Comments on: No One Rides Alone

By: Marni

Marni — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 09:43:02 +0000

wc0dQE Good point. I hadn’t thoghut about it quite that way. :)

By: WMdeR.

WMdeR. — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:00:05 +0000

Well, I don’t have a disembodied voice in my head on uphills, unless I’m wearing a HRM or watching my cyclocomputer. Then its all about the numbers and what my breathing says about their relation to my actual work load.

That’s why I don’t carry a heart-rate strap anymore, and my cyclocomputer has a piece of tape over the speed readout most of the time.

On downhills, I think, entirely reasonably, “You don’t need your brakes on this one. The road will be clean. It’ll be dry. It’s only signed 20mph for 1950’s era automobiles. Remember last year at this time?” as I approach and enter any blind turn, whether I’ve been there before or not.

At the same time some Voice is screaming “HANDS OFF OF THE BRAKES GET YOUR FINGER OFF OF THE LEVER COUNTERSTEER F*** OFF THE BRAKES OFF THE BRAKES G*dD***** M**,” and so on through the apex of the turn and I’ve scrubbed speed down to under 45mph or so and blown the exit wide anyway because I didn’t look through the rest of the turn.

Sometimes the Voice comes out of my mouth when descending switchbacks.

Thank you for the fun rerun!

cheers,

will

William M. deRosset
Fort Collins, CO USA

By: tk3

tk3 — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:19:48 +0000

Mine always says “why aren’t you going faster?” And then I go faster. Then he says “why aren’t you going faster?” So I go faster. And so on.

I’m usually pretty hungry when I finish a ride, so my voice asks “why are you eating so much?”

Ugh.

By: tibiker

tibiker — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:48:47 +0000

I hear Phil Ligget when I’m riding and occasionally he is commentating on how I’m “dancing on the pedals”, but most of the time he’s commenting on how I’m “suffering like a dog”.
And it seems the dog comments are getting much more frequent the last couple of years.

By: Debora

Debora — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:06:40 +0000

Mine; like many of you, is not nice at all. And as of late has been talking to me even when I am not even on the bike. Hhhhmmm?

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:40:58 +0000

I hear my guy in my head too. I think he has Terrets. Often when riding in a group and someone half wheels me I hear him getting vulger with the person. “Hey ******* give us a little ******* room here.” Or it gives me advice, “move left 6 inches and see how far you can send this ********** into the tree line.” I think he has some anger issues and is closterfobic. When riding alone, he only likes to scare me more since I think this is his joy in life. For instance was riding last month with snow on spots of the trail. He is quiet untill I ride through those spots and that is when he tries to scare me more (as if riding through snow on 700×23c tires is not enough). I hear “hey ******* you should get off and walk through this,” or “sure ride through the snow you ****** idiot, yes there is pavement under it but you will find that out soon enough on your own.” I have also realized he is not a fan of wildlife. I was riding the same trail and a deer actually come out of the woods and jumped for a few strides next to me while I was crusing along just under 20mph. I was shocked and did all I could to not hit the deer and stay on the trail. Was this good enough for him nooooo. I cant even start to describe the expletives he used during this few seconds of terror. I think he did scare the deer away though and saved my life.

By: Jo

Jo — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:22:06 +0000

My voice reminds me I should be doing the dishes or other housework then it complains about being too cold or too hot. But my favorite is the way it hears every little noise when I am riding alone and convinces me that some hungry animal is sneaking up on me and about to pounce.

By: dan

dan — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:49:44 +0000

“This is stupid. You are not getting paid for this. And this in not fun,” That about sums up my inner voice when going uphill. I get it to stop by looking about 3 feet in front of me and turning my brain off.

Going downhill it just says “Must go FASTER!”. I cant find a way to get that one to go away yet

By: Roser

Roser — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:23:07 +0000

Recently my inner voice has been joined by a co-figmentofmyimagination. Bob Roll has been discussing his recovery from his recent down skiing accident. Why? Much like the coverage of Paris-Nice on vrs, it makes no sense, and does not contribute in any way to the cycling experience.

By: Sasha

Sasha — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:28:34 +0000

My voice must be a slacker, for the most part, it says to me, why ride up this really long hill when you can walk? Actually, let’s just avoid this hill. Or A LOT of expletives about riding up a hill. It usually only talks to me when I’m approaching or riding uphill. It’s never sarcastic. I sometimes hear it when I’m approaching people or someone is trying to catch me and then it’s like, WTF, that person is HUGE and they are kicking our butt! What’s up with that? We need to follow them and find out their secret. Or, let’s throw a rope around their saddle and have them haul us up this hill. I think I’m just a pain wussy. I’m a fair weather rider and fussy about conditions. I’ll still ride in crappy weather, but me and my voice will complain all the way (in my head, of course). I don’t actually verbalize complaints too often. Don’t want people to think I’m a wussy.

Also, no accent. And I think mine is gender neutral. Weird, huh?