That moment when.....

[eccc whippet]

as you feel that cool breeze on your face and you realize you are in the front of the bunch...doing 45 km/h...and you have a 12 km climb coming up ...10 minutes of bliss...which resulted in 3 hours of suffering.

 

when you realize that noise everyone is trying to pin point...is your front wheel leaking and they have just started the count down to start the race.

 

when you are absolutely kaput with 5 km to go and a women old enough to be your gran mother all kitted out in pink...overtakes you and tells you to hop on

 

when you climbing out the valley of a 1000 hills and you hear the sound of music playing...and you look back to see a single speed ice cream bike about over take you

 

as you land after getting so decent air over the speed bump at 70 km/h (on your road bike) and you hear the spokes breaking

 

that moment when the wind is pumping you are past your suffer zone and  you look up and see the finish line is only 300 m ahead

[Captain Fastbastard Mayhem]

You realise it's less than 50 days before you start BC bike race

YOu must be feeling super giddy, right now... 

[Rocket-Boy]

You realise it's less than 50 days before you start BC bike race

Man that must be all kinds of exciting, very jelly.

[Riaan H]

When youre knackered and realize that's not the last climb, and neither is the next, or the one after that (Hakahana 1st timer)

 

Or

 

When you leave some in the tank and then realize the finish is right in front of you and you could have gone way harder, blows

[Pure Savage]

When you climbing over chappies after a monster ride and the Rasta with the dreads passes you going up chappies and you try suck wheel and then get popped...

[eccc whippet]

as you get on the bike and press the lever to change gear...realize the battery is still in the charger.

 

when you are having such a good ride you have managed to do 1400 m elev gain on a mtb...you can see the finish line at the top of the hill and both legs cramp at the same time..and you cant move to get out the way for people to pass you...now i know what it feels like when you see people rolling on the floor in agony from cramps.

 

when you on the drops standing up pedaling down a steep hill...as you look up and see the car jump the stop street...nothing worse than flying over the car with your bike.

[Albatross]

you realise inanimate objects have higher heart rates than you do

[Cheese]

You realised after travelling 500km to do a race the weekend , You only packed the Frame and left the wheels at home.

[Frosty]

You put your shoes on for a power training session, and you left your inner soles at home after you washed your shoes (and have not been riding for two weeks...)

 

#truestory

Whe you realised you left your socks at home, and subsequently destroyed the inner soles due to all the mud that got into the shoes.

 

You realised after travelling 500km to do a race the weekend , You only packed the Frame and left the wheels at home.

Or when you realised you left a wheel propped up against your car and drove away from the race.

 

Luckily a bike marshal found it, and was busy strapping it to his bike when I returned. No damage incurred.

[lukelockie]

When you climbing over chappies after a monster ride and the Rasta with the dreads passes you going up chappies and you try suck wheel and then get popped...

He's hairo.

[breaker]

You realise you missed the apex of a 90 degree corner coming from a down hill, the fence you are about to hit after drifting wide is not any fence but an electric one

[Mamil]

That moment on Wednesday when you look at your google calendar and see the whole of Saturday is the Bonecrusher 68km in Darling and you think - lekker!

[CogitoErgoSum]

When you have absolutely given everything in a race. So much so that you loose track of distance covered, and what is left. You just keep your head down, and all of a sudden the finish is 100m away. You just want to cry in elation.... Or cry from the cramping....

 

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[The expat cyclist]

When you had too much wine on the Saturday...and have a race on the sunday. Standing in the shower the next morning, holding on for dear life, trying to think of an excuse not to go. Then realising your wife is just going to k@k you out so it is safer if you just htfu and go race. Arrive at the race and realise you did not check the wheels the night before but also left the pump at home. Then realise you did not lube the chains on your and your wifes bike, and also left your slapsock in the garage.

You get k@kked out anyway.

 

But somehow, you end up winning the race.

You vow never to drink again...before a race...more than two glasses...

[J∆kk∆ls]

When you are sick and cannot ride. ????

[Frosty]

... you've realised your wedding ring (mine) is not on any finger. Another word comes to mind, but that could get this post reported, so fokit will have to do.

 

Second time it's happened, the first time it had fallen off into on of my clothing bags during a stage race.

 

This time, it's in the house somewhere, or one of two other places I was at this morning.