Is cycling the new jogging?

You can pedal harder if you want to work out.

reggoj wrote:

Cycling is the new golf. You go out and do deals while riding. Golf takes too much time and is for old lumpy white men. Cycling is for shiny young movers and shakers.

This ^^

I don't know....you can still get a good workout and actual bike RACES are still pretty dang competitive as compared to your local 5k.

That being said, there is certainly a proliferation of slow bike riders around these days. Their energy output is probably lower than someone going for a brisk walk.

I thought we had rejected this topic to discuss baseball movies. Let's get back on topic, please.

The Natural

Nine Men Out

Bad News Bears

Was Debbie does dallas a football movie about the cowboys?

"Field of Dreams" was pretty good

"Sandlot"

"Bull Durham"

I Chose D2 wrote:

You can pedal harder if you want to work out.

Sometimes this is not true - reason is simple, if you're in the city you still have to stop at every light and every stop sign. It's hard in the city to go full speed because you have to stop too soon - out on an open road or trail you can do this but not in the city most of the time. On my 21 mile ride I mainly took it easy (1) because I had a tail wind and (2) I was trying my best to "time" the stoplights - didn't want to crank it up to the mid 20's only to come to a screeching halt over and over - plus it wears the brakes out much quicker.

P1 wrote:

cat6 wrote:

How do you show off your pedals?

Check out my awesome new pedals. They transmit power data to my watch, bike computer, and phone via ANT+ and BLE. They tell me how smooth my pedal stroke is and how my left and right legs differ. And they were a bargain at just under $1k.

So you just talk about them. Because you can't actually show them off when you're riding. That was my point.

Anyway, your enormous, clunky P1s suck, so no one's impressed by them anyway. At the very least get some Vector 3s so you're not toting around triple a batteries in your pedals.

Spinachrunner wrote:

I Chose D2 wrote:

You can pedal harder if you want to work out.

Sometimes this is not true - reason is simple, if you're in the city you still have to stop at every light and every stop sign. It's hard in the city to go full speed because you have to stop too soon - out on an open road or trail you can do this but not in the city most of the time. On my 21 mile ride I mainly took it easy (1) because I had a tail wind and (2) I was trying my best to "time" the stoplights - didn't want to crank it up to the mid 20's only to come to a screeching halt over and over - plus it wears the brakes out much quicker.

No, it's absolutely true.

You don't go do a workout in the middle of a city. Your entire paragraph is based on an idiotic premise to begin with.

You should stop talking about something you are clearly ignorant about.

reggoj wrote:

Cycling is the new golf. You go out and do deals while riding. Golf takes too much time and is for old lumpy white men. Cycling is for shiny young movers and shakers.

Is there something wrong with being white and male? And who TF do you think is cycling? Black women?

Hey goober did you read the first part of the paragragh? SOMETIMES - can you read? did not say all the time - not everyone lives in the country or near a bike path - I've done 80 + mile rides in the past and countless 20 to 30 mile rides - besides that the ride I was referring to was a return trip from a mini van that I had dropped off and instead of taking UBER, I rode back through the CITY because that was the only route. Go jump in the lake -

I Chose D2 wrote:

You can pedal harder if you want to work out.

Wow I did not know that - I can pedal harder- I'll try that next time I bike- how do you pedal harder? Oh that's right you push the pedals harder - OK got it

Most cyclists are a-holes. So, whatever that is the new of, that's it.

your choice of baseball movies is like the rise of the Nazis in the late 30's...if not worse.

reggoj wrote:

Cycling is the new golf. You go out and do deals while riding. Golf takes too much time and is for old lumpy white men. Cycling is for shiny young movers and shakers.

Indeed.

Golf was where men could buy expensive equipment to show off to their buddies while still not playing any better. If they took lessons and somehow actually improved the handicap system meant they still weren't any better off. Too many accusations of being a bandit and squabbling over the rules.

A few men reaching middle-aged took up running but quickly found they weren't good enough and there wasn't any equipment they could buy that would enable them to run quicker. They were attracted to GPS watches, heart-rate monitors and breathe-right strips for a while but apart from owning multiple pairs of shoes they couldn't spend enough money. Many of them pounded their knees into the ground and got injured.

Then they discovered cycling and that it's much harder to get injured, there's lots of equipment to buy (why only buy one bike when you can have five?) and you can keep trading up pedals, brakes, chainsets, cassettes to make the bike lighter and improve aerodynamics. You can also draft along at the back of the pack then appear fresh when you stop for the next coffee and cake.

Very good post - I liked it - I love cycling AND running - the 2 can compliment each other very nicely - for me cycling is for easy days and running is for "hammer" days - I'll enter an occasional bike race, for the most part the cycling part is OK, it's the stupid snobby cyclists that just give me the creeps - if I hear another lecture on watts I'll puke - just tell me what your average speed was, that's enough. Now if someone's a true elite cyclist sure go ahead and have the floor - but these typical cyclists are so into themselves especially dressing up in fake pro rider's clothes - they act like they're getting 10,000 a month from their "sponsor" so I guess they're pulling in 40,000 a month for averaging 18 MPH in a bike race - then they get on the trail and act like the city transferred ownership of the trail to them - at least that's how they act! Pitiful!

Spinachrunner wrote:

cat6 wrote:

No, it's absolutely true.

You don't go do a workout in the middle of a city. Your entire paragraph is based on an idiotic premise to begin with.

You should stop talking about something you are clearly ignorant about.

Hey goober did you read the first part of the paragragh? SOMETIMES - can you read? did not say all the time - not everyone lives in the country or near a bike path - I've done 80 + mile rides in the past and countless 20 to 30 mile rides - besides that the ride I was referring to was a return trip from a mini van that I had dropped off and instead of taking UBER, I rode back through the CITY because that was the only route. Go jump in the lake -

Goober? Like a chocolate covered peanut?

No, the sometimes conditional is irrelevant. You NEVER do workouts in the middle of a city. You get out of the city and then do them.

You don't know this because you don't know what you're talking about. Again.

Spinachrunner wrote:

I Chose D2 wrote:

You can pedal harder if you want to work out.

Wow I did not know that - I can pedal harder- I'll try that next time I bike- how do you pedal harder? Oh that's right you push the pedals harder - OK got it

Or you spin the same gear faster.

Another thing you don't know.