First week back riding results
03-14-15 | 02:17 PM
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Bikes: Surly long haul trucker, Surly steamroller,Huffy Catalina, Univega Alpina 501. Gravity deadeye monster, Raliegh sport , Electra loft 1
First week back riding results
Pain kept off my bike last summer . A new Doctor and new medicine has me headed the right way . This week the weather broke and I could finally ride. I set a modest goal of 20 miles . I ended up at 22.9 and feeling decent My plan is to get to 30-40 miles a week over the next month or 2 and maintain that
Roy
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03-14-15 | 04:05 PM
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Bikes: 1959 Capo Modell Campagnolo; 1960 Capo Sieger (2); 1962 Carlton Franco Suisse; 1970 Peugeot UO-8; 1982 Bianchi Campione d'Italia; 1988 Schwinn Project KOM-10;
Great! Welcome back to the world's greatest sport.
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"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." --Theodore Roosevelt
Capo: 1959 Modell Campagnolo, S/N 40324; 1960 Sieger (2), S/N 42624, 42597
Carlton: 1962 Franco Suisse, S/N K7911
Peugeot: 1970 UO-8, S/N 0010468
Bianchi: 1982 Campione d'Italia, S/N 1.M9914
Schwinn: 1988 Project KOM-10, S/N F804069
"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." --Theodore Roosevelt
Capo: 1959 Modell Campagnolo, S/N 40324; 1960 Sieger (2), S/N 42624, 42597
Carlton: 1962 Franco Suisse, S/N K7911
Peugeot: 1970 UO-8, S/N 0010468
Bianchi: 1982 Campione d'Italia, S/N 1.M9914
Schwinn: 1988 Project KOM-10, S/N F804069
03-14-15 | 06:42 PM
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Good for you!
How many rides/week are you doing? Without pushing too hard, if you stick with it you may find that 30-40 miles/week is easily surpassable. The rule of thumb is that you can shoot to increase your mileage by 10%/week. That adds up pretty fast.
Regardless, the key is to get out there and enjoy yourself.
How many rides/week are you doing? Without pushing too hard, if you stick with it you may find that 30-40 miles/week is easily surpassable. The rule of thumb is that you can shoot to increase your mileage by 10%/week. That adds up pretty fast.
Regardless, the key is to get out there and enjoy yourself.
03-15-15 | 01:37 PM
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I took my steamroller out to my local M.U.P. trail today I turned around 3 miles out not ready to take the whole loop (8 miles) yet on a single speed ended up riding 6.15 miles. Which is better than sitting inside. I rode the loop with no problem with a geared bike last week .
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03-15-15 | 02:10 PM
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Good for you. 
03-21-15 | 12:47 PM
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Well my knee was killing me all week
which threw my back out
My goal for this week is 22 miles I rode 8.75 this morning bringing this weeks total to 21.4 I don't know if I have enough gas left to spin around the neighborhood. BY the way do I get double miles for the fat tire mongoose bike.
Roy
which threw my back out My goal for this week is 22 miles I rode 8.75 this morning bringing this weeks total to 21.4 I don't know if I have enough gas left to spin around the neighborhood. BY the way do I get double miles for the fat tire mongoose bike. Roy
03-21-15 | 03:24 PM
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Only if I get it too I'm a tad north of #300 and one of my bikes has 700x25 tires I managed to ride around the neighborhood to get 3/4 of a mile and make my second weeks goal.
I will say this that mongoose Brutus bike gets peoples attention I stripped all the decals and reflectors off it changed the sprocket so you can pedal the thing and added yellow chain
Roy
I will say this that mongoose Brutus bike gets peoples attention I stripped all the decals and reflectors off it changed the sprocket so you can pedal the thing and added yellow chain
Roy
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