On 14 Aug 2015, at 16:32, Malcolm Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Some time ago I was asked how to find out what weight a cycle would take by > two of my friends, who were overweight. They were both tall and suspected > they may have to lose weight first. As cycling is low impact exercise on > joints, I thought it made sense for them to cycle as soon as possible, > especially as you see improvement quickly. I lost 30Kg myself in 2010 by > adding cycling for an hour or to my day for six months and cutting out > snacks.
That's very impressive. I've found that cycling 6-7 hours a day across France has a similar effect and you still get to eat snacks :0) > [...] > > Most good quality metal frames (Reynolds 501 and above with the exception of > 753) will have a top end weight of 125Kg. Many metal framed mountain bikes > are about the same, but don't expect to do anything other than normal easy > cycling at the top limit. [...] I'd have thought a decent mountain bike would take more than that, given the stresses involved in dropping off a mountain. Something with 29er wheels would also probably suif a tall person better than 26" wheels. > > Many cargo bikes take 150Kg (and in fact my friends bought two of these - I > think the Kona Ute?), but all the weights are all in, so for the cargo bike > that's the rider, shopping and anything else you may be carrying. > > This is just a FWIW posting, but there are lots of very overweight folk in > society which decide to use cycling to lose weight (a good thing should they > so choose to do lose weight that way), but are often sold unsuitable cycles > for the job. I would have thought there was a market for stronger cycles, or > at least the information about any weight limit should be up front in big > print. A catastrophic frame failure on the go is never going to be a good > thing. However, my 'research' as such is 4 years old and I hope the industry > has moved on. > Indeed. Not everybody would be able to afford this, but for anyone who could I'd recommend having a made-to-measure frame built by an experienced framebuilder. A round-the-world bike designed for fully-loaded touring in rough countries would also be a good choice I think. B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
