Murphy's Laws of Cycling

[Tater]

When pedaling hard enough that it requires one to breathe with one's mouth hanging open, the amount of gnats, no-seeums, or other little flying protein sources multiplies exponentially. Then one spends the remainder of the ride swishing water around trying to un-stick them from the front teeth, or wiping them from sweaty arms and face!

[kermit]

It's 95 degrees in the shade and you flat two miles into your "long" ride. You sweat so much you can't see what your doing to change the tube. Oh then there's the unexpected visit from "Aunt Flo". Mother nature is sometimes so cruel.

[PinkBike]

it is be-yoooo-tiful all week long, til your scheduled saturday and sunday rides.

[zoom-zoom]

it is be-yoooo-tiful all week long, til your scheduled saturday and sunday rides.

Too true! I was planning on a 2 hour ride this Sunday...but high temp is supposed to be about 40 with a mix of rain/snow/wind. I don't mind a run in that weather, but not a bike ride...brrr.... The whole weekend is supposed to be gross after a gorgeous week. *sigh*

[marni]

When pedaling hard enough that it requires one to breathe with one's mouth hanging open, the amount of gnats, no-seeums, or other little flying protein sources multiplies exponentially. Then one spends the remainder of the ride swishing water around trying to un-stick them from the front teeth, or wiping them from sweaty arms and face!

On a recent cross country we named that the human fly paper syndrome (hfps). The warmer and hotter the day and the more applications of sun screen required, the more gnats, no see um's and various other small insects will coat every surface of your body and require scraping off before you can apply more sun screen, and the less likely you are to have anything other than bare hands or a bent stick to scrape them off with.

marni lol