Try our helpful quiz to discover what sort of cyclist you are.
1. When you go out for a ride, do you like to cycle:
a) to the local pub
b) at least 200 miles
c) a 40-50 mile round trip including Second Breakfast
2. When you think of a cycling holiday, would you book:
a) Cycling For Softies, down the Dordogne all the way
b) an intensive boot camp on Tenerife
c) something that combines a bit of a challenge with a mix of hotels
3. What is your ideal cycling road:
a) a towpath so I can cycle along on my own and look at the butterflies
b) perfect tarmac so I can do time-trials – I get up early on Sunday and use our local bypass
c) a small road with not much traffic so we can cycle along side by side and not get in anyone’s way
4. When is the best time to drink beer:
a) instead of cycling
b) only at the end of the competition season
c) after cycling
5. What is your attitude to the Tour de France:
a) sorry what is that?
b) I want to do it some day, or at least an Etape, I’m training hard for that
c) I watch it avidly on the television
6. How many bikes do you have?
a) none, or actually I think I do have one at the back of the garage somewhere
b) I have a few but I need at least one more
c) one and I am very fond of it
So how did you score?
Mostly a): you are a sofa-dweller of the worst sort, please go and make friends with The Collective
Mostly b): sorry you are too hard-core for us, we will watch with interest as you whoosh past us up some of the steeper inclines wearing your club lycra kit
Mostly c): you are an excellent middle-of-the-road cyclist, we hope you will post comments on this blog to help motivate and inform us.
Please post more ideas for questions here so we can make this quiz even more insightful…