not enough hot chicks doing it. its hard to find a decent girl that enjoys the same sport you do.

I can never seem to go fast enough or far enough or to ride as long or as often as I'd like.

Try shopping. :D

It doesn't pay the bills!

how would shopping find me a girl that likes cycling?

...women in bike shorts riding in front of me. It slows me down!

The biggest problem I see isn't with bicycling it's self but rather with people's perception of it. I say that from my perspective as a devoted gear head who now preaches the gospel of two wheeled, self propeled transportation. People love thier cars, especially out west. They honestly believe they cannot get by without one. In our society, it is a common rite of passage for a young man to "graduate" from the bicycle to his first car. In fact, very often his entire image is based on it. That was certainly the case with me. The automobile is so deeply ingrained in our collective consiousness that many people I encounter cannot even imagine not driving. These same people look at me with a sense of profound pity when I arrive at work and often will offer to pick me up if I need a ride. While I appreciate thier trying to help, they sometimes don't understand that I ride because I want to. Untill people are willing to change the way they think, I'm afraid the situation will not improve.

Go shopping at a bike shop?

Cyclists who don't follow the rules of the road. They go through red lights, don't stop for stop signs, ride on the wrong side of the road, etc.

What I hate about the sport the most............

Posers.

Mountain Bike Posers:

Examples of a mountain bike poser include:

1. Those people that drive around with that mountain bikes on the top of their SUV because it makes them look cool like those adventure types in all the Ford and Nissan commercials. They drive 50 miles to ride five.
2. The guy that gets out of his car, gets on his bike, and while waiting for friends to get ready does some crazy trails hopping routine, and falls over when he stalls out and can't get out of his hew SPD pedals.
3, The rider that just bought new tires at $65 ea, mounted the front one on the back, back on the front, and they are both mounted in the wrong direction.
4. People that ride on trails with new bikes and don't remove the reflectors.
5. Riders that think it's cool to see how fast they can blow by the hikers.
6. The rider that leaves his old tubes in the woods.

Road Bike Posers:

Examples of a road bike poser include:
1. Riding without a helmet (com'on they do it in the tour!)
2. Someone who owns a bike that has more mileage on top of a car than by actually riding it.
3. The guy who shows up on your club ride and thinks he's Lance and tries to race everyone up every hill.
4. Throwing away your water bottle on the last lap of a CAT5 race.
5. The pedal mashing guy with the $4500 Trek that sways back and forth in a waaay too tall a gear and complains why his knees hurt all the time.
6. The guy with the complete USPS outfit, TREK 5500, and hairy legs!

Sorry, but I had to vent.

1. Having to ride downhill after completing a climb

2. Incompetent motoring primates

3. Not enough females do it (at least not around here)

4. THE FACT THAT IT NEVER F**KING RAINS!!!

:cry:

As far as posers go, hey, at least they're out on their bikes, not sitting at home stuffing their fat faces and watching tv!

Howver, there are some real posers- the ones who spend shmillions on a bike, then ride it for 5k on the weekends, right to a local restaurant and then sit there on the terrasse with their buddies, wearing their Banesto strip and SMOKING!

As for chicks, I wish there were more women to ride with- I ride with groups of mostly guys. I see women on their bikes sometimes but a lot of them aren't very friendly or they're really serious racer types who would leave me behind as a corpse. I agree that not enough women are into cycling.

No problems whatsoever. If there was a problem with it, not so many people would be on this board!

steven

That's OK. I just loooove dropping them on the next hill! Assuming they actually bother to ride any hills of course. :eek:

The best poseur I ever saw was in France, at the summit of the Col de Galibier, one of the classic climbs of the Tour. This was in August, not during the race:
A car pulls up with a French family. The guy is dressed in his favourite team kit, unloads his ultra-light carbon fibre/Record equipped bike, then cycles down the mountain.

...being torn between the seeing the yellow tailed black cockatoo, sky blue rosellas and kookaburras ...and seeing how fast I am not going and not training hard enough...

As far as consumables go - I get 4000 miles plus on a tire (front one much more than that). So that gives me 5 cents per mile. I get about the same on a chain which is another 5 cents per mile. So I am at 10 cents per mile. As for the bike, it costs $2000 and it has lasted over 30,000 miles so that is a 7 cents per mile. So I am at 17 cents per mile. Or about $2 to do a century. When I did all of my own maintenance that was nice and cheap and cost virtually nothing. Having a shop do the harder stuff might add bring the total up to 20 cents per mile. Of course, one could easily halve the above figure by riding large inexpensive tires, doing all your own maintenance and riding an inexpensive bike or buying a used bike at less than half price. I think if you work it out, bicycling is very reasonably priced compares favorably with belonging to a health club or even running (and going through shoes all the time).

Having to stop when I reach work...

Work cuts into my riding time. :mad:

Traffic.
Rain.
Cold weather.
End of daylight savings time. It's coming soon. :crash:

I can't take my wife and my youngest son for a bike ride.....

Friggin pedestrians and their unleashed dogs and small children that take up all the path. I would rather take my chances with motorists on the road.:fight:

Don't remind me of rain and changing the clocks! Tomorrow we're supposed to get deluged with rain (thanks to tropical storm Kyle) and then WET SNOW tomorrow night! That won't last long, of course, but the season is nearly over.

We have all missed by far the biggest problem with cycling, however. The fact that it's f**king summer for six months of the year.

:mad: :crash: :cry:

What a difference a hemisphere makes! :p

-Rob

I agree with some of the posts and in particular, Big Johnson. The biggest problem with cycling is the image it has with the non-cycling public. Bikes are considered toys, and anytime they see us riding they assume that we must be 'playing.' This is the predominant view in the US. Even my own wife thinks that cycling to work is somewhat silly. Even most of our local club riders never consider the bicycle as practical transportation.

Dave