When do you know it's over?

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Crescentius Vespasianus said:

The question is: When do you know that it is over in cycling, and
it's time to move on to other pursuits. I have some personal clues,
but I don't want to reveal them, to bias any feedback I may get to
this question. Only serious replies, and if there is someone out
there that has given up cycling totally, to tell their experience
would be helpful.

Well, I realized that racing was over for me when I figured out that the
only time I was enjoying riding a bike was in the fall after the end of
the racing season. I had come to hate riding my bike over the years I
raced, because every ride was spoiled by having to train. I stopped
racing and have been loving cycling ever since.

In terms of it being "over" in cycling as in riding a bike at all, I
can't even grok what that means. I've been riding bikes for 40 years
and a bike nut for 30+ years. I think it'll be over when I'm dead.

try Prozac
everyone in sunny Fla doesn't rave about it.
oxy contin and uhh I forget is popular with the Donzi crowd
but get a heart meter as a companion piece.

Crescentius Vespasianus said:

The question is: When do you know that it is over in cycling, and
it's time to move on to other pursuits. I have some personal clues,
but I don't want to reveal them, to bias any feedback I may get to
this question. Only serious replies, and if there is someone out
there that has given up cycling totally, to tell their experience
would be helpful.

Like quitting alcohol or a woman, every darned day sometimes isn't often
enough. Cyclists seldom quit, really, but we do change style.

Is it rapture every morning? No, but it's nice more often than not.

I can't presume to give advice, but for me the alternates of not riding
are much worse than anything the pavement or traffic has thrown so far.

Ever tried a conversation with someone new and/or interesting over a
leisurely ride? Or a breakfast run early Sunday with 1 or 2 companions?
Once making mileage log entries at a sustained high rate is less than
the #1 goal you may see it all differently.

Or, you may be on to something, get away without a bike for a few days
and see if you don't miss it.
--
Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

datakoll said:

try Prozac
everyone in sunny Fla doesn't rave about it.
oxy contin and uhh I forget is popular with the Donzi crowd
but get a heart meter as a companion piece.

ARE POPULAR, sorry carl.

Crescentius Vespasianus said:

The question is: When do you know that it is over in cycling, and
it's time to move on to other pursuits. I have some personal clues,
but I don't want to reveal them, to bias any feedback I may get to
this question. Only serious replies, and if there is someone out
there that has given up cycling totally, to tell their experience
would be helpful.

If you are so old and/or weak you can't get started in a reasonable
straight line?

--
/Marten

info(apestaartje)m-gineering(punt)nl

A Muzi said:

Crescentius Vespasianus said:

The question is: When do you know that it is over in cycling, and
it's time to move on to other pursuits. I have some personal clues,
but I don't want to reveal them, to bias any feedback I may get to
this question. Only serious replies, and if there is someone out
there that has given up cycling totally, to tell their experience
would be helpful.

Like quitting alcohol or a woman, every darned day sometimes isn't often
enough. Cyclists seldom quit, really, but we do change style.

Is it rapture every morning? No, but it's nice more often than not.

I can't presume to give advice, but for me the alternates of not riding
are much worse than anything the pavement or traffic has thrown so far.

Ever tried a conversation with someone new and/or interesting over a
leisurely ride? Or a breakfast run early Sunday with 1 or 2 companions?
Once making mileage log entries at a sustained high rate is less than
the #1 goal you may see it all differently.

Or, you may be on to something, get away without a bike for a few days
and see if you don't miss it.

Are we talking racing or riding at all? I mean, really, stopping
riding would mean that I spend twice the time in traffic and tons of
money on gas. I am simply too cheap and too impatient to stop
commuting by bike. OTOH, you stop racing and non-essential riding
when it is no longer fun. Then you start up again when you realize
that you miss it -- or as part of some mid-life crisis-and-diet plan.

Personally, I gave up racing when I realized it was putting a big hole
in my family life, and I was no longer placing or doing anything other
than paying entry fees to be pack filler. I now get all the
competition I need by riding with my old teammates, but I don't have
to worry about being dropped because they wait for me (if necessary).
We also get to talk a lot of rebellious guy talk, which helps us to
forget that we are actually a bunch of whipped married guys
struggling to fend off guts and old age. Very therapeutic.-- Jay
Beattie.

my mom rode at 83 and fell off then she stopped later breaking her hip
picking oranges at 89.
Try SoBe before dinner and vivarin after lunch following glucosamine
and Cerbex at breakfast.

Crescentius Vespasianus said:

The question is: When do you know that it is over in cycling, and
it's time to move on to other pursuits. I have some personal clues,
but I don't want to reveal them, to bias any feedback I may get to
this question. Only serious replies, and if there is someone out
there that has given up cycling totally, to tell their experience
would be helpful.

When you start taking your bike for granted, when you and your bike
stop saying the little niceties to each other, when looking at your
bike doesn't get you all excited... then it's over.

still just me said:

On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:59:04 -0800 (PST), Crescentius Vespasianus

Quoted message said:

The question is:  When do you know that it is over in cycling, and
it's time to move on to other pursuits.  I have some personal clues,
but I don't want to reveal them, to bias any feedback I may get to
this question.  Only serious replies, and if there is someone out
there that has given up cycling totally, to tell their experience
would be helpful.

When you start taking your bike for granted, when you and your bike
stop saying the little niceties to each other, when looking at your
bike doesn't get you all excited... then it's over.

Well, it's over for THAT bike. You might get excited about an other,
lighter and younger bike. I've seen that happen. Mid-life crisis
trophy bikes. -- Jay Beattie.

Crescentius Vespasianus said:

The question is: When do you know that it is over in cycling, and
it's time to move on to other pursuits.

When they pry the handlebar from my cold dead hands.

datakoll said:

my mom rode at 83 and fell off then she stopped later breaking her hip
picking oranges at 89.
Try SoBe before dinner and vivarin after lunch following glucosamine
and Cerbex at breakfast.

Don't foget the Finish Line teflon products and the 1/4" plywood!

Ozark Bicycle said:

datakoll said:

my mom rode at 83 and fell off then she stopped later breaking her hip
picking oranges at 89.
Try SoBe before dinner and vivarin after lunch following glucosamine
and Cerbex at breakfast.

Don't foget the Finish Line teflon products and the 1/4" plywood!

With the Finish Line, the strand board is easier to get down, and I
swear it cleans me out just as good as marine grade ply.

M-gineering aka Marten Gerritsen said:

Crescentius Vespasianus said:

The question is: When do you know that it is over in cycling, and
it's time to move on to other pursuits. I have some personal clues,
but I don't want to reveal them, to bias any feedback I may get to
this question. Only serious replies, and if there is someone out
there that has given up cycling totally, to tell their experience
would be helpful.

If you are so old and/or weak you can't get started in a reasonable
straight line?

Yes, for those people, a recumbent trike may be better than a bicycle.

--
Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
"Localized intense suction such as tornadoes is created when temperature
differences are high enough between meeting air masses, and can impart
excessive energy onto a cyclist." - Randy Schlitter

On Dec 20, 3:59 pm, Crescentius Vespasianus <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

The question is:  When do you know that it is over in cycling, and
it's time to move on to other pursuits.  I have some personal clues,
but I don't want to reveal them, to bias any feedback I may get to
this question.  Only serious replies, and if there is someone out
there that has given up cycling totally, to tell their experience
would be helpful.

When you feel the urge to get a recumbent, you know it's over. Or, at
least, it should be. ;-)

Ozark Bicycle said:

On Dec 20, 3:59 pm, Crescentius Vespasianus <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

The question is: When do you know that it is over in cycling, and
it's time to move on to other pursuits. I have some personal clues,
but I don't want to reveal them, to bias any feedback I may get to
this question. Only serious replies, and if there is someone out
there that has given up cycling totally, to tell their experience
would be helpful.

When you feel the urge to get a recumbent, you know it's over. Or, at
least, it should be. ;-)

I think it is when you take your bike to a garage mechanic in the Ozarks
that it is really over.

--
Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
"Localized intense suction such as tornadoes is created when temperature
differences are high enough between meeting air masses, and can impart
excessive energy onto a cyclist." - Randy Schlitter

I nearly quit recently when I sustained a bad hand injury when my hand
went through the windscreen of a car in which a delightful young lady
was performing a sudden unsignalled U-turn from a parked position just
near a bend on a continuous white line. My hand will never be 100% as
I had two knuckle fractures and a repaired tendon, but it's fine for
cycling. On my third or fourth cycle back I had a bad fall due to
repainted white lines in the wet on a major road. Got concussion and a
huge dinner-plate sized thigh bruise.

However, I was on hols in Spain a week ago for two weeks just recently
and went on a hard hilly gorgeous spin on quiet roads in superb
scenery on a sunny day, about 15C, and that cured me of any temptation
to quit cycling. If necessary, if the traffic continues to get worse,
I will take my bike out into the country in the car and start from
there. Also, all my friends are cyclists. We've been cycling together
for 25 years.

You've gotta die sometime!!

On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:59:04 -0800 (PST), Crescentius Vespasianus

may have said:

The question is: When do you know that it is over in cycling, and
it's time to move on to other pursuits. I have some personal clues,
but I don't want to reveal them, to bias any feedback I may get to
this question. Only serious replies, and if there is someone out
there that has given up cycling totally, to tell their experience
would be helpful.

When, for a sufficiently significant period, it's no fun anymore, and
a break doesn't change that.

Of course, I apply that to just about anything.

--
My email address is antispammed; pull WEEDS if replying via e-mail.
Typoes are not a bug, they're a feature.
Words processed in a facility that contains nuts.

On Dec 21, 8:59 am, Crescentius Vespasianus <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

The question is: When do you know that it is over in cycling, and
it's time to move on to other pursuits. I have some personal clues,
but I don't want to reveal them, to bias any feedback I may get to
this question. Only serious replies, and if there is someone out
there that has given up cycling totally, to tell their experience
would be helpful.

An obituary in an English cycling magazine started with the words;

"He was 95 when he no longer could throw his leg over the bar.."

Guess that was an euphemism for getting too old to ride

Owen

Crescentius Vespasianus said:

The question is: When do you know that it is over in cycling, and
it's time to move on to other pursuits. I have some personal clues,
but I don't want to reveal them, to bias any feedback I may get to
this question. Only serious replies, and if there is someone out
there that has given up cycling totally, to tell their experience
would be helpful.

when I can't ride faster than I can walk I will say it's over.