Thanks to this website I completed a MTB Marathon today.

[SEATALTEA]

It's that simple, I wanted to get fit again after back problems and thanks to advice on this website bought a Mistral for commuting.

It snowballed, I bought a MTB for pleasure, continued to commute and upped my MTB route often to 18 miles a day.

Today I completed a gruelling, muddy, moorland 26.3 mile route over the Pennine hills, scared myself silly flying down deeply rutted tracks, carried the bikes over areas impassable to anything with wheels and wore myself out climbing stupidly steep ascents.

I did the Jelly Baby, bannana, porridge, Lucozade with caffeine thing too (lucozade with caffeine really works fyi).

If someone had said in June when I started the hunt for an electic bike that it would lead to this I would have fallen off my chair.

So thanks to all on the forum, you have changed my life.

 

[flecc]

Well done SEATALTEA, that was a really tough challenge to take part in.

Love the food list, enough to give a dietician a fit.
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[moon]

Aww yes this forum has changed my life too, I am so much fitter, happier and more mobile since getting my bike in May.

I feel like a completely new person.

 

[Rad]

That's brilliant Seataltea. Very encouraging reading. Well done mate.

 

[davidw]

Like Moon I too am a fitter happier person since I got my e bike, a Gazelle, in May. It is not just a bike for me but much more a magic carpet, . Thanks to the arthritic hips etc of old age I struggle to walk as far as 100 yards. To my continuing amazement and delight I have so far cycled 650 miles, some in the undulating countryside of Extremadura, Spain and the rest back here in the northern Pennines which is not the most cycling-friendly terrain - it doesn't undulate round here, it sort of just goes straight up and down!
So I too join in congratulating Seataltea on his achievement and in thanking all the forum members for their encouragement and support. Without you none of this would have happened.
David

 

[Bigbee]

All seated at group meeting,each person stands up in turn and says " my name is xxxxx and Im an ebiker"

 

[essexman]

Congratulations! Thats great that the ebike gave you the in!

PS In defence of Dietitians (note the Uk spelling), its highly unlikely they'll ever speak to someone like SEATALTEA. And if they did they say good choice, that pretty close to my wifes touring cycling diet. The wife being a dietitians.

 

[flecc]

PS In defence of Dietitians (note the Uk spelling), its highly unlikely they'll ever speak to someone like SEATALTEA. And if they did they say good choice, that pretty close to my wifes touring cycling diet. The wife being a dietitians.

I was only teasing!

Dieticians of any spelling or persuasion aren't famed for agreeing with each other though, as the regular promotion of conflicting advice shows only too clearly.
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[poppy]

A new person, too!

Let me join those members who thanks to this forum (and Flecc, whom I pester every other day) have gotten away from the armchair, if only for an hour/hour and a half a day. I don´t feel much fitter and I haven´t lost weight. What´s worse, I´m still smoking, though sifgnificantly less. But after my daily ride I feel somewhat like I´ve willingly done a sort of duty to myself. Pity that I haven´t yet decided what should be my definitive bike.
But I´m sure that with your collective help I´ll get myself The One. It would have been tje Pro C. if the Spanish rep would´nt demand 2.800 euros. At least 800 euros more expensive than through 50 Cycles.