share my passion for cycling as much as I would like her to.
Don't consider it a failure Clive.

'You can take a horse to water' and all that (not that I am suggesting in any way that Mrs Cliveo is a horse).

I think the key is to allow someone to believe they have discovered the joy of cycling for themselves and/or to simply continue showing her what fun can be had on a bike (exploding bottoms don't count). It's human to resist things which are thrust upon us, even if they are made of Titanium.

Too many tits cycling in London. Over the last few months there seems to have been an increase in severe weapons that have the cycling skills of a pissed up chimp!

It is getting worse. I feel an increasing urge to body-check the next nodder who undertakes me.

Which is pointless, because I have the body of Charles Hawtrey.

Hearing news of cyclists being killed. Happens all too often.

The drug tests

Fuck that.

Pot holes on dark nights.

What do I hate about cycling?

That I have failed to enthuse my wife sufficiently so that she can share my passion for cycling as much as I would like her to.

Your wife now made me think about getting my finger caught in the spokes when shifting the downtube shifter, irrational fear indeed!

I blame the idiotic person who told her that.

Having to fucking pedal on that lovely thing I've just built.

I managed to feed my fingers into the bladed spokes on one of my wheelsets while reaching for a water bottle at the end of a tough 100 miler. Very lucky to have everything where it should be still.

I managed to feed my fingers into the bladed spokes on one of my wheelsets while reaching for a water bottle at the end of a tough 100 miler.

Been there, done that. Not a 100 miles trip though - on my way back from the pub.

Ow ow ow! Looks nasty! I lost the pads on the ends of my fingers and a few fingernails but didn't break anything. I think I was lucky that I was going quickly...any slower and my fingers would have gone right into the spokes...

I managed to feed my fingers into the bladed spokes on one of my wheelsets while reaching for a water bottle at the end of a tough 100 miler. Very lucky to have everything where it should be still.

Okay, such thing does happen, huh I never managed it one bit with the downtube shifter.

Sound like you need a Moulton.

You're pretty lucky then.

During my school year, my then girlfriend's brother - who was racing as a pro (as much as you could be pro in a communist country) - lost his finger.

This is why I'm riding Trispokes now. Less sharp bits...

I won't be showing this thread to MrsO...

Being stuck in the office from 7 till 7 looking out knowing that it was like this all day and I'm not on my bike... and 12*c!! ):

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Brent

is the worst thing about cycling

Being stuck in the office from 7 till 7 looking out knowing that it was like this all day and I'm not on my bike... and 12*c!! ):

i was in the same position, just also knowing i had an unfixable puncture and i had to walk home from work.

Brent

is the worst thing about cycling

THIS. 1000 times THIS!

Brent? what? the place?