The New Mountain Bike, Working Out the Fun Way!

Back in October I had bought a Walmart “Next Nitro” mountain bike. Well that bike lasted three weeks before the rear frame spring and rear sprocket busted. I realized it was not made for anyone that planned on using the bike so I took it back for a full refund.

I found a Schwinn website and found a reasonably priced mountain bike and found a bike dealer, “Wheels on Wheels” in Santee (my community). I went to the local bike shop and met the shop owner, Dan Plummer who gave me more information about the mountain bikes but told me that he did not normally sell them. He (Dan) explained that mountain biking is a speciality type of expensive bike and that many people buy them out of a catalog or Internet to save money.

Dan was happy to order a bike and assemble it for me. He explained that if I ran into issues – I could have the warranty work done at his shop since I bought it from him. Here is a picture of the bike this morning as I was getting ready to take it on my first ride!

This bike is far better than the Walmart bike. First it has a hard-tail, meaning there is no rear spring. I am not ever going to race or go too fast so a hardtail is better for me (less to go wrong). The bike has easy fire shifters and disk brakes (I did not know bikes came with that).

I took the bike on the same trail that destroyed my other bike and the Frontier GSD held up wonderfully. The seat adjusted higher so my knees did not hurt. The only thing I am going to have to do is trade seats. The stock seat is billed as trail tuned but my butt is not trail tuned! I have alot of cushion so I am going to put a wider seat with more cushion on it onto the bike.

I am very happy with how low geared the bike is becuase if my legs were stong enough – I would have been able to ride up all of the trails. I mostly like the harder trails and am quite willing to mix riding and hiking. I was out for a couple of hours but the time seemed to fly by. No making myself workout like I might have had to do if I was going to pick up the weights.

I hope you too can find something that will be enjoyable while you work out too. Hang in there and get a good workout!