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  1. 1. At what age did you start cycling?

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Aged 3. Used to tear up the streets of our suburb in Newtownards on my Raleigh Chipper. Yup, Chipper, not Chopper.

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I dont trust these freads these days by noobs. Yday it was the cogs, today our history and pedigree. I scheme they sussing us out, trying to get under our skins. Is this 'vleisbook' or 'myspace'?

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I dont trust these freads these days by noobs. Yday it was the cogs, today our history and pedigree. I scheme they sussing us out, trying to get under our skins. Is this 'vleisbook' or 'myspace'?

myvleis?

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myvleis?

 

Its an infiltration by the 'bloody agents' into the ' 'revolution' per min.

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Cycled on an old Raleigh when I was 6. Never really got into the sport.

 

Really started cycling when I was 27. My wife and I looked at what sport we could do together and settled on cycling. 3 Years later I am loving and my wife hardly rides. We bought exactly the same bikes and I figured when my parts wear out I'll just take the parts off her bike :devil:

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Cycled on an old Raleigh when I was 6. Never really got into the sport.

 

Really started cycling when I was 27. My wife and I looked at what sport we could do together and settled on cycling. 3 Years later I am loving and my wife hardly rides. We bought exactly the same bikes and I figured when my parts wear out I'll just take the parts off her bike :devil:

 

Jy soek moeilikheid. The minute you touch that bike you gonna get a klap. Dont say I did'nt warn you.

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Around 14-15 for me, had no choice as I had to get from our farm in Natal to the local bus stop, about 5km on dirt roads.

Funnily enough thats when I first got bust for smoking as well, a lesiurely ride home with ciggy in the mouth and the deputy head happened to be

driving the same road! Six of the best for that one!

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Got my first bike when I was 6. Got a black Ralleigh Panther ... pretty indestructable. It had to be cause I was quite a hooligan on it and wiped out pretty well every now and then. But that was my transport. Cycled right up to matric when I went to do military service and started working. Got back on the bike in 2001 when I decided it is time to get fit and drop a few sand bags around the middle.

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I see "start cycling" and "learnt how to ride a bike" as 2 different things.

 

I learnt how to ride a bike when I was 4 (1989)

  • Bike: PnP special, 12" BMX with plastic "meg wils" and foam tyres

I started cycling when I was 25 (2010)

  • Bike: Morewood Izumu DH bike

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I see "start cycling" and "learnt how to ride a bike" as 2 different things.

 

I learnt how to ride a bike when I was 4 (1989)

I started cycling when I was 25 (2010)

Agree I was on a bicycle long before I started cycling...

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I see "start cycling" and "learnt how to ride a bike" as 2 different things.

 

I learnt how to ride a bike when I was 4 (1989)

I started cycling when I was 25 (2010)

what defines "cycling"? Due to my geographical location as a kid,, eg: out in the sticks in forgotten little town, or on a farm elsewhere I "raced"/chased whatever I could find. Buses / tractors / lorries / bakkies

 

Or are you only "cycling" if you wear lycra/spandex and use cleats?

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This is what Google tells me if I feed it "define:cycling"

cy·cling/ˈsīk(ə)liNG/

 

Noun: The sport or activity of riding a bicycle. Synonyms: bicycling

 

Red emphasis is mine

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This is what Google tells me if I feed it "define:cycling"

cy·cling/ˈsīk(ə)liNG/

 

Noun: The sport or activity of riding a bicycle. Synonyms: bicycling

 

Red emphasis is mine

 

Silly.

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what defines "cycling"? Due to my geographical location as a kid,, eg: out in the sticks in forgotten little town, or on a farm elsewhere I "raced"/chased whatever I could find. Buses / tractors / lorries / bakkies

 

Or are you only "cycling" if you wear lycra/spandex and use cleats?

 

If so, then I still don't 'cycle' :lol:

 

This is what Google tells me if I feed it "define:cycling"

cy·cling/ˈsīk(ə)liNG/

 

Noun: The sport or activity of riding a bicycle. Synonyms: bicycling

 

Red emphasis is mine

 

My interpretation is that "cycling" is when one participates in the sport as a hobby. But I'm no dictionary

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I see "start cycling" and "learnt how to ride a bike" as 2 different things.

 

I learnt how to ride a bike when I was 4 (1989)

  • Bike: PnP special, 12" BMX with plastic "meg wils" and foam tyres

I started cycling when I was 25 (2010)

  • Bike: Morewood Izumu DH bike

 

 

Well that could make an interresting debate. If I did not learn to ride a bike at a young age, and that being my only means of independant transport as a kid, I would not have been able to perform fairly well in the sport of cycling which I took up later in my life. As a kid I properly would have kicked most sporting cyclist arses on my pick & pay special while delivering news papers.

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