Your Total Outside Miles 1/1-6/30/07?

[li10up]

How many miles do you need to put on a hybrid before you earn the right to ride a road bike? Just wondering. Lusting after a road bike.

One!

[Thel]

Hey Cyclesome--

I'm with you at just over 500 miles this year. I have had a mountain bike for a couple of years, and only ridden it sporadically, but this May I participated in Bike to Work Month. I'll be darned if all that riding didn't get a bit addictive...so I kept commuting by bike in June, began extending my range a little bit, and just took the plunge to buy a road bike a couple of weeks ago. (Whee, is it zippy!)

I ride for fun and transportation, solo so far (a couple of rides with my husband). I look forward to gaining the confidence to do a group ride. I'm a bit of a slowpoke, but I'm getting stronger all the time--I don't have to stop and walk up that one "hill" home from work anymore!

When I was a kid my siblings and I used to ride our bikes all the time during summers. My brain has thus made an apparently permanent connection between "bike" and "vacation"--every time I get on my bike, even to ride to work, I get that "wheeeee, I'm on a bike, this must be a vacation!" sensation. Here's hoping that feeling lasts forever!

[crazycanuck]

4637km..go to bike journal & check me out..

must run off

c

[RolliePollie]

I just made it to 1,000 miles! I bought my bike in mid-February and started out riding just 5-10 miles at a time, so I'm pretty proud of myself for making it to 1,000 by July. I never would've guessed I could ride that far in 4-1/2 months. Heck, I never would've guessed I could EVER ride that far!!!

I ride for fun and for exercise. I definitely want to do a metric later this summer and maybe a full century this fall. Currently, my biggest motivators are watching my leg muscles develop and tracking my progress. I'm so glad I discovered cycling!