Raw Biking!!!

[Lay-Lay]

Well, I was wondering how many raw friends are gearing up their bikes on a regular basis. This is my new found love. I am so enjoying it. I was wondering how many miles you folks average. I haven't been measuring how far I have been going to, but I am going to next time. I have been biking for 30 m to an hour and having a blast.

By the way, I used to hate to bike. I suggest that anyone who hasn't tried it in a while to drag their bike out of storage and lube it up and give it a try.

[tinystrawberry]

oooo, i LOVE biking, and I'm so glad you started to enjoy it!!!
I average 10-15 miles daily. I'd liek to start riding more, but I have a mountain bike and as soon as i purchase a street bike (which is veryyyy soon) I'll be riding way more!!! I'm so excited.

:)

[PATH301]

what kind of bike did you buy?

[Lay-Lay]

awesome. I have a huffy mountain bike 18 speed. It is awesome. I got lights hooked up so I can ride at night too.

[KombuchaCHIC]

Nice! I have a fixed gear bike, so it is quite a workout to go for really long rides! I don't ride as much as I should, but I really want to ride more! I also want to get into mtn biking and also touring! :) I love riding! :)

[Lay-Lay]

oooo, i LOVE biking, and I'm so glad you started to enjoy it!!!
I average 10-15 miles daily. I'd liek to start riding more, but I have a mountain bike and as soon as i purchase a street bike (which is veryyyy soon) I'll be riding way more!!! I'm so excited.

:)

Awesome, how long does it take to do that mileage. I have no clue the differences in bikes. Mine has tons of gadgets on it. It was a gift. My dad bought it for my mom as an anniversary present. She took it out riding one time and wrecked. She tore both of her knees up and they have never been the same since. Had to replace one. Anyways she calls it killer bike. So they gave it to me. I have had no accidents to date. My dad paid $800 for it so I guess it is a pretty good bike.

[Lunar*Fey]

I LOVE to ride my bike. I do it for fun and I have no idea how far I go, I probably could go farther but have to stop once there is no where left to go without going too far from my house. I think biking is a blast, and its a good way to get out, think, and just be in nature....The first road I ride through is surrounded mostly by trees and the lake, its so beautiful. On my way back I sometimes stop by the lake and sit at a picnic table and paint for a while (if I have brought my painting supplies)...it is so wonderful. Oh wow, I really went on and on. Well yes, I bike and I love it. especially trying to go up this one really steep hill, its like I am vertical if that makes sense lol.

any way, I have blabbed on and on..sorry! Have fun biking :)

[Pierre]

I ride to church. It's 8.6 km one way. Usually I ride there and someone brings me back, but sometimes I ride back, or I ride there twice.

[Lay-Lay]

Lunar Fey - you are so right on. It is sooo freeing. Just the wind your bike and you.

Awesome Pierre. I would possibly ride, to mine, but I would probally get hot and wet and mine is about 15 miles and nobody lives my way so, that would be 30 miles to and from. I guess I could, but I think I won't LOL.

[konmai]

I'm trying to ride my bike everywhere. :D

post office, library, grocery store, etc...! :p

[Harley]

I am an avid road cyclist and I am averaging 315 miles a week right now.
I have had some weeks as high as 350miles. Wish I could do more but work gets in the way.
I ride everyday and it is my passion.
Keep it up and ride as much as possible.
It is awesome!!

[Lay-Lay]

Wow that is amazing! I wish I was able to ride to town on mine. I live on a highway and I am afraid to ride on it. I take my bike to trails and ride and I will cross the highway and ride some of the country roads.

[Draginvry]

I ride sometimes. I live at the edge of a country road, so it is only about a mile out before I start seeing cows and barns.

Today I saw some people cycling, so I followed them for about five miles. But I couldn't keep up because I only have a mountain bike.

[Gelis]

I love to ride. But I bought two bikes from Walmart for about 100.00 each. I did not want to spend a lot of money on them incase we did not use them.

We have a flat tire a week probably. I have a goal of 1000 miles before I replace them. So far I am at about 200 miles. Ugh. Had hiccups in the plan bought a house and life has interfered with riding.

Hopefully we will get back on schedule soon

[PATH301]

Gelis,

We have a flat tire a week probably. I have a goal of 1000 miles before I replace them. So far I am at about 200 miles. Ugh. Had hiccups in the plan bought a house and life has interfered with riding.

Are you putting in road miles or off road miles?

I have a GTX 24 speed mountain bike. I was into it very heavy end of winter and through the spring and to the first part of summer. But then I backed off for some reason. I plan to start it up again here in september for my cardio. I've been eyeing a couple of big hills to attack :D , on and off road.

[Lay-Lay]

I haven't been riding the past few days, cause I need my tires pumped back up. Maybe my hubby will do it for me tommorow. I hopes, I hopes! What is the difference between on road and off road? I don't speak bike, I just ride them, LOL! Sure wish I could pick up some of the lingo.

[PATH301]

Well you basically have 3 types:
1. - Roadbike. Which has multispeeds to it, the type used in tour de france.
2. - Hybrid bike. Which is a mixture between a roadbike and a mountain bike.
3. - Mountain bike. It's primarily used for off road ridding, in the snow - mud - dirt - woodland, field , desert trails, hills and mountains, basically all types of terrian. But can be used on the road as well.

[Lay-Lay]

oh thank you so much for that info. I was completely ignorant to this. Learn somethin' new. :D

[Narz]

Biking is great. I'm on a car fast right now personally. :D

[Gelis]

Gelis,


Are you putting in road miles or off road miles?



We ride on cement trails. I guess that is on road. Tulsa is surrounded in 240+ miles of bike paths where you go anywhere practicallly without going on the street with traffic. Then of course we have bike routes that criss cross the city.

[Tirza]

Well, I haven't biked for years (can you tell?) I USED to be extremely athletic, mostly running, basketball, track and field, volleyball...

But this is about my husband. I thought that you all might be interested in what he is into. He is 61, extremely active as an electrical contractor. He rollerblades late at night quite a few evenings a week.

Last year on Father's Day, he took part in a 100km Moveathon which was raising money for a school for handicapped children in Toronto. He did that on rollerblades. 100K is about 60 miles. He actually did 114 just to prove something (??)

This year, again on Father's Day, they didn't allow rollerblades on the 100K route, so he borrowed a bike and did it again.

He has a herniated disk in his back and was supposed to have surgery about 5 years ago. After seeking second and third opinions, he declined surgery and opted to try to do specific exercises and to just watch himself more carefully. He also often uses a magnet slipped into the waistband of his pants, which helps a lot. A young man who is in his 30's has exactly the same disk problem and he did have the surgery at the same time my husband was supposed to. He has had nothing but trouble. Poor guy. He is so frustrated seeing my husband motoring along at high speed, 18 hours a day at age 61, working very hard and still able to keep that back working. My husband told him that the secret was to keep active.

My husband is also very health-minded and is very obliging to try out anything I feed him. So he is very high raw also - even with the level of his activity he does very well on the diet and really loves it.

[PATH301]

that's cool! We also have them here in the downtown area, but I'm not sure how many miles it is. And it seems that they only go north and south and not all around the city like what you have. :D

[Todays Best 4 Me]

I have been riding my bike lately. The weather here is that nice cool fall weather--Michigan. :)

I rode for an hour this morning- peddling as fast as I could to try and stay up with my husband who has a stride almost twice mine.:confused: I guess I rode about 6-7 miles. It was fun.

Yesterday I rode in some near-by woods with my grand-daughter. It was so peaceful. :D ~~Todays Best

[KindnessToAllCreatures]

Great idea for a post, Lay-Lay! Have you ever tried inflating your tires yourself? It's easy enough to do if your DH isn't available.

I LOVE biking, although am only an amateur. I just indulged myself by buying a Trek 7200 hybrid that I try to use for errands and on trails available to me. My former bike was a Mongoose Threshold mountain bike, a very dependable bike, although the hybrid is better for me as I don't generally do any off-road biking.

For me, riding is quite adventerous and great fun. The other day I biked out by the mall for an errand, about 17 miles round trip. (I don't always go that far.) It was a blast!

Gelis- I'm jealous ;) You are sooo lucky to have the bike trails available that you do! Where I live, bike trails are becoming more common, although not yet to what you have available!

[Gelis]

We are indeed blessed with our trail system and bike routes.

I have to say while Tulsa OK is no where I would have ever chosen to move on my own. Now that I am here I will never leave as long as it is within my power.

We extend our path system regularly, there is nowhere practically you cannot go on it. In a year or so we will be able to get all the way to Key Stone Dam Park which is a beautiful state park (i believe it is state) about 40 miles from here.

[RawTruth]

Great thread!!

Well, last Sunday I rode 40 miles ... up quite a few hills and through some canyons ... only stopping at a few fig trees to pick and eat delicious fresh (free) figs hanging over into public space.

I've been riding again for a couple of months with a group of other raw folk, but the most I'd tackled until then was 30 miles -- 15 miles from a raw restaurant to my house, then the 15 miles back. When we first started riding on Friday nights, I didn't want to disturb my old road bike (from the mid-1980s) which was busily rusting hanging in my garage. But ... finally, I bought a new bike which fit me like a champ and soon found myself getting up early and riding on my own -- or with a neighborhood friend. He's not raw and the destination was a coffee house, though I soon found a juice bar nearby that opens at 7 a.m.

I kind of have a love/hate feeling about biking, I think. I really like how I feel afterward, but my butt always hurts part way through a long ride (too bony?) and I don't like being hunched over. What's especially great is riding through neighborhoods that whiz by in a car and seeing and smelling everything at ground level ... slowly ... and smiling and greeting the other riders and walkers along the way. The beach path is pretty cool, too.

However, I don't feel like I can complain at all after making a new (vegan) friend who rode across the U.S. (yep, the whole dang thing from Georgia to California) in 22 days in July of this year. He averaged 120+ miles a day enduring gas station food and open sores on his behind, carrying only 5 lbs with him and sleeping on the ground. Yikes!!!

I do have to say, though, that biking can get the body in shape really fast -- or at least the forearms (from leaning on them) and the glutes -- any saddlebags soon melt away. I be liking that!

Happy trails!

[Lay-Lay]

Great idea for a post, Lay-Lay! Have you ever tried inflating your tires yourself? It's easy enough to do if your DH isn't available.

Inflating my tires myself is not the problem. Rather it is an issue of getting them to town to get air in them. I can't drive my dh truck. We have one of those electric pumps, but it has broke, soooo..... well he has since pumped our tires.

I am planning on getting back into a routine of riding, but this week I have kind of broke all my "good" routines. Wow, medication really stinks!

[KindnessToAllCreatures]

I just use a cheap hand pump I bought at WalMart- It only cost around $10.00 and works great- I've used it for years.

[Lay-Lay]

LOL, thanks....that sounds simple enough, but I'm cheap and the air at the gas station is free, LOL. Its all taken care of now anyways,lol. (besides I don't buy ANYTHING at WALMART)