So it's like really beautiful cycling to work through Richmond Park. All over you sitting on stuffy tubes totally are missing out.
But
Why did no one tell me about the hills. On my god, my legs and my arse have found new meaning to pain.
So it's like really beautiful cycling to work through Richmond Park. All over you sitting on stuffy tubes totally are missing out.
But
Why did no one tell me about the hills. On my god, my legs and my arse have found new meaning to pain.
1. adam
i need to get my arse onto a bike too! healthy living… bah
how much it cost and where from?
2. Daisy
A week’s cycling holiday in Wales. That’ll sort you. “Hills” in Richmond indeed!
3. Adrian
£130 from Halfords. Plus about £40 on helmet, pump, lock. Plus £20 a week later on gloves.
4. jamesd
A week’s cycling in Wales… So Adrian - since that superb suggestion came from an independent source…you up for joining in the mountain biking trip to Afan?
5. Adrian
I believe Daisy’s phrase was “sort me out”, a bit like the way the big guy says it when you look at his girlfriend in the bar.
I’m not entirely sure my first experience mountain biking should result in
A) My death. B) My wishing for death.
6. Simon
Hills - London - surely not?
Get some padded baggies, noob
Loose the pump, get gas bombs and some specialized sludge tubes (and learn how to change them) and then you won’t have to worry about flat tires
Come back and ride the 94.7 or Argus and I’ll show you pain (I might even start riding again)
7. extremeboarder
Special Agent Sevitz rides again…!
The deer tracks and squirrel trails of Richmond Park will be safe once more….
SAS is the only true all-out Jewish action hero. Vin Diesel eat your heart out.
8. matthew
I read somewhere that snowboarding was more dangerous than mountain biking. Greater speeds are reached and there is greater risk of injury (but you knew that, with your broken hand and all). Mountain biking doesn’t have to mean downhill mountain biking either, you know.
Plus, mountain biking in Wales is approximately 9000% cheaper than snowboarding in Austria.
9. chris
Commuting by bike is very definitely the way forwards; it is by far the quickest (and cheapest) way for me to get to work, with the added benefit of keeping me healthy without costing me 40quid a month or requiring the willpower to go and spend a couple of hours a day feeling inferior to all the infeasably fit and good looking people in the gym.
Also, it’s a gadget nut’s dream: I’ve already spent far more on gadgets and replacement doodads and bits and bobs for my bike than the bike cost me in the first place, and there’s nothing like getting covered in bike oil and grease and dirt to make you feel like a proper manly man. Yes.
10. Tot
Great idea. I used to ride to work in Manhattan and it was a fantastic way to start and end the day, riding along the Hudson at sunrise and sunset.
Plus, you may be able to cut out those 6:30am gym starts as a result? How long is the commute?
11. Adrian
Commute by bike is 30-45 minuets depending on speed and route and energy. Train is 30 minutes door to door.
Still getting up at the same time though. In fact I want to go to gym, then bike to work. Biking won’t build biceps.
12. Tom
30-45 minuets, eh? Do you bring your own classical accompaniment or do there just happen to be wild woodwind trios roaming Richmond Park, randomly accosting passer-bys with Baroque symphonies?
13. Gordon
Bravo. Alas it would take me over an hour to cycle to work AND there is no shower facilities so that kinda rules that out. In fact after buying bikes a couple of years ago we ended up selling them on. We live at the top of a VERY big hill and never really got the use of them.
I’m sticking with jogging for just now.
14. abi
yay you.
i too have just started biking to work, and due to the teeny tiny nature of my new home (london - pah!) it takes me 20 minutes… exactly the same as it takes to drive it in rush hour.
and as you say, much prettier as i get to go via a river and through fields.
sustainable transport rules.
15. The B
there are definitely hills in london. ESPECIALLY in richmond park. the mother of a hill.
16. Adrian
I don’t really do the hill in the park.
Now getting to park is pure and unbelievable thigh inducing sweary pain.
17. charlene
Glad to see that your ankle is better, Adrian. My heart was bleeding for you when I saw your photos of it! (I come here via Rockit)
18. Adrian
Not quite better, but ok enough to ride.
The best description of my ankle was “ferrel” ….
19. Lish
Nice legs. A little white though, eh?