We went to four places, Meijer for a baseline, we never intended to buy there but just to see what was what, a really nice bike ship where the average price was $1,200 and we were ignored, they had some really cool custom painted cruisers though, another smaller shop where we were helped, but again, to get all three of us bikes would have run at least $1,500-$2,000. And we finally bought bikes at Dicks. $850 for all three of us, including two year warranties and maintenance. The cruiser for my wife was marked wrong so we got another $150 off it. We ended up with a cruiser, with gears, and two hybrids.
Weāre in town now, so I got my wife a basket for trips to the farmerās market. Iām not riding as much as Iād like yet, but Iāll get there. Despite the shakiness of the first ride itās all come back to me so far. I forgot how much fun it is to just coast down a hill on a bike.
And @RRabbit42 Iāve had to walk it up the last hill a couple times, I get the huffing and puffing.
We donāt have a whole lot of hills around here, but when I have ridden in hilly places, I tried to plan the routes so that the end of the ride was mostly downhill.
I went on an organized ride once where the planners put the Kemah bridge at the end of the route. Seriously, in like the last mile, we were facing thisā¦
I thought it was pretty challenging after doing 60 miles on a mountain bike. Some of the road bike folks I was with did the full century. I had only planned on doing 40, but I was feeling frisky when I hit the turn off point, so I kept going and took the 60 mile turn off.
That long ride was, geez, 20 years ago. I only did about 2 miles last time I was on my bike, and it was a big reminder of how out of shape I had become. Wife wants to go on long walks, but just spending an afternoon in the mall kills my feet, so an hour or so just power walking is not likely. Now Iām thinking that I should get a bike for her and see if we can do that together. Hmmm
Mrs and I got sort-of matching bikes, but we discovered her legs go numb after a certain amount of time in saddle. Tried various saddles, padsā¦ even rented recumbents on vaca where she was on a mesh chair, basically. Still the same problem.
So weāre probably going to sell the matched pair and invest in a two-seat recumbent trike. Sheāll be able to wiggle around a lot more, and even stop peddling if she has to.
One of my friends had a roommate in college who would wake up on a Saturday morning and on a whim ride around Cayuga Lake. Roughly 90 miles and anything but flat.
Some people are just weird. Knew a dude in the service that used to run from Schofield Barracks to Wiameia, swim a couple laps of the bay, go pound some beers in town, and then run back and drink till he passed out or got tired. This was easily 10 or so miles each way, and the bay is a mile or two wideā¦
Never understood that dude, all this and 6 ft and 250 or so. Spent half the time I knew him on profile of one kind or another, no running, no marching, no jumping, but did this crap anyway.
Meanwhile Iām out of breath from doing laundry and carrying baskets up and down stairs.
Your friendās roommate is stupid and should feel bad.
Now that itās slightly above freezing, I started walking to work and back. I find that mindless exercise just doesnāt work for me, motivation-wise. I know I have to get to work, and I know I really need to get home. Itās an hour each way (12,000+ steps total), so I get a mild workout and a chance to work on my Canadian tan.
Lately, itās been dipping back to freezing in the mornings, so Iāve taken the bus in and only walked home. I mean, come on. What was I thinking? Itās only April. Still, itās good for my heart to get SOME kind of a workout.
Monday was an ever popular heat in the morning air conditioning in the afternoon and heat at night sort of day in Indiana.
Of course, I took it to be a carry a jacket, open the windows, and get under a blanket type of day. The furnace is such a pain to crank up again I just have it set at 50 degrees, and I donāt have the window units out of the basement yet.
I wish I was close enough to work to walk, but at least I can walk to two bars ,three restaurants, a donut shop, a coffee shop, and soon an ice cream parlor. That could be a case of exercise being bad for me.
The contention on something like that usually is āAt his own paceā and I could see how he could get hurt running 10 minute miles in formation compared to his normal 7 minute or less.
Our heat is off for the year. And I wonāt turn the a/c on for at least another month regardless of the heat. It was 80 a few times last week but Iām making the family ride it outā¦the heat will escape the wide open windows upstairs, especially when itās 45 out at night stillā¦
Oh, now THAT I get. I haaaaaaated running in formation doing the muther-fscking āAirborne shuffle.ā I literally walked in formation once, bobbing my body to same rhythm as the rest of the pack.
I volunteered to be a road-toad in AIT when we did half-mile-long formation runs. Iād start at the back, and as soon as the road guard up front deployed to cover a side road, Iād take off from the back, running at top speed past the whole pack, then stand in place while they shuffled past me.
2 Waikiki Marathons with 27 thousand swinging Joes. After about mile 10 you just want to lay down and let the 10 thousand people behind you trample you. I wonder if there is any other place where the military runs a marathon in formation. At like a 5-6 hour pace.
I looked at that one. I smashed the screen of my HTC M8 last week. I ended up deciding on the HTC 10 instead. The Galaxy S7 has slightly better processor performance, but the HTC 10 processes sound better. Since Iām a music junkie, thatās what I chose. Iām supposed to get my new phone on Thursday.
How is the HTC 10 besides the music thing, @Nabiki? Iām looking at one of those to replace my aging Samsung Galaxy S4. Also looking at the LG G5 and Galaxy S7.
Had the HTC 10 been available through my carrier, I wouldāve given it serious consideration. I nixed the LG G5 right away. My nieceās boyfriend owns a cell phone repair shop, so I already know I better not drop this phone often. This was the first time I had a case before I had the phone.
My wifeās iPhone was starting to go as well, so she ended up with the regular S7.
EDIT: I have to say that both our phones have the best screen Iāve seen in bright sunlight.
I havenāt actually gotten it yet, but the specs are pretty close to the Galaxy S7. Based on the reviews, the processor is a little slower (.1) and the camera processing is not quite as good. Theyāre pretty close, though.
I have the HTC A9 and Iām getting really irritated at these slick and awesome looking phones that I have to cover with ugly chunks of plastic so I donāt
A) wave at someone with my phone in my hand and throw it across the parking lot.
B) Set it on the table and have is slide another 5 feet.
C) scuff the prettiness up, and or scrape the edges.
D) drop it 2 feet and have the screen shatter into a million pieces.
E) drop it 4 feet and have one of the corners turn into a pumice stone.
