Do you talk rubbish while you ride?

Liking all these. We like hacking much more than schooling in the dark so we now have a new schooling song which my nervous nellie seems to find reassuring - basically Mungo Jerry's "summertime" with changed words, along the lines of "in the summertime when the weather is fine, we go hacking, we go hacking all the time" and then a bit about why we have to prat around in the school in the dark. All I can say is thank god no-one has heard or, if they have, that they have been too polite to comment...
 
Pie's mum said:
Oh yes... And I do his voice too so we have a 2 way conversation... For example when Pie needed a wee...
'Do you need a wee?'
Pie: 'yes mum but not here'
'Just get on with it'
Pie: 'ahh this'll do'
'Is that better sweetheart?'
And with that there was a cough (or a snigger) behind me and a cyclist asked if it was safe to pass... Yep I think he heard it all....
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Haha me too!
 
I don't have a helmet cam (might be on the birthday list), but if I did it would capture all sorts of waffle. I talk to my pony constantly, mostly for my benefit because I can be nervous and it helps me relax and breathe!

I talk through what we're doing, usually in the form of a song (tunes vary) something along the lines of 'walking down the lane, watching out for scary things, we're walking down the lane and we're not going to die. We're walking down the lane, oh look there's a surprise pheasant, don't flap up please Mrs Pheasant, walking down the lane and we're not going to die!'

I also ask my pony questions and then do his voice as a reply. I talk to myself a lot anyway, and talk to my dog at length too. My whole family are fond of making up a song on the spot and I suppose I've got it from there.
 
Glad I'm not the only one who gets funny or suspicious looks when out hacking. I talk almost all the time - interspersed with bad songs.

"Oh look, there's a new road sign, is there a wolf behind it? be a big brave boy and have a look. OK stop and sniff it and then lets carry on."

"Oh did he make you jump, well I'm sure he's sorry for walking out of the front door of his house and starting his car. Don't be such a nelly about it. HAiry bog ponies should not be wet blankets."

"Its the red flappy flag of doom, we're going to walk past it today. Sideways in half pass is acceptable as long as you stay off the crop. How about doing that in the school some time?"
 
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