10 Factors To Go For A Winter Bike Ride

With increased snow predicted this Thursday you may be starting to believe that you’re going to for no reason acquire a consistent training curriculum going if you don’t grab a road bike and “pretend” your outside. The sort of training might suit brain dead roadies, but for the likes of us mountain biker, we need to have the terrain, get themselves a sore ass and break some nails, whatever the winter throws at us.

Of course this is easier said than done especially when your sat at home with the fire blazing, the last thing in your mind is “you know what? I wanna go freeze my ass off at the local trail” but there are a great deal of reasons and advantages to taking your trusty steed out for a blast.

Reason One – No annoying “everyday” walkers

Everyone in their time has had the annoying situation where a family with kid’s just happened to pick the best mountain bike spot to go for their “pleasure walk”, now nothing is wrong with this but as a rider this can be the most annoying thing known to man. Without random kid’s running around and having to concentrate on them more than the course you can never truly go full pelt, bring on winter where all these families stay indoors you probably have a whole mountain to enjoy, all to yourself.

Reason Two – Snow = Fun

Nothing is more fun than blasting around a trail when ur rear end suddenly slips out and you “just” manage to stay on the bike, the thrill, the fun, all this can be enjoyed 10 times more when the whole trail is covered in pure white slippery goodness.

Reason Three – Fitness

Not riding during winter may be disastrous come spring, a year ago I totally forgot that riding existed and come spring when the weather was warm and i also was prepared to hit the trails, I had been lucky to really make it out of the village alive. Using this experience I do know that bracing the cruel winter weather just one single hour per week keeps me slightly fit and ready to tackle anything come spring. Its for these reasons You ought to select a light or even rigour “fun” ride per week in winter and if you never stay face fit at least you can still eat more mince pies at Christmas)

Reason Four (Males Only ^^) – Toughness

Nothing screams out your a man (or an insane man riding his bike) than going out in the snow and facing the harshness of winter head on, now I can’t promise anyone will see you (all those “roadies” hiding in their warm houses) but if they do they’ll be amazed at how manly you are as you slog through 3 inches of new snow.

So I lied I possibly could only think of four reasons, well one wasn’t wonderful so three but I cant stress enough the significance of winter riding to your all year cycling enjoyment and along with today’s modern winter clothing you won’t feel the cold.

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