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Well there you go, Borris just came on TV and said it’s OK to go cycling.
I thought it was interesting that he explicitly mentioned cycling as a permissible activity.
Well there you go, Borris just came on TV and said it’s OK to go cycling.
Yep. But only once a day. Alone, or with your immediate household.
Lockdown, but crucially exercise is OK.
one form of exercise a day - for example a run, walk, or cycle, alone or with members of their household
Only once a day though.
If I load my pockets up, I reckon I could do 6 hours?
Solo rides. Not as restrictive as I was expecting.
I ride a day, 7 x 100 mile rides? 🤔
Is this in addition to the two rides a day I do going and coming back from work?
I dont think he meant get your full face on and shred the gnarr on your enduropoon, i think its meant as go and have a mellow trundle on your own and dont spanner yourself and tie up NHS resources.
I dont think he meant get your full face on and shred the gnarr on your enduropoon, i think its meant as go and have a mellow trundle on your own and dont spanner yourself and tie up NHS resources.
That's sensible, and I'll be complying with it.
But I think they're (understandably) far more bothered about big groups of runners and riders getting together, hence why it was continually stressed: solo activity, or with household.
Seems fair enough!
I ride a day, 7 x 100 mile rides? 🤔
Seems legit.
Slightly restricts me as I currently ride into work, and home again and had planned to "commute" whilst working from home from Wednesday (work has been dragging their feet over this for weeks, there's no reasnoble reason to make us come into the office other than a lack of investment in hardware and reluctance on their part to trust people).
I'll be riding to and from work tomorrow.
Silver lining for cyclists - the road cycling will be brilliant without all the cars.
Maybe Boris is a lurker on here, this thread probably swayed him.
On the bright side, if I do one ride per day it will be one more than I do on most days 🙂
Strava should do a lockdown challenge.
I went out this evening thinking it would be the last ride for a while. Looking forward to some nice quiet roads now.
Silver lining - we may actually see a 3 week increase in activity and fitness as people make use of their one government-sanctioned walk/cycle/run per day 😀
I bet there's been a model done on no exercise for anyone for 3 weeks, with the inevitable comfort eating and netflix binging and strain on the NHS in 5/10 years time...
But trailwagger and the others who know better might be out policing the roads when we are doing our legal solo rides?
Dunno, suspect the next announcement, after the usual 2 or 3 day delay for the last one to sink in, will be no exercise.
It will be just that ^ judging by some of the attitudes on display here
Pretty sure cycling is banned in France now after a minority taking the piss (may have been mentioned elsewhere on here just not read the full thread).
If people dont take the piss,this might work. But in hindsight were f$£ked as most of the populous will push, shops at 8am tomorrow will be rammed,families will still go to the park in groups, and you will still see people taking the pi**. Friday a full grounding.
I know everyone's getting very excited about multi-hour rides on empty roads and trails, but I'm pretty sure that's not what they're talking about. The advice is clear, stay in and only go out infrequently, when you have to. Good luck explaining to the plod why you absolutely had to go on a 5 hour bike ride 40 miles from home. It's pretty obvious that If everyone piles out on to the roads and trails (especially at the weekend) you're not going to be on your own.
Here we go...
FFS
I'll be only cycling to and from work like I normally do. Any other cycling will be on the turbo I thankfully picked up this afternoon! Only if I start to go properly mad stuck indoors will I go for a ride along the coast path near home, can easily do 20 miles with plenty of room to avoid people along that. Will be hard but for the sake of people like my parents I will fully comply, no way could I live knowing my actions could have helped contribute to someone dying.
As is all over my Facebook news feed, Shit Just Got Real.
If I still need to go to work, I'll cycle in. If I don't go to work, I'll find myself a couple of 10 mile local loops on quiet roads or easy trails.
Walking the dog will be my daily exercise, so no biking for me for the foreseeable. TBH I probably wouldn't bugger off on my bike for an hour on my own anyway, would rather walk with the family.
Check your privacy settings on Strava, and change your rides so only you can see them.
Just saying
Check your privacy settings on Strava, and change your rides so only you can see them.
Just saying
Or alternatively, don't be a cock.
I'm not even cycling to work, for the first time in history, I think driving is the right thing to do.
Check your privacy settings on Strava, and change your rides so only you can see them.
Just saying
You know that you've still ridden your bike right. The whole 'if it's not on Strava, it didn't happen thing' isn't literally true. Just saying 😉
I’m not even cycling to work, for the first time in history, I think driving is the right thing to do.
Why do you think it's the right thing to do? Nobody's said that it is off limits.
Edit: Being at work with other people is much more damaging surely??
While it might be fun to play the hypothetical exception game on here, let's just be reasonable and responsible eh?
Walking the dog will be my daily exercise, so no biking for me for the foreseeable.
My allowance will also be taken up with the dog, doesn't provide any exercise for me however so I'm not looking forward to the foreseable..like a few other folks on here cycling is how I keep my mental health in check. If i spend the next couple of months without cycling outdoors I will be in a very dark place very quickly..
On the other hand, at least I hopefully won't be lyimg in a hospital coridoor awaiting a ventilator...so thats a plus side i suppose
were f$£ked as … families will still go to the park in groups
According to BBC news, that's explicitly allowed, no?
"From tonight, people will be allowed to leave their homes for …
one form of exercise a day - for example a run, walk, or cycle, alone or with members of their household"
Yep. As with many things, the current situation has plenty of chance to get worse, and it’s worth bearing in mind that if there ever are any ‘unfortunate consequences’ of a given ride, the rider is almost certainly not going to know about it.
When/if we get universal testing then it’ll be different because we’ll *know* if there’s a chance of hurting others or not, but right now basically no one knows for sure if they’re carrying or not.
I started the couch to 5k running plan in December, completed it 2 weeks ago and have continued doing 3 solo runs from my house a week, so that won't be changing thank god. I'm currently the fittest I've ever been so really don't want to lose that. I try and avoid people on my runs regardless of social distancing anyway!
Riding will be gravel bike/mtb pootles along local bridleways/towpaths, again from my house.
So 3x runs between 5k and 10k, plus maybe one cycle ride a week.
Yep. But only once a day. Alone, or with your immediate household.
That'll work nicely for me and Mrs. Slow. But yes, let's not take the piss or we may lose our trips out altogether.
I guess pump tracks and bmx tracks are out of bounds as they encourage congregation.
I won't miss my daily cycle commutes because a) I'm just grateful I can work from home and reduce my social contact (which isn't much anyway), and b) I'll have more energy to go out on my trials bike more often (I'm shit so not doing anything risky).
While it might be fun to play the hypothetical exception game on here, let’s just be reasonable and responsible eh?
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From tonight, people will be allowed to leave their homes for …
one form of exercise a day – for example a run, walk, or cycle, alone or with members of their household
It’s not rocket science.
There is also a clarification to 'minimise the amount of time spent outside'. Clearly that's subjective, but would seem to rule out excessively long rides.
Clearly that’s subjective, but would seem to rule out excessively long rides.
Does that mean I can’t sit out in my garden for excessively long periods too?
I see nothing on that link that says how long one is or isn’t allowed to be outside for.
Am I not allowed to do laps of my estate for 3 hours where at no time I am more than 1 mile from home.
Reasonable & responsible - but remember what’s reasonable & responsible for you might not be applicable for another.
A one size fits all solution has not been prescribed for all - yet.
Dunno, but if you are miles and miles away from home when you get stopped it's probably enforceable that you're outside the rules. Less so in the garden!
Basically as said above it comes back to understand what the rules are there to do, don't break them, and don't take the piss
Crossed posts but yes, we agree 👍.
You know how prisoners get an hours exercise in the yard - this is the cycling equivalent to that, its for keeping things ticking over - not for training or to improve. So what if you lose a bit of peak fitness?
Does that mean I can’t sit out in my garden for excessively long periods too?
'even when doing these activities, you should be minimising time spent
outside of the home and ensuring you are 2 metres apart from anyone outside of your household.'
If your garden is not a shared space, then no issue.
Is my one form of exercise per day allowed to be multi-day bikepacking tho?
Is my one form of exercise per day allowed to be multi-day bikepacking tho?
Nope.
Ultra marathon?
Ultra marathon?
No.
The qualifier to what you are allowed to do is ...
"These four reasons are exceptions - even when doing these activities, you should be minimising time spent
outside of the home and ensuring you are 2 metres apart from anyone outside of your household."
(From the link posted on the previous page)
Essentially, it means not taking the piss. Reluctantly, for me, that means around 30-60 mins ride/run per day, and not anything over 2 hours.
How would once-a-day exercise be enforced?
Me and the OH go for a stroll togethr once a day, but a few times a week i'd like to go for a ride by myself. I dont think i'll be doing any harm but, because of the way i am, i worry about breaking rules/laws.
Cycle shops are in the essential shops list and can stay open.
But you can only shop for food.
Hope they have good stock of gels
Me and the OH go for a stroll togethr once a day, but a few times a week i’d like to go for a ride by myself.
We can't do what 'we'd like to' at the moment. Simple.
Edit: wrong thread.
Cycle shops are in the essential shops list and can stay open.
But you can only shop for food.
Hope they have good stock of gels
One assumes the workshop will be the focus of the business, rather than the buying & selling of anodised Hope bits
Well there you go, Borris just came on TV and said it’s OK to go cycling.
Yep, but my missus seems to have interpreted it as "you can only cycle a handful of miles" she started laying down the law about how far and what sort of riding I was allowed to do... The doom and gloom telly has cranked her paranoia up to 11.
Silver lining for cyclists – the road cycling will be brilliant without all the cars.
I have to say cycling to/from work today it seemed like the whole CV19 thing had really bought the latent bellend out in lots of drivers. Might be nice to have an enforced break from motoring for the majority...
I wouldn't look too surprised if you get stopped 30 miles from your house, and hit with a fine in a a week or 2 anyhow...
I wouldn’t look too surprised if you get stopped 30 miles from your house, and hit with a fine in a a week or 2 anyhow…
Indeed. Person in regular clothes, riding casually, carry on. Pointy hat’d mamil giving it everything, where do you think you’re going?
‘Cycling’ will be what the general public thinks cycling is, not what keen enthusiasts think it is.
You know how lots of people on here are being all morally superior about idiots ramming the supermarkets, crowding beaches or generally ignoring the advice?
Some of you need to have a look at yourselves and think about how self entitled you sound.
It’s a real shame that we can’t carry on with what we’d like to do but hey, we aren’t alone in that.
Have a bit of social responsibility and don’t think of what the most you can get away with but rather how little you can do to expose yourself or others.
Bleating about being ‘on your own’ etc doesn’t cut it. It’s not essential to spend 2-3 hours out on your bike miles from home, or riding in the woods where you risk coming off and injuring yourself, needing emergency care, however unlikely that may sound to you.
Just stick to rule 1...
Aside from the death and economic collapse, the worst thing about this is the upturn in sanctimonious crap.
This 'don't be a dick' idea cuts both ways.
I can walk from my house to the local park with the dog, where there will be dozens of others all walking their dogs and where isolation by 2m will be a challenge, let alone the 20m I'd be happy with.
Or I can hop in the car and drive 5 mins to somewhere that I'm still astounded hardly anyone knows about, and walk the dog in splendid isolation - if I see someone it'll likely be 100m away, not even 20.
Are we really saying that's not allowed now?
Aside from the death and economic collapse, the worst thing about this is the upturn in sanctimonious crap.
I'd put people's selfishness above that TBH.
Indeed. Person in regular clothes, riding casually, carry on. Pointy hat’d mamil giving it everything, where do you think you’re going?
'other way arround surely? If im im normal clothes Im a rule breaking heathen still going to work as normal.
If I'm in my scary lycra then im out for my exercise.
TBH im not sure what some peoples problems are, what exactly do you see being the problem with going for a ride. Odds are Id come into <2m contact with less people than sitting in the garden.
We're not talking about going to peaslake, keswick or glentress, we're talking an hour or two of riding from your doorstep.
‘other way arround surely? If im im normal clothes Im a rule breaking heathen still going to work as normal.
Going to work (if you have to) is allowed, light exercise is allowed. Going PR/KOM hunting or for century rides, not so much.
TBH im not sure what some peoples problems are
Maybe this?
https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/f94c3c90da5b4e9f9a0b19484dd4bb14
Where do the rules say "light exercise "?
I'm not so much of a fan of people interpreting the rules in their own way and calling people ****s and worse on that basis.
Going to work (if you have to) is allowed, light exercise is allowed. Going PR/KOM hunting or for century rides, not so much.
Who put you in charge? Seriously, you cant just make rules up.
Given the strong evidence showing exercise boosts the immune system you could better infer that you should spend your exercise time doing hill reps and sprints.
I’m not so much of a fan of people interpreting the rules in their own way and calling people **** and worse on that basis.
To be fair, it's happening the other way round much more. Sports Direct have 'decided' they are a critical service, keeping their stores open to provide the country with exercise equipment.
Agreed Tomd.
It's appears to me everyone on the internet has seperated themselves from the public at large.
All I've witnessed on forums like this and SM is - "look at the idiots out there."
Chances are - these are one and the same people.
You can go cycling. No one should be adding there own version of the rules to that.
Where do the rules say “light exercise “?
I’m not so much of a fan of people interpreting the rules in their own way and calling people * and worse on that basis.
Where did I call anyone * for interpreting the rules differently? I’m sure I heard in the PMs speech that he said light exercise, could be wrong though. Or are you taking ‘one instance of exercise’ to mean ‘as hard as you like, for as long as you like, as long as you don’t stop for the duration?
My comment about how folk dressed when on the bike was more aimed at who is likely to attract attention from the fuzz if they were out in a bike.
Plus, if you are trying to find the limits of what you are allowed to do, per the letter of the rules, in an almost marginal gains type fashion, I’m not sure you’ve got the idea of what is trying to be achieved.
Given the strong evidence showing exercise boosts the immune system you could better infer that you should spend your exercise time doing hill reps and sprints.
Yay, hill repeats!
Oh, wait... Oh no, not hill repeats, aaargh! 🤣
Running has it's benefits here, 30 mins is plenty, and even if the 1km range from your house came into play I'd still be able to do a 5/6/7k run.
Going to work (if you have to) is allowed, light exercise is allowed. Going PR/KOM hunting or for century rides, not so much.
Who put you in charge? Seriously, you cant just make rules up.
Given the strong evidence showing exercise boosts the immune system you could better infer that you should spend your exercise time doing hill reps and sprints.
Maybe this?
https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/f94c3c90da5b4e9f9a0b19484dd4bb14/blockquote >
Which is precisely why I will be going out for a nice bit of exercise in the sunshine, on my own rather than in a group of 20-30, or going to the beach, or seeing family and friends, or having a kick about, or going to the pub, or cycling to a cafe, or shopping at sports direct, or traveling arround the country. All things that would spread the virus, that are or should be banned. Cycling on my own wont spread the virus, and isn't banned.
I will be cycling just as much as I have all winter. 1 hour ride and never more than 7 miles from house as all my rides are loops from house.
1 dog walk each evening where there are no people/other dog walkers as our dogs are terrible with other dogs so again same as normal.
As a person who doesn't really like people or social interacting I am not against social distancing and having less people around...
I guess the problem with a pandemic like this is that you can’t take the time (few weeks) to see whether the existing measures are working or not. So all you can do is go full lockdown then, in a few weeks when the numbers start to drop, you can slowly relax things and see what effect they have. I’m still fairly optimistic that by the time the weather gets good we’ll be a bit more relaxed about people meeting in open spaces (at least outside of major cities). But we’ll see. We’re certainly living in interesting times as the old Chinese proverb probably doesn’t say.
Given the strong evidence showing exercise boosts the immune system you could better infer that you should spend your exercise time doing hill reps and sprints.
You, like many of my friends and neighbours, have missed the point entirely. This is not about how good your immune system is and you catching this virus. It's about you having it, shedding virus particles, so ensuring you have reduced to the absolute minimum the chance of passing it on.
Forgotten the guidance already?
You don't remember the bit where it says time spent outside of home should be minimized?
It’s not essential to spend 2-3 hours out on your bike miles from home
What is the risk if I do that?
And the fuzz won't have anything to say if there aren't any rules against it.
I'm all for sticking to the rules. I've been self isolating for a week already, I'm wearing gloves and staying apart and every other precaution I can think of. But I can't see the issue with a 2hr road ride.
I genuinely see both sides. The trouble is that 'don't be a dick' as a policy can't work because we already know a substantial proportion of the population are (I'm tempted to say 52% at least but let's not 😉 )- but there is a proportion of 'won't be told' types who won't change at all, or worse will do the opposite for exactly that reason. "My grandad didn't fight the Nazi's just so people can tell me what to do!"
So those that can make a reasonable non-dickish adjustment to life to allow for these times then get thrown in with all the dicks anyway.
It's part of our culture now - whether brexit, speeding, mobile phone use, lack of respect for schools and teachers, it's what we've become as a nation. We haven't collectively dealt with it and as a result we now have to all be treated like morons because we can't be trusted to make sensible decisions for ourselves without pushing it that bit too far.
The genie's out of the bottle, I don't think we can change it now.
Aside from the death and economic collapse, the worst thing about this is the upturn in sanctimonious crap.
Agreed, although it's providing me entertainment to watch people 'out sanctimonious' each other.
Me, as an asthmatic, i'm still running 3/4 times a week with the dog first thing before starting work (at home). And I'll carry on riding my bike & building in the local woods, which is mostly deserted anyway, save for the yoofs on stolen MX bikes.
It's quite nice to think my car has sat on the road outside for the last week & hasn't moved.
I’m sure I heard in the PMs speech that he said light exercise, could be wrong though. Or are you taking ‘one instance of exercise’ to mean ‘as hard as you like, for as long as you like, as long as you don’t stop for the duration?
You heard wrong, he said no such thing. No I'm not taking it to mean that, all my exercise is from the door and short anyway. Lucky to live about 1 minutes ride or 3 minute run from the trails. I'm not really interested in technical riding, even before this kicked off I've got too much going on to risk mangling myself.
We shouldn't forget that for lots of folk, likely including the majority on here, 2 hours or 30km of riding is an epic. Those who are well used to much longer rides and much greater distances would do well to remember that they are in a tiny minority and would be viewed as "extreme athletes". Different folk have different perceptions of "normal".