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Woo Hoo! Biked over 100 km in one day, for the first time ever! * 1
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I love the Netherlands. I have not biked or owned a bike for over 20 years before coming here. Literally my last bike before that was when I was 5, then nothing. Came here, started using bikes again (due to the awesome lanes and sweet flatness) and now I'm happy to say I just biked over 100 km, packed with all my stuff.

8 euro bike that I got from a junkie, one brake working (somewhat) and my huge suitcase roller thingy strapped to myself with the bike chain, probably looked like a hobo moving :lol:

This is the route, and I got to see plenty of nature, birds, horses, foresty forests, fellow bikers and helpful Dutch people helping me find my way. Great experience, recommended :thumbup:

The way I started was at first in-city biking, then Leiden to The Hague (20 km) then Leiden to Amsterdam (42 km) then Amsterdam to Utrecht (40 km). I didn't know for sure that I could make the 100, but hell yeah, it worked! Next, the Moon :lol:

I know it's no world record or anything, but given the amount of depressed inactive people posting in this section, I figured it's a good time to celebrate small victories :biggrin:


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Blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear.



For truly, I say to you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see, and did not see it,
and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it. - Matthew 13:16

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Re: Woo Hoo! Biked over 100 km in one day, for the first time ever! [Re: Spacerific]
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Awesome! But if you're not used to all the exercise, you're going to be rather sore and stiff tomorrow when you wake up.

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Re: Woo Hoo! Biked over 100 km in one day, for the first time ever! [Re: Le_Canard]
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ToiletDuk said:
Awesome! But if you're not used to all the exercise, you're going to be rather sore and stiff tomorrow when you wake up.


Actually I saw that coming, so I made sure I was well rested, and listened very well to my body, gave it breaks when it asked for em, paced myself, and am now happy to say that I have absolutely zero sore muscles (the next morning).

I did do some running and biking around before, moderately, so I wasn't jumping the horse here. Very good way to get around and detox and stuff.

Now the friend that I am staying with, actually pimped up my bike properly. I now have breaks that work (and don't sound like a train, grinding metal on metal :lol:), new pedals, bike bell, proper cargo holder in the back for my luggage, it's a beauty to behold :thumbup:


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Blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear.



For truly, I say to you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see, and did not see it,
and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it. - Matthew 13:16

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Re: Woo Hoo! Biked over 100 km in one day, for the first time ever! [Re: Spacerific]
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I'll be waiting for you on your route.

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Re: Woo Hoo! Biked over 100 km in one day, for the first time ever! [Re: EdibleStereos]
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EdibleStereos said:
I'll be waiting for you on your route.


I'll very likely get lost and be pretty far off from my planned route but yeah, happy waiting :lol:


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Blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear.



For truly, I say to you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see, and did not see it,
and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it. - Matthew 13:16

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Re: Woo Hoo! Biked over 100 km in one day, for the first time ever! [Re: Spacerific]
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Congrats - it's rewarding getting out for the day and doing something other people find difficult to comprehend. By all means, 100km's isn't extraordinary, but it is out of reach of many/most people.

Unpleasant on a beater bike IMO. (I'm a bit of a bike snob.)

I highly recommend doing some overnight and/or extended trips on your bike sometime, if you have the opportunity - sounds like bike touring would be right up your alley.

I am interested in doing some bike packing (offroad touring) once i return to my hometown (surrounded by secluded wilderness) at the end of the summer.


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Re: Woo Hoo! Biked over 100 km in one day, for the first time ever! [Re: PDU]
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I agree, bike touring and night riding sounds like a lot of fun, now all I have to do is find the right biking buddies or a nice bike trippy girl to ride with, and I'm off :biggrin:

Below is a photo of me arriving that night, posted to show the awesome quality of the bike (not :rofl:) and the irresponsible amount of luggage I was hauling.



Notice the black cable going around the big bag, that is actually the bike chain strapping the bag to myself, I locked it across my chest, so that it wouldn't fall off to the left or right (which it tended to do, a lot). The contraption was reasonably secure, but meant that each time I wanted to embark/disembark I had to use the keys, take off the first backpack, etc. I was extremely proud of myself for coming up with this kind of in-the-field gremlin engineering :lol:


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Blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear.



For truly, I say to you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see, and did not see it,
and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it. - Matthew 13:16

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Re: Woo Hoo! Biked over 100 km in one day, for the first time ever! [Re: Spacerific]
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Very nice route! You could do that again in fall and look for liberty caps along the way :awesome:


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Re: Woo Hoo! Biked over 100 km in one day, for the first time ever! [Re: woaronun]
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Don't tell me you have those little plastic doohickeys on your spokes that go up and down and make a cool ass noise as you ride!  Or do they light up?  Either way :rockon:

And that is definitely something worthy of celebrating. 

I love putting 50+ miles in on the bike on a beautiful day out in the country where you don't have to worry about traffic or anything else.  It gives me such a free feeling, and it doesn't hurt stopping for breaks at a few wineries on the route for a glass or two at each place.  If we didn't have shitty weather today I would be out there now, but will have to wait until some better weather.

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Re: Woo Hoo! Biked over 100 km in one day, for the first time ever! [Re: dodgem]
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woaronun said:
Very nice route! You could do that again in fall and look for liberty caps along the way :awesome:


That my good man, is exactly what the plan is for fall, assuming I'm still here :biggrin:

dodgem said:
Don't tell me you have those little plastic doohickeys on your spokes that go up and down and make a cool ass noise as you ride!  Or do they light up?  Either way :rockon:


Well this is an 8 Euro bike that I bought from a junkie, and it came together with the colorful hippie thingies on it. They do make some sound as they go up and down, I myself like it and find it meditative, others may differ, I don't know :shrug:

On the back wheel there's a green diamond shaped thingy that lights up and as the wheel spins, it makes a green light circle. I've been told (when tripping) that it's nice for fellow trippers to focus on as they ride along. I suspect it leaves some bitching trails or something :lol:


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Blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear.



For truly, I say to you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see, and did not see it,
and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it. - Matthew 13:16

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Re: Woo Hoo! Biked over 100 km in one day, for the first time ever! [Re: Spacerific] * 1
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Spacerific said:
Well this is an 8 Euro bike that I bought from a junkie, and it came together with the colorful hippie thingies on it. They do make some sound as they go up and down, I myself like it and find it meditative, others may differ, I don't know :shrug:

On the back wheel there's a green diamond shaped thingy that lights up and as the wheel spins, it makes a green light circle. I've been told (when tripping) that it's nice for fellow trippers to focus on as they ride along. I suspect it leaves some bitching trails or something :lol:


I got really excited/jealous when I saw them because I haven't seen them in ~15 years.  We used to have them on our bikes when we were kids, but haven't seen them since.  Same with the light things.  You got a hell of a bike for 8 euros :hi5:

I tried a google search to find them  :dancer:



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Re: Woo Hoo! Biked over 100 km in one day, for the first time ever! [Re: dodgem] * 1
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dodgem said:
Spacerific said:
Well this is an 8 Euro bike that I bought from a junkie, and it came together with the colorful hippie thingies on it. They do make some sound as they go up and down, I myself like it and find it meditative, others may differ, I don't know :shrug:

On the back wheel there's a green diamond shaped thingy that lights up and as the wheel spins, it makes a green light circle. I've been told (when tripping) that it's nice for fellow trippers to focus on as they ride along. I suspect it leaves some bitching trails or something :lol:


I got really excited/jealous when I saw them because I haven't seen them in ~15 years.  We used to have them on our bikes when we were kids, but haven't seen them since.  Same with the light things.  You got a hell of a bike for 8 euros :hi5:

I tried a google search to find them  :dancer:




Aww man, you totally made my evening with this post, I am now extra proud of my little space bike :lol:

In the meantime my mate and I installed a cargo platform on the back and also a big ass basket crate thingy, and so now it fits a ton of stuff on the back. I will probably be able to just park it somewhere and straight up use the cargo area as a painting easel. It's developing to be quite the massive DIY contraption :rofl:

Oh and it seems dealextreme / dx.com seels those valve lights as well. Apparently I have something like this.


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Blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear.



For truly, I say to you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see, and did not see it,
and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it. - Matthew 13:16

Edited by Spacerific (06/02/14 07:58 PM)

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