Is cycling the new Golf.
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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?
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?
With these feet said:
TonyHetherington said:
It very much is
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.... Golf is taking a battering, globally. Same challenges of many older sports; bringing in new younger players.
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.
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.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 :-)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. 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 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.Gassing Station | Pedal Powered | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff