No, not "recycling", but tunes that help keep the rhythm going when pedalling. I cycle the 12 miles to work 2 or 3 times a week and often find a tune going in my head as I ride. It certainly helps, both on the flat and uphill. It seems to be completely random which tune it is, but it's usually a reel.
Anyone got any favourite cycling/running/jogging/any other activity tunes??
I chew my food in time to a tune in my head.
If I walk I walk in time to the tune.
If I pedal my bike the pedals turn
In time to the tune in my head.
It may be like this until I am dead.
Like Mozart walking the streets of Vienna,
Scarlatti over the hills of Sienna,
There’s always an air
in the air, in my ear,
Crying, release me, do. Oh! Set me free.
Awake or sleeping, laughing or weeping,
Sometimes fast and sometimes slow:
A curse or a blessing I’d like to know.
Yep. On last year's cyling tour of the Brecon Beacons, it was Praise my Soul the King of Heaven, this year Oh God Our Help in Ages Past.
I don't know why it's hymns - there just seems to be something about the rhythm that helps me keep turning the pedals when the hills get steep and long.
As, I suspect, with many others, I have to say, I have a tune of some sort in my head well nigh permanently.
I think that maybe if you live in a flat place, this could be be OK. But I live in an uppy downy place and the one thing you can't be doing while cycling around is keeping a steady rhythm.
I ride to work 3-4 times a week - about a 30 mile round trip (skiting) and any music but ITM doesn't work for me. Lately I've found William Coulter's Celtic Sessions has been quite easy for the riding. I get absorbed trying to work out the tune he's called "Donegal Reel" that doesn't seem to be...
There is a couple from Boston, Matt and Shannon Heaton, whose newest CD, amongst the trad, actually has a nice little song about bicycling on it.......
Max, I seem to favor reels, too. I've only got a 3 mile commute, but it's where I work out the tune o' the week in my head. Must be all that blood rushing to my brain, but the bowings anf phrasing are revealed by the time I get to town. Unfortunately, I have a whole work day to get through before I can go home and try things out. Sometimes I forget.
I have decided that I need one of those little USB ports in my head so that I can back up specific trains of thought on a nerd stick for further contemplation.
Mr. Gill, your pedal cadence should be the same even in uppy-downy terrain! Unless, of course, you have only one gear.
(Tune O' the Week: Moran Creek Reel)
cycling tunes
cycling tunes
No, not "recycling", but tunes that help keep the rhythm going when pedalling. I cycle the 12 miles to work 2 or 3 times a week and often find a tune going in my head as I ride. It certainly helps, both on the flat and uphill. It seems to be completely random which tune it is, but it's usually a reel.
Anyone got any favourite cycling/running/jogging/any other activity tunes??
Max
# Posted on August 19th 2007 by maxF
I chew my food in time to a tune in my head
I chew my food in time to a tune in my head.
If I walk I walk in time to the tune.
If I pedal my bike the pedals turn
In time to the tune in my head.
It may be like this until I am dead.
Like Mozart walking the streets of Vienna,
Scarlatti over the hills of Sienna,
There’s always an air
in the air, in my ear,
Crying, release me, do. Oh! Set me free.
Awake or sleeping, laughing or weeping,
Sometimes fast and sometimes slow:
A curse or a blessing I’d like to know.
# Posted on August 19th 2007 by cocus
Re: cycling tunes
Oh cocus, That is beautiful! Will make me smile all day...
# Posted on August 19th 2007 by oriley
Re: cycling tunes
Yep. On last year's cyling tour of the Brecon Beacons, it was Praise my Soul the King of Heaven, this year Oh God Our Help in Ages Past.
I don't know why it's hymns - there just seems to be something about the rhythm that helps me keep turning the pedals when the hills get steep and long.
As, I suspect, with many others, I have to say, I have a tune of some sort in my head well nigh permanently.
# Posted on August 19th 2007 by benhall.1
Re: cycling tunes
There's a tune called Byker Hill. Or Peddlar's Punch (by Ed Reavy)
# Posted on August 19th 2007 by RichardB
Re: cycling tunes
Er....
# Posted on August 19th 2007 by maxF
Re: cycling tunes
a bicycle made for two
# Posted on August 19th 2007 by dickens metrognome
Re: cycling tunes
You need the propulsive effect of a banjo to get you up that hill
I recommend any "Hom bru" record with Gary Peterson,
http://www.hombru.co.uk/garypeterson.htm
or Ceili Bandits with Kevin Griffin
# Posted on August 19th 2007 by Bren
Re: cycling tunes
I think that maybe if you live in a flat place, this could be be OK. But I live in an uppy downy place and the one thing you can't be doing while cycling around is keeping a steady rhythm.
# Posted on August 20th 2007 by llig leahcim
Re: cycling tunes
Nice poem. cocus!
I ride to work 3-4 times a week - about a 30 mile round trip (skiting) and any music but ITM doesn't work for me. Lately I've found William Coulter's Celtic Sessions has been quite easy for the riding. I get absorbed trying to work out the tune he's called "Donegal Reel" that doesn't seem to be...
# Posted on August 20th 2007 by Mairtin Lom
Re: cycling tunes
I use the gold ring to get the rhythm up a climb; then settle into what ever tune I'm trying to learn.
Nothing more irritating to other riders than whistling a tune while you are climbing.
Go Ride
# Posted on August 20th 2007 by I_Fel
Re: cycling tunes
completely agree with the autor. Even when I Walk, i often have a tune in my head, and i walk in rythme!!
# Posted on August 20th 2007 by RoLuPiN
Re: cycling tunes
There is a couple from Boston, Matt and Shannon Heaton, whose newest CD, amongst the trad, actually has a nice little song about bicycling on it.......
# Posted on August 20th 2007 by AlBrown
Re: cycling tunes
Max, I seem to favor reels, too. I've only got a 3 mile commute, but it's where I work out the tune o' the week in my head. Must be all that blood rushing to my brain, but the bowings anf phrasing are revealed by the time I get to town. Unfortunately, I have a whole work day to get through before I can go home and try things out. Sometimes I forget.
I have decided that I need one of those little USB ports in my head so that I can back up specific trains of thought on a nerd stick for further contemplation.
Mr. Gill, your pedal cadence should be the same even in uppy-downy terrain! Unless, of course, you have only one gear.
(Tune O' the Week: Moran Creek Reel)
# Posted on August 20th 2007 by Batlady
Re: cycling tunes
I ate me mate Ray's veggie curry to "the Rock of Cashel" today, Caw Caw Poopoochow!!!! Diddle diddle ye ye diddle
# Posted on August 20th 2007 by copo24
Re: cycling tunes
What about "Kid on the Mountain Bike"?
*ducks*
# Posted on August 20th 2007 by treecipitation
Re: cycling tunes
Wheels of the World, Ride On.
# Posted on August 21st 2007 by curlew