Sly Bald Guys Forum
Confidence and Success => Fitness/Diet => Topic started by: Clunkerider on December 14, 2009, 06:43:35 PM
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How many of you guys like cycling? I enjoy riding my mountain bike 5 miles to work and back a good eight months of the year and on the week ends I ride at a huge rural park by my home. I find it enjoybale to keep in shape. Any other cyclists out there? O0
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I like riding but don't get much of a chance lately. I'm not a serious bike rider, just recreational.
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mountain biking is the sh*t, i race Cat 1 mens 21-24 in Downhill, ride about 40-50 miles a week in the summer, hit the jumps in the afternoon which recently landed me with a broken ankle, but its snowing now so time to hang the bike up till spring and pull out the snowboard
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(https://www.slybaldguys.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ridemonkey.com%2Fforums%2Fpicture.php%3Falbumid%3D39%26amp%3Bpictureid%3D134&hash=09b70c17e1067f37596b14cea2bb0251a37641b7) yes bikes are fun
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basikbiker's photos make me wish my bones healed and my muscles recovered as fast as they did when I was 23 and maybe I'd try some of that stuff. Cool photos!
I've gone through phases where I've mainly been a commuter on a mountain bike, a roadie, a velodrome racer, or a mountain biker, depending on where I was living and working and where the trail or track was relative to all that. At one point, I had to get a part-time job in a bike shop because my other friends were sick of hearing me talk about cycling. ;-)
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Man I love to ride. I lost my license for a while and I had to ride for a while. I always liked riding for recreation but wasn't in to riding all the time for necessity. But I got a bike after I was tired of walking and I loved it. After a while I found out that I could go practically anywhere in town in a short amount of time. I may not have been as fast as a car but sometimes I was! It became like a sport to me. And the more I rode the more I got into shape. I am in the best shape of my life now. I ride bikes but I do light work outs too. I guess they are light most the time but I do heavy lifting sometimes and I always make sure I do push-ups and sit-up every other day. Riding a bike got me to feeling better and brought me into a better lifestyle. I have always taken good care of my body besides the fact that I smoke Camels but I never worked out much. Bu tman I can get on that bike and no one believes how fast I can get from one place to another and most people think I am crazy for riding such long distances. It has brought up my confidence and I believe it has helped my mind too. I can go on and on about the joys of biking but I got to go for now.
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An aspiring rider here! I used to be a recreational and commuting rider but it has been a while. Now I'm looking forward to getting into that old habit. I converted my old Kona mtb into a single-speed bike but I guess being a ten-year old aluminium bike it's better suited on-road. So I'm thinking of buying a new steel frame, maybe a 29er for single-track.
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I like road and mountain biking. I just don't get much time to do it right now. I wish I could ride to work, but I commute 40 miles on the interstate each way.
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Good that you posted this Clunke. I am getting a Schwinn for Christmas and I am very excited to be riding again. It's been a while but I used to have a Raleigh mtn. bike and I really enjoyed it.
I was able to get myself back into decent shape years ago, and found it's a great way to get cardio and enjoy being outdoors too.
basik, any tips on riding gear?, shorts, etc?, great pics by the way, looks like you rip!
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Great sport, the best one after football (soccer) actually...
I'm thinking of buying this one.
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(https://www.slybaldguys.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ridemonkey.com%2Fforums%2Fpicture.php%3Falbumid%3D39%26amp%3Bpictureid%3D134&hash=09b70c17e1067f37596b14cea2bb0251a37641b7) yes bikes are fun
I was doing that stuff in the canyons of San Diego in the 60's on a 20" Schwinn Sting Ray with a springer front end before it evolved to the sport it's become today. I healed much faster then! ;D
Now-a-days I love my Specialized mountain bike but for street/trail riding only. O0
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Great sport, the best one after football (soccer) actually...
I'm thinking of buying this one.
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I used to sell Trek bikes, and I'm on my second carbon Trek road bike (Madone 5.2), so I am totally biased, but the new Madones are great. It's light, the handling is precise, and the seatmast soaks up even speed bump-size bumps. I do not care for Bontrager cranks, but you can get a Shimano version.
I need to ride more this winter...
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I like biking very much. My avatar-pic has been taken on our bike tour in the Loire-valley in France last year.
Between 1984 and 1997 I commuted from April to September.
In Hamburg the combination bike and underground is the fastest way to come from A to B.
Now I try biking once or twice a week for two hours as exercise and work out for my heart.
J
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It's been a while since the last post for this topic, I just want to open again and share my biking experience that may help with other members too.
I have this SE Bikes Big Mountain 24-Speed D Hard Tail Mountain Bicycle (https://www.bicycleadvisor.com/best-mountain-bikes/). So far I have ridden just over 100 miles and I am very pleased with the bike. It has all the major features I was looking for without breaking the bank. Like all 29βers this is a large bike and at 5β 10β I purchased the 17β frame which is just right. My only negative is I found the saddle a little hard for my personal taste but I replaced it with a Blackburn Sport Trail Saddle also from Amazon which was more to my liking.
I cannot comment on how well this bike would fair in extreme conditions but if like me you mostly ride paths and easier off-road trails and you want a good bike with decent components at a reasonable price then add this to your shortlist.