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

Angus Young

Cody wrote:

This is one of the problems I have, I tend to work up a lil sweat then soon as I get home, crave food, or slightly crave food.

This is not a problem. It's what's supposed to happen. Your body is telling you what it needs. I eat way more when I'm exercising than when I'm not. And I still lose weight.

Cody wrote:

Why would you snap your chain in the cold, is this something I should be worried about? I don't know how to fix modern bikes so, I must learn.

It was biting cold and I had just driven the bike on the back of the car for an hour and a half, but I doubt that had much to do with it. The trail started with a sharp incline and I think it was just time for the chain to let go. Wasn't a problem - just used my chain tool to remove a couple of links and then join the chain back. Having recently gone down to a single 34T front ring, losing a couple of links was probably in order anyway.

welshkev

I've just got back from a ride. It was -2 when I started. It was a great ride. I fell off twice. I laughed.

I was feeling hungry when I got home so I ate some Christmas cake

Angus Young

welshkev wrote:

I was feeling hungry when I got home so I ate some Christmas cake

Food of champions.

Cody

Angus Young wrote:

Cody wrote:

This is one of the problems I have, I tend to work up a lil sweat then soon as I get home, crave food, or slightly crave food.

Angus Young wrote:

This is not a problem. It's what's supposed to happen. I eat way more when I'm exercising than when I'm not. And I still lose wait.

Yh, but are you losing the amount of weight you want to lose by doing all this cycling and post ride eating, or is it just a tiny bit every few weeks and are you happy with the results?

I'm really struggling with diet at moment, my mum cooks currys all the time and I've had them since I was 5 years old, but I tend to have a lot of veg currys with the occasional meat or chicken curry once a month or every 2 weeks. I have wholegrain brown flour chapatti to go with it. I'm surprised I don't weigh a lot because people who tend to eat currys in their mid teens early adulthood tend to put on weight, I've stayed relatively medium size with a small belly. But I'm at 12 stones.

You know I'm quite comfortable eating 2 meals a day and exercising but will occasionally have a 3rd small healthy meal in between if I really have to, like a tuna and pasta salad from tescos or a carrot and corriander soup with mackarel and leak or just have a smoothie.

I've tried chinese food, when I use to eat meat a lot 4 years ago, it's quite nice but very rich in the sauces, i couldn't breathe the next day.

Cody

RockmonkeySC wrote:

If it's cold then keep pedalling to stay warm.
On Monday the max temperature was 1 degree but I was warm enough in just baggy shorts, my summer lightweight armour and a nice light freeride jersey.
If you want to ride the weather shouldn't put you off. I have had some great rides when it's been so cold (-10ish) that my camelbak tube has frozen, gear cables have frozen and I have had ice forming on my face but the grip on the frozen trails was incredible.
Maybe it's time to put your bike on ebay and sell it to someone who will use it as god intended.

No, I'm not selling it. I paid over £600 for it, so I'm going to use it. I don't want to be an idiot at this age, I've gone past that phase when I was 15. I mentioned before, I'm a do it and do it properly type of guy. Just that I haven't kept it up like some of you have. My routine isin't exactly great and isin't always outdoors, it's sometimes in the car or walking but, I will make an effort and will do it sooner than later.

On my last bike I bought from Halfords, the cog teeth snapped during it's first 6 weeks and they said it was because I was riding on one gear the whole ride for days on end but they replaced it free of charge. I do think my boardman is a little heavy for the price I paid but the carrera was lighter.

Angus Young

Cody wrote:

Yh, but are you losing the amount of weight you want to lose by doing all this cycling and post ride eating, or is it just a tiny bit every few weeks and are you happy with the results?

More than delighted with the amount of weight I've lost. I've lost count of the number of people who've commented on how much better I'm looking now. That surge of hunger you get post exercise is your body telling you what it needs.

Cody wrote:

like a tuna and pasta salad from tescos or a carrot and corriander soup with mackarel and leak or just have a smoothie.

A tuna and pasta salad is just what you need. A pasta and tuna salad from Tesco is just what you don't need. The supermarket pre-made salads tend to be loaded up with all sorts of unhealthy dressings to make them more appetising which defeats the purpose of eating a salad in the first place. Usually the same with the pre-made soups.

rockmonkeysc

Apart from they prayers your routine is no worse than the rest of us. Most of us have to plan rides to fit in with wife/husband/lover and kids/pets/gimp and find the time to drink beer, eat pork products, watch porn and have relations out of marriage. Actually, you probably have lots more free time (and money) than the rest of us.

Angus Young

RockmonkeySC wrote:

Most of us have to plan rides to fit in with wife/husband/lover and kids/pets/gimp and find the time to drink beer, eat pork products, watch porn and have relations out of marriage.

Thank you, I've just realised how exciting my life is!

rockmonkeysc

I forgot we also need time for blasphemy, adultery, gluttony, sloth, etc, etc, etc
It all adds up. Plus the bible says a man who lies with another man should be stoned so Angus and Cooldad have to spend time buying and smoking drugs.
Cody, you don't know how uncompleted your life is.

Cody

RockmonkeySC wrote:

Cody, you don't know how uncompleted your life is.

When I get married, the 2nd half of my life will be complete. In the meanwhile I'm focusing on my spiritual side which but at a steady pace aswell as balancing work life out aswell. I want to travel abroad in my independant life at least 2-3 times a year with my wife and enjoy being with her and the kids we will have (god willing). Yep, I'm still a virgin and I somewhat love it and there's disadvantages aswell, but maybe being pure till marriage is a good thing right? keeps me away from doing bad things yeh.

Sometimes it's tempting for many of us to commit fornication and have intercourse with unmarried women because they are just immoral women and are almost everywhere you go day and night but, it's all about learning self control. Spiritual people have a greater amount of control when it comes to these things but, we're just human at the end of the day, we falter, but when we do we don't give up, we stand up and carry on. It's all about refining character and being involved in making progress and reaching a higher level of understanding and conscience, this is what the spiritual life is all about.

Cody

Angus Young wrote:

Cody wrote:

Yh, but are you losing the amount of weight you want to lose by doing all this cycling and post ride eating, or is it just a tiny bit every few weeks and are you happy with the results?

More than delighted with the amount of weight I've lost. I've lost count of the number of people who've commented on how much better I'm looking now. That surge of hunger you get post exercise is your body telling you what it needs.

What were you before and what are you now, lets say in last 3-6 months how much have you lost? and how do you maintain it? can you go for weeks without exercising and still not put any weight on or?

Angus Young

Cody wrote:

What were you before and what are you now, lets say in last 3-6 months how much have you lost? and how do you maintain it? can you go for weeks without exercising and still not put any weight on or?

No idea, don't weigh myself. Weighing yourself is a waste of time. Just look in the mirror. That will tell you all you need to know. And, no, without exercise I put weight on.

rockmonkeysc

Cody wrote:

When I get married, the 2nd half of my life will be complete.

The words of an unmarried man!
When you get a wife, will you ride her? Or can we expect a new thread about whether you should keep her or not?

Cody

RockmonkeySC wrote:

Cody wrote:

When I get married, the 2nd half of my life will be complete.

The words of an unmarried man!
When you get a wife, will you ride her?

As an attractive unmarried man of 26, I will not be answering that anecdotal bovine feces of a question. :shock:

Cody

Angus Young wrote:

Cody wrote:

What were you before and what are you now, lets say in last 3-6 months how much have you lost? and how do you maintain it? can you go for weeks without exercising and still not put any weight on or?

No idea, don't weigh myself. Weighing yourself is a waste of time. Just look in the mirror. That will tell you all you need to know. And, no, without exercise I put weight on.

Yh I noticed the difference when I started riding a month back. I don't have a weighing scale but noticed a significant amount of weight loss from the face within a week, was eating 3 small meals a day and pre-ride a glass of fruit smoothie and post ride a glass of smoothie or a 3rd meal. For me the problem is, once ya start eating, and if you don't enjoy eating a lot, you got to keep it up and exercise at same time to lose the weight.

My brother who trains 3-4 times a week in the gym, can go for 4 months without exercise and not put any weight on except lose a little fitness which he gains back in no time. I honestly don't know how he does it.

So this begs the question, what does one do if he doesn't enjoy eating 3 meals a day but still wants to lose weight and gives up eating 3 meals after a few weeks or months then goes back on on a basic diet of 2 meals of nutritional value and of 1400 calories a day?

rockmonkeysc

Cody wrote:

RockmonkeySC wrote:

Cody wrote:

When I get married, the 2nd half of my life will be complete.

The words of an unmarried man!
When you get a wife, will you ride her?

As an attractive unmarried man of 26, I will not be answering that anecdotal bovine feces of a question. :shock:

It was intended as good natured forum banter, don't blow a gasket. Anyway, what's you being (in your opinion) attractive got to do with it???

Cody

RockmonkeySC wrote:

Cody wrote:

RockmonkeySC wrote:

Cody wrote:

When I get married, the 2nd half of my life will be complete.

It was intended as good natured forum banter, don't blow a gasket. Anyway, what's you being (in your opinion) attractive got to do with it???

Do you hate me because I'm sexy?

mxp27824

Cody wrote:

Sometimes it's tempting for many of us to commit fornication and have intercourse with unmarried women because they are just immoral women and are almost everywhere you go day and night

Could I ask, just out of interest, mind, where it is you go day and night? I think I might be living in the wrong area, by the sounds of it.

Cody

mxp27824 wrote:

Cody wrote:

Sometimes it's tempting for many of us to commit fornication and have intercourse with unmarried women because they are just immoral women and are almost everywhere you go day and night

Could I ask, just out of interest, mind, where it is you go day and night? I think I might be living in the wrong area, by the sounds of it.

very funny.

Cody

What do you guys think of this stuff, it's a new drink consisting of nutrients in powder format which the body needs in order to function without having to eat food or cut out on some food each week so instead of having 3-4 meals a day you could have 1 or 2 and drink Soylent as a replacement. It's a product called Soylent invented by some Americans using natural ingredients purchased online but as more and more money rolls in for the creators of Soylent more organic farms can be produced to make Soylent ingredients even better. Don't know if you cyclist enthusiasts think it's a good idea and worth promoting but, seems like I could do with some it looks delicious and tempting. Please spread the word if you think it's a healthy product but I think you should watch the video, some interesting and innovative people out there in the world.

Here is a link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8NCigh54jg

Angus Young

Cody wrote:

What do you guys think of this stuff, it's a new drink consisting of nutrients in powder format which the body needs in order to function without having to eat food or cut out on some food each week so instead of having 3-4 meals a day you could have 1 or 2 and drink Soylent as a replacement. It's a product called Soylent invented by some Americans using natural ingredients purchased online but as more and more money rolls in for the creators of Soylent more organic farms can be produced to make Soylent ingredients even better. Don't know if you cyclist enthusiasts think it's a good idea and worth promoting but, seems like I could do with some it looks delicious and tempting. Please spread the word if you think it's a healthy product but I think you should watch the video, some interesting and innovative people out there in the world.

Here is a link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8NCigh54jg

You'd have to be a complete moron to chose this over eating a sensible diet.

Cody

Angus Young wrote:

Cody wrote:

Here is a link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8NCigh54jg

You'd have to be a complete moron to chose this over eating a sensible diet.

I haven't weighed up the pro's and con's. From watching it all I assumed they knew what they were talking about. But I don't suppose you could tell me? Do you think it's a waste of money? The doctor in the video thinks so, but then again she's only saying that because if she agrees with anything then it goes against what she learnt in school.

Angus Young

Cody wrote:

Angus Young wrote:

Cody wrote:

Here is a link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8NCigh54jg

You'd have to be a complete moron to chose this over eating a sensible diet.

I haven't weighed up the pro's and con's. From watching it all I assumed they knew what they were talking about. But I don't suppose you could tell me? Do you think it's a waste of money? The doctor in the video thinks so, but then again she's only saying that because if she agrees with anything then it goes against what she learnt in school.

You're looking for a magic bullet. There's no such thing.

Cody

Angus Young wrote:

Cody wrote:

Angus Young wrote:

Cody wrote:

Here is a link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8NCigh54jg

You'd have to be a complete moron to chose this over eating a sensible diet.

You're looking for a magic bullet. There's no such thing.

yh decided against it, they don't ship to United Kingdom. So, I'll let it pass.

cooldad

You do know Soylent Green is people?

Angus Young

cooldad wrote:

You do know Soylent Green is people?

I only watched the first minute or so and I couldn't decide if they thought their name was cute or if the whole thing was going to be a spoof. Wasn't interesting enough for me to stick around and find out.

cooldad

But I'm sure you aren't obsessive about your 'small belly'.

I don't think our sad friend understands the meaning of the word natural, or he'd be eating cyanide and arsenic, washed down with hydrochloric acid.

All perfectly 'natural'.

cooldad

But a more sensible counter argument to liquidised cr4p in a bottle - bacons.

Cody

cooldad wrote:

But I'm sure you aren't obsessive about your 'small belly'.

I don't think our sad friend understands the meaning of the word natural, or he'd be eating cyanide and arsenic, washed down with hydrochloric acid.

All perfectly 'natural'.

Yh, I'll be honest. In 2006 I use to cycle every day for 8 months whilst I was renovating my dads new house which we all now live in, and I didn't have a belly and was 9 stones. However, when I stopped cycling, within 2 months I inflated from 9 stone to 12 stone. and grew a small belly. I couldn't believe it. How do you explain that then, because I can't.

robertpb

I can explain it you ate too many calories for the amount of calories you burnt.

If you were laying flat on your back for 24 hours without moving or talking you would burn about 1800 calories. So if you gain weight and you are just walking about with not much exercise you'd have to be consuming over 2200 calories to gain weight.

My breakfast which is homemade muesli of oats and a lot of nuts comes to around 1000 calories, so by the time I've had my other meals and other bits and pieces I've eaten a fair few calories. But I still weigh 61 kilos and have done so for the last 44 years.

I avoid fruit juice like the plague, eat the fruit it's better. Good food comes in it's own packaging not in a cardboard box.