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- wuxmedia
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Re: Cycling
Indeed my fat ass is calling for some biking action.
Bigger kids are all cycling now, and go at about my pace.
biking to work, that is good, I used to do that in France, bloody hilly though, downhill - 20 mins there, 30 mins back, not so much fun when I'd had a very physical day.
funnily enough, looking at that super bicycle, I broke the axle on the MTB i had given to me, do rode in on a granny bike, with 2 gears.
I thought, 'this is how bikers should train, heavy as fuck road bike with shitty ratios, do a year on one of these fuckers and get on a carbon with slick machinery and they would fly'
I'm sure there are reason why that isn't a good idea, just something to think about while slogging up the hill with something like this:
Bigger kids are all cycling now, and go at about my pace.
biking to work, that is good, I used to do that in France, bloody hilly though, downhill - 20 mins there, 30 mins back, not so much fun when I'd had a very physical day.
funnily enough, looking at that super bicycle, I broke the axle on the MTB i had given to me, do rode in on a granny bike, with 2 gears.
I thought, 'this is how bikers should train, heavy as fuck road bike with shitty ratios, do a year on one of these fuckers and get on a carbon with slick machinery and they would fly'
I'm sure there are reason why that isn't a good idea, just something to think about while slogging up the hill with something like this:
- ivanovnegro
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Re: Cycling
Exactly my machinery when I was a student.
- wuxmedia
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Re: Cycling
^ I bet at least yours fitted you, I knocked my knees on my hands when pedaling :D
had two gears; shit and a tiny bit less shit.
had two gears; shit and a tiny bit less shit.
Re: Cycling
I'm using the bike of my GF at this moment and I'm feeling a bit like Joop Zoetemelk in his younger years. My own bike is a rusty old grannybike which you can hear from miles, so it's a bit of a difference (7 gears, 5 electronic choices and a throttle).
Re: Cycling
Vintage steel road bike for me, 1983 Trek 760 (third from top-of-the-line model, that year). Mine is almost entirely stock, except the hubs and pedals. Even the seat is original. Suntour Superb component group, which was considered "the poor man's Campagnolo" back in the day. It's my daily commuter.
This isn't my bike, but same model:
http://www.vintage-trek.com/Trek_galleryRS.htm
This isn't my bike, but same model:
http://www.vintage-trek.com/Trek_galleryRS.htm
Re: Cycling
^ Woot! Watching now, even though Eddy Merckx isn't riding. ;)
Haha, check this out: http://www.velominati.com/racing/how-to ... s-roubaix/
EDIT: Good movie from 1976 on Paris-Roubaix:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxBTVU9JDrA
Haha, check this out: http://www.velominati.com/racing/how-to ... s-roubaix/
EDIT: Good movie from 1976 on Paris-Roubaix:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxBTVU9JDrA