Why Do You Ride?
 

• Adventure and Exploration
• Fitness
• Fun
• Personal challenge
• Social reasons
• Stress relief
• Training for non-racing events
• Training for racing events
• Utility purposes (ie. commuting)
• Other

Feel free to elaborate on the selections you have made. :)

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• Cheaper than cocaine (or so I've heard).

All of the above.

these mostly

--> scenery
--> want to race (and win)
--> I kinda like the pain :innocent:
--> meditative

Too old to race but most of the above. Primarily for fitness which is a personal challenge as well as fun. Stress relief is a by product. I also like to do most of my maintenance and wrench work so the hands on problem solving/craft work aspect is there also.

When I first started getting riding, it was because of the Tour de Cure. Thanks to that I love to ride now.

• Adventure and Exploration
• Fitness
• Fun
• Personal challenge
  Social reasons
  Stress relief
  Training for non-racing events
• Training for racing events
• Utility purposes (ie. commuting)

Other

Because some snobby arse riders said I was too fat to ride a bike!:D True story, so I guess it was a personal challenge!:thumb:

Makes me forget everything. When I'm riding my bike, I don't have to think about anything at all. I don't have to deal with any stress, work, friends, its just me and my bike.

and its just plain fun.

And I got your poll edited in, Machka. :D

Thanks Tom ... not sure why I'm having trouble with that.

meditation!

nothing like the rhythms of your own body out in the middle of nature to center you :-)

To get to the other side.

It could be anything from Gateway traffic to ping timeout.

Speed.
Self-made eye-watering tire-humming leg-burning bystander-gasping speed.

I started riding because my arthritis was so bad it hurt to walk so sitting to get everywhere was better. Then it became about getting around the city quickly and cheaply. Now it's my main hobby and I spend more time riding than anything else except sleeping and working. Also all the reasons Machka listed.

To have something impressive to say when the ladies ask me "So, what do you do ?"

I'm a cancer survivor, and exercise is a huge factor in preventing a recurrence of the type of cancer I had. Beyond that, I just love to explore my neck of the woods under my own power and I enjoy the maintenance that makes riding that much more satisfying when everything is working right. Endorphins, of course, are an important part of the equation.

Um, it's fun?

and....it keeps me from killing brain cells surfing this place.

:P

[ ] Other: An excuse to shave my legs, wear vibrant colors, and tight shorts that showcase my circumcision scar.
(Sadly, I can no longer ride around in a speedo, since my knee won't cotton to the running.)

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All of the above.

Adventure and Exploration
Fitness
Fun
Personal challenge
Training for racing events (also self challenge so non-race too)

* Adventure and Exploration
* Fitness
* Fun
* Personal challenge
* Utility purposes (ie. commuting)

Mostly because it's fun, but the adventure and exploration and personal challenge are part of what makes it fun. Sometimes I use it for utility purposes and I always enjoy the fitness benefits.