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

Cody

Hi, just letting you know my bike service over the weekend went well.
As soon as I dropped it off, they rang me as soon as I got in to my car and said it was all done. I decided to leave it there overnight and go back the next day to pick it up. They said the brakes were fine, the discs were touching the pads and they've sorted that out now it's no longer touching They also said bring it in every 3 months or when something goes wrong with it to just bring it in. I'm not sure if the bike service plan I purchased covers repairs done on the spot without having to buy additional parts but I think it does cover that. it cost me £30 for a full year. They even pumped the tyres up.

Where is everyone?!

CitizenLee

We're all at work

Glad you're happy with the service. I take it any parts would be extra on top of the £30?

Any plans to do any riding this week?

rockmonkeysc

Parts are extra and at rrp.

CitizenLee

RockmonkeySC wrote:

Parts are extra and at rrp.

Halfords licencing themselves to print money as usual then?

Cody

CitizenLee wrote:

We're all at work

Glad you're happy with the service. I take it any parts would be extra on top of the £30?

Any plans to do any riding this week?

Yh I'm assuming damages by riding are covered in the Premium Bike Care Plan service except parts needed which I'll have to buy new upon their advice and further inspection. It's a shame really, Halfords charge for a full years service but if I didn't have the service plan it would have cost £8.00, so each and everytime something went wrong with it and if I had to take it in, it would have totalled to quite a bit.

Well I haven't ridden for 7 days, it's been terrible weather. But that shouldn't have been an excuse. I'm kinda trying to come to terms with my diet at moment, I've put on tons of weight in one week from eating 3 meals a day and have been riding 3 times a week, but I realised it's not for me. I'm sticking to a moderate diet.
I will try not to be in a caloric deficit like the last time I tried this diet.

But all is good, I'm at work too

rockmonkeysc

Just learn to maintain your bike yourself. There's nothing complicated, it will save you a ton of cash and it's more satisfying.
I only ever use a shop if I want a wheel built.

Cody

Thanks, yeah will try to learn how to fix basics on my bike, I'll have to be careful riding it next few weeks and months as weather is not so great. Still regretting paying £600 but then again, life is not for regrets is it? Yes I'm religious and try to live a modest way of life but sometimes on things we use the most we should spend a fair bit. Sometimes, lesser expensive things can last a while then should be replaced once worn out and newer more expensive things can last half as long. But it's mind boggling ain't it. Got to get it right somehow lol

By the way, I'm thinking of joining the gym for 3 months. Just so that I can motivate myself to get out of the house in mornings and evenings and do some cycling and running. I was thinking of Nuffield health the nearest one to me being in Cottingley which is 10 minute drive away. It's a rolling contract for 3 months and costs around £42.00 per month with access to everything at any time. As it gets warmer I'll be cancelling or letting the membership run out and will be doing lots of cycling in spring and summer in fresh air and not indoors. Just want to do some running and indoor cycling and will increase my meal to 2 a day including a small breakfast, so that's like 3.

Anyone think joining the gym a good idea through winter?

I've only had 1 meal today and 3 cups of coffee with minimal milk and a cupcake. Tomorrow will be 2 small meals (a cheese salad sandwich in a large granary teacake at 2pm) and a breakfast at 9am.

paul.skibum

If you cant be arsed to ride a bike I suspect there is a good chance you wont bother going to a gym after an initial flurry of activity and based on your apparent lack of understanding of the reasons for eating well in order to benefit from exercise and what exercise gives beneficial gains I suspect your gym time will be wasted in a flurry of pointless exercises and meaningless repetitions.

That's my ten pence opinion from reading your entries over the past 44 pages.

Briggo

16 days till christmas

homers_double

17 days until skiing!

katiebob

10 1/2 working days left of the year!

Angus Young

417 pages left to go in this thread.

Cody

paul.skibum wrote:

If you cant be arsed to ride a bike I suspect there is a good chance you wont bother going to a gym after an initial flurry of activity and based on your apparent lack of understanding of the reasons for eating well in order to benefit from exercise and what exercise gives beneficial gains I suspect your gym time will be wasted in a flurry of pointless exercises and meaningless repetitions.

That's my ten pence opinion from reading your entries over the past 44 pages.

I should be fine. I've had 3 small meals today. All healthy. 1 toast and 1 egg and beans in morning, salad sandwich for lunch and veg soup for supper. I enquired about gym membership, it was £51 with a NUS card which I've got. If you join in December, it's free and then it's a fixed contract for 3 months. I've joined a different gym in the past and it's been a waste of money, I've paid upfront membership fees for a full year and only went like one month out of 12. I use to overdo it thinking I could do 40 minutes on the treadmill and 15 minutes on the cycling machine 3 times a week. They are doing a special offer in January so will use this month to eat well.

Full of flu at the moment so it's bit difficult to decide or make decisions. It's a lot of money to be paying out aswell. Theres a gym 5 minute down the road from me which charge £25 a month, but lot of not so good people use it like dossers and riff raff, but the facilities are great, it's quite modern. It will save me at least £7-8 petrol each week, but it's not a ventillated gym, it doesn't have much heating as it's inside a mill building. But it's a 5 minute walk from home which is ideal.

I will be having 3 small meals again tomorrow except my evening meal won't be soup, it will be a light veg curry with a quarter naan or brown pitta bread. I'm yet to research which veg types of food carry protein essential for muscle repair and growth and essential nutrients needed in order to sustain the body during and after training. Research takes a lot out of ya honestly, it's mentally challenging especially when there's not enough will power.

I suppose I'll get there in the end, sometimes we can talk and talk but if we've been doing things before and all of a sudden not doing something it could just mean somethings going wrong, it could perhaps be a phase.

It's all about mentality.

paul.skibum

Toast/egg/beans - not unhealthy but not amazing, good set up for the day but perhaps a little stodgy
Salad sandwich - bought? In which case it will be smothered in dressing which wont be healthy
Veg soup - store bought? In which case salty and probably fattier than you think

Cheap gym close to home is better than one you have to drive to, you will be more likely to go especially if its well equipped - who cares who frequents it (and dossers as a rule dont go to the gym if they have to pay) you arent going there to have a chat, go work out go home.

Also 50 quid to run and cycle 3 times a week for 55 minutes is a waste when you can run and cycle for free outside - I'd rather spend 100 quid on a second pair of trainers (in case one pair is wet) and a waterproof - my main reason for having a gym membership are good classes and access to weights and special equipment I dont have at home although if financial considerations were there I would be researching body weight exercises and get a floor mat for home.

Research hurts your head? FFS.

paul.skibum

Nutrition tips from Australia (not a joke) - http://www.ausport.gov.au/ais/nutrition/factsheets/basics

neilus

Cody wrote:

Anyone think joining the gym a good idea through winter?

No I dont. Based on your current calorific intake, you wouldnt have enough stamina to fill in the form and press a few buttons on the treadmill. And then you'd be back on here, blathering about how youre spending all this money on a gym that you dont have the energy/motivation to use.
Your bf/lunch/dinner example above is probably 1000cal at most. Still nowhere near enough. Nuts, flapjacks etc will boost your calorie intake without requiring a lot of "eating". Im still totally confused how smb who is seriously malnourished can claim to be putting on weight, something doesnt add up.
For the umpteenth time, go and talk to a doctor. And thanks for telling me about Pakistan, sounds wonderful.

Cody

paul.skibum wrote:

Toast/egg/beans - not unhealthy but not amazing, good set up for the day but perhaps a little stodgy
Salad sandwich - bought? In which case it will be smothered in dressing which wont be healthy
Veg soup - store bought? In which case salty and probably fattier than you think

Cheap gym close to home is better than one you have to drive to, you will be more likely to go especially if its well equipped - who cares who frequents it (and dossers as a rule dont go to the gym if they have to pay) you arent going there to have a chat, go work out go home.

Also 50 quid to run and cycle 3 times a week for 55 minutes is a waste when you can run and cycle for free outside - I'd rather spend 100 quid on a second pair of trainers (in case one pair is wet) and a waterproof - my main reason for having a gym membership are good classes and access to weights and special equipment I dont have at home although if financial considerations were there I would be researching body weight exercises and get a floor mat for home.

Research hurts your head? FFS.

Yh paul, thanks for the advice. The salad sandwich is home made using fresh veg and a little dash of low fat salad cream, Hellmans or Heinz, both taste just as good. I buy my large round granary seeded tea cakes from the bakers, which tend to go off and out of date after a weak. The soups are all supermarket soups, commercial ones. But I won't be having them now that you've told me they're full of salt and fat.

Sorry it's £59 per month at Nuffield, I rang them last night and enquired, my mistake. I'll give it some thought regards the gym near home, it is convenient, it's open in mornings from 6am till 10pm and on some days it's closed. Some of the gyms I use to go to, always see a nice girl and just start getting urges and couldn't focus on training, it's difficult, temptations lol There's a couple of other gyms nearby like 5-10 mins in car who charge the same rate, around £20-25 per month go anytime you want with good facilities. I just want to kinda build it up really so when I feel like doing outdoor running I am prepared then you see. But there's nothing like cold weather, really beats you to it sometimes. I'll be ok in spring/summer time, it's a nice time of the year to exercise.

My brother goes to the local gym 4-5 times a week, early mornings. He's kept it up last 7 years, I honestly don't know how he does it. Eats this and that and everything healthy. I think he's gonna wear his stomach out one day if he carries on. He did a 3 year sports therapy degree at uni, and a nutrition course which was intensive, he weighs around 10 stone bang on with about less than 7% body fat. My cousin Adam has a very very cut and lean body but I don't know what his diets like. All I know is he eats like 9 donuts in 1 go sometimes. And he's got like less than 5% body fat but he takes a lot of protein shakes and powders.

Thanks for the link, I'll have a read of it shortly, just at work.

Looking forward to my salad sandwhich at 2. With Crisps

Cody

neilus wrote:

Cody wrote:

Anyone think joining the gym a good idea through winter?

No I dont. Based on your current calorific intake, you wouldnt have enough stamina to fill in the form and press a few buttons on the treadmill. And then you'd be back on here, blathering about how youre spending all this money on a gym that you dont have the energy/motivation to use.
Your bf/lunch/dinner example above is probably 1000cal at most. Still nowhere near enough. Nuts, flapjacks etc will boost your calorie intake without requiring a lot of "eating". Im still totally confused how smb who is seriously malnourished can claim to be putting on weight, something doesnt add up.
For the umpteenth time, go and talk to a doctor. And thanks for telling me about Pakistan, sounds wonderful.

When I was little I couldn't put weight on and was very very active, was fastest runner in school, use to get chased by all bullys through the meadows and fields surrounding the school.

I use to eat around 4 small meals a day then.

Sometimes on a weekend if it was a wedding I'd sneak in with friends through back door and have large meals a day like in one go I'd have 4 legs of steamed chicken and brown rice and meat curry and carrot pudding. Then would play cricket for next 3 hours, then go sneak in to the wedding again and eat same amount again. Of course there were like 1000-1500 people to a wedding in asian weddings in huge buildings so it was harder to get noticed that you weren't invited. It's still the same today.

But now I've just lost metabollism, and eat less because I want a more healthy lifestyle. I look at these commercial models aswell because I was once good looking like 4-5 year ago and was told I had model looks, models eat less and train more but I think their way of life is different, they're always in calorie deficit and they look poorly. So I don't understand why they promote, such a lifestyle which involves eating minimal and training so much.

I've made a doctors appointment on wed 17th, will speak to him.

Life was fun back then.

katiebob

Cody wrote:

Some of the gyms I use to go to, always see a nice girl and just start getting urges and couldn't focus on training, it's difficult, temptations lol

:roll:

Angus Young

Katiebob wrote:

Cody wrote:

Some of the gyms I use to go to, always see a nice girl and just start getting urges and couldn't focus on training, it's difficult, temptations lol

:roll:

Yes, that was the standout sentence for me, too. Worrying.

dirkpitt74

Angus Young wrote:

Katiebob wrote:

Cody wrote:

Some of the gyms I use to go to, always see a nice girl and just start getting urges and couldn't focus on training, it's difficult, temptations lol

:roll:

Yes, that was the standout sentence for me, too. Worrying.

I think more than nutritional advice is required from the doctor......

pesky_jones

Cody wrote:

Theres a gym 5 minute down the road from me which charge £25 a month, but lot of not so good people use it like dossers and riff raff.

What, this guy? https://www.google.co.uk/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=eXiIVKjvM-eq8weBrIJ4&gws_rd=ssl#q=riff+raff&start=0

cooldad

Riff Raff? That could only mean Cody is actually Frank-N-Furter.

Briggo

Why are you idiots still trying to help this guy.

He doesn't want to be helped, he wants the attention. Whatever that is on an internet forum.

Cody

Leave the urges bit out, maybe I shouldn't have said that.

Some of you have a tendency to manipulate.

Anyway I think I've overeaten tonight but, it counts as a 3rd meal. 2 pittas and some kidney bean curry.

And some lemon and honey in water.

Still full of flu at the moment, don't know if I'll be better by next week to do the canal ride.

My birthday tomorrow, turning 26

rockmonkeysc

Cody wrote:

Some of you have a tendency to manipulate.

I think that may be a spelling mistake.

neilus

Cody wrote:

Life was fun back then.

Its the life you have chosen, not the life that has chosen you.

Happy birthday pal, go for a nice dhal makhani, lots of protein in those lentils

welshkev

I'd go for a steak and a few glasses of wine personally.

followed by some pre-marital sex.

cooldad

welshkev wrote:

I'd go for a steak and a few glasses of wine personally.

followed by a vigorous walk.

More suitable to this thread perhaps.

mxp27824

Briggo wrote:

Why are you idiots still trying to help this guy.

He doesn't want to be helped, he wants the attention. Whatever that is on an internet forum.

Do you not see the metaphor at the heart of this thread? Cody's inability to commit to riding his bike along a towpath is representative of the fear within us all of setting out on adventures new. His dietary struggles are analogous to the conflict between wants, needs and reality in all of us, and his relationship with his god is a symbol for the relationship between us adults and our own mother. Do we not all, within our heart of hearts, yearn to be with our mother at least 5 times a day, starting at 5am?

I didn't get the rucksack reference, though.