People you work with.....that dont ride

[R0CKETMAN]

Be glad people you work with don't ride. This allows you to get the heck away from "work" on your off days....even though it's too damn hot to ride.

[Speedbag]

I get excited every time I have to take a dump.

Unless it's after 2 days of Taco bell.   

That usually warrants a different level of excitement, namely the random, frantic sprints to the bathroom....

[Duck-Stew]

Funny this should come up...I was at a biz lunch yesterday w/4 others 1 of which is my boss.  All 4 yapping away about  3 woods, fairways and the ilk.  One of our supplier reps turns to me,"You golf Stu?"   "Nope."   Table goes silent and I find 8 eyes looking at me like I don't know what I'm missing...  But, maybe I don't?  Been at least 12 years since I did that 9 holes.  Perhaps I'd like it now?!?  Maybe, but I don't think so...  I'd rather spend my free time actually away from work as mentioned above.

Can't helpmthinking of a sticker on my toolbox: F&ck this, let's ride!

[DucHead]

You'd be interested to know this uniform was given to me by the Captain of the Links
of St. Andrews in Scotland.  They invented the game there,  but they call it "gof" without the "L" as we do.

[ID_DUC_MON]

I work in a hospital, nursing in a sub-specialty clinic, I am surrounded by "white coats" who golf. Makes me want to puke, rofl. Lucky for me, two others in the nursing staff (soon to be third) and our unit clerk ride. Too bad they are big sofa bikes but at least I can talk about bikes at work. I am slowly steering them all to a least wear their gear, well except for the one HD riding RN (sigh).

It is fun sometimes when the MD's get on about being organ doners and such.

[WetDuc]

I like to ride the duc almost anytime, but golfing and fishing have a general conflict of interest with regards to weather........I choose fishing almost everytime.

[Pip]

I like to ride the duc almost anytime, but golfing and fishing have a general conflict of interest with regards to weather........I choose fishing almost everytime.

+1 on the fishing when not riding/working.

[metallimonster]

I think any sports can be exciting.  Watching a close last round of a Masters with the best golfers in the world is one of the most tense and exciting sporting events you can watch.  A lot like playoff football.  Every play is critical.

That being said, I ride the bike to get away, to relax, and to have fun.  To me golfing is not fun it is frustrating.

I did start playing disc golf this spring and go about 3 times a week now.  It cost me 40 bucks for all the equipment and almost every course is free. It also only takes me an hour to do 18 holes. Much easier than golf, and usually you're playing in the forest which is much nicer.  Basically its hiking with having something to do.  I love every minute of it and would suggest it to anyone.

[Airborne]

Hang this up at your desk...

[jim_0068]

I do both and play golf better than i ride since i teach golf as a second income and generally when i'm on can shoot in the low 70s or high 60s on the rare occasion. Best handicap was around a +2. I'll admit i really do love riding my S2R and since i don't have a lot of golfing buddies i tend to ride more than i golf.

[ducatiz]

Funny this should come up...I was at a biz lunch yesterday w/4 others 1 of which is my boss.  All 4 yapping away about  3 woods, fairways and the ilk.  One of our supplier reps turns to me,"You golf Stu?"   "Nope."   Table goes silent and I find 8 eyes looking at me like I don't know what I'm missing...  But, maybe I don't?  Been at least 12 years since I did that 9 holes.  Perhaps I'd like it now?!?  Maybe, but I don't think so...  I'd rather spend my free time actually away from work as mentioned above.

Can't helpmthinking of a sticker on my toolbox: F&ck this, let's ride!

a better answer would have been "... nope, I stopped when that study came out linking ED and golf..."

[sbrguy]

golf is one of those sports that is necessary for business since if you think about it, in many ways its good for older people.

the scoring is the only sport that has a "handicap" built into it, so that as you age and possibly get worse compared to when you were better due to lacking of speed flexibility, etc, you still have a marker point to shoot for.  then you can say you are "playing against" a score not an absolute score like as in a track time for running or such.

also comparatively you need athletic ability to play at the highest level and to be very good no doubt there, but to be just  very good or good, you don't need to be able to run 10 miles at a certain pace or work on aerobic capacity or fast twitch mucsles to be good for long, something that someone 50 or older may not be able to do or someoene that is overweight.

golf does take good hand eye coordination, flexibility and practice but from what i have heard from people is that the swing is the main thing and if you have that the power you will lose over time but you will still be very good if you have a great swing and less power over the years.

who knows.

[krolik]

I don't golf, I tried golfing a few times but never really got into it, but I do scuba dive. I recently got back into diving after a few years away from it.

Some of the things I love about riding are the sense of freedom you get, and the totality of concentration when you're railing on the twisties. You don't have the time to think about anything else but the road, so a lot of the everyday worries slide past for the duration of the ride.

Some of the things I like about diving are the sense of freedom, the underwater environment, and the relaxation of diving. When you have you buoyancy right, its like you're weightless, even though you have a bunch of gear on, you seem like you're flying. Also, like riding, you don't have the time to think about your everyday cares & worries.


As for work, I'm a driver for UPS, so I really don't have that much interaction with my co-workers, but I do have a few customers who ride, and follow racing, to BS with during the day.

[somegirl]

My co-workers and customers all seem to think it's pretty cool that I ride, even if they don't.  It's never been an issue for me.

And I know at least one golfer at work who has strapped his golf clubs to his back for commuting on his FZ1.

[NoisyDante]

golf is one of those sports that is necessary for business since if you think about it, in many ways its good for older people.

This is definitely true.  My recent experience with this was as I interviewed for my new job I learned the managing director was an avid golfer, so he and I did get into a nice conversation about that.  He is ultimately the one who will be promoting me in the future, so I can use golf to foster a good relationship.

Similarly, I picked up on the fact that the engineers in my future department ride (there were magazines and bike models all over the place, and one guys ringtone was a bike engine) so I brought up that common interest knowing they were the ones evaluating me.  They did end up giving me the thumbs up to the director.

It would seem having interest in both activities helped me out in this case.