Totally lost the desire to ride!

[OakLeaf]

I'm going the other direction actually ... after a long near total hiatus I'm on my way partially back. I don't know if I will ever be all the way back. But since I'm the one with the limitations, the burden's on me to ask my old riding buddies to join me for whatever distance, terrain and pace I feel up to, if I want company. I can't expect them to guess, or conclude anything about the friendship if they get frustrated with guessing wrong.

[Catrin]

I'm going the other direction actually ... after a long near total hiatus I'm on my way partially back. I don't know if I will ever be all the way back. But since I'm the one with the limitations, the burden's on me to ask my old riding buddies to join me for whatever distance, terrain and pace I feel up to, if I want company. I can't expect them to guess, or conclude anything about the friendship if they get frustrated with guessing wrong.

This is a good way to look at it. I've tried this a few times but it doesn't seem like there is any interest in the shorter distances. I am shy (as hard as that is to believe) in person. I try not to conclude anything about the friendship but it is very hard since I never hear from them otherwise. Right now having company helps to get me out the door on my bike, but neither do I want to keep bugging them if they simply aren't interested on my short distances. There are a couple of weekend CIBA rides that I like that have shorter distances, so far they seem to land on days when it is raining...

[kajero]

Uhmm, perhaps my desire to ride has returned -- especially after riding 7.5 miles with the front brake on. I didn't realize it. I should have because it has happened before. . I had to walk up hills I never had to before. Had to slow way down on the flat parts and took a million rest stops. Most of the ride was done in the lowest granny gear. I thought maybe, because I hadn't been riding very often, I was just really out of shape. I track my rides, but I have no idea how to track this one. LOL. I now want to go on another ride that is not so hard!

Oh, I have had the bike in the shop twice for this problem. There doesn't seem to a permanent fix. I just have to remember to check it when we take the bike of the bike rack. That seems to be when it happens.