Help: Boardman HT Comp 650b, Sell Or Keep?

welshkev

Cody wrote:

Hamza Yusuf Hanson - The China Study, The Caveman's Diet, Vegetarianism, Freegans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtMK3K5h6j4

Hamza Yusuf Hanson - be aware of Fast food will destroying people, ,Pepsi, cola, fizzy drink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By1ErgEvGA8

Hamza Yusuf Hanson - Health advice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OvWIPnuVns

have you never thought about maybe getting a second opinion? :roll:

but it's on the internet so it has to be the right way to do things yeah?

homers_double

Cody wrote:

homers double wrote:

I had a piece of Tuna Fish for lunch along with some steamed broccoli plant and carrot root.

I had porridge for breakfast so I guess that calorie for calorie I've eaten less than Cody but will still manage around 35km at a good pace on my bike tonight.

With lights...

And a black jacket...

Don't you wear high visibility clothing, isin't it dangerous to wear dark jackets on a night which make it harder to be seen? Do you ride a lot at nights then? Tuna fish sounds nice, never had one though, only in chunks that you get in tins or sandwiches.

By the way which bike have you got?

No high viz, as I've got decent bike clothing it's riddled with little strips of reflective tape on the seams.

Yes I ride a lot at night, real MTBing too not just canal tow paths (and I'm not having a dig at you there).

You can get frozen tuna steaks from Aldi pretty cheap but fresh is always nicer though. Try swordfish or shark if you like that sort of texture.

Santa Cruz heckler for the rough and a Specialized Allez for the smooth.

rockmonkeysc

Hairy beaver

paul.skibum

I'll chuck in another serious answer to some of Cody's standard questions -

I ride to work at night on the highway fairly often - only about 5k and the road isn't overly busy but isnt lit - I have a jacket with a couple of flouro tabs and stuff on but generally I am in pretty dark clothing. I have a 4 LED red rear light and a 2 LED front light (both Korg) together with a Petzl head torch which sits on my forehead under my helmet - doesn't quite point where I would like for biking and I am considering a better helmet mounted torch but its fine for the amount I use it.

In the past 7 days I have ridden around 80k on my mountain bike and 50k on my road bike as well as done a couple of 5k runs and a couple of plyometric style gym sessions.

I have drunk a few litres of beer, eaten a variety of foods - today specifically I have had cereal (Kellogs Vector - yummy and full of protein apparently), a spinach and cottage cheese salad with balsamic dressing and cranberries, a spinach smoothie with almond milk and natural yoghurt, a small portion of pasta and a couple of chocolate chip cookies. I am on night shift now and will have some chilli at around 3am with a plan to go biking in the morning straight from work (its only about -9 outside currently!).

I am 5'6 and weigh a little over or a little under 70kg (11stone) depending on the moon. I should probably be 10.5 stone on the BMI but have a fairly endomorphic body shape as well as fairly beefy legs from a lot of skiing. I do have scrawny arms though so I expect that more upper body exercises would only increase my weight.

I am firmly of the belief that if you ride purely to try and get lose weight or get fit and only have one route you follow you will a) not get fit because you aren't challenging your body and b) you will get bored and slack off. Change and challenge is good for fitness as it stresses the muscles and having fun whilst exercising makes it easier to get out and do it. For me riding a mountain bike is about a mental challenge as well as a physical one and its an endorphin fuelled rush too. If all you repeatedly do 5 miles or 10 miles or whatever on the flat all you are doing at best is acclimatizing your legs to that distance and the minute you try and go over or ride faster you will fail.

That's my ten pence and it doesnt contain any ancient wisdom just my own experiences.

BloggingFit

RockmonkeySC wrote:

Hairy beaver

My daughter likes your hairy beaver. Your clam though not so much.

rockmonkeysc

Here's a woman trimming her bush




That one wasn't so easy to find.

BloggingFit

A women spanking her monkey...

RevellRider

Here's a Wizards Sleeve

qube

welshkev

Angus Young

Funny once, tedious twice.

Cody

homers double wrote:

Cody wrote:

homers double wrote:

Don't you wear high visibility clothing, isin't it dangerous to wear dark jackets on a night which make it harder to be seen? Do you ride a lot at nights then? Tuna fish sounds nice, never had one though, only in chunks that you get in tins or sandwiches.

By the way which bike have you got?

No high viz, as I've got decent bike clothing it's riddled with little strips of reflective tape on the seams.

Yes I ride a lot at night, real MTBing too not just canal tow paths (and I'm not having a dig at you there).

You can get frozen tuna steaks from Aldi pretty cheap but fresh is always nicer though. Try swordfish or shark if you like that sort of texture.

Santa Cruz heckler for the rough and a Specialized Allez for the smooth.

I like skinless Mackerel, they come in little purple tins from Tescos. I usually buy the full box for about £10 for 10 tins, small tins though. Other than that I like Salmon, which is quite expensive. Usually they charge around £18 for a whole fish cut in to pieces from Morrisons, but on sales they're about £8.50. I can't really taste benefit from fish as it's not organically grown, except the tendency to have strong urges once it's in ya stomach which I think is dangerous. I might have to try Aldi, my uncle tells me the smaller stores have sometimes fresher stuff in than the bigger stores, it's worth having a look. I have a bright yellow jacket and a pair of bright yellow gloves, looks very good and does the job on a night and during day, during day I don't wear the gloves. Maybe I think you should buy a yellow jacket, wouldn't it be better to do so it's much safer I think. You've got a nice mountain bike, pretty expensive too I take it. Just had a porridge, woke up at 6.30, on here for a bit and off to sleep again shortly.

Cody

welshkev wrote:

Cody wrote:

have you never thought about maybe getting a second opinion? :roll:

but it's on the internet so it has to be the right way to do things yeah?

Well, I could always get a second opinion yeah it's not hard. But he's an eminent scholar of the west, a lot of what he says is true. What did you think?

neilus

I think i wouldnt consult a dietician on how to live righteously within gods laws, so i dont see why you would consult a religious scholar on diet advice.
He basically seems to be saying "avoid huge amounts of cheap, heavily processed meat of very dubious ecological origin". That should be obvious to anyone with more than a few brain cells...hardly earth-shatteringly new info.

Cody

paul.skibum wrote:

I'll chuck in another serious answer to some of Cody's standard questions -

I ride to work at night on the highway fairly often - only about 5k and the road isn't overly busy but isnt lit - I have a jacket with a couple of flouro tabs and stuff on but generally I am in pretty dark clothing. I have a 4 LED red rear light and a 2 LED front light (both Korg) together with a Petzl head torch which sits on my forehead under my helmet - doesn't quite point where I would like for biking and I am considering a better helmet mounted torch but its fine for the amount I use it.

In the past 7 days I have ridden around 80k on my mountain bike and 50k on my road bike as well as done a couple of 5k runs and a couple of plyometric style gym sessions.

I have drunk a few litres of beer, eaten a variety of foods - today specifically I have had cereal (Kellogs Vector - yummy and full of protein apparently), a spinach and cottage cheese salad with balsamic dressing and cranberries, a spinach smoothie with almond milk and natural yoghurt, a small portion of pasta and a couple of chocolate chip cookies. I am on night shift now and will have some chilli at around 3am with a plan to go biking in the morning straight from work (its only about -9 outside currently!).

I am 5'6 and weigh a little over or a little under 70kg (11stone) depending on the moon. I should probably be 10.5 stone on the BMI but have a fairly endomorphic body shape as well as fairly beefy legs from a lot of skiing. I do have scrawny arms though so I expect that more upper body exercises would only increase my weight.

I am firmly of the belief that if you ride purely to try and get lose weight or get fit and only have one route you follow you will a) not get fit because you aren't challenging your body and b) you will get bored and slack off. Change and challenge is good for fitness as it stresses the muscles and having fun whilst exercising makes it easier to get out and do it. For me riding a mountain bike is about a mental challenge as well as a physical one and its an endorphin fuelled rush too. If all you repeatedly do 5 miles or 10 miles or whatever on the flat all you are doing at best is acclimatizing your legs to that distance and the minute you try and go over or ride faster you will fail.

That's my ten pence and it doesn't contain any ancient wisdom just my own experiences.

You work night shifts I understand? must be hard and tiresome work. At the moment I'm working one job but fancy either a restaraunt job late evenings till midnight but parents say it's too much for me to cope with because I suffer from a medical condition, thryoid to be exact. I kinda get tired after 6pm soon as I finish work and then just come home and relax. I've just received my lights today, they were so bright and almost blinded, I nearly had to go for another eye test. You certainly do a lot of exercises which I don't even have the strength to do one of them, except to barely ride a bike I've got some energy for that. What I don't understand is, if you do all them exercises, how come your still 11 stone, if you've been keeping it up like you are doing for a while I'm pretty sure you would see significant weight loss in a short span of time. I like raw food drinks I watch a lot of vegan YouTube videos where they make drinks from raw foods in blenders, looks very appealing. It's suppose to be healthy for ya by the looks of it because the people on the videos are really low weight and they just eat and eat vegetables and drink raw drinks. I've planned to go biking in mornings after my prayer at 6.45am but never go out, and I haven't been out biking for 1 week now and I think I've lost some fitness. I'm bit taller than you I'm 5'9 and at 79kg, I should be your weight. When I was studying back in 2009 I use to have a really bad diet plan. I was eating more then, like I could have a full pizza and a bottle of orange juice in the evening when I was doing my work and during the day I would eat a subways and at lunch time I would have a nice lunch in the college canteen. That was 3 meals a day, but I was really puffed up then from my face I think because of all the added fat and salt in the subway sandwiches and canteen lunches. But when I went to the gym I lost weight and lost it quick as a result of those 3 meals. I think if I give it a go I could still do that again but without going to the gym, just cycling and running instead. But thanks for the advice, much appreciated. I'm was suppose to be giving my car a full valet today but my brother has come back home late from work so will give that a miss. Will perhaps go biking later or tomorrow morning. Going to have some fresh quiche tonight with some veg etc had some porridge this morning and went to sleep at 8.30. Got some work to do in meanwhile at my other house got to strip wallpaper off. Haven't had lunch yet so will try to make something for myself shortly.

homers_double

I won't be buying a yellow jacket I'm afraid.

Ps, 60km ride this morning fuelled by a bowl of cereal and 750mls of tap water. Goes to show the importance if fuelling* the night before too!



*Indian takeaway and a few glasses of wine

Cody

neilus wrote:

I think i wouldnt consult a dietician on how to live righteously within gods laws, so i dont see why you would consult a religious scholar on diet advice.
He basically seems to be saying "avoid huge amounts of cheap, heavily processed meat of very dubious ecological origin". That should be obvious to anyone with more than a few brain cells...hardly earth-shatteringly new info.

Well scholars do research, they know more than doctors and scientists. Thats my opinion.
Don't you think he's right in what he's saying.

cooldad

Cody wrote:

neilus wrote:

I think i wouldnt consult a dietician on how to live righteously within gods laws, so i dont see why you would consult a religious scholar on diet advice.
He basically seems to be saying "avoid huge amounts of cheap, heavily processed meat of very dubious ecological origin". That should be obvious to anyone with more than a few brain cells...hardly earth-shatteringly new info.

Well scholars do research, they know more than doctors and scientists. Thats my opinion.
Don't you think he's right in what he's saying.

Two reasons I gave up posting here as pointless.

Cody

homers double wrote:

I won't be buying a yellow jacket I'm afraid.

Ps, 60km ride this morning fuelled by a bowl of cereal and 750mls of tap water. Goes to show the importance if fuelling* the night before too!



*Indian takeaway and a few glasses of wine

My brothers a dietician, I've ignored him for 2 years, maybe I should start listening to him and he can find a work out plan good for me. He trains 5 days a week at 7am in morning.

What indian takeaway are you having, chicken masala? lol

Cody

cooldad wrote:

Cody wrote:

neilus wrote:

I think i wouldnt consult a dietician on how to live righteously within gods laws, so i dont see why you would consult a religious scholar on diet advice.
He basically seems to be saying "avoid huge amounts of cheap, heavily processed meat of very dubious ecological origin". That should be obvious to anyone with more than a few brain cells...hardly earth-shatteringly new info.

Well scholars do research, they know more than doctors and scientists. Thats my opinion.
Don't you think he's right in what he's saying.

Two reasons I gave up posting here as pointless.

Hello, back again. How are you sir

Cody

Off out for a bike ride, going to try out my new cree lights.

Angus Young

Cody wrote:

Well scholars do research, they know more than doctors and scientists.

No.

They.

Do.

Not.

homers_double

Nah, steer well clear or British takeaways. Lamb sagwalla (sp?) with mushroom rice.

paul.skibum

Cody wrote:

You work night shifts I understand? must be hard and tiresome work. At the moment I'm working one job but fancy either a restaraunt job late evenings till midnight but parents say it's too much for me to cope with because I suffer from a medical condition, thryoid to be exact. I kinda get tired after 6pm soon as I finish work and then just come home and relax. I've just received my lights today, they were so bright and almost blinded, I nearly had to go for another eye test. You certainly do a lot of exercises which I don't even have the strength to do one of them, except to barely ride a bike I've got some energy for that. What I don't understand is, if you do all them exercises, how come your still 11 stone, if you've been keeping it up like you are doing for a while I'm pretty sure you would see significant weight loss in a short span of time. I like raw food drinks I watch a lot of vegan YouTube videos where they make drinks from raw foods in blenders, looks very appealing. It's suppose to be healthy for ya by the looks of it because the people on the videos are really low weight and they just eat and eat vegetables and drink raw drinks. I've planned to go biking in mornings after my prayer at 6.45am but never go out, and I haven't been out biking for 1 week now and I think I've lost some fitness. I'm bit taller than you I'm 5'9 and at 79kg, I should be your weight. When I was studying back in 2009 I use to have a really bad diet plan. I was eating more then, like I could have a full pizza and a bottle of orange juice in the evening when I was doing my work and during the day I would eat a subways and at lunch time I would have a nice lunch in the college canteen. That was 3 meals a day, but I was really puffed up then from my face I think because of all the added fat and salt in the subway sandwiches and canteen lunches. But when I went to the gym I lost weight and lost it quick as a result of those 3 meals. I think if I give it a go I could still do that again but without going to the gym, just cycling and running instead. But thanks for the advice, much appreciated. I'm was suppose to be giving my car a full valet today but my brother has come back home late from work so will give that a miss. Will perhaps go biking later or tomorrow morning. Going to have some fresh quiche tonight with some veg etc had some porridge this morning and went to sleep at 8.30. Got some work to do in meanwhile at my other house got to strip wallpaper off. Haven't had lunch yet so will try to make something for myself shortly.

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My diets not great and I like a beer but 11 stone or 10.5 stone doesnt make any odds to me, I know I am pretty fit despite carrying a few pounds extra - I know given my body type I will never look slim even if I had a 6 pack. What's more important to be waifer slim or to be physically fit?

Scholars do not know more than doctors and scientists about things which are in the purview of doctors and scientists. SO I wouldnt listen to a religious scholar on the subject of dietary balance. Any more than I would seek religious solace from Stephen Hawking.

Cody

Better to be physically fit but losing weight nowadays is a bonus in addition to being fit, because of the processed unorganic food we can't lose that much weight. I personally believe scholars don't just read books they go all around the world and really study and try to understand the problem or ideal which exists in a culture.

So in my case it's diet and I believe Hamza Yusuf Hanson the former Greek Cypriot Christian would use authentic information backed up by a chain of same or similar narrations going back all the way to the first person who spoke it. If each narration differed variously or significantly then that narration is a weak narration but doesn't mean it's false, just means there wasn't enough people to narrate it and somewhere along the line it wasn't a stressed upon narration meaning it was taken lightly during the lifetime of the individual who tried to implement it.

However, Hamza Yusuf knows what he's talking about, he also lives the experience of eating minimally, being a minimalist and knows that not all or nearly all doctors and scientists are right according to their views. That's why their scientists, learning to discover what people thought was right many years ago, just confirming what came before but, in a theoretical and proven and dynamic and academic point of view without the equation of god. Doctors doing the same thing, proving something without the equation of god. They know very well god exists and created this complex character we know as man or the human being. But it's a form of work and research, to prove and validate something without having to bring god in to the matter.

Look at doctors, why are they fat, and why are they telling us to eat between 5-6 small meals a day. Well, if not combined with exercise, those 5-6 small meals I think turn in to fat, and about 40% of it is energy, but you could get that from the 2-3 moderately proportioned meals a day if it is spaced out in the day. I know doctors and people who are overweight telling me that they need to eat 5-6x a day in order to lose weight because some Hollywood trainer wrote it in his latest book and that I am wrong when I say be moderate and try to eat less. I mean, who wants to carry around 5-6 meals a day, who has time in their lives for eating eating eating? Are we living to eat, or shouldn't we really be eating to live?

Just an opinion really, works differently for everyone I guess.

Antm81

Cody, why do ask people's opinions and advice?

All you've done is then tell everybody that what they say is wrong and that every specialist in an area is wrong about what they say yet you believe every word other people say purely because of their religion.

A doctor being fat doesn't mean he doesn't know what he's talking about, he has chosen to go against what he knows despite the risks probably due to getting paid an obscene amount of money and enjoying certain things to excess.

You seem to be an extremely mixed up and confused person.

rockmonkeysc

If you want real energy, you need a full English with extra black pudding. It's what Lance Armstrong had as a pre race breakfast.

neilus

Cody wrote:

Look at doctors, why are they fat, and why are they telling us to eat between 5-6 small meals a day

All of them are fat? Can you back this statement up?

Im 43, and ive spent a lot of time trawling the web trying to get good nutritional information. As a recovering alcoholic who almost died from alcohol abuse, this was neccessary to get back to a good place physically. And i have never, ever read anything which recommends 5 - 6 meals a day.

And I suspect, neither have you. But i have a funny feeling *a certain person* has told you that all of these fat doctors recommend 5 - 6 meals a day... :roll:

Cody

Antm81 wrote:

Cody, why do ask people's opinions and advice?

All you've done is then tell everybody that what they say is wrong and that every specialist in an area is wrong about what they say yet you believe every word other people say purely because of their religion.

A doctor being fat doesn't mean he doesn't know what he's talking about, he has chosen to go against what he knows despite the risks probably due to getting paid an obscene amount of money and enjoying certain things to excess.

You seem to be an extremely mixed up and confused person.

lol apologies if I come across that way, It's my first time using a forum and I'm not totally dismissing someones views because I think it's wrong, no. I'm just being cautious because everyone's views are more or less the same but differ slightly. I was given some advice a few pages back and I think it was sincere advice, All of you are sincere but I've just noticed that you all have different needs for your lives in terms of diet. Anyway I think I get an idea now of what I should be doing.

I have increased my meal from 2 to 3 a day, but they have been small meals. I will try to increase this in the next 2 weeks to 4 small meals a day but being at work makes it difficult because I only have a 1 hour break usually at around 2pm. And then I have prayer breaks in between like 10-15 minutes each. My prayer times are 1pm, 3pm and 4.15pm. I guess I could in the morning when I go out to buy my lunch could perhaps put in an additional meal in the fridge so that's 2 meals during working hours, one breakfast and one evening meal. Does this sound like a good idea to anyone?

I've been buying granary or brown wholemeal large tea cakes for my homemade salad sandwiches for last 3 months from bakery next door and then take them to work. Someone told me few pages back to cut out the bread and cheese and focus on lean food with nutritional value. I've been taking all this in to consideration. I've been working on it a while now, been eating healthy for a while.

However I know I can do better.

Cody

neilus wrote:

Cody wrote:

Look at doctors, why are they fat, and why are they telling us to eat between 5-6 small meals a day

All of them are fat? Can you back this statement up?

Im 43, and ive spent a lot of time trawling the web trying to get good nutritional information. As a recovering alcoholic who almost died from alcohol abuse, this was neccessary to get back to a good place physically. And i have never, ever read anything which recommends 5 - 6 meals a day.

And I suspect, neither have you. But i have a funny feeling *a certain person* has told you that all of these fat doctors recommend 5 - 6 meals a day... :roll:

Yh, use the eyes that you have and you'll see fat doctors. Thats my statement backed up.

Other than that I think you are a genius for dropping the alcahol habit and doing exercise. In my faith alcahol is forbidden as it leads to a state of drunkeness and not knowing who you are when you are drinking, it has really bad side effects. Which is why I pray to remember and some people drink to forget, that's faith.
I wish I could invest the same amount of research you are doing and the same amount of time you perhaps are doing. I think that's my next step, the internet is full of information and with some of the knowledge I have on good food I will attempt to do lots of research.