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
yeah, gws cozen
― on fire after blowout in gulf (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 6 August 2013 01:47 (ten years ago) link
cozen was it like this
http://youtu.be/UqjOqgilwmQ
― 'SPIRIT OF TRUCK' (haitch), Tuesday, 6 August 2013 01:56 (ten years ago) link
Set off at 8am with a vague intention to ride a road I've not done before, and did so. Then moved onto a road I have ridden before but which is beautiful and quick, and enjoyed that. 45 miles in, 2 from home but thinking I'd loop town to get up to 50, a wasp flew into my face and stung me on the top lip. Which swelled up like Lana Del Rey. So I went strait home and only got to 47. I still look like Lana 8 hours later. Beautiful ride until that damn wasp. Never been stung before in 34 years.
― they all are afflicted with a sickness of existence (Scik Mouthy), Sunday, 11 August 2013 19:01 (ten years ago) link
pics or it didn't happen
― pr0n tsar (cozen), Sunday, 11 August 2013 19:41 (ten years ago) link
I get stung once or twice a year but it has always been the old yellow jacket down the jersey on the downhill. Terrible feeling ESP since they can get multiple stings in.
― joe sixpac hologram (Hunt3r), Sunday, 11 August 2013 19:50 (ten years ago) link
http://instagram.com/p/c3sHZSRDC9/
― they all are afflicted with a sickness of existence (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 12 August 2013 05:58 (ten years ago) link
65ish miles today in about four and a half hours. (User error on both Strava and Endomondo so neither is accurate.) 5000+ feet of climbing over Dartmoor. Tired now.
― they all are afflicted with a sickness of existence (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 20 August 2013 18:58 (ten years ago) link
tiiiiiiiiiired nowhttp://www.strava.com/activities/77109274
― spoons dipped in butter (cozen), Saturday, 24 August 2013 13:19 (ten years ago) link
man I wanna do a big ride
― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Saturday, 24 August 2013 13:23 (ten years ago) link
Nice work, Cozen. I was meant to do 60 but bro in law screwed up the route...
― they all are afflicted with a sickness of existence (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 24 August 2013 21:16 (ten years ago) link
I still need to get my road bike back on the road! Would love to have tagged along for something like that.
― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Saturday, 24 August 2013 22:54 (ten years ago) link
maybe the summer is over. my ride felt terrible. i mean, it shoulda been great, it was finally below 90 degrees- only 75!! just felt dead. and slow. then, on the first 1800 ft of the 2800 ft descent i got stuck behind a car that was fast enough for me not to be an ahole and pass, but slow enough to be on the brakes for a good part of it, which i hate.
― you're better off in a supersonic jet (Hunt3r), Saturday, 24 August 2013 23:21 (ten years ago) link
42 miles, 2,800 feet of climbing, 20 PBs on Strava (17 in a row), and took two and a half minutes off my fastest ten mile time. Good day.
― they all are afflicted with a sickness of existence (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 31 August 2013 20:48 (ten years ago) link
Good week this one. Settled in Melbourne, two thrashes down to Frankston this week. Today's ride featured a century half an hour faster than I've ever gone before. Pan flat and not too much wind, good group riding making it feel pretty easy. Blew another spoke on my wheel. I ave the new wheels, time to set them up.
Haitch, fancy a ride some time?
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Sunday, 8 September 2013 08:44 (ten years ago) link
is melb the cycling paradise I've heard?
― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Sunday, 8 September 2013 12:58 (ten years ago) link
Pretty awesome so far. Good weather, bike lanes, bike priority lights and a hell of a lot of cyclists. I've never seen so many out as I did yesterday and it's not even properly spring yet (and melburnians do like to complain about a winter that doesn't trouble to come remotely near freezing).
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 9 September 2013 09:16 (ten years ago) link
yes!
― spring has sprung the grass is risible (haitch), Monday, 9 September 2013 11:00 (ten years ago) link
I can show you the fake ardennes bergs out near kinglake.
did you do olivers hill out the other side of frankston and loop back? the one sting in the beach road tail.
― spring has sprung the grass is risible (haitch), Monday, 9 September 2013 11:04 (ten years ago) link
That sounds like a plan, Kinglake seems to be on the list of local monuments. Webmail link works. I'm pretty open right now, what with not having a job and all.
Olivers hill was done. Are you doing Around the Bay? How does the route deal with those lumps on the mornington peninsula?
Today I rode up the Merri and Yarra valleys. Out longer than I expected but it is so pretty out there. I saw Kangeroos/Wallabies on the ride, which, for me at least, was pretty astounding.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 10 September 2013 07:03 (ten years ago) link
I did around the bay last year on someone else's entry (he got knocked off his bike a week before it, i got it as a freebie). did the melbourne-sorrento and back version rather than all the way around so I missed on the ride over the westgate bridge (boo) but also the pretty boring ride down the geelong highway. they send everybody on the nepean rather than taking the (awesome) coast road between mornington and dromana, which sucks the fun out of it a bit.
― spring has sprung the grass is risible (haitch), Wednesday, 11 September 2013 01:26 (ten years ago) link
man the riding out here is so much better than MN it's stupid. did a nice ~17mi loop after work w/1400ft of climbing, which is rides v much not in character for this midwesterner. super fun. even felt like i had ~realizations~ about, like, pedaling form? i tried pedaling with my hips/torso (if that makes sense) instead of my legs and found it much easier to grind it all out w/blowing up. i only got out of the saddle once, which is sort of a big deal for me
― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Wednesday, 11 September 2013 23:45 (ten years ago) link
http://youtu.be/IEaWz8WfWb4
smooth and easy with the pedals. i don't even know where u are man, nh, is that right? enjoy, anyways.
― boom lol excelsior (Hunt3r), Thursday, 12 September 2013 03:07 (ten years ago) link