What is your true motivation for cycling?

[Honkdonk]

There is still the young boy inside me that likes to play.

Playing outside for a few hours alone (mostly) gives me that sense of freedom away from work, life and al that. Just focusing on the trail ahead. There is a zen moment that I exist in and I find a mantra to focus on for a short while.

We all love it for different reasons, but the root is potentially the same all over.

 

When I see an adult on a bicycle, I have hope for the human race - HG Wells

[shaper]

Get fit, loose weight (20kgs in the last year), relax and feel better about life...and having fun!!

[Tubeless]

+1

[Dogfish]

To get out, get good exercise and see the amazing places and parts of our beautiful country I otherwise would not have seen.

[Vanstone]

For the Cuppachino afterwards

[rattlesnake]

So I can eat prawn flavoured Woolies chips.... and salt and vinegar pringles without remorse!

[forkie]

I have to say I am rather fond of the MTB ladies in their muddy cycling shorts.

[dracs]

I have to say I am rather fond of the MTB ladies in their muddy cycling shorts.

As a relatively new dabbler of all things dirty on a bike, I have to say there is a lot of truth in this statement.

['Dale]

There is still the young boy inside me that likes to play.

Playing outside for a few hours alone (mostly) gives me that sense of freedom away from work, life and al that. Just focusing on the trail ahead. There is a zen moment that I exist in and I find a mantra to focus on for a short while.

We all love it for different reasons, but the root is potentially the same all over.

 

When I see an adult on a bicycle, I have hope for the human race - HG Wells

 

Cool post.

 

Play. Yeah!

[arendoog]

Exercize =destress ,alone time before i get swamped by my 3 kids .To see the sun .I work in a dark lit room mostly.Used to play golf but i did not lose any weigh by swinging a golfclub.I can smell ,hear and think on a bike .If you choose your events properly you get to places that very few people have experienced

Edited December 4, 2012 by Blitzer

[mooky]

It keeps me out of night clubs cycling with a hangover is no fun!!! Haha

[Kanga]

Much old thread but.......

 

 

 

Started riding to lose weight, now I am losing weight to enjoy the ride more. Seeing awesome places, Tokai, Jonkershoek, meerendal, Schapenberg etc etc

 

And of course I realised that riding a bike today is as much fun as it was when I was a kid.

['Dale]

It keeps me out of night clubs cycling with a hangover is no fun!!! Haha

 

:-D

[JGR]

Its an excuse to take PED's

[walkerr]

The endorphin high is cheaper than buying drugs ....

 

Edit: revisit. Although, actually now I think how much I've spent on kit, maybe I got the math wrong

Edited December 4, 2012 by walkerr

[LeTurbo]

Gosh. Good question.

'Cos I feel free when I do it.

'Cos I get a weird excited-but-nervous anticipation when I get on.

'Cos it's more fun riding through traffic than being traffic.

'Cos it saves yonks of money.

'Cos a bike is a very beautiful thing.

'Cos it's awesome to ride and hear birds and cicadas and rustles in the grass.

'Cos the shhh-shhh-shhhh of the tyres is mesmerising.

'Cos I can shout "hello!" to the cows during a race.

'Cos it's weird to look back on the road you've come and think "hell, did I just ride all that?"

'Cos the body is a miraculous thing

'Cos cycling may be the closest a human can get to being a bird