I often ask the sheep where the bear is!
The further I get the more unhelpful they become when they start shouting "There!"
Odd cycling habits/rituals?
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I often ask the sheep where the bear is!
The further I get the more unhelpful they become when they start shouting "There!"
outlash
also available in orange
- Location
- ice station zebra
when riding in a group, i've developed a habit of pointing out hazards then trying to click my fingers afterwards.
oddness.
Tony.
oddness.
Tony.
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I sometimes talk to my bike, when I'm out in the car and alone I'll talk to that as well.
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
I cycle by pointing the bike in a straight line and when I start falling over to one side I turn that way until I start falling over to the other side so I then turn that way too. I'm so good at it people can't tell the difference from cycling. Also, when I walk, I lean forwards until I'm falling over and then I stick the other foot forwards to stop me falling but, to cover up my imbalance, I repeat the process with the other foot. That fools people into thinking I'm not always falling over.
I've been known to count pedal turns musician-style in 4-4 and 3-4 (1-2-3-, 2-2-3, 4-2-3, etc.). 3-4 seems to make me cycle a little faster. On hills I sometimes find myself counting but I've no idea when I started counting. I could probably work it out by counting backwards but I find it's easier to simply turn the bike around and retracing my steps. Not that I was actually stepping.
Oh, and I talk to strangers at lights. Do Donald Duck impressions when I see ducks, that kind of thing. Nothing unusual.
I've been known to count pedal turns musician-style in 4-4 and 3-4 (1-2-3-, 2-2-3, 4-2-3, etc.). 3-4 seems to make me cycle a little faster. On hills I sometimes find myself counting but I've no idea when I started counting. I could probably work it out by counting backwards but I find it's easier to simply turn the bike around and retracing my steps. Not that I was actually stepping.
Oh, and I talk to strangers at lights. Do Donald Duck impressions when I see ducks, that kind of thing. Nothing unusual.
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Cyrill666
Senior Member
- Location
- Stockton-on-Tees
Safe to say, on balance, we can be an odd bunch 
I quite often thank my bike after a ride, they have feelings too!
I quite often thank my bike after a ride, they have feelings too!
If mine has feelings she'll be thanking her lucky stars for having landed up with me!Safe to say, on balance, we can be an odd bunch
I quite often thank my bike after a ride, they have feelings too!
She's got a revamp coming that'll make her happy to have found daylight again I'm sure. I'll talk to her gently while we're pulling her wheels off!
- Location
- Next door to Mr Benn at No 54
If mine has feelings she'll be thanking her lucky stars for having landed up with me!
It's a good job it's after the watershed if you're going to start with that kind of filth.
Learnincurve
Senior Member
- Location
- Chesterfield
I now have a radio in the basket in front of my bike so I can listen to radio 2 as I ride.
- Location
- Manchester
So, we're an odd bunch but also creatures of habits. The thread in technical know how about which foot you put down when you stop plus this thread made me conscious of everything I did on my ride yesterday! I noticed that not only do I leave my right foot in the pedal when I stop but I always free wheel with my right foot down as well.
Pumpkin the robot
Guru
I count pedal strokes as I go up hills, I find it helps me to get a rhythm going.
Retribution03
Well-Known Member
- Location
- Cleethorpes
Right that's it I'm leaving you bunch of weirdos lol...I do the same as Katherine with my right foot kept on pedal at a stop and right leg in down position for freewheeling except when cornering the which way I'm leaning the pedal has to be up.
SatNavSaysStraightOn
Changed hemispheres!
- Location
- ɐᴉlɐɹʇsn∀ 'ɐɹɹǝquɐƆ
If we go under a longer bridge that could have an echo, we make a train whistle noise... 
It stems from having done so in such a tunnel on a shared use cycle track in Sweden where unknown to us there was an elderly woman descending the steps on the other side... when we finally spotted her she was laughing and smiling so much at 2 adults making train whistles under a bridge that we have continued to do it ever since!
(but I will confess to only doing this when I am riding with my OH...)
It stems from having done so in such a tunnel on a shared use cycle track in Sweden where unknown to us there was an elderly woman descending the steps on the other side... when we finally spotted her she was laughing and smiling so much at 2 adults making train whistles under a bridge that we have continued to do it ever since!
(but I will confess to only doing this when I am riding with my OH...)
w00hoo_kent
One of the 64K
- Location
- Maidstone or Greenwich
When we're riding as a family group we sometimes quack at each other to locate where we are, or as an 'on your right' shorthand. So one will query with a quack, another respond with one, like a poor mans Marco Polo. I may have done similar when two of us were on the last Fridays ride...
jack smith
Veteran
- Location
- Durham
I talk to animals too atleast by the sounds of it im not the only one!
