Is cycling the new Golf.

Is cycling the new Golf.

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aide

Original Poster:

2,276 posts

163 months

Sunday 17th May 2015
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I love Golf, I'm relatively useless though. However I do have a ridiciously expensive set of Muzino clubs, all the sundries and have played lots and lots.

I was on the promenade in Brighton recently and an elderly gentelman in tennis shorts and trainers pulled a team sky pinarello out of the back of a nice bmw estate, hopped on with no helmet, and rolled off down the road.

A beautiful sunny day and perfect for a spin, and I wondered to my self, is cycling the new golf?

Stuart70

3,910 posts

182 months

Sunday 17th May 2015
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Yes

With these feet

5,728 posts

214 months

Sunday 17th May 2015
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Perhaps its replacing buying a Porsche as a mid-life-crisis, thought the prices of some bikes make the car financially similar!

Im looking at selling some of my toys to buy another bike (mountain, not road), plus wifey has no problem with it at all which is another bonus!


astroarcadia

1,710 posts

199 months

Sunday 17th May 2015
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Yes.

Jimbo.

3,942 posts

188 months

Sunday 17th May 2015
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Someone needs to invent a golfing equivalent of Strava. That'll drag 'em back to the clubhouse, where they can bore the tits of their golfing chums with never-ending tales about H.I.O.s.

m444ttb

3,160 posts

228 months

Sunday 17th May 2015
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It certainly fulfills many of the same functions. Generally escaping your family for hours with your mates and allowing you to spend far more than is ever necessary biggrin

JQ

5,692 posts

178 months

Sunday 17th May 2015
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I've done more corporate cycling events this year than corporate golf days.

Laurel Green

30,770 posts

231 months

Monday 18th May 2015
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I was thinking of taking golf back up(being retired)but bought a bike instead - now have four bikes and wished I'd taken up cycling earlier.

TonyHetherington

32,091 posts

249 months

Monday 18th May 2015
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It very much is yes

Golf is taking a battering, globally. Same challenges of many older sports; bringing in new younger players.

With these feet

5,728 posts

214 months

Monday 18th May 2015
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TonyHetherington said:
It very much is yes

Golf is taking a battering, globally. Same challenges of many older sports; bringing in new younger players.
Probably make some stunning XC events on golf courses.... smile

yellowjack

17,065 posts

165 months

Monday 18th May 2015
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With these feet said:
TonyHetherington said:
It very much is yes

Golf is taking a battering, globally. Same challenges of many older sports; bringing in new younger players.
Probably make some stunning XC events on golf courses.... smile
idea

Where's Dizeee? He'll know if the Goal Farm (Pirbright) Golf Course near him is permanently closed.

If it is, then it'd be a proper good craic to nip up there and set up some Strava segments...

"Front Nine", "Back Nine", "Nineteenth Hole", "Water Hazard", etc, etc.

...the front gate appears to be locked, but I can't imagine that there's an impenetrable fence all the way around it.

wink

Roger Irrelevant

2,899 posts

112 months

Monday 18th May 2015
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JQ said:
I've done more corporate cycling events this year than corporate golf days.
I was (pleasantly) surprised to be invited to one of these run by the law firm I used to work at, even more surprised to see that it's a pretty decent route (takes in part of stage 1 of the 2014 TdF), and flabbergasted to find that it's massively oversubscribed. When I was there - six years ago - you were seen as a bit of an oddball if you preferred to get out on a bike rather than hobnob with clients on the golf course, now they're putting on a sportive! The company I work for now has got into sponsoring cycling in a big way too - it's bloody brilliant really.

rallyeman

540 posts

174 months

Monday 18th May 2015
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Doubt it, all my golf buddies, are overweight and use golf buggies to get the around the 18 holes. My cycle mates, are the opposite

snowdude2910

754 posts

163 months

Tuesday 19th May 2015
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With these feet said:
Im looking at selling some of my toys to buy another bike (mountain, not road), plus wifey has no problem with it at all which is another bonus!
For me this goes against my strict never sell toys policy. For years I've sacraficed the toy box whenever money is tight but since introducing this policy I can't sell a toy unless I will never want to use it again, as such I have a £600 carbon kevlar racing kayak ontop of my shed which sees the water a couple of times a year and 2 man racing kayak behind my mum and dads shed that I bought in the hope of dragging someone along with me but hasn't happened yet :-)

carreauchompeur

17,830 posts

203 months

Tuesday 19th May 2015
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I'm a surfer. I have a surf board





In my mum's garage which last saw sea circa 1998.

With these feet

5,728 posts

214 months

Tuesday 19th May 2015
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snowdude2910 said:
For me this goes against my strict never sell toys policy. For years I've sacraficed the toy box whenever money is tight but since introducing this policy I can't sell a toy unless I will never want to use it again, as such I have a £600 carbon kevlar racing kayak ontop of my shed which sees the water a couple of times a year and 2 man racing kayak behind my mum and dads shed that I bought in the hope of dragging someone along with me but hasn't happened yet :-)
Ive got a Prokart that Ive not used in 12 months and a CRX trackday car that has done 500 miles a year for the last 5 years. Add to that we are moving house soon, though hopefully the next place will have more storage space and at the moment I'm out on my current bike 3 or 4 times a week.

TonyHetherington

32,091 posts

249 months

Tuesday 19th May 2015
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With these feet said:
Ive got a Prokart (....) a CRX trackday car (....) hopefully the next place will have more storage
Not *entirely* sure that more space is what you need biggrin

With these feet

5,728 posts

214 months

Tuesday 19th May 2015
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TonyHetherington said:
Not *entirely* sure that more space is what you need biggrin
At the moment they are taking space up in the workshop which ought to be earning income, not store ng toys... Perhaps more time to use them would he nice.

T1PAU

30 posts

206 months

Tuesday 19th May 2015
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I cycle 100 to 150 miles a week and play golf three times a week.....I'm crap at both!

Cupramax

10,469 posts

251 months

Tuesday 19th May 2015
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aide said:
I was on the promenade in Brighton recently and an elderly gentelman in tennis shorts and trainers pulled a team sky pinarello out of the back of a nice bmw estate, hopped on with no helmet, and rolled off down the road.
My cousin is in his mid 80's and still cycles 25 miles twice a week and lives in Brighton, he's probably fitter than me despite having 40 years or so on me biggrin he was chairman of the british cycling federation from the mid 1960's for god knows how long, you make it sound like old people have never cycled before the recent upsurge in interest.