Hi again..

Well, I dug the old bike out today. The tires were flat but a neighbor aired them up for me.

The bike is an Ozone 500 Cliffrunner and it's very obviously a mountain bike for starters and secondly it's a man's bike.

I had back surgery some years ago and they botched it up leaving me in severe pain for life and with little agility. Getting on and off this thing is troublesome.



My friend's son gave me a new seat, well it's a used seat, that has a taller pole on it and that lets me extend my leg better, closer to being straight than the old one. That helps a little. But...

I also hate the handlebars. This thing is designed for you to ride hunched over like you're in a race. For me, that's very uncomfortable. I am not in a race and never will be. I just want to ride leisurely around town at a lazy pace and in as much comfort as possible.

The tires are wide and grippy like. Like for off road. I will never ride a bike off road or even through the grass, anywhere. I just want to ride on concrete streets and sometimes maybe asphalt roads.

The gears are wonky, they are hard to shift and often jump gears while riding without me touching them. I have no clue how to fix that.

I just want to burn calories, I don't want to get all muscled up.

Spending $400 on a bike is way too expensive for me. I really don't want to spend more than $150 if I can help it.

I need a larger bike, I'm 5' 7" and have long legs. A 26" bike is just too small. I've looked at all the ladies bikes and almost all of them are 26" with a few saying 700c which is a totally new thing to me, I never heard of it before. And of course I really do not like riding a man's bike.

Oh, I checked craigslist and no ladie's bikes for sale.

I guess what I'm looking for is an old timey type of bike, plain and simple, no weird handle bars or weird frames or square tires or plastic parts or Batman features or other stupid high tech "improvements".

I dunno. Maybe "simple" is bad now. Everyone wants fancy-schmancy space age nonsense and everyone thinks paying $400 for a bike is a good thing.