You don't hate me any more then, cutty? ;_;
― Mark C, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 20:50 (sixteen years ago) link
It has been raining all day and it will continue to rain until forever. I'm about to say fuck it and go out in it anyway.
― nickalicious, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 20:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Hang the bike upside down in the garage and ride it out Dracula style.
― nickalicious, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 20:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Just before I plunge to a spineshattering death.
nope!
― cutty, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 21:04 (sixteen years ago) link
This made me laugh... and obviously had me scurrying straight off to YouTube to see if any freak had tried this. No luck, so you can be the first! Did come across this sort of spooky image though while rummaging around:
http://neatorama.cachefly.net/images/uploads/2007/05/bike-in-tree.jpg
http://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/25/a-bicycle-eaten-by-a-tree/
― NickB, Thursday, 15 November 2007 00:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Weather forecast for the morning here looks great - clear skies, temperature near zero, no wind to speak of. I'm digging out my big gloves and going riding in the frost I think.
Hunter: what's your wife's sport anyhow?
― NickB, Thursday, 15 November 2007 00:07 (sixteen years ago) link
triathlon, mostly long course. runner.
― Hunt3r, Thursday, 15 November 2007 00:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Well that's a rather personal question! aaargh xpost MY JOEK, RUINED
(cheers cutty :))
― Mark C, Thursday, 15 November 2007 00:48 (sixteen years ago) link
HEY CUTTY,, how's the sram force working out?
― W4LTER, Thursday, 15 November 2007 01:08 (sixteen years ago) link
it's really great. the doubletap system is intuitive and smooth and being able to shift when sprinting/tucked is rad.
i heard sram red handles cross-gearing a lot better, though.
― cutty, Thursday, 15 November 2007 01:40 (sixteen years ago) link
oh cool.
Yeah the doubletap shits on shimano.
― W4LTER, Thursday, 15 November 2007 03:42 (sixteen years ago) link
90 mins. moist out. rode with a ch4mp1on systems/s0mm3rville cat 1 who was thoroughly impressed. yay!
― cutty, Thursday, 15 November 2007 13:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Two hours out over the hills before work for me. Quite frosty and cold but still a lot of mud around on the trails. Been a while since I went out on the singlespeed and my thighs now feel like heavy dead meat. It's feeling like a long, long day at work...
― NickB, Thursday, 15 November 2007 13:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Documentary evidence that I did actually get out of bed this morning and go for a ride:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/birdnestsoup/DSCF4592.jpg
― NickB, Thursday, 15 November 2007 20:30 (sixteen years ago) link
PS this is where I turn into an internet bully and tell Mark that he's gotta do it on Sunday, whatever the weather.
― NickB, Thursday, 15 November 2007 20:31 (sixteen years ago) link
jealous
― gbx, Thursday, 15 November 2007 20:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Ach, you can ride it up the hills for me any time you like.
― NickB, Thursday, 15 November 2007 20:35 (sixteen years ago) link
looks like brooklyn (no, it doesn't)
― cutty, Thursday, 15 November 2007 20:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Also, don't stray on the moors!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/birdnestsoup/DSCF4595.jpg
― NickB, Thursday, 15 November 2007 20:40 (sixteen years ago) link
I didn't take my nice short cut through there today :(
― NickB, Thursday, 15 November 2007 20:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh wait - I saw a badger on my way home too!
Okay, that's me done.
No biking as working in germ*ny although I have been looking at the db rental bikes that you just swipe a credit card to unlock parked all over berlin, never got a go though. In chicago in 2 days with a cross check, and in queens in a week. Let's talk riding and drinking.
― Ed, Thursday, 15 November 2007 21:38 (sixteen years ago) link
are those what moors look like then? i thot theyd be flatter. thats nice.
― Hunt3r, Thursday, 15 November 2007 21:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Haha no, those aren't actually the moors, I was kidding. It's the South Downs, which are like a long straight line of chalk hills that stretch for about 100 miles across the south east corner of Britain.
― NickB, Thursday, 15 November 2007 22:05 (sixteen years ago) link
In chicago in 2 days with a cross check, and in queens in a week. Let's talk riding and drinking.
-- Ed, Thursday, November 15, 2007 3:38 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link
OK!
― gbx, Friday, 16 November 2007 00:31 (sixteen years ago) link
ok, its mid nov and the temp at 7:45 was more than 50 deg. WHT IS UP?!?! i rode in a long sleeve tshirt and no jacket. crazy.
― Hunt3r, Friday, 16 November 2007 16:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Moors:
http://myolympus.org/files/0891/Burbage_pano2.jpg
I ride round here (just outside Sheffield) when I am home with my folks.
― caek, Friday, 16 November 2007 19:53 (sixteen years ago) link
holy balls
― cutty, Friday, 16 November 2007 19:54 (sixteen years ago) link
wowzers. what a green and pleasant land.
― Hunt3r, Friday, 16 November 2007 22:27 (sixteen years ago) link
omg
― gbx, Saturday, 17 November 2007 00:43 (sixteen years ago) link
gritstone!
You can see bits of Burbage/Stannage edge there too, which is supposedly some of the best climbing in England, although I am not qualified to say. There do seem to be an awful lot of UK mountaineers based in Sheffield though.
Stannage:
http://www.gr8trails.co.uk/Stannage%20Edge.jpg
Ugh. Homesick. And I miss summer.
― caek, Saturday, 17 November 2007 08:48 (sixteen years ago) link
One 'n'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanage
― caek, Saturday, 17 November 2007 08:51 (sixteen years ago) link
9 miles around Richmond Park, 9 miles on the trainer.
― Mark C, Saturday, 17 November 2007 18:25 (sixteen years ago) link
4 hours, 64 miles from williamsburg to nyack and backs
― cutty, Saturday, 17 November 2007 20:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Nice work Cutty. Wondering whether or not to go out tomorrow morning cos I feel like I've got a cold coming on. Weather looks horrible too - freezing cold plus heavy rain and I'm thinking I'm going to get fitter -or at least less feeble- just by staying in bed. Do you guys ride when you're feeling ropey or what?
― NickB, Saturday, 17 November 2007 20:44 (sixteen years ago) link
(will probably go out anyhow, I just like riding my bike really)
― NickB, Saturday, 17 November 2007 20:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Nick, I take every excuse not to ride in shitty weather! Yeah, if you're actually ill, don't ride. But tomorrow morning you'll know.
Cutty, you're the fucking man. Nice going.
― Mark C, Saturday, 17 November 2007 20:56 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't know if feeling like you might come down with a cold qualifies as 'actually ill' or not! In the days when I used to check my resting heart rate, I'd know when it was be a good idea to rest because it would be about 10bpm above what it should be or something like that. These days I don't bother with that stuff, it would just be too depressing. Any other indicators that tell you when to give it a miss?
― NickB, Saturday, 17 November 2007 21:05 (sixteen years ago) link
When trying not to fall asleep is actually painful and your body has shut down from tiredness and you can't keep warm anymore? Hence my bike being parked in Williamsburg.
― Laurel, Saturday, 17 November 2007 21:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Sounds like a wise call to me! Get some ZZZZzzzzz's Laurel.
― NickB, Saturday, 17 November 2007 21:29 (sixteen years ago) link
http://z.about.com/d/classicrock/1/7/8/ZZ_Top_Color_3_low_res.jpg
― NickB, Saturday, 17 November 2007 21:33 (sixteen years ago) link
usually its best to rest with a cold. but sometimes i find a little aerobic can actually cure a cold for me!
― cutty, Saturday, 17 November 2007 22:07 (sixteen years ago) link
wahhhhh http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/6238/weathersl1.jpg
did my first ride non-commute since labor day, my usual "minimum" ride. 33 miles, 1500 ft of vert, 1.75 hours. with mule deer.
http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/4803/deercreekgm4.jpg
http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/2972/outnumberedsl0.jpg topped out heading down: less than 50mph is sorry effort but i tried for you guys
― Hunt3r, Sunday, 18 November 2007 06:36 (sixteen years ago) link
http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/5443/topdescentej2.jpg
http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/8563/maxspeedgw0.jpg
― Hunt3r, Sunday, 18 November 2007 06:40 (sixteen years ago) link
yaow. what a ride!
― caek, Sunday, 18 November 2007 12:08 (sixteen years ago) link
short trip to check out a flat i was thinking of renting. went flat-out to keep pace with traffic and not get skittled. return trip far more subdued due to finding bike path (cunningly hidden in middle of median strip). flat itself was somewhat disappointing.
― haitch, Sunday, 18 November 2007 12:51 (sixteen years ago) link
less than 50mph is sorry effort but i tried for you guys
modest
― cutty, Sunday, 18 November 2007 13:40 (sixteen years ago) link
short trip to check out a flat i was thinking of renting. went flat-out [...] flat itself was somewhat disappointing.
Luck you didn't get a flat though.
― ledge, Sunday, 18 November 2007 15:10 (sixteen years ago) link