jarias51

Hi, I am from Weston, in South Florida and I want to get into roady cycling.

I am buying this saturday a GIANT TCR A1 from my LBS and all the gear from them as well.

This is the first time in probably 3 years that I ride a bike and would like to get any tips or tricks for a beginner of this sport.

Anything can help. I usually have found a thread for beginners in other sport/hobbies forums but I did not find anything like this for road cycling.

If someone can point me in the right direction, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks

Jose

PipinFan

Contact these club and don't look back...

https://www.southbrowardwheelers.com/

Olebiker

I had dinner the other night with a couple that were instrumental in starting that club. It sounds like the perfect place for you to get started.

stonecrd

There is a lot of good riding in Weston and all of the Broward clubs ride through town on Sat/Sun. SBW is a great club with many different levels from beginner to A++ no limit, drop you until you can hang rides. Team Memorial (https://www.teammemorial.com/) and the Weston Flyers (https://www.westonflyers.com/) are pretty fast rides ~25mph. Many good LBS in the area as well, Zs will do you well for Giant I tend to use Big Wheel in Hollywood, they are close to where I work and have great mechanics. Also if you MTB you can find some reasonable trails in Markham park which is just N of 75 on Weston Rd.

If you see a couple of old guys (+50) out on Royal Palm/Weston/South Post/Saddle Club one on a Scott the other on a Litespeed that will be Bill and I. We ride almost daily after work for 20mi and then either do a group ride on Sun or ride up to Parkland for 65mi.

See ya around

PipinFan

Yes,that's why I recommended him SBW because the others are fast, fast rides and I don't think will be beneficial for him,SBW has a vast congregation of all type of cyclists and for someone that is new it will be much better,latter with experience etc you can visit the other groups or Clubs.

jarias51

Hi all, thanks for the comments. I ended up buying a LOOK with the very helpful guys from Zs, my friend got a Giant from them too. Already tried them out on saturday and sunday and it was great!

I will contact SBW.

Thanks again!