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Let's be boring and talk bicycles!

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I haven’t ridden a drop bar bike for years, but I have a theory that straights are an unnatural position for our arms/wrists whereas drops on the hoods or the drop are parallel to your body. Just look how your arms swing when you walk, yet straight bars switch thru thru 90°. Try walking like that.

I have found that my wrist ache earlier and earlier on straights as I get older. Just a few miles now.

Does it look like I’m talking myself into a change?😉
 
Yes! Most important thing for me is that the bike fits me properly. My fixed is quite hardcore. Shortened straight bars and just one hand brake.
 
JonathanGi said:
Yes! Most important thing for me is that the bike fits me properly. My fixed is quite hardcore. Shortened straight bars and just one hand brake.
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Ah yes, the search for perfect minimalism. I still suffer from that. Everything from apps to gears on bikes. In another world it would be called OCD - not said jokingly.
 
Very nice!!! I bought my PDQ at the same time as my old cycling buddy. I didn't, and still don't, particularly like mine. He, however is now on his 3rd ICE trike and I've gone back to conventional.
 
I looked at an third wheel attachment for the front of my wheelchair. It used hand cranks. However the company wanted over £3k for what looks like a slight modified cut down bike. The usual rio off the disabled attitude! :(
 
I knew a hand cranker from my old cycle club. His machine was incredibly specialized and really light! And that was a few years ago. I can't imagine how much things might have improved!
 
MikeyBikey said:
I looked at an third wheel attachment for the front of my wheelchair. It used hand cranks. However the company wanted over £3k for what looks like a slight modified cut down bike. The usual rio off the disabled attitude! :(
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This chap has no arms or legs his name is Alex Lewis he has been on the TV he lost all his limb with sepsis

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Now that is impressive! Do I need to invest in a trike? Tandem trike? We have tried one at the York Rally a few years ago.
 
I only have two bikes.

A decathlon drop bar alu road bike and 90s steel rigid mtb flat bar. I use the road bike for long rides and the clunker for commuting and pootling around.
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This is John Bonham's headstone, with my road bike in the background against the church wall.

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And the clunker at the top of Bredon Hill
 
John Bonham, apparently, thumped the bass drum so hard that he managed to move Dave Mattacks kit ( of Fairport fame) across the stage. This could lead anywhere!
 
Ah, I am far less adventurous than all the above - blame a torn meniscus. My bike of choice is the static one by the front door. Every morning and every evening I pedal away ... to nowhere.
 
A torn meniscus sounds bad so you're doing well. I really like spinning my turbo. Especially as it seems the weather is getting wetter and windier.
 
I find static cycling really boring, can't really take it for more than half an hour or so. The thing I most enjoy is taking new lanes I haven't been before and finding beautiful hidden sights.

There seem to be quite a few of us cycling aficionados in here. I imagine we live all over the country, so the logistics might be tricky, but it would be nice to organise a group ride at some point.
 
Carlos said:
I find static cycling really boring
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So did I until I found Zwift.
Now I can cycle up the hills of Innsbruck or race through the streets of London or do a workout through Japanese villages. It keeps me more entertained than just mindless spinning.
There is even a diabetes meet up on Saturday afternoons. I joined a few hundred of them from around the world on a group ride one Diabetes Week.
 
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