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i rode my bike about 23miles and im wondering how many calories i burn in all and how many calories you burn every mile while biking?..what burns more fat biking or running?

it depends how fast you were going

What is the best way to ride outdoors? Hilly or level ground? What is the best bike, mountain or street for exercising?

Well with "maxium" being your point then: frequent, long, hard, hilly rides on either mountain or road bikes will make you exercise at your max.

Remember exercise is exercise. What bike you do it on only matters to the point that it is comfortable for you and allows maximum effort.

Now if you’re talking about more than you asked, let me add this: I mountain bike (trails) and road ride. If you ask me what takes more out of me, then I would answer a trail ride. But if you asked me what type of riding can I control more, provides flexibility and allows customization, I’d say road riding.

Both are great but MTB riding can be hard on your body and limited more by muddy trails etc. Also, MTB rides are what I term "on-demand". That is on a trail you react quickly and constantly to a super wide variety of terrain and conditions. In road riding you can be more proactive, you can select many different routes etc. Road riding offen allows you to rest if you feel the need, this is rarely true in MTB riding.

Personally, if you want to be able to highly control many aspects of a work out – road ride. If hard riding is hard riding to you then MTB ride. Better yet do both, they work your body a little differently and it’s a great way to keep your work out fresh.

For example i am very good at riding a bike..and i ride across hiway exits and entrances and sometymes ride in traffic if i have to..and i am very good at predicting traffic and riding where safe n watching out for myself..does this mean that i will be good or a little bit better than a person that is starting out driving a car because i have "expert" bike experince

Yes, you said right…
infact i came in reverse way… when i tried to learn bike for the first time, i didn’t get the coordination betweeen driving ,gear changing, slowing down etc.i left it and went for car driving and learnt perfectly in 3 days(coz we won’t fall down from car).After learning car driving(infact it is easier than bike acc to me) only i understood the bike.

What song would be good in a pocket bike riding home video?, i made a movie of my mate and i riding our pocket bikes around town, what would be a good song?, its gotta havea bit of additude to it, abit of metal, maybe a bit of rock,… really i dont know, please help me pick one
thank you

Tiptoe Through the Tulips
By Tiny Tim R.I.P.

"What song would be good in a pocket bike riding home video?"

That is seriously homoerotic.

I’m 23 and 220 lbs. I just bought a bike to start biking the mile and a half (uphill) to my work to exercise and save on gas money, but because it’s all uphill, I can’t even make it the whole way there. Even as a kid, I was never into bike riding, I rollerbladed everywhere, so I feel like those muslces were never strenghtened. Any suggestions?

Squats, calf raises, sit ups. These will all strengthen your core and your legs which is what you use to get up that hill to work. All this working out might not really be worth it though.

Working out is hard and boring. What you should really do is go out and ride that bike of yours on the weekends. That is the best way to strengthen biking muscles is to bike. Biking can also be fun if you go for a long bike ride somewhere that has nice scenery and fun to ride. You will be making up that hill in no time. And you will be able to enjoy the outdoors and get in some exercise at the same time.

Bet that ride home from work is fast and easy though huh. lol

good luck and happy riding

I am about 5′8 143lbs. How many calories do you think a person loses while bike riding?
say 2-4 miles at a time.
The sites u recommended don’t work.
The 2-4 mile bike ride is on top of a daily walk and 100-150 sit ups a day.

Try this site:
http://www.primusweb.com/fitnesspartner/calculat.htm

So I got a colostomy reversal surgery in September, stayed in the hospital for a month and a half, two weeks ago had granulation tissue taken out because it caused alot of bleeding. Now, suddenly more blood has been coming out of my butt and I’m not sure why..
A "cyclocross bike race" is coming up on Sunday. I’m wondering if I should lay low on the bike riding? Because It might be causing the bleeding to be worse? I’m not quite sure.

You need to have a colonosopy done to see what’s going on in there. I wouldn’t wait to long either. Forget the bike riding because if I recall the seats are skinny and that’s the worse kind for you. Apparently the Surgeon didn’t do a good enough job of sealing the tissue. Wishing you the very best young lady, that’s a situation you don’t need to be in. If nothing else, get another opinion of your problem. Good luck.

What does the walking and bike riding do for my body?

I walk from school and I ride my bike, just because I like to ride my bike.

I’m a girl, if that makes any difference.

Yeah it’s good for you!!! Walking and biking are considered cardio and it keeps you fit while burning extra calories every day. It’s good that you are doing an activity you love. Try other sports like soccer, swimming, or even jumping rope or dancing! Every time you move your body, it counts.

You know bike culture is growing continuously even though slowly when you start to see more and more recumbent bicycles on the highways of a place like NY City, previously one of the most notoriously bicycle-unfriendly places around and still host to irritable drivers and hostile policemen.

It has for a while been recognized a reclined rider position, together with the frame geometries 100% unique to that situation, make for better aerodynamics and much quicker speeds so fast, actually the land record for speed in a human-powered vehicle is held by a recumbent bicycle.

So fast, in fact , that early on bicycle races banned recumbent because of the design’s inherent advantages . After winning a few races, it became quite clear that, all else being nearly equal, a recumbent rider was sure to triumph each time. And so the recumbent quickly faded from preferred view and has been banished to mostly home-built designs.

But cycling is kind of the rage in Europe, particularly the more socially progressive states like Germany and Holland. In Germany, there’s even a town which voted to ban all car traffic to the fringes of the city, while in the Netherlands there are numerous more bicycles than autos on the road on any given day! And so it is that in these nations the recumbent bicycle has found reasonably prevalent adoption, and the trend looks to be catching on even in a rough place like New York.

Recumbents, or bents for short, can be found in several different designs, from low-riders that look just about as if the individual is laying down supine to choppers that almost seem like classic motorcycle designs. In reality ‘bents’ are a lot more sundry than regular bicycles ( AKA uprights ) are, which is 1 explanation why they aren’t yet as widely supported by bike shops in the United States.

Learn more about bike culture. Stop by www.articleblue.com where you can find out all about recumbent bicycles and what it can do for you.

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what benefits does your body get from riding a bike? does your butt shrink or get more firm and tone?

I would think that it would firm up the butt because your muscles in your thighs are being toned. I’m not sure if it would make it shrink, but I hope not. I think that a nice juicy butt looks the best.