Getting To Know You

[Biking Chick]

Originally posted by jobob
Welcome to the boards, all of ya's!

Biking Chick - I really enjoyed your story. Your husband is very well trained

- Jo.

JoBob ... thanks ... he didn't come that way and I've worked dang hard to get him the way that he is

P.S. Love your story on the bike name board re: how Pokey got his/her name!!

[JDom226]

It's so nice to see everyone introducing themselves. I've been reading posts on this site since last fall when i discovered Team Estrogen for plus size biking clothing. I was riding pretty regularly about 8 years ago on a Trek 320 Hybrid. After about four years of severe anemia I am finally back to biking. I started last fall with the hybrid again.

A week ago I purchased a Specialized Sequoia comfort road bike. I've never ridden anything quite like it. I'm still building miles and look forward to every day I can get out and ride. This site has been the greatest motivator I could have come across.

Keep up the good work ladies. I guess I'm not a lurker anymore. I look forward to posting to topics more often.

Keep them wheels spinning.

[Biking Chick]

Originally posted by JDom226

A week ago I purchased a Specialized Sequoia comfort road bike. I've never ridden anything quite like it. I'm still building miles and look forward to every day I can get out and ride. This site has been the greatest motivator I could have come across.

Keep up the good work ladies. I guess I'm not a lurker anymore. I look forward to posting to topics more often.

Keep them wheels spinning.

JDom226 ... thanks for posting and introducing yourself. I am touched by your determination to continue to ride and congrats on your new ride ... I checked out the web site ... nice looking ride!

I look forward to hearing from another 'roadie'!

[magrat22]

Well I'm a newbie too, only riding my road bike a week. I had a mountain bike before that but didn't really ride it that much only the odd weekend. I've been on my road bike every evening this week and am loving it.

I got into road biking because my husband a road bike fanatic (he's been biking for 20 years) kept telling me I was built for road biking Any women I've seen who road bikes alot seem to be built like toothpicks. I would classify myself more of a overweight Lana Turner if you catch my point...but if my hubby see's a toothpick then it's a pity more people didn't have eyesight like him . I eventually gave in and let him buy me a Giant OCR 3 road bike (oh the hardship..tee, hee). Now our goal is to compete in the World Masters games which are on in Edmonton (Canada) next year. He wants to win, I just want to finish

Biking Chick - Thanks for setting up this thread it's great idea.

Skibum - All I can say is WOW!! and if you see Lance..steal his bike..I want it

JanT - let me know what bike or bikes you've narrowed down your search to. I did alot of research before I bought my road bike so maybe I could help.

[Biking Chick]

Originally posted by magrat22
I would classify myself more of a overweight Lana Turner if you catch my point...but if my hubby see's a toothpick then it's a pity more people didn't have eyesight like him . I eventually gave in and let him buy me a Giant OCR 3 road bike (oh the hardship..tee, hee).

Women everywhere would be much healthier and happier if we all saw ourselves as *overweight Lana Turner*

I've seen the Giant OCR's ... nice ride!!!

And speaking of nice ... cute avatar .. I have not found one that says 'me' so will keep looking but yours is adorable.

Welcome to the group.

[Irulan]

MY first bike memory is from when I was a kid in Chicago... riding my neighbors bike and getting jumped by a couple of ghetto kids and having the bike stolen from under me.

I biked just for transport as a teen, and then as young adult, later teens early 20s, rediscovered road riding.
While my soon to be hubby was in College in CO, our house mate turned us on to road riding. He'd been racing for years... Red Zinger ought to date us just right! Anyway, Andy had gobs of bikes and got us out in the Front Range, 40-60 mile rides after school and so on. I continued this when we moved to Wyoming, riding the farm roads out in the Shoshone basin for miles and miles.

As I had kids, I would tool around a lot, but I didn't really get back into it until hubby bought me my first mountain bike.
I"m on bike #2, and the rest of the tale is on my site, follow the link at my sig.

Bio---43, happily married for 20+ years, two teens sons, self employed (again, see my site about my sewing business) and more crazed about mountain biking than ever.

penny

[betagirl]

Irulan - What part of Chicago did you grow up in?

I had a "hi I'm new here thread" somewhere around here, so I won't write too much

I've been biking for about 7 years now, started after college when I was living in Chicago. Since I'm from the flatlands of Chicago, I'm a roadie. I do have a moutain bike, but even that has more road-esque tires on it. I know, blasphemy!

I have a Trek 1200 road bike and an 850 Mtn bike. The guys in my club have to wonder why I ride an aluminum bike when they're all on carbon and steel. Guess since I don't have the jewels to knock around, I like aluminum

Personal info - I'm 28, not married but dating a great guy for the past 2 years. If we get engaged, we have to register at Nashbar. I'm starting my PhD in clinical psych in a few months, but work in IT now for the "man".

Pleased to meet y'all.

[ORBikeChick]

Newbie here also! So glad I found this forum...what a great way to talk bikes without feeling totally intimidated!

My name is Sarah. Married mom of two girls ages 3 & 4. Like most women, the two pregnancies added may too many pounds that did nothing but depress me. I've always led an active athletic lifestyle, so this March when I turned 30 I decided it was time to take my life back, so I bought myself a mt. bike. I've been riding at least 10 miles every night after work, and around 30-40 miles on the weekends. The pounds have fallen off (yahoo!)..but better yet, I'm finding myself now ADDICTED to riding! I've started off with the basic, generic bike to see if I'd really use it...and now that I am going crazy, I dream of owning a GREAT bike one of these days. I don't know all the scientific ins and outs of riding and bikes like equipment names, lingo etc...but am really enthusiastic and excited to learn. Everyone here seems totally cool...I feel lucky to have found you all!

[Irulan]

Chicago - Hyde Park/Kenwood. (50th and Greenwood/Ellis)

welcome OR Bike Chick. Glad you are here. I"m going to be in Eugene in Augst for a few days and I'm looking for someone to do the Mackenzie River Trail with me as my hubby will be tied up conventioning.

IDEA
Sugoi Women's Dirt Camps is doing a women's camp in Hood River July 17-18 and the price is very reasonable. If you LOVE mountain biking, even as a beginner you will never regret the investment you make in your riding by going to a skills camp. I do one up in Rossland every summer. Just hand those cute little girls to your partner and take a fun weekend to do something for yourself!!

penny

[Trek420]

.50 cent tour of my cycling history. Like most I rode for basic transportation as a kid and through college. So i rode even after getting my drivers license.

First bike; Schwinn, second bike; Raleigh, then a Gitane 10 speed (crashed), replaced with another 10 speed (stollen) then I stopped riding alltogether about 1983'ish till....in 1996 my ex partner (then she was my current girl-o'-my dreams obviously) decided she was going to do the AIDS ride. She got a bike, wanting to spend time with her I got one too; first a mountain bike, then almost imediately a road bike (my namesake-a Trek 420).

I rediscovered my love of cycling and upgraded the heck out of the Trek as I literaly wore parts out (including one embarasing crash off the bike trail into a creek bed).

You know you are nuts about cycling when crashes are a good thing "oh look! I get to shop for new wheels!"

Last year that 11 year relationship ended but not before (and I can't proove he did this but i can't proove he didn't and it's likely he's the culprit) one of her brothers (the one with the drug problem) stole the Trek from our home.

I've got a new bike; a Mondonico Futura Legero! been riding a lot but never as much as I want. It's hard to juggle work, family, my dog and other interests. I plan to get back to riding to work more often to change that.

[maryellen]

I'm usually mostly a lurker but what the hell. I'm 46 yrs old, living in Manhattan. I started riding last June. Although I'd been on a bike on my youth (a kindly uncle who thought it was insane that I couldn't ride a bike), I'd never really rode a bike more than a few blocks.

For a few years, I'd been putting on my new year's resolution list "learn to ride a bike." Finally, during a period between jobs I decided it was time so I took a few lessons (in NYC you can find someone to pay to teach you anything!). And I got my first bike of my life--a Trek 4500FX (hybrid). I love it though I'm also gently breaking the news to my girlfriend that *of course* I'll need a road bike next year.

Riding in traffic (and we've got lots of it here!) still freaks me out, but I'm getting where I need to go. Ok, sometimes I take the coward's way out, like this morning, when I left the house at 645am--not too much traffic on Memorial Day at that hour--even in NYC!

Did my first metric century last week (the Bloomin Metric in Connecticut). Next goals: 1) at least one century this summer, and 2) ride my bike to work.

[snapdragen]

Originally posted by Trek420
I've got a new bike; a Mondonico Futura Legero! been riding a lot but never as much as I want.

And where are the pic's of the new Mondonico?

[Biking Chick]

Originally posted by maryellen
I'm usually mostly a lurker but what the hell. I'm 46 yrs old, ....
Did my first metric century last week (the Bloomin Metric in Connecticut). Next goals: 1) at least one century this summer, and 2) ride my bike to work.

AWESOME!

Congratulations on your first metric century ... especially on an FX ... when you get around to that road bike you will find it easier to reach those goals of biking longer distances.

Biking Chick

[Biking Chick]

Originally posted by ORBikeChick
Newbie here also! So glad I found this forum...what a great way to talk bikes without feeling totally intimidated! ..... I don't know all the scientific ins and outs of riding and bikes like equipment names, lingo etc...but am really enthusiastic and excited to learn. Everyone here seems totally cool...I feel lucky to have found you all!

Glad you have found YOUR passion ... being a mom of three 'boys' who are now grown I know the importance of finding something that you can call your own, makes you feel great and is good for you. You're setting a great example for your girls

[Trek420]

"And where are the pic's of the new Mondonico? "

Being developed/scanned/finishing rolls. I can hear everyone say "developed? scanned? what's that?" I know, I know, Yeah, I must be the last one on the planet without the instant gratification of a digital camera.