How do you end your rides?

[rousseau]

I'm in a small city of 30,000. When I get back into town I do a standard route involving a victory lap along a lake and then doubling back to the centre of town along some pleasant residential streets. It's such an ingrained ritual that I couldn't imagine going straight home on a ride. It's also part of local group ride practice.

What I love about it is that the endorphins from the ride make me feel like I'm back from the wars. It helps that I'm in a charming touristy town. This is why my average speeds are never as high as they "should" be. Actually, I always take note of the average speed on my computer as I get back into town, because I know it's going to drop precipitously by the time I actually get home.

[CMiller]

Bikes piled against a wall, one person watches, the others get tacos and bring them outside. Mexican Coca Cola if we're feeling fancy.

[joosttx]

I celebrate by riding up a 15-20% grade hill to my home.

[cmg]

mexican coke on a summer day. can't beat it. same thing, on the weekend rides group lunch at a near by restaurant.

[jinbok]

Bikes piled against a wall, one person watches, the others get tacos and bring them outside. Mexican Coca Cola if we're feeling fancy.

:banana::banana::banana::banana:

[akelman]

In tears and curled in the fetal position.

[Black Dog]

With a smile on my face.

[JAGI410]

With beer

[ajhapps]

I usually stop pedaling.

But seriously... donuts!

[Kirk007]

I celebrate by riding up a 15-20% grade hill to my home.

me too. Except when I walk up the dirt road.

[weaponsgrade]

BITD after depleting myself, I'd end it with a super burrito, beer, the couch, and replays of whatever race I had Tivo'd earlier that day. Now, I hook up the kiddie trailer and rally again to pull kids and other gear through the park to the playground.

[rnhood]

Group lunch here. Sometimes have a crowd, sometimes just a few. But it's always a nice ending to a good ride.

[merlincustom1]

On group rides in the morning, at a coffee shop about 2 miles from home.

[oldpotatoe]

With beer

Huzzah!! Me too...hard to beat a really cold one, even after a cool/cold ride...turn up the heater in my wee bike shop, crack open a cold one, open paceline forum to see what drama is NOW unfolding...'pal'.:eek:

[Mzilliox]

just usually swing the leg over and exit. :bike:

[EDS]

Since most of my rides are in the early morning hours, I savor the last few minutes of my ride because once I get back home it is a mad dash to get myself ready for work and the kids up and ready for school.

[carpediemracing]

I used to live in a house that was at the bottom of a slight downhill and it had a 3 car wide flat driveway. I'd coast into the driveway as fast as I dared, apply only the front brake, unclip a foot, extend said foot out a touch, sort of sit on the top tube, and do a stoppie just in front of the door to the basement. Although I tapped the door gently a few times my goal was to do the stoppie less than an inch from the door. This meant hitting the brakes pretty hard just before I hit the door. After about 5 years of living there I got pretty consistent, and for the next 10 years that was my ritual for finishing my rides.

The stoppie isn't a motorcycle "rear wheel four feet in the air" kind of stoppie. It's just lifting the rear up enough that I can swivel the bike to once side before I put the rear wheel back down. I do this somewhat regularly even in normal riding, like rolling up to the car before/after a ride/race. I guess it's like a roadie's bunny hop compared to a mountain biker's bunny hop.

For the past 10 years I've lived in a house that has a driveway with a 20+% upgrade to the garage door (I measured the driveway with a level - 7 inches rise for 32 inches run). There is a 10+% downgrade leading to the driveway (speed limit 25, I try to stay under 28 mph, requires braking down about half of the downhill), there's a 180 degree turn just before the hard 90 degree to my (one lane wide) driveway. It's hard to maintain momentum through the two turns but my goal now is to nail the 180, turn as tightly as possible on the 90, and coast up to the garage door. I've only made it a couple times, usually I need to give it one downstroke in the last 10 feet to get to the opener.

[54ny77]

i usually enter the driveway which is lined with all the neighbors, various dignitaries and celebrities, balloons and banners everywhere as well as music playing. then i step up on a podium and am handed a participation trophy and two smoking hot podium girls plant a big smooch on my cheeks.

[El Chaba]

A group of people meets me and cleans me up a bit...I then climb a few steps before an adoring and cheering throng....Then beautiful women come out and fit me in a special jersey, hand me flowers, a trophy and a bottle of champagne-which I open and spray over the crowd.....wait..wuh?...Had I dozed off again?

[El Chaba]

54ny...we were typing at the same time...Haha...

[veggieburger]

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[Tickdoc]

I usually firs this bad boy up. Nothing better than hottub after a ride, unless it's summer, and then it is a dip in the pool.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/Handgod/8B12157B-C5F4-4C9E-B88B-0AAA8D4E3A3B_zpsl05kfrwy.jpg

[batman1425]

Typically nothing special, just head home whatever way is most appropriate based on the direction I decided to go that day. If the weather is nice and I have the spare time, I'll make a stop at the coffee shop half a mile from home for a latte or doppio.

[Black Dog]

I usually firs this bad boy up. Nothing better than hottub after a ride, unless it's summer, and then it is a dip in the pool.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/Handgod/8B12157B-C5F4-4C9E-B88B-0AAA8D4E3A3B_zpsl05kfrwy.jpg

Don't you worry about rust on the bike after a soak? ;)

[azrider]

My rides usually end with this

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[Drmojo]

then point to the sky
and
say
praise Jah for letting me ride another day:banana:

[geordanh]

sprint home cause I'm 15 minutes later than I said I'd be. open door. pickup screaming toddler while still in my bibs and jersey. Walk around the house for the next hour with my bibs on chasing kids and doing the dishes. Sometimes get a shower in which is nice. Binge on handfuls of cheerios and apple slices.

[redir]

I always ride down my street no handed singing Italian Opera's.

[93KgBike]

Get off the trainer at 01:00 and then a 10 minute full-on f@!$*ng feeding frenzy; 01:11, try to find a space I can shape myself into since all the kids are in our bed now.

[notsew]

sprint home cause I'm 15 minutes later than I said I'd be. open door. pickup screaming toddler while still in my bibs and jersey. Walk around the house for the next hour with my bibs on chasing kids and doing the dishes. Sometimes get a shower in which is nice. Binge on handfuls of cheerios and apple slices.

Haha, me too! Though I like to carry around a beer in the hand that's not holding a kid. :beer:

[Pastashop]

sprint home cause I'm 15 minutes later than I said I'd be. open door. pickup screaming toddler while still in my bibs and jersey. Walk around the house for the next hour with my bibs on chasing kids and doing the dishes. Sometimes get a shower in which is nice. Binge on handfuls of cheerios and apple slices.



That is my usual post-ride routine.

Until the last ride, which ended with my wife convincing me I needed to visit the ER. (She was right... the last two miles I did Tyler Hamilton style, on what turned out to be a broken collarbone; got some staples in the ER, too.)

Folks, keep it rubber side down!

[bironi]

Almost always ride with friends to a bar for beers. Indoors in winter, outdoors in summer. "Life is a little more honest after two beers", or the bull flows more freely.

[azrider]

I always ride down my street no handed singing Italian Opera's.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OZDuvbGeods/UUYICNjDgRI/AAAAAAAAE4Q/A3fkfDf0pdw/s1600/breaking+away.jpg

[charliedid]

I sprint to my apartment with my hands raised in victory.

I win every ride.

[joosttx]

me too. Except when I walk up the dirt road.

There a 70 or old Frenchman who lives above me. He got paunche. Usually in yellow but always with a red bandana on his head sans helmet. Well he quit riding up the hill some time this year. Instead he drives down the hill with his bike and starts from there. Anyway, every time I’m riding up and I see him driving up he offers me a tow. I take it. I think he’ll feel sad if I did not

[bironi]

There a 70 or old Frenchman who lives above me. He got paunche. Usually in yellow but always with a red bandana on his head sans helmet. Well he quit riding up the hill some time this year. Instead he drives down the hill with his bike and starts from there. Anyway, every time I’m riding up and I see him driving up he offers me a tow. I take it. I think he’ll feel sad if I did not

Nice!

[BumbleBeeDave]

. . . here. ;)

[casparwhittey]

At the local pub that sponsors our bike team of course :)

[kevinvc]

If I'm riding west of town, I usually stop by our sponsor's coffee shop and enjoy an americano; iced in the summer, hot otherwise.

When I get home I strip down to my bibs and do some stretching for about 5 or 10 minutes. Then it's another 5 or 10 minutes screaming on the foam roller.

[weisan]

Easy spin over the last 1/2 mile or so, cool down mentally as well as physically.
Express an inner gratitude for a safe ride.

[Frankwurst]

With beer

Yes. With beer.:beer:

[wc1934]

Coasting

[rwsaunders]

Mostly early morning solo riding here, so I just wind down during the last few miles home as I pass through a really awesome wooded area with a stream that never ceases to amaze me...four distinct seasons of color are displayed and there is always an abundance of wildlife on the lane. Now that our kids are off and about and I've hung up the soccer coaching cleats, I fire up the espresso machine and kick back with a latte or iced coffee depending on the season.

When cycling with one or two of my riding buds, we meet and end the ride at a LCS...local coffee shop. Shoot the breeze, solve the world's problems, interact with the retired LCS patrons, then I pedal five miles home...through the above referenced wooded area, enjoying perhaps another latte or iced coffee when I arrive home. I still can't figure out if it's about the bike or the coffee.

[brendonk]

When I have the time I like driving to my parents house and ride from there. I am able to get into the country in 4 minutes and ride all the roads I grew up on. Upon return I have a mile long cool down route that winds by my former high school, my elementary school, all my childhood friends homes, the hill that seemed huge once upon a time, follows parts of my paper routes, and of course my high school girlfriends house. Then I sit on the patio and like a couple others have mentioned, enjoy a Mexican Coke. Or two.

[onsight512]

up an 11% hill for me.

[rousseau]

Mexican Coke seems to be a theme here. I recall having Coke in Mexico because it was everywhere (and Mexicans drink it like mother's milk), and I thought it was good enough, but is it different than the Coke in the US or Canada?

I can't compare because I don't ever have Coke unless I'm having pizza, and I hardly ever eat pizza. I know it's a tasty soft drink and all, but it's so terrible for you. What gives?

[shovelhd]

US Coke is sweetened with corn syrup or artificial sweeteners. Mexican, European Coke is sweetened with cane sugar. It tastes completely different.

[Jaybee]

Mexican coke is still made with cane sugar, instead of HFCS. You do have to be careful though, I've seen HFCS coke served at taco trucks in the glass bottle. Not sure if coke is different in Canada or not.

[ultraman6970]

How do I end my rides??? Tired! :P

[redir]

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OZDuvbGeods/UUYICNjDgRI/AAAAAAAAE4Q/A3fkfDf0pdw/s1600/breaking+away.jpg

I knew someone would get it :D

It's funny though because that scene does get in my head like that sometimes.

[huck*this]

Kind of cheesy but I only use the Rapha shower gel after a ride. Day to day showers I use everyday soap. Cheesy I know, but to me rewarding and something to look forward to.

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[Mikej]

All of my rides are ended with my wife complaining about what the kids did while I was gone..

[beeatnik]

At fake dive bars.

Johnny's in Highland Park
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4549/38733709821_4fa0bf02b4_b.jpg
https://www.yelp.com/biz/johnnys-bar-los-angeles-2


The Bit of Bavaria in Arcadia
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8603/15708746917_dc34cdde65_b.jpg
https://www.yelp.com/biz/the-bit-arcadia

The Buccaneer in Sierra Madre
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8262/15178194564_accbefee25_b.jpg
https://www.yelp.com/biz/buccaneer-sierra-madre

[Matthew]

Nice Colnago. Very, very nice.

[bob heinatz]

I use to have a nice beer. But now I finish with a popsicle. Quite simple but it hits the spots.

[beeatnik]

Bob, it's all carbs. :beer: