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What's your riding kryptonite???

fartloud1

fartloud1

Chimp
Oct 5, 2011
12
0
Lake Havasu City
Seriously, what is the one thing that will absolutely keep you from riding when you really want to ride and you full well know that you could and should ride if you just got over the hang-up? Is it a certain weather condition, OCD house cleaning, porno-masturbatory tailspin, girlfriend's vaginal vortex, you know a certain person will be out there in the group, no clean lycra, hangover, chaffing, etc???

Mine is the wind. I know, "if you ride fast enough there's always . . . blah, blah." I've toughed out plenty o' days in the wind here in AZ. Now I look outside and if I see a tree branch flicker I get all beat down and think it will only get windier by the time I get out there. I think maybe once I've seen the wind die down in the middle of the day. Also, my hate of the wind stems from my wife's clunking bamboo wind chimes. Well, it's only a breeze right now, so I'm gonna quit whining and head out.
 
baca262

baca262

Monkey
Aug 16, 2011
392
0
JohnE said:
Earthquakes. Definitely earthquakes. Locusts too. Definitely locusts...
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now you reminded me - summer here = mosquitoes. truckloads of them on the trail i built. i regret most of the rides during summer. :/
 
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Banshee Rider

Turbo Monkey
Jul 31, 2003
1,452
10
Thunderstorms. I won't even risk being caught in one if they're on the radar. Everything else is fair game.
 
mantispf2000

mantispf2000

Turbo Monkey
Aug 9, 2001
1,795
246
Nevada, 2 hours from Mammoth
Time. I truly enjoy hour+ rides, which is about the distance from home out to visit someone and back. Unless I add to the route. Yet when I get up, I check emails, enter my online contests, feed/walk the dogs, then depending on my start time, have to get ready for work. Sure, I can charge up the light battery and ride when I get home, yet like now, I'm on the computer posting/reading emails/checking ebay. However, if my bout of insomnia keeps up, I'll be riding in the wee early morning hours, then doing all the above.....
 
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drop to flat

Chimp
Mar 1, 2012
16
0
in a van,whistler
Park Rangers out patroling the good part of the mountain ,No shuttle buddies available durring the week(buddies who stop riding due to loss of interest or too busy),Injuries preventing me from riding,ride pollitics who gets along with who,who can't stand who.
Working out too hard at the gym the night before cant command the bike,Riding too many days in a row .
Not having any ginsing for chinese energy rush.
 
mrbigisbudgood

mrbigisbudgood

Strangely intrigued by Echo
Oct 30, 2001
1,380
3
Charlotte, NC
CrabJoe StretchPants said:
A dusting does not qualify as riding in snow.
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Believe me, I go out hell or high water (snow) both commuting and on the trails. I think I've only missed 2 days commuting this year.

The pics above were fun, solid ice from melt/freeze/melt/freeze for a few days. Hikers were holding on to trees trying to walk the trails, looking at me like some kind of ice defying alien. Nokian 294s will change how you view riding in the winter.......

 
CrabJoe StretchPants

CrabJoe StretchPants

Reincarnated Crab Walking Head Spinning Bruce Dick
Nov 30, 2003
14,163
2,484
Groton, MA
mrbigisbudgood said:
Believe me, I go out hell or high water (snow) both commuting and on the trails. I think I've only missed 2 days commuting this year.

The pics above were fun, solid ice from melt/freeze/melt/freeze for a few days. Hikers were holding on to trees trying to walk the trails, looking at me like some kind of ice defying alien. Nokian 294s will change how you view riding in the winter.......

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Studded tires will gain you nothing in a foot of snow.

As for riding on little snow/ice.....well, I've done that too (sans studded tires):





 
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