Campsite neighbor to him at 24 hrs Moab in 98, he was very nice.
― ad music for ad people (Hunt3r), Thursday, 6 February 2014 23:35 (ten years ago) link
On old bikes tip also I enjoy pros closet blog and Facebook, theyll occasionally profile oldies that come in. The one on 93 tomac Raleigh ti brought back memories.
― ad music for ad people (Hunt3r), Thursday, 6 February 2014 23:40 (ten years ago) link
Oh also today is now my coldest ever- minus 13F, minus 25C. 1.8 mi only tho.
― ad music for ad people (Hunt3r), Thursday, 6 February 2014 23:44 (ten years ago) link
Went out with my girlfriend and her friends on a ride up to a brewery in the mountains outside of San Diego. 4 1/2 hours at an easy pace but 84F+ the whole day, ran out of water on the way up. Hot!
http://app.strava.com/activities/113569278/overview
― sous les paves, Sunday, 16 February 2014 05:12 (ten years ago) link
I want 84+ deg i really do
― waved my hands in the air (problems solved) (Hunt3r), Sunday, 16 February 2014 14:19 (ten years ago) link
Half term holiday week: managed to squeeze in 170 miles (which is pretty good going seeing as I was looking after daughter most of the time and did nothing last weekend because of family stuff). My first race of the season (a hilly time trial of 50km) is next Sunday, this was my final training ride. A newish rider from my club is doing a two-up time trial with me in a fortnight, so we decided to get some practice in. When I was on the front I was OK, but every time he went to the front my heart rate shot up and I found myself in danger very quickly. Every time the road went upwards he just glided effortlessly away from me without noticing or trying. I fear I will suffer like a dog* when we race together. We did about 13 miles at >23mph, aided by the wind (but this was still a serious effort). Along the way I moved into second on a strava segment and pushed Alex Dowsett down to third place! We waited for some others to join us (who had been paired up behind us) then turned around and headed back into the headwind. This was grim, grim, grim. Still managed 52 miles at >18mph. I feel like I've been riding my legs off most Sundays this year.
*a dog which has been mismatched for a two-up time trial
― Ewan Huzami (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Sunday, 23 February 2014 21:47 (ten years ago) link
Last week I got back on the bike after two weeks of nasty flu/cold/chest infection bullshit and a week of being plain lazy. I have no stamina at all, hills are wiping me out.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 22:24 (ten years ago) link
http://www.treehugger.com/bikes/wild-discrepancy-between-bikeped-trips-and-bikeped-funding.html
why do my heels feel sore? do I have the wrong bike?
― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 16:18 (ten years ago) link
i have never heard of sore heels from cycling.
― Hunt3r, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 17:07 (ten years ago) link
i realize that's not helpful, i'm just...i feel like i've heard all there is to hear about cycling and that's not in there!
― Hunt3r, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 17:08 (ten years ago) link
I recently switch routes to one with big hillsI wonder if that is a factor
or maybe seat to high/low?
its like right on the part of my heel that touches the ground
― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 19:53 (ten years ago) link
Part of your heel touches the ground? Sounds like your problem is caused by a hole in your shoe and an extremely odd pedal-stroke.
― Turtleneck Work Solutions (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 20:47 (ten years ago) link
it must be bike related because it became an issue when oen of two things changed1 got new bike2 new biek route
or both
― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 20:58 (ten years ago) link
thinking about taking up racing
― ugh (lukas), Thursday, 1 May 2014 16:28 (ten years ago) link
racing can be really fun.
― Hunt3r, Thursday, 1 May 2014 18:19 (ten years ago) link
or wanking too long while standing
― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Thursday, 1 May 2014 19:49 (ten years ago) link
^^now we're getting close to the crux of the problem
― dong draper (haitch), Thursday, 1 May 2014 23:47 (ten years ago) link
do I have to choose?
― ugh (lukas), Friday, 2 May 2014 00:21 (ten years ago) link
It's pretty much one or the other
― Hunt3r, Friday, 2 May 2014 02:41 (ten years ago) link
I haven't been riding a huge amount lately, need to get my groove back. However today was lovely. Nice hard ride on a beautiful autumn day. Up Kinglake by a road I hadn't ridden before. It turned out to be unsealed, as I'd half suspected it would. Pretty slippery on 23mm slicks making it a bit of a leg breaker.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Sunday, 11 May 2014 08:20 (ten years ago) link
I had a great ride yesterday, but maybe a two hour ride with 600m climbing wasn't the best idea right before a 15hr overnight shift
― gbx, Sunday, 11 May 2014 10:21 (ten years ago) link
I had a near deer experience coming down...deer creek canyon. Scary.
― updates from chuck and betty (Hunt3r), Sunday, 11 May 2014 15:37 (ten years ago) link
eek
― gbx, Sunday, 11 May 2014 16:27 (ten years ago) link
fastest time on the Tues-Thurs hill climb since March 7th of last year. and I'm still 30 seconds off my PR (8:09).
― ugh (lukas), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 17:37 (ten years ago) link
My club organised the first 10-mile time trials on the Olympic Velopark road circuit tonight (the circuit only opened to the public about a month ago). In previous years (on the Hog Hill circuit) we would get between 20 and 40 riders. Tonight I turned up five minutes after the first man was off, expecting to sign in and get no.30 or thereabouts. I got number 72. Once it reached 86 they had to close it to further entrants as there wasn't enough time for everyone to finish. It was nice and sunny when I got there, but started absolutely pissing down about ten minutes before I started. I got soaked to the skin as if I'd jumped into a lake, but it was still good fun. A great circuit.
― Turtleneck Work Solutions (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 22:30 (ten years ago) link
How did it compare to the old eastway? I always enjoyed the downhill into the left hander.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 23:11 (ten years ago) link
ed which road to KL - there's a few unsealed ones!
I've also not been riding much beyond commuting - been busy, lazy, whatever. about to commence secrete training for amy's gran fondo in september, though...
― dong draper (haitch), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 01:36 (ten years ago) link
Steels Creek Rd up from the edge of Yarra Glen.
I'm up for secret training. Total rush have some monthly sunday rides which look quite good, next is on the 25th.
http://www.strava.com/activities/139778336
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 01:53 (ten years ago) link
I better get my act together with registering for Amy's. Need to work out logistics as well. DO I want a speed gout or an age group?
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 02:00 (ten years ago) link
I went for speed group. age ain't nothing but a number!
― dong draper (haitch), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 02:13 (ten years ago) link
well, speed ain't nothing but a number either, but you know.
thinking of staying in apollo bay and getting the bus transfer on the morning. lorne sure books out early!
― dong draper (haitch), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 02:14 (ten years ago) link
That seems to be the game. I'll do some looking this evening.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 02:23 (ten years ago) link
I do like that steels creek rd also - would probably hit it again on the cx bike, though. would also not do so much instagramming.
have vague idea for train to lilydale > healsville > the old road to yarra glen > up to top of steels creek rd > down to melba highway > down to healsville again via toolangi and myers creek rd > back way up donna buang > warburton > back to lilydale on the rail trail. I feel it would be a 'day out'.
― dong draper (haitch), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 02:39 (ten years ago) link
That would indeed be a day out. I don't think I would take my bike on the warbuton rail trail.
Weather being well or sunday I plan on Green Wedge->Mount Pleasant->Kangaroo Ground->Christmas Hills-> Yarra Glen-> Old Healesville Rd->Healesville->Myers Creek Rd->Toolangi->Kinglake->Whittlesea->Plenty Rd slog home
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 03:35 (ten years ago) link
I did warby trail on 25s a couple of summers back and it was doable - but i went harder with the CX bike and 28s on cup day last year.
― dong draper (haitch), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 05:11 (ten years ago) link
How did it compare to the old eastway?
I did actually race at Eastway, but ages and ages ago (the spring/summer of 1989 when I was 15 and had just got into cycling), so it's difficult to make a comparison. Every race I did there went anti-clockwise and I don't remember any lefts at the end of descents.
― Turtleneck Work Solutions (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 20:45 (ten years ago) link
big ringed rathdowne st hill on the tour de commute this morning - drew out a couple of pursuers but had a clear gap at the top.
― dong draper (haitch), Thursday, 15 May 2014 00:35 (ten years ago) link
got overconfident descending today and the inevitable happened. first crash in a couple years. no real harm apart from needing to buy new bibs. at the LBS I blamed it on "well see the other turns were nicely on-camber and this one wasn't ... " and got roundly mocked. still a good day out.
― ugh (lukas), Saturday, 17 May 2014 22:21 (ten years ago) link
Ouch. Glorious sunshine here today. Did 50-odd miles with a lengthy interruption for rear wheel puncture due to me idiotically taking a spare inner tube whose valve was too short to be of any use.
― Turtleneck Work Solutions (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Sunday, 18 May 2014 17:51 (ten years ago) link
Done about 140 miles in the last four days. Glorious sunshine pretty much every mile. Wonderful.
― i reject your shiny expensive consumerist stereo system (Scik Mouthy), Sunday, 18 May 2014 19:52 (ten years ago) link
i only managed a hundo less than that, but i had a great ride today. sunny, perfect temp, almost half on quiet gravel roads. i was concerned about bonking far from home, as this is the longest ride I've done this year (and since moving here, to Where There Be Hills), but i was pleased to discover that as i rolled up to my apt i felt like i could've ridden a bit longer
now of course i've had a shower and half an alcoholic sports drink and i'm about ready to melt into the couch
― gbx, Monday, 19 May 2014 00:28 (ten years ago) link
having such a shit time trying to fit in rides- too flipped out and tired even to commute, srsly. today i had a nice ride, but it was for sanity purposes. i could work 24-7 right now, but i simply had to get out on the bike, so... i did.
― updates from chuck and betty (Hunt3r), Monday, 19 May 2014 00:42 (ten years ago) link
see today was one of the first actual weekends i've had for months (i usually work 6d/wk), so the luxury of being able to do something for a long time that wasn't chores was v gratifying indeed
― gbx, Monday, 19 May 2014 00:53 (ten years ago) link
i swear, like 5 minutes after i typed that i thought "man, gbx should totally kick my ass over that post."
― updates from chuck and betty (Hunt3r), Monday, 19 May 2014 00:55 (ten years ago) link
ha no it's cool, in t-minus a month I will have something approaching a normal person schedule
― gbx, Monday, 19 May 2014 01:07 (ten years ago) link
187 miles since I picked up the CdF last Saturday morning. Not bad.
― i reject your shiny expensive consumerist stereo system (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 24 May 2014 17:24 (ten years ago) link
nice
― playback in metal position (Hunt3r), Saturday, 24 May 2014 20:06 (ten years ago) link
16 more this morning.
― i reject your shiny expensive consumerist stereo system (Scik Mouthy), Sunday, 25 May 2014 12:05 (ten years ago) link
In LA for the weekend, rented a bike. Stopped at Rock Store in the middle of a 55 mile ride past beach and through canyon. Checked email (mistake) found out that my city bike and road bike were both stolen out of my garage. I think renter's insurance will cover it, but still, damn.
Do those GPS tracker things like Bikespike make sense? If I were a bike thief, I'd be back ...
― ugh (lukas), Monday, 26 May 2014 00:29 (ten years ago) link
Amazing how often my display name has been appropriate recently.