I *love* riding a bike

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  • queenliz99
    queenliz99 Posts: 15,317 Member
    Yes, I love riding my bike. It's freeing!!
  • narak_lol
    narak_lol Posts: 855 Member
    Did I hear somebody talking about bikes?!

    Another 32km then I will reach 8000km with 72,572m elevation (5000 miles with 238,097 feet ) this year.

    @Machka9 I love your pics and story! Totally awesome and super sweet!
  • NorthCascades
    NorthCascades Posts: 10,968 Member
    CincyNeid wrote: »
    This is my dream bike.... If I go fat I'm going all out and getting FS.

    This is my dream bike, but I still need an MTB and good wheels for my Grade.

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  • CarlydogsMom
    CarlydogsMom Posts: 645 Member
    Geez, still learning tablet process on these photo uploads... Anyway love mountain biking
    Live in AArizona mmountains
  • niblue
    niblue Posts: 339 Member
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    I'm more of a mountain biker than a road cyclist but here's a picture of my wife and I with our road bikes, doing some cycling in Munich a few weeks back.
  • French_Peasant
    French_Peasant Posts: 1,639 Member
    I love my pink Electra cruiser! I ride all over the city with it, and carry all kinds of stuff in my cute wicker basket, which is particularly nice for farmer's market trips. It's impossible to make it go too fast, so I ride at the same pace as my young children. However....however.....I have my old Marlin, loaded with hand-me down goodies from my husband, languishing on a rack in the garage...its siren song has been getting louder and louder as I look to push myself harder. I used to spend an entire day on that thing, on the roads or back in the woods, on such hills as we have around here or on flat but very technical singletrack, before kids. I think it's probably time for a tune up at the bike shop, and I wonder where my padded shorts, my gloves, and the shoes for my clipless pedals have gone....
  • French_Peasant
    French_Peasant Posts: 1,639 Member
    niblue wrote: »
    CincyNeid wrote: »
    A Bicycle is a curious piece of machinery. It's the only mode of transportation that it's passenger is also it's engine.

    Rowing boat?

    Skateboard? Railroad hand cart?
  • denversillygoose
    denversillygoose Posts: 708 Member
    Machka9 wrote: »
    My husband and I both love cycling ... we met while cycling the Paris-Brest-Paris in 2003, got to know each other cycling other long distance events in Australia and North America, and then included bicycles in our wedding. :)

    On our wedding day (August 24, 2008), we cycled a century (100 miles) and then got married with our bicycles in attendance.

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    Relationship goals! This is my dream wedding!
  • rsclause
    rsclause Posts: 3,103 Member
    I bought what I call an urban commuter bike (Del Sol campus II) mainly to work some different muscles than ones I use for running. On a trip to Switzerland I noticed how many people use them to get to the train and shop. So I outfitted it with expanding pannier bags an a 64 0z. stainless beer growler. I use it to go shop or to grab a craft brew. Also nice when it gets too hot to run. I feel like a kid again when I ride.
  • lodro
    lodro Posts: 982 Member
    I live in the Netherlands and we're so blessed with a gorgeous and unique infrastructure. It's great for training, but for climbing I need to go to Belgium
  • queenliz99
    queenliz99 Posts: 15,317 Member
    edited August 2016

    That guy has skills and cajones. I hit a fence like that once, I didn't flip over it though. Uh duh!!
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    edited August 2016
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  • VeloRat1969
    VeloRat1969 Posts: 18 Member
    I started riding my bike at the BMX track with my kids 3 days a week. Love it! us0p218pfpwj.jpeg

    OMG! I LOVE this picture! So tired of seeing pictures of bmx parks that make you think you have to be a 13 year old boy to use it. Thanks for sharing it - you made my day.
  • patrickblo13
    patrickblo13 Posts: 831 Member

    You ever see a trials competition? Those guys are amazing. There used to be a festival near me with a trials comp in the woods on crazy rock features. Really cool stuff to see. Here's a link to a video I took back in 2009

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFvafBKszGc
  • Hornsby
    Hornsby Posts: 10,322 Member
  • queenliz99
    queenliz99 Posts: 15,317 Member
    Hornsby wrote: »

    #demyours?
  • Hornsby
    Hornsby Posts: 10,322 Member
    queenliz99 wrote: »
    Hornsby wrote: »

    #demyours?

    Yea, the family cruisers. Ride a 40 year old Schwinn and then getting on the Giant Propel makes my road bike feel like it's about 3 lbs. lol
  • queenliz99
    queenliz99 Posts: 15,317 Member
    Hornsby wrote: »
    queenliz99 wrote: »
    Hornsby wrote: »

    #demyours?

    Yea, the family cruisers. Ride a 40 year old Schwinn and then getting on the Giant Propel makes my road bike feel like it's about 3 lbs. lol

    Nice :)
  • Hornsby
    Hornsby Posts: 10,322 Member


    Those are the training bikes :)
  • patrickblo13
    patrickblo13 Posts: 831 Member
    edited August 2016
    CincyNeid wrote: »
    Am I the only nerd who straps a GoPro on your his/her bike?

    No I wear mine sometimes. Here is a video I took riding Porcupine Rim Trail in Moab, UT 3 years ago

    At about the 1minute I adjust the camera for a better angle

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0oBWo6DkGs
  • narak_lol
    narak_lol Posts: 855 Member
    Wow everyone here have such nice bikes, and cool gadgets ...~~~!!
  • allaboutthecake
    allaboutthecake Posts: 1,535 Member
    CincyNeid wrote: »
    Am I the only nerd who straps a GoPro on your his/her bike?


    I wear a GoPro on my helmet & a Fly6 under the seatpost.... Insurance.
  • King_Spicy
    King_Spicy Posts: 821 Member
    Some of you guys have some awesome bikes. My road bike isn't an aero triathlon bike or anything, but its decently lightweight CF. (pics in my instagram posted in my profile description). I hope to buy both a new hard tail mountain bike and a dual suspension downhill bike after the winter.

    Gotta start saving up for snowboarding season :)
  • niblue
    niblue Posts: 339 Member
    I have a GoPro and use it occasionally - mainly to record fun bits when mountain biking though. I did record a couple of my road bike rides which I then set to music and then played back when on the turbo trainer during the winter though.
  • King_Spicy
    King_Spicy Posts: 821 Member
    I really need a GoPro. I have cars pull out in front of my path on my ride home everyday and I swerve around them, missing them within inches. I know one day I'm gonna nail one of them and flip over their car.
  • BrianSharpe
    BrianSharpe Posts: 9,248 Member
    CincyNeid wrote: »
    niblue wrote: »
    CincyNeid wrote: »
    A Bicycle is a curious piece of machinery. It's the only mode of transportation that it's passenger is also it's engine.

    Rowing boat?

    A boat is a machine? I guess it depends what you're calling a machine.

    The oars are as they are a lever! B)

    OP, I've been in love with cycling since I bought my first piece of junk $5 used bike when I was a kid. Bought my first road bike (a 3,000,000 pound steel framed Sekine) in the '70s and haven't looked back.

  • CincyNeid
    CincyNeid Posts: 1,249 Member
    King_Spicy wrote: »
    I really need a GoPro. I have cars pull out in front of my path on my ride home everyday and I swerve around them, missing them within inches. I know one day I'm gonna nail one of them and flip over their car.

    Look into a Refurbished unit via eBay or Amazon. I picked up a Refurb Hero 3 Silver for about $200.00

    It does a decent job for the price. Here is a sample from different POVs and visual settings. All Filmed on the same Camera
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSef0wu13ss
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