I can ride a bike!!!!

[punkncat]

Yay!!!

Now I have something else to do aside from just sitting here on the computer and pretending to play paintball.

I decided to give it a go, took the bike off the hook, pumped up the tires and went up and down the street a few times. I was not suprized to find that I am WAY out of shape for it, and am still huffing and puffing. It will be really nice to be able to actually go and do something. Think I will take much more advantage of this realization.

Cycling was, in days past, my favorite activity. I would spend hours just pedaling around going nowhere in particular. Now that I have the time, it will be a great way to get out of the house. I will have to ride here on the street for a week or two and let my butt get used to that hard seat again though. Just in the 20 mins out riding just now my butt feels like 10 miles of bad road.

No big deal to most, I know, but I am proud.

[wetwrks]

Dude, LOL.

It is nice to step back and re-realize the simple pleasures in life.

[questionful]

I like bike riding. It's amazing how tiring it can be. Where I live there is a lot of wind, and after going really fast against the wind on my way home from the post office the other day, I felt like I was going to throw up! I'm really out of shape. But I always love fighting my body's command to give up, pedaling as hard as I can against some STUBBORN wind.

Foster City is windy enough for kiteboarding. You see those guys out there all the time.

http://www.geocities.com/rhorii/PhotoGallery/FosterCityKiteboarders.jpg

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[snoopay700]

Yeah, cycling is great, what's really fun is welding a bike frame to the top of another and making a tall bike, those things are fun to ride lol, but yeah since i don't have a car this summer again i'm probably going to be riding around a lot.

[paintball72]

what really makes you love biking is for varsity CC practice we run a long ways, everyone says its eight miles round trip but i am a bad judge of distance. and after we do that we hop on bikes an bike the same rout and the first two dont have to go back and run the 8 again. we get some pretty interesting finishes. but when your on the bike you realize how much easier it is compared to running the same distance. gotta love bikes

[domeplz]

after reading your post, i started riding my bike again too.

[Avianrave]

I broke mine

The inner tube in the wheel got caught on the gears, and pretty much screwed up all the gears and inner tire tube.

[punkncat]

I broke mine

The inner tube in the wheel got caught on the gears, and pretty much screwed up all the gears and inner tire tube.

Um, how did you get into such a situation that the tube came out of the tire and was able to get caught up in the gears?

I would guess that if things got that far out of whack that the innertube was the least of your worries.

[trevorjk]

with no handle bars?

[skife]

with no handle bars?

with no handlebars!

[Smoothice]

with no handlebars!

My wife hates that song. Which probably explains why I love it.

[Warwitch]

What he said. I love xc trail riding. Its another way to get out and get muddy and its great exercise.

[gibby]

Back in the day, my bike was like my first wife. I wouldn't get off that thing and would ride it for days...LOL!! Remember the movie RAD? That movie inspired me and my lifestyle back then. I got back into riding my bike a few years ago. I know I'm an old dude on a kid's bmx bike...but I love it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxj6bKexFN4

[SpecialBlend2786]

My bike was actually the first thing I saved up and bought with my own money. I of course learned how to cycle with a cheap Toys-R-Us bike but when I was in 6th grade I used what was then my life savings to get a bike for myself.

When I was cleaning the garage out the other day I found it, hanging on a wall behind a bunch of boxes. Pumped it up and went around the block once before realizing how much fun it actually is. I then realized I need to get a new bike that is actually my size...

(Also, was cleaning out my bookmarks folder and stumbled on AO, imagine that! )