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putting fenders on my bike
On Aug 31, 9:56*am, Woland99 wrote:
On Aug 31, 9:08 am, landotter wrote: On Aug 31, 4:02 am, Woland99 wrote: It keeps raining in Texas - and precisely when I have window in my day when I can ride. Got tired and decided to adopt rain or shine riding policy. One of the professors I knew at Mathematics Dept at UT used to commute on bike (65+ yo) every day of the year - except those 2 days every couple of years when we get freezing rain. But I digress. Getting wet mud-butt from riding in rain is not my idea of fun so I bought some fenders. Full size SKS P45 fenders. I ride touring bike - steel frame, 36 spokes, wide MTB gearing - all chosen to support all those extra pounds I carry. But I took off the rack from it - and I just pretend it is a road bike - even though that illusion comes crashing down every time I struggle to keep 8pmh speed on some some hill and I hear "on your left" and another skinny roadie is passing me and flying up that hill as if we were on flats. How the fark can you stay fat if ya ride?? My fixed gear finally got a bit of a workout last night as I searched for an elusive alley cat race I found out about too late in the game--but I've been getting my riding in mostly on da Dew--a 29 pound fendered, double racked, belled--defacto touring rig--with kickstand, and I'm on belt notch zero. 200 miles a week of inspired shopping and other types of screwing around. About to head out old Natchez Trace on it with some sammies and maybe even a bath towel in hopes that the old rope swing is there to dunk in the Harpeth River! Ride, eat, ride. There's a diet plan that works for most of us. Thanks Brother Otter - you radiate true wisdom (as always). Well here what it really was - I am reading Mike Magnusson tour de obsession "Heft on Wheels". Quite enjoyable and loaded in self deprecating humour. Then I noticed how really hard it is for me to put those damn fenders on - and clinging to silly image. So I wrote that message. BTW - weight was dropping but I got sick in the end of July and did not ride very much until this week - and now, armed with Mike's example I will start riding 250mile weeks and eat 2 or 3 protein shakes and starve myself 70 pounds down. Don't starve, just ride. Yesterday evening before the alley cat race I got a good twenty in on a ride across town to look at fishing tackle as I'm thinking about maybe doing some ultralight bike fishing! When in doubt, ride. It's not about the food, it's about the miles. Not the bike either. |
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On Aug 31, 10:23 am, Mike Rocket J Squirrel
wrote: On 8/31/2008 2:02 AM Woland99 wrote: It keeps raining in Texas - and precisely when I have window in my day when I can ride. Got tired and decided to adopt rain or shine riding policy. One of the professors I knew at Mathematics Dept at UT used to commute on bike (65+ yo) every day of the year - except those 2 days every couple of years when we get freezing rain. But I digress. Getting wet mud-butt from riding in rain is not my idea of fun so I bought some fenders. Full size SKS P45 fenders. I ride touring bike - steel frame, 36 spokes, wide MTB gearing - all chosen to support all those extra pounds I carry. But I took off the rack from it - and I just pretend it is a road bike - even though that illusion comes crashing down every time I struggle to keep 8pmh speed on some some hill and I hear "on your left" and another skinny roadie is passing me and flying up that hill as if we were on flats. So now when I put those fenders on I won't even be able to keep that illusion when I am riding alone - every time I will look down and see those fenders - it will say "you are riding a touring bike, fat man". I guess that means I may as well put that rack back on and embrace the touring/commuter image - start going grocery shopping on a bike, get a Grateful Dead t-shirt and become one car-less bike-zealots. Not sure I am ready for this. Anyways - it is not really a question - I am just think loud at 4 o'clock in the morning. Ignore the peanut gallery. Many lose weight when they add riding to their daily routine, some (take me) do not. It helps us maintain, rather than "reduce" (as my mother would have put it). When roadies with their 20-inch hips blow past me I like to consider that they're having fun, I'm having fun; you're fetching groceries, they can't carry squat on their bikes. Put fenders, wings, spinners, banners and/or squeeze-bulb horns on the bike if ya want or need to. Zealotry is optional. --a Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" I must admit (as I explain earlier) that biking at times now feel like a job. I still have fun doing it but I sometimes get stressed because I know that I will have hard time getting better time. I guess that I need a trainer in my garage and portable DVD player and all TdF DVDs I can find... But seriously - I so did not want to put those fenders on that I almost bought one of the "amsterdam" or "townie" type of Electras. With such bike I would add Buddhist prayer flag, mill and a djembe without any problem. |
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On Aug 31, 8:08*am, " wrote:
Hey, you just CAN'T lose when you have all that crap on your bike. You'll be dry, comfortable and can get your groceries. Then, if you can't keep pace with the 'young studs', they'll understand because of all the junk you have on your bike. If you do happen to be able to keep up with them (and maybe even pass one of them) they'll think you are the 'stud of studs' because of all the junk you have on your bike. *:-) And your bike's happier when it's got fenders! http://www.bicyclinglife.com/Practic...yofFenders.htm - Frank Krygowski |
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landotter wrote:
Don't starve, just ride. Yesterday evening before the alley cat race I got a good twenty in on a ride across town to look at fishing tackle as I'm thinking about maybe doing some ultralight bike fishing!... So you hang out on the overpass and snag the bikes of roadies as they go by below? Which bait is better, Gu or Powerbars? -- Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia “are there stones on distant mountain decents marking the gored and deceased? arms and wrists broken ? or is this unreported?” - gene daniels |
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putting fenders on my bike
On Aug 31, 10:48*am, Woland99 wrote:
On Aug 31, 10:23 am, Mike Rocket J Squirrel wrote: On 8/31/2008 2:02 AM Woland99 wrote: It keeps raining in Texas - and precisely when I have window in my day when I can ride. Got tired and decided to adopt rain or shine riding policy. One of the professors I knew at Mathematics Dept at UT used to commute on bike (65+ yo) every day of the year - except those 2 days every couple of years when we get freezing rain. But I digress. Getting wet mud-butt from riding in rain is not my idea of fun so I bought some fenders. Full size SKS P45 fenders. I ride touring bike - steel frame, 36 spokes, wide MTB gearing - all chosen to support all those extra pounds I carry. But I took off the rack from it - and I just pretend it is a road bike - even though that illusion comes crashing down every time I struggle to keep 8pmh speed on some some hill and I hear "on your left" and another skinny roadie is passing me and flying up that hill as if we were on flats. So now when I put those fenders on I won't even be able to keep that illusion when I am riding alone - every time I will look down and see those fenders - it will say "you are riding a touring bike, fat man". I guess that means I may as well put that rack back on and embrace the touring/commuter image - start going grocery shopping on a bike, get a Grateful Dead t-shirt and become one car-less bike-zealots. Not sure I am ready for this. Anyways - it is not really a question - I am just think loud at 4 o'clock in the morning. Ignore the peanut gallery. Many lose weight when they add riding to their daily routine, some (take me) do not. It helps us maintain, rather than "reduce" (as my mother would have put it). When roadies with their 20-inch hips blow past me I like to consider that they're having fun, I'm having fun; you're fetching groceries, they can't carry squat on their bikes. Put fenders, wings, spinners, banners and/or squeeze-bulb horns on the bike if ya want or need to. Zealotry is optional. --a Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" I must admit (as I explain earlier) that biking at times now feel like a job. I still have fun doing it but I sometimes get stressed because I know that I will have hard time getting better time. Discard your cyclometer or at least put it in your sock draw until you reach a point where it doesn't depress you. Make rides about excursions, not times. Don't repeat routes so you don't have expectations of how long they should take. Ride more. Bring a banana. I'm kittin' up and out... |
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, says... So now when I put those fenders on I won't even be able to keep that illusion when I am riding alone - every time I will look down and see those fenders - it will say "you are riding a touring bike, fat man". You'll ride more and get thinner if your ass and feet don't get soaked. Java |
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On Aug 31, 8:48*am, "Pat" wrote:
Hey, you just CAN'T lose when you have all that crap on your bike. You'll be dry, comfortable and can get your groceries. Then, if you can't keep pace with the 'young studs', they'll understand because of all the junk you have on your bike. If you do happen to be able to keep up with them (and maybe even pass one of them) they'll think you are the 'stud of studs' because of all the junk you have on your bike. *:-) Lewis. Shhh! I'm still trying to figure out where it's raining in Texas! Pat in TX Well it certainly isn't in Benbrook. :-( Lewis. ***** |
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Woland99 wrote:
Somehow when I came back to cycling 9 months ago I decided to do it scientifically - bought GPS cycloputer and started keeping logs and averages. And all that is fun when you are moving forward. But I was sick for a month - did not ride, some weight crept back and suddenly OMG! my usual after-work 20miles took 5mins longer than usual and 10mins longer than best time.... And now those fenders threaten to rob me from whatever is left from that image of me getting better on bike... If you are biking strictly for exercise or recreation, and you are getting tired of it, then I predict that you will stop altogether within a year. There is only so much motivation to go around. I hate to exercise. I know that if I took up jogging, it would be very hard for me to get up and "just do it." If, however, you change your attitude toward bikes, and start using your bike for more than a feeble attempt at weight control, working it into your lifestyle, then you could be cycling every single day 20 years from now. You would no more think about how hard it is than you would think about how hard it is to breath. |
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On 8/31/2008 9:23 AM landotter wrote:
Discard your cyclometer or at least put it in your sock draw until you reach a point where it doesn't depress you. Make rides about excursions, not times. Don't repeat routes so you don't have expectations of how long they should take. Ride more. Bring a banana. And a bandanna. Can't never go wrong with a colorful bandanna. -- Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" |
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putting fenders on my bike
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, Woland99 wrote: It keeps raining in Texas - and precisely when I have window in my day when I can ride. Got tired and decided to adopt rain or shine riding policy. One of the professors I knew at Mathematics Dept at UT used to commute on bike (65+ yo) every day of the year - except those 2 days every couple of years when we get freezing rain. But I digress. Getting wet mud-butt from riding in rain is not my idea of fun so I bought some fenders. Full size SKS P45 fenders. I ride touring bike - steel frame, 36 spokes, wide MTB gearing - all chosen to support all those extra pounds I carry. But I took off the rack from it - and I just pretend it is a road bike - even though that illusion comes crashing down every time I struggle to keep 8pmh speed on some some hill and I hear "on your left" and another skinny roadie is passing me and flying up that hill as if we were on flats. So now when I put those fenders on I won't even be able to keep that illusion when I am riding alone - every time I will look down and see those fenders - it will say "you are riding a touring bike, fat man". I guess that means I may as well put that rack back on and embrace the touring/commuter image - start going grocery shopping on a bike, get a Grateful Dead t-shirt and become one car-less bike-zealots. Not sure I am ready for this. Anyways - it is not really a question - I am just think loud at 4 o'clock in the morning. Put on the racks and some open nylon pannier type carriers. Bell, lights, pinwheel, ... Then get a second bicycle. The great thing about running errands on a bicycle is not having to find somewhere to park a car. -- Michael Press |
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