Alain
Plop
- Oct 8, 2019
- 31
- 41
Hello everyone!
Thanks for accepting me in this group. French guy, stuffed with an Asian face, arrived in Tokyo in Spring 2019.
Beginner rider, I rented some bikes whenever possible during my various travels through Japan. When I could have some nice bikes to travel all day long, the virus started to infect me. Here I am now living in Tokyo and still willing to travel by bike. I now would like to be able to travel multiple days, say 5 days, while covering some 70-ish km per day. This might look like some light-touring. Increasing my biking distance step by step, I recently did a 50km ride. Damn, I was hungry but also confident that I can go further.
I currently have a second hand bike (Grandir sensitive with a Shimano Tourney --__--) to know what I want in a bike and starting to shape myself (and also because I did not have much money when freshly arrived in Tokyo ^^). I have to say I currently have my eyes on the Giant Content AR 2.
Another reason to improve my endurance is my hyperthyroidism (I already tried a treatment and cannot have another treatment now nor soon). I believe that some exercise would help to reduce the tachycardia induced by the hyperthyroidism and would help me to feel better. I am then not aiming for speed but rather steady long rides. If anyone here also has a thyroid issue, I'd like to hear their experience in riding.
What I am looking for in this site:
- Learning about riding: technical stuff about bike, recommended equipment, way of riding, maintenance and stuff. I enjoy discovering technical and detailed things and that apply to bikes as well.
- Routes suggestion and why not participating in some rides !
Thanks for reading so far and happy ride to all!
Alain
Thanks for accepting me in this group. French guy, stuffed with an Asian face, arrived in Tokyo in Spring 2019.
Beginner rider, I rented some bikes whenever possible during my various travels through Japan. When I could have some nice bikes to travel all day long, the virus started to infect me. Here I am now living in Tokyo and still willing to travel by bike. I now would like to be able to travel multiple days, say 5 days, while covering some 70-ish km per day. This might look like some light-touring. Increasing my biking distance step by step, I recently did a 50km ride. Damn, I was hungry but also confident that I can go further.
I currently have a second hand bike (Grandir sensitive with a Shimano Tourney --__--) to know what I want in a bike and starting to shape myself (and also because I did not have much money when freshly arrived in Tokyo ^^). I have to say I currently have my eyes on the Giant Content AR 2.
Another reason to improve my endurance is my hyperthyroidism (I already tried a treatment and cannot have another treatment now nor soon). I believe that some exercise would help to reduce the tachycardia induced by the hyperthyroidism and would help me to feel better. I am then not aiming for speed but rather steady long rides. If anyone here also has a thyroid issue, I'd like to hear their experience in riding.
What I am looking for in this site:
- Learning about riding: technical stuff about bike, recommended equipment, way of riding, maintenance and stuff. I enjoy discovering technical and detailed things and that apply to bikes as well.
- Routes suggestion and why not participating in some rides !
Thanks for reading so far and happy ride to all!
Alain