What's the hardest part of cycling?

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Getting the right tyres apparently, it's just so confusing and everyone's got a fucking opinion.

For me its being a fat shit....

Trying to help the poster - Howzabout securing all the removable bits when you park up - lights, bottles, computer, saddle pack, pump etc

Hardest part for me is being able to ride as often as I want, as fast as I want, and as far as I want, without getting bloody injured!
 

Once you're in you thirties is seems you need to keep your base mileage ticking over constantly otherwise your body just goes soft. Three months off for a collarbone to heal and now my knees can't cope with more than 4 or 5 hours riding a week, most frustrating!

Getting all geared up for a ride then finding you have a puncture.

Getting off the sofa

Headwinds.

Going faster or further than you’ve managed up until now.

Securing your bike when out and about.

Training ride isn't a problem as it's never left unattended, but popping into town and there's a clear lack of available points to safely lock it too.

Home maintenance. You often need three hands, to hold a component in place, pull a cable taut and do up a hex bolt. And small components have a tendancy to be attracted to the centre of the Earth initially, but then change their mind and find the bottom of the sofa more attractive. 

I suspect these answers are not helping the original poster and his/her school chums come up with a suitable idea for their GCSE Design & Technology (DT) project 

You could try inventing indicators for bikes - nobody has come with that idea before! 

Yep, you guessed it, abusive drivers.

Everything else is a joy and part of it. Even the hills.

Car drivers who want to kill you

Being overtaken.

For me, it's all the pedalling.

I think the question reveals a pre-conception that there must be something hard or difficult about cycling. I am fortunate enough to ride daily, just 4 miles commuting. If my commute was longer then I might think twice more often, but as it is, it really has to be appalling bad weather to persuade me to take the car instead (or walk), the bike is quicker and easier to park at work.

There are certainly things that would make cycling easier. for me that would be showers and changing facilities at work and better cycle parking provision at the shops. But if you think about it, only walking is easier to access as a method of personal transportation than cycling. You just jump on and ride.

I can appreciate the personal struggle to get up and out on a cold, wet weekend to get in a decent ride. I used to ride alone, but in the last few years have got a lot of motivation to turn out by joining my local club. Although some mornings you do turn up and hope that no-one else does, so that you can sneak back to bed. Even those cold wet rides are enjoyable, especially when they finish.

Actually being arsed to cycle. Struggling with motivation at the moment due to school run/work change that's left me struggling to find time windows to even commute, never mind leisure use.

Going to have to set my Zwifting space up again as the weather also seems to pulling the rain at 7.a.m trick at the weekends as well.

Abusive motorists that think they know where and how you should be cycling.

Hiding the upgrade expenditure from your partner.

"What's the hardest part of cycling?" Hitting the asphalt

Resisting the urge to constantly upgrade.  

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