Grayling

My son bought me a new pushbike for my birthday

So I have just been out for a ride.....the first time in around 30 years

I have used muscles I had forgotten I had. I thought I was fairly fit but now I feel knackered...I doubt if I will be able to walk properly tomorrow, never mind sit down

Apart from that I swear every motorist was intent on killing me.

I am too old for this sort of thing

BadgeIsBack

I haven't ridden a bike since about the age you last rode one.

artep

Sitting down will definitely not be an option tomorrow

Grayling

It's not an option now

moneypenny20

Get yourself out to the pub for a pint of something English. Oh whoops, you can't. Life's a bitch sometimes.

Does this mean that next time you're out in the car you won't be effing and blinding at all the poor cyclists wobbling along the road? I haven't been on a bike since we got here, no intention of starting either. Cars were invented for a reason.

Grayling

I had no intention either.

The worse thing is....my wife colluded with the purchase

The upside is that he bought her one as well in secret

Hoist by her own petard.

moneypenny20

Bloody kids. I blame the parents.

spartacus

Swollen are they?




Try a wheelbarrow.

Grayling

Buster Gonad

Can't find them yet

cresta57

I just got back on mine after a 3 month absence due to falling off it. Feet clipped firmly into the pedals is not all good news

Scubaemma

Welcome to the world of cycling! Once your arse gets used to it you'll love it. Just watch out for the magpies at this time of year....

Now you need to buy yourself some Lycra... I'm sure you'll look totally lush

DeadVim

I hear that ... I used to cycle everywhere as a kid, hilly places too, you don't realise how fit you were until you aren't any more.

I bought a second-hand mountain bike a couple of years ago, I did start to get back into it but the saddle is a thing from hell if you have any kind of excess fat on your arse.

I have a set 1hr 30m circuit around here that goes nowhere near the main roads so traffic isn't the issue. The two uphill stretches that immediately start the circuit are. And there isn't an alternative.

I also refuse to wear any kind of lycra ... the saddle + lycra + impotence = yer typical angry cyclist you see every day in the CBD.

I would much rather stick to my current 2hr bushwalk with the dog, that is more my style.

renth

I bought myself a new bike for Christmas. I haven't ridden it once yet.

sonlymewalter

I bought one eight years ago. Gave it away brand new last year


Not ridden it once

felt sick just looking at it

renth

I feel the same. I've got a dodgy prostate though and I reckon the saddle would cause it to flare up, big time.