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I am a 39 year old currently stationed in Norfolk, Virginia. I am an enlisted man in the US Navy. I do chemistry and radiological controls work in nuclear power plants.

I have been cycling to work for the last two years, and I currently ride about 100 miles a week. I am training for my first century in August.

I'm in Boulder, Colorado USA. I am a student at the University of Colorado studying electrical engineering, and creative writing. I play hockey and have started cycling to replace running which was getting hard on my injured (from the hockey) knees. I am just getting back into shape and looking forward to doing some serious climbs.

Dave

35 to 45 miles three times a week in the catalina foothills. ride with a bunch of other old farts.

I'm a professional musician......specializing in piano, organ, harpsichord and choral conducting. Most of my work is in Church music. Also teach piano and organ privately.

Cycling is new to me, but I'm doing 10 miles a day and looking towards a 150 mile ride in October.

I'm from Germany. My name is Roman Arnold.
We have our own bike company and sell mountainbikes
Road and triathlonbikes direct to the consumers.
www.canyon.com

Hello:

I live in Toronto, Canada. Where I have to put my bike away every winter and travel by dogsled.

Ride at least 2-3 hours per day. This is great, considering that I haven't been on bike for 5 years. Sucks because before I blew my knees. Was training at 5-6 hours a day at Cat 2 racing :(

Work for a computer like company in shipping. Nt the gratest job, but pays well with benefits........

Memph

p.s. if any other Toronto roadies on here, drop me a line..

I live in the Philippines where the weather is hot and very humid. Lots of unpaved roads and good island spots for mountain biking.

I manage an IT dept. in KS-12 school and make trail maps during my weekends.

Lots of cycling groups here but only a few are into documenting trails and setting-up bike friendly tours and travel. Any of you interested in this kind of opportunity, give me a call.

Alan

Well, cycling really got a grip of me. Try to achieve as much during the week, that is doing 1-2 hour stints per day and a very tough 100- 150 on weekends. I am Gauteng South Africa living on the East Rand

im from northampton, uk i ride about 50miles a week (30ish km) with my club and race on fridays i also ride another 20 miles without the club

Originally posted by wamara
Hey there Kitsilano1967, I'm from Vancouver too. North Vancouver actually but now living and working in Augusta, GA as a wood process engineer. Don't miss the Vancouver rain or the traffic (that will probably double on the way to 2010). Where do you road ride out there?

Hi wamara,

As you well know, it does rain in Vancouver but surprise, surprise we had a very dry winter and spring. I have logged over 4500 km since January and most of it has been relatively dry at least when I started out. I live in Kerrisdale so I go for a 2 hour ride in the morning before work. I have a route around UBC via Marine Drive and along Spanish Banks and Locarno Beach, then its up 8th Ave and out to 16th and Blanca and around UBC again. I get a great workout but there are starting to be signs that all may not be the same after construction of the new winter sports complex starts. Already I hate these big tandem dump trucks and I had numerous flats in January and February because the street wasn't cleaned of glass and debris.
On weekends I like to ride out to Whytecliff Park at Horseshoe Bay via Marine Drive and sometimes its up to Cypress Bowl if I feel energetic. You are right about the traffic being bad but early in the morning is better. Vancouver is still nice to call home but it has changed a lot in the last 20 years. I don't go downtown much and the drug problem is pretty bad. Lots of property crime to support the crack heads. I don't know what they are going to do about that before the Olympics... maybe put them all on Lasqueti Island. When I am on my Sunday morning ride I don't think of these things.

Jan

Originally posted by kitsilano1967
Hi wamara,

As you well know, it does rain in Vancouver but surprise, surprise we had a very dry winter and spring. I have logged over 4500 km since January and most of it has been relatively dry at least when I started out. I live in Kerrisdale so I go for a 2 hour ride in the morning before work. I have a route around UBC via Marine Drive and along Spanish Banks and Locarno Beach, then its up 8th Ave and out to 16th and Blanca and around UBC again. I get a great workout but there are starting to be signs that all may not be the same after construction of the new winter sports complex starts. Already I hate these big tandem dump trucks and I had numerous flats in January and February because the street wasn't cleaned of glass and debris.
On weekends I like to ride out to Whytecliff Park at Horseshoe Bay via Marine Drive and sometimes its up to Cypress Bowl if I feel energetic. You are right about the traffic being bad but early in the morning is better. Vancouver is still nice to call home but it has changed a lot in the last 20 years. I don't go downtown much and the drug problem is pretty bad. Lots of property crime to support the crack heads. I don't know what they are going to do about that before the Olympics... maybe put them all on Lasqueti Island. When I am on my Sunday morning ride I don't think of these things.

Jan

Hello Jan:

I do was from British Columbia, expect that I lived in the Kootenays. Where the beer is fresh and the moutains are HUGE. I know what you mean about being able to cycle all year round. When I was out there. I rode 635 straight days outside.

Do you still have the gas tax for the Olypics?
You think the crime in Van is bad? Try living in Toronto? Your Surrey, is our Scarborough....

Memph

I'm just new to the forum and have already learned a lot in the quest for selecting my next bike...thanks!

I'm a professional musician in the Army Band Melbourne (bass trombone, for those who are wondering). I've only been in for a few months and am now getting back on the bike after a bit of a spell during uni. Am now commuting about 25km per day on my poor old Shogun road bike, but I'm loving it!

I currently have three short-term goals: 1. Ride the "Around the Bay in a Day", 2. Ride to Ballarat or Central Gippsland and 3. enter my first Triathlon or road race this summer. Only problem is, I don't know much at all about road racing - how to get started, whether there are super-novice level, etc. Can anyone give me a few pointers?

P.s. It's good to see the Victorians are out in force!

Hello, I'm 34 and I'm from Whidbey Island (Washington state USA) and I'm just getting started biking again. I don't plan to do any racing, just to get in shapea again since I'm a computer programmer and sit in front of the computer 8-10 hrs a day. I'm beginning to hate it.
Don't laugh: My longest ride since I took my bike out of storage a month ago was 7.5 miles with my 2 year old daughter (have a child seat on the bike). I ride a piece of junk for Walmart (NEXT mountainbike feels like it's built out of lead) I just put some hybrid tires on it and it helps a lot. One of these days I'll be able to afford a nice hybrid bike, until then I'll have to survive with this one. We have beautiful places to ride with little traffic.

Hi,

Got any group rides in your area? I'm into mountaing biking and in search for off-road trails close to our area. I ride from my home in Pasig to Makati.

Originally posted by Guest
I'm from Makati City, Philippines. Graduated from college last year (2000), and stopped chasing chicks a few months before that.

I', no in market research, this has got to be the most boring job in the world. I plan on becoming a pro racer.....but I think that is one plan that will not push through!

Hello all--
I'm a recent college grad from the Midwest, USA. Still trying to figure out what I want to do with my degree. Haven't seen to many people on the board from this area. I don't ride yet, don't even have a bike, but I'm learning a ton for when I purchase my first (hopefully soon!!). Thanks to all for the great info!

I am in Athens, Georgia. Home of the University of Georgia, REM, Widespread Panic, B-52's and host city of the annual "Twilight Criterium" I have a mountain biker son, and a baton twirling (Miss Majorette of America 1999) daughter who is on full scholarship as Feature Twirler for "Ole Miss" University. Son has a Diamondback, and daughter has a Trek. I have a original Moulton Stow-a-way...first mini suspension bike from the early 60's that Alex Moulton (He designed the Austin Mini Motor Car.) designed, and is still going strong after all these years. I was born and raised in the UK, but moved to the USA when I married in 1978. Lived in USA since, but go home to Manchester, England every other year. I ride my bike three times a week, and try to keep up with the kids......not really, but it sounds good. I am currently enjoying watching "The Tour De Lance" and enjoying each stage. Thanks for letting me prattle...Georgina

Hi Everyone! I'm Sky. I'm 42. I live in Kansas, USA. Most days I ride 12-15 miles and I do some running and walking as well. Right now I ride a Huffy Overland MTB. Actually, it's my daughter's bike because mine got run over. (I wasn't on it!) I've been looking at new bikes. The Schwinn Sierra Sport and Giant Sedona are two that I like so far.

Nice to meet you all! :)

Hi, I'm 43, a Chemical Engineer,live in Yarrawonga,Victoria,Australia.

I own a road bike (Pinarello Gavia) and MTB (Giant Rincon).

Most of my riding these days is with my two sons who are 8 and 9. They ride 20 inch MTB's . We mainly ride in the forests on the banks of the Murray River.

The balance of power is starting to shift in their favour. I can hardly keep up with the little buggers. Its a great feeling seeing them grow stronger everyday.

I need to get out on the road bike and rack up some serious kms.

I just some kid compared to you fossils (16)! I go to high school and I love biking! what more can I say? Oh Yeah MUCLUK

Hello over here! :)

I’m from Holland (also called: The Netherlands, although I still don’t how many countries there actually are in the Lowlands…:D ) , 25 years old, and a real sports fan.

I’m studying Leisure Science, and try to graduate (in Holland you have to do a major scientific research). Leisure Science is a scientific study based on…things you can do in leisure time (arts&culture, sports, tourism…)… :)
I myself am working on a sports research.

BTW: I’m a cycling FAN and muste be the only one over here who himself is NOT racing/ cycling. I wante to when I was (very) young, but every time I saw a major cycling accident in for instance the rain, I thougth to myself: hmmm, why do that? :)
Anyway, I was already playing soccer (football) then, so it was too expensive (money and time) to also join the city’s cycling team…

Since I’m not a cyclist myself, I don’t have (real) interest in technical details, information about clothing, cycling races etcetera.

You can (only?) see me writing in the “Road Racing/ Grand Tours” Forums… I guess! :)
I like to talk about professional cyclists, cycling teams and races…

That’s all for now!
Groeten, Greetings and see you around!