Do you talk to yourself?

[crafty]

Hi everyone. I'm new here so I thought I'd say Hi. I live in Bristol and ride 1 of 3 bikes, depending on what I'm up to - a tourer, a racer or a MTB. The MTB I use for night rides off road.

To keep a level of fitness, I try to cycle as often as I can out of Bristol on the most traffic free routes. There are two I use. The Bristol to Bath cycle path and the Ashton to Pill path (under the Suspension Bridge) which allows me a traffic free route all the way to Portishead. I tend to do the day rides to Bath and the night rides to Portishead.

The Portishead route is very dark as it passes through woodland, farmland until you hit Pill (but it's helped by a Magicshine P7 which blasts through the darkness). As I know the route so well, my thoughts tend to wander. Maybe it's something to do with the dark and remoteness.

I spend part of the route talking to myself, for company more than anything else. I don't think I'm going crazy. It tends to keep me focussed. Once I hit the b-road and civilization, I shut up again.

Anybody else do this?

Ed

 

[Pickle]

Erm, no, I dont.

 

[lewis1641]

i sing. only when i'm alone though

 

[crafty]

i sing. only when i'm alone though

Yes, I think it's a similar process. When it's light and I'm around other people, I don't do it.

 

[lewis1641]

if nobody hears you then do you do actually do it?

what do you talk about? i think that is a better measure of insanity

 

[crafty]

Thinking out loud. Problem solving. Mostly ideas. In fact talking through something tends to lead to the right solution. I rebuild musical instruments as well as tinker with bikes. For songwriting, it's great place to get lyrics together.

 

[Dr S]

I sometimes sing. Usuually get something stuck inside my head for the day, does my head in. I don't talk to myself but i do give myself a load of verbal if I fook up a section or climb.

 

[letmetalktomark]

+1 for singing.

Occasional mutterer but no long dialogues

 

[Pickle]

I don't talk to myself but i do give myself a load of verbal if I fook up a section or climb.

Well, I could agree there, the occasional 'Ffffnuuurrrrr, godamnit, sonnnoffabbiiiii' does pop out of my mouth if a climb hurts me!

 

[pigman]

the occasional 'Ffffnuuurrrrr, godamnit, sonnnoffabbiiiii' does pop out of my mouth if a climb hurts me!

if you manage to say owt, then it aint hurting. When I'm struggling up a climb, I can barely get breath. You might be able to hear my chest rasping at best :roll: