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Thanks Corcis. Very fun bike.

SaladShooter

I guess I fall into this category lately myself (hence me getting back into riding).

I'm 24, 6'1" 210, so not huge, but definitely softer around the edges than I have ever been before. I was a hardcore XC MTBer (at least three hard rides a week) but a bad wrist injury has kept me off the trails until surgery.

I'm starting to get a little chunky so it's time to do something about it. I'm going to pick up a cheap roadie and see if I can't get back down to 175. I'm still in the market, so anyone selling their bike or knows of a good deal, any insight is appreciated

I am the proud owner of a '04 Kona Kikapu



I started riding on a GT Outpost and have never looked back!

actarheel

I'm 6'3" 225 and I'm setting up a new bike on an xl TCR 1 Alloy Frame. Any thoughts on wheelsets? I'm looking for a quality set up that won't break the bank. I'm intend to put a dura ace drive train on the bike (so far I have the frame w/carbon fork and headset and that's all). Thanks.

tlmonie

Hello, I would definately fall into your clydesdale catagory. 6'5" 240 NEW GUY on the forum. Would like rec's on a starter road bike that comes in big and tall sizes?

actarheel

After much searching, I purchased Mavic Open Pro wheelset w/dura ace hub. Hopefully, they will be a solid training wheelset. With shipping they were $330 from Performance. Next step, advice please on a good set of clydesdale tires to go on them.

Corcis

I'm riding a 54cm 2006 Trek 1000 and love it. If you're not too worried about racing or what not, it's a good value, though I'd spring for the 1500 if i were to do it all over again. The guy I just bought my jersey off had a 64cm So they do come in big sizes. The 1000 ran me around $650.

mmikm2005

6'2" 250 here...though I was 235 when I started riding...long story mom died during the holidays and I was not riding at all..On a mission to remove myself from this category this year...I ride a Lemond Reno and I love it...was putting between 40-70 miles week prior to the Ride for the Roses, then quit(mom ill). I thought about getting some different rims to go faster and then I remembered the best way to accomplish this, lose a little weight..Everyone keep riding, it helps!

mcavana

I am a clydsdale, but not for long...

keep an eye on this:

https://www.bikeforums.net/training-nutrition/166083-fat-kid-putting-end-bs.html

kevinmcdade

Good luck on your diet and congratulations on the initial weight loss.

My plan for this spring is to be out of the Clydesdayle category as well. I am 6'1" and now down to 207 from 230 since October. I was in the same boat as you regarding keeping up with the pack on group rides. I went on my first group ride last weekend since losing some weight and the difference is dramatic. The hills that used to send me WAY behind didn't even phase me last weekend. My goal is to be down to 195 by spring and 188 by end of summer.

Keep up the good work.

uxrider

5'10", 197-202lbs

I started riding seriously last May and despite travelling every other week for work I managed to ride about 2400kms from May to Oct. including one Century ride. According to www.bikejournal.com I burned over 88,000 calories and managed to loose zero lbs. Nothing else changed in my eating habits or anything so keep in mind that some of us lucky folks are genetically engineered to be Clydesdales!

kevinmcdade

I have to disagree with this remark about being genetically engineered to be a clydesdale. I rode the entire year last year, approximately 4000 miles, and did not lose a single pound and actually gained weight. By September I thought I was "genetically engineered to be Clydesdale". I started doing some research and decided to change my eating habits. In the first month that I changed my eating habits and rode the same amount of time/distance, my weight started dropping and my body started changing dramatically.

I now eat alot more fruits, vegetables, and whole grains, and stopped eating fast food, chips and sweets. I eat 1500 calories per day of the right types of food and actually have more energy than I ever had while eating like I used to eat. I have always drank water but I now drink 16, 8oz servings of water per day or more.

With some discipline and determination, the weight can be lost. I am a perfect example. I have not weighed less than 220 pounds in almost 3 years. I was up to 230 pounds when I decided to do something about it. I WILL be less than 200 in the next 5-6 weeks.

bikingshearer 

6' 3", 275 pounds, 48 years old, and fighting trim would be somewhere in the 240 range. I hate spindly-legged climbing farts. (Not really, but I love saying that.) Started riding in high school. A friend got me going (we still ride together 30 years later) and we had visions of being racers. An utter lack of talent spoiled that idea, but I learned how to ride in a pack and to love the bike. I bought a Bob Jackson frame with my first paycheck from my first post-high school job. It got stolen in 1992. I now have a 2000 Lemond Buenos Aires frame with miscellaneous components, a 1994 Trek 520, a Burley tandem (currently living at a friend's so he can ride with his 7 year old son) and, my latest and greatest love, a 1967 (that is not a typo) Paramount P-15, repainted by Ed Litton a very cool dark charcoal gray color with chrome headlugs and white pin striping. Stunningly sweet ride - I bought the frame on eBay with the idea of making it into a commuter and it has become my ride of choice. I had Ed add all of the modern-era braze-ons, and there is nothing period-correct about the components, although they have a distinct BOB-Rivendell flavor: this is a rider, not a museum piece. (Ed, by the way, does phenominal work at a reasonable price - gotta be patient, though.) Rode Livermore CA to Washington DC one summer while in college, have done some loaded touring and supported touring since. Mostly ride from the door, getting slower all the time and not letting it bother me. I do event rides when the mood strikes. Haven't done a century in a couple of years, but hope to in 2006. I ride 36 spoke wheels on everything except the tandem - those are 48's. I learned the hard way that 32 holes just ain't enough for me. I like wool jerseys and lycra bib shorts. I bought one of the very first Bell helmets - you know, the ones that looked like an inverted bthtub - in the mid-70's and have refused to ride sans helmet ever since. Getting run off the road by a truck (he was stupid, not malicious) and ending up in the middle of a lot of sharp, pointy rocks will give you religion.

I don't exercise. I don't work out. I don't train. I ride a bike. I just love the feeling of being out on the road. Well, maybe not when I'm going up ten miles of Mt. Diablo and gravity is not being my friend . . . . :-) On the other hand, people just *love* drafting me, and I drop like a rock. Almost as gracefully, too.

OrionKhan

We have to remember that not everyone has goals that are to loose weight or get down to under 200lbs. But you are right about eating habits being essential to proper weight loss. I'm 6'1 and generally weigh around 220-225. Come summer time I'll be in the 215-220 range. But I'm already pretty lean. I played football a for a large part of my life and lift weights regularly. And my wife has warned me about losing to much weight from cycling. I guess I may be a minority with many of the clydsedales around here are looking to lose. I think that's great. Just remember that there are those of use around proud to be a Clyde.

rexford

6'2" 280. Was down to 240, but took a little time off. Ive been mostly running- did the Chicago marathon in Ocober at 270, but hopped back on the bike last weekend (Felt F70). It was an eye opener as to how different running is from cycling- I was huffing and puffing after only going five miles. The extra 40 also makes the bike a heck of a lot less comfortable. I'm training for a couple half marathons, but am going to work a cross training ride back in on Sundays.

rjg001

I have used the holidays to reclaim Clydesdale status. Going into November I weighed in around 195. However, the bike found the basement with the short days, I spent a week on a beach in Mexico having nachos and quesadillas delivered to me while I lounged in a chair, and then I ate my way through the holidays. I'm now at 204 which is still seven pounds less than when I bought the bike last summer.

I've got a 2005 Trek 1000 and have not had any significant problems with mine. I had my wheels trued twice last year (rode about 1100 miles) but that is as much a function of bad roads as it is my weight.

Bikezilla

You ran the marathon at 270 pounds!? You must have knees, and a will, of iron!!! Sasquatch, I salute you!!! I'm at a post-holidays 235. My resolution: Hit 215 by May. To do so I know I've got to cut out Golden Oreos binges, most bread & potatoes, and emphasize the veggies, fruit, whole grains, lean protein.... And put in the miles, too (Merlin, generic track bike).

----Bikezilla.

Bikezilla

Thanks for reiterating the admonitions about shifting from refined sugar and processed carbos to the healthy stuff. The processed food is also jammed with sodium which jacks up blood pressure. I need to hear these messages, counter-propaganda, repeatedly because all day long I'm hearing advertisements encouraging me to eat and drink junk. Here's another good motivator: rent Morgan Spurlock's documentary indicting the fastfood industry: Supersize Me. It's entertaining AND persuasive.

I'm also prepping for the bike version of the LA Marathon. 235 pounds & counting.....down, I hope.

Bikezilla

KingTermite 

Pics of bike (Trek 520 Touring):
https://kingtermite.net/publicstuff/Trek520/




Don't have a recent cycling pic, but here is one taken here in the house just this week. I'm losing weight, but still just over 300 lbs.

SaladShooter

Ha, I checked out of the Clydedale category on Tuesday. I'm finally under 200 after two years or so. Just took a little diet change and getting back on the bike and I'm 198 and falling.

I can't believe how fast the weight is coming off since I started logging my caloric intake (https://www.bioweblogic.com) and making a conscious effort to exercise a little more.

So to all the 'Dales out there looking for some motivation... it can be done!

kevinmcdade

Congrats on that!!! I am trying to checkout as well. I am down to 204 from 230. Another two weeks or so and I will weigh less than 200 for the first time in about 5 years. My riding has skyrocketed since I have started losing weight. I am doing the same thing you are doing by logging my caloric intake and eating better/smarter.

Panic

SaladShooter, how much did you lose?

Winter is killing me, I was down to 227 in mid October, but I'm already up to 238 and trainer miles aren't fun. Thinking about learning to rollerblade for wintertime work.

I want a site where I can do the calorie counting, but get it for free

KingTermite 

If you guys want to talk motivation and losing weight, check out our sticky "Weight Loss Club" thread in the "training & nutrition" forum.

Me personally....I didn't start seriously until last year, but I dropped about 60 pounds or so last year.

SaladShooter

So far only about 15 pounds. I was never WAY out of shape, but I just couldn't manage to drop pounds no matter I tried (or so I told myself). I ate healthy, but I ate TOO MUCH. My portions were what was killing me.

Also, a wrist injury (ironically NOT while mountain biking, but rather slipping off a small retaining wall I have jumped off of since I was about 8 years old) has kept me off the bike for a year or more. Problem was my eating habits didn't change, I got a great paying, but low activity desk job, and you know the rest. Gained 30 lbs or since I was in racing shape.

Now I am watching everything that goes into my body, staying away from BS fad diets and just eating healthier and smaller portions. Just got back on the bike again and couldn't be happier. The weight is seriously falling off now that I am back on two wheels. My goal is 175 by the middle/end of summer, I have a $100 bet going with a friend on who can lose more and keep it off. He doesn't bike, it's a lock

patentcad

It's rather astonishing that there are so many 200lb. + riders (or whatever qualifies for 'Clydesdale' status) that this thread has assumed the encyclopediac dimesions that you see here today. F those weight charts!

barndoor

6'7" 275# here....

I guess I qualify, hehe....I'm about 40# overweight now, but when I'm in good "riding shape", my buddies fight for my wheel....and that's ok...I like to "help" them. I LOVE doing centuries the most.....I hope to do several this year. When you're this tall, it's pretty easy to "hide" 40 extra lbs....but you sure do FEEL the extra weight, especially on hills...I don't worry about saving weight on bike parts...shoot, if I want to save a few grams here and there I could just get a friggin' haircut once in a while...I want my parts to last! I ride a Cannondale 66cm caad 3 with Shimano 105 components.....that's all I need.....I'll post a pic when I get a good one in the light....cheers!