your daily bicycle log

that clubs list sounds about right ed, brunswick are right into CX and everyone else is a bit jealous of the size of st kilda would be my additions. when you arriving?

Dirty Dozen (Pittsburgh's Thanksgiving hill climbing race)
That sounds interesting

I'm visiting in september but not arriving properly for 8-9 months. I'll be over a few times before then.

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Dirty Dozen

http://www.dannychew.com/dd.html

http://www.dannychew.com/images/dd01photos/DD01Logan.jpg

That looks steep

Gives me the willies just looking at that photo! Wow!

some wags put together a melbourne version of that out in the dandenongs, lemme find a link

http://theclimbingcyclist.com/the-inaugural-melbourne-dirty-dozen/

reliably informed that terrys avenue is 'da raw shit'

I completed THE BIG ONE today, my longest ever ride and my first ever ride over a hundred miles, all carefully paced to allow to drop off & pick up my daughter from nursery. Surprisingly I didn't feel particularly tired or weak or cramping or anything and did the last ten miles at a faster pace than any other part of the ride.
Distance: 100.86 miles
Moving Time: 6:01:02
Elapsed Time: 7:27:05
Avg Moving Speed: 16.8 mph
Max Speed: 36.8 mph
Elevation Gain: 1,344 m
Avg Temperature: 22.6 °C
http://app.strava.com/rides/17487943

Well done! Considerably faster than we managed it, unsurprisingly.

Did 55 miles over Dartmoor today, some seriously long hills. First ride since the 100 miler, and it took it out of me; been playing football more than cycling lately.

biked to a winery with the girl yesterday. Kind of cool that 3 or 4 months ago I couldn't have had that experience for a couple of reasons (the biking, the girl) :)

biked to a festival, 35mi. went on a beer run, 12mi. life is good.

Sounds great.

Rode up north to a little beach town with folks. Guy who picked the ride was setting a decent but not insane pace. Highlight was super fun rollers with a view of a fogged-out beach, one of my favorite kinds of riding: gravity-assisted but pedaling enough to feel like you're under your own power. On the way home we decided to climb the highest nearby peak, got a gorgeous city view as our reward.

Ben, my partner for the Dartmoor ride yesterday, carried on and did another 45 miles to take him to 100 - he'd only done 40 for the first time a couple of months ago on a ride with me, and that battered him, and then he did 60 for the first time about a fortnight ago. Good lad.

snagged strava KoM on the hill past my own school!

Rode snowbird stage of tour of utah before pros, basically collapsed and suffered up final climb. Disappointing, but an interesting
Ride.

A good 90km yesterday. Main aim was to get 1300m of climbing in in preparation for next weekend's Tour of Every Pittsburgh Neighbourhood, part of the ongoing bikefes, which promises 8000ft of climbing in 80 miles.

I might make my goal of 1000km in August.

I biked about 15m from home to the Rockaway beach on Sun. After almost two weeks off the bike while I was out of town, that was not a fun ride. There's a bike path from Canarsie pier all the way to the Marine Parkway Bridge, and you'd think the last bridge was the tallest/worst, but somehow it's not the bay bridge that kills me! It's two "little" ones along the bike path that parallels the Shore Parkway. I think they're both just steep.

I have this cunning plan to bike to the SI ferry, take bike on boat, and then bike around the SI coast to this long boardwalk on the east side and go to the beach there. I can't think of anyone who'll go with me though.

So I was stupid and crashed and "three acute fractures third fourth and fifth metacarpals. Mild angulation and displacement of the fracture at base of fifth metacarpal.". Shit really hurt, plus had to ride one handed 30 mins to hospital with no brakes. :(

uh oh

:-(

Oh no! Sorry to hear that Hunt3r. What happened? Hope you're feeling okay post-hospital.

Yeah its all good. I'll see hand guy today or tomorrow I guess.

Ouch. Get well soon.

on road or off road?

on street commuting home. i wasnt paying good enuf attention and hit a pickup truck. a ~parked~ pickup truck. ay yi yi.

Did the Dartmoor ride again today with a slightly tweaked home leg to keep us off a horrible stretch of busy road. 3,500 feet of climbing al in all.

none of 3 recommended hand orthos could see me til monday, so i decided to shit my pants by reading about 5th metacarpal base fractures using my doctor of interwebs degree. if i dont pull thru, rip i was a fatmantis.

damn, i hope things go well for you.

went for a ride with a shasta today + one of his racing buddies. they were recovering from various crashes and illnesses so i could just about keep up. flat (unusual for around here) fast, fun.

Did the "Terrible Tour" of every Pittsburgh Neighborhood. Led by a member of a local team. Pretty good clip through the city. Not quite the climbing fest promised, just under 2000m. Felt really good on it and was able to beat my buddy up most things, a few weeks agao he was able to do me over. (NB buddy has just spent 3 weeks on a beach in the lebanon followed by 7 night shifts at the hospital and hasn't touched a bike but still, I am the winner)

http://app.strava.com/rides/18960465

On sunday, quiet spin and I broke a spoke. Astounded that for once it was not the drive side. It looks like I picked up some fishing twine that wrapped itself around the hub and the spoke. Annoying but a cheap fix.

Not a lot of road riding but a lot of track racing lately. Here is a GoPro video from my handlebars of one of our recent races, a scratch race. The best part is the move I make at around 6:39. Worst part is that I came out into the wind on the final lap and let guys onto the back of the finishing move far to early (into turn one).

http://youtu.be/XGfwnR76kfY

Really impressive riding! I was on the edge of my seat from 6 minutes onwards - good work!

that was cool.

so i'm out of cycling for some months, and i will be off iltrmb. i'll be over on running running thread if im feeling it. careful out there kids.

heal up soon hunt3r

http://app.strava.com/activities/19146306

^gravel grind. took wrong turn and had to pick my way down muddy trench-like 4wd track and then hit the highway to make the second checkpoint - what's another 6km tho rite?

steep unmarked sector on the elevation chart at 67km was gravel and 15%+ for maybe a mile or so, nice WALKING track perhaps. i saw one person ride it - girl on MTB crawled up in granny gear, think the effort might've cooked her.

am thinking baout adopting those TRP mini-v brakes after a couple of cantilever-'assisted' braking moments.

Gah, I know what caused the spoke to blow. Looking at the wheel tonight, I see scrapes on the braking surface and remember going doin into the gap between concrete slabs on a typically crappy pittsburgh st.

I hope this doesn't mean a new rim.

On the plus side my spare wheel is heavier, so better training.

Today I rode a few miles with my friend Bobby, who is in the midst of riding 683 miles in a week as part of the Strava CTS Bucket List Challenge (http://www.strava.com/challenges/cts-bucket-list-challenge). He is raising money for Re~Cycle (http://www.re-cycle.org/), a charity who send bicycles to Africa in order to provide cheap and sustainable transport for those in need. I think that it is an impressive and noble endeavour and I'm just jealous that I am working this week and couldn't join him more! In case anyone wants to contribute a donation then he has a Just Giving page here: http://www.justgiving.com/bobby-wilson

did CX race today. legs still sore! think I was slower than last year...

190km this weekend. Garmin screwed up recording my saturday ride. I got a bit sunburnt, otherwise a great weekend.

Just back from holiday in Tuscanny - have been off the bike for about 2 weeks now, but doing a race on Sunday morning. Sorry to hear about your crash Hunter.

Actually, it's not quite true to say I haven't ridden for a fortnight. I did about 10 very slow miles around the walls of Lucca on a woman's bike with a basket on the front and my daughter on the back*, so not exactly great training.
http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r299/crunchydog_2006/luccabike.jpg

*who crunched nose-first into my back when I braked suddenly to avoid my faltering wife - who knew that would happen?

rode some of the lesser-known trails on pitch hill in surrey, friend took the opportunity to do some jumps, i don't jump so i took the opportunity to practice my sports photographer skills.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8445/7875377158_0216636312_z.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8443/7875365058_9e803c95c0_z.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7257/7875359426_cb73bf2750_z.jpg

actually just fell off my bike today. somehow completely ballsed up clipping in, something I do 1001 times without even thinking about it and went arse over tit travelling at 0mph.

you can badly injure your pride that way

it was v embarrassing - had the whole 'oh my god are you ok?' 'no, no, I'm fine' thing, as I limped off with blood trickling down my knee and my handlebars at 90 degrees to my front wheel.

Went 20m last night just getting to a show and back, on my new 3spd!! It's been a year or more since I rode a geared bike, and I have NEVER had one this smooth and nice; it feels inefficient per pedal stroke compared to my single-speed, but BOY I forgot how luxurious mechanical advantage is. Three cheers for physics!

3 punctures in 3 days. Gah! My tyres are fairly new, I found 3 medium size glass 'slices' that have made it all the way through the tyre. So is that it? New tyres again?

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/schwalbe-ultremo-r1-evolution-coloured-folding-road-tyre/

Those are what I have. Any recommendations are welcome.

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/vittoria-rubino-pro-slick-folding-clincher-tyre/

?

i've got non-folding non-slick ones and i just had my first puncture after three years. ok i only ride about once a week but still.