Before you splurge on that next big bike upgrade ...

nolight
nolight Posts: 261
edited January 2013 in Road general
have you considered looking into the mirror and ask yourself, how do I improve this fat POS?
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  • Grill
    Grill Posts: 5,610
    Nope, I'm perfect.
    English Cycles V3 | Cervelo P5 | Cervelo T4 | Trek Domane Koppenberg
  • macleod113
    macleod113 Posts: 560
    Ha ha ha ha, thats the reason i have no mirrors on the way from my bedroom to the garage. i shudder to think what i look like in lycra. i prefer to imagine i have the frame of Cav, where in reality its more like Neil Ruddock
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    Willier GTR 2014
  • zx6man
    zx6man Posts: 1,092
    Yup I did, and am now 5 stone lighter :-)
  • typekitty
    typekitty Posts: 188
    zx6man wrote:
    Yup I did, and am now 5 stone lighter :-)

    Wow, decent! Good job!
  • zx6man
    zx6man Posts: 1,092
    Thanks, downside though, KFC almost went into administration when my visits ceased.....
  • mhj999
    mhj999 Posts: 122
    But its a lot easier to spend money on upgrades than lose weight. Then you justify it by saying the new equipment will make you go out more and so lose more weight!
    Sensa Giulia 105
  • ShutUpLegs
    ShutUpLegs Posts: 3,522
    zx6man wrote:
    Yup I did, and am now 5 stone lighter :-)

    Serious question, how do you even get 5 stone overweight :?:
  • upperoilcan
    upperoilcan Posts: 1,180
    ShutUpLegs wrote:

    Serious question, how do you even get 5 stone overweight :?:

    By eating too much KFC as he stated in his earlier post. :D
    Cervelo S5 Ultegra Di2.
  • zx6man
    zx6man Posts: 1,092
    It was done via diet first, and by not spending all the cash on rubbish food, meant more for the 2 bikes I bought to loose the last stone. Now, whats the ribble cycles link again...

    I had a back injury which stopped me exercising, then got a sat down job, then got KFC and pizzhut set up on a direct debit.... Then got diabetes for my 40th birthday... so the weight had to go :-)
  • iPete
    iPete Posts: 6,076
    nolight wrote:
    have you considered looking into the mirror and ask yourself, how do I improve this fat POS?

    i'm trying my best to become a fat POS but i can't seem to add the pounds :|

    does that mean I have to buy some upgrades now?
  • Bookwyse
    Bookwyse Posts: 245
    It was looking in the mirror on New Years day 2012 that made me get back in biking.

    I was 16st 8lb and the wife said when I got to 15st I could buy a 3D TV. I hit that and got myself an Orbea Aqua instead. Now I am 11st 12lb and have have just taken delivery of a Ribble R872 as I feel that I can make the most out of it now.
  • zx6man
    zx6man Posts: 1,092
    Bookwyse wrote:
    It was looking in the mirror on New Years day 2012 that made me get back in biking.

    I was 16st 8lb and the wife said when I got to 15st I could buy a 3D TV. I hit that and got myself an Orbea Aqua instead. Now I am 11st 12lb and have have just taken delivery of a Ribble R872 as I feel that I can make the most out of it now.

    Same figures as me mate well done...except the new ribble of course :evil:
  • Bookwyse
    Bookwyse Posts: 245
    Cheers mate, congrats to you as well.

    It feels good to be here and have even entered a couple of sportives this year. One of them being the Etape Cymru, so the wife thinks I am mad.

    The Ribble was a treat as I hit 12st in June and for keeping it off for six months though why not treat myself, missus got her 3d tv when I hit the 12stonje mark so she's happy. Even happier now that she has a carbon Planet X as well.
  • team47b
    team47b Posts: 6,425
    zx6man wrote:
    Then got diabetes for my 40th birthday)

    Wot no cake? :D
    my isetta is a 300cc bike
  • Superbalicious
    Superbalicious Posts: 136
    I've lost three stone since 1 July last year... can I buy something now...?
    Still trying to convince the missus of the n+1 rule...!
  • team47b
    team47b Posts: 6,425
    two new bikes and a 5lb bag of spuds? :D
    my isetta is a 300cc bike
  • declan1
    declan1 Posts: 2,470
    Grill wrote:
    Nope, I'm perfect.

    This. What if you're already featherweight?

    Road - Dolan Preffisio
    MTB - On-One Inbred

    I have no idea what's going on here.
  • smidsy
    smidsy Posts: 5,273
    nolight wrote:
    have you considered looking into the mirror and ask yourself, how do I improve this fat POS?

    Yes but that only highlights the flaw in your question and promotes upgrading even more.

    Of course I bloody have that is why I have just upgraded my bloody bike so I can go out and lose weight innit :lol:
    Yellow is the new Black.
  • Grill
    Grill Posts: 5,610
    declan1 wrote:
    Grill wrote:
    Nope, I'm perfect.

    This. What if you're already featherweight?

    I suppose there's always crackhead skinny...
    English Cycles V3 | Cervelo P5 | Cervelo T4 | Trek Domane Koppenberg
  • mallorcajeff
    mallorcajeff Posts: 1,489
    I'm around 9 stone lighter now but still a fat pos haha
  • TakeTurns
    TakeTurns Posts: 1,075
    I went to the toilet, lost a couple grams. Does that qualify me now for an upgrade :?:
  • nolight
    nolight Posts: 261
    Grill wrote:
    declan1 wrote:
    Grill wrote:
    Nope, I'm perfect.

    This. What if you're already featherweight?

    I suppose there's always crackhead skinny...

    When you can't shave any more kgs off your body, and is starting to count rice grains you eat, then I guess it makes sense to think about shaving grams off your bike :)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Rasmussen

    It's funny to spend a fortune shaving 500 grams and then putting 10000 grams on it.
  • smidsy
    smidsy Posts: 5,273
    But it also makes sense to try and keep the rider/machine package as low as possible, so if you gain 10lbs then making the bike 10lbs lighter HAS to be sensible...right :-)
    Yellow is the new Black.
  • Grill
    Grill Posts: 5,610
    If you can't diet then might as well put the bike on one instead!
    English Cycles V3 | Cervelo P5 | Cervelo T4 | Trek Domane Koppenberg
  • MattC59
    MattC59 Posts: 5,408
    nolight wrote:
    have you considered looking into the mirror and ask yourself, how do I improve this fat POS?

    No, but I'm neither fat, nor a POS.
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    Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved
  • nolight
    nolight Posts: 261
    smidsy wrote:
    But it also makes sense to try and keep the rider/machine package as low as possible, so if you gain 10lbs then making the bike 10lbs lighter HAS to be sensible...right :-)

    Which bike upgrade makes the bike 10lb lighter, cos I would gladly pay for it :P .
  • lucan2
    lucan2 Posts: 293
    'POS' ?
  • declan1
    declan1 Posts: 2,470
    Lucan2 wrote:
    'POS' ?

    Piece of you-know-what.

    Road - Dolan Preffisio
    MTB - On-One Inbred

    I have no idea what's going on here.
  • FlacVest
    FlacVest Posts: 100
    Nope, because I'm ~150 lbs and it's only going up from here.

    Although, due to being in college, I doubt I'll be wanting to really buy a new bike for a while. Anyone want to make a donation to a striving, ridiculously busy college student?
  • Crozza
    Crozza Posts: 991
    FlacVest wrote:
    ridiculously busy college student?

    ha
    haha
    hahahahahhahahahaahahah

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