I Bought a Bike

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TheCalvinator24 · #1 Post by **TheCalvinator24** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 12:56 pm

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.

silvercamaro · #2 Post by **silvercamaro** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 1:01 pm

Nice bike. Don't let it gather dust (unless it's road dust.)

TheCalvinator24 · #3 Post by **TheCalvinator24** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 1:05 pm

Mine is silver/black instead of the red/black in the picture.

ulysses5019 · #4 Post by **ulysses5019** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 2:20 pm

I have a similar street bike that I bought at REI. They're a nice ride. I take mine to the beach occasionally.

ghostjmf · #5 Post by **ghostjmf** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 2:36 pm

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.

Autumn2 · #6 Post by **Autumn2** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 5:15 pm

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.

rayxtwo · #7 Post by **rayxtwo** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 7:21 pm

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

mellytu74 · #8 Post by **mellytu74** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 8:02 pm

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.