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I just don't get this type of cycling;
No time to stop and admire a flower or a view. Or to talk to anyone you meet.
I do get endurance sport, but it just seems such a waste to be in these mountains and...ignore every aspect of them other than their capacity to wreck your body.
I read this too and thought the route would be interesting, but I'd need at least a month to do it. I am fascinated by the endurance cycling e.g. the Transcontinental, but it is the self guided and unsupported aspect of it that grabs me. The thought of being guided as part of a group through something like that doesn't inspire me.
Also this
"It creates a fatigue that can last for weeks, even months, after crossing the finish line."
I also think the author was over absorbed in the challenge/numbers, Jared Gruber who also rode it, obviously took the time to stop and compose the photos in the article which are fantastic.
When I do long steepish climbs I always get plenty of time to absorb and enjoy the scenery :)
I also get more time than most on the descents - but that's because I've lost my descending mojo
No time to stop and admire a flower or a view.
Maybe there's more chance to admire the view over there given the potholes on our roads.
@Cyclingmollie
French tarmac is nice right enough, but the whole thing just seems like a three and a half grand punishment beating.
Yes, it sounds miserable. I read it thinking why? Then I saw it was a Rapha thing so it's "epic".
I am really ambivalent about the constant need for a new "around the world by bike/foot/pogo stick/camel in under X period" thing in which the period or method must be 'improved upon' every time. And I've finally managed to block the "sufferlandria" updates facebook kept chucking at me because I have cousins who subscribe 100% to the concept - whereas I think it begs for anthropological investigation!
I didn't get a sense of no time to enjoy views reading that. I also can't imagine anyone doing that not enjoying it despite the physical punishment. TBH, I envy folk who could do that.
the last Ride ride to the Sun was at least 30 miles more than i'd ever cycled before, and more than twice my normal "long" ride.
I was really done in physically and emotionally but loved every minute of it despite the hurt.
the views would still be nice as cycled
Largely male completist behaviour. Some women and non binary people too I guess.
In the olden days it was Shackleton taking on the South Pole. But now the challenges are not so tough so more people engage in them. Pointless? Road cycling should decrease the grumpiness of men, but does it? All people interested in buying Rapha kit have to look at grumpy models in the pictures. Nobody smiles at Rapha photo shoots. Jeez it is just boys and girls larking about on their bikes?
Jeez it is just boys and girls larking about on their bikes?
Surely the whole point of all cycling is to try to recapture the feeling of tearing off down the pavement the first summer you learned to ride a bike?
I still have a vivid memory of the first time after the stabilisers came off and I found myself magically cruising along here. Mind you, it was in 2008 so you'd hope I'd remember.
Surely the whole point of cycling, or any activity for that fact, is that it's for the individual to decide for themselves why they enjoy it! Some roadies don't understand mountain biking, some mtbrs would never be seen dead in Lycra, I enjoy both but then don't have an interest in cyclocross. Some people simply cycle to get to work, some purely for leisure, some purely for sport (there are guys in my club who are only ever on a bike when they're training or competing).
What I don't understand is why anyone would have a downer on another's motivation for sticking a leg over the top tube of whatever steed they ride. Whatever the reason, if it turns you on, go for it!! :D
@deckard112
Don't get me wrong - I've almost no interest in telling anyone what to do, especially not on a bicycle.
I was trying to express my degree of mystification, my inability to understand why someone would do this to themselves and their bank account. It may simply be a failure of imagination or empathy on my part.
Well I suppose it would be something to do on a day off like cycling to Carlisle but further, like if walking up Everest or doing a marathon or hiking something to do to pass the time like other activity. I wanted a week of in summer to ride down to London but could not get it, If I was fitter and good cyclist and could afford then this hilly climb would seem an ok way to spend a few days
@iwrats you did not take the stabilisers off until 2008, when you were what 40? That is ultra cautious.
@deckard118 it is possible to do something too much. I know a guy that got into road cycling ultra long distances at weekend and his wife gave him a divorce.
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