Yet Another Cycling Forum
General Category => Audax => Topic started by: Manotea on 01 October, 2010, 10:47:25 am
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I was very impressed by Hellymedic's comment,
"One of the aspects I really treasure about Audax is being able to choose how much or little company to have for a ride".
With the authors permission, I shall be including this in Manotea's Little Black Book of Hardcore Homilies.
Another personal favourite is, "If I can do this, anybody can" , (Mal Volio on the BCM, IIRC).
What's your line?
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The secret of success is to know which pains to ignore and which to cure.
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"Long rides are just like short rides, only longer."
No idea who said it.
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"You can do PBP in 84 hrs and still get a good sleep every night"
(also MV IIRC)
"you are quite at libery to go and buy a pint too"
(rob; controlling with beer in hand at the bottom of One Tree Hill)
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Salvatore's: "The only thing that can follow a bad patch is a good patch (even in the 2007 German 1500 where the bad patch lasted for 700km)"
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Pacing yourself is for wimps. Go as hard as can for as long as you can. What's the worst that can happen.
But I love Brian Mann's- also used by others of the CC Sudbury. Are we having fun yet?
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"Training is for athletes, spotty youths, self-help book readers, bed-wetters and dog handlers."
Hummers
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Like fun, but different. - to describe any event, or conditions encountered on an event.
<don't know the originator, but Arabella is always quoting it>
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You have to include
"It's only a bike ride."
And Jim Hopper's
"If you're enjoying it, you're doing it wrong."
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"All hills are easy if you climb them slowly enough"
Caroline Alexander, one-time Raleigh MTB team rider, I think.
Whe asked what her best sexual experience was, she said, "Meeting Greg LeMond in a BP petrol station."
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Velvet pillows, safari parks, sunglasses: people have become woolly mice. They still have bodies that can walk for five days and four nights through a desert of snow, without food, but they accept praise for having taken a one-hour bicycle ride. 'Good for you.' Instead of expressing their gratitude for the rain by getting wet, people walk around with umbrellas. Nature is an old lady with few suitors these days, and those who wish to make use of her charms she rewards passionately.
Tim Krabbe, The Rider
Not exactly pithy and probably not what you're after but it's a great paragraph.
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Another great image from the same book, that I've quoted before. A group of five riders is off the front, just managing to stay away:
"We are five men hanging motionless by our fingertips from a high windowsill, waiting until someone has to let go."
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"Cycling doesn't get any easier, you just go faster". Greg LeMond I think
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"Cycling Training doesn't get any easier, you just go faster". Greg LeMond I think
FTFY.
It was Greg LeMond.
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Velvet pillows, safari parks, sunglasses
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Tim Krabbe, The Rider
Not exactly pithy and probably not what you're after but it's a great paragraph.
Before anyone asks;
yes, (knowing Kev,) he probably did type that from memory.
[it is a great book - think I'll reread it in the January break]
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Three of my favourites, nothing at all to do with Audax however.
When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments. Here was a machine of precision and balance for the convenience of man. And (unlike subsequent inventions for man's convenience) the more he used it, the fitter his body became. Here, for once, was a product of man's brain that was entirely beneficial to those who used it, and of no harm or irritation to others. Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle. ~Elizabeth West, Hovel in the Hills
The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart. ~Iris Murdoch, The Red and the Green
Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride. ~John F. Kennedy
My own, said to a guy riding LeJoG supported when he asked me where my kit was. I pointed to my carradice & said: Travel light & ride smelly.
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Velvet pillows, safari parks, sunglasses
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Tim Krabbe, The Rider
Before anyone asks;
yes, (knowing Kev,) he probably did type that from memory.
I wish. My memory is getting worse by the day. Just forgot my mum's birthday and it's the same as my eldest daughter's :-\
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Walking is only for people who've run out of inner tubes. 8)
I was very impressed by Hellymedic's comment,
"One of the aspects I really treasure about Audax is being able to choose how much or little company to have for a ride".
With the authors permission, I shall be including this in Manotea's Little Black Book of Hardcore Homilies.
Another personal favourite is, "If I can do this, anybody can" , (Mal Volio on the BCM, IIRC).
What's your line?
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Mark Twain only played golf because he hadn't tried Audax.
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Can't remember who said this, but it stuck in my mind -
"If you finish behind me then you're out of time"
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Sounds like one from the 'Grim Reaper' when he was slow enough for this to be true.(the saying nolonger fits him anymore)
Can't remember who said this, but it stuck in my mind -
"If you finish behind me then you're out of time"
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A 400 isn't just two 200's.
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Whenever appropriate, I always like to point out 'nice road surface though!' Normally slogging up some relentless climb or during atrocious downpour.
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Bianchi Boy: Audax is mainly about eating.
boab: (about Audax) It's a form of self harm.
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Audax: Embrace your inner tramp.
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Like fun, but different. - to describe any event, or conditions encountered on an event.
<don't know the originator, but Arabella is always quoting it>
"Like fun, only different" I got it from Paul. I think it was Chris Avery originally.
Just keep on pedaling and you'll get there eventually*.
and about rain when asked about getting wet on a commute: it's only water
*assumes bike is working
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and about rain when asked about getting wet on a commute: it's only water
"I don't go rusty!" <look at cycling permatan> "... or maybe I do!"