LGHornet
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- Prestwood, Buckinghamshire
Hi everyone.
Just signed up to the forum hoping I might be able to use it to get ideas, advice and help with a bit of a new area of outdoor life.
Huge sports/fitness fan that has really centred my life around rugby, crossfit and OCR the last 10 years. I'm a fairly big guy which is why I've fitted naturally into those sports and avoided bikes as I think I look ridiculous on one and if I'm brutally honest, can't stand having a sore gooch!
I picked up an injury in Nov 14 and have been seeing specialists who have said I need to stop playing rugby or risk paralysis so rugby has been shelved and I had taken a rest from the gym. This coincided with a move in jobs where I am now only 8 miles from my place of work in the chilterns. This is where cycling comes in as I need to get my exercise in somewhere and there's only so much running I can do. I thought I'd explore the opportunity of cycling to work.
Since October I've been cycling the commute to work and then getting on the train home until I got a bit of fitness back up after the year off and also getting used to cycle again. I dug out an old Marin polished mountain bike that I brought of a mate a few years back but never used. I've been told by my LBS that it's a 1996 bike but appears to have been modified over the years as he believed it didn't have front suspension originally. Anyway, it did a job for a while, even with old withering tyres. I got over having a sore arse within 2 weeks and now quite enjoy it. I burn off around 400 kcal each commute so it's a decent sweat to keep me going and now I'm trying where possible to do the return commute. Darkness is my only limiting factor as I'm a little weary of the country lanes and cars on the way home but it gives me motivation to get back as quick as I can.
Anyway, looking to upgrade in the new year, probably on a cycle to work scheme. I was planning on posting a "what bike" thread but thought I'll check out the other threads first and see what sort of responses they get before I do. It's probably worth mentioning that I have sod all experience of bikes and know very little. I'm pretty sure I could change a tyre at home as I would have done as a kid. I'm not so sure I could do it at the roadside though. S This gives you an idea on how much of a novice I am
Cheers.
Luke
Just signed up to the forum hoping I might be able to use it to get ideas, advice and help with a bit of a new area of outdoor life.
Huge sports/fitness fan that has really centred my life around rugby, crossfit and OCR the last 10 years. I'm a fairly big guy which is why I've fitted naturally into those sports and avoided bikes as I think I look ridiculous on one and if I'm brutally honest, can't stand having a sore gooch!
I picked up an injury in Nov 14 and have been seeing specialists who have said I need to stop playing rugby or risk paralysis so rugby has been shelved and I had taken a rest from the gym. This coincided with a move in jobs where I am now only 8 miles from my place of work in the chilterns. This is where cycling comes in as I need to get my exercise in somewhere and there's only so much running I can do. I thought I'd explore the opportunity of cycling to work.
Since October I've been cycling the commute to work and then getting on the train home until I got a bit of fitness back up after the year off and also getting used to cycle again. I dug out an old Marin polished mountain bike that I brought of a mate a few years back but never used. I've been told by my LBS that it's a 1996 bike but appears to have been modified over the years as he believed it didn't have front suspension originally. Anyway, it did a job for a while, even with old withering tyres. I got over having a sore arse within 2 weeks and now quite enjoy it. I burn off around 400 kcal each commute so it's a decent sweat to keep me going and now I'm trying where possible to do the return commute. Darkness is my only limiting factor as I'm a little weary of the country lanes and cars on the way home but it gives me motivation to get back as quick as I can.
Anyway, looking to upgrade in the new year, probably on a cycle to work scheme. I was planning on posting a "what bike" thread but thought I'll check out the other threads first and see what sort of responses they get before I do. It's probably worth mentioning that I have sod all experience of bikes and know very little. I'm pretty sure I could change a tyre at home as I would have done as a kid. I'm not so sure I could do it at the roadside though. S This gives you an idea on how much of a novice I am
Cheers.
Luke
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