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Last Fall I bought a ~$400 commuter bike just to get to the gym and back. I didn't use it a ton last year, and then Covid happened so I had nowhere to ride it, so there it's sat. I walk a lot, and have been running for about a month but do no cycling. 5'8M and ~160 pounds with a belly so while I'm not super fit I'm not in bad shape either. The gym is finally open again and I biked there last week and holy cow it was so hard on my legs. Only 3.8 miles according to Google. Also I feel like I'm really slow. I know it's a commuter bike so it's not going to be super fast, but along my way a very overweight man absolutely flew by me and it made me wonder how much of my slowness is the bike itself VS me not being a strong cyclist?? I'm sure it's a combination, but drat I was really surprised at how quickly that dude was going. I found out my local bike shop rents bikes for only $15/hr so I think this weekend I'm going to rent a road bike and time myself doing a lap VS on my commuter bike. It's a Jammis Commuter 1 for whatever that's worth  But the real reason I'm posting ITT today: Does anyone have any advice for storing a bike outside? It's a pain carrying it in and out of my apartment, and I don't really have anywhere good to put it so it's just been awkwardly chilling in my living room. My back yard is basically just a cement square so I was thinking just a tarp should be fine? Should I also spray it occasionally with some sort of insect repellent so no jerk spiders set up shop under my seat or whatever? Sab669 fucked around with this message at 22:18 on Aug 6, 2020 |
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Yea I live in the city, but it's a pretty nice area. That said a former roommate did have his bike nabbed off the front stairs, once. I would keep it in the back yard behind a tall wooden fence, so it's relatively "secure" in that it's not right out in the open. And while I would be extremely mad to have a $400 anything stolen... At the end of the day, it's just a toy to try and keep me healthy so it wouldn't be the end of the world if it got picked up. I'm not actually using it to get to work or anything. Previously the higher gears felt too tough but I forced my way through it tonight and it actually wasn't much harder than I thought, so I was a bit faster today. Actually timed myself and it was ~12mph going to the gym, and about ~10mph after 90 minutes of climbing. My friend said his road bike "15mph is effortless" but I guess if I'm only going 4 miles then going 3mph faster isn't really saving me any time
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Aug 7, 2020 03:17
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehh8ZdIMMj4&t=26s Personally I like this guy's approach
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Aug 13, 2020 03:54
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China definitely comes to my mind long before Japan when talking about "Asia" and "cycling"
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Aug 30, 2020 02:15
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I'm interested to see what your responses are, I'm also just between Lake Erie & Ontario  I just went for my first ride in a rain storm yesterday morning going to the gym and it was... actually a ton of fun? The little visor on my helmet kept the rain out of my eyes admirably. I have some super thin rain coat and the hood was big enough to go over my helmet (although it blew off immediately  ) that I kept velcrod-but-unzipped and that kept me mostly dry, hydrophobic pants didn't do much and my socks were quite wet despite the long pants + goretex shoes. Got the gym, changed, didn't really need to dry off. I wonder how much worse for wear I'd have been without fenders on though; didn't feel like they did much of anything. Yesterday being a holiday also meant I saw all of 3 cars actively driving in the financial district too which was quite pleasant - haven't had any bad interactions with cars yet in my ~month of biking 2-4x week.I've always been a "windows down regardless of weather" guy with my car, so it was just a new level of being exposed to the elements on a bike that I actually really enjoyed. The luxury of it being a choice rather than a necessity also probably helps, but now I'm curious what it's like to go biking in a snow storm.
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Sep 8, 2020 18:23
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aparmenideanmonad posted:my weather preference was Milwaukee>Indy>Syracuse. I'm in Buffalo so  ?
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Sep 9, 2020 02:16
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drat I didn't realize Syracuse got that much more. It is pretty flat, but I'm a delicate snowflake new to biking so the ~150ft of elevation gain on my ride home from the gym is tough. That said it has gotten easier for me each week.
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Sep 9, 2020 14:12
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https://www.kryptonitelock.com/en/bicycle-lights.html I'm not sure which one specifically I have but it's worked well so far. Bought it over a year ago, but it's only seen a few months of use, and none of which was in the dead of winter. e; I think it was the Street F-500, which is around $50 on a quick google search. That price sounds right. It's definitely been in the rain though just fine. Sab669 fucked around with this message at 16:09 on Sep 21, 2020 |
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Sep 21, 2020 16:05
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It's a biker bar, what else are you supposed to show up in 
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