How did you spend (or not) your gubbamint stimulus...
Posted: July 12th, 2008, 10:49 am
I mentioned before that we were getting a quad bike. it came yesterday. took most of the afternoon yesterday de-crating it (it was shipped, fully assembled):
My wife and I took it for a spin, rode it nearly 3 miles. Had to make a few adjustments for stride length for each of us, and brake placement. all in all, it was fun, safe (for us), and an exercise.
we'll prolly just ride it around our inside neighborhoods, before riding to the store and stuff. I counted that for the first ride, we had only seen 5 cars on the road we rode, and in housing area's, we may have exceeded their speed (they didn't come rushing up behind us, as example). I need to keep a closer eye on the bike-computer (speedometer).
all in all, we are very satisfied with the investment. we will get much more use out of them than the 'bents we bought a 4 or 5 years back. With those, we only rode them on the trails, so it was a challenge getting them there, as I had to load them in the truck and get there first. with this, we can just back out of the garage, and ride!
My wife and I took it for a spin, rode it nearly 3 miles. Had to make a few adjustments for stride length for each of us, and brake placement. all in all, it was fun, safe (for us), and an exercise.
we'll prolly just ride it around our inside neighborhoods, before riding to the store and stuff. I counted that for the first ride, we had only seen 5 cars on the road we rode, and in housing area's, we may have exceeded their speed (they didn't come rushing up behind us, as example). I need to keep a closer eye on the bike-computer (speedometer).
all in all, we are very satisfied with the investment. we will get much more use out of them than the 'bents we bought a 4 or 5 years back. With those, we only rode them on the trails, so it was a challenge getting them there, as I had to load them in the truck and get there first. with this, we can just back out of the garage, and ride!
