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I have on my Lena skirt now over my leggings and my norgie crew on top and over that my new 9$ ebay red merino sweater and I feel SO AT HOME in these clothes!!!
I plan to follow yr advice, Lisa, and after setting the aurora up close to what is "correct" just ride for a few weeks. I am playing around with moving my weight from bar to saddle to pedals to distribute it evenly and I can feel just where I need to strengthen my muscles...
A year ago Thanksgiving...I quit smoking, and then I gained a bunch of weight....and got no excercise...
Today I am totally smoke free, have lost 15 lbs, and not only do I not have to FORCE myself to "go outside and play" I LOVE it!!!
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Thread: For Elk. Show us your Jamis
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11-17-2007, 07:51 PM #61
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Elk, you look terrific on your new Jamis.
I think your will have many super rides on your bike. I'd like a bike like yours-just a few sizes larger. I too enjoyed wearing my Ibex knickers today.
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11-18-2007, 01:10 AM #62
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11-18-2007, 05:22 AM #63
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Elk, you look grand on that bike of yours.
Did you draw the picture of your collie?
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11-18-2007, 05:42 AM #64
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Yay, Elk! You look fabulous!
(and very hearty congratulations on going a year without smoking!)"If Americans want to live the American Dream, they should go to Denmark." - Richard Wilkinson
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11-18-2007, 09:44 AM #65
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Yay from here as well! Elk- you have turned your life around!
Yeah, just ride for a few weeks to let your muscles start adapting. If you are not in pain don't worry about tweaking your bike for a while. The longer you ride the more obvious it will become as to what changes you might need to make. People tend to tweak their new bikes back and forth so frequently at first that they totally forget how the bike was set up to begin with, or which tweaks resulted in what differences for them.
Isn't it wonderful to have found a healthy exercise that seems like FUN rather than work? That's how I feel about it!
I lost 15 pounds too over the past 2 years of walking and biking....after a lifetime of non-exercise/non-sports.
You selected some really great wool pieces to get set up with. You'll get a LOT of mileage from those items you chose.
Wearing my snuggly wool tights and skyline zip top right now......
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11-18-2007, 11:12 AM #66
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thanks friends...it's fun to justify spending all this money on bikes and wool and leather....i just remind myself it used to be cigarette money...and probably would've ended up as health cost money!
I used to be all heady and broody and smokey...embraced psychic suffering for the sake of "depth"...and now I'm all clean and squeaky and just wanna ride my bike with my dog!!
Here's me and Maudie on the Other bike...which I still love. I'm singing Maudie's song to her...you can see she's listening...
(Sundial... that's a photo of my dog's great great grandfather, the great Ch Tartanside Heir Apparent)Discipline is remembering what you want.
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11-18-2007, 11:34 AM #67
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I love that photo of you and Maudie, Elk! Congratulations on the "new you"!!! Great job! I know you feel fantastic!
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11-18-2007, 04:18 PM #68
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The Globe is a Very Cool Bike, too!
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11-18-2007, 05:10 PM #69
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Yeah...I love it...I just wish I could get as comfortable on that bike as I already feel on my Jamis!!! see my little ibex head on the pants...
...gosh I look like I have miniature legs!!! lengthwise anyway...
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11-18-2007, 08:21 PM #70
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That Aurora is beautiful, elk. Congratulations!
I just decided that some time this winter I want a Jamis Commuter built up into an Xtracycle. I talked to the bike shop about it yesterday and they are excited to do it for me.
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11-19-2007, 09:31 AM #71
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thta's exciting, xeney! every shop I talked to about possibly building "from scratch" was wild about the idea...I think the wrenches LIVE for such moments at work!
course now I have to figure out what an xtracycle is....is it a cycle with a little cycle behind?Discipline is remembering what you want.
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11-19-2007, 10:21 AM #72
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Beautiful new bike & a hearty congrats on quitting smoking & improving your life so. You look wonderful & very happy.
Xtracycles are very cool:
http://www.xtracycle.com/
Anne
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11-19-2007, 11:56 AM #73
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Thanks! I LIKE that extracycle...maybe the Globe could become the dog bike all around...I could run Maudie and carry the 3 papillons!!!! CUUTE!
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