Why do you ride, /n/?
>>962541
>to go to Akiba for my animu stuff
Riding is fun, it also helps depression.
>>962541
Fuck sharing take over the road
>>962547
This. It elevates my mood. Getting pr's on climbs feels great.
>>962563
bump
>>962547
This.
>"My favorite thing to do is ride a bicycle. I ride road bikes. And for me, it's mobile meditation." Robin Williams.
I can't find anything that heals me like riding my bike. I can go outside with friends, reading books, watch tv...but nothing of that makes me genuinely happy, so happy when I can't ride I get sad.
“When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, 1896
>>962541
exercise
relaxation
stress relief
clears my mind, helps me think
have recently gotten into kayaking. it does the same thing.
the three f's: fun, fitness, and fuck I'm restless
it's fun
it gets me to work or wherever
To escape depression
I like nature. A bike lets me take in more nature than walking in the same amount of time.
>>962678
For me add another F; 'Fuck, I'm poor!'
>>962690
this, plus I would be spending less at home which makes my parents to miss me instead of kicking out their NEET son
>>962690
Fuck my life, i can't against my degree final shit.
>>962691
Plus this.
>>962703
Soon, this.
Recreation. Commute. Exercise.
I can't see well enough to drive but I can see well enough to cycle if I plan my route right and don't pull stupid shit in traffic (to the inevitable "ur a retarded fagit wait til you die," I've calculated and accepted my risk).
I keeps me loose.
It burns a few calories.
I get to see stuff instead of sit inside and stare at the wall for hours on end.
>>962702
I can fap to this.
Faster than walking and cheaper than the bus.
>>962767
Bless you anon
>>962702
Why is that gif so funny?
>>962541
Road race. :-)
>>962690
I hear her in the middle of the night in all of her deep red splendor SEKAI!!!! calls me to ride the night
>>962673
>>962541
recovering fatass
helps depression
new places to visit
>>962541
bump
>yfw when everyone agrees with the depression part
>>962541
>All these helping with depression and Neet life answers.
>>963215
i'd prefer to be a depressed neet than a pedo moefaggot
>>963217
I prefer to be neither.
Dont go assuming things on peoples pics that only makes you look like a faggot, a bigger one.
You guys are some weird fuckers. What's with the depression bs? Are you sure you guys just don't have the "blues" or a bunch of pansies?
A person with depression wouldn't even be able to mobilize themselves to get on a bike or go outside.
>>963221
breh if ur posting k-on pics u are a pedo moefaggot, its not very complicated
>>963222
Maybe some guys are confused between depression and escaping-from-problems desires...
Just simply as that.
>>963236
I hope so. Throwing the word depression like that can be a little f'd up. Don't want to go around thinking that cyclists are a bunch of sad sacks.
>>963239
But sadness can be a great fuel for legs, same as rage and frustration.
Started because of Yowapeda, kept on doing it because I lost like 20 pounds the first few months. Going on two years now and I'm down 65lb.
I prefer to bike more than hike. It helps get rid of pin-up energy. Sets my mood right, gets rids of any kind of anxiety/depression, also because I just love the sport of it! going miles and miles with other intermediate cyclist Oh. And fuck a car...
>>962541
nobody cared who i was until i put on the bib
>>962673
THATS SSSSSSIIIIIIIRRRRRRRRRR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
>>962541
to have an excuse to eat an entire pizza after a ride.
>>962541
To reach places a couple miles away without a car, and because I want to add cardio to complement my weightlifting
More fun than running on a treadmill. Spent a few thousand on a bike drive it to wine country do a few runs on strava drive back
Sometimes I take the litespeed down to group rides near the ocean
I'm not too fond of SoCal beaches but the bike shop led group is
Didn't know /n/ was this poor
Neckbeards that use it because they can't afford cars tells me a lot
I just like bikes, and bicycle touring. It's fast/slow enough that I see a lot and notice more details than on a motorcycle or in a car, and unlike the motor vehicles it feels more like I've actually accomplished something.
Biking literally appeals to me no matter what mood I'm in. Like, right now I'm depressed because my girlfriend moved across the country last week and I know that we're through. But, hopping in the saddle this evening took all my sad and negative thoughts away and instead filled me with joy. Sure, she'll be fucking some guy soon enough but I'll most likely be fucking some other girl soon enough. If I'm single for a while it just means that I can ride more and jerk it once in a while.
>>963273
Also, this.
>>963251
I'm not sure bit it looks a bit like a hill that someone (Chris Akrigg I think) goes down doing a wheelie backwards on a roadbike in Roadbike party 2.
At 3:45.
https://youtu.be/HhabgvIIXik?t=225
I don't think it's actually the same hill though.
I grew up in Manhattan and came to believe that cycling was a very fast and convenient way to get to school and work.
I tried competitive cycling a few times and found that recreational riding, either alone or in groups, was more satisfying.
After I moved to California suburbia I enjoyed cycling even more because I could escape being a prisoner of the car that I already spent too much time commuting to work.
I enjoy working on my bikes. I've owned many kinds and my ranking of bikes by fun-per-dollar-spent might surprise some people as some of my inexpensive bikes have provided the most fun over the years. One of my first good bikes was just re-born as my Eroica bike.
>>963297
This video reminds me of why I love cycling.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCIryohtoII
>to get that sweet release of endorphins
>because I like bikes
>for transportation
>get to channel my autism to bikes and do maintenance on them
>can spends hours on my own without having to interact with anyone
>for meditation
>to improve my fitness
>to enjoy the weather
>excuse to travel the world
>to go fast on something that is powered purely by me
>>962541
>>962547
Basically this, I rode a shit ton post breakup with my gf. I don't even know why, but it was kinda like you need to actually focus on so many factors and you can forget about everything else.
Also we both tried to get fitter whilst we were dating and now whenever I see her, I can see that she is stagnating in her old ways and that I am still marching towards my goal of skinny arms and phat legs.
Basically helps me feels better about myself by knowing other people aren't as fit as me
>>963244
Exactly, it's finding the right amounts of pain and serenity.
>>963328
>can spends hours on my own without having to interact with anyone
>to go fast on something that is powered purely by me
basically this
Biking is cheaper and better for you than anti depressants. It's also pretty fun
>he uses bikes only for transportation.
>he doesn't train at all.
>he can't even keep up with traffic.
Laughinggirls_.png
>>963433
>he "trains" but doesn't race
Fred pls go
>>962547
>>962690
This.
Riding is the last thing that keeps me alive, even if I spend most of the time commuting silly distances and not being fast. Off-season months I spend in buses and without sunlight is the time I am actually considering ending this nightmare, but the moment I start riding again all my worries go away and I'm cool (even if my life doesn't change a tiniest fucking tit bit shit).
>>962673
>1896
Mother fucker!
>>962681
Does it really work? I mean, a cool beer after a ride is fucking great (but I usually don't think about getting one earlier and can't be bothered thinking about getting one when I'd need it most).
Cheers.
>>962541
Yesterday i saw a pooinloo in a car2go, these shitty rentacars in seattle
He was honking over a guy following the laws in front of him
So i mounted up, chased him down, beat him in speed on a downhill, and merged in front of him with another biker before i slowed down.
The honking was fucking glorious. I havent had that much fun since i had to fuck with cabs back in chicago.
You can have so much more fun biking when you dont have a branding on you. I need to start shouting "postmates life" when i cycledick people.
But anyway, i bike because its a fucking paycheck. And its a full time job for me
>>963437
>he shitposts all the time
Troll pls go
>>963448
Go ride your gas pipe Schwinn 10 speed to your shift at McDonald's you poverty stricken fuck
>>963459
Why?
>>963461
So that your mom doesn't tell at you for playing league of legends all day
>>963464
What's it to you?
>>962541
exercise helps prevent me from falling into crippling depression, and biking is the only exercise I can actually enjoy doing.
>>962541
Exercise, sight-seeing and it helps my so call 'depression'. However friends and relatives said otherwise.
>>963283
But SoCal beaches are great. I know they aren't tropical but they are the best you can find in the lower 48 if you are looking for waves and beach culture.
Pic related, excuse the shitty quality
>>963464
pretty big coming from you, waster of your parent's money
>>962541
Your mother
>>963496
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdZ7Up5oYkw
>>963505
they're just dirty and murky looking
when i was a kid i was in the ocean in front of my home and stepped on a fish walking back to shore and slipped
couldn't see it becuase the water was kicking up sand and shit
so it just looks like a cesspool to me
![SBTAmenitiesDirectBeach[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/ls76Aua.jpg "SBTAmenitiesDirectBeach[1].jpg")
>>963505
I love socal but Florida's beaches are much nicer.
>>963517
SoCal beach-cycling nigger here,
Hows the biking infrastructure near/at Florida beaches? Are there designated bike paths?
>>962541
I have no friends and riding takes up lots of my time and leaves me too tired to dwell on my problems.
Oh yeah and its fun
>>963538
Tfw seeing other people riding with a friend.
>>963541
tfw you challenge them to a race and win by running them off the road and into a sign
>>962541
Long lone rides to places far away
Feeling of freedom
Get to be alone
See new things / people
Self torture going on 11-hour rides is good for you
I hope that one day a car will zoom into me and I will finally die.
Chasing dreams or escaping demons. Not sure which.
>>962671
Glad I'm not the only one.
>feels
>>963563
Bruh...
>>963569
Chasing demons
>>963563
That is the secondly reasson to cycling at night at rurals.
Main one is to look at the stars without luminic polution.
>>963579
>>962541
commuted on shitty townbikes all my life but thats only <10 minute rides.
road cycling in spare time whenever I can because its just such a peaceful thing to do. I also like to watch birds and whatever is happening around me while riding. Nothing beats going on a huge ride on a drizzly sunday evening with absolutely nobody else on the road with the smell of wet grass and the sounds of birds.
Mmmmmmm
cause im comin for that booty
>>962541
I love riding intentionally slow in places where there is no bike lane and no way to go around me. Share the road, fucktards!
I never knew biking was such an autistic hobby
>>963821
>cadence
>>963821
that can't be real...
>>966642
Why not? Humans will race anything.
>>966666
i guess lord satan
>>962542
Don't forget to run a 2x1 cruiser bike
>>962673
>“When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just hop on a longboard, and predrift some hairpin turns, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.”
>― thereifixeditforyou, 2016
To go forward
>>967023
What if you have to go backwards for a second?
>>967023
gotta go fast
I like to ride my bike because I'm a worthless pathetic autistic friendless permavirgin shut-in loser. While I don't really go to any trails or anything like that and just kind of do city riding, at least it keeps me from being any more shut-in. It is sad to be out there alone all the time passing people in their friend groups or with a gf/bf, knowing im just doing this so im literally not locked in my room, but oh well
even worse because im in the bay area which has beautiful bike stuff everywhere yet i do none of it anyway
>>967031
I feel you bud. But social interaction is like every other skill, the more you do it, the easier it comes to you. I know its hard, but just fucking get out there and do shit that requires group interaction (take bicycle maintenance classes, for example, or any night class for something that interests you). Strike up some small talk when your at the store, or every/any chance you get. Go volunteer, which is perfect opportunity to have a positive impact on others and for yourself, or anything that requires you to be interacting with people. Who cares if you think you sounded stupid or "autistic" during some minor social interaction the first 50 times? Your the only one replaying it constantly in your head. Also, your on the right track cycling, but work out more, eat right, and get enough sleep. It makes a world of difference.
Just keep at it bud.
And remember....
YOU'RE MY BOY, BLUE!
https://deakinjams.bandcamp.com/track/golden-chords <--- listen to this to get some inspiration
I ride because
>Gotta go fast
>Eat gels just because they eat those in the pro peloton too
>Give elbow signs to make the next guy pull (I ride alone)
