your daily bicycle log

enjoy!

ima rake leaves, then fold laundry. :(

oh shit I have to do those thirngs too :(

rode around all morning tho, maybe fifteen miles of cruising in the city. beautiful here

my saddle cracked yesterday!

so pissed.

how do i shot new saddle?

what kind was it

specialized toupe :-(

pretty sure that crack is from laying it down a couple months ago that just spidered but how do i get BITSA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sbv6oeY8PTc

(aerosmi throcks)

I have 3 spare saddles in my drawer, but only one Toupé and that's on my head bike.

Can send you my Concept saddle if you like - white, does a decent job, came as standard with my ($3,000) Focus Cayo Expert (it's their in-house brand)?

yeah i can send you the pos WTB saddle that came w/my $600 cross-check, too

everyone else getting autumn weather, down here it was 38 deg celsius yesterday :0

6 degrees C when I leave for work tomorrow. Nippy but dealable-with.

0 C today round here.

too bloody warm round here, too many layer for banging up and down hills between the factory and the university. Too warm in school now the heat is on too.

horrifically cold here

Still shorts weather though! I'm trying for the whole winter this year.

I was out at 7am on the bike and wind chill ws unholy

not much cycling this week, just to and from the station before work. best thing about my new job: there are lots of cyclists to chat with abt cycling. might see if I can rope my dad into a sunday run this week

too much videogames too little cycling

sadly have only played like 3 hours of MW2 all-in this week. busy busy : /

forgot to relay my hair moments from last sunday's run: descending at 35mph one of my bottle cages decided to dislodge itself and come flying off, earlier in the run the bottle from that cage popped out and I somehow managed to catch it between my leg and chain while flying along at 20mph. thankfully it was in my back pocket when the cage went flying.

hairy moments*

there have been no hair moments, touch wood

Absolutely atrocious weather today. My club was supposed to have a training session at Hog Hill on descending and cornering at speed. I don't know why I bothered going: there was never any chance of it happening. Obviously when I got there I found it had been cancelled. I had a 19-mile round trip in gale force winds that were nearly blowing me off the road at times with horizontal torrential rain that felt like bullets being fired into my face.

Meh. That ^ was the last time I've been able to ride a bike. Haven't ridden at all for 18 days and counting: first because the stormy weather continued, then I got ill with a vomiting bug that turned into a weird dizziness virus that turned into a sore throat that has turned into a hacking cough (been ill for about 13 days now). I was hoping to do the winter series of races at Hog Hill that starts this Saturday, but even if I'm well enough to ride by then I'll be in no shape to race.

^yup, me too : / felt like the rain was relentless throughout the end of november. I'm on holiday right now so am going to do a quick twenty in the next 30, if the weather holds

oh man tht ws good but surprisingly hard going. didn't help tht it's freezing cold out there

krakow, do you really gad about in shorts in this weather?!

time to start riding indoors boys. coz if u could sit on the trainer and simultaneously play MW2 that would work.

what movie do u watch when u train cutty

there isn't like one movie i watch. but i tend to gravitate towards the lofty 2-3 hour epics.

heat, imo

Yes, I'm still in shorts. The wind in your hair is one of cycling's greatest pleasures.

enjoying an extended late season down here in the Appalachian foothills in North Carolina. The weather's been generally amenable & the climbs are kicking my ass (not a complaint, btw).

krakow, can u recommend rides starting from G20? I'm running out of inspiration

wettest november since '51 apparently ffffffuuuuuuu

Did my longest ride so far yesterday, 44 miles total. Lots of hills. Last week I replaced my 13-28t freewheel with a racier-looking 13-21, which I'm now beginning to question. The main part of the ride looked like this: http://bit.ly/6hCsyE

21 doesn't sound much use for getting up hills

I figured it wasn't going to be a problem, as I live up a hill, and could take it no problem in 52x28, which is close enough to 40x21 as far as gearing goes. These climbs, though, while at a similar grade, went on for much longer.

But I know know that something like this is out of the question for me.

*now know

Blimey, 40/21. That's 51 gear inches; exactly 50% higher than my lowest gear of 34 gear inches (34/27) and I use it often enough to be very glad it's there...

its 5 deg F for the third straight day and snowing again this blows.

also came across this on a blog <3

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uhhhhh?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1jzs6dk4bs&feature=player_embedded

hey it's snowing in chicago, and my fenders are getting a workout
only 4 minutes slower on the daily commute tho!

Back on the road again: 31.5 miles today and grateful of the mudguards. The inner geek in me is getting mildly excited by the fact it's nearly a year since I started a spreadsheet logging every bike ride I did: this means it's nearly time for the ANNUAL TOTAL to reveal itself.

ysi?

Not just an annual total, but monthly totals, analysis by type of ride (alone or with others, race or training or sportive, which bike I was on).... the possibilities, if not quite endless, seem enough to make me waste at least an hour of my Christmas holidays on.

I have an annual total too! I'll just manage to pass 4,000 miles by the end of the year, assuming no accidents etc. before then.

Had my first bike dream that I remembered in the morning. Had nothing to do with riding unfortunately.

For some reason I was in the market to buy a $5000 race bike and found one on craigslist for $3000. I arrange to meet up and bring a check for $3000. The guy brings out the bike and it's boxed. I hand over the check and bring the bike home and take it out of the box and it's a PK RIPPER bmx. I woke up my SO saying I had to call the bank and stop payment on the check.

yes i was thinking about this yearly total thing as well. i don't have a spreadsheet but the commute is roughly the same mileage every day. (11 X 5) X 50= 2750. that's alot of miles for me dudes! my first full year biking EVERYDAY.

and my belt needs another notch put in it, prolly related to biking imo

OG PK RIPPER?....U WIN BRO!!

FCK A RACE BIKE, AND GET RADICAL ON HELLTRACK!!!!!!