Video: Roy Keane on his non love affair with "20 stone cyclists" | Sticky Bottle

Roy Keane has opened up about his exercise regime after retiring from soccer, specifically outlining his views on cycling and cyclists.

Many celebrities have taken up cycling in the bike boom. Among them are former athletes who have swapped their own sport for the bike.

But don’t expect former Man United, Celtic and Ireland footballer Roy Keane to get the bike bug any time soon.

Keane has been speaking to former rugby player Donncha O’Callaghan about how he lives post-retirement from sport. The interview was for Virgin Media TV documentary.

And Keane makes it quite clear that cycling – indeed any new sport – is simply not for him.

“I still like to get up early,” Keane told O’Callaghan of life after he stopped playing top flight soccer.

“I’ll still like to do some sort of physical exercise. But I wouldn’t be going to the gym or going cycling or swimming or joining clubs or lifting weights or anything like that.

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“I think ‘that was great, that was part of my life’. And I was passionate about it. But I just found passion for other things now.

“I’ve done my time. I don't do any running. I see people out cycling and think 'maybe I should buy a racer?' But I wouldn't be into all the gear and the glasses.

“I look at people about 20 stone out cycling and say ‘what’s the point in you cycling?' I still have that mindset; forgetting the fact that maybe they enjoy it.”

It was also clear that bringing his children to school was done in a traffic jam; in a car and definitely not by bike.

“I drive the kids to school and I’m stuck in traffic going like 'is this my life?' Well, yeah; ‘you've to sit in traffic for an hour or two like millions of other people’.”