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RedBike

RedBike

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Yes I did go riding up the lakes recently. I'm very curious as to how you knew that. I don't think I told anyone?

Basically I'm to avoid red-lining it.
 

fossyant

Ride It Like You Stole It!
Location
South Manchester
You posted it in the Race Section - about climbing hills....I thought..hang on, is this the fella who has been told to ease off - it's your fat fella avatar that's memorable !!!! I'm no stalker honest...........

Hats off to you !!!
 

col

Legendary Member
RedBike said:
Well i'm not sure if it went well or not.

He started off by telling me that cycling was an excellent idea; and he's always telling people to get more exercise but normally this advice is just ignored. I'm thinking great, but when we got onto about just how much cycling I actually wanted to do he wasn't so supportive.

In a nut shell I wont be commuting to work by bike for a while and I wont be attending club runs / races; but I will regularly be cycling at a somewhat slower pace 2/3 times a week.

If you see me crawling along then could you please stay behind. I hate being overtaken and I'm not to be encouraged to go any quicker!


Did he name what your problem is RedBike?
 

soulful dog

Veteran
Location
Glasgow
Could you not cut down your commute a little by getting a train part of the journey and make sure you take the rest of it fairly easy? It seems a shame that you have to stop commuting by bike completely.
 
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RedBike

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He did name the problem but I've deliberately not mentioned it on an internet forum.

I could still commute (steadily) but there becomes a point when it's not really worth it. My commute is 12miles each way if I go directly. However, I tend to use the back-roads which takes it up to 15/20miles. This route is far from flat so i'm looking at a good 1.5 hours each way taking it easy. It's only 20mins in the car so I would have to get out of bed an hour earlier just to ride into work. (Not to mention the aggrivation it's going to cause.) I'm sure I will still commute every now and then but not every day.
 

wafflycat

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So you've got a huge positive out of this in reality. Previously you were told to giv eup cycling - a thing you love doing. Now you've been to see a specialist and you've been told that cycling is a great idea, just take it easy. So you can take that as the positive it is or be negative about it and as not doing as much as before and that's bad. I know which view I'd be taking - you can keep cycling! Hurrah! Just take it easy and that's not so very difficult, now, is it...
 

Angelfishsolo

A Velocipedian
Very well said. I can imagine how difficult it must be to adjust down as you have to but it's one hell of a lot better than adjusting cycling out of your life.
wafflycat said:
So you've got a huge positive out of this in reality. Previously you were told to giv eup cycling - a thing you love doing. Now you've been to see a specialist and you've been told that cycling is a great idea, just take it easy. So you can take that as the positive it is or be negative about it and as not doing as much as before and that's bad. I know which view I'd be taking - you can keep cycling! Hurrah! Just take it easy and that's not so very difficult, now, is it...
 

classic33

Leg End Member
Have been there, people at work saying that its not safe for me to cycle to & from work. So on that side I can sympathise. Pressure can be applied to make it hard if not impossible to carry on cycling. But what not one of them can do, at work, is dictate to you your choice of transport to & from work. Unless its been agreed upon prior to starting there.
If your boss feels that strongly about it, let him get the second opinion for you if you still feel you need one. Invite those that say its not safe/to fat to cycle to join you one day.
I ended up, following being hit sideways by a car, being told that it wasn't safe due to this & the increase in distance that would be coming when they relocated. Having already cycled there, to prove to them that it could be done.Also to get an idea of how long it would take.

The one thing all had in common was not one of them cycled.
 

Angelfishsolo

A Velocipedian
So if you had had a car crash they would have tried to stop you driving? This world is Fugazi.
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I ended up, following being hit sideways by a car, being told that it wasn't safe due to this & the increase in distance that would be coming when they relocated.
 

classic33

Leg End Member
Thats one point that was put to them. I was the only employee cycling to work, for a coach company(no driving at work). Found out shortly before they relocated that there had been a book running on how long I would stay at the job since I started. Best I was given was a month, due to the distance, just short of 10 miles each way, twice a day.

But the pressure that was applied after to getting rid of me was something else.

On the medical side, I've had over thirty years of people telling me I can't do this that or the other. And I've gone out & done what they said I couldn't. Annoyed hell out of them.
 
Try pointing out to the bosses that running a 'ride to work' scheme will bring a financial reward from the government.....!! as soon as money making is involved i can imagine that most bosses will put their profit margin concerns over wether or not their staff are travelling safely to work....... or am i just being cycnical....??????
 

peanut

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RedBike said:
I've been forced off the bike by people worried about my health and how dangerous it is to cycle at night.

I'm as misserable as fcuk.
Why am I missing my commute home by bike so much?

You'd of thought anyone in their right mind would jump at the chance to drive back and forth in a nice warm car instead of lugging a heavy bike up/down 15miles of hills tiwce a day.

I really feel for you mate. The fresh air and freedom is like a drug. You can unwind ,destress and mull things over out there when its you and your trusty steed against the road.

What about getting a turbo and sticking your bike out in the garden and doing a steady turbo session twice a day . Smell the fresh air, hear the birdsong and dodge the seagull sh*t :wacko::biggrin:
 
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RedBike

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What about getting a turbo and sticking your bike out in the garden and doing a steady turbo session twice a day . Smell the fresh air, hear the birdsong and dodge the seagull sh*t :wacko::biggrin:

I'm lucky enough to have a tacx I-magic and I fully intend to put it to good use this winter. It displays my heart-rate / power so I can be sure i'm not working too hard.
I used to always go hell for leather on the turbo for 30/60mins then near enough collapse in a pool of sweet. It seems really odd, even a little boaring just pedalling away slowly.
 
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rockster100 said:
Try pointing out to the bosses that running a 'ride to work' scheme will bring a financial reward from the government.....!! as soon as money making is involved i can imagine that most bosses will put their profit margin concerns over wether or not their staff are travelling safely to work....... or am i just being cycnical....??????

My boss / the company has been unbelivably helpfull. In fact he even paid for my petrol last week when I was moaning about how much it was costing to drive to/from work!
 
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