hey everyone! a little background on myself... im 26 years old, enlisted in the US Navy about 6 years ago, and just really got into cycling. after meeting my wife, i really let myself go (eating-wise)... this last deployment i decided to change my habits and live a healthier lifestyle. at my heaviest, i was at around 248 pounds... the catch was im only around 5'6"-5'7" tall... (yeah i was a slob)... but in the last 9 months i've dropped down to 184 pounds (thank god i found the gym) and i started to get bored with my workouts despite me changing them up quite a bit... during his college years, my brother (SFSU Alumni) road his bike to and from school and everywhere else he needed to get to in the city and he said it was an awesome workout and suggested i take it up.
so here i am... found a decent 54cm steel framed single speed that just needed tires and tubes... ideally i would've loved to buy a nice bike but lets face it an E-5 in the armed forces isn't really the top money-maker around. so i bought this project for $60 bucks on craigslist, slapped some new tubes and tires on it and got on... what a blast! i do however realize now that i shouldve just saved some money and held out for a geared bicycle but she'll definitely get my fix for now... planning on getting her media/ sand blasted and powder coated, other than that its really not a bad bike for my recreational needs... first ride was around miramar lake here in San Diego, CA and got around 25 miles under my belt (roughly 5 miles a lap) without a hitch! looking forward to learning more on the site and learning more about cycling in general!
now i shouldn't get this notice saying i haven't posted hahahah! cheers!
184, wow that's more than I have ever weighed. You lost a whole person. Keep up the good work, do your research on frames and components and maybe you might run across a real bargain on a good mult-geared bike. I that's what you wnat.
yeah its been a challenge but im set on losing even more weight... i feel great and im loving the results so i have no problems staying at it... getting another bike will just be another weight loss excuse i can use for the accountant (the wife) hahaha...
Good lord?? Sorry that I didn't understand your hip lingo! I'm an aviation structural mechanic in the navy and my current platform is the MH-60S (navys version of the army blackhawks)... So helitech came to mind (helicopter technician)...
Sorry for the lengthy explination for something as stupid as a screen name but I felt roadhouse could use it to avoid further confusion...
Good lord?? Sorry that I didn't understand your hip lingo! I'm an aviation structural mechanic in the navy and my current platform is the MH-60S (navys version of the army blackhawks)... So helitech came to mind (helicopter technician)...
Sorry for the lengthy explination for something as stupid as a screen name but I felt roadhouse could use it to avoid further confusion...
jubeebus aged krist batman, don't take the 'good lord' so personaly, no harm intended. i woke up this morning to find that someone drove through the front yard , knocking over the street light so i'm a bit irrate at the world at the moment.
Nothing taken personally here! You have to have thick skin in the military hahah... Sorry to hear about your early morning woes... It is pretty cool... It takes a college degree to break em (pilots) and a high school diploma to fix em (me).... But it's a fulfilling job and I take pride in my work knowing that I'm responsible for the pilots and aircrew safety... I'm specifically responsible for the structure and skin, flight control systems, hydraulic power systems, ECS (environmental control systems: not like freon in a car hahah), pnuematic power systems, and landing gear... But I'm qualified to work on the powerplants (engines and drive systems) side also... Plus when we go ondeploymebts we get to enjoy some fun flights depending on how many hours the pilot has under his belt
ackward but yesterday i was transfixed with watching helicopter and plane crashes on youtube, horrific to say the least.
and on another note, there's a truck across the street with it's passenger front light shattered and hanging off and a nice dent just behind it on the side quarter panel and some kind of vehicle fluid on the street by the now leaning light pole and under the truck...eh.
Nothing taken personally here! You have to have thick skin in the military hahah... Sorry to hear about your early morning woes... It is pretty cool... It takes a college degree to break em (pilots) and a high school diploma to fix em (me).... But it's a fulfilling job and I take pride in my work knowing that I'm responsible for the pilots and aircrew safety... I'm specifically responsible for the structure and skin, flight control systems, hydraulic power systems, ECS (environmental control systems: not like freon in a car hahah), pnuematic power systems, and landing gear... But I'm qualified to work on the powerplants (engines and drive systems) side also... Plus when we go ondeploymebts we get to enjoy some fun flights depending on how many hours the pilot has under his belt
Hmmm. When my dad were in the Navy he was responsible for structure and skin, as well as other things, on airplanes. He was at Cecil Airfield Naval Air Station during the Cuban Missile Crisis thing. He got to do a fair amount of work as more than a few aircraft returned from recon flights over Cuba with holes in 'em. He said it was kinda tense down there....
Welcome aboard from a Navy veteran! I didn't fix airplanes though, I fixed ships, most notably the ones that sink on purpose. We made sure that it wasn't a permanent sinking.
Welcome aboard from a Navy veteran! I didn't fix airplanes though, I fixed ships, most notably the ones that sink on purpose. We made sure that it wasn't a permanent sinking.
Welcome aboard from a Navy veteran! I didn't fix airplanes though, I fixed ships, most notably the ones that sink on purpose. We made sure that it wasn't a permanent sinking.
