So that is how bonking feels...

[montage]

hmmm...next time I'm taking one of those electric bike things on the club run - bonking is horrible!

I remember feeling as if I were going to pass out and aiming at a grass verge - had dropped behind that group.

I only remember snippits of the next two hours - and somehow I am home,

 

[oxbob]

Welcome to the club "jelly legs" next time stick some haribo sweets in your pocket

 

[gbb]

Horrible isnt it...
It's only happened a coupe of time to me in the last 5 to 10 years, but when it does...in my case, you just want to get off the bike and l
ie at the side of the road. Your body doesnt feel like there's anything whatsoever left in the tank. It happened to me 8 miles from home last time. The longest 8 mles i think i ever rode .

Poor preparation i think, or occasionally excessive heat. I think when you've not eaten properly...maybe the day before, thats when it gets you.

 

[colly]

When I first took up riding a bike I ran out of energy and got really chilled into the bargain about 15 miles from home.
It took me AGES to get home barley able to turn the crank even at the slowest speeds. I walked up a steep-ish hill on the way and paused about half way up to rest. Leaning against my bike I fell asleep standing up.
When I finally got in and had warmed up a bit I found I just could not get enough food down my neck. The craving for food went on for a couple of days as well.

It's really crap.

 

[hackbike 666]

I bonked last night coming back from Ilford on the hill up to Wanstead and virtually all the way back to Leyton although I did recover slightly when drinking the tropicana orange.

Nasty road that A12 up there built with tons of pinch points.No good if you are bonking.Had to stop more than once.

 

[montage]

Thing is i've pushed myself far far harder while running - to the point where I actually feinted.

Thing is...this bonk also seems to have affected my memory - I really can't remember much of the ride after aiming into the grass bank

 

[oxbob]

Thing is i've pushed myself far far harder while running - to the point where I actually feinted.

Thing is...this bonk also seems to have affected my memory - I really can't remember much of the ride after aiming into the grass bank

Do you remember that big burly bloke pulling your shorts back up?

 

[yello]

Pulling them back up.. that really is love.

 

[allen-uk]

When I wert lad, bonking meant something you did if you were lucky, and definitely not on the A12 from Ilford to Wanstead.

Since when was the word half-inched by you cyclists?

A.

 

[buggi]

i felt like that last week when i got back from Hinckley. last 4 miles were tough tough tough, couldn't turn the legs and felt sick when i got in. stuffed my face and drank a whole 2 litre carton of orange juice that evening!

 

[oxbob]

When I wert lad, bonking meant something you did if you were lucky, and definitely not on the A12 from Ilford to Wanstead.

Since when was the word half-inched by you cyclists?

A.

Your thinking of dogging, i have known of bonking since early 90's

 

[Speicher]

When I wert lad, bonking meant something you did if you were lucky, and definitely not on the A12 from Ilford to Wanstead.

Since when was the word half-inched by you cyclists?

A.

I know what you mean Oxbob, pehaps the meaning changed in the mid eighties, before some peeps on here were born.

In the days before computers I worked in an office, and when we needed to add the same number eight times to different documents, we used to bonk, with a mechanical hand-held numerator.

 

[montage]

So...who wants a bonk?....its won't hurt...honest

 

[Speicher]

So...who wants a bonk?....its won't hurt...honest

My sincere apologies Montage. My amusement was aimed at the various meanings of Bonk, and how they had changed over the decades. I do realise that there is nothing remotely amusing about bonking in the original context of this thread.

I would be the last person to walk, drive or cycle past anyone who I thought was in trouble with exhaustion.

 

[Saddle bum]

When I wert lad, bonking meant something you did if you were lucky, and definitely not on the A12 from Ilford to Wanstead.

Since when was the word half-inched by you cyclists?

A.

For over 60 years. It died out a bit in the late 70s when the expression "hitting the wall" became popular.

The musette was always known as a "bonk bag".