The worst cycling tips in the world!

[zewol]

-When going on a ride always bring spare parts with you.

I would agree that it may be useful if it is a tube or some kind or repair kit , but the guy told me that after I broke my chain while MTBing....I don't think I'll be taking a spare chain, gear cable, brake pad, etc. with me on my next ride

 

[Fixey]

Do miles miles and more miles, when you get tired....DO MORE MILES,

Always use big gears, spinning is for poofs,

Always finish a race, no matter what.

Only drink when you get thirsty.

if you get cought in a handicap race, just accept that you will get beaten

Never attack when there is a sprinter in your bunch, just roll to the end and whine miserably about getting beaten

As ridiculous as they seem, many people appear to live by these rules

 

[OLMO]

Always go hard, never modulate your intensity.

 

[edd]

Originally posted by OLMO
Always go hard, never modulate your intensity.

read everything, remember nothing....

when you get old you will rembember that going hard was a good thing !

 

[keydates]

Excuse my ignorance (again) but what exactly is "spin?"

 

[edd]

Originally posted by keydates
Excuse my ignorance (again) but what exactly is "spin?"

it is what politicians use to make something bad sound like a good thing..

when done on a bike.... pretty much the same !

 

[Beastt]

Originally posted by edd
it is what politicians use to make something bad sound like a good thing..

when done on a bike.... pretty much the same !

Agreed on the politicians but on a bike, it's what Armstrong does in the mountains that leaves everyone else struggling and dropping off the back. Low gear, high cadence.

 

[Fixey]

"read everything, remember nothing....

when you get old you will rembember that going hard was a good thing !"


LMFAO that is truely funny

 

[Brizza]

Always finish a race, no matter what.

It builds your endurance which is how you beat the sprinters.

Always go hard, never modulate your intensity.

Again a good way to drop sprinters. If you can't train at race pace, what chance have you got on race day?

If you hadn't guessed I'm not a sprinter, ignore my comments if you are or aim to be.

Brian

 

[Fixey]

on those 2 points Brizza

1) race to race, if you bonk, get hammered ect give up, get off your good wheels go home! you want to increase endurance do it training.

2) m8 im a sprinter you want to make me happy, go as hard as you can and keep the pace on all the way, I will hold on and beat you everytime, Very the pace up and down, force me to accelerate many times and I will wease, puff, turn blue and curse you....just as I drop off the back

 

[Fixey]

oops, bugger....

I ment keep a nice even hard pace and you will drop me

I mean accelerating lots of times would be silly you dont want to do that to sprinters, we love it honest we do

 

[Brizza]

I've heard that fast twitch fibres perform a high speed but take longer to recover, thus they do no enjoy surging. Can you atest to this from personal experience?
I can surge all day but I strugle with my time trialing ability.

Can sprinters recover from a hard surge?

Brian

 

[edd]

Originally posted by Brizza
I've heard that fast twitch fibres perform a high speed but take longer to recover, thus they do no enjoy surging. Can you atest to this from personal experience?
I can surge all day but I strugle with my time trialing ability.

Can sprinters recover from a hard surge?

Brian

I got surge twitch fibers.
got them from my Siberian great Uncles gene pool....

 

[Brizza]

If I made you ride at 100% you would stay with me, if we repeated the excercise 90 seconds later would you still be with me?

Brian

 

[edd]

Originally posted by Beastt
Agreed on the politicians but on a bike, it's what Armstrong does in the mountains that leaves everyone else struggling and dropping off the back. Low gear, high cadence.

Well most of us aren't Lance.

I remember one of his bikes in the TDF having chain rings 59 / 53

go spin those for bit....

when your coach says spin I bet he means something like 90 to 110 cadence...

**** reckons spin is 140 cad in the 18" gear is doing great guns, that's why we put a quad chain ring on his trike.....

if you don't know who **** is then.. look down he's the one who got you in trouble last year... or........ your a girl ?

 

[edd]

Originally posted by Brizza
If I made you ride at 100% you would stay with me, if we repeated the excercise 90 seconds later would you still be with me?

Brian

I always ride at 100%

every time I ride at 90%, the 10% I leave at home always turns out to be the bit I need to buy ice cream at the turn around point !

 

[Brizza]

Good to hear Edd, I always ride at 100% as part of my training.

The question is more for the fast twitch sprinters.

In my eyes there are 3 main types of riders, sprinters, time trialers and hill climbers, how we train is different for each.

Brian

 

[edd]

Originally posted by Brizza
Good to hear Edd, I always ride at 100% as part of my training.

The question is more for the fast twitch sprinters.

In my eyes there are 3 main types of riders, sprinters, time trialers and hill climbers, how we train is different for each.

Brian

I think there are three main types of riders too...

the fast riders, the slow riders and the bigs girls...

 

[Beastt]

Originally posted by edd
Well most of us aren't Lance.

I remember one of his bikes in the TDF having chain rings 59 / 53

go spin those for bit....

when your coach says spin I bet he means something like 90 to 110 cadence...

**** reckons spin is 140 cad in the 18" gear is doing great guns, that's why we put a quad chain ring on his trike.....

if you don't know who **** is then.. look down he's the one who got you in trouble last year... or........ your a girl ?

Granted, none of us are Lance except Lance. I'm not sure what the significance of the 59/53 chainrings would be. Spinning, as I pointed out, is about low-gear, high cadence. I'm fairly sure that in most people's minds, any cog linked to a 59 chainring wouldn't be considered a low gear. (Are you sure about that 59T chainring?)

Watch Lance, especially in the mountains and you'll see that he's turning a higher cadence in a lower gear than those behind him. As the story goes, that was a tip he received from Miguel Indurain and continued through his coach, Chris Carmichael. It's about stressing the muscles less through each cycle and doing more cycles to compensate. The idea is that it tires the muscles less over a prolonged effort. Obviously, this doesn't seem to work for everyone or every muscle type. Ullrich does the opposite and still drops the rest of the peloton, Armstrong excluded.

Since this thread is about the worst tips in the world; find the highest gear you can turn and grind your way up all of the climbs.

 

[ewitz]

The worst advice...

When you start don't buy a $5000 bike even if you can afford it. Start with something less expensive and upgrade later if you like the sport.

or

Buy a TREK if it's good enough for Lance....