Buy a bicycle that makes you want to ride it. If you get to the point where you no longer want to ride it, trade it in for another one that you do.
I can’t overstate how important it is take care of your mental and physical health. In fact, I would say that this is far more important than buying a house. Your mind and body are your primary home.
No suggestions because I’m not your doctor and have no idea what would or would not be a potential risk. Just wanna say that damn, that sucks. I really feel for you.
You should definitely ask a qualified expert. I would think swimming might be a good option though. As well as being good exercise it can also be really pleasant and relaxing to just float and play in the water.
It’s time for this silliness to come to an end. You must ride a bike. We all must. It’s not a weird fringe form of transportation that only people in Portland and Colorado do. It’s just simply the way we all get around for moderate intra-city distances.
Ah yes, because we all live in areas where everything we need to access is a moderate intra-city distance away.
A better critique would be lack of ability or safe routes, since many workarounds are needed to allow kids and those physically less able to get around by two wheels.
The vast majority of adults travel within 10km of their homes for most errands, which is definitely possible to hit with an analog bike. Ebikes can enable making double that distance easy.
That being said, even in actually rural areas where you are biking on a narrow shoulder with 50kph+ traffic next to you 20km each way in 0°C temps, many that don’t have other options still bike, so really it’s a preference for comfort/safety not lack of ability stopping most.
Buy a bicycle that makes you want to ride it. If you get to the point where you no longer want to ride it, trade it in for another one that you do.
I can’t overstate how important it is take care of your mental and physical health. In fact, I would say that this is far more important than buying a house. Your mind and body are your primary home.
I miss riding a bike. I used to ride or [inline] skate or skate[board] everywhere as my primary modes of transport.
My oncologist told me that my osteopenia and osteolytic lesions mean that I must never ride a bike again, or skate, or even jog, in case of pathologic fractures.
If you have any suggestions, they’d be welcome.
No suggestions because I’m not your doctor and have no idea what would or would not be a potential risk. Just wanna say that damn, that sucks. I really feel for you.
You should definitely ask a qualified expert. I would think swimming might be a good option though. As well as being good exercise it can also be really pleasant and relaxing to just float and play in the water.
Always follow yourdoctors advice. There is a lot of snake oil out there that sounds good but will kill you.
To put a finer point on it, riding a bike is incredibly important for all sorts of economic and lifestyle reasons, not just for your health.
Ah yes, because we all live in areas where everything we need to access is a moderate intra-city distance away.
Nobody except you said “everything”.
I could change it to “anything” and still make the same point.
A better critique would be lack of ability or safe routes, since many workarounds are needed to allow kids and those physically less able to get around by two wheels.
The vast majority of adults travel within 10km of their homes for most errands, which is definitely possible to hit with an analog bike. Ebikes can enable making double that distance easy.
That being said, even in actually rural areas where you are biking on a narrow shoulder with 50kph+ traffic next to you 20km each way in 0°C temps, many that don’t have other options still bike, so really it’s a preference for comfort/safety not lack of ability stopping most.