{"id":2689,"date":"2013-08-30T21:51:10","date_gmt":"2013-08-31T02:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/?p=2689"},"modified":"2013-09-17T15:12:17","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T20:12:17","slug":"life-bike-six","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/life-bike-six\/","title":{"rendered":"LIFE BIKE SIX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bike clothes deserve an entire chapter along with bike seats. \u00a0Let&#8217;s talk about clothes first.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Womens-Padded-Classic-Cycling-Bicycle\/dp\/B000Y0HBEE\/ref=pd_sim_sg_3\">Bike pants<\/a> are tight and they are foam-lined where the seat hits the road&#8230;so to speak. \u00a0Bike pant color comes in black. \u00a0Summer bike pants go down to the knees and have elastic to make certain they don&#8217;t ride up. \u00a0It&#8217;s important that bike pants stay exactly where they need to be and provide some cushion. \u00a0I had to find bike pants that would fit my immense body. \u00a0The link that you see here shows a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.terrybicycles.com\/Apparel\/Shorts\">normal bike rider<\/a> like I had to ride with all the time. \u00a0Thin women! \u00a0Most road bikers are young and thin. \u00a0I don&#8217;t look anything like my fellow road bikers. \u00a0I hope to look reduce the size of my bike thighs, but first I need to cloth the present body. \u00a0Amazingly, I found bike pants to fit me! \u00a0I found them in a local bike store. \u00a0I was able to get them on my body with only minor tugging and tummy cramming. There is hope for us! \u00a0Summer bike pants are short and winter bike pants are long. \u00a0I found winter bike pants too. \u00a0Shocking!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.terrybicycles.com\/Apparel\/Short-Sleeve\">Bike shirts<\/a> are loud and outrageous in color. \u00a0Bikers like to be very visible out on the highway. \u00a0We like it when cars see us. \u00a0Bike shirts are fun. \u00a0They are longer than a T-shirt and have elastic around the bottom. \u00a0We like our bike shirt to stay secure. \u00a0Most shirts have pockets on the back. Road bike people ride those bend-over handle bars and their back is the handiest place to have a pocket for energy foods.<\/p>\n<p>Bike seats. \u00a0There can be a lot of pain with a bike seat. \u00a0Accordingly, inventors have invented a wide variety of bike seats. \u00a0It&#8217;s all about pressure. \u00a0I think I&#8217;ll leave it at that. \u00a0I ended up with a total of four different bike seats before I found the one that could take me long distances. \u00a0It&#8217;s all about pressure. \u00a0The bigger the seat, the more the pressure is spread out. \u00a0Some of these seats have removed the more serious pressure points. \u00a0Enjoy looking!\u00a0I wonder what happened to all my prize bike seats.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Schwinn-No-Pressure-Bicycle-Seat\/dp\/B000DZGLVY\/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1379445253&amp;sr=8-4&amp;keywords=bike+seats+for+women\">Bike Seat<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Planet-Bike-Womens-Standard-Anatomic\/dp\/B0015RASS6\/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1379445253&amp;sr=8-6&amp;keywords=bike+seats+for+women\">Bike Seat<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hobson-Easyseat-Ergonomical-Bicycle-Saddle\/dp\/B000GBK4Z4\/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1379445992&amp;sr=8-10&amp;keywords=bike+seats\">Bike Seat<\/a> I did purchase #2 and #3, but ended up with a wide gel seat. \u00a0Spreading out the pressure was the secret for me. \u00a0If you have nothing better to do, reading the reviews for men&#8217;s bike seats is sort of fun. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/review\/R1T6J1FKFVJV1\/ref=cm_cr_pr_viewpnt#R1T6J1FKFVJV1\">Go ahead read a review.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gloves: \u00a0You must wear gloves when you ride a bike to help with the pressure. \u00a0Gloves have gel support for bike riders put a lot of weight on their hands. \u00a0We don&#8217;t use most of our fingers, the pressure is on hands. \u00a0These gloves have been long developed to put gel where it is most needed! \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/CoolChange-Shockproof-Mountain-Tri-color-Optional\/dp\/B00AH7WOHS\/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1379446217&amp;sr=8-5&amp;keywords=women+bike+gloves\">These gloves will give you the idea of pressure points on the hands.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is nothing too humiliating in this story, other than that thought of a Rubenesque red-haired woman perched on a two joined gel-filled thimbles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bike clothes deserve an entire chapter along with bike seats. \u00a0Let&#8217;s talk about clothes first. Bike pants are tight and they are foam-lined where the seat hits the road&#8230;so to speak. \u00a0Bike pant color comes in black. \u00a0Summer bike pants go down to the knees and have elastic to make certain they don&#8217;t ride up. \u00a0It&#8217;s important that bike pants stay exactly where they need to be and provide some cushion. \u00a0I had to find bike pants that would fit my immense body. \u00a0The link that you see here shows&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-biking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2689"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2777,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689\/revisions\/2777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}