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It could be anything from worst modification to selling that bike you loved.
Mine was that I Never got to ride ride anywhere in Scotland before having to give up cycling - I would love to have tried the world cup DH route for a laugh!
That I didn't start when I was a lot younger
Not getting up earlier this morning. Now gonna have to squeeze in a quick spin before it gets dark.
Stupid crashes in practice for the mega 2 years in a row.
Stox +1.
selling my cannondale F800 matt black (lefty) ht in a moment of stupidity 🙁
buying a whyte46
Selling my first mountain bike (1990 Marin Muirwoods) to a school friend. At the time it helped pay for a "better" bike... but looking back, I wish I'd kept it. It was my ticket to a whole new thing.
I love the look of those old Marins. There's always some [url= http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=287253 ]beauts[/url] on Retrobike.
Oh, and maybe not riding a bit more when I was at uni - it might have kept my head clearer when going thru the emotional washing machine.
Main regret is not riding as much as I should have, before I had kids.
Daytime riding for me is a rare event.
Causing cable rub on a stanchion last week rates pretty high 😕
Mechanical funkwit in the house!
Thinking "a medium frame will probably be big enough"
Not riding for years for no particular reason.
Selling the BFe instead of the IO.
Living no where neat any decent riding without having to drive there.
Not locking the shed the evening my bmx was stolen (August 12th 1987).
Crashing and knackering my shoulder up. 4 years on and it still not right 🙁
That I didn't start when I was a lot younger
+1
for me it has to be the fact i stopped when i was 20 yrs old and didn't get back on a bike till i was 36 (38) now
Selling my On One Summer Season. Couldn't get on with the frame at all. I just lost stupid amounts on the bits.
Selling my 92 Explosif. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
Lending a mate my bike (best bike I've ever owned) for a couple of months in return for a two week lift pass in whistler. Bike never came home as it was, apparently, nicked.
Regret not doing more in the highlands - was in Edinburgh for 10 years. Did quite a few of the classics up there, but still barely scratched the surface.
Taking the line I took on an icy descent on Good Friday last year.
Riding down a very steep chute in Les Gets at the canyon? Encouraged down by my "mates" who told me it was fine.....
Ends up it wasn't as there was a ditch at the bottom, too steep to stop..bailed.
So, mates hadn't even ridden that chute! Twunts.
Torn ligaments in my shoulder took the rest of the summer to mend.
The next bloke down, also encouraged to ride it by his "mate" despite me being in the ditch, blew all the oil out his fork seals and pancaked his front wheel on his full on DH bike.
The drop off that I went over at Cathkin in December. 3 months nearly and no feeling back in degloved chin and face scarred for life. Why didn't I just take the middle line like usual 🙁
I'm with bigblackshed, mine was an 89 Explosif
Not going the last World Cup XC race at Newnham in 1999. Mate worked for the Forestry Commission and had full access but I had something else on that weekend.
Missing rides due to hangovers. Not appreciating what I had on my doorstep when I lived in Yorkshire.
Dislocating my shoulder in a stupid accident, always in the back of my mind now when riding.
Living no where neat any decent riding without having to drive there.
This, very much this. Trying to work on fixing it but not easy.
Not really - if I had to find something, maybe selling the P2 forks off my Kona.
Maybe not riding as much as I could
Turning my nose up and saying 'nahhh' about 18 years ago when asked if I wanted to go to a velodrome by someone high up in a cycling body that thought I'd do pretty well. Might have been crap, might have done o.k. It's the not knowing that peeves you off.
So for any youngsters reading this that ever get asked anything along these lines,do it.
The drop off that I went over at Cathkin in December. 3 months nearly and no feeling back in degloved chin and face scarred for life. Why didn't I just take the middle line like usual
Argh, unlucky. One of those days you just wished you stayed at home :O/
Getting a "racer" rather than a BMX when I was 10, and subsequently not having a mountain bike till my 30s - and limited skills to this day.
Being shit. Yeah, I definitely regret being shit.
I lived in Menai Bridge for a year. Every day, I looked out of the kitchen window at the clouds forming on top of Snowdon. I had my Marin in the shed. It didn't turn a wheel for that entire year.
🙁
Not letting two uniformed PCSOs do a lap of HTN on their crappy patrol bikes a couple of years back. Their sergeant looked must upset when I advised against it.
Stopped riding when i when i went to Uni and started working. Got back into it about 5 years ago but still struggle to find time to ride more than one a week.
Not buying a pegoretti before they cost a kidney and first born child.
Not getting back into biking after a 17 year break sooner. Realising,once I'd joined a club that I've been missing out on loads of stuff including some mint holidays and a whole new social life.
None really - I've had some great rides, won some medals, got fit, made friends, and achieved far more than I ever thought I would.
...just need to get back into riding now, not done it properly for 2 or 3 years.
Might sound corny, but really wished I'd biked round the world, I did the back packer thing in my yoof, loads of travelling, India Nepal, s e Asia, oz, africa etc etc, had no interest in non motorised bikes then, in quiet moments I sit and plan bits of the journey I'll never get to do now!
Not getting a credit card and ringing through as much as I could on trade & employee discount, B2B clearances and special rep offers "when I wiz in da industry".
Shocking, some of these RRP's. 🙄
Selling my meta 5.5.2 for a stupid price to fix my car ...only for it to conk out and die 1 month later 🙁
I regret selling certain bikes for my wedding/Christmas, I'm now in the position where I have a frame that's too small but really good spec components.
I would literally suck off a tramp for a large frame so I can get out biking again.
Man...that is desperate! 😉
Starting racing at 45. I could have been a contender! (Well that's what I tell myself as I try and beat people half my age).
Stopping cycling from when I was 18 til I was 42.
Selling this;
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No idea what it was, but it rode like nothing else, really miss it.....
Living in South Wales for 10 years and not riding until in my mid 30's in Milton Keynes
Not doing a skills course sooner. Rider upgrade is much more effective than any change of kit.
Moving to an area that's great for work, family and friends, but shit for Mountain biking!
Not having a bike between the ages of 5 till I was 30! Alas my balance is not good, my fitness distinctly average but my love of biking is now immeasurable 🙂
No regrets as such, but I do sometimes wish for the time/money I had pre-kids so I can enjoy some foreign big-mountain riding
Coming on here rather than a quick little spin out, Happens way too often.
No regrets
Not cycling from the age of 16 until I was 40
Selling my '94 Kona Hei Hei
Stopped riding when i when i went to Uni and started working. Got back into it about 5 years ago but still struggle to find time to ride more than one a week.
This. Worst mistake of my life.So hard to get back into it, so hard to find it exciting anymore as I'm just not fit enough to get fast enough to be fun. Just never find the time any more.
That I didn't start when I was a lot younger
yep, me too. since starting at age 32, riding really has changed my like and wholly for the better.
Buying Yeti ASR C
Selling Yeti ASR C
Locking my Apollo Regatta to Frank's bike and leaving them outside the pub. We had a few beers and I remember seeing a shadow by the window where our bikes were. Didn't check. Bike stolen and my insurance wouldn't pay as my bike wasn't locked to a solid object. It was 1996 and I was 16.
I'm still annoyed with myself that I didn't go and check that shadow.
My regret isn't that I got a job guiding in Verbier. It's that I ultimately bottled out of doing it for silly reasons.
Twwwwwunt.
My biggest regret is that I can't wind my age back 20 years and be able to look forward to at least another 20 years of riding. That, and the fact that I haven't ridden nearly as much as I could have done in the last few years, especially in Greece.
Not buying the Yo Eddy I wanted but wasting the money on a damn car.
Stopping cycling from when I was 18 til I was 42.
Different numbers but this. And right now it'd be completing the Trainerroad 8 min test yesterday to confirm how utterly shit I am. 🙁
Smoking all those years ago, therefore suffering big time on every climb
not having a set of Redline Flight cranks when I was 14.
That I gave up for about 15 years, and didn't ride when I lived in Vancouver. 🙁
Living in Lyon for 2 years and only doing one Alps uplift day.
Selling my Pink Mk1 Dialled Bikes PA frame last year.
Crashing on a stupid 69er experiment 5 years ago, dislocating collar bone and ribs, and allowing the hospital to boot me out as I'd been in casualty for 4 hours. Ribs still not in place and moving around occasionally...
Not starting sooner. Had ten years where I mainly just drank a lot.
Not riding Alp D'Huez road climb when I was young,thin n race fit.
Not bringing my kit in to work today. It looks lovely out there for a lunchtime ride.
hitting ice on Jan 6th and smashing my shoulder into the ground. three torn tendons and a break on the collar bone; the last 2,5cm at the end where the tendons come together. unable to operate and have to let nature takes its course.
still not able to work. have a lumpy shoulder where the bone has fused back together. can't stretch my arm above my head or behind my back. if i 'm lucky i won't have any problems 10 years down the line.
oh, another regret... going for a ride the morning that slinky little brasilian was in my bed. ended up kicking her out and riding 1000m up in the snow freezing my arse off. why?
Getting involved in dumb ass wheel size threads...
I've managed to resist the latest one, and I feel much better for it..
Ive just thought of one
a few years back I did the Megavalanche on my old Stab with some marzocchi tripple clamps Id bought off a kid on pinkbike the week b4
trouble was the rebound on them was so fast it was ridiculous,
I managed to get the internal adjuster tool jsut b4 we left,( a 30cm allen key)
but never got round to opening them up
after 3 days my wrists were absolutely shagged and we opened them up, changed the oil and wound out the rebound
the forks were transformed instantly into some plush puppies
by then my wrists were kanckered and on race day i was in lots of pain and had to pull up a few times to let them recover and had several crashes where I couldnt grip proprly
lesson learned
Stopping serious biking in my teens when girls & beer proved more attractive.
(Restarted 20 years later when I found bikes a more accessible ride & beer tasted better afterwards)
Not wiring my bike to the mains before they were stolen.
Most of the above, plus not being born with the appropriate genetics to have at least a sprinking of technical ability.
by then my wrists were kanckered and on race day i was in lots of pain and had to pull up a few times to let them recover and had several crashes where I couldnt grip proprly
This happened to me anyway, even without dodgy forks.
Not buying an XL frame 15 years sooner.
Not trying a 29er sooner.
Not getting my GF into it sooner.
Not getting a good picture of Keeley Lockey in her Karrimor skinsuit racing nembas.
Getting a driving license and thinking cars were better. Forward 17 years and not lost many of the skillz but my fitness is nowhere to be seen.