Originally Posted by
DaveW
A very interesting and good learning thread.
I am a newbie who is coming in from the angle of knowing virtually nothing about any bikes. As I'm looking to get one soon, and overweight to boot, my goals were to lose weight and enjoy cycling around the country as well as just around town.
I am in the same situation. Know nothing about bikes, am overweight and wanting to get into shape. I cycle everywhere on my 3 speed city bike (really miss my 7 speeder that got stolen) and I have friends who tour. I am totally jealous of their ability to just pick up and go because you don't have to worry about places to stay here. One is allowed to camp where ever as long as they don't disturb the nature or the people and they pick up after themselves. My hope is to be in good enough shape to head out need summer on short weekend trips around Sweden and Denmark with my boyfriend and eventually do week bike trips.
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