Hi Y'all.... I'm new to the group. I've been riding now about 3 years and commute to work on my bike. It's between 18-20 miles a day, but I usually get over a 100 for the week. I'm 44 (never felt younger!) and live in Maryland. Right now I'm riding a Schwinn Varsity hybrid, but am looking to upgrade within the next 6 months. I feel putting in 100+ miles a week is deservent of something more!

Look forward to chatting with others! I also use Mapmyride and keep my logs up to date there, so feel free to look me up there too if you'd like.

Hi, I was looking through groups to find motivation and support and found this group. I love to ride my bike. I just have a curser and ride around town. I live in Utah surrounded by mountains so you would think that I would be a mountain biker but I am not that confidant. My cycling is purely for pleasure and exercise.

Hello 35 yrs cycling of one form or another here and been on MFP for a few months with up and down results. Thought joining some groups might spur my motivation after indulging on too many Pies lately.

Hello There!

I've been riding for about 3 month last summer, and now can't wait to get back on my bike this Spring!!! Yay!!
I ride a hybrid Specialized for women and carry a trailer bike for my daughter (they are Awesome!!). When I ride with her I can only do up to 18 miles, since she gets tired/board if I do any more than that. I've been on a couple group rides ranging from 25-40 miles @ a slow speed (10-12 MPH). I recently tried doing a bit of mountain bike with my hybrid, and was surprised as to how very tough mountain biking can be... although I must confess biking down the rocky hill is totally exhilarating. The rocky uphill I totally loathed, but it does work your core and muscles much more than just merely road biking.

I'm trying to muster up the courage to bring our dog to the family bike-ride with some kind of contraption or device to keep her on her leash. Does anyone have any experience/good ideas as to how I can accomplish this?

There is a device I was in YouTube a 'springer' of sort. Don't know if that will work. I also thought about wrapping her leach around my waist and see what happens. Any thought/comments will be greatly appreciated.

Got my bike in December but it has been so cold I have not put it on the streets yet. Look forward to sharing and learning from you all. I bought a nice Raleigh and love the way it maneuvers.

Hi! I am new to the group and new to cycling.

I am 33 years old and just started riding again after about 20 years. My husband is an avid bike rider and has been competing in races since high school. He was very encouraging when I said I wanted to ride and has been very patient with my slow pace and learning process. We currently live in Hawaii but will be leaving in a few years back to our home state of West Virginia. I have to get in shape and get this riding trails down before then, nothing is flat in WV!

My bike is a Motobecane Fantom29 Trail.

Hi all,

I just discovered this group on MFP and had to join. I'm in my late 40s and about 50lbs overweight despite biking a few thousand miles over the past two years.

I guess exercise alone won't do it so I'm looking to manage what I eat along with keeping the biking going and have success this summer in getting fit!

I have an old Fuji road bike from the mid 1980s someone gave me that fixed up that I ride. What can I say, it is cheap and it works

Hi everyone
My name is Julie, I am a 42yr old mum of 2 young boys. I have spent my life around horses(still have 4) but 2 months ago my husband(very much into bikes) bought me my first bike(a Boardman hybrid pro) I have always ridden a little but always borrowed one of his bikes! It is so nice having my own bike! My plan for this year is to get fitter and lose 4 stone(I have lost 2 so far). I have just entered the South Wales ride(46 miles) which happens next month(gulp) so need to get some miles in! The quicker I can lose the weight the better as the hills around here are a killer! I think everyone on here are amazing and you are all such an inspiration xxx

Hi all A friend of mine recommended this group to me. I've always owned a mountain bike and use it to commute and bash around on trails occasionally.

Long story short, I've always enjoyed cycling and have recently increased the amount of time spent on the bike to compensate for not being able to run (peroneal tendinopathy). After taking many spin classes, pushing my 10 - 15 yr old mountain bike up and down the local hills and having friends that ride (biiiig distances) I decided to bite the bullet and purchase a road bike.

I am now the proud owner of a 3 year old Felt, and currently 2 stacks/falls into teaching myself to ride in cleats and clipless pedals.... This mornings fall in front of a group of 30 odd cyclists when the chain slipped going up a hill and I forgot to kick out of the pedals was particularly spectacular :drinker:

I am looking forward to making some new friends that ride and learning some new skills; hopefully one of which is how to fall off gracefully without dropping the F-bomb....

teaching myself to ride in cleats and clipless pedals.... This mornings fall in front of a group of 30 odd cyclists when the chain slipped going up a hill and I forgot to kick out of the pedals was particularly spectacular :drinker:

I am looking forward to making some new friends that ride and learning some new skills; hopefully one of which is how to fall off gracefully without dropping the F-bomb....

I think thats happened to all of us that just started out with clipless. I was an avid "Roadie" all my life with no desire to get into MTBing. A few of my friend were hitting up the trails a lot, so I bit the bullet and bought a hard tail. I instantly fell in love. In fact I ditched my road bike, and strictly was a trail rider for many years. about two years ago I found a smokin deal for a high quality road bike that I just could not pass up. I'm so happy I did. I love doing both now. Although I have been giving most of my ride time to the road of late, but looking to start up on some off road riding again. (I have to wait for a rear shock to be rebuilt and sent back to me)

Welcome to this section of the forums

Hi ya'll! My name is Kim, I just joined the group. I started road biking a few months ago. I love it! I also mountain bike some with my husband. I am glad I found this group.

Hi All - My name is Kevin. Joined recently. LOVE cycling (road) and try to ride everyday. In addition to diet, cycling helped me lose nearly 100lbs last year. I try to ride between 75-100 miles per week but with work, travel schedule it can be tricky.
Live in Charlotte, NC and it is NOT a cycling friendly city. Love riding solo but also like group rides (though if the group is too large, it ends up getting annoying). However, I love riding with 4-6 friends in the early AM.

Hi all! I'm Jim. I'm in Northern Colorado, north of Denver. I love riding my bike. It is great exercise and I love the fresh air of Northern Colorado along with the views of the Front Range and Long's Peak! I have a hybrid bike, but only do road riding at this time, and that is predominately all done on the streets of Longmont, since the bike paths seem to all still be closed after last fall's flooding. I am trying to work my way up to a round trip ride from home to Hygiene, CO and back, about a 25 mile round trip for those not familiar with the area. My longest ride so far, this past Tuesday, was just over 16 miles.

Hi Fellow Cyclists
My name is Jacqui from Brisbane, Australia. I am 56 years old. I love cycling. I was a jogger for many years, but nothing beats being on a bike. I have a carbon road bike. We have great weather that enables us to cycle all year round. We just have to start extra early in summer. Don't like getting out of bed and that is a real problem for a cyclist. We are supposed to be morning people.
I can highly recommend cycling in Brisbane if y'all ever come to Aussie. We have great dedicated cycling tracks all over Brisbane and can cycle down to the Gold Coast, 100Kms (60 miles) away if the mood takes us.

I have been riding for 4 years now. I had this great belief that just cycling alone would melt the fat off me. I really did think that in 6 months time I would look like the other cyclists out there. How wrong I was. In fact, I am heavier than when I started.
I find that cycling makes me extremely hungry and then it is hard to moderate the food intake.

I have recently purchased a Fitbit and I try to do walking when I am not riding, in the hope that something will work.

I would be very interested to hear from other cyclists who have been successful with long rides and fat loss. How you managed the hunger and what kind of program you followed.

Many thanks.

Hi Everyone,

My name is Noel, and I have a cycling problem. Or so my wife thinks, anyway.

I started riding again 3 and a half years ago. As a kid I lived on a BMX bike and rode the thing everywhere. Fast forward to February 2011, and I was 41 years old, 5'9 and 235 lbs. I got a road bike at the urging of a couple of friends who were casual cyclists and my wife who had a road bike but never actually used it. After being completely wiped out on my first road ride, all of 8 miles, I slowly started riding more (and more, and more, and more) until by the end of that summer I was riding 3 times as much as all the people who got me started. I was absolutely hooked.

Now, almost 4 years later, I spend 7-10 hours per week on one or the other of my current stable of 4 bikes. I race my time trial bike in a 10 mile time trial once per month from April to September, I have done a handful of Cross Country mountain bike races, a few 3 or 6 hour endurance Mountain bike races, and I'm about to start racing cyclocross. My first CX race is in a week.

Over the first couple of years I rode my weight crept down from 235 to about 200 without me really doing anything other than riding a lot. I leveled off at about 205, give or take 3 or 4 pounds. This past July I hired a coach to help me get stronger and faster. That brought me to the realization that if I'm going to take my riding that seriously and spend the money for coaching then I owe it to myself to lose the weight and get down to the 160 lbs or so I should be. So, I fired up my sporadically-used MFP app in early July, figured out what my intake should be, and started logging religiously. So far, so good. I'm hooked on MFP and I'm down about 16 lbs but a lot of that was the initial loss. I'm losing steadily at about 1 to 1.5 per week, feeling better in general and on the bike in particular, and looking forward to continuing to make progress.

Cheers!