Why are you here?

[sublimit]

Its either coming on here or spending the day drinking on a park bench.

Its better here though because you learn stuff from people - like routes, gradients and things.

 

[Luke Schmid]

At this particular point of time I have no idea, I should be in bed asleep.

 

[More Strides than Rides]

Yeah what Scott said. He left out one little part. He came for the cycling but stayed for the Babes and Beer

I have nothing else to do

Pretty much says it.

I'm a competitive runner who liked cycling. I knew there was so much that I did not know, that was so different from what I was familiar with in running, so I perused the forums for many months. I signed up when I figured the best way to learn would be to dive in, get in a few arguments, and commit myself as a fan. Ventured into the Beer thread for the same reason; I love beer, but theres a big world I can't drink here in the US. Stayed for the babes/bicycles, of course.

 

[Amsterhammer]

I woke up from a dream one day realizing that I'd been dreaming about scantily clad young ladies on bicycles. I knew right away that the world was waiting for Babes on Bikes, I just had to find somewhere that could handle such a thread.

The rest, as you all know, is internet history.

 

[Parrulo]

We should do RvV next year I could teach Parrulo a thing or 2 about cobbles

First discovered this site when I got fed up with how little Sporza was reporting on international news and smaller races. After a month or so I discovered the forum and saw it as a good chance to improve my knowledge about the pro cycling scene and bike gear
Got totally hooked since then, also, I have a ****load of free time

i would love to do that. my real life friends always mock me when i say that i would love to spend a week riding around the cobbles of Belgium

i was also a long time lurker but after the 2010 tour decided to register then slowly started to learn more and more and to post more and more. now i mostly like the race discussions and our random chats on several subjects.

and just like graig said i am pretty sure a lot of us would make good friends in real life.

 

[auscyclefan94]

I was just wondering. Most of the people on these boards don't actually sound like total lowlifes who have nothing better to do than linger around on a cycling forum all day.
.

Clearly I am a lowlife. The first thing I do in the morning is turn on the computer and read up on all the news while eating breakfast, getting changed, etc. Then off to Uni and/or work. Then do some work while on computer. Watch tv, more forum, more tv, bed. Therefore I am a total loser

I am here because I am in school, and I am always working on a computer because I keep all notes etc on my computer, so hitting the little Firefox icon is easy to do, and provides a nice break from studying. I am ADD so I need my diversions.

Very similar to me.

I am ugly nobody likes me and i have no friends

lol, I was going to say that!

 

[King Of The Wolds]

lol unlike me all of you actually had an excuse.

Me i have none. This is all my free time.

I feel a bit sad now

It gets sadder yet, during the Giro and TDF my entire life is based around the ****ing forum.

Wake up 1pm.
Put on computer turn on Eurosport.
Read about what has happened so far on forum. Make a few comments.
Watch the race + read comment on forum till 5pm.
Comment on forum till 7pm with tv switched on.
Go play tennis till 11pm.
Read + comment on forum 11pm - 4am.
4am go to sleep with eyes feeling like theyve been staring at the sun for 14 hours. Repeat proccess.

I think i got through 300 posts one day once.

Outside of the Tour and Giro i comment a lot less but its still a lot.

So why do I do it.

________


First of all I am a student but I study history and have a grand total of 8 hours a week. That becomes 5 or 6 once you factor the classes I dont bother turning up for.

So even minus sleep thats like 14 free hours a day of nothing. Even when you factor in a lot of other activities theres still plenty of free hours. Why not discuss cycling with the good posters of cnf.

2 I like to write. I think its something that i can be good at it and I see this as practise in a way.

3 I used to read hours and hours every day about politics. But it was really deppressing and frustrating the whole political system and the same cheap tactics and bias and all. So i stopped doing that and eventually cycling freed the void. None of this stress that comes from reading politics. This sense of powerlessness. Here I watch heroes climb mountains. People i like and appreciate, who have very hard jobs for little reward. So cycling has filled the void. Instead of hours on politics, Hours on cycling. . Its replaced the politics.

a lot better for the heart pardon the pun.

4 It enhances my enjoyment of cycling, the sport i have chosen. I always loved sport but the sports i always watched have alienated me a bit due to money and fame and attention given to them. So i have taken up cycling as the one sport I devote 99% of my attention too.

Funnily most of my friends spend as much time on Premier League football as i do on cycling. They watch every match on tv, buy tabloids every day to read transfer gossip 10 times over, go on forums, talk about **** else but football when they meet up.

Instead of buying the sun, i go on Cn forums.

5 It is enjoyable. I am actually afraid of falling into what John Stewart Mill called Lower pleasures, where you do something you think you like but actually dont. More an addiction. I experienced this a lot especially when i was younger with computer and games. Id play them but dont think really enjoy them.

So i ask myself, am i really enjoying this forum.

And most of the time the answer is yes.

6 Its another world. I spend 90% of my time in the real world with real people. Sometimes i just want to think and talk about something else. Something none of my friends or people i know know **** about. Cycling. This is the place to do so.

A few reasons anyway.

Gotta love a post as heart felt as this. Good man, Hitch.

 

[usedtobefast]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdilwJd6KQI
you are probably wondering why i am here?


me,i work in the music world,so odd hours, and from home and beyond.

 

[Race Radio]

I am here for the ads.

 

[rides like a girl]

Was a swimmer during high school. Used swimming as my primary cardio during college and after until I hurt my shoulder and couldn't swim. I hated running so turned my focus to cycling. As I cycled more and more, started to watch more races online as the American channels didn't really broadcast much except Tour in July. As I was reading the old Versus forum someone linked to this forum and I began my years lurking. Realized like Scott, that I had been spun by Livestrong began to spend more time here. Finally got the nerve after lurking fora couple years to sign up.

Mainly post on the board during my commute to and from work. I am one of the few people in So Cal that actually use public transportation. That frees me up to read the board. I also post after I wake up while it is dark outside for a one day classic and can't seem to go back to bed.

Found the board to be of great interest when I had a couple injuries that kept me off my bike for an extended time and off work for a lesser amount of time. Had too much free time so spent time here reading. Just been cleared to ride, so hopefully will be out riding more than in the house reading.

My friends and family humor my interest in cycling. I have family and friends that live in Spain and Portugal so if I time it right, can travel to see them and see a GT. Keeps everyone happy.

 

[The Hitch]

Gotta love a post as heart felt as this. Good man, Hitch.

Why, thank you.

 

[woodenswan]

other than being a cycling addict of course, reading and posting here helps me no to talk so much about cycling to my gf and friends, who are not the biggest cycling fans (my gf asked me a few days ago how many stages PR comprises...) how not to annoy and alienate your friends i guess.

 

[RDV4ROUBAIX]

Why am I here? Just waiting out the careers of Boonen and Cancellara, the two biggest threats to my 4 Roubaix wins. The day either of them equals my record I will retire my account here.

 

[aarnold517]

Why am i on here? Because i live in kentucky in the middle of the midwestern united states where there are very few cycling fanatics. Whenever people ask me what my interests are and i say cycling they look at me like i'm crazy. Even my closest friends and family think that my addiction to races is ridiculous. So, basically, there's nowhere for me to think about and discuss this sport I love other than this forum. Even through all of the bickering and pointless fights, I've gained so much knowledge from reading this forum, and it continues to fill the cycling void that is left from having no friends share the common interest of bike racing

 

[on3m@n@rmy]

Firstly, I got my start in this here forum cos I love cycling, but then found out there's plenty of other stuff to talk about here besides cycling. Like (some of my favorite non-cycling threads):
- cat thread
- what beer you drinking thread (found lots of nice ones here, tho I haven't posted many)
- multiple other sports threads
- oh, and what music you listening to thread (lots of new finds for me here too)
... to name a few.

To Boomcie: How do you get away with that? My company has an entire IT group that monitors all this stuff, including individual computer keystrokes we make if a red flag turns up. I'd get fired if I spent company time on the forum, so the forum at work is limited to a 30 minute lunch break. You lucky dog.

To Bavarianrider: I'll bet you are best friends with Tony Martin though.

To Hitch: I don't know how you do so much on the forum and do school at the same time.

 

[blutto]

...just another one of those shiftless low-lifes...

...joined the forum to make friends...and promote world peace...

Cheers

blutto

 

[Dancing On The Pedals]

Originally followed the cycling forum on the BBC's 606 but when that closed down, started dipping into the forum now and again (without registering an account) - already used CN for news and race reports and so on. Having left uni and therefore with a large amount of free time, thought I might as well get more involved on the forum.

Firstly, I got my start in this here forum cos I love cycling, but then found out there's plenty of other stuff to talk about here besides cycling. Like (some of my favorite non-cycling threads):
- cat thread
- what beer you drinking thread (found lots of nice ones here, tho I haven't posted many)
- multiple other sports threads
- oh, and what music you listening to thread (lots of new finds for me here too)
... to name a few.

Have slowly started branching out from just the racing threads (and the occasional dip into the Clinic) to find all the other stuff that people talk about. Consequently, spend a fair amount of time on here reading and so on. Hope that doesn't make me a lowlife...

 

[Cobblestoned]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a70iCe5G1YE

 

[gregod]

a number have people have mentioned that they post from work. i use a computer at work and have a private office, but have no free time to peruse the internet much less post something. clearly, i am in the wrong line of work.

i never thought about it that way, but a few people have said being here is a good way to avoid boring those around us senseless. i think this is probably my biggest reason, as well.

I was lurking back in 2009 and could not believe what was being written about LA in the Clinic. My first posts were getting into an argument with Eva Maria (Race Radio), Thoughtforfood, Bianchigirl and a few others.

I read some of the posted links... particularly the Ashenden interview and suddenly realized how much I had been spun by Team Lance and have been basically hooked ever since.

I like to learn and I like to argue, so this place fits pretty well.

you were a lance fan? reading his book cured me of that. on the other hand, it took me a little longer for the evidence to show me that he doped thanks to the many knowledgeable people on the CN forum.

 

[richwagmn]

I found this site as an alternative to Velonews which I felt was acting too much like a PR agency for Lance Armstrong.

Once here, I found the forums frequented by a lot of thoughtful, articulate people.

I really enjoy reading the forums and do it at least a few times a day.

I work as a computer programmer so I it's easy to click over when I "feel" the need for a break.

Oh yea, I love cycling.

 

[mewmewmew13]

Why am I here? Well I've always liked the CN site and I suppose that joining the conversation seemed like a natural extension of visiting the site. I never post from work, I don't watch TV unless it involves a stick and a puck (and the occasional national newscast), and I guess I like to have something outside of family to keep me occupied. I think I'm under 3 posts per day, but I do tend to visit a few times per day for a few minutes at a time. Lots of good stuff on here and of course lots of crap too! [
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I just checked this thread out...and PS pretty much sums it up for me too--except the hockey .

I love cycling and am a fanatic ...love to read about it, follow the drama and riders and watch the races etc..cn has always been my go to site for cycling.
I also ride my bike a lot! all year whenever the weather lets me...Colorado lets you ride whenever there is no ice or snow on the road for the most part.. unless it gets below freezing then I would much rather run...which I do with cycling all year round too.

oh, I don't watch tv it bores me---and enjoy the personalities that I've come to know on this forum...I have an idea that most of you are pretty nice and interesting folks.