http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: "no more macho posturing " en Tue, 26 May 2026 10:56:56 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13082#post-158489 Wed, 02 Jul 2014 01:01:37 +0000 Coxy 158489@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I always like to point out to my brother, that Strava shows the one-way of my 7 mile commute has a greater elevation that one of his 60 mile rides around Norfolk! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13082#post-158456 Tue, 01 Jul 2014 15:15:39 +0000 Cyclingmollie 158456@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It depends how high his saddle is. Other factors are available. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13082#post-158450 Tue, 01 Jul 2014 14:59:17 +0000 Instography 158450@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That man's anatomically unusual if that's a penis-eye view. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13082#post-158448 Tue, 01 Jul 2014 14:57:36 +0000 Instography 158448@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I hope it's not macho posturing to mention Strava but it tells me I climb 942ft getting to work. I don't think I did that in two weeks cycling around the Netherlands, often with 20 bottles of beer on the bike. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13082#post-158446 Tue, 01 Jul 2014 14:53:42 +0000 I were right about that saddle 158446@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Anyone who's ever run the Seven Hills race knows there a hill hidden in Stenhouse. It's broad and ill-defined but it isn't shy. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13082#post-158445 Tue, 01 Jul 2014 14:47:54 +0000 Cyclingmollie 158445@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>What about Piershill? Smokey Brae climbs that. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13082#post-158442 Tue, 01 Jul 2014 14:40:11 +0000 I were right about that saddle 158442@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Is that pedalantic enough?</em></p> <p>Absolutely. I just work on the basis that if it's called 'Hill' it's a hill (Castle Rock excepted) so I hadn't thought of Dunsapie at all. Salisbury Crag...I suppose it is a summit. Is Craigmillar Hill out on height or geographical grounds? It's one of my favourites.</p> <p>penis-eye view©....I'd guess it's a strap-on. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13082#post-158435 Tue, 01 Jul 2014 14:26:38 +0000 Cyclingmollie 158435@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm no expert on cameras so how did they achieve the penis-eye view© in the accompanying photograph. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13082#post-158433 Tue, 01 Jul 2014 14:19:01 +0000 cb 158433@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Eight or nine hills, depending on splittist/lumpist tastes"</p> <p>According to my tastes you need to define what a hill is and the best definition in my mind is drop. For inner city hills the <a href="http://www.hill-bagging.co.uk/Tumps.php">Tump</a> seems best (30m drop).</p> <p>That gives 10 hills, all from your list minus Craigmillar plus Salisbury Crag and Dunsapie.</p> <p>Is that pedalantic enough? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13082#post-158423 Tue, 01 Jul 2014 13:43:47 +0000 I were right about that saddle 158423@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Edinburgh, 7 hills"</p> <p>Calton Hill<br /> Castle Rock<br /> Costorphine Hill<br /> Craiglockhart Hills East and West<br /> Braids Hill<br /> Blackford Hill<br /> Craigmillar Hill<br /> Arthur's Seat</p> <p>Eight or nine hills, depending on splittist/lumpist tastes. You could add Crow Hill and Whinny Hill to be totally pedalantic. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13082#post-158421 Tue, 01 Jul 2014 13:39:14 +0000 Nelly 158421@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"So how do the Dutch do it?"</p> <p>Edinburgh, 7 hills. It wouldn't be unusual<br /> To have a 100 m differential between home/office depending on location of both.</p> <p>Amsterdam, none?. Holland as a whole is prrtty flat, I think there is one hill worth the name in the entire country near German border!</p> <p>I get cold on first half of my commute to work, as it is pretty much downhill. Coming home is a different story. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13082#post-158418 Tue, 01 Jul 2014 13:27:17 +0000 I were right about that saddle 158418@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>So how do the Dutch do it? They're all hurrying to the pickled eel stall in trousers and coats and stuff.</p> <p>I'd guess that because it's 'normal' over there, most people are just doubling their walking pace rather than attempting to attain their car driving pace. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13082#post-158415 Tue, 01 Jul 2014 13:09:10 +0000 threefromleith 158415@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm like you, Stickman. I suspect I'm a little hyperhydrotic and always have been. When I started cycling again in 2006, I tried wearing ordinary clothes (well, non-lycra shorts and a t-shirt) to ride to work, but they quickly became saturated and chafed off larges areas of skin. Hence I quickly moved to lycra, which doesn't chafe and which wicks the sweat away and dries off quickly.</p> <p>I wish I could cycle in ordinary clothes, but it's totally impossible.</p> <p>I always like to point out to folk taking the mickey out of me for wearing lycra "when I'm not a pro or TdF rider" that it's funny that <em>they </em>spend hundreds on hugely expensive replica football kit &amp; boots to do no more than have a kick-about in the local park (or indeed just to wear to show off their beer gut down the pub). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13082#post-158412 Tue, 01 Jul 2014 13:00:24 +0000 Stickman 158412@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Maybe you guys try to go too fast?"</p> <p>Not something I've ever been suspected of before!</p> <p>I'm the same with almost any kind of physical activity, even though I'm reasonably fit. As soon as the heart rate gets above resting then I'm soaked. TMI? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13082#post-158411 Tue, 01 Jul 2014 12:51:59 +0000 SRD 158411@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I cycled all over Harare for years doing field work in flowery dresses. no probs. </p> <p>Maybe you guys try to go too fast? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13082#post-158410 Tue, 01 Jul 2014 12:49:27 +0000 Stickman 158410@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"I tried my commute on the uprightiest available bike wearing suity-type clothes. Sweated my face off, despite going slowly and choosing a February to try it"</p> <p>Yep, I'd love to be able to commute in my work clothes but I wouldn't want to inflict the result on my colleagues. My body thermostat must be on a different setting to the people who cycle in their suits </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13082#post-158409 Tue, 01 Jul 2014 12:40:29 +0000 I were right about that saddle 158409@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Sweated my face off, despite going slowly and choosing a February to try it.</em></p> <p>Perhaps I'll try an Edwardian strongman type leotard? Or for that matter a floral print cotton dress? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13082#post-158408 Tue, 01 Jul 2014 12:39:36 +0000 SRD 158408@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It's graduation today and I was going to cycle in in dress and heels, but went for my Canada cycle top and shorts. </p> <p>Fortuitous as it is Canada Day. </p> <p>Maybe I'll go for a quick ride in full ceremonials later... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13082#post-158405 Tue, 01 Jul 2014 12:21:42 +0000 wingpig 158405@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><blockquote><em>"...but I'd love to do a bit of waistcoat and shirtsleeves upright pedalling too"</em></blockquote></p> <p>I tried my commute on the uprightiest available bike wearing suity-type clothes. Sweated my face off, despite going slowly and choosing a February to try it during. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13082#post-158400 Tue, 01 Jul 2014 12:00:23 +0000 I were right about that saddle 158400@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Also, one of my canal commute regulars, known to me as Genial Wobbler (I think she started cycling in March) was looking splendid today. Wicker basket, upright bike and a white long-sleeved lycra cycling top under a flowery summer print dress.</p> <p>Put a smile on my face. I adopt the year-round commuter kit derived from cross-country mountain biking, but I'd love to do a bit of waistcoat and shirtsleeves upright pedalling too. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13082#post-158391 Tue, 01 Jul 2014 10:26:51 +0000 I were right about that saddle 158391@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I wish I was butch enough to indulge in 'macho posturing'. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13082#post-158389 Tue, 01 Jul 2014 10:19:26 +0000 SRD 158389@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"So I call an end to it. No more ‘rules’ on what jersey you may wear, what you must look like on a bike, and how fast you can go. And, above all, no more macho posturing on the road."</p> <p><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/active/recreational-cycling/10923019/Why-does-cycling-attract-so-many-snobs.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/active/recreational-cycling/10923019/Why-does-cycling-attract-so-many-snobs.html</a> </p>