Why the fuck aren't you guys taking spin classes yet? >great

>>41872719
There are none in my gym.

>>41872742
Go to a separate studio that is dedicated to spin classes only. They are everywhere in suburban and urban areas.

>>41872719

>500-800 cals
>They claim to burn more than what a regular man burns running a 10k.
>all in like 30 minutes of screwing around on a stationary bike

Is this kid fucking serious

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>>41872719

>Intense cardio for more than 10 minutes

It's like you don't want gains.

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>>41872762
Kek, check this shit out. I was only 24/50 as well.

>>41872762
I'd guess the classes are longer than 30 minutes. 800 calories in an hour of biking is not unrealistic at all for a guy.

Also you're a faggot if you do spin classes. Riding an actual bike is great low-impact cardio and is fun, but group classes of any sort are top tier faggotry.

>>41872800
fuck stationary bikes indeed

I'm also a contrarian asshole who can tolerate neither the Middle Aged Men in Lycra, nor hipsters

throw on some gym trunks, t shirt and cleats. get on a fixed gear road bike, not a monstrosity, and pedal a good cadence for a long time. outstanding workout, skip the cycling computer bullshit

>>41872821
>fixed gear
No.

>>41872800
>>41872821
>>41872782
Enjoy your beer bellys and wondering why girls don't take a second look at you
>b-but muh gainz!!!1!!

>>41872855
what the fuck does cardio have to do with anything
>>41872845
i said not a hipster monstrosity. have you ridden any serious distance fixed wheel? it will beat your ass

>>41872821
Fixies will fuck up your knees. I built one a few years ago and put a freewheel back on it after I got tired of riding a meme bike.

I ride a single around town but go full bike nerd and ride a carbon bike on serious shit. There are a lot of century rides near me and I did the MS150 a couple weeks ago. Feels less faggoty wearing the whole getup when you're hauling ass over a long distance like that.

>>41872719
>Give me one good reason why you don't take spin classes
I enjoy the cool wind of the beach while biking.

>>41872875
>Fixies will fuck up your knees
not if you put a brake on it, unlike a moron

>>41872719
OP is correct
I took some spin classes recently. Fuck loads of hot, fit women. Max of like 3 guys.

>>41872719
I dont like doing group cardio, makes me look like an idiot.

>>41872875
>I ride a single around town but go full bike nerd and ride a carbon bike on serious shit
also, my point: proven

fixed wheeling, fantastic training tool that improves your capacity on rides with shifters and does not restrict you from owning more than a single bicycle

>>41872916
Agreed. Riding single (fixed or otherwise) makes you a stronger rider, especially on hill workouts. I didn't get my carbon bike until I started doing group rides and realized it was something I enjoyed enough to want to invest in. Going to a lighter, geared bike took literally a minute off of my average mile time.

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>>41872996
>your post
>all of my this


but let me say: look I'm not trying to be a cocksucker to you, there's just nothing a singlespeed freewheel does that either a fixed cog or a freewheeling cassette doesn't do better

men far better than me have written about this at length

what do you wear to this shit

same as gym clothes?

>>41873064
I had already dished the wheel out to fit a single cog so a single speed freewheel made more sense. I still have another fixie I built up with the intention of selling to a hipster retard at a profit. Just not that into riding fixed anymore.

You don't sound like a cocksucker but we're on the same page here.

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>>41873112
on wheelbuilding: well yeah, you weren't gonna convert that wheel to take a cassette, and fuck multigear freewheels

>Just not that into riding fixed anymore.
there's that too, even saint sheldon says if you try it and don't like it then Just Don't Do It

holy shit, a disagreement on 4chan ends with no one anally annihilated.

yeah, unlike the rest of the consumer public, you fit your tools to your problem: being social and doing group rides

i did the same thing, but i'm too autistic for fitness that involves other humans. i run alone, i go for extremely long and fast walks, and if you bicycle alone and it's not fixed then it is a terrible workout. (as the joke goes, i in fact don't even lift)

I'm too autistic for exercises I can't do alone: think Christian Bale in "the big short"

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>>41873170
Totally understood my man. You seem limr a cool dude. There's a certain kind of peace you get riding alone that I haven't found elsewhere. I don't run, but I imagine the feeling is similar amongst runners.

As a bonus: Ive gotten into bike camping recently and built one up for the purposes of it with a gear setup you might find interesting. Just finished it yesterday. Pic related.

Cromoly frame with a long wheelbase, 26" wheels with the intention of setting it up to carry a lot of weight. There's a 7 speed cassette on the back with a chsin tensioner I can move in or out. It runs as a single, but if our route that day is flatter I can move the tensioner cog in or out to run a different gear and change the ratio. It was mostly an experiment to see if it would work, but I'm actually loving it so far.

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captcha is an omen of peace between all anons

>>41873250
I used to tour, multiple gears are defo useful for that
>carrying shit from point to point is, emphatically, NOT my cup of tea, even though my home board is /trv/

559 rims are awesome. Surly has a decent rant about how slight wheel differences can't make you much faster or slower. (I think they even call their blog section "rants"). as a /fit/izen, you should see through a lot of the shop bullshit: bicycling is all about the wizard, not the wand

my only whip's actually an experiment, too: http://eehouse.org/fixin/fixmeup.php
I'll get the parts back on a proper frame sooner or later, but again, I'm just spinning a lot lately: 46/17, 700-28c Schwalbes ... finally blinged on Phil hubs (I'm a shop guy, vanity rarely gets me, but when it does, it gets me hard)

>>41873070
Yep normal workout clothes. I usually just wear a t shirt and basketball shorts.