In the Beginning...

Just like most of you, I learned how to ride a bike when I was a kid, maybe 5 years old but I didn't take up cycling as a hobby until I was about 40.  I had taken up running/jogging when I was about 30 because I had become somewhat overweight and out of shape and needed to start exercising.  I later added some weight training and the got into cycling to add some variety.

Over the past several years I've learned quite a bit about cycling and bicycles from a lot of different people and sources and so I thought that I would try to impart some of what I've learned here.  With some frequency I get questions like "What bike should I buy?" or "Is this a good deal for a bike?"  Most of the time my answers are some flavor of "It depends...".  So I'm hoping to create a source for beginners to start out.

Over the last several years, maybe even decades, it seems that bicycles and cycling have become more complex, almost to the point that they may not seem all that fun.  I don't think that this needs to be the case so I'll try to decode and demystify some things.  I'm not going to tell you what to do or what to buy but I think that I can provide some opinions that might help you make your own decisions.  Please realize that the articles I provide here are going to be heavily subjective to my opinions and that there are going to be a lot of cyclists who disagree with me on many things.  My opinion is not any more valuable than that of others so I would encourage you to find those other points of view and come to your own conclusions.

So Let's go...