Hybrid Bicycles - Where Did Your Hybrid Take You Today?

Today is my 'day off' riding as I'd ridden every day since sunday, total of about 117 miles. I did ride around the block to tell my daughter, nephew and niece and the dog who were out walking that we (the grown-ups...) were going to eat the ice cream cake...

23 mile loop north along lake shore drive in Mequon, WI, then across to Cedarburg, up to the interurban trail to Grafton, a short loop around downtown Grafton before coming back down the interurban trail again through Cedarburg, into Thiensville, then back to Mequon.

20 mi. of riding around the desert outskirts of my town....in 90+ temps, a great day!

Just a few km down to the local pub so I could grab a bite to eat, gamble a little and win $150.00, and post about my adventures here.... :)

It is a dreary and wet night... the Trek likes this kind of weather as aluminium does not rust and Marathons are excellent in the rain.

Took it it for a nice 5 mile walk up and down hills,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DO8g54YKMQ , what happens when you get lost. :lol: Richard

My usual 26 miles out county roads with a few hills and back along the relatively flat state trail. With three morning rides of 16 miles each and the same 26 mile ride yesterday I'm up to my 100 miles for the week.

Did 12.9 on three town loops. Lots of stops today with very traffic from tourists. Still micro manipulating my saddle, trying to get it just right. Not very fulfilling, but did get some good "sprints" and felt better about the saddle. Oh yeah, I was able to skip the post ride trip to sauna...if you know what I mean.

EsoxLucius: I should join the Coda ranks on Thursday, if tracking data is accurate. Long way from Reno!

Our local bike path.
Started riding in June, 5 to 6 miles per ride, avg spd of 11mph.
Now hitting 50 miles per week with one 25 mile ride on the weekend. Today's ride was the first where I got caught in the rain but still managed 13.7 avg spd due to riding with a roadie.
Our local bike path is 6.3 miles long, mostly wooded and mostly flat.

Mine took me on an 85km bout from my town of Morinville into Edmonton and back on THrusday. Planned to ride thorugh my favorite River Valley route, but central Alberta has been plagued with forest fire smoke from British Columbia for the last few days, which sat uncomfortably thick in and around the North Saskatchewan River compared to everywhere else. There wasn't a cloud in the sky, but the smoke was so thick you could look directly at the sun without harm. So instead i rode some alternate paths and arrived home smelling like wood-smoked meat. :)

Today I took my Jamis Coda Comp into an LBS for a fitting. I just added Profile Design boxer bar ends and Jammer GT aerobars and wanted a second opinion on adjustments and fit. Can't wait for my 16 mile ride in the morning.

Just on a road ride, no trails, or getting lost.:)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJfBYAxDgv8 Keep Biking. :thumb:

20 mile ride out in country roads to Two Rivers State Park in Ne

i rode 23.1 miles around palo alto and Steven's creek trail yesterday, also i finally hit 500 miles on my bike.!!!!

Did a 40 kilometer tour of the region and took a few nasty hills on the way, namely "de beerendries" at about 10 kilometers.
I tried not to completely exhaust myself too much and came in at an average of 29km/h which I was very pleased with. :)

http://i53.tinypic.com/29o4jsg.jpg

Living on the top of a hill is a pain since the last bit is always uphill.

Today I took my Jamis Coda Comp into an LBS for a fitting. I just added Profile Design boxer bar ends and Jammer GT aerobars and wanted a second opinion on adjustments and fit. Can't wait for my 16 mile ride in the morning.

Congratulations. I have almost the same set-up and can assure you it will be great :)
I advise you to put comfy grips on the top ends of the aerobars to make them more comfortable ... I did and it is a huge difference since I use my aerobars for about 80% of the time.
Post a picture in the picture thread :)

21 miles, Fairfax, VA to Lake Accotink. Some road, but mostly gravel and dirt.

I had a nice 30 mile ride, kept a 16.9 mph pace up and was able to maintain 18 mph avg for the first 12 miles before a big hill (for Illinois, 481 feet?) took some wind out of my saild. Lots of bicycle/ pedestrian/ canine traffic on the paths. And a couple of horses!

Rode about 15 miles today down along Pamlico Sound here in eastern NC today after getting off the ferry. First six miles were on a TERRIBLE road, paved but constant micro-bumps. Drove me crazy. Also was into a pretty good breeze. Was having second thought about the whole deal, when we turned on another road, very smooth, and kinda down wind...all the way to destination. After several hundred yards on the smooth road, looked at computer and we were 4 mph faster ..with no noticeable increase in effort. Though the roads were paved, the probability of a venomous snake encounter (rattlesnake, copperhead or moccasin), is very very high. Fortunately none of those critters came out to play. My brother has seen 5 or six bears on the road in the last several weeks. I 'forgot' to mention that to my wife, but he asked her as soon as we arrived if she had seen any bears. Then the story came out. We did not cycle back!

Yesterday I did 64 miles in the Wright Stuff Century. Great ride, beautiful countryside.

http://bombaybicycle.org/index.php/events/wright/

i did another 30 miles today, around palo alto mostly. alittle windy though but nice.

Yesterday, I just had a day off, rode 6 miles round trip to 6th grade parent orientation. 2 bikes in the rack. Traffic @ end was intimidating but I was saved by chorus, since chorus parents had an extra get together after the main event. Nice evening for a spin though!

25.4 mile personal circuit around three cities in the bay area. very nice

i went 30.6 miles. i started at palo alto and went over the Dumbarton bridge to coyote hills in Fremont and headed backed. on the way back i saw another biker riding a Jamis Hybrid, it looked nice. the trails at coyote hills were a little rough and then it turned in to asphalt which was nice. great ride.

Today it was really nice out and I'd been looking forward to a ride for a while and went 37 miles, around my usual haunts (3x local forest preserves.) Sunday AM there's not a lot of motorvehicular traffic but there were a lot of cyclists out which made for a great ride. Something about my pace made me hit a bunch of stoplights that usually knock me off my pace but today I timed them just right.

Yesterday was the 4th annual Tour De Perogy... a social ride that takes us about 120 km out and back to the Ukrainian Heritage Village for their annual Harvest Festival.

Gotta give extra points to the guy that rode in for the ride and tacked another 30km on to the day's ride total... he's the good looking guy on the hybrid and is a quite the monster on the road with that Trek.

http://www.ravingbikefiend.com/tdp2010/2010tdp18.JPG

Even more impressive methinks was my friend who rode her Globe with it's 8 speed Alfine hub on what was her longest ride ever... she did it in a dress and comfortable shoes.

http://www.ravingbikefiend.com/tdp2010/2010tdp15.JPG

Not today, but last Saturday.........http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c384/rbsharpe/rtr.jpg

Beautiful ride along the Rideau River from Ottawa to Merrickville!

New River Trail 169508

Today was sunny, 80F, no humidity... beautiful. My Kona took me around BWI (Baltimore-Washington International Airport) on a MUT. In the early afternoon there were few walkers, and few other riders. I saw an emu, several horses, and a butterfly raced me up a hill ... and won. I had fun.

Pete

In an earlier thread I asked if I should take my hybrid on a country dirt road.

http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?672989-Would-you-ride-this-bike-on-this-road

Well I did, and here are the pictures.

Right before I took this photo a local old timer pulled up in his pick up truck and told me I was a brave man if I was going to try and ride my bike on this road. He said it was too rough for his truck.
http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv237/bikecrate/Riding%20Pics/NATOcalaNatForestBikeRide6.jpg

There were some big pot holes, ruts and mud, but I was able to navigate around most of it.
http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv237/bikecrate/Riding%20Pics/NATOcalaNatForestBikeRide8.jpg

It wasn’t really too bad and I got to see some nice scenery.
http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv237/bikecrate/Riding%20Pics/NATOcalaNatForestBikeRide13.jpg

http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv237/bikecrate/Riding%20Pics/NATOcalaNatForestBikeRide16.jpg

Knocked the dust off my Trek last night so I could ride down to the shop and install new fall /winter tyres and was pleasantly reminded at how nice a ride this bike is when it is running those 700:35 CX Compe tyres... am running all my errands on it today and giving my hard working folders a little break.

bikecrate - It is always nice to be able to ride a bike in places motorists fear to go.

bikecrate - It is always nice to be able to ride a bike in places motorists fear to go.

That's the first thing I thought when he told me that.

This is more than I can say for some of the rest of the ride when I got back on pavement, which included cars passing at full speed on two lane roads with limited sighting distance. I also had to steer into the grass one time when a car passing another car from the opposite direction came right at me. A good reminder to always keep your head up even in the country. Still I enjoyed the change of pace from the city.

today my hybrid took me on my first 50 mile bike ride!!!! it was long and a bit tiring. i drank three water bottles of water and one breakfast. it took about 4 1/2 hours to complete. now i have 773.9 miles on my bike in 3 months. pretty good huh?

770 miles in 3 months?
A quick calculation tells me that's more than 8 miles a day ... nice one! :D
I have about the same mileage now on my bike ... but it took me almost a year.

770 miles in 3 months?
A quick calculation tells me that's more than 8 miles a day ... nice one! :D
I have about the same mileage now on my bike ... but it took me almost a year.

thanks, i am trying to get to a thousand miles before the end of the year. i like racking up miles, it's fun.

Decided to GO GREEN today. Rode to the local bike shop, about a 10 mile round trip. Closed on Monday. But averaged almost 14 in some pretty stiff wind and very "in town" environment.

I rode 14 miles today, I took my sisters van to the tranny shop to get fixed so I figured I would take my bike to ride back home on. It was the hardest ride I've had to date, strong head wind all the way home and the first 9 miles had anywhere from 2-4 stop lights every mile(and I got everyone of them red). Since I try to stay at a 15+ mph pace and I also like taking off fast from the lights, I was completely exhuasted by the time I got home, this was not my longest ride but it sure was the hardest for me, I'm still smiling about that.

Did a nice 18 mile trip on the local highways today. Great weather this morning til about noon when it really heated up and got rather windy but it was great fun.

today my hybrid took me on my first 50 mile bike ride!!!! it was long and a bit tiring. i drank three water bottles of water and one breakfast. it took about 4 1/2 hours to complete. now i have 773.9 miles on my bike in 3 months. pretty good huh?

That is some decent mileage, especially when it sounds like you are still new to cycling or just getting back into it.

I only have an odometer on one bike and know my folder and I have traveled 1000 km since August 1st and this is not the only bike I ride... with my long 100km commute I was really racking up the mileage in July and August and was riding at least 1500km a month.

Even when I am taking things easy I try and ride at least 20 km a day but used to average nearly 50km / day through the year.

The folder has been the go to bike for distance rides and has done multiple 100km rides, several centuries, and some rides that were in the 120-140km range this summer.

Ride enough and these distances stop being anything but another ride... some folks have suggested I get into randonneuring and start tackling distances of 300 and 600 km (non stop).

1500 km a month!!
Damn ... your nickname "sixty fiver" may sound pretty old, but 1500km a month is what I do in a year!
That's 50km a day on average ... nice :D

1500 km a month!!
Damn ... your nickname "sixty fiver" may sound pretty old, but 1500km a month is what I do in a year!
That's 50km a day on average ... nice :D

I will be 45 in a month... you can probably figure out where the 65 comes from but lots of people think it's my age.

When I was training to race I posted yearly mileages of 12 and 16k and then got sidelined by injury and have been working my way back up to a reasonable level of conditioning.

A few years ago I had to start by doing slow laps around the block (on the sidewalk) and worked my way up to doing 30 km a day but could not complete a century ride without a lot of pain during and after.

This year has been good as I seem to have figured out how to ride longer and faster despite spending a lot of my time spinning along with only one leg... this is why I spin like a gerbil on crack as keeping my cadence high is less stressful on my good leg and I gear down instead of standing up as I used to.

Have amazed myself at how far I have ridden this year but need to be in the best shape possible before winter hits as although I will still ride, I will ride less and my mobility will be hampered by snow / ice.

I have another century ride planned for October... committed to doing one a month.

I took mine on a 3 hour ride
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7HjnIiDZVo, the sign is a joke ! Average 10 MPH..

I posted a report of my ride of the fifty states here. With pictures! Check it out.
http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?678299-Mid-Atlantic-WABA-50-States-Ride.
Here's one I snapped while passing a police car to catch the lead group on the road. It was not a police escort. This ride was on open city streets with riders responsible to operate correctly. The police cruiser was "sitting in" (bike speak for assuming the speed of the rider ahead of you, as in "drafting") for no real reason except making it safer for the riders while he waited to respond to a call. He passed us soon after I joined the group.
http://i478.photobucket.com/albums/rr147/Rod_Smith/bike/inpursuit.jpg

Or maybe I cut him off. Anyway he was cool about it. :p

Months ago, I drew out a route I called "60 miles of torture", with 6500 vertical feet of climbing. Almost 4,000 feet of the climbing is in a 15-mile stretch near the middle.

I finally found the time (and courage) to try it Saturday, and I made it. Not fast. In fact, slow. But I made it up every climb without putting my feet down, so I'll take it. :D

Next week is the Tour de Pink -- a 3-day, 225-mile charity ride through the hills of Southeast PA and West-Central NJ. If last year is any indication, mine will be one of the only hybrids. I'll try to remember to post an update.

After riding 60 miles on my vintage touring bike and battling the mother of all headwinds on my ride back my Trek made for a nice recovery vehicle and will get to add another 15 miles to my day's riding total.

Sure appreciated that wider gear range as I had to ride another 7 miles south into those nasty headwinds.

I had some freaky winds today too! I could see the trees and was like *gulp* but then looked online and it said "Wind: 7 mph" w/ the high speed about 10 min before at "23 mph"!! I got 14 miles in but it wasn't as much fun as the dead summer air? The temperature was a lot nicer though?

I went on a 23+ mile ride this morning and feel great, some day I'll be making some longer rides but first I have build up the legs.

i also went on a 23 mile bike ride , but this time i went with some friends of mine and we went through Woodside (district) and part of Menlo park. it was a good ride.

So finally, after neglecting my bike for a bit, maybe even a couple months, I took her out today. I bought the bike nearly two years ago to ride to work and have barely ridden to work. I did ride often over the summer and stuff.

ANYWAY. So I finally bring the bike downstairs, step out, and DRIZZLE. So today I rode to work for the first time in rain, in a skirt, and with my new panniers which I realized need placement adjustment.

Congrats on the first bike commute in awhile, Tamara! I hope you didn't get too wet!