British Expatriate Network

Just finished servicing and prepping the bike for the winter and wondered if anyone else here rides a bicycle?

Where we live it really is a viable form of transport to go small trip food shopping (with a good messenger bag) and to have a few hours out and ride along the sea fronts both here and Santa Cruz. The area we live in is very bike friendly.

So show us your bike if you have one! I love mine...



Andrew :)

Don't ride a bike any more. This is a photo of my first bike,

Yes. Not as often as I'd like and I do not have a special costume for it. (shock) and I rarely bike to actually get somewhere. I mostly ride with the kids, often taking just the two big two-wheelers on longer faster local rides than the new two-wheeler can do. We spent the summer biking to the pool. I used to ride to the school bus stop with the boys, wheeling Hebe's bike alongside. Now, Hector comes home on the same bus and I haven't yet mastered the art of wheeling 2 bikes while riding on a bumpy dirt road. ( I have a Raleigh mountain bike which is maintained on an as needs basis ;) Our camping equipment purchase this summer was a bike rack for the car, so we hope to do a lot more biking in future.

Is that you in the picture as well Keith?

Very cool image.

Andrew )

I bought just like this except for the colour (mine is Red) from Craigslist for $100.
It was owened by another English guy who was returning to Europe.

My wife and I pootle around on the bikes in the Summer. Central Park is five minutes on the bike. My wife cycles to work in Manhattan too.

I'm a big user of bikes and cycled to work in London for the three years before I moved here.

Keith - where is your Hovis bread tray?

don't get out much, but both the wife and I bike the D&R canal here in NJ, we also have some great parks ski resorts in summer to bike donw (never up ) )

Yes, every day to andfrom work (Unless it's actually snowing at the time I leave!)

I'm not posting a picture though, as its a Walmart clunker razz

I have a bike but rarely go out for a ride on it these days. I only used it for riding the trails here as the roads are too hilly, curvey and dangerous.

I don't live in a bike friendly area. sad I haven't been on a bike since I was in 8th grade! shock

I had a yellow schwinn (girl) bike with a banana seat (brown with yellow flowers) and a basket on the front, that I used to put my stuffed animals in. I miss those days. I'll have to dig a picture out. very late 70's/ early 80's.

Unless it's one of these, I'm not interested:



I would cut someone up if it meant me getting one of these bad boys...

Omg, VRB, you bought back some major memories for me. I just LOVED my chopper. Mine was extra special 'cos my friends dad owned the toy shop and somehow managed to get me one with an extended extra long back rest. Bright orange with the extended back rest - you know how jealous all the kids in the flats were when I cruised by on the way to the sweet shop. :roll:

Oh, I was sooo proud. Those were the days my friend. :mrgreen:

I've got two very nice peugeot touring bikes sitting in the garage. But the roads around here are too scary to ride on.

We've had a few cyclists get killed, people just drive too crazy. shock

I've got a mountain bike that came from some store like Wal-Mart (but not actually Wal-Mart as I hate them) and it's called a Magma. It would probably last about 2 minutes on a mountain or offroad but on the street, I find it pretty good. Ironically, there is a really good mountain bike out there called a Magma but I don't have that one.

For the money (paid about $20.00 for it with store manager's discount a few years back) it was quite a bargain.

I used to have one of these but it was yellow (what was left of the paint after my brother had handed it down anyway):


Raleigh Chipper

I love my bike but I dont have a picture of it. I wish I could ride it to work but 7 miles each way in the heat and humidity here would probably kill me (plus I don't travel on any bike friendly roads either)

I do ride around the roads here in our town and surrounding areas at the weekends and in the evenings but now with the time change its more difficult as it is almost dark when I get home from work.

Bike riding is cool mrgreen

Have been meaning to start a discussion on this subject for ages - I ride a bike all the time, but lately its been scary. Where we were living in DE there were tonnes of cycle lanes, but these would be full of chelsea tractors etc.. using them as turning lanes. I made a point of cycling everyday, now we are in Baltimore and the roads are safer, tho there are loads of places to walk so i've been doing that instead this last week. Cyclings all very well but only seems to keep you fit below the knee's. Love it tho and wouldn't be without mine, thoughtfully donanted by mrs servalan after we were married.
Drivers here are slightly ignorant of what a cyclist actually is though, so keep your helmet with you at all times and make sure its nice and shiny so they can see you.
Also, i've noticed that people on bikes here don't have any lights at night, is this normal?
cheerio.