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"that cycling a lot will wear out your knees and hips prematurely." Can you define what you mean by "a lot" in both number of years and typical time spent? Typ

• jacquesm 11y ago
  Younger years: 100's of km/day easy on old fashioned race bikes, later on anything from recumbents to hand built bikes specifically for my size. All in all I wore out about 6 bikes over the years while maintaining them very well in the intermediate. I quit riding hard at 27, but I've never been without a bike and I'm still quite fast just don't have the endurance any more. If I do more than 100 km (a bit more than 3 hours riding) I will know about it the next day. Not in a debilitating way, just a strong reminder to not overdo it. My current regular bike is a bike my son built for me that is best described as a trek bike with some oddities and my current recumbent is a zephyr. I don't ride the zephyr a lot because it is very dangerous in traffic to be that low and fast. And then there is the 'daddy bike', an upright with two child seats, fully loaded (bike, two toddlers, me) > 120 kg. It takes a while to get that up to speed but once it moves it is quite easy to ride.