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Thanks to one of the bands at the local carnival the other week I can't climb without hearing Enola Gay being played on a xylophone.


 
Posted : 09/07/2016 12:01 pm
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This:

It was on some music show and then started being played in a few clubs.

Still in my head nearly thirty years later.
You can adapt it to your cadence and add obscene lyrics if you like.
It helps on long climbs.

🙂


 
Posted : 09/07/2016 12:10 pm
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Bugger me I can't climb without Granola Hetero played on the dews harp .. 😉


 
Posted : 09/07/2016 12:15 pm
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star wars imperial march. odd place, the inside of my head.


 
Posted : 09/07/2016 12:33 pm
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Just been lifting (brah) while watching the Grand Prix and had bleeding David Essex playing in all its wide-trousered, sideburned (can you turn that phrase) glory - Hold Me Close today, Gonna Make You A Star yesterday.

**** knows why. I reckon it's due to watching that Enfield Haunting thing the other day and my mind's drifted back to the awful 70s...

Edit : Haven't cycled for ages but it'd probably be David Bloody Essex if I had...!


 
Posted : 09/07/2016 12:52 pm
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Depending on how challenging the terrain is it's usually No Easy Way Down or Road to Nowhere


 
Posted : 09/07/2016 12:53 pm
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My wife has a very odd habit of singing I'm Every Woman whilst on her bike. It's very odd.


 
Posted : 09/07/2016 1:05 pm
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I'm not proud.


 
Posted : 09/07/2016 1:16 pm
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Down hill techie sections I'm hearing cosmic psychos bullets

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ5l2V0cYlk

That and reel big fish "I know you too well"

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DQpDcDCgO9k


 
Posted : 09/07/2016 2:40 pm
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Pet Shop Boys on climbs: What Have I Done To Deserve This


 
Posted : 09/07/2016 4:26 pm
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Doom Metal, it's the only thing as slow as my cadence.


 
Posted : 09/07/2016 4:34 pm
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Posted : 09/07/2016 4:36 pm
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Stuck right in there for bloody decades now!


 
Posted : 09/07/2016 5:47 pm
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Offspring's 'Dirty Magic' or 'Nothing From Something' from 'Ignition', back when they were good.


 
Posted : 09/07/2016 5:49 pm
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If it's muddy... Slide away..


 
Posted : 09/07/2016 5:53 pm
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malvern dude, dinosaur adventure is one my cycling tunes, great track!
I'll add Bee Gees night fever is great on climbs, it's got a good rhythm plus it's very uplifting, espicially the bit that goes:

Here I am
Prayin' for this moment to last
Livin' on the music so fine
Borne on the wind
Makin' it mine.

pedal pedal pedal.....


 
Posted : 09/07/2016 6:08 pm
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[url=

Yell, Billy[/url] Idol more often than not. "she cries more more more"

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Deep purple "Stormbringer comin', time to die"

usually going downhill, all I can hear going up is my heart leaping out of my throat, due to lack of fitness, not effort.


 
Posted : 09/07/2016 6:15 pm
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I don't know why

I can't explain it

but Daphne and Celeste, 'ooh stick you' just appears in my brain on a long climb


 
Posted : 09/07/2016 7:13 pm
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Every long descent - drives me nuts! :/


 
Posted : 09/07/2016 7:59 pm
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Might start beat boxing out in the middle of nowhere when... I think we're alone now.


 
Posted : 09/07/2016 8:14 pm
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Posted : 09/07/2016 9:47 pm
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Any long climb


 
Posted : 09/07/2016 9:50 pm
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I had James Bunt's "bonfire heart" in my head for a whole Brass Monkeys race once. Made the mistake of telling a mate who now texts me the entire lyrics before every race. Arrrgh!


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 6:16 am
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Sing along now. All the ducks.........


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 6:44 am
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Dollar bill by the Screaming Trees, particularly when climbing in poor weather .
Witness by Rootsmanuva, on any rooty bits.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 6:58 am
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Once during a trail building session I had the music from In The Night Garden stuck fast in my head, over and over. That was a surreal day.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 7:02 am

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