DU bicyclists check in!

[wtmusic]

I ride a ten-year-old Specialized Allez (road bike) and put in about 25 miles/wk.

Excited because they're converting the local rr tracks into a brand spankin' new bikepath!

What's yer wheels?

Where do you ride? How much?

[toddzilla]

1. full suspension diamond back MTB

carbon wheels, crappy components. i used to ride seriously (ex-triathlete) then i switched to just trail riding, now im fat and trying to get back into the habit. hope to do 20 a week..

[huellewig]

2. I have never driven a car..

And I'm 26. I have a old heavy Schwinn mountain bike. How much do I ride? About two hours every day. I get to work on the bike, go shopping on the bike, go to the bars on the bike. When I think about how much cash I have saved in the last ten years. WOW.

My legs and ass are fantastic.

[wtmusic]

3. How much cash, and

how much pollution, how much dependence on foreign oil...

we'd all be better off if the price of gas just went through the roof. The air would be much cleaner--and we could always keep one SUV for the museum...

[ThatPoetGuy]

5. I'm with you.

And I ride my purple recumbent about 15 miles a day.

[Eye and Monkey]

4. 3 - Schwinn Cruiser, Mrazek, Bianci + Rails-to-Trails at hand

About 35 miles of R-to-T right close-by - it's a bit monotone, but a very great place to zone out and ride. I ride there and on-road perhaps 30-60 miles/week, depending.

Mrazek is off-road aluminum, hardtail, high end components. It can easily go places where I don't have the skills to ride.

Bianci is classic road, chromoly, old-school Campy. It whispers to you, saying "faster, you can take me just a bit faster - "

[gold_bug]

6. Trek 1200

There's a Rails to Trails near where I live.

[Waistdeep]

7. An old Trek 1500, ca. 1989

Bonded aluminum frame. I upgraded to Ultegra STI a number of years ago. The bike fits me so well, I just haven't wanted to get anything newer. Hopefully I'll ride about 3000 miles this year, but my project over the next month is to get into shape for the Tour of the Mississippi River Valley (TOMRV) , which will be a 200 mile weekend in the middle of June. Then there's RAGBRAI in July, which I'm really looking forward to, even though last year I didn't even want to look at my bike for a month after it was over.

I've also got numerous project bikes and an old Specialized StumpJumper for crummy weather.

[Kolesar]

8. 2001 Bianchi Eros with dreamy Campy Ergo gearing

I just wish Campagnolo would offer lower gearing. There are some steep valleys in the town I live in.

Saturday, I took my fat-tire Trek mountain bike on the squishy Cuyahoga towpath all the way to downtown Akron. They are doing historic restoration in the "Cascade Locks" section of the towpath. As the 1832 canal climbed south to the summit pool, it had to use over a dozen tall locks in a mile or so to climb. Let the experts tell you about it: www.cascadelocks.org

BTW, it turned out the towpath was not that squishy after all.

[prolesunited]

9. I like Trek

I have a 7200 hybrid and 2300 WSD road bike. I put way more time in on my road bike, but the hybrid is nice for crushed limestone and woodsy paths.

I have easy access to several nice rail trails and even better areas within a short drive. I try to stay off the streets because drivers seem so unwilling to share the road. Country roads are nice.

I'm riding about 125 miles a week now and plan to crank it up even more because I'm doing RAGBRAI in July. Sunday I did my first organized ride of the year. I was hoping to crank out a century but the headwinds were brutal —pretty painful climbing a hill against the wind — so I settled for 70 miles. :-(

[wtmusic]

15. dumb question

what's RABGRAI?

[prolesunited]

22. Not a dumb question at all

RAGBRAI is the Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa, is an annual seven-day bicycle ride across the state. RAGBRAI is the longest, largest and oldest touring bicycle ride in the world.

This year's route is about 500 miles at the end of July.

http://www.ragbrai.org/index.html

[rooboy]

10. 2003 Norco CRR-One...

with A-Class wheelset (Alex rims) and Shimano 105's.

When I'm not sick in bed (like now), do about 200 Km (I guess that's about 120-130 miles) per week.

JFR...

[tsakshaug]

11. My hs graduation present

a 1978 Vista silver shadow.
Shimano 600 gears and breaks
still works nice. Ride it at work to go from site to site.

My wife and I have a Schwinn Varsity Tandem (early 70's) 5 speed.

[pmbryant]

12. Don't ride nearly as much as I'd like to

Mileage per month is probably a more reasonable statistic for the riding I do, since it is sporadic.

I ride an 8-year old Canondale rigid frame mountain bike, and less often a rusty 19-year old Lotus road bike.

The paved and unpaved backroads of the Texas Hill Country must be some of the best roads to ride in the country, I'd imagine: scenic, very little traffic, generally mild weather, some challenging hills, but not too many. I'm always surprised that we run into so few other cyclists on our excursions.

--Peter

[DS1]

13. 96 Cannondale R300 road bike, 300 miles last month

Just put a carbon seat post in, roommate gave me a headset with less overhang to keep my arms from locking.

Got a grooved seat after noticing some errm side-effects from so many hours.

[frylock]

14. 2000 specialized rockhopper fsr..

stiffer upgrades to both front and rear suspension. I rode hard tail most of my life, never even had front suspension. This thing rides like a Cadillac!!

[toddzilla]

17. i want an fsr bad!!

too broke.. stuck with my diamond back..

i miss my GT lts.. shouldn't have sold it, but i was broke.

[frylock]

21. i handed my 12 year old diamond back down to my brother..

when I bought my FSR. Lots of memories in that old Diamond Back!

[BiggJawn]

16. "Too Many" Bikes...

Old Huffy with a Steyr Sturmey-clone 3-speed hub (built it myself)It's the "Pizza Runner"

Old Norco MTB that I know nothing about other than it's geared LOW and has Deore components...

70's vintage Fuji that I'm building up as my "commuter" Now sporting a triple crankset and fenders...

80's vintage Schwinn "leTour" (built by Panasonic) that is my "trainer", with a "megarange" freewheel for the hills.

Couple of odds and ends, and an "in progress" home-made recumbent...

And it's still early in the season, I'm getting about 18 miles a week in right now. (Yes, Sharon, I WILL do the FULL 30!) More daylight, warmer temps, and I hope to be putting in over 50 miles a week soon. then 100 miles a week. then the Wabash Valley Century this fall. But first, Chicago and "Bike The Drive" this month..

[prolesunited]

19. Speaking of that

Blue-Jay is definitely coming and doing the ride as well. We should probably make some plans to hook up afterward. I think it will be too chaotic to find each-other first.

Anybody else near Chicago interest in Bike the Drive on May 30? How often do you get the chance to say you cycled on LSD (Lakeshore Drive)?

[BiggJawn]

26. I figure Cellies will get us together....

Sounds like a Captain and Teneille song in there someplace....

[m-jean03]

18. A Shiny Light Blue Centurion Le Mans 12 speed racing bike

From the mid-80s.:)

[tsakshaug]

20. I would like a recumbent however

it would be better for my back/neck- several buldging discs.
any advice out there?

[Misunderestimator]

23. Dark Green Cannondale Silk Path 300 (Hybrid)

I'm due for a new model, but I'm kinda attached to her.

[jpak]

24. I bike to work every day (weather permitting)

2 miles each way on a cheezy 12 year-old mountain bike.

[Ookie]

25. I ride a cheapo mountain bike

There are so many great trails here in Pugetopolous. Redmond, WA is the bicycle capitol of the world after all!

[Arger68]

27. Trek 7300

Love it!!!!! I bought a Trek Navigator 200 a couple months ago. Nice bike but it had way too big of tires on it. Traded it in last week for the 7300 and pedaling is much easier now. Got about 30 miles on it so far.

[prolesunited]

28. Believe it or not

I actually did a couple of century rides on mine. It's nice that they let you trade it in for something that works better for you.

Happy riding!

[Donkeyboy75]

29. Lime green homemade kick-ass job (see pic)

[BiggJawn]

33. Wow! and I thought *I* was "Dr. Frankenbike"!

Pretty rigid, isn't it?

[Donkeyboy75]

35. Actually, it's just a picture on the web I happened upon.

I once tried to half-build a bike in college. It was a total disaster, so I figured I'd leave it to the professionals.

[bikebloke]

30. A New Waterford

My Bridgestone didn't quite make nine years. Over the Winter, the frame broke just above the bottom bracket. As I ride prettty much every day, weather be damned, I coughed up the extra money for hopefully strength and durability. My steed is also my car, so I end up carrying loads.

While the Waterford was gestating, I rode my crippled Bridgestone tied together with coat hanger wire and a blob of JB Weld. Can't stand riding the train with the sheeple.

[greendog]

31. 60-80 miles a week...

...on a Trek 4500. Nice bike path west of town plus I try to ride in Glacier Park or Flathead National Forest as often as I can.

[BraveDave]

32. Schwinn Frontier

Mountain bike. Yes it's cheap but so are the replacement parts. This is important, hence the name BraveDave.
I ride quite a bit. Across the river from where I live there is a park with only walking and mountain bike trails, about 10 or more miles if you straightened them all out. Needless to say, there aren't many walkers. On my side of the river there are about 5 miles of trails that that head south and end at a bike shop.

[Parrcrow]

34. I left my raleigh 12 speed Montain bike back home in Canada

Now I have to find something new to ride around in the only part of Kansas that is hilly.

[m-jean03]

36. He's back-

And now I know he's a Kansan.:)

[Parrcrow]

38. Actually I'm Canadian

Wave that flag! Role that leaf!

So I am not a Kansaniac. I'm surrounded by hick freepers-----help!

[BrotherBuzz]

37. Schwinn

I built my bike in 1969 as a precursor/prototype to the mountain bike and still ride it today. One of the first, I believe.

Medium weight frame (Hey, that's what they called them in 1958)
26 x 2.125 tires
Hand spoked tubular rims on Normandy hubs
Side caliper brakes
five speed (front sproket is adaptable but I only needed five)
45 pounds! A very successful bike considering its weight, and I'm now an old fart, so I mostly ride it around town. Hey, thirty-five years ago I was hot, but the kids today put me to shame.

[KG]

39. a raleigh trail bike, with slicks instead of knobbies for urban trekking

and curb hopping. :)