today's pulls courtesy of a white-haired, middle-aged Irishman who would pull at 24mph for a while, drop back for a couple minutes, seemingly spent, then start pulling again.
― eris bueller (lukas), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 16:18 (ten years ago) link
I bought a helmet cam and started recording my afternoon commutes for the lolz, because I got sick of every cycling article in the local paper being met by a chorus of "goddamned red light running cyclists why can't they follow rules" crap. Behold some of the stupidest behavior I have ever seen, yesterday:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGdylGnjWVQ
― This amigurumi Jamaican octopus is ready to chill with you (Phil D.), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 16:40 (ten years ago) link
Was there a red light?
― Hamburglar's smiling too (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 21:59 (ten years ago) link
Nope. He tried to pull into the bike lane - which is a violation of state law here - so I honked at him, and he drove forward and just sat at the green light, then made that illegal lane change when the bus behind me honked. The stupid thing is that there's a parking lot on his right.
― This amigurumi Jamaican octopus is ready to chill with you (Phil D.), Wednesday, 26 June 2013 12:13 (ten years ago) link
I got thoroughly drenched last night, biblical deluge and I avoided the straightest way home because I didn't fancy going over one of the highest hills around with lightening cracking all around.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 26 June 2013 13:28 (ten years ago) link
Blimey, not only did I smash one of my two strava goals (short climb behind the zoo) I smashed it by 18s better than the goal and 37s better than my previous best. Strava says 370W I'm not sure where it came from unless their EPO and testosterone in Trader Joe's Cinnamon and Raisin Bagels.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Saturday, 29 June 2013 22:24 (ten years ago) link
Nice. Get me one of those bagels.
― Hamburglar's smiling too (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Sunday, 30 June 2013 19:04 (ten years ago) link
Failed at my other goal for this month, not enough bagels. Still had a great ride today.
I also sold my full size crank this week, not going back I don't think. Got an SRAM red one to seal the deal.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Sunday, 30 June 2013 21:42 (ten years ago) link
Gorgeous sunshine as England basks in a heatwave, banishing the bleak memories of last year's summer of eternal rain. I pootled down to Hyde Park, passed many a happy hour doing family things (mostly paddling in the Diana thing) and checking the TDF madness on twitter, then pootled back: car-free wide open spaces on Consitution Hill and The Mall, maybe I should head into town more often on a Sunday. As I entered Leyton on the final stretch of my ride I hit a 1-mile long flat strava segment and spontaneously decided to go for it. My previous best was 21.9mph, today I was going hard for a while and glanced down at my computer and saw I was doing >30mph. I knew I was going well so dug in and kept it up as best I could (though it meant I was a gasping freak by the time I hit the traffic lights at the far end) - got Strava KOM by 1 second, average speed 28.5 mph.
― Hamburglar's smiling too (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Sunday, 7 July 2013 22:50 (ten years ago) link
Was on Holiday in Montreal, great city for biking around in. Used a combination of Bixi share bikes and rented a road bike for a day. Road bike was fun but a pretty cheap aluminium frame with a savagely boneshaking ride.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 8 July 2013 14:39 (ten years ago) link
I've done over 200 miles in the last 6 days and it's been over 30C every time.
― Hamburglar's smiling too (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 19 July 2013 16:06 (ten years ago) link
Dunwich Dynamo survived. Awful, wonderful experience. It took me 12 hours, overtaken by every fucker on the road, but I got there and I only fell off once despite my chain coming off repeatedly. \o/
https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc1/994860_10151792934734104_1796150932_n.jpg
― you may not like it now but you will (Zora), Sunday, 21 July 2013 20:27 (ten years ago) link
Respect - well done
― Hamburglar's smiling too (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Sunday, 21 July 2013 20:29 (ten years ago) link
Thank you!
― you may not like it now but you will (Zora), Sunday, 21 July 2013 20:34 (ten years ago) link
missed this, but that's great! also i like the color of your bike, i had a steel one mostly that color long ago, miss it.
― on fire after blowout in gulf (Hunt3r), Thursday, 25 July 2013 15:57 (ten years ago) link
something magical happened with my pedal stroke yesterday
― eris bueller (lukas), Thursday, 25 July 2013 16:23 (ten years ago) link
Strava Heatmap!http://x.raceshape.com/heatmap/view.html?id=ad13e8823b9f320ed1815e260c641212141df37cThose are all my rides in the period of just over 1 year since I joined Strava. Well, except for the little local commute type things that I didn't upload and anything in the 'exclusion zone' around my flat.
― Hamburglar's smiling too (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 26 July 2013 19:06 (ten years ago) link
me tooooo
http://x.raceshape.com/heatmap/view.html?id=6f8ad5aaa0d92cd1fc474a56149c7ea7c723f140
― eris bueller (lukas), Friday, 26 July 2013 19:14 (ten years ago) link
Cool
― Hamburglar's smiling too (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 26 July 2013 19:16 (ten years ago) link
http://x.raceshape.com/heatmap/view.html?id=a6523179dfbe076c6cc5e1b845e7c511b0d53f62
― on fire after blowout in gulf (Hunt3r), Friday, 26 July 2013 19:29 (ten years ago) link
Ha! Those straight grid American roads. You've got a ride in the middle of nowhere, from nowhere to nowhere, that consists solely of two straight lines at right angles to each other.
― Hamburglar's smiling too (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 26 July 2013 19:33 (ten years ago) link
yeah that, and the other weird griddy nowhere to nowhere track to the north east are tt race courses out on the high plains.
― on fire after blowout in gulf (Hunt3r), Friday, 26 July 2013 19:44 (ten years ago) link
That must be pretty handy actually - I'm guessing there's next to no traffic and the road is dead straight and flat. How do you turn around though? In Britain the vast majority of courses would have a roundabout at the halfway point where you do a 360-degree turn, the rest would consist of a loop with several left hand turns.
― Hamburglar's smiling too (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 26 July 2013 20:09 (ten years ago) link
'round the cone 180. this years course/weather was awesome. the previous course (the one shaped like an "L") was p. hilly. and there's not a tree for 30 miles, it can be WINDY.
don't know if i told the story here but this year at state champs i was getting passed like an f'ing stop sign, just awful. finally, finally i caught somebody. he passed me back, and i was like REALLY? and passed him back after being sure i could do it. just then we approached a marshalled turnaround. as we slowed he shouted to the marshall "FUCK THIS, AIN'T TURNING. I'M QUITTING."
― on fire after blowout in gulf (Hunt3r), Friday, 26 July 2013 20:41 (ten years ago) link
http://raceshape.com/heatmap/
the universal heatmap is fascinating--where EVERYBODY rides. read about it on dcrainmaker, but never checked it out til now.
― on fire after blowout in gulf (Hunt3r), Friday, 26 July 2013 21:21 (ten years ago) link
http://x.raceshape.com/heatmap/view.html?id=da3db43a377c5c2a13581f02b0c9c6b7271ea5ae
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 26 July 2013 21:58 (ten years ago) link
xp - the UK appears to be the centre of the universe according to that link
― Hamburglar's smiling too (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 26 July 2013 22:05 (ten years ago) link
I'm really liking the global heatmap, with my impending move to melbourne it is helping me plot where to ride.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 26 July 2013 22:23 (ten years ago) link
Heatmap is way too cool. Fun to find random little criterium courses in the middle of nowhere. Here is mine:
http://x.raceshape.com/heatmap/view.html?id=0b59e63a0eba094d3a08cab5916b54a24f74e20a
― sous les paves, Saturday, 27 July 2013 01:04 (ten years ago) link
it's so cool to see how people navigate to ride. i've only ever been to sd once for 5 days (no riding), and downtown and sunset/ocean beach (esp ocean beach) seemed pretty bike...dangerous? like not bike hostile but challenging. anyway, what a great app.
― on fire after blowout in gulf (Hunt3r), Saturday, 27 July 2013 02:58 (ten years ago) link
Btw you cant leave for oz, Usa needs u ed.
― on fire after blowout in gulf (Hunt3r), Saturday, 27 July 2013 03:47 (ten years ago) link
Is anyone on this thread from Glasgow and has initials DH? Such a person has suddenly started following me on Strava. I don't have a problem with that, but I have no idea who it is.
― Hamburglar's smiling too (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Saturday, 27 July 2013 14:41 (ten years ago) link
From memory there are at least two Glaswegians on this board and the mysterious DH is also following Ed, so I've followed you back (whoever you are).
― Hamburglar's smiling too (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Saturday, 27 July 2013 17:51 (ten years ago) link
DH is cozen.
― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Saturday, 27 July 2013 20:52 (ten years ago) link
ja that's me JF
― pr0n tsar (cozen), Saturday, 27 July 2013 21:32 (ten years ago) link
strava-based heavy bike chat starts now
― pr0n tsar (cozen), Saturday, 27 July 2013 21:33 (ten years ago) link
surprisingly little heat map activity in my neck of the woods, given that I am in strava's birthplace
― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Saturday, 27 July 2013 23:25 (ten years ago) link
http://www.dcrainmaker.com/2013/07/cutting-removing-functionality.html
read this a few days ago, pretty interesting.
― on fire after blowout in gulf (Hunt3r), Saturday, 27 July 2013 23:54 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5b6-UAPvpg
another strava related, but this is really an ad, and also total bs imo.
― on fire after blowout in gulf (Hunt3r), Saturday, 27 July 2013 23:56 (ten years ago) link
http://youtu.be/QmILpd_eIM4
i went mtbing today. this is not me, but it could be, really.
ok, i'm done with the posts.
― on fire after blowout in gulf (Hunt3r), Sunday, 28 July 2013 00:00 (ten years ago) link
Just pedaled across the Williamsburg Bridge in red suede platforms.
― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Sunday, 28 July 2013 00:06 (ten years ago) link
I feel like someone needs to bring this thread down from its lofty heights occasionally.
― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Sunday, 28 July 2013 00:07 (ten years ago) link
need higher platforms to maintain loft then.
― on fire after blowout in gulf (Hunt3r), Sunday, 28 July 2013 00:13 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, get on that.
― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Sunday, 28 July 2013 01:09 (ten years ago) link
went for 50 mile ride w/group today and managed to somehow come off. was turning the corner at the bottom of a hill and hit a gravel patch and went down hard, head first. am alright, bit cut up and bruised w/scratched sunnies but no breaks so whew
was bloody windy blech
― pr0n tsar (cozen), Sunday, 4 August 2013 18:10 (ten years ago) link
Ouch, sympathies. How fast were you going?
I am back in the saddle over the last month; having done only about 250 miles this year before July, I then easily doubled that. Have started using Strava, too, which is interesting. Convinced some people cheat on some of the hills around here. Also suspect that Devon riders do more hills than others do, judging by friends elsewhere...
― they all are afflicted with a sickness of existence (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 5 August 2013 09:54 (ten years ago) link
not super fast; bit sore today but overall fine. milking it tho
― pr0n tsar (cozen), Monday, 5 August 2013 16:30 (ten years ago) link
Sympathies.
Surely people in devon ride more hills because of more hills?
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 5 August 2013 19:14 (ten years ago) link
Exactly my point. Just didn't quite realise how many more til now, somehow! Guess my other point of reference is Sheffield...
― they all are afflicted with a sickness of existence (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 5 August 2013 19:39 (ten years ago) link
sorry to hear that, cozen
― Hamburglar's smiling too (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Monday, 5 August 2013 22:53 (ten years ago) link