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Forum: Fifty Plus (50+)

07-05-18, 11:20 PM

Replies: 220

Sticky For the 50+ 'newbie' rider

Views: 199,539

Posted By Catweazle

Hi all, long time no visit. I've at long...

Hi all, long time no visit.

I've at long last edited this to include the section about "What to carry":

Cycling gear and stuff you need to carry (https://www.bikeforums.net/7013352-post7.html)...

Forum: Fifty Plus (50+)

07-17-08, 07:57 PM

Replies: 220

Sticky For the 50+ 'newbie' rider

Views: 199,539

Posted By Catweazle

Hiya bbbullie, and welcome. It'd be best to...

Hiya bbbullie, and welcome.

It'd be best to pursue your quest for purchasing advice in a new forum thread. You'll attract more and better assistance that way.

Forum: Fifty Plus (50+)

07-09-08, 07:06 AM

Replies: 220

Sticky For the 50+ 'newbie' rider

Views: 199,539

Posted By Catweazle

Bar height info altered, to correct a shortcoming...

Bar height info altered, to correct a shortcoming pointed out by DnvrFox. Thanks, mate :thumb:

Forum: Fifty Plus (50+)

07-08-08, 02:58 PM

Replies: 220

Sticky For the 50+ 'newbie' rider

Views: 199,539

Posted By Catweazle

Thoroughly agree. Sure, a good deal of the...

Thoroughly agree. Sure, a good deal of the content has wider relevence, but the posting of it in 50+ gives meaning to its purpose. There's an undercurrent of "What's changed since the 60s/70s?" in...

Forum: Fifty Plus (50+)

07-07-08, 11:53 PM

Replies: 220

Sticky For the 50+ 'newbie' rider

Views: 199,539

Posted By Catweazle

Done and done. Topics are included in the links...

Done and done. Topics are included in the links list.

I'd like to mention that, in writing the above, I've tried my best to stick to the 'factual' info and to what emerged to me as the 'concensus...

Forum: Fifty Plus (50+)

07-07-08, 05:22 PM

Replies: 220

Sticky For the 50+ 'newbie' rider

Views: 199,539

Posted By Catweazle

Hi again folks. Quite a few thread views but no...

Hi again folks. Quite a few thread views but no comments? Did I upset you by posting this? I hope not.

Have people perhaps got suggestions about favourite 'informative' threads they think would...

Forum: Fifty Plus (50+)

07-07-08, 08:38 AM

Replies: 220

Sticky For the 50+ 'newbie' rider

Views: 199,539

Posted By Catweazle

I mentioned, the other day in the topic about...

I mentioned, the other day in the topic about stickies, that I'd been thinking about doing this and a few people at least thought it was a good idea.

Over to all of you now. It needs a few...

Forum: Fifty Plus (50+)

07-07-08, 08:22 AM

Replies: 220

Sticky For the 50+ 'newbie' rider

Views: 199,539

Posted By Catweazle

Useful forum links Handlebar choices...

Useful forum links

Handlebar choices (http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=377981)

Check what other 50+ cyclists use to help alleviate hand and wrist soreness or numbness.

Special...

Forum: Fifty Plus (50+)

07-07-08, 08:21 AM

Replies: 220

Sticky For the 50+ 'newbie' rider

Views: 199,539

Posted By Catweazle

Cycling gear and stuff you need to carry The...

Cycling gear and stuff you need to carry

The more you carry the harder you'll have to work at riding, so 'keep it light' is the best principle. The following are what I'd consider the bare minimum...

Forum: Fifty Plus (50+)

07-07-08, 08:20 AM

Replies: 220

Sticky For the 50+ 'newbie' rider

Views: 199,539

Posted By Catweazle

Improving your riding With a well chosen...

Improving your riding

With a well chosen bicycle under you and set up to ‘fit’ you well, and some basic riding techniques learnt, there’s not much left other than to ride the thing!
Hours spent...

Forum: Fifty Plus (50+)

07-07-08, 08:20 AM

Replies: 220

Sticky For the 50+ 'newbie' rider

Views: 199,539

Posted By Catweazle

On to riding the bike – Cadence and Gears It...

On to riding the bike – Cadence and Gears

It wouldn’t surprise me to hear that, over the years, quite a few of you older ‘newbies’ have looked at the young folk on BMX bikes, their legs spinning...

Forum: Fifty Plus (50+)

07-07-08, 08:19 AM

Replies: 220

Sticky For the 50+ 'newbie' rider

Views: 199,539

Posted By Catweazle

Riding Are you still with us? Good, because...

Riding

Are you still with us? Good, because if you’ve persevered this far you now have a bike! (Even if that purchase has only really been made in your head, yet!)

It’s time to hop on the...

Forum: Fifty Plus (50+)

07-07-08, 08:18 AM

Replies: 220

Sticky For the 50+ 'newbie' rider

Views: 199,539

Posted By Catweazle

Making it fit Your bike shop staff should be...

Making it fit

Your bike shop staff should be doing the initial adjustment for ‘fit’ on your bike, but if you’ve purchased a secondhand bike or are merely interested in what it’s all about, here...

Forum: Fifty Plus (50+)

07-07-08, 08:18 AM

Replies: 220

Sticky For the 50+ 'newbie' rider

Views: 199,539

Posted By Catweazle

Where to buy the bike? This section is...

Where to buy the bike?

This section is included for one simple reason. We’d like to see you buy that bike from a local bike shop (LBS) rather than succumbing to the desire to go grab a cheapie...

Forum: Fifty Plus (50+)

07-07-08, 08:16 AM

Replies: 220

Sticky For the 50+ 'newbie' rider

Views: 199,539

Posted By Catweazle

For the 50+ 'newbie' rider

Hi. If you are a 50+ candidate who is about to take up cycling for the first time, or for whom it’s been so long since you were on a bicycle that you might as well be a newbie to the activity, this...

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