How about triathlon (another sport that isn't cheap...)? Start out in a wetsuit (see above) remove that to reveal a tight-fitting one-piece lycra garment. Flattering it ain't.
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"Cycling is the new golf" or so they say
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Posted 11 years ago #
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My brother is a director of his firm, and actually a very good golfer (thought of going professional at one time), but has now included cycling in his activities. And yes, he has the gear and a nice bike (though not expensive and flashy). Started off with spin classes to help him lose weight and keep fit for his golf, but has got into it, so much so we're planning a few sportives this year, and a trip to the Alps next year. Not sure if his golfing links in with his work (I'm sure it does), but I'm sure there are fewer of his mates cycling...
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But surely if you ate the same amount of cakes without the cycling then you'd put on more weight?
Whole different problem! See the Kripsy Kreme (sic) thread passim. Also the 1980s/90s rave scene has a lot to answer for: lots of overweight folk guzzling Lucozade whilst ambling to their cars (in sports gear/tracksuits) without even so much as a jog...
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If true can we expect a cycling version of this?
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Graham Spiers presents golf news from Scotland and around the world, plus interviews with big names from the game."
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I noticed today that the business section of the BBC news site is reporting the signing of a large corporate that I suspect most people have never heard of as title sponsor of a Dutch pro cycling team that I suspect most people have never heard of. I can't imagine that they'd have reported that a few years ago. Must be all that cycle related tweeting from Lord Sugar
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"large corporate that I suspect most people have never heard of"
Don't count on it - as BBC story says -
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Explaining the deal, Chet Pipkin, Belkin's chief executive, who also founded the firm in 1983, said cycling had "a passionate, tech-savvy fan base that follows the sport closely, which aligns really well with the Belkin brand"."
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A friend is a Club Secretary and her club is running at a loss. Lots of reasons - blokes are expected to be more hands on dads and granddads these days and don't escape to the golf course; cost of membership so you have to play once a week to get your money's worth; place run by useless committees of retirees (shades of a Community Council).
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Cycling is a good walk spoiled?
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It seems obvious therefore that getting more women playing would help. Personally I would sell it as something you can do with your friends and not so much your partner so you can still "get away", just at different times.
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@rosie, good list but you need to add Xbox to it. Golf club membership is expensive. But the strategy of having very cheap junior membership to get the young people hooked used to work. Thus clubs were able to generate their future full members.
The beauty of cycling is that once you have the kit you have no other outlay other than maintenance. There is also the chance you can bribe the children to come out with you for a short spin. Golf is a lot of palaver.
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The beauty of cycling is that once you have the kit you have no other outlay other than maintenance.
And a whole line in the food budget just for cake?
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@gembo Offering day tickets on the lines of Pure Gym offering an entry fee is another way of raising revenue.
when I was in New Zealand a few years ago it was the same story. Cycling was displacing golf and fishing for the well-off middle-aged guy. More exercise, varying scenery and the feeling you've earned your dinner at the end. Also in New Zealand if you pick your area you can have a soak in a thermal pool in the evening as well.
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“Cycling is a good walk spoiled?”
No.
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Passed Bonnyrigg golf club just now. Was musing that it's gone from a waiting list to putting up hoardings advertising a nine-hole drop-in visitor deal in a decade.
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I propose a total rethink. Let's have dog golf. Whereby the balls are bigger and softer and the aim is to direct your dog to a specific target by way of fetching the ball. Walk no longer ruined, dog happy.
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What is the cycling equivalent of pub golf?
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I once met a guy in Greyfriars Bobby who had just done a full round in under a hundred. I felt only pity and I am not an inherently empathetic person.
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@iwrats, I was asked my age in grey Friars Bobby a few weeks back b the bar staff. Complicated but that is a true fact.
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@gembo
I told you before about trying to get the pensioners' lunch deal.
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and I am not an inherently empathetic person.
If I could raise one eyebrow...
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Small dog baw bee (as French chap called it when asking me for directions) is largely a restaurant now of senior sedate Scottish scran. Small bar where I was having fly half with George (age 47) and no one else, when the bar staff asked if anyone in our party was under 18. We did not answer but looked behind ourselves in case some street urchins were on our coat tails.
Try Michael Nieve's excellent two course plus , coffee and cake deal if you are looking to feel the youngest diner in the room. Booking essential.
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