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Subject: Advice 4 Novices - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 24-Aug-84 14:10:00 EDT
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Nf-From: uiucuxc!usadaca    Aug 24 13:10:00 1984

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uiucuxc!usadaca    Aug 24 13:10:00 1984

does anyone have recommendations, experience or other seriously helful
hints for a real novice who desires to get into biking...purely recreational.
like, what are good bikes to buy? 10 speed? 12 speed? 15 speed? my wife
and i are seriously considering biking to and from our respective work
sites during the more clement months here in cemtral indiana. and yes, we are
both out of shape and somewhat overweight. aa doctor friend who is a real
cycling nut, but is on sabbatical somewhere in new guinea, has urged us
to take up cycling as a way to increased healtiness...but, he is not available
for advice for at least the next year...we plan on surprising him when he gets
back by taking him for a scenic ride on the back roads of hoosier-land.

since we are both admittedly overweight, and the normal biker appears
to us to be about 19 and weigh in at about 120 lbs, and the bike looks
like its made of rather unsubstantial stuff...what about weigt capacities?
can these things really carry persons who tend more towards the 200 lb range?

what about those skinny little tires? how prone are they to flats, bending,
mosalignment and other conditions that would tend to strand one in the
middle of the toollies?

and seats...really, now, are they designed for comfort or for increasing
the profits of the preparation H people?

please, if you reply to this, be kind. as one other netter has put it...

we all started with training wheels...to which i might add

some of us just started later that others! thnx in advance!