Originally Posted by rydabent

IMO everyone that bikes should ride the way it pleases themselves. In so many of the threads, the "real" cyclist try to dictate how, what, where, what to wear, what saddle, and what bike is acceptable to ride.

To begin with not everyone has $10,000 to spend on a bike, so price is the prime point of what one can ride. Then there road bikes, mountain bikes, fat bikes, fixies, bents, and trikes, and gravel bikes. Pick the type or types of biking you like and buy the bike that works best for that style of biking.

Then-------------- ride at the speed and cadence that feel right to you. If you want to train for and race that is fine too. Just remember if that is not your bag, as I say, ride to please yourself. Cycling should be fun first.

Originally Posted by Maelochs

The funniest part is that in another thread a week ago we were discussing an old article from The Guardian or somewhere about how cycling had been taken over by middle-aged buys in spandex with fat bellies and fat wallets, hyper-competing everywhere because they were unwilling to accept mid-life crises?

General consensus was: it hadn't.

And we held up as an example: Mr. Rydabent.



(yeah, we all get it.. but if you didn't think this as going to start and argument ... you wouldn't have posted. You're a veteran here. (You could post"I like cycling" and get a fight on these boards.) heck yeah ... I'd throw the first punch just see the hilarity unfold for 17 pages. Nicely said.

Originally Posted by MRT2

I disagree with the premise of this thread. Who advises anyone to spend $10,000 to get started? Almost nobody. And as for what to buy, what to wear, or how to train or ride, people give advise in response to questions from other people. It is sort of the point of forums like these.

If the answer to every question is, ride what you like, spend whatever you feel you can afford, and wear whatever you feel like, it would make for very short discussion threads.

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Originally Posted by one4smoke

+1

Agree wholeheartedly with this. As someone that got back into cycling just a relatively short time ago, it's rather aggravating to start a thread asking for advice, only to get.. "do what feels good to you" or "buy what you like." If I knew what felt good to me, or what I like, I wouldn't be asking for advice. It's nice to lean on other's vast experience and knowledge when trying to shorten the learning curve.

To get a generic response like some give, doesn't help at all. I realize a lot of things in cycling are personal preference, but until you get that experience to develop a preference,you rely on help.

Nicely said.