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Road Cycling “It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.” -- Ernest Hemingway

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Old 01-05-12, 06:00 AM
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Why do I persist with road cycling? Two things. The endorphins (I'm addicted). And the massive stupidity in the sport, which provides persistent and ongoing comic relief.
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And it does occur to me that there is more unmitigated dooshbaggery in this sport than in any other hobby or past time on the friggin planet. Particularly in amateur bicycle racing. The flip side is there is also some phenomenal camaraderie. It's complicated.
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I make a point of catching everyone who tries to drop me and give them the Cinzano treatment, is that this "dooshbaggery" of which you speak?
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Originally Posted by patentcad
Why do I persist with road cycling? Two things. The endorphins (I'm addicted). And the massive stupidity in the sport, which provides persistent and ongoing comic relief.
you can get all that by buying more guitars without the pain and suffering.
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you can get all that by buying more guitars without the pain and suffering.
No endorphins in guitar playing g.
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Originally Posted by patentcad
No endorphins in guitar playing g.
That's what the weed is for.
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It's complicated.
Not really...
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That's what the weed is for.
but sadly not the right endorphins.

if pcad was really addicted to endorphins he would be on the trainer all the time doing intervals.
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Why do I persist with road cycling? Two things. The endorphins (I'm addicted). And the massive stupidity in the sport, which makes me fit right in.
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Originally Posted by dnuzzomueller
but sadly not the right endorphins.

if pcad was really addicted to endorphins he would be on the trainer all the time doing intervals.
if there's anything to the research in this article https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/0...-runners-high/ they may well be the right "endorphins".
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I'm guessing it fuels your passion to write on a bike forum.
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Originally Posted by patentcad
And it does occur to me that there is more unmitigated dooshbaggery in this sport than in any other hobby or past time on the friggin planet. Particularly in amateur bicycle racing. The flip side is there is also some phenomenal camaraderie. It's complicated.
Golf is close though pcad - very close - everyone who buys a Nike One hat thinks they are Tiger.
And I don't understand the dooshbaggery in this sport - I can be a dick but my heart is in the right place and am always there to help and never put people's stuff down or look down on others but so many do.
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I do it because I hate myself so I must torture myself as often as possible. That's also why I come here.
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Why?

Why not?
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Why bother?
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Originally Posted by Jeepnut22
Not really...
Incorrect.
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Originally Posted by roadiejorge
I make a point of catching everyone who tries to drop me and give them the Cinzano treatment, is that this "dooshbaggery" of which you speak?
But you don't have a frame pump Jorge.
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Originally Posted by halfspeed
That's what the weed is for.
Take it to the MTB Forum fredly.
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If cycling equaled dooshbaggery around here, I never would have gotten into it.
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I do it because I hate myself so I must torture myself as often as possible. That's also why I come here.
This belongs in the confession thread but then again it comes with the sport. People with low threshold for pain won't get far unless they have godlike talent.
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If cycling equaled dooshbaggery around here, I never would have gotten into it.
Cycling = Stupid. The dooshbaggery is only a fringe benefit, but of course, there are others, or nobody would be here.
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No endorphins in guitar playing g.
You're doing it wrong.
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Why do I persist with road cycling? Two things. The endorphins (I'm addicted). And the massive stupidity in the sport, which provides persistent and ongoing comic relief.
Three things. You fit right in!
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Originally Posted by LowCel
I do it because I hate myself so I must torture myself as often as possible. That's also why I come here.
You must be on the trainer most of the times.
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