Here's a very inspiring chap I met on another forum. From 39 down to 14 stone in three years and 12,700 miles of cycling:
http://theamazing39stonecyclist.wordpress.com/
http://theamazing39stonecyclist.wordpress.com/
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Where did he get his bikes from? My bike used to break spokes quite regularly and I was 'only' 18/19 stone!
Andy 🙂
There's a bikes link in his blog if you want full details. I don't know what bike you owned?
Decent well built wheels should be able to support people much larger than you quite easily, but they would need to be well built and that isn't always the case with machine built wheels. It's also possible that wheels get out of true, and are much more likely to break more spokes once one has broken.
It's often the case with cheaper supermarket and catalogue store bikes, these are often known as BSOs (or bike shaped objects) and thought to be made of cheese rather than steel/alu/carbon.
Decent well built wheels should be able to support people much larger than you quite easily, but they would need to be well built and that isn't always the case with machine built wheels. It's also possible that wheels get out of true, and are much more likely to break more spokes once one has broken.
It's often the case with cheaper supermarket and catalogue store bikes, these are often known as BSOs (or bike shaped objects) and thought to be made of cheese rather than steel/alu/carbon.
Sheilagh1958
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Wow what an inspiration he is
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