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If you like cycling, fashion, and drinking matcha, you already like 90% of me
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3 reasons I never looked back:

1. I stopped training just for aesthetics.
For the first time in years, I cared more about what my body could do than how big it looked. Muscles are important, but your heart is your engine.

2.Cycling gave me another way to express myself.
Colour pairings, loud graphics, technical fabrics, ridiculous face masks. Cycling somehow turned exercise into another form of personal style.
It’s one of the few sports where performance and lifestyle overlap so naturally.
You can care about watts, aerodynamics and fit... while still caring about how everything looks together.
And maybe I’m biased, but cyclists generally dress better on and off the bike too.

3. Socialise
Some of my favourite parts of cycling aren’t even on the bike. It’s sitting around after a ride talking absolute shit with people who somehow became close friends.

Would you considering cycling? by @hisamchen

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4 days ago

Cycling is basically an expensive group chat with cardio by @hisamchen

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18 days ago

I spent most of my life thinking fitness meant looking fit.
I grew up skinny-fat, got to university and became obsessed with getting bigger. Bodybuilding turned into strength training, strength training turned into calisthenics, and for a while I thought I’d found my thing.

Then life happened.
I moved countries, chased my career, worked in apparel and manufacturing, drank more, trained less, and eventually moved to Melbourne knowing almost nobody.

So I started searching again.
Gym. Golf. Running. Back to the gym.
Nothing really stuck.
Then a health check changed the way I thought about all of it.
I looked fit on the outside, but my bloodwork showed hereditary high LDL cholesterol and made me realise I’d spent years training the muscles people could see while barely thinking about my cardiovascular health.

I wanted to change that while I was still young.
I needed cardio.
I wanted challenge.
I wanted to make friends.

And, being someone who has spent his career around clothing, I still wanted to look good doing it.
Then I found cycling.

It gave me everything I’d been looking for in different places: performance, endurance, progression, fashion, gear, friendships and a community that actually made me want to keep showing up.

Somewhere along the way, I completely fell in love with the sport.

So if you’re new here, this page is basically me figuring out how to become a better endurance athlete without losing the strength, style and identity I spent years building.
Still learning. Still getting dropped. Still buying kit I probably don’t need.

If you found me through one of my recent cycling posts, tell me which one brought you here taken in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia by @hisamchen

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21 days ago

MAAP × Mental Athletic might be the loudest MAAP collaboration yet.

MAAP brings the polished performance silhouette. Mental Athletic brings the graphic chaos. And those neon sleeves? You’ll recognise them from the back of the bunch.

My prediction: this won’t sit around for long.

Hard fit or fashion victim? by @hisamchen

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Just heading out for a wholesome Sunday morning activity 🥰 by @hisamchen

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7 days ago

Nothing suspicious officer. Just zone 2.

Send this to someone with a questionable clothing taste.

#cycling by @hisamchen

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Just heading out for a wholesome Sunday activity officer by @hisamchen

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7 days ago

Stop shooting your bike content like it’s evidence footage by @hisamchen

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13 days ago

My max effort was apparently just bro’s filming pace 😭

Camera in the mouth
Films me suffering

Send this to the mate who would do this to you taken in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia by @hisamchen

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Cycling got way too serious for a minute.

MAAP × Public Possession might be my favourite drop this year.

More colour. More graphics. More personality.

Minimal kit or loud kit?

@maap.cc @public_possession taken in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia by @hisamchen

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24 days ago

One expensive hobby would’ve been too financially responsible.
Bike parts🚲
Clothes 👕
First-harvest matcha 🍵

Apparently I just enjoy turning very normal things into extremely specific requirements 😅

What hobby made you financially irresponsible?

Send this to someone who needs to pick a struggle

#cycling #matcha #mensstyle #roadcycling #cyclinglife taken in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia by @hisamchen

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