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[Thelma]

Hi

Total novice here. I'm unfit and have dodgy health, so I'm buying a bike in order to sort my life out. I'm hoping to find encouragement and support here.

Don't scare me off

 

[cakes&brakes2]

Hello
from a very wet & windy glasgow
been cycling for just over a year on my own.
looking to join a club thats not to heavy going to start with.
any suggestion around glasgow area would be welcome.

 

[Tow Path Terror]

Hello, Shane from Devon here. I cycle to work each day, 9 mile round trip. Just bought my first half decent bike for years, a Scott Sub 30, and hoping to find lots of pointers from some more experienced bikers.

 

[Norm]

Hey, Shane, welcome.

Edited to add Ooo, golly and the other recent joiners. Aren't there a lot of you.

 

[Mango]

Hello everyone. Mango here, a regular cyclist since the mid-90s. I used to have a road bike in those days and went a bit mad for a couple of years, cycling 6-7000 miles per year. I'd take regular trips up around the Trough of Bowland. Great fun! I then had a few fallow years, roughly from 2000 - 2006, where I was only doing around 3000 miles per year and the bulk of those were from commuting. It didn't help that my girlfriend at the time didn't appreciate me disappearing for hours on end when I could be spending time with her! For the last 5 years I've had a hybrid. These days I just trundle around the flat (but windy) Fylde Coast to get my miles in. I've upped the tempo in the last 3 years though and usually get my weekly average mileage up to 100 by the end of the year. Keeps me fit I suppose.

 

[Mango]

I forgot to mention that I've got a couple of cycling mates. We did the C2C ride a couple of years ago. This summer we're planning a longer trip from Berwick down to Hebden Bridge / Halifax, where they live. Looking forward to that one.

 

[ian-douglas]

Hi everyone new here

46 years old just comming back to cycling after a long time away (20 odd years)
i was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes 3 years ago and put on a lot of weight about 3 stone over weight when i started the weight watchers plan. lost 1stone now feeling better but having a bit of a problem with low blood sugar counts when exercising, falls pretty quick too but im getting there now
any way im from broxburn west lothian scotland and lovin being on the bike again

sighed up for the ken laidlaw sportive this year after seeing it posten on here 52miles all i think i could manage at the moment

great forum btw

 

[Fran143]

Hi Ian,

Well done on your weight loss and congratulations on entering your first sportive. Have a look at the Solway Sportive also...I did it last year and loved it.

Happy Cycling.

Fran.

 

[Rita Grieved]

Hello All,

Another newbie for the Salford/Manchester posse. Got bitten by this cycling lark after bus strikes forced me to dig out my old bike from the back of the garage and am well and truly hooked, although still completely ignorant when it comes to the mechanics; I'm in big trouble when I get that first puncture. The riding has lapsed over the winter but am 'gearing' up for the commute again (clean towel in work locker ready and waiting), might stick a bit of air in the tyres tomorrow (I know how to do that) and try and the legs working again.

 

[bikenut]

Hello! Been an avid cyclist for many years and am excited to be part of this group! I don't have a lot of people at home that "get" cycling. They usually get that eyes glazed over look whenever you discuss all the nitty gritty details of the Tour or anything bike related. Oh well.... Glad to be here. I'm from the St. Louis area and I'm an avid road cyclist.

 

[Norm]

Hey, nutter. There's a tale that I recognise. Very few at work or at home "get" cycling, although I am not overly bothered by that as one of the joys, for me, is the freedom.

 

[Scoosh]

Hi everyone new here

46 years old just comming back to cycling after a long time away (20 odd years)
i was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes 3 years ago and put on a lot of weight about 3 stone over weight when i started the weight watchers plan. lost 1stone now feeling better but having a bit of a problem with low blood sugar counts when exercising, falls pretty quick too but im getting there now
any way im from broxburn west lothian scotland and lovin being on the bike again

sighed up for the ken laidlaw sportive this year after seeing it posten on here 52miles all i think i could manage at the moment

great forum btw

ian-douglas and

to CC - in particular to CC Ecosse

!

There are quite a few of us from the east, centre and west of Scotia on here (even two in Winchburgh

) and we do organise informal rides in the summer.

There are a couple of cardinal rules on these rides:

- no one gets left behind
- any bike will do


Sometime (hopefully fairly soon

) there should be a post appearing in this section with details of an upcoming ride. We don't go too far on these rides, remembering that we were all beginners once

.


I've done the Ken Laidlaw for the past 2 years (the long one

) and it really is one of the best organised, friendly and well run sportives you will do. Hope you enjoy it and that we get to meet you before !

 

[fraggle]

hello! ive recently given birth to my fourth [and final!] baby and im dying to get back on my basket-equipt granny bike. i found you lot here when i was searching for some bike advice for my dad [hes the real enthusiast to be honest. does twenty miles a day commuting then cycles for fun in his spare time. busmans holiday if you ask me...] hes having a right old game. got a claud butler cape wrath 01 with xcm mlo fork thats a horrorstory. salty road grit water has got in and knackered it. took it back to Go Outdoors as its still under warranty [and its not the first time its been back...] and they couldnt fix it and wont replace fork with one he can service himself. im totaly out of my depth lol. help!!! my whole family cycle, and our ambition is to do a Tour of hebridean islands, ferrys and all, preferably stopping off at some distilleries for single malt fuel. please be nice to me and excuse my ignorance, im eager to learn, and you all seem nice.... id love to chat, and anyone with advice regarding the above-mentioned saga, i would bite your hand off! god, i do go on....

 

[Scoosh]

fraggle and

to CycleChat !


Congratulations on your latest arrival

though by now, it's probably lost in the mists of feed-change-sleep- feed-change-sleep- ... [repeat until exhausted

] ....


Your Hebridean adventure sounds very exciting ! It might be worth having a poke around in Touring and Expedition section for ideas, as it's a fairly popular touring destination and others have toured with small children too.

Likewise, if you (or your Dad

) want advice on his saga, then head for either Bikes, Accessories etc or Know How, where heads infinitely wiser than mine will offer their experienced counsel

. One of the joys of CC is the very wide backgrounds of the Members. We have people who work in the bike trade too. All are willing to offer advice and guidance.

HTH

 

[fraggle]

thanks for the directions! im totaly overwhelmed here. will go exploring asap..... cheers!