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  • in reply to: Help! Comfy women’s saddle needed!! #81867

    While details are definitely important, I’m pretty sure just about any saddle designed for women would have made me feel like i was sitting on air in comparison to the serfas I had.

    I ended up with a basic women’s specialized saddle, the BG sonoma. It was $30 at my local bike shop. And it was the best $30 i’ve spent on my bike since I really started riding it. Did another 6 hour tour on some nice single track this weekend and I’m not sore at all. And I feel like my whole bike posture was better because I wasn’t trying to compensate for an uncomfortable saddle.

    I should not have waited so long!

    in reply to: How often is too often? #73634

    I started getting in shape by running (crazy i know), and got so addicted to being active, that I have sense progressed to training for (and competing in) triathlons. But when I started, I read a book by Stu Mittleman called Slow Burn that is from a running perspective, but can easily be taken over into any sport. It does focus on heart rate training, but it has some real good reasons to do it, and understand it. I found an article online (http://www.rrca.org/resources/articles/slowdown.html) that gives you the meat and potatoes out of at least the heart rate part, but if you like to read, and are interested in endurance and long term health and fitness, I HIGHLY recommend that book.

    in reply to: Help! Comfy women’s saddle needed!! #81865

    I’m hitting up the local bike shop tomorrow. I’ll let you know what I come home with, and then I’ll give the real down and dirty review after riding this weekend.

    ooooh wow

    i rock some homemade streamers on my road bike. only on the right side. but thats just for giggles when im passing people. cuz nobody wants to get passed by the girl with streamers :-)

    this friend of yours. they’ve taken it to a whole new level. almost seems like there should be some sort of ransom note included

    in reply to: Just got the Girlfriend into riding!! #80376

    If you’re interested in a girl’s advice (and one that is just learning herself)…

    Tumbleweed had it pretty good.

    My first time out, it was easy trails and an easy pace with a little spice (intermediates) thrown in just to show me some excitement. And I went SUPER SLOW the whole time. Not because I couldn’t go faster, but more because I just wasn’t sure what to expect and my safety/panic mode sensor was in partial alarm at all times. The boys led the way, and they’d get up ahead a little bit, but never so far that I couldn’t hear them at the very least, and usually see them. When I got too far behind cuz I got stuck on something, someone would come back for me. I worried about sucking so bad, and being so slow, that they weren’t having fun. Eventually, I started to realize that part of what made it fun for them was that they were getting to take me out on the trails for the first time and pass on the awesomeness that is mountain biking. So get that point across, if its true for you, because that took a lot of the pressure off. Oh, and help us celebrate the little victories! Because sometimes, it seriously feels amazing to make it over a root or up a climb, no matter how small and insignificant it might seem to you :-)

    Don’t make fun of us when we wimp out. Give us the heads up when we should wimp out. But encourage us to stretch ourselves, especially when you’re pretty sure we can do it, cuz then we feel like a million bucks.

    Be understanding when we’re trying and having a hard time. Usually I don’t like to admit I’m really struggling even if I am, but the boys I go with take care of me and call for a break at just the right time. Its super nice, because that way I don’t feel even more like I don’t belong and I can’t keep up.

    Make it clear that it isn’t about being a rock star. Its about having fun and giving it a try. I’m not afraid to put my feet down. I’m totally ok with walking. And I’ve gotten the falling thing down pretty good. I go home dirty, tired, and sore, and usually with a little blood, but always with a REALLY BIG SMILE. And thats what its all about. Well, that and the hokie pokie

    "Shane_Thompson86" wrote

    Ha funny, I ride a 820 also, just got into riding. But yea, I get some laughs and the " is this guy for real? " looks also. The 820 has yet to hold me back. I am only held back by my knewb skilzz and my lack of strength compared to the pros out there.

    YAy! Its good to know there’s someone else out there rocking the same kinda style. I know my skillz are definitely lacking, but can’t be too bad cuz the last time out I had someone trying to keep up with me on a super tricked out bike that he said he’d been riding for a year, so I figure the more I learn to handle on the rigid 820, the more awesomer I’ll be when I splurge for the next step up.

    And now that I’ve replaces the brake cable, the shifter, the grips, and the pedals (managed to break those too) I figure I should be good to go for a while!

    As short, sweet, and entertaining as I can be at the moment: I’ve been telling people here and there for about 6 months that I really wanna go mtbiking, finally (and kinda scarily) someone took me up on it about a month and half ago. I roll up with my "vintage" Trek 820 and I hear some laughs, some snickers, some comments about it being the kind of bike you put on your wall, not take on the trail. Its all I got, and I didn’t get this far to chicken out now. So off I go, following the boys with suspension and fancy shifters and gloves and shin guards. My instructions to them was simply no broken bones, everything else- fair game. First time out- AWESOME! And my bike stayed solid (quite surprisingly I now realize). Second time out- different trail, WHOA! I was all over the place, felt like I just took my training wheels off, feet touching down everywhere. My grip shifter was on the fritz, my handlebar grips came off entirely, I’d already tucked and rolled once, and I’m trying desperately not to get left behind, all the while trying not to roll down the 30 ft drop off the side of the trail. I’m hanging in there, but just barely… and then I’m headed down a steep downhill (one that already had me thinking twice about walking it) and I’m 3/4 of the way down, nearly ready to celebrate on making it, and my rear brake lets loose. I am ass over tea kettle before I can even manage to get out the word ****! My riding buddy gave me bonus points for my form. My rear brake cable- completely frayed/snapped. So now I’m down to front breaks for the rest of the ride. Entertaining? You betchya

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