It's all down to what music, I think
A friend of mine recently did some insane bench presses, while having some Berzerker playing in his ears, said it certainly made it a bit more fun.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 25 Jan 2011, 11:43, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

I tried it with all sorts of music
and I just got bored no matter what. I have a pretty low boredom threshold though.

Strangely however, I can swim with no music happily for like 40 minutes. If I had music I could do it all day.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 25 Jan 2011, 11:50, Reply)

I can (when fitter) cycle for hours without music if it's out in the countryside
Of course I don't listen to music while cycling on roads, that's just fucking stupid.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 25 Jan 2011, 11:54, Reply)

fortunately my route to work takes me down my residential and quiet road, across a busy one
and then the rest of it is parks, and cyclepaths that are away from the road, which is nice.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 25 Jan 2011, 11:56, Reply)

My work route is 75% main roads
So no music at all. The extra 6 miles is a country cycle path, so I can stick headphones in then.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 25 Jan 2011, 11:59, Reply)

that's gay
I hate cycling on main roads. I always find the buses go out of their way to scare the shit out of cyclists.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 25 Jan 2011, 12:03, Reply)

Busses are cunts no matter what sort of road user you are.
Turning right at a roundabout in Uxbridge, just up from the bus station is always infuriating. The bus drivers always try to batter their way over the roundabout without giving way.

The amount of fingers I have to issue as I go by is rapidly developing into truly staggering numbers.
( Kroney, Tue 25 Jan 2011, 12:12, Reply)

Part of my route is by the high school and college
I no longer cycle there during the school run times, as when it's not buses trying to kill me it's hordes of teenagers stepping into the road in front of me.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 25 Jan 2011, 12:16, Reply)

I feel your pain
I have to cycle through campus every morning - it's so bad in freshers week I am constantly tempted to mow them down.
(berk, Tue 25 Jan 2011, 12:18, Reply)

As a car driver in a relatively low speed manouevre
I'm pretty happy to risk them running into me, so I refuse to let them win. If I were a cyclist, it'd be pretty scary.
( Kroney, Tue 25 Jan 2011, 12:26, Reply)

Of course you can have music on - I do
just make sure you can hear the traffic over it.
(berk, Tue 25 Jan 2011, 12:04, Reply)

My earphones are inner ear, sound isolation ones
Plus if I can hear stuff over the music, then I'm not listening to it.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 25 Jan 2011, 12:14, Reply)