Where do I start with cycling? I come from a running background and I recently started cycling due to an injury. My longest rides as of now are 15 miles in 1.5 hours. I hope to cycle a century in a few months or so. But I’ve only been using a random bike that I’ve inherited.
What bike should I buy? My budget is 600 - 800$ and I only bike on road and flat surfaces. I have no idea on what brands or what parts are good. Should I get fitted at a bike shop? Should I build my own one?
Also, is overtraining a thing in biking? In the running world, injuries are pretty easy to get if you increase mileage too quickly but I’m not sure if this applies to biking aswell. Is there some sort of program that builds you up to ride for longer similar to Couch to 5K (C25K)?
I too have shit roads around me. Full of potholes, littered with broken glass and goats head thorns. Flats were a way of life. When building a new set of rims last year I decided to try tubeless. The set up is a pain, but I havent gotten a flat since and I have pulled thorns, staples, and glass out of my tires and watched it seal itself right up with only a couple of psi lost. Side benefit is that I can run a lower psi too so it’s a more comfortable ride.
I like my bottom brackets square tapered, my shifting friction, and my brakes actuated by wire, but tubeless won me over.