I've posted my car in here before... but my wife and I bought bikes and have biked a combined 50+ miles in 9 days of owning them. Help the environment, save gas money, get exercise... all in one... it's a smooth ride. I bought a cushy seat and a bag for it. Good stuff. Run all my errands on it now. (grocery store is only 2 1/2 miles away) However, going to the liquor store makes me feel slightly like a dude with a DUI or something. Oh well...
treat24
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Redskins Win wrote:I'm sorta fat so I roll down hill pretty good
Uh, hello? Where the heck have you been. This is your first post in 7 months and you just casually start posting as if it was yesterday? What's the dealio?
Redskins Win wrote:I'm sorta fat so I roll down hill pretty good
Uh, hello? Where the heck have you been. This is your first post in 7 months and you just casually start posting as if it was yesterday? What's the dealio?
Good to have you back.
yeah . . . that's right
yeah i've had an unusual year, i don't know that i'm fully back but it's cool to come back and see everyone still posting
and if i remember correctly you pulled a disappearing act once and came back right around the same time i kind of chilled out.
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Redskins Win wrote:I'm sorta fat so I roll down hill pretty good
Uh, hello? Where the heck have you been. This is your first post in 7 months and you just casually start posting as if it was yesterday? What's the dealio?
Good to have you back.
yeah . . . that's right
yeah i've had an unusual year, i don't know that i'm fully back but it's cool to come back and see everyone still posting
and if i remember correctly you pulled a disappearing act once and came back right around the same time i kind of chilled out.
Yeah, knapp and I have long since kissed and made up. I came to realize that the rift was mostly my fault, so I apologized. I still stick to my convictions, but I try to be a little more diplomatic about things. Sometimes I'm successful, other times I'm not.
Hope you stick around, the cafe missed you. It's slow on the weekends, but come Monday I'm sure you'll be bombarded with people asking about you.
BTW, moonhead is now posting under "Mad Hatter". Although he would never admint it, I think he was trying to fool us (or start fresh) by switching handles. His lower case letters and lack of proper punctuation quickly gave him away, though. Although obviously intelligent, a criminal mastermind, he's not.
treat24 wrote:mine is blue and has different handlebars
I've posted my car in here before... but my wife and I bought bikes and have biked a combined 50+ miles in 9 days of owning them. Help the environment, save gas money, get exercise... all in one... it's a smooth ride. I bought a cushy seat and a bag for it. Good stuff. Run all my errands on it now. (grocery store is only 2 1/2 miles away) However, going to the liquor store makes me feel slightly like a dude with a DUI or something. Oh well...
Ride it too much and it hurts your junk. Seriously.
So you got a handlebar bag eh? Something like this perhaps?
Redskins Win wrote:I'm sorta fat so I roll down hill pretty good
Uh, hello? Where the heck have you been. This is your first post in 7 months and you just casually start posting as if it was yesterday? What's the dealio?
treat24 wrote:I've posted my car in here before... but my wife and I bought bikes and have biked a combined 50+ miles in 9 days of owning them. Help the environment, save gas money, get exercise... all in one... it's a smooth ride. I bought a cushy seat and a bag for it. Good stuff. Run all my errands on it now. (grocery store is only 2 1/2 miles away) However, going to the liquor store makes me feel slightly like a dude with a DUI or something. Oh well...
Get a travel computer for it. Hooks up to the front wheel and has an LCD display that attaches to the handle cross bar. They come in varying degrees of complexity. Mine tracks total miles ridden, miles for the current ride, current MPH, average MPH for current ride, highest MPH ever (37 mph on a mountain bike is flying), current ride time, total ride time, etc. It's nice for keeping an eye on how your exercise is going. I don't think they make any that can get Internet access though.
treat24 wrote:I've posted my car in here before... but my wife and I bought bikes and have biked a combined 50+ miles in 9 days of owning them. Help the environment, save gas money, get exercise... all in one... it's a smooth ride. I bought a cushy seat and a bag for it. Good stuff. Run all my errands on it now. (grocery store is only 2 1/2 miles away) However, going to the liquor store makes me feel slightly like a dude with a DUI or something. Oh well...
Get a travel computer for it. Hooks up to the front wheel and has an LCD display that attaches to the handle cross bar. They come in varying degrees of complexity. Mine tracks total miles ridden, miles for the current ride, current MPH, average MPH for current ride, highest MPH ever (37 mph on a mountain bike is flying), current ride time, total ride time, etc. It's nice for keeping an eye on how your exercise is going. I don't think they make any that can get Internet access though.
I ride too. 37 mph is flying. The fastest I've ever gotten up to on my "Specialized" was like 27. The computer is pretty nice and they're inexpensive too. Mine was only $20. In addition to what you mentioned, some computers tell you how many calories you burn. It's a neat little gadget.
Don't know about his comfy seat though... If you wear proper shorts, you don't need it. Oh, and you don't have to buy the nut hugger shorts. You can get Mountain bike shorts that look like regular shorts except they have a built in shammy. That's what I wear normally. Of course if you run a lot of errands on your bike, you might want to stick with comfy seat and regular pedals. If you go off road a lot and ride primarily as a hobby, you'll almost certainly want to invest in some clipless pedals. Once you try them, you'll never go back.