Cycling Tips For Overweight Cyclists
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Here is recommendation for a bicycle for a heavy cyclist. ALL ALLOY WITH NO CARBON! :) A hard tail 29er mountain bike with an alloy frame from Merida, Cannondale, Trek, Giant, Specialized or Orbea from a good bike shop will suffice. Make sure you get the shop to give you a bike fit before you leave the store. Mark all your measurements with a white out pen ie seat height, saddle angle/fore/aft, cleat position, handlebar angle etc. This way if anything slips you have a reference point to go back too. Drink enough water so you are hitting the bushes every 2 hours. Your mates might call you 'walnut bladder' but your recovery will be peak and so will your blood volume. cycling tips *Drink a litre of water before breakfast each morning. *Drink enough water during the day so our urine is clear and at least 10times a day. If its yellow or straw, we need to drink more. *Eat unlimited amounts of your fav carb sources. Be it rice, potatoe, corn, millet,pasta etc. Snack every hour or 2 on something high carb, low fat like butter/marg free jam sandwichs, dried fruit, fresh fruit. Carb up to keep up. Many people undereat carbs and get heaps of fatty stuff and then wonder why motivation drops. Its all about keeping daily glycogen stocks high. Real high! I find that fruit is the ultimate fuel before, during and after exercise so thats my staple everyday of the year. *Eat 10g of carbs per kg of bodyweight as a daily minimum. Even on recovery days. When exercising for over 1hr, eat 1g of carbs per kg of bodyweight per hour. *Keep fatty greasy food away and keep high carb meals in bucket sized bowls to stay. High carb,low fat vegan/fruit based raw vegan diets best serve athletic function. *Set up camp before sundown so you can make sure your not camping on an ants nest and get a wake in fright response at 2am. I like to sleep in really natural settings away from drunks. Ive talked with Heinz Stucke in Belgium 2003 and in 23 years of cycle touring he has never had one issue camping out. He says 'I camp where nobody goes..'. *Mark your seat post and handle bars to make sure they dont slip over time and give you knee/back issues. Use a white out pen. *Get fitted up before you go by a good bike fitter. Use the white out pen again. Mark your cleats too if your using clip less pedals. *If your riding a mountain bike, get some 'ergon grips'. * Slap a mirror your bike. I use my uber light race bike with a bob trailer or carradice 'slim' depending on the trip. Mirrors are handy when you are wearing ear phones and listening to tony robbins over and over. It aint aero but its safe. *Get out the saddle every few minutes for a few seconds to let blood flow be proper. I learnt this riding from Adelaide to Perth. Its 2800km and virtually flat for 2100km of it. Your gonna have moments when you want to scream. 99% of the time this is cos we are undercarbed/dehydrated/underslept. So when we want to freak out, just carb/drink and rest up for an hour. Cry if you have too, but dont let it get in the way of eating more carbs, drinking more water or having a nap. *Remember that they call head winds head winds cos its just in your head how you decide to feel about them. I see a stiff head wind as a fitness builder vs a day wrecker . Its just a choice in the moment. *Remember that the journey is the gift, not the destination. *Remember that happieness is ONLY experienced in the present moment. Not when you get some food, not when the rain stops, not when stop for the day..happieness is just a choice in the moment and only experienced NOW! *Get heaps of rest. Eat lots of carbs before your hungry, drink water before your thirsty. Take lots of photos. Talk to lots of people. Make days to remember the rest of your life. Be in the moment. Be nowhere on the road to nowhere. original http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rhl_dZy3c4
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I was stoked to start riding until the bike shop told me it would run $1500 - 2k for a decent setup. No way can I afford that. Depressing really
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I purchased a low-end Trek hybrid with 700 cc wheels at a little over 330 lbs. It was light enough to make road cycling still efficient for me. I admittedly snapped a few spokes while losing about 50 lbs. but the bike held up just fine otherwise. At 280 lbs a purchased my Specialized Diverge Sport A1. It is a drop-bar road bike that is "beefy" enough to do reasonable trail riding. I have had ZERO issues with my Specialized, even after temporarily gaining back 15 lbs over the holidays. I continue to lose weight and improve my fitness. I started out riding to lose weight. I now work on losing weight weight to improve my riding.
You do not have weigh sub-200 lbs to have a drop-bar road bike as many "purists" would have you believe. -
I'm very overweight but I want to start riding. but the weight is because of pure muscle. is there anything to watch out for for cyclists with this physique?
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A large friend of mine bought a Giant MTB. The bike shop put some 40 spoke tandem wheels on it for him. Seems to be working out.
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Hello Durian and people in the comments! I weigh around 108-110 kg, but I want to get a mountain bike that only suppprts 105 kg, as mentioned on the website. If I ride it now, am I in the risk of having the fork snap in two if I get on or go over a rock with it? It is a normal fork suspension. Please give me an answer.
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f you've never tried to use a bike AS A FAT PERSON, you really can't offer good advice about it. A bike that's just stronger but built the same isn't going to work. It isn't going to be safe. There's a guy at the University of Colorado who has a project going to build the first bike made for the obese. They're thinking of things like ease of getting on and off, and the brake requirements to stop safely--things that bikes with higher weight limits don't consider.
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agree 100% on the bike advice. the diet is all wrong though. vegan sucks fat balls.
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but a gt will be the best
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Any steel frame bike will suffice. I'm fat as fuck and I got a $89 bike from Walmart and it's working just fine all I did was swap the pedals and the seat and its holding me up and I'm almost double it's weight limit. ( btw I've lost 70lbs ) You don't need to spend a lot to get into I'd wait till you're closer to your goal weight to look into a more costly bike in my opinion.
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so i bought a specialized globe commuter bike. been riding for 2 months and dropped 15 lbs. ill keep at it. hang in there.
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Eat lots of carbs?? As an obese person? Diabetes is the number one cause of obesity. Obese diabetics eating lots of carbs means enormous insulin spikes and all that carbs going directly into stored fat, and instead of giving them energy it makes them extremely tired and sleepy. Lol. Carbs=DEATH.
I'm 6' and was around 130 kg, type 2 diabetic. (Poor insulin sensitivity, so my body makes way too much insulin) But managed to get to a slim 250 lbs. by biking up some huge hills which required ENORMOUS intensity for long periods of time, 6 days/wk. I ate pretty much whatever I wanted, pizza, ice cream, etc. I just looked at calories/day. I found that extreme exercise is the only way to improve insulin sensitivity. -
ever think the reason an overweight person is on a bike was to loose weight ?
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great tips i really learned a lot.
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as soemeone who started riding 4 months ago and was 137 kilos when I started I'm 6'3) I used a mountain bike, now I use a roadbike and I have no problems even though I'm still over 100 kilos, doesnt really matter in my opinion just get started
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i am 6'5 255 and over 40 yrs old. . I was 280lbs. I have a 30 yr old Schwinn sierra hybrid 26 in tire old school hardtale that sells for about $40 bucks on ebay. I eat meat vegetables and no carb. Fuck being hungry. You also don't need all this modern stuff. You need desire. If I can do it anyone can.
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I weigh 350kg I'm 6,4 and been on a bike for a few months....This guy is rite any over weight people looking to get into cycling go for a hard tail bigger wheel size the better...Top tips from personal experience 1 get a good gel seat.2 get metal pedals the plastic ones will break and fall apart.3 make sure you pump your tyres up to the max pressure as stated on the tyre side wall...This will stop pinch flats and the bike will roll a lot easier...don't worry about what people think and say...and you will get the comments from car windows as they drive past....but just think about this every time you ride that bike you will probably be adding a extra day on to your LIFE.
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I weigh 340 lb, and I desperately want to start riding a mountain bike. My son is wanting to get into it and I have always enjoyed watching it. I loved riding bmx style bikes when i was younger and in better shape. Not BMX like you see on here with tricks and jumps I just mean i used to love to ride. Your advice seems very helpful. The last time I thought of getting a bike I got on it and the tires went nearly flat. So, I never tried again because it made me feel bad and embarrassed. Is there a way around that? Do you think maybe they weren't aired up properly? It was in a K-mart or Wal-mart. I cant ride with tires nearly flat, it's very embarrassing. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.. Thanks.
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Great video and thread, I'm 144kgs and 5'9. I got a great deal on a scott 2014 720 genius, I'm worried I might hurt the bike. It's due to arrive in three days. Reading some of the stories here is real encouraging, thanks for sharing.
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why not recommend a road bike for a heavy rider?
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I used to weigh 250 lbs. when I started riding to work a few years back. I got more and more into cycling but the weight didn't come off at all until I switched to a plant based diet (read "Thrive" by Brendan Brazier). I lost 70 lbs. over a couple years and my cycling got really good. Doing my fifth double century later this month. This guy is giving good advice. In addition to a hardtail 29er or a hybrid (what I used to ride) I think a cyclocross bike (like a road bike but meant for racing in mud and dirt) would work well for overweight riders. WIth my panniers I'm carrying a lot of weight and my cyclocross bike is an excellent and fast commuter. You can ride wide slick tires that will absorb a lot of shock and you won't be breaking many spokes (like you would on a conventional road bike) but you'll be looking like you're riding a road bike with the drop bars (which can always be adjusted with a different stem if you're worried it'll be too tough on your back). When you're weight comes down and you want to start riding road bikes you'll be used to the same sort of shifting and hand position on your bars. Keep in mind that cyclocross bikes typically come with smaller crank rings and you won't be able to keep up with speedy road bikers unless you put a bigger ring on your crank.
I do know really heavy guys who ride road bikes. I think they typically make sure the wheels have very strong spokes (especially the rear wheel) and accept the fact that they're going to have to replace spokes and get wheels trued more often.
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