Motorcycling is really sh*t...

...for your fitness!

I used to have a reasonable level of general fitness, then I became a biker. Instead of spending my free weekend time hiking, climbing and mountain biking, I now tend to go for a ride on the SV. Consequently I'm now what I consider to be unfit, which was highlighted when I walked up a few mountains in Wales last week and when cycling 27 miles yesterday!
It was all hard work and it made me realise just how easy it would be to give up on exercise and become an unfit couch potato.

I need to find more time for exercise, but don't know how I'm going to do it.

It made me wonder how much other peoples lives have change since becoming a biker. Obviously it's not all good, for me at least.

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I dunno. Riding in london has made me quite fit, and has done wonderds for my upper-body strength

[dizzyblonde]

Originally Posted by Alpinestarhero

I dunno. Riding in london has made me quite fit, and has done wonderds for my upper-body strength

LOL in my case

Motorbiking, keeping skinny blondes in big muscles since 2001

Originally Posted by madness

...for your fitness!

I used to have a reasonable level of general fitness, then I became a biker. Instead of spending my free weekend time hiking, climbing and mountain biking, I now tend to go for a ride on the SV. Consequently I'm now what I consider to be unfit, which was highlighted when I walked up a few mountains in Wales last week and when cycling 27 miles yesterday!
It was all hard work and it made me realise just how easy it would be to give up on exercise and become an unfit couch potato.

I need to find more time for exercise, but don't know how I'm going to do it.

It made me wonder how much other peoples lives have change since becoming a biker. Obviously it's not all good, for me at least.

True. It is such a struggle now I have got a motorbike again.

27miles??? Is that off road?

Agreed, i feel sooo unfit compared to before i got the bike. Use to cycle to work and back everyday and got for a dip in the sea on the way home....now im just too dam excited about getting on the bike to even think about cycling. I do go for a swim before work some mornings but its soo much effort with the big bag of kit plus work stuff on the bike

[Stu]

yup, and compared to a car I expct to park exactly at my destination - Not a 20 yard walk away from it

Originally Posted by Venom

27miles??? Is that off road?

It was about half on an old railway track/trail and the rest on road. On a mountain bike fitted with full knobbly tyres and I'd not riden a bike for a year. To say that I was extremely tired (for Stig of the dump ) by the end of it was an understatement .

i feel better because the bike allows me to get to the gym and back without relying on parents

I go running at lunch times. Not suitable for all I know but there must be some of you out there that could do this?