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First post so here goes.

I'm from Accrington in sunny England, work as a e-commerce manager and cycle to work week days. Try and do as much as i can at the weekend usually 30-40 miles. Surrounded by hills and no escape. Got my first time trial in March and just trying to get a good program together to get ready for it. Oh yeah i'm 35 and feel every year of it :)

i am currently living in plano,tx. i am a 50 year old programmer and love motorcycles. i've been riding bicycles off and on since 1993 with 2002 being my highest milage year but plan to set a new high this year (although i'm a little behind schedule this year due to some bad weather).

i love riding on two wheels and the satisfaction of coming down the long 1 mile hill to my home at the end of a ride. looking forward to a great year of riding.

gw

First post so here goes.

I'm from Accrington in sunny England, work as a e-commerce manager and cycle to work week days. Try and do as much as i can at the weekend usually 30-40 miles. Surrounded by hills and no escape. Got my first time trial in March and just trying to get a good program together to get ready for it. Oh yeah i'm 35 and feel every year of it :)I'm in wigan and i have have just put together my program for the next 7weeks 33km intervals with an hour each day at 70% max heart rate, hopfully have me in condition for the spring. when i step up the tempo and the miles

CHOW.

my name is trudy and i ride a fuji track bike on the streets of nyc. i just got a new frame and am starting to build it up -- hopefully by spring time, so i can commute to my paper-pushing job at columbia university (class of 2001).

my boyfriend lives a block from the kissena velodrome in queens so i hope to be able to start doing some light training there when the season starts again.

CHOW.

my name is trudy and i ride a fuji track bike on the streets of nyc. i just got a new frame and am starting to build it up -- hopefully by spring time, so i can commute to my paper-pushing job at columbia university (class of 2001).

my boyfriend lives a block from the kissena velodrome in queens so i hope to be able to start doing some light training there when the season starts again.nice avatar! trudy.

mr leegregory... is accrington near manchester or liverpool??

First post and hello to everyone. I've been searching for information on here for the past few months and the forums have been very helpful in answering every question I could think of. Thank you all for being such a great resource.

I am from New Jersey and I am a post-bacc pre-med student, working part-time at a LBS. My current bike is a shiny new Lemond Filmore. :)

Hey fellas, I'm from central MA. Anyways I'm looking to purchasing a bike in the near future. Peace

My name is Andreas Vinding Jøhnke and I come from Denmark. The Town is Silkeborg. A city of which 50,000 villagers is living.
I'm 19 years old and I go to our local Gymnasium (Read: Highschool), besides that i played badminton on U-21 National Team but a back injury stopped my career. At the moment I am writing on a very serious webpage called www.cyclingpost.com (http://www.cyclingpost.com) and also for the biggest sport side of Denmark.
I love sports and I think i know quite a lot about it also.

If anyone got questions feel free to ask me. Otherwise take a look at the site which is very good in my own oppinion. Provides exactly what you need fast and precise.

Hi,
I have done a few argus's, and may i say what a great event it is! You will experience some of the best organisation in you life at this event!
My best is a 2:39(fast time).
So the info you need: take your own bike
in my day i started @6am, so there was no traffic! If you are fit you will do well. there are no serious unclimable hills. The final hill is no killer (no breeze either) but the hype is due to it coming after 90k's. the longest and most deceptive climb is Chapmans peak (if its being used).
Good luck have fun, I will be there this year (not to ride) but to have a holiday in 1 of the best cities in the world!


G'day,

I'll be visiting South Africa next March, have entered the Argus :) and would appreciate it if an old Argus hand could give me some advice please. I've scoured the official website for real information but it seems to be all promotional stuff.
I'm after the nitty gritty like:- what is the least stressful way to register? how is the start organised? what is the time limit to finish? what is the traffic like and do motorists have any consideration for us? are Smits and Suikerbossie the killer hills they appear to be on the map?
In addition I'd like a few pointers on transporting my bike in SA. I'll be arriving on SAA ex Sydney and connecting direct through to CT. I'll have to clear the bike through customs and then get on a local flight. I hear they're pretty full of bikes round about there and SAA send bikes down in "waves". Accodringly I am concerend that we'll get separated and my bike only arrive after the tour.
Alternatively is it possible to hire a reasonable bike in CT?
I ride an Avanti Edge and a Giant Kronos, both low geared as my knees are getting on, so any reasonable quality 16/18 speeder will do.
Any tips guys?

My name's James and I'm from Auckland, New Zealand. It's a suburban sprawl of over a million people.

I ride for fun, and to get places that aren't too far from home. Unfortunately I can't ride to work as I need my car to visit clients (I'm an IT Engineer).

I recently bought a bike and rediscovered my love of cycling. I used to ride a lot when I was a kid but didn't for a few years. I'm 22 years old.

Hello. My name is Bill and I am a 56 year old courier for FedEx in Erie, PA. I currently ride a Trek 7200FX for excercise and am looking at purchashing a road bike to be able to put more miles under me.
Hello Bill,

What size tires do you use on your Trek 7200FX? What is the difference between the Trex FX and the Trex Hybrid?.. in terms of performance, comfort, suspension etc. In particular suspension because I ride a Trek 7500, and notice when I ride hills the bike tend to dip forward because of the front suspension making the climb harder. Also what size tires do you use on the FX? People seem to think for longer distances the 700 x 35C's are better performing than the 38C's . What are thoughts and advise on this? :confused:

JudyMay

Hello. My name is Bill and I am a 56 year old courier for FedEx in Erie, PA. I currently ride a Trek 7200FX for excercise and am looking at purchashing a road bike to be able to put more miles under me.Hello Bill,

What size tires do you use on your Trek 7200FX? What is the difference between the Trex FX and the Trex Hybrid?.. in terms of performance, comfort, suspension etc. In particular suspension because I ride a Trek 7500, and notice when I ride hills the bike tend to dip forward because of the front suspension making the climb harder. Also what size tires do you use on the FX? People seem to think for longer distances the 700 x 35C's are better performing than the 38C's . What are thoughts and advise on this? :confused:

JudyMay

Hey,

My name's Matt. I'm seventeen, a student, and I live in Essex in the UK. I've been cycling seriously for a couple of years now and I got a new racer last summer. Over the winter months I don't get much cycling done but we have an exercise bike so I keep training on that as well as doing some upper body work.

It's nice to find such a big place for tips and general discussion.

Hello!

Hey,

My name's Matt. I'm seventeen, a student, and I live in Essex in the UK. I've been cycling seriously for a couple of years now and I got a new racer last summer. Over the winter months I don't get much cycling done but we have an exercise bike so I keep training on that as well as doing some upper body work.

It's nice to find such a big place for tips and general discussion.

Hello!
Hi matt
i guess it would take up alot of room on the forum if everyone was to say hello, so i'll save the room and say hi from everyone and welcome

Hi all. I'm in Burbank, CA USA. I just got into road cycling about four monthes ago. Hung up the mountain bike. What a difference Like going from a Jeep to a Ferrari. My buddies and I are training for our first century in March. It's up in Solvang. I hear it's pretty hilly. Oh well.

Hey,

My name's Matt. I'm seventeen, a student, and I live in Essex in the UK. I've been cycling seriously for a couple of years now and I got a new racer last summer. Over the winter months I don't get much cycling done but we have an exercise bike so I keep training on that as well as doing some upper body work.

It's nice to find such a big place for tips and general discussion.

Hello!

G'day Matt, Chelmsford, Billericay, Basildon, Theydon Boise, Epping, ?

Keep the wheels in motion, and don't look back, unless it's to see who you droped on the last climb? TBC

G'day Matt, Chelmsford, Billericay, Basildon, Theydon Boise, Epping, ?

Keep the wheels in motion, and don't look back, unless it's to see who you droped on the last climb? TBC
:D

I actually live near a town called Saffron Walden if you know where that is. It's about twenty minutes from Cambridge.

Thanks for the welcome everyone.

:D

I actually live near a town called Saffron Walden if you know where that is. It's about twenty minutes from Cambridge.

Thanks for the welcome everyone.

G'day Matt, yes mate know it well, not far from Bishops Stortford, about half way between that and Cambridge. I've riden through it but that was a long time ago, I'll be up that way in May this year, visiting the Old Country and relatives, Chelmsford, Billericay, Hoddesdon.

My mate from the early days used to live at Halstead, I use to ride out to his place from Manor Park, then we would do the round trip, head East on the A1224 to Fordstreet, then on to the A120 to Braintree and Great Dunmow, right going North on a "B" road I think it was B1057 that took us to ? Barthorne End or something like that,then down to Halstead, his Mum always gave us a hot blackcurrent cordial drink after the ride, she said it would see me home alright.

That was the Sunday Morning ride, the traffic those days was non existant I'm talking 1954-56, I guess the place has changed now, it was very quiet riding along that way with only the occassional tractor to break the tranquility, even on the A120 it was Ok. The total journey for me was about 125 kilometres, I think, or there abouts.

Three nights a week a gang of us used to ride out along the old A12 to Brentwood, turn left towards Chipping Ongar, left towards North Weald, through Epping, then left towards Theydon Boise, Loughton and finish with a sprint finish at the Bald Faced Stag pub. Training ride at race pace, no dilly dallying, the last one over the line bought the drinks?

The other two nights was a ride to Southend and back chasing the charrer bangs (Coaches) that was quick, and great fun too, mind you, when I think of what we used to do, without crash hats, we must have "BEEN MAD" it was a contest to see who could put more marks on the back bumper of the coach with the front tyre.

Incidentally is Rory O'Brien at Romford, still in business and who owns it now, Dave Bedwell used to be the shop professonal, now that was along time ago?

That's enough for now, keep the wheels in motion, and don't look back, unless it's to see who you dropped on the last climb? TBC

I'm from Cheshire, England. I'm currently trying to get some miles in for this years Etape.

I'm from Anyang in Korea. I'm recreational triathlete. but My favourate sport is bike. I like both of them, road and mountain biking. These days, I can't ride my bike since marriage, because I have to share my time with my wife and daughter

I work for Ministry of Environment in Automobile pollution control division. I an handling with automobile exaust gas post-treatment systems

I love everything that have relationship with bike. I always hope your safe and enjoyable riding !!! thank you :D