So I bought a cheap mountain bike today

[Red coupe]

That means you save energy/calories.

Not really. Does not matter if your on a kids bike, time trial bike, or a 60lb mountain bike... Speed and paint color have no effect on calories burned or progress made towards any kind of fitness.

It is only about how hard you are working.
Your basing your assumption on the fast that your basing your effort on speed... If you really wanna ride, or if your seriously going to talk about burning calories you should be exerting yourself at a given level regardless of speed.

You can change the bike all you want, unless your changing what you are doing your really just going to be going faster or slower.

You can't honestly tell me that if I run for 20 minutes just shy of my lactate threshold that I will burn more calories on a mountain bike then a hybrid.


And honestly, for anyone like me... your going to burn more on a faster bike. Faster bikes push you to push harder. No one will kill themselves to make a wallmart mountain bike go as fast as possible, because its just not worth it. When I first got my road bike I notice it tired me out WAY quicker then my old bike simply because it was fast enough to encourage me to pedal faster/harder...

[Razi]

^troof.
I started pushing for speed more often on my road bike than I ever did on my mountain bike.

I even used to try to beat my old top speed on a straight piece of road on my way back home.

[Kompresshun]

I took the bike out for a 2 mi ride tonight, seemed to do just fine. I got my cell phone mount and new water bottle mount today, so I wanted to give it a good run to try out my tracking app. I logged 2.3 mi and an average rate of speed of 16mph.

I was surprised that it didn't wear me out nearly as much as I expected, time to go hit some trails I believe

[Jesda]

I bought the EXACT same bike last year. It did its job well and helped me lose a good bit of weight. I had to do some adjustments to get the brakes working and the gear shifts were clunky, and it started to make some faint squeaking sounds. Otherwise, despite the weight, it was to me worth more than the $90 I paid. I'd recommend it to anyone who wants to dink around with biking before getting serious.

I sold it for $50 after my mom got me a Trek for my birthday.

[Kompresshun]

^That's my plan pretty much, well except that I doubt somebody will buy me a replacement for a gift, the fam is cheap. I still am planning on dropping at least $250-300 on the next one though, maybe more.

I didn't realize you bought the same one though, I only remember you getting the Trek. I know I spent a good 45min looking at all the bikes, I'm pleased with it though.

Jesda, have you tried the Move! Bike Computer app for Android? I've been using it so far to log my trips and for a speedometer, it does the job pretty well so far.

[Jesda]

Havent tried any biking apps. I have a Cateye cycle computer but an app to measure and log my activity would be pretty cool. How much is it?

[Kompresshun]

Its free, which is one of the main reasons I got it. Plus it had better reviews than the paid ones.

I had planned on getting a bike computer, but I'm glad I thought to check for an app now. I also can play music in the background as well and it won't interfere with the app, so I can control the music with my Bluetooth headphones. it's turned out to be a good little setup for free