Re:Re:Giant Bikers...

Brian Sanderson said:

All right all you "plus size" Clydes out there!!!

Time to take it down for bragging rights...

We'll need:

Your current weight.

Weight of your bike.

Weight of all the Cr@p you haul around on your daily commute.

Any remarks you feel like adding.

I'll start:

I'm 5'8", 230lbs. "Freddy Fender", my daily commuter hybrid, is 37lbs (no,
that's not a typo, I've got at least 5lbs+ of lock, lights, racks and
fenders hung off a bike that's almost 32lbs to begin with). I haul a pack
containing 2lbs of tools; plus a pump, tire kit, spare tube, rain gear
(shell and pants), visor shades, 2 meals worth of food, a litre bottle of
water, socks, shirt, chamois shorts, wallet, keys, glasses (reading). The
pack itself is about 2 lbs and loaded with stuff it weighs about 10lbs

SO: me - 230lbs
bike - 37lbs
pack - 10lbs

Total 277lbs.

My route is @ 17k (10 miles + ) and takes 40 mins. Discounting the 10 mins
it takes to go over the Alex Fraser Bridge, I make nearly 10 miles in 30
mins, or about 20Mph. And yes, those are (mostly) flatland miles.

That's rockin'.

How is your 230lbs configured? Are you solid, or do you have some spare
tire or what?

I'm mostly muscle, and do have some spare tire, but waist is about 36-38".

Me 225, bike 25. I've only done 8.5 miles in 30 minutes, but that included
lots of turning around at the end of suburban dead end streets and waiting
for traffic lights and at cross streets for traffic to clear.

jj

Started off about 235 last October and now weigh 210. At 6'2", my goal
is 190 to 200. At present, I ride about 250 miles per month riding
about every day. My long weekend ride is about 20 miles. I don't eat
sweets, bread or chips as a rule and try not to eat out. Doing that, I
can maintain weight and not gain. In order to lose, I still have to cut
calories, like eating a Sl*m F*st bar for an evening meal. I try to do
that when my schedule works out that I would have to be eating after
8:30pm or so. I'm glad I didn't see the articles about how big guys
should not ride light road bikes while I was losing weight.

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All right all you "plus size" Clydes out there!!!

Time to take it down for bragging rights...

We'll need:
Your current weight.
Weight of your bike.
Weight of all the Cr@p you haul around on your daily commute.
Any remarks you feel like adding.

My kinda thread. 😉

245lbs as of this AM. (down from 255lbs two months ago)

Bike approx. 30lbs - possibly up to 35lbs but more than likely 32 or 33lbs.
(stock bike is a CrMo folder at 29lbs, alumin rack maybe a pound, sprung
Brooks saddle maybe 2lbs)

I don't commute - yet.

I do a minimum of 5 miles a day as I'm getting my knees and legs back into
the shape to do longer distances. The Brooks was a God-send. My butt was my
limiting factor until I got the B67. Now, it's my legs.

When I started back to biking in May, I could only do about 3 miles
averaging about 8mph before I was wrecked for the day.

Now, I can average about 14mph and do up to 8miles before I need to hop off
for a break - but I can still do more after a short rest.

I want to keep biking until it's too cold (it gets to minus 42 up here in
Canada - not my idea of a good time) and then put the bike on the Minoura
wind-trainer in my living room as well as going to spinning classes.

A few years ago, I was 185lbs. I got there by biking and eating right. I
found the extra pounds by letting my health take second fiddle to a lot of
other things. High-maintenance girlfriend, corporate ladder and 18 hour
days.

I've ditched all that and I'm getting back to 190lbs by the end of the year.
🙂

Here's a link to pics of the bike.
http://www.ncf.ca/~af895/bike/KHS.html

(I'm taking pics of me - sans-jersey - on a monthly basis but those aren't
getting posted until I like what I see 😉

I started a thread a while back titled "I suck." I still suck - but not as
much! I can see a future where I don't suck and that's encouraging. 🙂

C.J.Patten said:

A few years ago, I was 185lbs. I got there by biking and eating right. I
found the extra pounds by letting my health take second fiddle to a lot of
other things. High-maintenance girlfriend, corporate ladder and 18 hour
days.

With all those demands on your time, where did you find enough to
eat too much? :-)

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Home page: http://members.westnet.com.au/mvw

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C.J.Patten said:

A few years ago, I was 185lbs. I got there by biking and eating right. I
found the extra pounds by letting my health take second fiddle to a lot
of
other things. High-maintenance girlfriend, corporate ladder and 18 hour
days.

With all those demands on your time, where did you find enough to
eat too much? :-)

Heheheheh.

I had poor discipline - I freely admit that. No regrets - I was the
foundation a lot of good people built their successes on.
It's my turn to get back on top now. 🙂

Haven't had McDonalds (or any kind of fast food) for about a year now -
that's made a big difference to my health, nevermind wallet. 🙂

Ooo! The sun just came out... time to hop on the bike before the rain comes!
😄

Chris

Brian Sanderson said:

All right all you "plus size" Clydes out there!!!

Time to take it down for bragging rights...

We'll need:

Your current weight.

Weight of your bike.

Weight of all the Cr@p you haul around on your daily commute.

Any remarks you feel like adding.

OK, I am not competitive in this event - I just don't weigh enough. I
had hoped, however, that my bike+gear combo would be competitive, so I
weighed the whole setup this morning before riding to work. A mere 39
lbs for bike with lock and big Carradice bag carrying my clothes,
shoes, tools, sundries (wallet, keys, cell phone) and my lunch. It
will gain a bit when sunlight becomes scarce and lights go back on it,
but I am still dissapointed.

Maybe I will "upgrade" to the Raleigh 3-speed I recently acquired but
have not yet fixed up. It should be about 38 lbs without the gear,
which might put me in the 50 lb territory with gear.

I find the heavier the bike, the more satisfying passing people on very
lightweight road bikes. Not that I am very fast - I am not, but some
roadies around here are just plain slow.

Later,
Mark Muller