Show us your.......newbie progress! [4 Sep 2012 - 4 Oct 2014]

[welsh dragon]

Well. This newbie needs all the help she can get. But that's because I'm so bad.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

@Nigelnaturist the way I see it is that newbies also need advise and if there are not more experienced cyclists (newbies or not) reading this thread, then how can they get help that they have requested here (rather than starting a new thread) and as @Mo1959 states, it is the camaraderie on this thread that makes it unique. And anyhow, I don't exactly count as a newbie - hence why I just post 'social' or advise rather than any of my rides, unless you count me a newbie at 100 milers or solo touring?

 

[BrianEvesham]

I'll still post "our" rides as Sue is a complete beginner/newbie.

The longest ride for @SueEvesham so far

http://www.strava.com/activities/170202414

 

[Coggy]

After yesterdays discussion I have decided i wont be visiting this thread very much from now on.

Don't be daft !

All I was saying is that you are super fit compared to a lot of us and so perhaps a few weeks off the bike doesn't affect you as much as bloaters like me !

Don't disappear, beginners like me need the help and input from people like you.

 

[AndyPeace]

I think it should read show us your cycling progress....perhaps the admits could edit it. we've all something new to learn. I still come back regularly to read this thread. That's another vote for stay @Nigelnaturist! you make a massive and useful contribution.
Absolutely fab news @Mo1959 about the return of your cat.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

I'm going to go against the grain and Nigel can just do one................




Only kidding

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Don't be daft. Some of the newer members probably just don't realise how the camaraderie has built up between many of us on here and, although we are not officially newbies we have stayed on this thread purely for the mutual support, banter and friendship. Maybe we should start a new thread "show us your not so newbie progress"

Title should be "Old and not quite past it"

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Title should be "Old and not quite past it"

perhaps it should read "old and don't know we are past it"!

 

[Saluki]

perhaps it should read "old and don't know we are past it"!

Nooooo. 50 is the new 35, so I am told and I only feel 'past it' over the last couple of miles of my ride when it's all uphill, I'm shattered and hallucinating about cups of tea.

 

[welsh dragon]

Wow saluki. That means that I reality I'm now only 43. Brilliant. That'll do for me. I'll take 15 years off my real age any day I can.

 

[Saluki]

Wow saluki. That means that I reality I'm now only 43. Brilliant. That'll do for me. I'll take 15 years off my real age any day I can.

We are living longer nowadays and we stay active longer (apparently). When my parents were 50, they had one foot in the grave. I was 50 four and a bit months ago and I don't feel my age. I wonder who the older person is in the mirror sometimes though. I am still really active, with an active job, active hobbies etc. My parents were all for a bit of pottering in the garden and then having a snooze. Neither of them made it to 70 and I swear my mother invented ailments so she didn't have to do anything active.

We've tried to encourage her downstairs to cycle again. I even serviced her bike for her. The gears now change and the brakes actually stop the bike but she says that she is too old. She's 48.

 

[Mo1959]

Title should be "Old and not quite past it"

Yep........sometimes I feel a bit horrified at my age when I think back to how I would have viewed someone my age when I was a teenager!

 

[welsh dragon]

Yep........sometimes I feel a bit horrified at my age when I think back to how I would have viewed someone my age when I was a teenager!

THAT olllddddddd. No one's that old surely.

 

[Mo1959]

THAT olllddddddd. No one's that old surely.

Yep, and if I had known any women in their mid fifties who were daft enough to hurtle down hillsides at 30mph on mountain bikes and nearly wipe themselves out hitting sheep I would have thought they should have been in the loony bin! Oh wait, someone at the door..........they seem to be wearing white coats!

 

[welsh dragon]

Yep, and if I had known any women in their mid fifties who were daft enough to hurtle down hillsides at 30mph on mountain bikes and nearly wipe themselves out hitting sheep I would have thought they should have been in the loony bin! Oh wait, someone at the door..........they seem to be wearing white coats!