am i a saddo

[TheDoctor]

Sounds like a great trip!
Everyone ought to do a solo trip sometime.

 

[parklaneyido]

Quality response

 

[ArDee]

I think it was Jasper Carrot who asked in one of his shows or it may have been somebody on one of the BBC's angry old women/men programmes who said “who's the real saddos, the people doing something or the teenagers sitting in McD’s on a Saturday afternoon, looking out the window at people passing by and saying “He’s/She’s sad””?

 

[shades.5]

to be honest i prefer to do solo trips rather than go with a group , thats just me , dont mind doing charity group rides , but prefer solo for my leisure rides

 

[Angelfishsolo]

Not that I have come close (yet) to the distances some of you guys do but on my 50 and 70 milers I much prefer to ride solo. Then again I have always been a bit of a loaner.

to be honest i prefer to do solo trips rather than go with a group , thats just me , dont mind doing charity group rides , but prefer solo for my leisure rides

 

[yenrod]

Is it just me or are we all saddos as my 18 y/o on says , i am planning to do a ride on the weekend of 22/23 november getting train from bristol to fishguard ferry over to rosslare ,then cycle up to dublin port and catch the ferry back to holyhead then get the train back to bristol all on my lonesome , obviously stopping at a b&b on the way up from rosslare to dublin on the saturday night , he thinks im mad , but its the sort of thing i love doing , planning it all then executing the plan ,

mmmmmmmmmmmm perhaps hes right perhaps i am mad

I feel he wouldnt be berating you if it was:

Eh Son your coming too; so start thinking - fit !

 

[dantheman]

 

[yello]

Your lad's right. You're the equivalent of a geek. Not that it matters a toss what others think. Do what you want.

 

[Angelfishsolo]

Cheers for that. I agree 100% with you and you have summed up my reasoning perfectly.

Nothing wrong in that, I ride on my own all the time near enough. I think it is ideal when you start doing long distance in a day. You are only accountable to yourself and you can do what you want.

 

[Angelfishsolo]

Geeks are cool. If not for geeks we'd still be in the stone ages

Your lad's right. You're the equivalent of a geek. Not that it matters a toss what others think. Do what you want.

 

[yello]

You are only accountable to yourself and you can do what you want.

In one! As a self confessed geek and 100% social misfit, I have gotten well used to my own company and do enjoy big solo rides.

Odd thing is, I ride with a cycle club here in France and there are a few bods that some would put in the 'bit odd' category (and I'm no doubt one of them!) .... just as it was in the UK! I just reckon there's something about cycling that does attract the loner!