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anyone here train with mountain bikes?
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[QUOTE="MR.WR, post: 34283, member: 17914"] I ride my mountain bike to help stay in shape. In the winter I ride it offroad when weather permits. In the spring, summer and early fall I remove my dirt tires and install my city slickers tires. I ride my bike to and from work. I ride 10 miles each way. There is plenty of cross over between off road m/c riding and my mountain biking, body english ect, ect. If the weather is to harsh in your area you can always get a wind trainer and set the bike up in the house and ride it while watching TV or listining to the radio. I feel a mountain bike gives you the best of both worlds. With a mountain bike you can ride it on the road or in the dirt both are excellent workouts. You can get a computer for your bike and keep track of milage, speed, distance and RPM's if you want. If you want to rid yourself of a little weight you can get a heart monitor and train with it. The heart monitor will help you stay in your "target zone" to really burn off that turkey dinner :) As for bikes, if your going to really get into this sport you can drop some serious $$$!! I ride a Schwinn S96.1, which is a custom butted aluminum frame, with front suspension. As for components you can drop some cash here too!! There are hard tail bikes and full suspension bikes. My Schwinn is a hardtail which means no rear suspension. If you go the full suspension route you can dail in your suspension very much like your m/c. Full suspension bikes are heavier than hard tails. Hardtails can be spec'ed very light and that make a MAJOR difference when your grinding up a steep long hill, but when it come time to burn down hill that full suspension bike can be a very plush ride. The choice is yours. What ever you do don't buy the Huffy full suspension bike and expect the bike to hold up! In mountain biking you get what you pay for!!! I hope this helps, if you want more information drop me a email. I've been in volved in mountain biking since 1987 and have been through my share of bikes, frames and componets and have learned that you if your going to get into this sport be prepared to drop some cash for a quality bike. There is a couple different ways to get a bike, buy it from a dealer or buy a frame and build the bike yourself or have a mail order shop build it for you. If you go this route you can spec the bike just about any way you want, or as deep as your pocket book will let you :) You can't go wrong with Schwinn (Homegrown $1100-$1300) top quality componets. GT make GREAT bikes too, Cannondale has some good priced bikes. The F-700 and 800 are nice bikes. Rocky Mountain has great bikes, the Hammer or Race Hammer are sweet! Kona's are good to go!! Keep in mind that if you go with a steel frame you will get a smoother ride than the aluminum frame, but you will get more flex out of the steel frame. The aluminum frame will give you a much stiffer ride and will tend to climb better because of the stiffness, less flex when pushing big gears in a climb. Most bikes now use "V" style brakes or disk brakes. As for gears you can get up too 27 speeds to choose from. XRT rear cassettes will have 9 speeds in the rear and 3 drive gears on your cranks. Then you have "Grip Shift" or Rapid Fire to choose from. As for front suspension there are some crappy forks out there and they just don't perform. Zoke's, Manitou and Rockshox are all pertty nice. Rockshox have some bottom line stuff that is "ok" but for serious offroad Zokes are the way to go! The list goes on and on!! Don't be in a hurry to buy a bike. Think about how much your going to use it and what your going to use it for. If it is just for a stroll with the family then there is no need to roll out the big bucks. But if your going to really hammer the bike and might even do some cross country racing then go for broke and get a sweet ride, you'll not be sorry! You can find some GOOD deals on used bikes. Here's a links that might help you out; [url="http://www.mtbr.com/market/daily.html"]http://www.mtbr.com/market/daily.html[/url] [url="http://cambriabike.com/"]http://cambriabike.com/[/url] [url="http://www.bikesource.com/"]http://www.bikesource.com/[/url] [url="http://www.mountainbike.com/"]http://www.mountainbike.com/[/url] [url="http://www.cannondale.com"]http://www.cannondale.com[/url] Good luck and Happy Trails Rick ------------------ District 36 Member AMA Member 99 GasGas EC200 90 WR250 (FOR SALE) [This message has been edited by MR.WR (edited 11-25-2000).] [This message has been edited by MR.WR (edited 11-25-2000).] [/QUOTE]
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