Music to Ride Bikes To

[Bernie Monaghan]

Have you ever been to a spinning class where they play pretty lame and dated music. I'd love someone to put together a collection of Music to Ride Bikes To.

I'd be interested to hear other people's ideas on this. During our recent Mizen to Malin cycle, especially when we worked as a group on a pace line, rotating every couple of minutes, there was one song I couldn't get out of my head - it worked like a mantra,
The Noisettes 'Don't Upset the Rhythm', as in 'Go, baby, go baby, go, don't upset he rhythm' perfect!
Another one, of course, is Groove Armada's 'I see you baby..shaking that ass..'

Let me know if you have any favourites. How sad am I?? Answers on a postcard, NOT!

[StephenP]

Well you can go for music that has a certain beat the whole way through or you could choose music that explodes into adrenalin fuelled power - say standing at the top of a mountain in Majorca and getting ready to do a demon downhill. This is the one I play in my mind when I do that - "Bloodwork" by 36 Crazy Fists from their album 'A snow-capped Romance'. Also probably anything from those asylum escapees - Slipknot! If we are talking about favourite songs - I always associate 'Learn to fly' by the Foo Fighters from the album 'There is nothing let to lose' with my first cycle event - the Border Trek in 2002.