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
Lucky grr
― ledge, Sunday, 18 November 2007 15:11 (sixteen years ago) link
modest?! i was trying to show off for youse all but coulndt hit 50 i tucked and evrything.
since i brot a camera for my little iltrmb travelogue, here's the exit to the canyon, a red rock wall about 300 ft vert very pretty in the sunsets. i need a closer shot to illustrate
http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/3458/exitsmalljv2.jpg
― Hunt3r, Sunday, 18 November 2007 16:53 (sixteen years ago) link
i don't think i've ever come close to 49.8MPH. we don't share the same hills though!
2 hours on the fluid2
6x10 minutes-SLOW 60RPM cadence 53x12 ;) (better than going to the gym) 1x15 minutes 100RPM Z2
― cutty, Sunday, 18 November 2007 16:59 (sixteen years ago) link
also that road is beautiful. i need that.
― cutty, Sunday, 18 November 2007 17:14 (sixteen years ago) link
seasons when im not racing (wich is all of them now?) and can "do anything," i probly ride it 150 times a year. its the portal to lots of other climbing routes. 30 miles is the maintenance route, but your typical 45 to 65 mile training rides branch off of it. i do it so much i dont even notice the pretty very much
and yeah, the speed is ALL the hill. the fast stretch on the descent is the top where it is straight at 7% to 8%, the bottom is very twisty at 4%-6%.
when the power training mania for super slow cadence strength mashing came around like 10 years ago, you started to see guys going up the climb above in April in their 53-14 or 53-13 at like 45 rpm. srsly its mental. my patellas wld fly off.
― Hunt3r, Sunday, 18 November 2007 17:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Crazy! I think my top speed ever has been in the 30s, on a distance trip in high school! Beautiful road, Hunt.
Spitty rain and cold here, going to pick up my baby from Jon's house & pop around for noize brunch.
― Laurel, Sunday, 18 November 2007 17:34 (sixteen years ago) link
example of profiles of rides "behind" deer creek. the first "prong" is the turnaround of yesterdays ride.
http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/4295/deercreekhighdriverm8.jpg
that last descent is NICE, 25 minutes of effortlessly hauling ass and leaning the bike over into turns.
― Hunt3r, Sunday, 18 November 2007 17:38 (sixteen years ago) link
My fastest ever is 38.4mph, but it was on a short hill with speed bumps! (next to Wimbledon tennis, geography/racquet sports fans)
― Mark C, Sunday, 18 November 2007 21:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Drunkenly rode to bottleshop a couple of kms away to buy sixpack, no shoes on mah look keos :/
― W4LTER, Monday, 19 November 2007 00:32 (sixteen years ago) link
river wolf tried that once. I don't think it ended well.
― Laurel, Monday, 19 November 2007 00:35 (sixteen years ago) link