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How anyone could possibly down vote this post is beyond me. It is the best, most succinct, respectful effort of covering basic fitness, nutrition, and living a healthy life that I have read. Anyone can follow these pointers and will end up feeling better, happier, and longer. Fitness is not a cure all for every ailment - but it is significantly more difficult to lead a full life without that crucial foundation.

These bikes are good on sand, snow, dirt/mud, light MTB trails. So yeah, no dropper needed.

These bikes are good on sand, snow, dirt/mud, light MTB trails. So yeah, no dropper needed.

I have never ridden one of these type of bikes but this would be good for beaches Hilton Head with mostly compact sand? How is the mantainence from the sand? If between Large and Medium which one would you choose?

Any half-descent bike will work, although I would stay away from the super delicate "racy" carbon road bikes, just like the super cheap "big box/walmart" kinds.

I am partial to MTBs and I would recommend one to "everyone". A decent hardtail like the Kona Honzo DL that is also on sale in many places can do most trails, being limited to your skill and confidence more than anything else.

But, TBH, if you want to ride along with other people, at 340lbs, unless you are above average fit (possible, but not very likely for the average 340# person, forgive me if I am stereotyping), you won't be able to keep up : heavy guys are strong, but cycling in pretty much all its itterations but 1000m sprints, are an endurance sport, and hauling yourself around will challenge heavy ppl disproportionally more than feather-weights.

If you want something to keep you active and motivated, a eMTB might be a better proposition. Yes, excersise wise it is REALLY hard to push yourself as hard as you would on an un-assisted bike, BUT, I have seen it before that overweight/unfit ppl get discouraged when the pain going up is disproportional to the joy of going down the hill.

Just realize that you cannot out-excersise a bad diet...it is just impossible, at least for unseasoned or even pro athletes, to exert themselves long enough to burn off serious calories: your musscles or your cardio system will tap out way before.

Thus it is perfectly legit to see your bike hobby as a reason to lose weight and the primarily way to get better power/weight ratios = make you faster, BUT, it cannot be the primary way to lose that weight.

Unless you curb your intake of "bad" for you foods, mainly sugar/flour and pretty much everything that is made out of powndered sh!t. Any diet that includes heavily processed foods, from low-carb processed to low-fat processed to keto etc, it is all BS past one point. Eat healthy, whole foods (real fruit, real meat in moderation, real eggs, real veggies, real beans/leggumes, etc.) that give you real nutrition vs. some "magic mambo jumbo" goldilocks promise or programs that try to "milk" you buying their proprietary "processed" power drinks or supplements.

Hard if your diet is based on "take-out" food in North America, but not impossible. For sure more expensive than the cheap meals that not only won't avoid excessive addition of sugar and salt in their recipes, but will engineer their menu with as much of the above as possible to hook you up and keep you a regular.

Sleep as much as you can.

Walk as much as you can and ride around on the bike of your choice like a boss and enjoy nature and clean air away from stress.

All of the above assumes that you do want to lose weight. If not, just spend 3.5~6K for a full power eMTB and call it a day. Yes, as much as a motorcycle. Super fun, worths it, will keep you riding: a regular pedal bike won't. Specialized, Fezzari, Polygon, Marin. There is no bad bike in this price range. Cheaper ones from obscure chinesium that promise to be "as good", can be bad. Again, it is not being made in China that makes them bad, it is that they are made to an unreasonable price point, as bad as that reality is for us consumers.

Any bike recommend for 340+ lbs guy?

I bought an e-bike and didn't enjoy it. It was a heavy pig and handled like one. I know, duh.

The other thing about e-bikes, and more imprtantly, is the fire risk of the batteries. Depends on the bike manufacturer but it's the wild wild west out there with lithium batteries. Even quality batteries can degrade or get physically damaged. Got rid of my e-bike and feel a lot better.

A lot of people have a ticking time bomb in their house with these things.

The poor guy didn't ask for a primer on a healthy lifestyle (he probably has plenty of those), he just wanted to find a bike that wouldn't fall apart under him.
He should probably go to a bike shop. In his case, probably worth the extra cost.

The "poor guy" was not asked for your petty or approval.
Actually, they thanked me in private.

You should simply write the truth: I (last but not least person) downvoted that post because I did not like his (meaning mine) wall of text because I am not here for "primers on healthy lifestyle" and that was a waste of my time.

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The poor guy didn't ask for a primer on a healthy lifestyle (he probably has plenty of those), he just wanted to find a bike that wouldn't fall apart under him.
He should probably go to a bike shop. In his case, probably worth the extra cost.

People put droppers on Gravel Bikes , I am sure if one really wants to you can put one on fatty. Wireless is always an option -- though an expensive one.