New bike pic and first ride
- Thread starter Longroad
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Doobiesis
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- Location
- Poole Dorset
Nice Marin bike and you'll kor be able to walk for a week with saddle pain. Well done and welcome to the lovely world of cycling 
Doobiesis
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- Poole Dorset
Btw, that's a lot of calories for a 25 min cycle. I went out for 2 hours yesterday and all mine said was 800! What program you using, might give me more calories lol.
Doobiesis
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Lol it is cycle master. Is calories burnt related to weight / bmi as I'm very overweight so it could be that?? Although the way I feel I thought it was around 1000 calories
Yes the first few cycles you'll do will be loads of calories, but it'll even itself out. It stops you eating things once you realise 1 hour of cycling is the calories for a chocolate bar or cake you think no way!
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
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- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Nope, it doesn't... but I have to eat healthier than that for other reasons
Nigelnaturist
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- Pontefract
No it doesn't according to my Garmin (which i guess overestimates) is 34,630 cals of which lets say 20% are fat cals or nearly 7,000 fat cals thats 2lb of fat lost, my average cals according to the unit are about 55/mile or 833/hr, this is on a variety of rides (only road though), but averaging 36.75miles/day over 17 days climbing an average of just short of 1,500ft a day.
@Longroad hope you have great fun on your bike, as @Doobiesis pointed out, the rate you use calories will change, as you get fitter, you will use more fat calories than carbs, because your H.R. will be lower, so the fitter you become the easier it is to lose weight. To get more accurate readings you need things like H.R. monitors ect.... so just use them as a rough guide, don't get hung up on them.
Ok managed to get out on bike again now healed. I never had my bike seat correctly set and caused myself way to much pain on first ride. Anyway second went much better and now feeling confident I have the bike set correctly 
Nice flat route to build confidence and actually felt I was making some progress
Nice flat route to build confidence and actually felt I was making some progress
Doobiesis
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Ok managed to get out on bike again now healed. I never had my bike seat correctly set and caused myself way to much pain on first ride. Anyway second went much better and now feeling confident I have the bike set correctly
Nice flat route to build confidence and actually felt I was making some progress
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Right that's it, I'm coming out with you. I much prefer your stats lol. Well done - glad it was a better cycle
Doobiesis
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- Poole Dorset
Makes such a difference if something is even a few mm out. And instead of dreading it you get motivated.
How is the riding now m8 ? You sorted out the riding position now as Doobiesis said those "few mm" can make all the difference took me a good few rides and fiddling to find out how I liked it most.Ok managed to get out on bike again now healed. I never had my bike seat correctly set and caused myself way to much pain on first ride. Anyway second went much better and now feeling confident I have the bike set correctly
Nice flat route to build confidence and actually felt I was making some progress
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Ticktockmy
Guru
- Location
- Crawley, West Sussex
Forget all the mumbo jumbo rubbish about Cal, burnt at this stage. Just ride and enjoy yourself, you will know soon enough once you need to buy smaller size clothing.
jonny jeez
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- Chislehurst, Kent, UK
Can I wear my hat to the wedding!Right that's it, I'm coming out with you. I much prefer your stats lol. Well done - glad it was a better cycle
Doobiesis
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- Poole Dorset
I don't do "marriage" lol
