Any of you slugs ride a bike?
 

Not a motorbike. I’m talking bicycle, the kind you pedal. By yourself. No e-assist, no silly motor, just man and machine.

:hurray:

Kathy and I ride bikes all over the island. It’s very bike friendly and has lots of great trails. We rode 12 miles Saturday, mostly on the Egans Creek Greenway trail system.

It’s flat there in Fla right? :)

We got hills. Lots and lots of hills. Even better we also have miles and miles of trails, hiking and or biking. The city and volunteers do a great job. I need to get out there and help.

https://www.fredericksburgva.gov/768...s-and-Pathways

yup

I ride my beach cruiser along the beach, go figure.

Flatter than Colorado was. :D The app I have that tracks route, speed, etc. said our total elevation change was ~700 feet. Fortunately they had the foresight on this little island to not flatten the dunes to put in sea walls and condos everywhere. No private beaches either. The tallest dune in Florida is on our little island.

I enjoy it but never have enough time to get on the bike much when the weather's nice.

I ride whenever possible. My little ones love to ride their bikes!

Climbed this without using granny low. I consider that an accomplishment. :D

I was using Strava, free version of course. Now it ain’t worth a crap. Time to find a new free app.

That road is national park property. Hopefully no deviant time soon.

Deviant time? Well that too but I mean development. :rolleyes:

Wife and I used to mountain bike a lot....Patriots Path was a favorite....I wound up in the hospital one time and she got pretty banged up too....now on the barrier island there is nothing like that. We still have our mountain bikes and will go to the mainland at times to ride some trails. But....mostly it's our 6 speed beach bikes these days,so yes we still ride bikes.

I use the free version of Bike GPS. Does everything except save trips, have to buy it for that feature. $5.99 for the “Pro” version.

I also have a hardtail mountain bike and one of them hybrids with the road bike bars. They’re all fun. Had an incident coming down a steep rocky hill at low speed on the mountain bike. Tweaked a knee pretty good but was able to ride home. I was tired of walking it and thought I was good enough to ride it out. Nope. I was lucky. And alone. Now it’s more I shouldn’t do that instead of why tf did I do that.

When I bike I use Kismet. It not only saves a complete track log of my trip, but also records all of the WiFi and Bluetooth it sees along the way. And it's FOSS. :D

I use the Samsung health app. It tracks rides well enough for my needs.

The only two wheels I'm ever on has an engine.

Full Of Stupid Shit?

I’m done with 2wheeled vehicles. But if it doesn’t have an engine I’m not interested.

Ten miles a day for 21 years until August 14, 2023 right up until I had a run in with this open manhole under construction left open in the bike lane by the city seen being filled the day AFTER the accident when the city was notified. Several broken bones and a severe concussion which is still a problem. I'm under the care of the local healthcare network Neurosciences team trying to get my vision under control. Left eye not working with the right eye, both eyes focusing on different points and double vision causing nonstop headaches. Also still having lapses in memory, much fun I tell you.

Wear your helmets boys, the only thing that kept me alive.

https://www.thevettebarn.com/forums/...pictureid=3994

My street growing up was steeper than that and everyone had a one speed. :spdchk:

Translation: I'm an old Fk. :yesnod:

I was way into cycling when I was a teenager, and some years after. Used to ride 3000+ miles per year (I know the big dogs laughed at mileage like that). Then, spent 20 years or so in bad environments for riding, so didn't so much. Late 40s, I got back into it, and in my early 50s I used to say that "on a good day, when not much is hurting, I feel basically the same riding as I did when I was 17 years old, and I really like that!" I did a few years in my early 50s of 2000+ miles as a result.

Sadly, in my mid-50s, the legs and butt were still up for hammering rides, but my hands, elbows, shoulders, and neck could no longer handle it. I have not ridden any significant number of miles since 2019, and have considered selling my bike.

It sucks that we all have to someday get old.

You are not rong.

We had a real nice pair of beach cruisers and used to ride them all the time when we were younger.

Nowadays it’s wake and work and eat and shower and sleep.

Life of a poor farmer. :D

I'am older than you and ride at least 100 miles a month. :kick:

Wow. Really sorry to hear that man. I really should upgrade my headgear.

For me. It was an accomplishment for me. :hurray:

People be zipping by me I wanna throw a rock at m but it’ll only go 2ft in front of me.

Thanks, I always bought the best helmets and never rode without one, thank goodness.

Just a bad way to spend your first years of retirement, I'm ready for it to get better. Still alienating a lot of people due to the personality changes as well, makes me a bit irrational and angry.

Speaking of which, I probably owe Lars an apology. :D

I wish that we lived to be 500 years old.

The one flaw about Gods design of man.

Image the world/country today if the men who wrote the constitution were still alive. The men who fought the American revolution. And the men who fought in foreign wars to liberate mankind.

Something tells me that if these brilliant and courageous men were alive today…we would have far less problems. And none of this political correctness woke crap.

This world is so screwed up with people living to their 80's. God found that out thousands of years ago to cut down the age of man.

Wow.... that was a long time ago....:D



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Yeah but it would be a different world if those guys who formed the past were still alive so they could stop us from destroying ourselves.

That, and I think God likes to **** with us on the regular. It’s physical and mental and emotional and spiritual testing every day.
I’m so looking forward to speaking with the man and asking him What da faq Lord. What. Da. Fuk? :Jeff '79:

Seems overpopulation would be an issue.

Shit’s ****ed up. Of this there is no argument.

I haven't tried it yet but I do plan on seeing how it would be to ride a bicycle with Turbo on a leash.

It'll be interesting.

No videos for the inaugural bike ride :Jeff '79:

I ride quite a bit. Lately, I have been riding with a group that does serious mileage on single speed 29ers.

Yes.

Used to anyway. LONG trips.

Many week-long trips on the left side of the US. Seattle to San Diego (one month), over the Rockies in NM.

Hills are easy, wind sucks. There is always the top (even over the Rockies--many thousands of vertical feet), but the wind never stops; it literally sucks the will to live out of you.

We'd have more killings and probably five World Wars in between.

On my worst day i'd whupp you and all your buddies you brought along. :yesnod:

I have been talking to the guys I ride with about doing this next year. I didn't even think about someone in this group being interested:

https://www.sockeyecycle.com/multiday/canol-road/

Looks way better than this thing a buddy did the last two years.

https://ragbrai.com/

I never did any rides with a tour or anything like that (not even a sag wag), but the Rockies trip did teach me you cannot cook enough calories to maintain you.

Well, not if you are riding anything over 50 miles a day.

I can see the attraction for these types of events/trips.

Recently attempted to revive my GT Intercepter that I used to smuggle onboard during Mediterranean cruises when I was in the Navy back in the 90s. It was in the machine shed at the farm, but was still exposed to the elements and corrosive fertilizer. First picture is how it looked when I started, 2nd is now. Still lots of corrosion around the welds where the chrome is gone, but is rideable. Super ****ing twitchy compared to slack head tube angles of a mountain bike.

Third picture is a Mongoose Californian that I'm currently building. It's what I had in the 80s, but this is a frame I bought on eBay. Mine was a 1983, this one is a 1985. I even found Tange TRX forks like I had back in the day. Currently waiting for the Elf handlebars and seat post to come in. I have a complete sticker set that will go on once it's completed.

I couldn't find any pictures of my other bikes.

Very cool! I grew up on bikes. Did all the bmx evel knevel ramp craziness and didn’t die. No broken bones or major scars so far.

Are those the re issue Profile cranks, and TRX forks from Pork Chop on the Goose?

Reissue profile cranks, 44T crank gear is old-school (from my GT) and the TRX forks are made-in-Japan old-school. The repop TRX is made in Taiwan. I also have some A'ME Unitron reissue grips waiting to go on when the handlebars finally arrive. Some parts did come from Pork Chop (funny, I was just looking at their website for some MKS reissue pedals for the GT). Most of my parts came from Albe's, including the cranks. Albe's built my wheels.

I have a mountain bike

Bill Gates has a “vaccine” that will fix that. :yesnod:

Uni cycle count?

If so then yes!

Got this from work as an anniversary gift.

https://fws-shared.s3.amazonaws.com/.../4024499_1.jpg

Rode it a few times but if I made a habit of it the Vette would get jealous... It's like my truck, need to air the tires up every time before I use it :rofl:

Wife and I have biked and kayaked for 40 years; we're slowing down now though in our 70's. We finally did move to e-bikes but seldom engage the motor unless going up the one steep hill in our subdivision. Pics are from last weeks trip to the FL panhandle.. The Old Town kayaks are approaching 30 years old.... Use them in the lake on rare occasions; when an 11' kayak meets a 10' alligator (actually happened once) I found out I could make about 20 knots just paddling.

That's me, helmet boy.
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I used to ride all the time. I've found out, in my 60's, I'd rather walk. It does more conditioning than biking, which just does legs for the most part. I do 170+ miles a month. About 5-8 miles a day, 7 days a week.

That’s a lot. :seasix:

I feel like bicycling works the core as well as legs. Not a full body workout but that’s why I have a really nice rowing machine to hang clothes on. :)

:nono: Although that phrase describes some of the posters here, FOSS actually stands for Free and Open Source Software. :yesnod:

Pity bump.

Tonights steed:

Just bought myself a new full suspension mountain bike last month.
Carbon fiber frame and wheels.
This thing climbs hills with almost no effort.

I did over 100 miles the last three days.

I don't do it for the legs. I go on the beach along the board walk to look at thinly clad bikini's being worn by 21-35 year old women playing volleyball or laying in the sun. :yesnod:

gotta love Cali.....best looking women in the world...:yesnod:

Uh. Only like 50% are real women. I’m just sayin

You found out the hard way Huh?

Yeah, well you get to ride with the wind bowing through your hair. I have to slather sun block on the pate. Not the same vibe, at all.

You could wear a wig... :D