Grr...

[Jiffer]

JUST DO IT!

Sorry! Had to say it!

I agree with the other posts. Find a riding buddy. Search one out at all costs! Surely there must be SOMEONE somewhere who you can ride with. Do you have a cycling club in your area?

I also like the motivation of an event to train for. Do you have a bike computer? Do you try to improve your riding by tracking your progress of speed and distance, how much easier a climb is getting, etc? Those kinds of things motivate me. I can't compare myself too much to other people, (since everyone I know is WAY better than me!) but I can compare myself to me and see my improvement and it spurs me on!

I say, tell yourself you're going for a ride tomorrow and just do it. Plan it. Decide where you're going. Get your stuff out before you go to bed. it doesn't have to be far or fast. Just something to get you out there.

I also agree with what someone else said in that you may be wanting more variety in your exercise. I can't understand why anyone would want to do anything other than cycling, but, you know! Whatever floats your boat! Do you like to run? Swim? Work out at the gym? Maybe you can still ride your bike, but add some variety if you aren't thrilled with doing the same thing all the time. (Which, of course, variety in your route, people you ride with, etc. helps). If you find a cycling club with set riding dates, maybe that will help. Planning you're going for a specific ride at a specific time.

Well, I hope we have encouarged you to get back on your bike. Let us know when you did and, hopefully, how exhilarating it was!

So, again I say ...

JUST DO IT!

[iFKA]

I had the same problem few months ago, but luckily I solved it and I hope you'll do it soon. My problem was that I had perhaps an hour or maximum two to ride per day and I rode the same 2 routes and it get pretty bored. I rode at the same time, the same place, same people and animals were along the way... terrible deja vu

Than I decided to change something... anything.
1) I started to ride at dawn, it was so refreshing, you couldn't believe it.

2) When it was to early for me to wake up cause I didn't have enough sleep I put my bike in a car and than drove to some furtherer mountain/place/lake and I drove my bike on and off the mountain/... I saved much time getting there with a car so I still had the time to do my chores/homework/gardening etc. The mileage I did per day was the same but it was much exciting

3) I persuade one friend of mine to ride with me (she borrowed my DH bike) and we ride the "old" route at much, much slower speed. But I had someone to talk with. After a while she fall in love with biking and bought herself a bike and now we ride a lot together, much faster, of course

I hope some of this will help you...

[echidna]

Relax and give yourself permission to have fun on a bike. Accept that ANYTHING might happen when you roll out the driveway - you might feel great, you might suck, you might have an epic ride, or it might be 5 miles. This day, your accomplishment is buckling up the helmet and going for it.
Sometimes it's easy to psyche yourself out of riding "today" because today isn't perfect enough, you're not going to set a PR, you only have time for the ride you can do, not the one you want to do (my bugaboo - used to be that if it wasn't 6 hours, it wasn't a ride, so I spent a miserable several months without much riding until I got THAT notion out of my system).

[lauraelmore1033]

Someone on this forum (don't remember who...) said something that kept me motivated to ride throughout this last winter. It was this: Just plan to go out for a ten minute ride three or four times a week. I found that if I just went out for a casual "spin around the block" I would just get caught up in how FUN it was to be on my bike and it would turn into a much longer ride. If you are anything like me, you might get caught up in all of the steps that need to happen in order to get out and do a "proper" bike ride; packing toolkits, packing extra tubes, packing water, checking tire pressures, finding this and that and whatever.... I tend to pack like I'm summiting Everest for some reason. But with the 10 minute directive, I'm not getting all hung up on all that stuff. I just grab the bike and go. I do hope you get your motivation back in any case.