Just Ordered My New Bike

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Different bike to the one posted about. That was a road bike not a BMX bike. BMX is totally different and I watch it, and other extreme sports with a lot of admiration for the fearlessness and agility they require.

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Anders Molin wrote:

Nice bile

I hope that's a typo...

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Anders Molin

Fixed :-O

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Jan R Hansen

Tillykke ! I've got a Ghost 5100 htx MTB myself - and although Denmarks is relatively flat, there's still hills in the woods that I cannot climb. So lots of challenges. Fat_boy: downhill may be extreme, but try going uphill for once :)

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Hakan Nilsson k

Well, I'm from Sweden and I can tell you we learn very early in school that "Himmelsbjerget" (Heavens mountain) is the highest hill in Denmark. And if you go there you see all of Denmark :-D

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Marc Clifton

fat_boy wrote:

I cant see how anyone could get excited about one.

I love biking, for so many reasons. It's nice to have to world go by slowly sometimes, to turn the bend and see a family of deer grazing, or have a squirrel run along besides me for a minute--biking in the country is great! It's exhiliarating to be doing 40 MPH down the hills (in a 30 MPH zone, no less). It's fantastic exercise. I quickly become disconnected from the daily troubles of life and enjoy the feel of doing something that feels really freeing but also requires a lot of willpower. Marc

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Paul Watson

Well then go place yourself near a corner at the bottom of a steep hill during a road race and come back and tell me the chaps aren't a bit nuts in the head. Better yet, get on a racer and go down a hill at 60+kph in a pack of riders with a long sweeping corner half-way down when all you are wearing is a few millimeters-thick cloth and some styrofoam stuck to your head. No leathers, no knee guards or full-face helmets, just you and lots of skin flaying tar. I've skiied and I have cycled and both can get pretty hairy.

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Shog9 wrote:

eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.

Nader Elshehabi

Hello I didn't have time to bike since I entered Med school:((. It's been about 5 years now. Nice bike BTW Regards:rose:

Paul Watson

Cycle to your lectures ;)

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Shog9 wrote:

eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.

Rage

With much octan and without lead, fuel such as petrol. Does not sound better to me, must be a song. Und ich hätte Oktan mit c geschrieben, Jörgen.

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I've got a new "GI" for my jiu-jitsu training :-D (which is the (mostly white) suit you wear) Is that extreme enough. ;-) PS: I can recommand combat sports (preferably full contact) to couples. You can work out you're differences on the tatami. PPS: Yes, this really works :-D.

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Anna Jayne Metcalfe

We'll lend you one for a fiver... ;P

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Nader Elshehabi

Hello Cairo is big. My faculty is 14Km away -same city though-. Besides, I'll end up listening to orthopaedic lectures on "cycle hit by a car" injuries given on me!!;P Regards:rose:

Gary Wheeler

Indeed. I watched a race once that ran through the downtown area of this little village. The entire village was on the side of the hill, so the course was on a constant incline. I was at one of the lower corners. The road transitioned from asphalt to cobblestones for about 50 yards at the corner. These guys were doing 30-35 mph going through this corner, packed asses-to-elbows. On one of the last laps, the leaders had started to string out a little. The guy in second spilled the bike in the corner. Bike and rider rolled into the bales of straw placed strategically throughout the corner. I'm thinking we've got someone seriously maimed here; there's no way he'll walk again. The guy gets up, bleeding from a number of scrapes, picks up his bike (which no longer looked like a bicycle), and walks off the course :omg:.

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brianwelsch

:cool: I was looking at the 1000 recently, since the local shop doesn't stock 1200s(though could order one for me). They want to sell me a 1500 for a reasonable price, but I'm going to continue riding my hybrid a bit longer. Enjoy! Tell us how you like it after a few weeks of riding.

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Paul Watson

haha, well I cycle 22k everyday to work and back and have to endure all the co-workers making bets as to when I will have my first tractor meeting.

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Shog9 wrote:

eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.

Gary Wheeler

Anders Molin wrote:

Trek 1200[^]

Very :cool:. I have the 1200's predecessor, a 1220 I bought back in 1999. It's been a great bike. My last ride, I rode it from my hometown (Xenia, Ohio, USA) to Cincinnati on the Little Miami Scenic Trail[^]. Round trip, it's a little over 100 miles. Unfortunately I didn't eat enough and 'bonked' at the end, so the last hour riding home was pretty miserable. The nice thing about Trek bikes: While they're not expensive, you get good quality components. I'm sure the elite cyclists around here (Mr. Maunder, for example) would :^), but for the amount of riding I do and my level of fitness, it's a perfect fit.

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Chris Maunder

fat_boy wrote:

bloody tiring, slow, and totally 'un-extreme'

Yeah, screaming down a descent at 80km/h is pretty boring, and cruising in a pack of a dozen cyclists at 45km/h drafting and getting carried along with the flow is pretty tiring. ;) For me, skis == boring. You stand on them, you slide down a hill, you stop and wait in line for 20 mins, then at the top of the hill you stand on the two planks again, slide down the hill... GOTO 10.

cheers, Chris Maunder

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Chris Maunder

That's a good looking machine. Nice.

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Stuart Dootson

Geez - bikes seem expensive now - my first purchase when I got a job after leaving university was a hand-built bike from my local frame builders[^]. And I don't remember it being particularly expensive (and with the money I was earning then, most things seemed expensive - we're talking 15 years ago? - and yes, I've still got the bike - my brother-in-law used it when he did the London Triathlon on August 5th). Obviously, I'm just getting old... Still - nice looking bike - I've always loved the way that road bikes can look like they're going really fast when standing still - I think it's got something to do with the photo being taken with a big gear selected!