[Closed] Who's not ridden for ages, and why? Make me feel better!

Yup but through laziness & mojo loss. You make me feel so bad I'd almost lend you a bike.

Not ridden since March due to traveling abroad. Can't complain but also I have 2 months free to bike in Scotland August and September but I have a pretty bag leg problem and so may not be able do that much 🙁

Not ridden since last August to being bikeless after my Fuel snapped.

Then I get half way through building up a new bike and my ACL repair gives way putting me out of action again.

4th time Ive tried to get into riding, 4th time its all turned to shit

[i][b]almost[/b][/i] lend you a bike.

You're all heart c-a 🙂

a combination of broken bones, change of job and a house move have completely taken over my life just lately. last rode my mountain bike around the start of May 😳

There is a reason I've only inhabitted the Chat Forum for the past couple of years.

Blame babies (ours and other peoples), lack of time, moving house, and mainly lack of willpower.

Blmey Creg, that's pretty unfortunate! Hope you recover soon..

I'm rapidly turning into a right miserable f3cker too... I now end up doing nothing at the weekends and to make matters worse I live about a mile from the edge of the Peaks and get bikers zooming down the hill past my front room window, on their lovely expensive bouncy bikes :-/

Get on the bike and have a poodle-got to start then you won't stop.

(Haven't ridden for a while due to injury)

Dislocated shoulder at cyb last feb and caused me lots of problems. Gave up job and ended up working a new job with appalling hours from oct, then second child arrived in nov. On top of that I can't get another job so the wife has had to go and work away so I am now 24/7 dad with no time to myself. Put on 2.5 st and a serious lack of fitness.

Just built up a ti ht though and hopefully back on bike again from next week 🙂

fit and injury free, but left my seatpost in my frame after a muddy ride in march and would not budge even after visit to a machine shop. frame destined for skip. scrimping for a new frame ever since but promised holiday with gf pinched funds. found out i was safe from redundancy today so hopefully the end of bikelessness is in sight 🙂

I feel for you. I couldn't ride for 18 months a couple of years ago after a broken collarbone refused to mend...
Any chance you could build something up cheap from classifieds?

and i was feeling bad for not going out this evening...

lack of time, moving house,

😕 They have got to be the two worst excuses ever !
.........for not having been on your bike for a [i]"couple of years"[/i] 😀

And yeah, there's a reason why "I've only inhabited the Chat Forum for the past couple of years" too ......because if I spend time on bike forums and reading too many bike mags, I end up having lots of "really good ideas". Which invariably means spending lots of money on stuff that I didn't realise I needed/wanted. And 8 bikes and loads of stuff, much of which hardly gets used, is more than enough

Having said that, I don't go on bike rides as much as I would like to, which is every weekend. I probably average 2 or 3 per month at the moment. Did go out yesterday though.

antennae - I take it you've tried the heating frame with hot water then using a hammer to smack the cr@p out of the seatpost head in the direction away from the frame, approach?

It's the only thing that worked for me, after a week trying..

Blmey Creg, that's pretty unfortunate! Hope you recover soon..

Thanks, got an appointment with a consultant in 6 weeks, hopefully Ill get a surgical referral pretty quick. Although last time it took 18 months to get the surgery done.

If you want a cheap frame and forks to build something up then my current project is up for grabs. Not looking for much as I just want rid of it.

I,ve a ht frame you can have if ya like.

20 month old twins are fairly demanding, mtb has taken a back burner this year. Have had the trailer on the bike a few times this year but I prefer to run with it. I've just sold the last of the fs bikes too. All a big change from the riding I used to do, when I wasn't racing DH I was riding where ever and whatever I could.

In 3-4 months I've only been out 3-4 times. Between my mum dying, buying a house, work, children and keeping a smile on my missus' face I've had **** all time or energy. Still, picked up the last piece of a new build this morning, the house move is completed on Wednesday, and we've moved to somewhere with a fair bit of riding close by (funny that lol) sop hopefully things will change soon.

They have got to be the two worst excuses ever !
.........for not having been on your bike for a
"couple of years"

Agreed, but it's just the way it is.

I was riding pretty regularly when I lived in Edinburgh and had mates around.

But commitments caught up. Mates had babies and no longer had time to come out.
My own weekends became time for visiting families, or lost to the drudgery of housework.
Then we moved down here so I no longer have any mates to drag me out. And then we had a baby so spare time is a long forgotten country.

Like I said though, lack of willpower is the main factor.

I live in london and my off road bike is in leeds. Only get to ride every few months or so. Building a bike for down here though.

Managed to cut through a few tendons in my fingers with a circular saw so am off the bike for 8 weeks til my fingers work again.......... hopefully 😐

Antennae - never mind hot water, heatguns or WD40 - chop the seatpost off as close as you can to the tube and attack the remaining part with a hacksaw blade, HSS drill bit and whatever else is in your toolbox.

Worked for me... And I tried everything before getting mediaeval on its ass. Just remember to remove the BB and get all the metal filings out before you go for a ride...

Laziness is my only excuse for not riding more recently. And it's been quite hot.

All this makes me feel much better, i've not ridden for nearly 4 weeks due to being in Argentina with work.

Not since [s]I broke[/s] Frank broke my arm (intra articular distal radius)6 weeks ago. Could be grounded for another 4months+ 😥 My bike keeps looking at me, daring me - but I've only got about 25% movement in my wrist and I'm just about strong enough to lift a half-full cup of tea!

I'm too busy due to family stuff and too skint to afford the add on that riding my bike entails - I haven't serviced my Fox forks in three years.

I ride maybe once every two months, but my riding is of the day long XC marathon type when I do.

The days of having a window where I could just nip out for a two hour hack are long gone.

not ridden for 3 years, hips are ****ed

Or as a riding friend of mine said, when invited out for the nth time.

"I've lots of commitments!"

He's single with no kids, lives on his own, works mon-fri and can ride out from his garage...

"Yeah", said a another riding buddy - "committed to his front room"

Pregnant, not ridden for about 9 weeks now, no idea when I'll be back on the bike.

20 month old twins are fairly demanding, mtb has taken a back burner this year.

new kid and new house have killed it for me but inthe last couple of months I've had a few glimmers of hope, few rides on the mtb and 4 hours over the last week on the road it's starting to look like the balance might be coming back, just a case of seizing the chance when I get it (I usually fart about until I've wasted any free time I get and then whinge about it for the rest of the week)

a) lazy, b) lack of mojo and c) busy doing band stuff. #

I last rode my bike only yesterday, but it was only 2 miles to pick up my car from its annual service.

Last proper ride was about 3-4 weeks ago, and before that must have been last November

Haven't ridden properly in about a year, aside from general mooching around the local trails and commuting on a 6 inch full suss.

The reason? I've fallen out with my biking mates because one of them has been an uber****.

Last rode early June.

Holiday, illness, weather and lack of will have kept me indoors since.

I should be out tomorrow though!

(I usually fart about until I've wasted any free time I get and then whinge about it for the rest of the week)

Blimey, so I'm not alone!

[i]If you want a cheap frame and forks to build something up then my current project is up for grabs. Not looking for much as I just want rid of it. [/i]

Interesting Creg - what are they and what size is the frame??

My mate has temporarily lent me and old frame and forks so once I've built it up I might get to ride... still, would much prefer to have something of my own!

Graham S - rubbish excuses..... Plenty of people around where you live who'll drag your sorry ass out for a ride.

Chopwell next Tuesday evening for a pootle??

Steve

I haven't riden since Thursday and I feel fat and slow and lazy and feminine. You'd think all this ^^^^ would make me feel better, but no. I want to ride. Maybe sneak out on the road bike for a bit tomorrow..

I rode a lot until 2003 when I changed jobs, 6 day 60+ hour weeks left me knackered and with no time, then changed jobs again 4 years ago, got 6 months riding in then I knackered my knee, got diagnosed with ulcerative colitis and had two kids. Probably ridden less than 10miles in the last 3 years.

and here's me feeling guilty coz i've not ridden since sunday night 😳

No excuses just DO IT! Find a way and make time.

Been on pretty much constant epic fail for the last few years.

Wife went insane, we were splitting up (she was off with some other guys), she got pregnant we got back together. Lost the wee boy at 10 days old, she wound up arrested and then sectioned. Moved house whilst all this was going down. She came back. I started getting depressed. Moved house again. Got more depressed. Broke mentally. Split up again. Found she is pregnant again, but this time not getting back together. So guess it is another call to the solicitors to sort things out in a slightly different way to I planned... really wasn't expecting to find that there would be a child in a few months (she didn't mention it until she was 5 months gone give or take, moved 140 miles away and I was starting to sort out my life).

Oh aye, throw in since splitting this time, meet someone truely wonderful and now on the brink of loosing that too as she doesn't know if she can cope with the ex having my baby. Working hard to keep that together since it is one of the very few things that makes life seem worth living just now.

So nope, not been out on the bike in an age.

Becoming a dad twice in 18 months pretty much stopped my riding for a while. Youngest is now 2 and starting to get back into it slowly. Luckily my commute gives me around 4,000 miles a year and I can extend the rides to take in some trails if I wish. I rather suspect the halcyon days of riding every day (sometimes twice a day) are well and truly over.

There's more to life than riding bikes, but if you can get out once in a while it helps everything along I guess

family life with young kids. an apparent lack of time. just moved house. needs decorating. running, swimming and 5-a-side football taking my energies.

about 2 rides in the last year. re-occuring back injuries, new baby four months ago and 3yr old wanting much attention...

Not ridden since January due to new addition to the family. Like Yetidave I have a 4month and a (nearly) 3yr old. For all those folk who say "just make the time" etc I invite you to come round for a day and you'll see why you're talking plumbs.
It could be another couple of months before I can start night riding again and even then we're talking 7:45pm starts after bed/bath routines. The last daytime ride I did was last September.

bleddy kids 🙁

edit: commute totals about 750miles a year + more for sneaky lunchtime rides

Diagnosed with a brain tumour in June 2009. Had surgery, but tumour recurred by December 2009. Had second lot of surgery in January followed by radiotherapyi in March & April.

Riding about twice a month in the company of a mate, easy local stuff as the meds have taken a toll on my body & fitness. Now got space at home to get turbo trainer set up on a semi permanent basis so hope to get some daily exercise soon - probably on return from 2 weeks holiday in the sun soon.

ive ridden twice since december 27th...

had a conservatory built and re-decorated the whole house and a baby was born

i think im excused 😉

Robs - wow!!

Missingfrontallobe - keep up the good work!!

fit and injury free, but left my seatpost in my frame after a muddy ride in march and would not budge even after visit to a machine shop. frame destined for skip. scrimping for a new frame ever since but promised holiday with gf pinched funds. found out i was safe from redundancy today so hopefully the end of bikelessness is in sight

There are 2 ways to fix this.

1. Pouring parafin down the gap between the frame and seatpost then using a Vise or stilsens on seatpost to remove.

2. Cut of top of seatpost. Use a hacksaw blade from the inside of seatpost out towards the frame at oppositre sides of the seatpost and then use a vice and vise grips to pull each side free.

both better than binning yout frame.

Got a 19" Cove Hanjob frame that will soon be homeless or going via classifieds/ebay if interested and it might help get you mobile again.

Kids during the week means no time apart form the occasional night ride then I manage to get out every couple of weeks.
Week in Morzine in August should blow the cobwebs away though.

Respect to RobS, think what I've got would be easier to deal with than what that man has been through.

Some of these replies sound like they should be on mumsnet though lol!!! 😆

The winter snow really knocked my riding on the head. Moving to a house with no real garden didn't help, and nor did an abundance of long but very dull moorland rides on my doorstep.

Moving to a house that can be reached via the Black route at Glentress has really put the lead back in my pencil. God it's hurt though. A near 6 month lay-off has given me a bit of a mountain to overcome...and that's without the real mountain to overcome in the back garden!

Funny though, I love uphill stuff, and coming back to hardcore riding again makes me want my old hardtail back instead of my admittedly fun full susser.

I haven't been for an interesting off road ride since getting up the duff. Given I am 37 weeks now that is a lot of time not riding. BOO

Alright I use my hybrid bike everyday for running around on , but havent rode since April off road ,reason I am a fat ba**ard with no motivation plus its been 40 degrees here lately .its looking a bit grim for my day trip to the uk for a ride at the end of the month and it aint easy riding that will be doing. Ill have to pay for it but the descents will be worth it !

Nonhodgkins lymphoma radiotherapy three year old sixteen month old have not ridden for two weeks managed a couple of laps st mayhem. Most of you mtfu or admit that riding is not that important to you .
Robs and missing frontal lobe excepted.

I was riding 200ish miles a week from Jan to March - haven't ridden since March now though. Stupid knee injury.

well after 6 weeks no riding no running and getting swelling down/good mobility physio say 99% sure torn cartilage in knee so off to see a surgeon and not for first time - think i might be riding easy road now

Not been out since a week last Saturday following a fall on Medusas Drop at Dalby. Grade 4 AC joint dislocation. Operation today but will be a while before I am mountain biking again. Managing to ride 1 handed on the turbo but not exactly fun

Hope you fare better than me, my shoulder dislocation kept me off the bike for months and even now 18 months later is still bloody sore when moved. Though I think me putting it back in myself then riding the remaining 8 miles or so of MBR trail probably exacerbated things a little...

loddrick
Sounds bad news. Did you have an op or wait for it to mend?

well all the best to those recovering mentally and/or physically.

Once again it's made me feel like a moaning git!

Acouple of weeks for me since we got back from Morzine. Got an ear infection that's messing with my balance.

Been out once on 4.5 years. Two young kids, MrsG's Post natal depression and a long commute mean trail time has been non-existent.

I see my SC Superlight chained to the wall of the garage every single morning. It used to upset me, now I can't see it's pimpyness because of all the dust 🙁

sorry to hear that freddyg - take it down, wash it and stroke it.

It might then inspire you to at least ride it round the garden, which in turn might mean you end up riding at some point??

I haven't been for an interesting off road ride since getting up the duff

Mrs Grips was too stressed and tired and worked weekends before being preggy, then she was too ill to ride early preggie, and too tired to ride late preggie. We had ONE decent ride (her best ever I reckon) when she was about 5mo, then that was it until about two weeks ago (baby Grips is now 15mo) due to anaemia and exhaustion...