Avoid This Mistake: It Will Wreck Your Cycling …..AND More!
There is one BIG mistake that we have all made at some point that will not only wreck your cycling but, if you let it, it can even go on to ruin a lot more.
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21 Comments
If I see a fat person on a bike I honestly think "good on them", doing some healthy exercise is good for everyone! Personally I would be much more interested in seeing an old 80s steel framed bike too, which just goes to prove there are all sorts out there! 😃
I'm a channel subscriber, and many times I really enjoy your videos, however – imo you're really beaten the topic of "fat riders" to death – including with this rather clickbait video title. You've covered the topic in previous videos. Can you please stand down from repeating this message in future videos?
I started cycling and skiing at age 57 and I have to say people have been super encouraging. At age 59 I also really don’t care what anybody else thinks. This is one of the perks of getting older!!
Not one of us is immune to being concerned about what other people think, just like none of us is immune to all diseases. It comes down to degree and effect. I ride bikes, and I sing in the church choir. Not at the same time, though I've been known to sing to myself while I'm riding. A whole choir on bikes though–what a great idea!
Well said.. "Just ride as Eddy Merckx as said many times" Ride for yourself not OTHERS.. Cycling is a mode of transportation for most.. not SPORT.. You have as much right as the motorist.
Keep up the good "fruitful" content
You are spot-on you are. I'm also in the choir but at the same level. I use a Swytch kit to assist my 70-year-old body. Anyone who cares wants to know how it works.
Here's a thought. From what I can tell, road cycling, and therefore when you presume road bike cycling factors in heavily for a leading indicator of the overall cycling numbers of all types of bikes, is much more popular there than in the U.S. and especially where I live here in Northern Arizona. Therefore your average Englishman who fancies riding any bike is going to have a lot less to worry about in terms of how it looks for heftiness or middle-agedness or whatever to the average Englishman who sees him. For me, I've simply gotten used to standing out for the activity, especially on the early morning rides I do. I figure most of them see me as the "exercise nut" or the "health nut", like Magnum P.I. running on the beach in Hawaii. And yeah, good insights for the mindset!
Thank You, you will not know how much that has helped today
I absolutely agree with you. I have a 12 yr old bike – which I absolutely adore, secondhand kit, a very basic Garmin, etc. I’m also a slow cyclist – just getting there, and even better making it up all of the inclines feels like a great achievement to me. One of my friends is really into cycling – PBs, shaving weight of his bike (and him), time-trialling, long distance rides, having the latest kit, and the lightest hi-tech bikes (he has 5 bikes) and so on. Each to their own of course, but to me it’s a hobby I enjoy – to him it’s an obsession!
Leonard, why do you ride on the wrong side of the road? Just kidding, thank you for all your inspiration and tips. I am a chub myself, got a $300 old Fuji bike on FB marketplace 6 weeks ago and started to ride. First days only 10-20km and now I do 50-60km weekends. Your approach to hills changed my mind set and I can tackle a scary 7% climb (scary for me). Keep up the great work!
Personally I don't give a shit what anyone thinks , I'm 80 and still riding.
👍👏💪🚴♂️🇷🇸60+
Thanks I need this prep talk every now & again…esp in shorts 🙌🏾
GREAT VID MY CYCLING BRO. I APPRECIATE U!🚴🏻♂️🚴🏻♂️🚴🏻♂️🚴🏻♂️
You are absolutely correct, Leonard. When I started cycling in my teens I was hugely self-conscious about my body. It took me months to be brave enough to wear shorts and t-shirt. Once I did it was months again before I realised that everybody wasn’t ‘staring at that skinny twit on a bike’ (that was the voice in my head). I was changing; cycling was making me physically fitter but the really important difference was that it was making me mentally fitter too.
You are 100% on the MONEY! I've been cycling since the early 70's at one time I was riding so well some others cyclist and 2 custom bicycle frame builders tried getting me into racing but I didn't like the mentality of the racing crowd. I'm still on steel today, and many other cyclist who are riding their state of the art CARBON rigs will tend to look down on a person who has not jumped into that $$$ pit for a state of the art bicycle along with that out of sight costly riding kit, 4 bills for a pot, 4 bills for shoes and 4 bills for a saddle, 100% not for me! Bottom line just ride and screw what others will be thinking of you. One day I was on a ride and I rode up to 2 other cyclist who were wearing their team kits, they didn't like it so they tried sweeping my front wheel, so I waited for the moment for a passing SEMI of which I launched onto the tail end to catch his draft to get a quick pull so I could clear these 2 nut cases, job done and I was off to the races, well the next day WE MET UP AGAIN during a full contact unprotected American football game and just so happens they were playing on the other side, end story they were hating life.
Hello Leonard,
Well said… Fortunately to older I get the less I worry about what overs think.
Take care.
Paul,,
I’m slowly progressing up a particular hill. Once a week I’ve been warming up with a few miles flat then onto the hill. Six weeks ago I got about half a mile up, now I’m up to three out of the five miles. I go as far as I can, stop for breath, turn around to freewheel down and head home. If you need proof nobody notices how you’re doing with riding take my experience. No one has asked me how I’m getting on with climbing the hill but very occasionally a neighbour might say “I drove past you last night on blah-blah hill”. They neither understand nor care about my personal goals because they’ve wizzed past. They’re just making conversation not a judgment. The other people who drive by will never meet me. Why care? You’re the one riding a bike therefore you’re a cyclist, no argument. Pedal on!
Good advice as always. I’m too long in the tooth to worry about others. From an inclusivity point of view being female I’ve never had any issues riding in groups but then that might be a mix of them not being official “clubs” and that I have always worked in a mainly male dominated environment
Well said Leonard. All you need to do is just get out. You'll soon lose all your inhibitions.
If ever reaffirmation about getting a bike after 40 years is needed for me….then this video has put the rubber stamp on it, thanks Leonard just what I needed to sign away my deposit 👍