Starting Over

[Aromig]

I hope you get your PF under control. I struggled with it for six months last year and only got over it by completely stopping running and walking, giving up high heels (I wear them all day at work and adore them) and aggressive stretching and PT. i started running again and wearing heels, but i maintained aggressive calf stretching. I broke my leg 4 months ago and as I am recuperating, I'm having some symptoms again but I'm hopeful the stretching will help. Good luck!

[Kerry1976]

I admittedly need to do a better job of stretching. I am not so good at doing it.

[Kerry1976]

A question - does someone on here ride a Specialized Exhibition Sport? Or Specialized Exhibition? I thought maybe someone did in my recent reading but I simply cannot remember who it might be. If someone does ride that bike, would you kindly tell me if the geometry is indeed relaxed enough where you can touch your feet to the ground while being in the saddle? An area store sells these, and I love that they have up to 21 speeds (which the Trek Pure line does not), but I want that crank-forward or flat-foot geometry.

Thanks in advance!

[emily_in_nc]

Have you thought about a recumbent? I used to own a long wheel base recumbent, and I was plenty low to the ground. It was a Tour Easy. Really fun to ride!

http://www.easyracers.com/toureasy.html

Townies are cute, but they are more for cruising around town on the flats. Not sure I'd want one if I had any hills to contend with. Not sure if you do or not. Of course, a recumbent won't fit in a trainer either....

[Kerry1976]

I have thought about that, or a recumbent trike. In order to ride to work (a super short ride, under 1 mi) from my new house (closing on 11/30!!!!) it is basically all up a hill. Then downhill all the way home. Zoom-Zoom and her DH actually would know this hill and could better describe it than i could. (Zoomy - it is from about Higgins Hall on campus up to the top of th hill at Browne. That would be the extent of the ascent and descent.) I think recumbents are pretty cool and i definitely need to consider those. If I had money and could find one to test ride, another cool thing to check out would be some of the Rans bikes. They look really interesting. But yeah, not fitting on a trainer is kind of a bummer....

[zoom-zoom]

Oh, yes...you guys have some evil hills by you, for sure! I know I'd be a much stronger hill climber if I had to ride some areas near you.

[Kerry1976]

My LBS is able to get Sun recumbents and trikes. I went on Bent Rider Online and they suggest trikes if you have to go up hills. Have some stuff to think about!

[Kerry1976]

After way too much research, I am going to go cheap, easy and local. I am going to get a Trek Pure, like I had previously. I will figure out how to deal with hills. The sale of my Friday and the purchase of this much cheaper bike will also give me some $$ that I can use towards our upcoming move. Then in the future I can review options again and look at trikes, etc. Right now I just need to get off my fat butt and get moving. The owner of the LBS thinks I should be okay on the hills (particularly the one I would traverse to ride to work) in the lowest gear.

[tulip]

Good decision, just get moving. The good thing about hills is that the more you ride them, the easier they get.

[Kerry1976]

Had my first 5 mile ride today. It was so much fun. I remember why I loved this bike in the first place. I find that because I am more comfortable and secure, I ride more agressively and have much more confidence and fun.

While I am not keen on carrying it up the stairs into our house, which is exactly why I couldn't keep this bike in my former walk up apartment, we move to our new home in the next few weeks and this will become a completely moot issue as there are no stairs to contend with and a garage for storage.


I like the color of this model much better anyway. The former was a cornflower blue. This is more of a standard blue. Quite lovely. And I knew I wanted fenders and a rack so got that on right away. I found my happy place today.

MTA: need to put on my Brooks but will attach a pick as bike is now

[Kerry1976]

Got my Brooks on the bike (needed a little extra muscle from my fiance to do so) and my MKS Lambda pedals on order. Once those are on I will be totally good to go. Now I gotta find the time to get another ride in. Getting ready to move in a week, planning a wedding for late March, and time seems to be slipping away from me!

[Kerry1976]

Okay, so I have gotten some great feedback at BROL that maybe a trike is the way to go. Does anyone here ride a trike? The Catrike Pocket (or trail) appeals to me and I have an email into an area store (about 2 hours away or so) to see if I can get a test ride at some point. There are others as well that pique my interest.

[tulip]

Okay, so I have gotten some great feedback at BROL that maybe a trike is the way to go. Does anyone here ride a trike? The Catrike Pocket (or trail) appeals to me and I have an email into an area store (about 2 hours away or so) to see if I can get a test ride at some point. There are others as well that pique my interest.

One of my riding buddies rides a trike. He's a very strong rider, his bike is very pricey, but he loves it.