Fat bloke on a bike

This thread gives me some encouragement to get my arris in gear. I weigh about 7.5 stone but couldn't ron a hundred yards. i bought a decent crosstrainer for the GF as she was whining about her weight but cant get to the gym. I really need to get on it for a few mins every day.
My problem is finding the motivation when i get home, I just crack open a beer on log on to TSR :mrgreen: :geek:

C
 
not so fat bloke on a bike :D

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SPOKE FATIGUE

After about 1400 miles, I have my first actual mechanical failure - my lardy posterior and aggressive thrashing of the bike has resulted in spoke fatigue on the rear wheel. Noticed it heading down a hill yesterday when I started to get a hell of a wiggle from the back. Thought I'd buckled the wheel at first - but hadn't done anything unusually traumatic to it.

Managed to "limp home" and couldn't see anything amiss - so decided to go and see the repair man - he took one look at me, one look at the wheel and said "spoke fatigue" and proceeded to play the wheel like a harp and with finger pressure only dispatched 6 of 32 spokes (in addition to the 3 I'd snapped). So he's rebuilding it for me over the weekend.
 
I got a cheap wifi computer thingy to check / record time and speed and distance, so I can "do" a 5 mile outing or try and do one quicker or whatever.

I find it helps with the whole targets and motivation thing.

My anti-depressants are making permanently hungry (esp. for carbs) so I need to exercise more or I'll just keep on gaining weight.
 
You have to be in the right mindset if you live by the computer though - my local guru (who casually cycles the length of Vietnam for "something to do") has his mounted so he can't see it when riding because he's prone to pushing himself harder to the exclusion of all external factors (like say traffic) to beat his time for a particular jaunt, even when he knows it's impossible due to the headwind or ice on the road...
 
I started cycling again this year after a jolly in the Netherlands with hired dutch bikes which made me remember how much fun they are to ride. I get out most days and never think of using the car to go to the local shops any more. Inexplicably I am also thinner in the equatorial regions and find that I tend to get tetchy if deprived of a spin for more than a few days. I went Dutch and got a nice heavy Batavus city bike from the nice guys at Littlehampton bike shop. Well made and the weight makes it very smooth and despite living on top of a hill in the pennines I manage just fine with the seven speed hub gears on there. I can now trail up many flights of stairs at work and still hold a conversation without having to wait to get my breath back for five minutes.
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