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

[Nigelnaturist]

As a Mancunian........you can keep Lancashire and Yorkshire, Republic of Mancunia it is then......

Well you will be used to the rain then, with them there webbed feet of yours.

 

[boybiker]

I have been thinking of getting one. Now you will have me making another trip to the Walmart to see what they have...after I spend a few hours researching steamers online. I started eating raw baby carrots lately, I never really liked raw carrots before but found them not as bad as I remembered. I had always thought of them as a really healthy food, and they are I guess but I also found out they have other side effects to me. No they don't make make my skin turn orange, well at least not yet, or even make my ears grow like a rabbit. They do give me gas in a major way. I am hoping a steamer might help with that. I also plan to eat veggies more and hope a steamer makes it more likely for me to eat them in winter.

I will let you know what model I have as I done a fair bit of research and it's a brilliant bit of kit. It turned me from not being able to cook a thing into producing good healthy meals.

 

[Nomadski]

Happy 4th of July @RWright, and any other American cyclists reading this. Didn't you boys have a fight with the French almost as soon as we had left you both to your own devices?

Seriously though have a great day cousin!

Love it when there is a quiet day for cycling...this thread goes more off course than a drunk blind nun steering a rudderless oil tanker.

 

[Mo1959]

Love it when there is a quiet day for cycling...this thread goes more off course than a drunk blind nun steering a rudderless oil tanker.

Now, there's a vision!

 

[Mo1959]

I will let you know what model I have as I done a fair bit of research and it's a brilliant bit of kit. It turned me from not being able to cook a thing into producing good healthy meals.

Think it will take more than a steamer to turn me into a cook.

 

[andy69]

Only started riding this week as I bought my bike last week but had to go into shop again to be fixed. Did a little 5 miler yesterday and did a 15miler today, avg speed 15mph and max speed was 23 on the flat road. I will hope to improve this over time.

 

[Mo1959]

Only started riding this week as I bought my bike last week but had to go into shop again to be fixed. Did a little 5 miler yesterday and did a 15miler today, avg speed 15mph and max speed was 23 on the flat road. I will hope to improve this over time.

Bloomin heck. Some of us have been working at this cycling lark for nearly a year to get 15mph and you do it on your second ride. Well done.

 

[Smotyn]

[="RWright, post: 2532954, member: 23332"]That is a tough one. I would want the better components AND frame, but the frames could be the same. Correct size is important, maybe even enough so that waiting on the correct size and model to come in would be a consideration.[/quote]

They are going to swap out all my components so you wouldnt know except for the v brake lugs on the back. My bike is lovely bla k and the replacement is white which I dont mind but it does mean the OH and I will have the same colour bikes (chav springs to mind lol) think I am going to get them to do it. Just means I will bedoing my sportive on a brand new bike lol

 

[Smotyn]

Only started riding this week as I bought my bike last week but had to go into shop again to be fixed. Did a little 5 miler yesterday and did a 15miler today, avg speed 15mph and max speed was 23 on the flat road. I will hope to improve this over time.

Well done you

Just be careful you didnt do what I did and be riding in too high a gear as your thighs and knees wont love you for it. Try and get your spinning speed up in a lower gear. There is so much to learn about this cycling malarky its like learning to ride all over again lol

But welcome

 

[andy69]

Thanks very much, didn't realise it was good? Do I need to practice getting speed up in a lower gear first? I'm on a hybrid bike on road and tow paths but mainly road

 

[Nomadski]

Thanks very much, didn't realise it was good? Do I need to practice getting speed up in a lower gear first? I'm on a hybrid bike on road and tow paths but mainly road

15mph average is very good for most of us, let alone a "newbie"!

 

[Goonerobes]

Only started riding this week as I bought my bike last week but had to go into shop again to be fixed. Did a little 5 miler yesterday and did a 15miler today, avg speed 15mph and max speed was 23 on the flat road. I will hope to improve this over time.

Blimey, did you mistake this forum for Motor Cycle Chat?

Well done

 

[RWright]

I will let you know what model I have as I done a fair bit of research and it's a brilliant bit of kit. It turned me from not being able to cook a thing into producing good healthy meals.

I would appreciate that. I have really been considering one and when I go shopping I always know there is something I am forgetting. I always forget to put it on my list.

 

[RWright]

They are going to swap out all my components so you wouldnt know except for the v brake lugs on the back. My bike is lovely bla k and the replacement is white which I dont mind but it does mean the OH and I will have the same colour bikes (chav springs to mind lol) think I am going to get them to do it. Just means I will bedoing my sportive on a brand new bike lol

Sounds like it might be time for his and hers Team Sky kit and matching shoes.

 

[SWSteve]

@Mo1959 @RWright if it's raining I hate going out in it. Then again I also hate getting caught out in the rain...last time that happened it was bouncing off the roads and I could only see about 150m ahead