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A friend of mine did this
A friend of mine did this over the last couple of years, along with adding resistance training. He’s about 6’ (1.8 m) tall, has gone from about 280 lb to 180 lb (20 st. to 13 st./130 kg to 80 kg), and looks and feels much better. He’s about 50 years old and has also eliminated several medication as a result of the changes he’s made to his life.
Still trying to get him on a bike. He cycled a lot in his teens and early 20s.
I ride fasted regularly, and
I ride fasted regularly, and have even bike commuted (9 miles each way) during a 24+ hour fast. An hour ride, maybe two, is no problem, and if you’re truly keto adapted and can limit the effort, you can do it for 6+ hours.
The only trouble I’ve run into was:
- Keeping up with a fast group while fasted. After about four hours I was really starting to bonk. I was riding above what I could sustain from converting fats to ketones. Stopping for a snack (mostly) fixed it.
- If it’s hot, and you’re not eating, you need adequate electrolytes in your drink for a 2+ hour ride. I thought I was getting enough from drinking sports drinks, but with heavy sweating they have less than half the electrolytes needed. I should have bought the packet of crisps I was craving when we stopped at a shop.
My current strategy if riding fasted is to still carry carbs and, in hotter weather, electrolytes, and either start consuming them after 2-2½ hours if it’s a high effort ride, or just keep them for as needed if riding alone or with a slower group.
Will Missus Squirrel know or care if you’re eating Percy Pigs on longer rides? They’re not going to your waistline if they’re able to go straight into your pedals.
Unfortunately, for every
Unfortunately, for every person who comes on here saying “don’t bellow ‘CYCLIST PASSING ON THE LEFT/RIGHT’ “, there’s another who will come on asking us to please yell “ON YOUR LEFT/RIGHT” louder as they have trouble hearing us. And for some reason pedestrians don’t wear tabards with written instructions to cyclists on the back so we know who wants what treatment.
On a cycling Facebook page I’m on we had, within a week, two non-cyclists join just to post long rants that I can summarize as:
- You cyclists need to announce yourselves, you startle me when you ride past even if you give me a lot of space.
- Why do cyclists always announce themselves? It’s obnoxious and it startles me. Just ride past.
Grimsby teenager sentenced over 100mph police chase ending in crash
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-64809523
However:
At Grimsby Crown Court, he admitted dangerous driving and was jailed for 12 months, suspended for two years.
And only a two year driving ban?! With another useless “extended retest” meaning: see if you can go a couple of hours without doing anything naughty.
It would be like taking away the right to own knives from an armed robber, but then giving them back if they can pass a culinary knife skills test. Or at least cut up a few veggies without stabbing any bystanders.
They recommend cyclists use the 14-mile diversion…are there really so many cyclists that they’re going to clog up all those minor roads, which are probably what the cyclists are normally mostly using anyway?https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/cheltenham-news/a435-closure-14-mile-diversion-8198055
A bit misleading. It’s only a 14 mile diversion if your destination is just at the end of the closure. If you’re starting or ending in the Cheltenham city centre, the diversion adds maybe 6.5 miles.
I still wouldn’t take it, though. There appear to be loads of minor roads that go through, the shortest adding less than two miles.
I eat dried fruit and gummy
I eat dried fruit and gummy candies, which seem to be fine for me. Really, he’s just going to have to experiment to see what he can safely use.
My stomach isn’t extremely sensitive, but if I have my normal avocado at breakfast it’s not a good idea for me to go for a ride right away.
I flag obvious ebike or car
I flag obvious ebike or car activities on Strava, but I don’t go looking for them and I’m certainly not going to end up with the KOM after doing so. I’m reasonably fit, but my times on climbs are fairly consistently double the time of whoever has the legit KOM.
They’re at least $50 (about
They’re at least $50 (about £42) here in the USA. Of course I pay a lot more for my René Herse tyres, but I’m worth it.
The only downsides I’ve found
The only downsides I’ve found with tubeless are the faff of setting it up, which isn’t bad once you’ve done it a few times, and the occasional slow leak that makes me have to add air to a tyre before every ride. I had to do that almost every day last week before leaving work, a bit annoying, but it only takes a minute with a mini pump.
The flip side is that in 13,000 miles (20,000 km) on the one bike I run tubeless I’ve had to add plugs twice, and once just top up the air, mid-ride on the side of the road. This is an order of magnitude better than my experience with tubed tyres, but I’ve never run an expensive armoured tyre like a Marathon Plus.
I’m running very light 650B x 48 mm René Herse tyres.
Can
Can
Mostly cans.
Mostly cans.
Try one first. It can
Try one first. It can certainly help if one of you is a much stronger rider.
Just keep in mind the age-old wisdom about riding on a tandem: wherever your relationship with your boyfriend is going, the tandem will get it there faster.
ShutTheFrontDawes wrote:
When you slap hands with another person, do you call it a ‘high four’? Or do you call cut off gloves ‘fingerless and thumbless gloves’? When you were little and asked to ‘use your fingers’ to count, could you only get up to eight before you had to stop?DOOR MIRROR!
ChuckSneed wrote:
Sorry, I don’t like to post pictures of my bike because last time I did it ended up getting stolenGood thing you didn’t post a picture of your private parts!
It looks like the sue-happy
It looks like the sue-happy US legal system might make a lot more bollards show up in front of 7-11 convenience stores. The numbers are pretty wild, it averages out to about once per store over a 20 year period.
The case was the first in which attorneys had access to some 15 years of reports from 7- Eleven, which identified some 6,253 storefront crashes at 7-Eleven stores across the country, Power said. Data from a previous lawsuit against the company identified another 1,525 crashes between 1991 and 1996. The crashes could have been prevented if 7-Elevens had installed bollards — thick posts anchored in the ground — between storefronts and parking spaces, Power said.