That bike really makes me HOT!! I love the italian styling. I see many of them about in Raleigh, NC. Not sure why there are so many, maybe the colleges. My wife forbids my ownership of any type of motorcycle, bike = divorce. So, I must self propel on two wheels.
Nice chopper as well Doug. My best friend is a Harley mechanic and as you can imagine has a sweet custom hog, complete with nitro boost.

Ha! 3 pages about biking on a sailing site.

Glad to see the topic. It's really not much of a stretch for catsailors to be bikers (maybe cyclist is a better word) Most catsailors are pretty athletic to start. At my age and size, instead of losing weight, I just got a bigger boat. As far as cycling - it is a great workout and a lot less impact on the body. I do have some carbon on my bike, but I believe that the bike should match the skills. I just signed up for my second MS150 charity ride from Houston to Austin this coming April. They limit the entries to 13,000. Last year it filled up in 10 days, yesterday it took 6 hours!

See you on the water, and I hope you see me on the road!

Don:

Now that I have lost 35 lbs and 7 inches off my waist I may look at getting a human powered bike too. I live out in the sticks now and there are plenty of places to ride and some good small hills around the house by the lake. Might also be fun with the grand kids.

Doug

Hobie1616, I see your point.

I used to road race, averaging 300 mi/wk, with a team... I still have my bike, a TREK aluminum-frame with a Dura-Ace brake-lever shifting gruppo (it was new at the time, and the Al frame was stiffer than carbon, at that time), a Selle Italia Ti seat, yada yada...

I now am happily chubby and fart around on my TREK 7500, hybrid, with its radial-spoke BONTRAGER rims. Wow, base model bikes are now like racing bikes used to be.

Those aluminum frames are back killers. A friend set up a Al frame with extremely stiff Specialized tri spoke wheels. The ride was so hard he wrecked his back. I think he went by the Hernando philosophy of, "It is better to look good then to feel good."

He ended up modifying a Trek Y33 MTB with full suspension to ride on the road.

My crew attached. Were going again this Sunday 10ish

The road bike thing works for me. I've lost about 25# in 6 weeks and don't get tired jumping in and out on marginal wind days like I used to (also need to go out more, which is nice).

Added bonus is that better cardio means I can give my ACat crew (Ashley Dupre') continuous verbal feedback on her performance.

The Inter 20's I'm rolling while going to weather find this distracting.. yet another bonus.

I've been riding a fixed gear for the last year and a half and having a blast. I also built one up for my wife--she likes pink...

that's a nice lookin bike, your wife must be happy. here's my schwinn 12-speed conversion i built up about a year ago (from before i added my white seat ). been riding fixed since then and never looked back

I should have my hardtail rebuilt by the following weekend. 11 years ago, there was limited ability to find competitive prices for high end components. Today its a smorgasbord!

Kris
F-16

First generation Cannondale aluminum (the one with the sewer pipe frame).

Off the rack (unsuspended) fat tire mtb that will get more use when I get the kid/dog trailer hookup...

As flat as Florida is, I still use a lot of gears.... does that make me a bad person?

Hey, I A-Class and mountain bike. I have an X0 Castellano. I have a road bike too but the wierd things I find in the woods are much nicer than the ones I find on the side of the road.

This bring up a serious guy thing. Bikes and some trap harnesses beat the crap out of your prostate. This can cause your PSA to go up. If it keeps going up, the next stap involves needles, pain and humiliation. A good bike seat and a crotchless harness that fits may just spare you this. Your choice.

That Marine Max harness with the leg straps works for me.

Do need to get one of those new-fangled bike seats though.... Good point. Or, maybe I'll just walk...

yeah about that, your to skinny to be in the Nacra 20 fleet now....

Distracting, I'll say, I thought I was good at being distracting to others ... my god... I was convinced you had crew and that they were about to die painfully. Nice work, I'll have to step it up to compete.

shhhh . . .they may take away your A-Class card.

Colnago. BOOM. All your carbon can't beat vintage Italian.



Dear Interested Forum Users,

Let's take our relationship to the next level and start biking together. I'll race you to the boat park.

Love,
Sarah

Are you wearing heels on your bike?

Does anyone actually ride their bike?

I try to find the time to ride mine 20 miles a day, just to burn off the beer.