Originally Posted by
Viich
Running is far better than cycling for healthy knees, BTW. Too much cycling / not enough weight bearing will be bad for your joints. The exception to this would obviously be if you've previously had a serious knee injury.
I thought I was roughly equal cycling and running, but talking with people I ride with I think I'm likely a better runner.
You get plenty of weight bearing just walking around. I can't imagine cycling would be detrimental to knee health through lack of weight bearing. If that was the case we would have pro cyclists all over the place with bad knees from too much cycling.
And high volume running subjects your joints to a great deal of pounding. The same thing that makes running bad for people with major knee issues but cycling good for those same people holds true for healthy knees as well.