What is your least favourite part about cycling?

Not cycling as much as I wish to.
Surely that's the worst thing about not cycling.

My least favourite thing about not cycling is seeing the fixeh-twats cycling in and proudly propping their bikes up in reception, when I've walked.

Probably people that give cyclists a bad name, that and people that have to race every where. All the time.

Last week I was riding to work on a freezing windy day. A guy overtook me and once in front of me turned to the side, held one nostril and blew his snot out, which caught on the wind and sprayed back on my face. Thanks, thanks a lot. I hate you. Whoever you are.

Turning on ice on a tarmac road,

this morning.

Busses and black ice and 80mph headwinds on cobbled streets with killer gradients.

cobbled streets in general

1. Other bike riders that make cyclists look bad.
   
2. How long it takes me to "prep" before the ride to work. Pack the work clothes, put on the bike clothes, make sure I have stuff for the work shower, 2nd pair of shoes, etc, etc..
   
3. Drivers that treat me like a criminal meanwhile they're breaking all sorts of highway code rules.
   
4. Cops who don't give a shit about cyclists.
   
5. Pedestrians who don't look both ways.
   
6. Potholes, god I hate potholes.
   
7. Drivers that don't understand that you don't want to/can't ride through potholes
   
8. Carrying my bike down my steps
   
9. Cyclists who undercut you
   
10. Buses who speed up to pass you just before a bus stop and then cut you off and stop right in front of you.
    
11. Car drivers who don't turn their turning signal on until they are already turning (it's the ultimate in driver laziness!!)
    
12. Going uphill
    
13. Drivers who stop in the advanced cyclist stop area at a light but then honk at you for RLJing.
    

pumpin up tyres with a crappy £2.99 pump

I second quite a lot of Roxy's list.

That dangerous and slippery walk / mince down the wet concrete steps in ill advised road shoes with giant deathtrap cleats sounding like a hooker in porn heels... every single morning.

The knowledge that one of these days the rural road cunt(s) who howls past me at a 60mph speed differential with less than an inch to spare will sneeze, answer his phone or just get it wrong.

As much as i hate potholes, its kinda fun bunny-hopping them on a road bike!
But its terrible when it goes wrong and you continue cycling, then all of a sudden you feel every tiny bump in the road and realise you have a puncture, only to find out you are out of inner tubes and you have to patch it up in several spots... :@

HTFU motherfuckers! I know its winter back in Blighty but come on!

Summer is kicking in here with torrential rain. I have been soaked for days now, the roads are slippery as fuck, drivers are driving too close and the gusting side winds keep on trying to wash out my front wheel. I am, however, having a ball. The rain dripping from my hat, the look that drivers give you while grimasing though the down pour. Amazing fun! Stay safe folks but ride on!

OMG did it rain?

...exactly who PinkGottiMobbs is closer do you think to Paris, or Roubaix?

:)

Having other road users (drivers) treat you like a criminal.

Well, what do you expect wearing that mask? ;P

when my bike is making a noise, but I can't find the fault...

Well, what do you expect wearing that mask? ;P

Guy Fawkes: The only man to enter parliament with honest intentions.

Riding in a hail storm, stings like hell

Yep, started hailing on me the other night, I thought at least I won't get as wet....

wrong!

Guy Fawkes: The only man to enter parliament with honest intentions.

Quoted for correctness.

was reminded of one today, and thats running out of banana's before your next weekly shop :'(

What is bike specific about bananas

carbs.
and they match my yellow spok.

its my portable emergency food choice when i cycle, and usually if im going long distance ill have banana and weetabix for breakfast.

When..

...home in london - anyone else on the road.
...uni in Wales - rogue sheep running out infront of you when hill climbing

its my portable emergency food choice when i cycle, and usually if im going long distance ill have banana and weetabix for breakfast.
do you have one of those funny cases to carry them?

do you have one of those funny cases to carry them?

i am the funny case that carries them in my jersey pocket.