Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Is Bicycling just for leftist, liberal, dems?

Trump swore he would never get on one. I suppose he isn't amenable to it since he is overweight and has always tried to project a persona of fabulous wealth to which bicycling doesn't contribute anything. Therefore he could ridicule his opponent's choice to ride one. I suppose that Trumps personal rejection of bicycling has made it less popular among his fans, but Trump has not been the standard setter for conservatives.

Bicycling suffers from affiliation with urban centers, almost all of which are hard left. I read about bicycle culture in cities like Portland, and it sounds like it would be wonderful for cyclists, but I can't help but think that it is a package-deal. The culture is inevitably socialist, pro-perversion, pro-death, pro-welfare statism, keynesian, anti-gun, and anti-Christ. Bicycling is also favored by environmentalists and other misanthropists. Does this mean it's anathema to conservatives?

Looky who’s back.

What a steaming pile of hot garbage.

You took a break from the Alaskan wilderness to get drawn into a bike argument thread😂

op is a [bleep]. has to be.

Hold on. It was a question, not an assertion. You are evidently a cyclist, so tell me what you think. I've got the impression that you think the answer to the question I posed in the original post is no, but how would you describe cycling culture in the US? First, can cycling culture be characterized as predominantly liberal or conservative? Second, is cycling a significant aspect of conservative culture?

He meant you, not your question….

No…..it just seems that way, because the vast majority of bicyclists are far left loons! memtb

Riding a bicycle cured my sleepwalking.

Not where I'm from. Red blooded, Trump voting Americans.

Conservatives don't have time for cycling. They are too busy working and raising their kids.

who elected you to arbitrate what is or isn't "conservative"??

and what does working have to do with being conservative? as in having a job... what's the correlation?

if i'm successful financially enough not to work, i still need to work so i can have more time with my kids?

retiree's that ride bike aren't conservative?

sitting in your car to get to work is acceptable, but riding a bike to work isn't?

i can't follow ur logic.

BikeForums.net sure seems to lean that way.

I've read that guys who lift weights tend to lean right. I don't remember any specifics of the survey, but I'm sure it's out there.

I own a bunch of bikes and ride quite a bit. For me cycling replaced running which isn't near as fun anymore due to injuries.

Personally I consider myself pretty far right.

BikeForums was an invaluable resource when I was prepping my bike and myself for my first cross-continent ride eight years back.

At that time there were topics in the General Discussion forum concerning where to keep a handgun while riding which prompted one guy to state how sick he was of “I ride and I carry” threads

There was talk at the time of opening a “2nd Amendment” forum, I looked just now, didn’t see one.

On the topic of bicycles, I believe Edward Abbey scored two out of three when he wrote the six pack, the bicycle and the pickup truck were among man’s greatest inventions 😎

WJ,

would you rather walk to work, or carry your lunch?

Quien Sabe,


GWB

It seems like teaching them to ride a bike is an important step in raising kids. It doesn't have to end at age 4 or 5 either. I've taken my sons in their early teens cycle touring and bikepacking. We've seen some of America's cities, national parks, and best wildnerness areas that way. I think it has been an influential part of raising them and I hope they continue to enjoy cycling after they get jobs and driver's licenses. I know they will at least have more regard for cyclists than some motorists.

Cycling, running, and hte other endurance activities skew left, no doubt. Strength activities skew right. This is best explained with testosterone levels. High T moves iron, low T runs about or rides their bike. FTR, right wing politics are high T, and left wing are low T. "Soyboy" is a meme for a reason.

But I don;t think cycling is anathema to "conservatives."

Despite having rode a bike to work for a few years, I get annoyed by most the bike commuter weenies. Lefty urban low T soyboys with no muscle mass preaching about how virtuous they are riding their bike to work and for everything. Thus, posting their Ls indicating they have no family and live in an urban warren.

I think as far as cycling, road cycling leans the farthest left (they are also the most allergic to weights), Triathletes probably run a little more center and mountain bikers and gravel probably have the most right politically.

For some reason I always enjoyed endurance events. I'm not good at them compared to people who take them seriously, but I do enjoy them. As far as strength workouts I usually choose to do kettle bells before traditional weight lifting, even if it isn't as effective at building strength.