10 Steps to better cycling in 2017
December 26, 2016 § 20 Comments
These will make you better.
- Take a pull.
- Stop half-wheeling.
- Show up on time.
- Call shit out.
- Keep your head up.
- Climb more.
- Compliment someone.
- Intervene when someone’s being a dick to a new rider.
- Ride early.
- Quit comparing your stats.
- Eat more fruit and nuts.
- Give up a wheel.
- Give someone a push.
- Buy someone coffee.
- Wave at a cyclist.
- Wave at a cager.
- Introduce yourself.
- Ask a Fred to join your club.
- Ride just a little > No ride at all.
- Shop at an LBS.
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Nicely said Sir
Thanks!
I was going to enumerate the points I agree with, but I think many of them can be summed up by: don’t be a dick. I do particularly like points fourteen through twenty.
Always a great general rule, but some specific anti-dick guidelines can be useful for the less self-aware.
Since you’re already well over 10, how ’bout adding:
21. Drive your bike. Learn if you’re not sure how.
Works for me. Maybe leave off everything after the first period.
My Maths isn’t very good either. Happy Boxing Day, Happy New year.
What is maths?
Plan for 2017 ( especially #19.) Thank you Seth!
Excellent!!
Safety
Pin on a number.
Or a tail.
Espoused with Strunk & White conciseness.
The gold standard of praise.
For the ladies: trail a bright chartreuse boa from your helmet at the ratchet like a ponytail–a great attention-getter.
I’d love one, too …
I have such a “tail” on all of my helmets!
Wave at another cyclist? what?
Brain fart …