calories burnt riding motorcycles

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#11 Unread post by **Sev** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 6:57 am

Or take the windshield off and ride into the wind at highway speed. Every muscle tenses up to hold you in place. You might not be contracting and relaxing those muscles, but they can sure burn afterwards.

Telesque · #12 Unread post by **Telesque** » Tue May 17, 2005 4:59 am

Anyone remember those crazy machines from the 50's(?) that looked like a slingshot attached to an outboard motor? You'd sit your keister inside the cloth band, and it would just vibrate back and forth? Maybe riding a Harley is the same idea.

allawybiker · Tue May 17, 2005 5:55 am

get a Harley so you can push it along regularly to burn calories.

Gummiente · Tue May 17, 2005 12:12 pm

9000white wrote:get a Harley so you can push it along regularly to burn calories.

Oh, hahahahahaha. How original, a joke about Harley reliability.

There's 36,000km on my one year old FLHT and the only problem I've had was a burnt out fender light bulb (cheap aftermarket light at fault there). How many km's on your ride?

Magnum · #15 Unread post by **Magnum** » Fri May 20, 2005 7:03 pm

Relsek wrote:Some of the rides we do around here could possibly burn some calories, expecially in the summer when it's humid, about 98 degrees and we're all dressed in leather armor. Any speed under about 40 and the sweat starts pouring on heavy.

Kevin

Calorie is a unit of measure, heat to be exact. It is the amount of energy required to raise one unit of water by one degree of heat (i think a cL by one celcius).

The usefullness of calories is whenever your body burns glucose, the by product is heat (it takes place in the mitochondria in your muscles, in a process called the krebs cycle). The heat outside would not burn calories, you would burn more in cold weather as your body tries to raise the internal temprature.

I bet you burn a ton of calories riding. You have thousands of muscles in your body, and I bet you don't think about 90% of them. When you walk, you are not just using your glutes, you are using your sarillis, your tibialis anterior, hundreds of small musles to keep you balanced. Now imagine that on a motorcycle traveling at 60mph, how much balance you need.

Telesque · #16 Unread post by **Telesque** » Fri May 20, 2005 9:17 pm

Magnum wrote: Now imagine that on a motorcycle traveling at 60mph, how much balance you need.

Actually, that faster you go on a motorcycle, the less balance you need. Part of the gyroscopic principles in effect and all.

Magnum · #17 Unread post by **Magnum** » Sat May 21, 2005 8:49 am

Telesque wrote:
Magnum wrote: Now imagine that on a motorcycle traveling at 60mph, how much balance you need.
Actually, that faster you go on a motorcycle, the less balance you need. Part of the gyroscopic principles in effect and all.

You just gave me the perfect defense for my next speeding stop.