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I Bought a Bike
Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 12:56 pm
by TheCalvinator24
http://www.trekbikes.com/images/bikes/2 ... ackred.jpg
I rode 20 minutes Saturday and then 2 30 minutes sessions yesterday. I won't be able to ride this evening because I have a meeting.
EDITED to change the pic to a URL. That thing was too big.
Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 1:01 pm
by silvercamaro
Nice bike. Don't let it gather dust (unless it's road dust.)
Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 1:05 pm
by TheCalvinator24
Mine is silver/black instead of the red/black in the picture.
Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 2:20 pm
by ulysses5019
I have a similar street bike that I bought at REI. They're a nice ride. I take mine to the beach occasionally.
Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 2:36 pm
by ghostjmf
Congrats on it being a real bike. On which you can go real places. May eventually need a real tire patch kit etc, but that's the price of being able to go real places.
As I used to commute by bike, & weighed about 50 lbs less when I did, I could never understand the attraction of biking in one's living room. Outside is the place for bikes. Now, if I could just figure out how to do it without getting sweaty, or wet in the rain, & without eventually wearing out the seat of whatever I'm wearing.
Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 5:15 pm
by Autumn2
Have fun with it.
Do you have good bike trails where you live?
I have a trek, too. Not too sure how we get along; I spent good money on it, so it much be good, but I do admit, I'm not toooo sure it's much better than my previous one, which I paid a few hundred dollars less for.
I guess I'll be going for 35 miles on Wednesday. Or, that's the current theory.
Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 7:21 pm
by rayxtwo
I got an electric bike in December. Goes about 15 or so miles on a full charge. Don't need much more than that. They laughed at work the first few days I rode it. With gas at $3.69 a gallon in I llinois, they don't laugh now.
Ray
Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 8:02 pm
by mellytu74
Once Boonie gets out of the neck brace, we may get bikes to ride around the neighborhood to run errands and for fun.
We have a bike down the shore. It's very nice ride around town.
Impractical for work, unfortunately. Not particularly safe to ride a bike to the long-term, open-ended writing assignment I have now.
I am so very sorry that the job's not in Center City. I love riding public transportation to work - can read or do some personal writing - and I miss that.
That was true even before gas prices went nuts.
