First Love?

It might have been the blue vista 5 speed with the racing slick on the back and the paperboy's bag proudly hung on the riser bars....circa 1976.

But the best long term relationship I had was with my Schwinn Super Le Tour. 1979 or 1980. Black with red stripes with all the goodies of the day.....SUPER MAXY CRANKS, DIA COMP G BRAKES, AND SHIMANO ALTUS...I rode her all day every day....cross town...no helmet of course...who knew?:eek:

wheelist said:

I know from your posts that most of you have "been around the block" a few times - some of you more than others.😉 So, I was wondering - when did you first fall in love (with a bike)?

I'd already had a few bikes when my dream partner turned up - A Raleigh Team Cadet Road Bike. Fast as anything I'd ever ridden and a dream for drafting the bus home. Obviously it was a pile of [censored] in real terms, but love is apparently blind (with legs muscles that go on for ever). 🙄

Since that first encounter there's been no looking back and I've been a dirty bike [censored] ever since. 😄

So which set of wheels first rocked your boat?

(((((0))))) said:

It might have been the blue vista 5 speed with the racing slick on the back and the paperboy's bag proudly hung on the riser bars....circa 1976.

But the best long term relationship I had was with my Schwinn Super Le Tour. 1979 or 1980. Black with red stripes with all the goodies of the day.....SUPER MAXY CRANKS, DIA COMP G BRAKES, AND SHIMANO ALTUS...I rode her all day every day....cross town...no helmet of course...who knew?:eek:

Why isn't your avatar riding a bike? Worried he'll fall off? Or just can't be arsed to pedal? 😄

First bike that I remember having as a kid was some sort of BMX. Raced it for a couple of years, stacked it heaps, broke various bits, and it eventually got stolen 😠

First 'real' bike was a Repco Superlite 14 speed roadie, gear levers on the down tube. Saved my money from my after school job, paid about $450AU in 1987ish. It had indexed gears, but I replaced the cassette with a Suntour to get the gearing I wanted so the indexing didn't work properly 🙄

Did thousands and thousands (and thousands) of k's on that thing and it never let me down, though I did have to true the wheels quite a few times and lost count of the number of fecking flats I got. Only stacked it a few times, the most annoying being 2km from my destination after riding 100km :o

As per the BMX, it also got stolen 😠 which prompted a >10yr break from riding. But I'm back now! 😄

WeedBoy Doesn't like to toke and ride, it cuts down on his VO2 Max..

wheelist said:

Why isn't your avatar riding a bike? Worried he'll fall off? Or just can't be arsed to pedal? 😄

(((((0))))) said:

WeedBoy Doesn't like to toke and ride, it cuts down on his VO2 Max..

Which reminds me.....

Thelma and Louise - there's a scene where a Rasta is cycling up a mountain toking on a fat reefer, who then stops to blow smoke into the boot of the car (where a policeman is trapped).

It seems to me that this is a fundamental flaw in the script - surely he would have got to the top before lighting up? 😕 😄

wheelist said:

Which reminds me.....

Thelma and Louise - there's a scene where a Rasta is cycling up a mountain toking on a fat reefer, who then stops to blow smoke into the boot of the car (where a policeman is trapped).

It seems to me that this is a fundamental flaw in the script - surely he would have got to the top before lighting up? 😕 😄

It is interesting. I think that smoke actually expands your lungs creating more capacity. It is the damage to the absorptive tissue that is the problem for smokers who ride (and breathe).

(((((0))))) said:

It is interesting. I think that smoke actually expands your lungs creating more capacity. It is the damage to the absorptive tissue that is the problem for smokers who ride (and breathe).

Yeah but smoking weed makes you think you're riding fast, just disconnect the speedo so you don't find out the shameful truth 😄

(((((0))))) said:

It is interesting. I think that smoke actually expands your lungs creating more capacity. It is the damage to the absorptive tissue that is the problem for smokers who ride (and breathe).

Please ... can you point me to where you got that information?😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕

Hey, just ask any good rugger! Me, 2nd row, and sometime winger.....years back, but I kept the Ball...so to speak.

huhenio said:

Please ... can you point me to where you got that information?😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕

What else but a Schwinn Stingray with a sissy bar, bar end streamers, a five speed stick on the top tube and the banana seat to take your Hottie for a ride on the back! 😎 Oh Yeah, it was cool!

(((((0))))) said:

Hey, just ask any good rugger! Me, 2nd row, and sometime winger.....years back, but I kept the Ball...so to speak.

It happens to be that I am a smoker, played rugby for 12 years (2nd &8th man) , and I dont think that smoking is helping me AT ALL!!!!😠

huhenio said:

It happens to be that I am a smoker, played rugby for 12 years (2nd &8th man) , and I dont think that smoking is helping me AT ALL!!!!😠

Same here. My lungs were far healthier 9 years ago before I started smoking.🙄

This seems to be or is becoming a smoker thread. I think either one of you can quite if you infact really want to. I've been there done that before anyone say's it's not as easy as I think. Just replace your bad habbit with a good one or a few good ones, what ever it takes.

I dont know ... .really i dont remember what is to live without smoking ... but also I dont remember the last time I had a cough!!

Funny how it works in some and in some others dont.

The tabacco craves make me crazy to the point of madness!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BTW I started smoking in 1983 .... :eek:

huhenio said:

I dont know ... .really i dont remember what is to live without smoking ... but also I dont remember the last time I had a cough!!

Funny how it works in some and in some others dont.

The tabacco craves make me crazy to the point of madness!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BTW I started smoking in 1983 .... :eek:

Does the wife smoke? My wife dosen't smoke so that helped and my five year old telling me those smoker sticks were going to kill me helped. My wife made it very worth my while when ever I got a craving by making me forget it in her own incredible way, hell, I started faking cravings. AND NO you can't borrow my wife to help you quite smoking. The medications out work well now-a-days. JUST QUITE!

wheelist said:

I know from your posts that most of you have "been around the block" a few times - some of you more than others.😉 So, I was wondering - when did you first fall in love (with a bike)?

I'd already had a few bikes when my dream partner turned up - A Raleigh Team Cadet Road Bike. Fast as anything I'd ever ridden and a dream for drafting the bus home. Obviously it was a pile of [censored] in real terms, but love is apparently blind (with legs muscles that go on for ever). 🙄

Since that first encounter there's been no looking back and I've been a dirty bike [censored] ever since. 😄

So which set of wheels first rocked your boat?

For me, it has resulted in a progressive chronology with the ultimate goal of finding the bike that best suited my preference of leisure tour cycling. I loved all of these bikes: In 1991, a Diamondback Ascent EX MTB; in 1994, a Cannondale M700 MTB; in 1998 a VooDoo HooDoo MTB; in 2000, a Litespeed Pisgah MTB; in 2001, a Burley Limbo recumbent; in 2002, a Vision R-44 recumbent; in 2004, my current Cycle Genius STX Sport CLWB recumbent!😄 The CG STX is right now the only bike I currently own, and it is an excellent choice for my tour cycling passion. Although the mountain bikes are not considered a good choice for long-distance pavement riding even with skinny slicks (I seldom ever rode any of them offroad), the MTBs certainly were very user friendly and fun to ride, and I'll always carry a special fondness for those wonderful machines!🙂 When I discovered recumbents, thanks to that article in the August 1997 issue of Bicycling Magazine on the "Weird science world of recumbents," I found the best bicycle choice for me because recumbents just don't hurt on that 62.5 mile metric century!😉 My current CG STX recumbent serves me as both a commuter bike as well as my go-anywhere ride, and, as time goes on, I'll probably upgrade to Aerospoke composite wheels in the 20 inch size, a 9-speed cassette to replace my 8-speed unit along with 9-speed twist shifters, of course, and a SRAM X.0 rear derailleur replacing my current 5.0 changer, within maybe a year or so because the components on my 'bent have proven themselves very reliable over the past eleven months! In any event, over all these years, I have found that bikes have gotten so good technologically over the past 14 years or so; I love all bicycles, even those at your local Wal-mart, and it's a good thing that more and more folks are discovering the liberating joys of the greatest invention in the history of industrialized civilization: if there ever really was an ancient advanced civilization like Atlantis, surely they had the bicycle in all its wondrous varieties!😎

well, my first bike love was a BMX Dyno bike. It was great. HOWEVER....

Ever since I saw the Trek Madone, I have been in love. Late this summer, we finally met for the first time and hit it off immediatley. We have been together since. I love the Madone. Its name is Pat until I figure out a better nmae for it and find out its gender.

I've been riding a long time; Had about ten bikes; But my first real love is my early model (about '95) Gary Fisher Marlin. I set it up for the street. I've put thousands of miles on it, and it gets better all the time. It weaves in and out of traffic like a dream. I wouldn't trade it for diamonds or gold.

shannons dad said:

Some low-life nicked it a few weeks after I'd finished upgrading it.😠

yes, and a fine bike it is too, thanks,

although for the life of me i cant understand why you painted it pink with white dots...

Ready For This! I Fell In Love Really Young. Mom Got Me An Apollo 5 Speed. Gear Shift Looked Like A Car Shifter.