Cycling Mikey

Bhud · World Chat Champion Joined: 11 Oct 2018 Karma :

It's a completely normal mountain bike with normal dimensions, set up correctly for me. You don't have to dismount it but coming to a stop you do have to either let your ass hang off to the side or stand over the front of the seat, with your balls touching the top tube.

It's just not equivalent to the comfy seat of a motorbike. Not enjoyable enough to be worth doing for its own sake. And if I have to learn a special technique to overcome the inherent constraints of bicycles then that says something in itself.

It all comes down to changed brain chemistry from regular exercise. Serious cyclists will tolerate all sorts of discomfort while advocating cycling as the solution to all problems. That's fine - each to their own. But what we're talking about here is when cyclists cannot tolerate others. Perhaps it's to be reflected upon why, if you think cycling isn't great, then something must be wrong with you. That's the source of all cyclist-related conflict.

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Bhud · World Chat Champion Joined: 11 Oct 2018 Karma :

It's not my problem - it's CyclingMikey's (and cyclists' in general) problem. It's not about me and my bike. Clearly, a bicycle is accessible to all, yet not everyone is going about by bicycle. Why is that? Here are some possibilities:

1) Doesn't provide enough reward to merit the effort.
2) Bicycles don't lend themselves to start-and-stop riding in traffic.
3) They're already done it to death (in childhood and adolescence), and to progress to the next level they need to put in more effort and/or accept more risk.
4) Different personality types - I would find road cycling boring because I wish to go at motorbike speeds, which I find fun).

I don't really want to be 12 again. It was fun for a little while but you can't keep going over the same ground over and over. It's not a problem if I don't want to ride a bicycle. It's not going to stop anyone else riding a bicycle. Nevertheless an anti-bicyclist perspective is sorely needed for a bit of balance, and because this is a very one-sided debate, where cycling is presented as a transport solution and so much more.

Perhaps if there were some way in which normal ageing and kicking back could become tolerable in this society, you wouldn't get all these midlife crisis types causing issues for everyone on the roads. Guy's making a noise and speeding on a motorbike? He's gone in 3 seconds. Guy on a bicycle kicking up a stink over one foot of roadspace? He lingers like a bad smell, and in the worst case he goes into holy war mode because it becomes his whole personality and life purpose.

stinkwheel · Bovine Proctologist Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Karma :

Bhud · World Chat Champion Joined: 11 Oct 2018 Karma :

It's a fully retrograde step for the individual (reversion to childhood) and for society as a whole (reversion to collectivist ideals such as Maoist China) and a withdrawal of right to individualism (the idea that the individual doesn't know what's good for them and needs to be coerced to make the right choices). And it's all neatly packaged. I utterly reject it.

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Nobby the Bastard · Harley Gaydar Joined: 16 Aug 2013 Karma :

Surely the problem of the Crank being too high up is easily fixed by raising the seat....
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stinkwheel · Bovine Proctologist Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Karma :

Easy-X · Super Spammer Joined: 08 Mar 2019 Karma :

Putting your foot down on a bicycle? Something's gone horribly wrong if this is a problem. I got hold of a really nice aluminium Kona frame dirt cheap a while back the only downside being it was a 21" frame. Awkward but not impossible at 5'5" but then again I have a slightly larger inside leg... nudge, nudge, wink, wink, know what I mean, ladies Wink

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Bhud · World Chat Champion Joined: 11 Oct 2018 Karma :

Well I don't want to hijack and derail the thread, guys. You may well be right. I'm just speculating as to the cause of the CyclingMikey thing, and perhaps I'm wrong in superimposing my own experience of pushbikes upon the wider picture. No doubt, there are many nuances and many good and plausible reasons, related to place, bike and rider.

But my history with the mountain bike is like this: got back into cycling after decades away, after being infatuated with an ancient BSA town bike. I built up my fitness on that (it took a few months) and found myself always heading to the same tracks and trails. With its skinny tyres and 3-speed Sturmey Archer, it wasn't the best choice, so I decided to get a mountain bike. Went back on those trails and it was amazing. Then I got bored. Quite a pedestrian ( Laughing

) story. What if CyclingMikey has the ideal bike for town riding, wears the ideal gear, and behaves in the ideal way for the urban environment and conditions? Would I want to emulate him in any one of these things? Probably not.

Nobby the Bastard · Harley Gaydar Joined: 16 Aug 2013 Karma :

I do wonder how often not being to put your foot on the ground whilst being in the seat is ever an issue.

Even with a road based bike if you have the seat at the optimal point you will barely get a toe on the ground anyway.
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Easy-X · Super Spammer Joined: 08 Mar 2019 Karma :

I am a teeny-weeny Cornish pisky, never said any different. The difference is I'm of a slender build and in no way stumpy like a dwarf Wink

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Jmoan · Brolly Dolly Joined: 18 Nov 2015 Karma :

Hobbits!
Even road bikes like these are not great on British roads with their rough surfaces and potholes and put you off balance if you need to look around for traffic.
https://www.balfesbikes.co.uk/images/94622-70_ALLEZ-E5-BLK-CSTBTLSHP-CARB_HERO.jpg

If we are going to have tax dodging schemes like cycletowork then they may as well scrap VAT on pushbikes for everyone now we are out of the EU.

Ironically while off searching for more details I found this.

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Fat Angry Scotsman · World Chat Champion Joined: 12 Jan 2021 Karma :

Holy thread resurrection! Razz

Don't care, still dislike moon-crater-face-Mikey.
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st3v3 · Super Spammer Joined: 16 Oct 2006 Karma :

I missed it initially and it really isn't that long of a time, I didn't understand the irrational opinion.

You don't have to like the guy to accept my points are valid Laughing

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