The post-ride buzz...

[slofox]

If I go ride of a morning, I come back feeling pretty buzzy for a couple of hours - much the same as I would get after hard exercise. And yet all I have done is sit on my arse and let the bike do all the work. So I can't pin it on endorphins generated by hard physical exercise. Which makes me wonder where it comes from...(where are the physiologists when ya need 'em?)

Anyone else get like that? Or is it just another symptom of incipient gagahood..?

[duckonin]

Like your dancing Fox, you have been in the 'zone':yes:

[SMOKEU]

For me that thrill probably comes from multiple near death experiences which I frequently encounter on my rides.

[aprilia_RS250]

Adrenalin residue in your veins man

[one fast tl1ooo]

The fear of death

[george formby]

Focus grasshopper, focus. Give your body to your mind. give your mind to your senses. Let your senses fly free.

So say Confucius formby.

[Banditbandit]

Yeah mate .. I commute to work on the bike and I'm still smiling when I leave to go home ... best way to start the day I know .. 'cept of course for the horizintal bop .. but you can have both ..

[slofox]

Good comments all through...

I dunno if it is adrenalin or fear of death or multiple near-death experiences although those all happen from time to time. Focus grasshopper focus? Yeah - I think that's got quite a lot to do with it. Specially just letting the bike do the work - getting to be at one with the machine. Relaxing into the corners, hanging on with your knees instead of your hands - all the usual yadda yadda...just tuning in real close with the bike. I think that has a lot to do with it.

But it sure perks up the start of the day :sunny:

[Maha]

Treat your bike like a new girlfriend.:yes:
And no, I dont mean hop on three times a day at take her to heaven and back. :shifty:
I mean take her home to meet your mum. :mellow:

[george formby]

Good comments all through...

I dunno if it is adrenalin or fear of death or multiple near-death experiences although those all happen from time to time. Focus grasshopper focus? Yeah - I think that's got quite a lot to do with it. Specially just letting the bike do the work - getting to be at one with the machine. Relaxing into the corners, hanging on with your knees instead of your hands - all the usual yadda yadda...just tuning in real close with the bike. I think that has a lot to do with it.

But it sure perks up the start of the day :sunny:

A good run on the bike is one of the few things that totally clears your mind of day to day clap trap (:shit:). Bliss.

[slofox]

A good run on the bike is one of the few things that totally clears your mind of day to day clap trap (:shit:). Bliss.

Yeah. Now we're getting close. I tell people it keeps me sane...

[slofox]

I mean take her home to meet your mum. :mellow:

Ahhhhhh...me mum's been dead for over thirty years...would the gf do instead?

[Spazman727]

Ahhhhhh...me mum's been dead for over thirty years...would the gf do instead?

I don't know if it would be a good idea to take your new girlfriend home to meet your girlfriend. One or both of them might hit you. :shit:

[slofox]

I don't know if it would be a good idea to take your new girlfriend home to meet your girlfriend. One or both of them might hit you. :shit:

Oh. Ya reckon?...spose ya could be right there...

[tamarillo]

endorphins are stimulated by all sorts of things - hey good sex can be almost motionless!
Worried some seem to need near death to experience it - you need work guy!

[ellipsis]

its what we ride for, dont worry about trying to pin a tag on it....you can be guaranteed that cagers dont feel that way....a few hours riding with my girl and the same thing happens.....a day of racing and the feeling lasts a week, whether ya bruised ya arse and tore yer leathers or got away unscathed....

[vifferman]

It's "being in the zone", i.e., spending a significant amount of time using the right hemisphere of your brain. It's just a nice place to be (and probably why I feel less than stellar, seeing as I haven't ventured out on two wheels since...hrmmm... June 15th.:blink:)
Blardy shoulder - heal you bastidge! Heal, dammit! :angry:
What's the good of having a New! IMPROVED!! Now with added zim and less misbehaving!! heart, if all I can test it out on is walking, and other such pedestrian activities.
"GrrrRRR!!!" and all that...
I've a good mind to ask the surgeon for a refund of the "$115 for the use of power tools", seeing physio is going to cost me around $240.


Anyway - enjoy your rides and suchlike - at least I can attempt to live vicariously, seeing the real living is some weeks off in the future....