Before and After Cycling

I've met loads of people on the forum who have pretty cool stories about how cycling has changed their lives in small or major ways. I thought it'd be cool if people posted a before cycling and after cycling photo with a short bit of blurb so that others may laugh at us and call us "big fat fattycakes". This is not a boast post thread and not all about weight loss. I hope it will inspire at least one person to get on a bike and enjoy themselves. In the spirit of self scarifice, I'll go first.

I recently came across some photos of me from a few years back and was surprised to see how overweight I was. Not to mention the train wreck of a shirt that I was wearing. I was smoking over 20 a day, drinking easily 50 pints a week and quite frankly spent my life either being ill or hungover. At least part of this changed.

I was very athletic at school, both playing basketball and swimming at national level but when I left, I stopped sport and found the student union. My girlfriend at the time helped me get into running (I couldn't managed 30 seconds without stopping) and the weight started to drop away bit by bit. Eventually, she dumped me not long before our wedding day and I felt compelled to start cycling to clear my mind and get some solitude with the help of my forumenger brother Jallaphanti. (very abridged story).

Anyway...'nuff about me.

Here's me BC...

...and here's me AC...

Anybody else?

^I'd have hit it before...not sure now

You couldn't afford me beeeeeeatch!

20 snout would have probably done it...

Since cycling I have lost no weight, a lot of my hair, my beard's going grey, I now need reading glasses and I have broken a metatarsal, a collarbone and a wrist, and I seem to be friends with bicycle obsessives I met on the Internet.

It's fucking unhealthy I reckon.

cool story bro.

I have that Hawaiian shirt

Before:

After:

Yep. Unhealthy for sure!

If you had been wearing that hat you probably would have been fine.

Ha, good point.

BC

AC

BC

AC

Livin' the dream.

lol you start an interesting thread and get a load of jokers :)

LFGSS - what else is new?

became

I don't mind. I know a few people are going to post their stories. Its all a bit of fun really.

I checked in on the moderators thread to make sure it wouldn't be merged with the weight loss thread and people seemed supportive and keen there. Joke away...its all good!

All that's changed since I've started cycling is that my thighs have become 500% more defined.

BC

AC

You're not fooling me...that second photo is Henry!

Good work.

All that's changed since I've started cycling is that my thighs have become 500% more defined.

BC

AC

love it!

They're lap dancers shoes.

Before cycling I was really skinny. After cycling I am even skinnier except some of my trousers are too tight.

That's quite a change. Also like me you seem to have a decent haircut instead of a buzzcut from BC.

For me certainly I can now bore people by talking about photography or cycling, instead of the just the former.

I am now even poorer - as if camera kit didn't cost enough, my outgoings now have to be shared with bikes. This is part of the reason I took up Origami again. It doesn't cost anything. Paper is practically free.

Before shot coming soon.... if I can find a willing/gullible photographer
After shot coming later

So nothing to actually post then...