What got you into biking?

[skhill]

My one year anniversary of starting to ride again was this last weekend, too! I pulled out my old piece o'crap bike from a big-box store, and started down the road. At the time, I had been doing as much of my life on foot as I could, for exercise and to save on gas, and I saw the bike as a way to speed up my trips and extend the car-free range. Then I realized how fun it is....

Now I have 2 bikes, I routinely ride more miles in a week than I drive, and I've dropped almost 20 more pounds and I'm in the best shape of my life... And on top of that, it's absolutely liberating to get around town under my own power. I've also gotten to know (and love) my neighborhood and city and the surrounding rural areas better than ever.

On the downside, now I'm known at church as the crazy bike lady. Just because I turned up at a MLK event with panniers full of home-baked desserts on a morning with a negative wind chill.... Why not?

[Loraura]

Spin class at the gym is what got me started. I loved it so much. After a few months I thought to myself "I could do this on a real bike!"

And so it began!

I cancelled my gym membership many months ago. Don't need it! My gym is outside my front door now.