New Pushbike(s)

**Big Dave** · 5th September 2005, 20:42

Purchased two mountain bikes yesterday.
Co-pilot got a pretty standard unit but i lashed out on a slightly more upmarket machine. At $600 it's more than i paid for my first few motorcycles, but it's probably got better suspension than they had (and it's nowhere near the $3k plus the competition units ran out at)
24 speed shimano gears. great for the hills around here but aren't they a PITA to tune! new cables stretched and started dropping the chain - coulda taken it back to the shop, but no, muggins spent 3 hours this arvo getting them right.
Bloody good fun, even with the swolen knees and a sore arse. All part of the weight loss programme, but I can see me leaving the motorcycle at home and running the errands on the treadly for a while.
we don't need no steenkin' petrol. oooh my butt.....

**crashe** · 5th September 2005, 20:45

But did you buy a helmet as well....
you must protect your noggon as well when riding these pushbikes...
You can buy really 'soft' seats for them now.. to protect your tush...

and where are the pics of these new bikes....?

**Big Dave** · 5th September 2005, 20:51

Originally Posted by crashe

But did you buy a helmet as well....
you must protect your noggon as well when riding these pushbikes...
You can buy really 'soft' seats for them now.. to protect your tush...

and where are the pics of these new bikes....?

Yesss muuuum - got new hats as well - I got a Bell for $50 - hers is a HJC for about the same. I'll snap a pic later.

**erik** · 6th September 2005, 12:42

Good on ya.

I got me a mountain bike, doesn't seem that long ago, but it was actually at the start of the year. Got it secondhand through trademe, it's a basic one but I'm happy with it.

I've kinda been cycling on and off since I got it. First I thought I'd try cycling a little bit each day, but ended up getting sore knees. Anyway after lots of stuffing around I'm now cycling 3 times a week for just a short while (4.2km around the block twice, which is fairly hilly).
It's good fun though. Hopefully my knees will get more used to it and i'll be able to cycle longer and more frequently. I've got a couple of lecturers at uni that cycle to work each day - I kinda wish I could do that.
I'm starting to feel a bit fitter now, even if my knees aren't much better. Walking up stairs is easier and stuff.

Good luck with it.

**jrandom** · 6th September 2005, 12:56

Originally Posted by Big Dave

Purchased two mountain bikes yesterday...

Ha! A new mountainbike for $600?

Luxury!

I just barely escaped having to buy Mrs Random a $4,000 jobbie a couple of months back by giving her my $2,500 one and moving myself onto her old dunger (definition: almost a year old and cost less than $1,500).

And those bikes are just XC hardtails. I live in fear of the day that she wakes up and decides she needs a dedicated downhiller.

I guess I'll see you at the Karapoti Classic, then.

**Hitcher** · 6th September 2005, 13:02

Originally Posted by jrandom

I guess I'll see you at the Karapoti Classic, then.

Are you shaving your legs yet?

**Coyote** · 6th September 2005, 13:05

My Mongoose cost me 600 bucks, thought you were buying quality for a top name brand and at that price. But no. Gears change on you when you pedal harder, making you jump off the pedal and your groin slams into the frame. The frame creaks, even when I only weighed 50kg a few years back. And the shocks are too soft so when you go over a stone they bottom out

My Diamondback BMX however is much better. Not the greatest BMX bike as it weighs the amount of 3 decent BMX bikes, and its size is to suit a kid 5 years younger than me, but its never given me greif and never had to take it to the shop. Does good wheelies too

**Motoracer** · 6th September 2005, 13:13

Originally Posted by jrandom

Ha! A new mountainbike for $600?

Luxury!

I just barely escaped having to buy Mrs Random a $4,000 jobbie a couple of months back by giving her my $2,500 one and moving myself onto her old dunger (definition: almost a year old and cost less than $1,500).

And those bikes are just XC hardtails. I live in fear of the day that she wakes up and decides she needs a dedicated downhiller.

I guess I'll see you at the Karapoti Classic, then.

Eh? Yous are getting serious now?! How bout we hook up for some rides through wood hill or somefin.

Bloody pushbikes... My one costs just the same, if not more to maintain than an average small to mid sized motorcycle! (minus the rego and WOF fees ofcourse)

**Keystone19** · 6th September 2005, 13:43

Originally Posted by erik

First I thought I'd try cycling a little bit each day, but ended up getting sore knees. Anyway after lots of stuffing around I'm now cycling 3 times a week for just a short while (4.2km around the block twice, which is fairly hilly).
It's good fun though. Hopefully my knees will get more used to it and i'll be able to cycle longer and more frequently. .

Eventually your knees will get used to the cycling action. The constant rotation action should smooth out a groove where your patella sits and it will become more comfortable. Just make sure your seat height is adjusted properly and that once you have it in the right position don't change it.

To get the right height you want to be able to sit on the seat with your leg extended. Your leg should be just about straight (knee slightly bent) with the ball of your foot on the pedal.

**jrandom** · 6th September 2005, 13:59

Originally Posted by Hitcher

Are you shaving your legs yet?

Kiwis never, ever, ever shall be shaved.

**Velox** · 6th September 2005, 14:02

Originally Posted by jrandom

Kiwis never, ever, ever shall be shaved.

Sorry completely nothing to do with anything but...

Hi mate! Good to see you back, and that you've obviously still got some wise advice to share!

**jrandom** · 6th September 2005, 14:04

Originally Posted by Velox

Hi mate! Good to see you back...

Hay'm not back, hay'm a figgy mint of your h'imagination, etc.

Originally Posted by Velox

...and that you've obviously still got some wise advice to share!

Wise? Me?

Attitude like that, you're *bound* to end up in trouble, girl.

**Velox** · 6th September 2005, 14:09

Originally Posted by jrandom

Wise? Me?

Attitude like that, you're *bound* to end up in trouble, girl.

It's a wise man, grasshopper, who comes up with such an incitefull quote as "Kiwis never, ever, ever shall be shaved".

**Motoracer** · 6th September 2005, 14:15

Originally Posted by jrandom

I should note, though, that I suck. I'm only MTBing because SWMBO likes it. I'm still slow as a wet week and twice as boring. A more timid downhiller there never was. We did the Woodhill 6-hour last month and she was lapping a full 10 minutes faster than me. I gave up two-thirds of the way through to eat hot chips and cheer the rest of the field on.

I'm a bit twitchy about Karapoti; it becomes more difficult to put your feet up and eat chips on a single loop that goes 50km out into the boonies.

Gee mate, you sound like a lot of fun...

You'r wife sounds like she could be fun to ride with though.

I'll get in touch with ya JR.