I love bikes

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  • sennin
    sennin Posts: 2,146
    jbalicki10 wrote:
    Quick Question: I see all these people who wear helmets and stuff. Does the law require this now? I would like to ride my bike more now and I don't want to wear a helmet. I never wore one and never will. I don't like wearing a helmet playing hockey either but I do now because they wont let me on the ice at the rinks anymore without it.

    http://www.iihs.org/laws/HelmetUseCurrent.aspx
  • jbalicki10
    jbalicki10 Posts: 517
    sennin wrote:
    http://www.iihs.org/laws/HelmetUseCurrent.aspx

    Sweet THANK YOU!!! I am going to get my old bike up to shape now. I think I will try going to the Morton Arboritum (sp) in a couple of weeks to try it out, Thanks to this thread. I need more excercise. I keep telling my GF she's a cubby chaser now since I gained weight. This will help.
  • eyedclaar
    eyedclaar Posts: 6,980
    sennin wrote:
    http://www.iihs.org/laws/HelmetUseCurrent.aspx

    Good, I don't have to legally wear a helmet. Not that I would anyway. I reserve the right to give my noggin' a floggin' anytime I want. Hell, if I survived my childhood without wearing a helmet, I can't see much use for one now..
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  • sennin
    sennin Posts: 2,146
    eyedclaar wrote:
    Good, I don't have to legally wear a helmet. Not that I would anyway. I reserve the right to give my noggin' a floggin' anytime I want. Hell, if I survived my childhood without wearing a helmet, I can't see much use for one now..


    Great logic. ;)
  • GreenTeaDisease
    GreenTeaDisease Posts: 3,359
    eyedclaar wrote:
    Good, I don't have to legally wear a helmet. Not that I would anyway. I reserve the right to give my noggin' a floggin' anytime I want. Hell, if I survived my childhood without wearing a helmet, I can't see much use for one now..

    I always wear a helmet unless I'm just going down some quiet side streets, but that usually doesn't happen. The way I see it, when I was a kid I was riding my bike around the suburbs. Now I'm going up and down mass ave during rush hour. there's a lot more chance I'm going to get hit by a car, a bus, a car door, or a person (because for some reason, when people cross the street, they think "oh there is a bike coming, that's no problem, I'll cross now). I am quite peeved that my trek helmet I loved broke and now I have this bell that I'm not quite thrilled with.
  • GreenTeaDisease
    GreenTeaDisease Posts: 3,359
    sennin wrote:
    http://www.feltracing.com/

    I love Felt bikes!

    oo I like the cruisers they have. I need to move to a beach town just so I can ride around on a cruiser in my flip flops.

    cool, some of those "cafe" cruisers have the rack built right into the frame...that's really interesting!

    this is the bike I get around on. it's all black and very boring looking. I should have put more effort into getting a cute bike :)
    http://www.discoverycycle.com/wingra.jpg
  • eyedclaar
    eyedclaar Posts: 6,980
    GreenTeaDisease wrote:
    I always wear a helmet unless I'm just going down some quiet side streets, but that usually doesn't happen. The way I see it, when I was a kid I was riding my bike around the suburbs. Now I'm going up and down mass ave during rush hour. there's a lot more chance I'm going to get hit by a car, a bus, a car door, or a person (because for some reason, when people cross the street, they think "oh there is a bike coming, that's no problem, I'll cross now). I am quite peeved that my trek helmet I loved broke and now I have this bell that I'm not quite thrilled with.

    Yeah, like I said, my biking commute is easy breezy Japaneezy (on a bike path next to the river and totally removed from traffic). If I did wear a helmet, I would wear a football helmet just for the looks I'd get...
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  • GreenTeaDisease
    GreenTeaDisease Posts: 3,359
    eyedclaar wrote:
    Yeah, like I said, my biking commute is easy breezy Japaneezy (on a bike path next to the river and totally removed from traffic). If I did wear a helmet, I would wear a football helmet just for the looks I'd get...

    In 2002 I biked across ireland with an REI group- we had to sign a waiver that we'd never get on a bike without a helmet. Like we had to put on a helmet to ride the bike from one end of a driveway to another. it was a bit ridic.
  • jammergirl
    jammergirl Posts: 599
    yay, a bike thread! i live in a total biking town, its a college town with not alot of hills and plenty of quiet shady streets. i ride around on a blue and white beach cruiser with a basket on the front. the only problem is that even though there are alot of people on bikes and proper bike lanes, alot of people here don't know how to share the road with bikes! i've been almost hit plenty of times, and i try to stick to the quieter roads. my friend got hit when someone opened their car door right in front of him. his bike got totalled, and he's all bruised up. be careful out there guys!
  • GreenTeaDisease
    GreenTeaDisease Posts: 3,359
    jammergirl wrote:
    yay, a bike thread! i live in a total biking town, its a college town with not alot of hills and plenty of quiet shady streets. i ride around on a blue and white beach cruiser with a basket on the front. the only problem is that even though there are alot of people on bikes and proper bike lanes, alot of people here don't know how to share the road with bikes! i've been almost hit plenty of times, and i try to stick to the quieter roads. my friend got hit when someone opened their car door right in front of him. his bike got totalled, and he's all bruised up. be careful out there guys!

    I don't think people anywhere know how to share the road, even around here where there are tons of people on bikes!

    Raleigh-durham was BAD though. it was scary as hell, students were always getting hit.
  • Cosmo
    Cosmo Posts: 12,225
    I've got a 1965 Schwinn Typhoon and I'm putting together a 1967 Schwinn Sting-Ray 5 speed Fastback. Those are my beach cruisers.
    For longer rides... I stiil have a 1985 Mountain bike and a 1972 peugeot with Shimano 105 upgrades (circa 1988).
    ...
    I like the new bikes and all... but, my bikes serve me well for what I use them for.
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  • GreenTeaDisease
    GreenTeaDisease Posts: 3,359
    Cosmo wrote:
    I've got a 1965 Schwinn Typhoon and I'm putting together a 1967 Schwinn Sting-Ray 5 speed Fastback. Those are my beach cruisers.
    For longer rides... I stiil have a 1985 Mountain bike and a 1972 peugeot with Shimano 105 upgrades (circa 1988).
    ...
    I like the new bikes and all... but, my bikes serve me well for what I use them for.

    eh, I think it's cooler to have old bikes you've customized for your needs a bit. my old bike was getting to be like that. it was just an old specialized cross bike but thanks to the "random parts for $5" box at a local bike shop I had it just the way I wanted it. then some asshole stole it for drug money.

    btw those cruisers sound cool!
  • LONGRD
    LONGRD Posts: 6,036
    I'm gonna get me a bike for the summer coz the damn gas price are raping my wallet! That's what's everyone should start doing. Ride bikes!
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  • GreenTeaDisease
    GreenTeaDisease Posts: 3,359
    LongRd. wrote:
    I'm gonna get me a bike for the summer coz the damn gas price are raping my wallet! That's what's everyone should start doing. Ride bikes!

    what a novel idea!

    seriously last night on the news they were like "gas prices are so high, people have resorted to riding bikes!!!" :O horror of horrors!
  • TrixieCat
    TrixieCat Posts: 5,756
    LongRd. wrote:
    I'm gonna get me a bike for the summer coz the damn gas price are raping my wallet! That's what's everyone should start doing. Ride bikes!
    I have an Electra Townie. I love it. A hybrid cruiser/road bike
    And if you surf, they sell things to hang your board off of.
    And I have little red dice on my tires. :)

    http://www.electrabike.com/home/
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  • GreenTeaDisease
    GreenTeaDisease Posts: 3,359
    TrixieCat wrote:
    I have an Electra Townie. I love it. A hybrid cruiser/road bike
    And if you surf, they sell things to hang your board off of.
    And I have little red dice on my tires. :)

    http://www.electrabike.com/home/

    those are cute! can I ask what you use it for?
  • LONGRD
    LONGRD Posts: 6,036
    GreenTeaDisease wrote:
    what a novel idea!

    seriously last night on the news they were like "gas prices are so high, people have resorted to riding bikes!!!" :O horror of horrors!
    I think some people, MEN in particular, aren't to willing for the idea because of our MASSIVE.........








    ...egos! :rolleyes:
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    EV- 08/09,10/2008.06/08,09/2009
  • LONGRD
    LONGRD Posts: 6,036
    TrixieCat wrote:
    I have an Electra Townie. I love it. A hybrid cruiser/road bike
    And if you surf, they sell things to hang your board off of.
    And I have little red dice on my tires. :)

    http://www.electrabike.com/home/
    I really like the Amsterdam ones....what stores do they sell 'em at?

    EDIT: got it...the closest one is 19 miles away from me. :)
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  • PahkTheCah
    PahkTheCah Posts: 193
    LongRd. wrote:
    I think some people, MEN in particular, aren't to willing for the idea because of our MASSIVE.........








    ...egos! :rolleyes:

    I'm a man. I ride/ commute. I've got no problem not spending >$75 a week on gas.... I even wear the bike get up on longer rides ...sometimes :D
  • GreenTeaDisease
    GreenTeaDisease Posts: 3,359
    omg, just came very close to having a very strange bike-related injury!

    I was riding between work and my doctors office, and I came up to a light. I rode up next to the cars waiting for the light on the right side, but it was a fairly tight squeeze. So I come up to the front car and this DOG riding in the passenger seat of this van almost jumped out the window at me! he was barking like crazy, and since the window was open and right next to my head it scared the shit out of me! totally wasn't expecting that!

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