ADarkDraconis
Cardinal Member
- Location
- Ohio, USA
Hey there, everyone! I am new here but not new to cycling but sort of new to cycling. I just recently got myself a 'proper' bike and am excited for the ice and two feet of snow to melt here so I can get out and ride! My previous bike I have had for over 20 years and was a cheapo Sear special (a Free Spirit) mountain bike bought for me to replace my stolen Huffy so I could ride to school. It had never fit me well but I rode it to school and to work for years and years, but the parts were not great to begin with and often gave me fits. I then moved to a new city so my work commute was a 35 mile drive along the expressways, and cue the old faithful being put in the basement for a while and just relying on the car...
Fast forward to now, I work about a 6 mile distance from home and wanted to start riding again after years. Old (sometimes) reliable is still here but I wanted something that would be a better commuter, and still take my daughter out to the towpaths when she learns to ride a bike this Spring. I ended up with a great deal on a new 12 year old Trek Multitrack 7100 (it was ridden once around a block and then stored in a garage for its whole life, sad!) and am excited and nervous to get used to it. It has such large but skinny tires (35s, but I was so used to my old chunky ones, haha!) and sits me up properly in the air where my legs can extend, it is so different. I took her for a test ride around the neighborhood a few miles on the warm rainy day we had a couple of weeks ago (it was above freezing for a day) and she flies!!! I have been out of the game for a long time so a bit unsteady at first, but it came back to me! Everything is so strange, hybrids weren't even a thing when I last got a bike!
Sorry for the rambling, I am also excited to have more people to talk about bikes with! I got my brother interested in them and now he loves cycling and works at our LBS. My better half does not and cannot ride, and has no desire to, and none of my friends or coworkers do either so it is nice to read opinions and thoughts of other 'bikers'
Fast forward to now, I work about a 6 mile distance from home and wanted to start riding again after years. Old (sometimes) reliable is still here but I wanted something that would be a better commuter, and still take my daughter out to the towpaths when she learns to ride a bike this Spring. I ended up with a great deal on a new 12 year old Trek Multitrack 7100 (it was ridden once around a block and then stored in a garage for its whole life, sad!) and am excited and nervous to get used to it. It has such large but skinny tires (35s, but I was so used to my old chunky ones, haha!) and sits me up properly in the air where my legs can extend, it is so different. I took her for a test ride around the neighborhood a few miles on the warm rainy day we had a couple of weeks ago (it was above freezing for a day) and she flies!!! I have been out of the game for a long time so a bit unsteady at first, but it came back to me! Everything is so strange, hybrids weren't even a thing when I last got a bike!
Sorry for the rambling, I am also excited to have more people to talk about bikes with! I got my brother interested in them and now he loves cycling and works at our LBS. My better half does not and cannot ride, and has no desire to, and none of my friends or coworkers do either so it is nice to read opinions and thoughts of other 'bikers'
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