Always cycloed as a kid/young man, moslty for comuting (to and from uni, then from work etc). So I never got kitted up or went out at weekends for long rides, though once in a while a friend would say "come and see us in oxford" or something like that, and i'd think nowt of cycling squillions of miles, getting bevvied then back home the next day... no probs back then. Took up cycling as a hobby (which I guess it is for me) about 5 yrs ago, really, when i left "The Smoke" for "oop north".