Any Cyclists out there?????
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i'll agree that it's a good idea to wear a helmet, but i'm grateful that there isn't a law for it here (at least not yet). i have noticed that drivers are more careful around those without helmets (that is, if they're paying attention at all). when i commute to work, i wear one because i have to go pretty fast and in some dangerous spots, but if i'm on the designated bike path or just toodling around town, i don't wear one. it'd be like asking me to wear a helmet when i'm walking.0
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Since everyone else is showing off...
This is after my first century...after my crying fit at the finish.
To comment on the helmet issue, all it takes is one good wreck to leave you a drooling mess for the rest of your life. I don't want my daughter left alone because her mom was vain, stupid and didn't wear a helmet. I always wear it. I trust myself but I certainly don't trust other cyclists, drivers, animals, gravel, sticks, cracks in the road etc.0 -
I have been riding regularly for 2 months now. It works for me because it is never boring. I go to the gym also but spending too much time doing cardio there is very monotonous. If my endurance was better I could ride all day.0
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How did I miss this thread?? I am an avid mountain biker. Would be out every day if I could. Love racing.
I also have a road bike that I use if the trails are not rideable...also road riding is great training for mountain bike endurance!
I try to get out at least 10 hours per week.
I don't do it to burn calories. I do it because it is so dang much fun...burning calories is just a great side benefit!!0 -
If only I can get my butt not to hurt from my seat!
Me too! UGH! After a good ride, I'm usually sore for days!
I wonder...do the bigger seats really help?0 -
If only I can get my butt not to hurt from my seat!
Me too! UGH! After a good ride, I'm usually sore for days!
I wonder...do the bigger seats really help?
NO! Bigger seats do not help. A slimmer seat and good old fashioned sucking it up is the way. Eventually your *kitten* will toughen up and will not hurt so much.0 -
Since everyone else is showing off...
This is after my first century...after my crying fit at the finish.
To comment on the helmet issue, all it takes is one good wreck to leave you a drooling mess for the rest of your life. I don't want my daughter left alone because her mom was vain, stupid and didn't wear a helmet. I always wear it. I trust myself but I certainly don't trust other cyclists, drivers, animals, gravel, sticks, cracks in the road etc.
that;s admirable. i don't have children, so, obviously, i feel a little differently about it.0 -
If only I can get my butt not to hurt from my seat!
Me too! UGH! After a good ride, I'm usually sore for days!
I wonder...do the bigger seats really help?
This. Stock saddles do suck though.
NO! Bigger seats do not help. A slimmer seat and good old fashioned sucking it up is the way. Eventually your *kitten* will toughen up and will not hurt so much.0 -
NO! Bigger seats do not help. A slimmer seat and good old fashioned sucking it up is the way. Eventually your *kitten* will toughen up and will not hurt so much.
this is absolutely true. i always tell people starting out to bike 1-2 miles every day for a couple weeks to get their booties in riding shape. and if it hurts, maybe go a little slower or if absolutely necessary take a day off, but absolutely every other day. in probably less than ten days you'll be ready to do longer trips!
edit: and i have several bikes, each seat is different. you also may need to have the bike fitted properly if you are still feeling sore. it might not be the seat at all, but there's a lot of geometry going on between you and the bike, so it's not a bad idea to have it fit to your body.0 -
My husband and I are biking together and have been for about 7 weeks now, we do not have the best bikes, but after a tune up they are better and I so look forward to riding when he gets home from work a few days a week and we usually take a longer ride on the weekends, yes we wear helmets and as far as the seats hurting your butt, it got better the more we did it...
Biking is awesome :happy:0 -
NO! Bigger seats do not help. A slimmer seat and good old fashioned sucking it up is the way. Eventually your *kitten* will toughen up and will not hurt so much.
this is absolutely true. i always tell people starting out to bike 1-2 miles every day for a couple weeks to get their booties in riding shape. and if it hurts, maybe go a little slower or if absolutely necessary take a day off, but absolutely every other day. in probably less than ten days you'll be ready to do longer trips!
edit: and i have several bikes, each seat is different. you also may need to have the bike fitted properly if you are still feeling sore. it might not be the seat at all, but there's a lot of geometry going on between you and the bike, so it's not a bad idea to have it fit to your body.
^^^^ Exactly get fitted. I see a lot of people with messed up fittings and they butt hurts, their knees hurt, and they say cycling is no fun. Get a good fitting from you LBS and invest is a nice seat. Your butt will harden over time.0 -
Speaking of helmets, when I was a teenager, I was at a street fair where a guy was doing public service announcements about the need for helmets. He was an avid cyclist who had been married and had two little kids when he was hit by a car while cycling and wasn't wearing a helmet. He suffered severe brain damage and would never fully recover. He was clearly messed up for life - he was grossly disfigured, he couldn't hold his body up straight (although he could walk with a limp) and had trouble taking, but was able to make himself understood. He's on disability the rest of his life, his wife left him and got custody of the kids and remarried someone who wasn't disabled. He feels, and I agree, that had he been wearing a helmet, he could have still been employable and kept his family. I've always worn a helmet since then. Even on a bike path or a sidewalk - something could throw you off your bike, like a sudden flat or an animal darting in front of you - and you could get brain damage just the same. The older I get, the happier I am wearing a bike helmet, because even as my body ages, my brain just gets better with time. In fact, I think my brain is the most valuable thing I own. As for what I look like to other people when I'm wearing a helmet - I think I look like someone with a high IQ and I'm cool with that.0
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Loving the pictures you guys are sharing!!! I am so excited to tap into this new community! Tomorrow is my Beach Babes 36 mile ride. I am so excited!
HELMETS..OMG you guys are so right how important they are. I might need to start a new tread with this issue. I need help. I have a handsome teenager he just turned 18 and you know he knows everything. He has had a mountain bike for a few years and rides it around town. My husband just gave him his old road bike and he loves it...but he will NOT wear a helmet. The day after graduation he was riding with friends, none of them wear helmets, and his friend ran into a parked car...that was May 24th and his jaw is still wired shut!!!!!!! The kids told me "A helmet wouldn't have helped!!!!" TEENAGERS....I hope we both live through this!:explode:
I'm going to see if he will read some of your posts ~ Thanks0 -
Loving the pictures you guys are sharing!!! I am so excited to tap into this new community! Tomorrow is my Beach Babes 36 mile ride. I am so excited!
HELMETS..OMG you guys are so right how important they are. I might need to start a new tread with this issue. I need help. I have a handsome teenager he just turned 18 and you know he knows everything. He has had a mountain bike for a few years and rides it around town. My husband just gave him his old road bike and he loves it...but he will NOT wear a helmet. The day after graduation he was riding with friends, none of them wear helmets, and his friend ran into a parked car...that was May 24th and his jaw is still wired shut!!!!!!! The kids told me "A helmet wouldn't have helped!!!!" TEENAGERS....I hope we both live through this!:explode:
I'm going to see if he will read some of your posts ~ Thanks
In fairness, I doubt that a typical cycle helmet would have helped with a lower jaw injury. I've rode and raced bikes for over 30 years off and on, and as a result, I've had one or two "offs". Before I wore a helmet on a regular basis, I didn't actually have an accident that a helmet would have helped. Broken Clavicle, hips, pelvis, femur, but nothing on my head. Then I started wearing a helmet, mainly as the national racing federation insisted. 6 months in, I was on a time-trial, lost it on a roundabout, and woke up in the road, basically unscathed, but my helmet split from end to end where it'd hit the kerbstone. Yep, I'm a convert. I buy the best helmet I can afford, and I wear it. If you've got a $20 brain, wear a $20 helmet...0 -
Went over the handlebars in a pace line going 19 mph. Helmet cracked but it saved my head big time. Badly sprained shoulder and thumb, some road rash, no head injury. That's a win in my book. I don't need a law to tell me to wear a bike helmet, just good old common sense and a brain, which I get to keep thanks to my helmet!0
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I just wanted to duck back in here to say I finished my longest ride to date yesterday. 43 miles in 3 hrs flat all done along the beautiful Pacific Coast Highway. :glasses:
I'm following a training plan and what I've noticed is on july first my ride was 2:25, and my back started aching at about 2 hrs. july 8th ride was 2:40 and back started aching about 2:15. This sunday was 3:00, and back started stiffening up about 2:40. I guess since the amount of time I'm spending on the bike without discomfort is getting longer, the muscles are just fatiguing toward the end of the ride. Does that sound right? I am concentrating on supporting my lower back by engaging my core but if there are any other suggestions I'd love to hear them.0 -
Loving the pictures you guys are sharing!!! I am so excited to tap into this new community! Tomorrow is my Beach Babes 36 mile ride. I am so excited!
HELMETS..OMG you guys are so right how important they are. I might need to start a new tread with this issue. I need help. I have a handsome teenager he just turned 18 and you know he knows everything. He has had a mountain bike for a few years and rides it around town. My husband just gave him his old road bike and he loves it...but he will NOT wear a helmet. The day after graduation he was riding with friends, none of them wear helmets, and his friend ran into a parked car...that was May 24th and his jaw is still wired shut!!!!!!! The kids told me "A helmet wouldn't have helped!!!!" TEENAGERS....I hope we both live through this!:explode:
I'm going to see if he will read some of your posts ~ Thanks
In fairness, I doubt that a typical cycle helmet would have helped with a lower jaw injury. I've rode and raced bikes for over 30 years off and on, and as a result, I've had one or two "offs". Before I wore a helmet on a regular basis, I didn't actually have an accident that a helmet would have helped. Broken Clavicle, hips, pelvis, femur, but nothing on my head. Then I started wearing a helmet, mainly as the national racing federation insisted. 6 months in, I was on a time-trial, lost it on a roundabout, and woke up in the road, basically unscathed, but my helmet split from end to end where it'd hit the kerbstone. Yep, I'm a convert. I buy the best helmet I can afford, and I wear it. If you've got a $20 brain, wear a $20 helmet...
Oh I know the helmet wouldn't have helped and the kids were excited to prove me wrong that it wouldn't have made a difference. What is was trying to get through their thick skulls is that accidents happen and what if he fell on his head instead of his jaw.....there would be a horribly different problem he would be hopefully recovering from.
I took my son to the bike shop today to get a lock and a head light...talking to the guy at the shop, he showed us a light you could wear on your helmet...I said that would be great if I could get him to wear one!!!! Crickets!!!!! Wouldn't you think it would have been a GREAT time for the guy to chime in with some facts on wearing helmets!
SelkieDiver - Did you do the Beach Babes in Long Beach???? Or something else? I did Beach Babes, really fun but easy...we stopped to eat at the rest stop...then my friend took a wrong turn and I had to wait for her to get back on track...so our time was slow. Fun Day! I can't wait to sign up for another ride!!! I want to try 50 miles0 -
Do wanna-be's count? I used to mtn-bike all the time when I was younger, but have not ridden in many years. I'm hoping to get a new bike in about a month.0
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Cycling is awesome! I commute everywhere on bicycle and i have lost tons of weight since i started cycling everywhere.
I am heading out on a 471 mile bicycle ride over 7 days NEXT WEEK called RAGBRAI. If you are getting into cycling, check into this ride, they have it every year. I'm so excited!!!!0 -
Cyclist here!0
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