Keeping oneself in check

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I like riding this motorcycle a lot, I mean obsessively a lot.
I have needed new tires for a while now. Apparently I don't have the willpower to stop riding.
So yesterday I removed the wheels and tires to keep from making excuses to continue to ride (like I'm just going around town).
I will be able to get new ones around the first of July.
Anyone else have to do something like this to keep themselves in check?
Kevin

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Yes. I made myself a promise to try to hit a 10:1 ratio of miles put on the CB1100 to miles I put on my road bicycle. So far I think I am close this spring/summer, although I am not compulsive about recording/checking. Helps to stay in shape, and in many ways my bicycle riding informs my motorcycle riding and vice versa.

You can try all these metrics but in the end going by what your body and mind tell you works a lot better.

I also road cycle and was very dedicated to it for several years. Rode about 500 miles a month and lots of climbing, averages about 100 vertical feet per mile where I ride.

I found that when I took up motorcycling again the road cycling was detrimental. Such a totally different discipline. The only way I was helped is that I could smoke most traditional roadies on descents because of my racetrack experience.

Studies now show that heavy aerobic excercise sessions actually create a high level of chronic fatigue and that is just how I felt for those years of serious cycling. That's why all these pros use doping, the human body cannot endure that type of torture.

About 30 minutes of resistance training 3X week is better for you. Track days are brutal; I'm in anaerobic the whole 15 minute session, HR at about 160. That's six sessions a day. Takes a few days to recover but overall I feel a lot better than I did when I was cycling.

Just ride your motorcycle if that's what you like. Ride your bicycle if that's what you like. Do both. Watch TV. Do what you like to do.

BTW, finding excuses to ride is what we motorcyclists do. I'm always finding excuses to ride. Why own a bike otherwise?