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Anonymous Fri 30 Jul 2021 23:50:05 No.1688285 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>1688303 >>1688413 >>1688416 >>1688441 >>1688461 >>1688513 >>1688893

Is cycling a social hobby for anyone?
I love exploring neighborhoods on my bike and getting some sun and exercise. But I'm not meeting any other cyclists, it's all solitary.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 31 Jul 2021 00:09:14 No.1688287 Report

Quoted By: >>1688301

I didn't start out to be a lone wolf, the lone wolf life chose me. I bought my bike figuring I'd go on group rides and charity rides and stuff----and I do a couple 100k charity rides a year but I never go to the LBS group rides anymore.

The last one was during Covid and we were going 40 miles up and back around the municipal airport and we didn't even pause for even a minute to watch the LifeFlight Chopper take off. Then 10 minutes later we stop at a fucking mcdonalds because someone had to pee.

That kind of made me go meh. If I'm riding all the way up to the airport we aren't even going to watch a plane or choppa? Exploring by yourself is so much more fun OP Dogbro

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 31 Jul 2021 00:55:25 No.1688301 Report

Quoted By: >>1688447

>>1688287
Group rides suck unless they people you're riding with are chill

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 31 Jul 2021 00:59:19 No.1688303 Report

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>>1688285
I ride my bike to get away from people

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 31 Jul 2021 01:04:33 No.1688304 Report

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Yes, but only because I work in the bike industry, I prefer to ride alone.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 31 Jul 2021 09:58:05 No.1688413 Report

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>>1688285
For me half the pleasure of cycling is the solitude.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 31 Jul 2021 10:01:18 No.1688415 Report

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I don't think its really social. Maybe if you go into a bike club or something you can make some friends I dunno. I just do touring with my wife and I'm fine like that.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 31 Jul 2021 10:02:25 No.1688416 Report

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>>1688285
I didn't plan it to be but it turned out that way, ever since I started working as a courier I've met a ton of people, gone on a handful of group rides with them too
bunch of vegan animalist socialist feminist faggy potheads though, but they're nice

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 31 Jul 2021 11:40:53 No.1688441 Report

Quoted By: >>1688450 >>1688451 >>1688454 >>1688875

>>1688285
no, do not try to talk to me, do not pull up next to me and start yapping away, do not compliment my bike or my kit, do not make small talk. I'm not your special friend just because I'm wearing a castelli hat. get the fuck away from me. I hate cyclists with a burning passion and "bike culture" is cancer. "non-judgmental" judgmental pricks who virtue signal about being "inclusive" (actually unbelievably elitist in an underhanded way), the only thing worse than a cager is a cyclist (and yes that includes you "not a cyclist just happen to get around on a bike" douchebags, that goes triple for you in fact, fuck you, I hope you die)

every time I see a ghost bike it makes me think "good, less cancer"

tl;dr kill all cyclists

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 31 Jul 2021 12:04:06 No.1688447 Report

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>>1688301
I actually think riding with one or two friends is fun as fuck

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 31 Jul 2021 12:28:58 No.1688450 Report

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>>1688441
Do you get an hard-on when anyone salutes you and you don't salute back? You sound like a sociopath. Not that this is surprising since we are on 4 Ching

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 31 Jul 2021 12:29:23 No.1688451 Report

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>>1688441
so, you going to start with killing yourself then?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 31 Jul 2021 12:36:14 No.1688454 Report

Quoted By: >>1688460

>>1688441
You, when I roll up and say your bike is cool:
>haha, thanks man

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 31 Jul 2021 12:53:03 No.1688460 Report

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>>1688454
>t.gigachad

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 31 Jul 2021 12:54:21 No.1688461 Report

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>>1688285
While I do some rides with my best friend, and we've had plenty of fun, I love the freedom to just hop on my bike by myself and go explore new areas. No coordination or timing needed, I just get on and go. I like to slow down or stop to look at cool things I encounter along the way, not exactly able to do that in a group ride.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 31 Jul 2021 16:30:17 No.1688513 Report

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>>1688285
For now I ride alone. Only once have I head another cyclist come up and ride with me, it was pretty shit timing cause I was about to eat food and he told me to get behind him and I rode with him for a bit and then took the lead up a hill and we went seperate ways. I plan on joining some races in the future once covid is gone for good but for now I enjoy cycling alone because I can choose when I want to cycle and where I want to cycle.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 01 Aug 2021 05:57:41 No.1688842 Report

Quoted By: >>1688868

Socially, all cycling has done is shown that I'm too autistic and walled-off to ever have a girlfriend or even friends. It's really the only activity I do, cycling for my commute and occasional leisure travel/transportation when I need to get places. And despite being a miserable, lonely shut-in otherwise, whose social isolation has ruined my life, I have never used it to try to make any sort of social connections.

I've never joined a bike group. If I ever bike past people or a group, I never try to socialize with them. Never got involved in racing or any sort of events (I'm not even good at it anyway). Coworkers who bike, never use it as a conversation point, maybe asking about riding together. Seeing people with bikes on the subway I take every morning, guys and girls, never try to use it as a conversation starter. Hell, there are even people who park/pick up their bikes at the subway station same time as me and we barely interact if at all. Even a girl who rides 1-2 miles on the way home the same route, we'll be in the same crosswalk together waiting for the light to turn and I never even look at her

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 01 Aug 2021 07:35:45 No.1688868 Report

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>>1688842
Wow man thanks for bumming me out. Move out of NYC

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 01 Aug 2021 07:59:55 No.1688875 Report

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>>1688441
Gonzo lmao

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 01 Aug 2021 09:24:36 No.1688893 Report

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>>1688285
I used to cycle with my friends but not having to plan hours ahead and being able to go wherever you want at your own pace is so liberating

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