(1 hr on the rollers 90-100RPM)
― cutty, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 14:02 (sixteen years ago) link
One step ahead of you, Grumpy. See Tools thread.
― Laurel, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 14:02 (sixteen years ago) link
just teasin boo
― cutty, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 14:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Cutty = JW-style own-board fascist :)
― Mark C, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 14:20 (sixteen years ago) link
My Commute, by Hunt3r
White peaks, a pink sky Make me forget that I have a boil on my taint.
― Hunt3r, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 14:23 (sixteen years ago) link
well done
― cutty, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 14:28 (sixteen years ago) link
LAST NIGHT, 11:45 PM, FLAT ON QUEENS BORO BRIDGE. I AS PULL OUT MY TOOLS, I REMEMBER I LEFT MY HAND PUMP IN MY MOUNTAIN BIKE BAG....WALKED TO SHADY GAS STATION IN LONG ISLAND CITY, IT STARTED TO RAIN! REPLACED TUBE, ASKED ATTENDANT FOR QUARTERS FOR THE THE PUMP (50 CENTS, WTF)...HE SAID HE DIDNT HAVE ANY...I BECAME SLIGHTLY UNHINGED, RANDOM SPANISH LADY GAVE ME QUARTERS FOR AIR PUMP. (THANK U MISS).
RODE HOME WET AND ANNOYED.
TODAY, RODE TO WORK IN RAIN. BLAH BLAH BLAH.
― ddb, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 16:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Left work after sunset yesterday. Entered Hyde Park at Queen's Gate, rode past the Albert Memorial in the dark, all very lovely. Got to Alexandra gate - gates closed. Had to ride down 100 metres of singletrack(ish) - made me appreciate the need for really proper lights doing mtb at night - and then lift my bike over a waist-high fence. Ah could've been worse.
This morning I managed the Hyde Park corner double - both ped xings in one go. Difficult but not actually impossible, seems to be down to the whims of the traffic light gods.
― ledge, Thursday, 25 October 2007 09:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Tom, is there any reason to go round HPC on a bike? Aren't there alternative routes where you're less likely to die?
I'll be doing two laps of Richmond Park on Saturday, but I have the excuse of my less-fit mate cycling with me so no lap times will be taken. Which is lucky cos I was almost 3 minutes off the pace last time. Damn you, age.
― Mark C, Thursday, 25 October 2007 10:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Cycled almost all the way to work thinking I was going a lot faster and riding on higher gears than usual, then realised I was actually on the middle chainring, not the big one. Woe.
― Bocken Social Scene, Thursday, 25 October 2007 10:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Mark, I go across the ped (+bike) (+horse) crossings so it's not dangerous - just really annoyingly timed. Parliament Square and Westminster Bridge roundabout are another story - although traffic's pretty slow around them so they're not that bad.
― ledge, Thursday, 25 October 2007 10:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Someone hit me today. A pedestrian with a magazine. Admittedly I has in the wrong I jumped a red light to get out of the sphere of a taxi that was sitting on my rear wheel. Only just as it was going red as well and as I went across the crossing, a man hit me with a magazine. I was flabberghasted.
― Ed, Friday, 26 October 2007 10:50 (sixteen years ago) link
haha! i always think ppl are going to shove sticks through my wheels :/
yesterday a lady (on a bike herself) tutted, frowned and shook her head at me angrily for riding without hands (ok i'm guessing that was what it was for, can't think of anything else), i was so surprised i started laughing at her and she looked even more annoyed.
― emsk, Friday, 26 October 2007 12:27 (sixteen years ago) link
should have given her the finger(s)
― cutty, Friday, 26 October 2007 12:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Playing chicken with people riding the wrong way in your 24" of allotted shoulder space: C/D? I was tempted on Tues but it didn't seem worthwhile in the end.
― Laurel, Friday, 26 October 2007 13:55 (sixteen years ago) link
If people hit cyclists with magazines for crossing red lights in NYC, we'd need a second police force.
― Laurel, Friday, 26 October 2007 13:56 (sixteen years ago) link
I frown and shake my head at people riding no-handed - in my mind. You reckless young whippersnappers.
― ledge, Friday, 26 October 2007 13:57 (sixteen years ago) link
i end up doing this w pedestrians who don't look before stepping into the road/bikepath all the time. maybe it's childish (no, definite;y it's childish) but fuckit, i'm not gonna hit them and the shocked little noises they make crack me up. and maybe they'll look next time.
― emsk, Friday, 26 October 2007 14:13 (sixteen years ago) link
We only did one lap of the park today as my mate rightly realised that 2 laps would leave him broken, seeing as he hasn't even looked at a bike in over a year. Was nice and relaxing riding with a less fit friend, though I did feel like I'd only done my warm-up by the time I came home.
― Mark C, Saturday, 27 October 2007 14:51 (sixteen years ago) link
rode down to whitechapel to pick up a new chai, cassette, tyre, brake blocks, to limehouse town hall where there were some nice people who helped me with it all, rode a made-up route home smooooooooth...
― emsk, Saturday, 27 October 2007 16:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Chai? You yuppie :)
― Mark C, Saturday, 27 October 2007 16:02 (sixteen years ago) link
No rides today, unless it dries up a bit. Too much eating, instead.
― Laurel, Saturday, 27 October 2007 16:37 (sixteen years ago) link
rain saturday :(
90 minutes on the rollers
― cutty, Saturday, 27 October 2007 17:10 (sixteen years ago) link
bought new saddle to replace shot 90s gel POS that came on my roadie removed old seat adjusted blinky light mounting attached new seat began to reattach seat stem broke bolt that runs through seat tube while tightening
rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaggggggggggggggggggeeeeeeeeeeee
― dan m, Saturday, 27 October 2007 20:18 (sixteen years ago) link
DAN: DOESN'T KNOW HIS OWN STRENGTH
― Laurel, Saturday, 27 October 2007 21:10 (sixteen years ago) link
BINDER BOLT. IVE BROKEN LOTS OF THOSE, THEY ARE ANNOYING TO REPLACE!
― ddb, Sunday, 28 October 2007 00:52 (sixteen years ago) link
One and two halves of a 5 mile cross-country loop at Aston Hill. Wasn't much fun - it's an extremely rooty trail and in the rain it's just waayyyy too slippy. And the most exciting downhill section was chalk, which was also fatally slidy. Won't be heading back there until the summer.
― ledge, Sunday, 28 October 2007 17:36 (sixteen years ago) link
4 hours easy easy
― cutty, Sunday, 28 October 2007 17:54 (sixteen years ago) link
THAT'S how October gets done. THe bigger the base, the taller the pyramid and all that noise.
― Hunt3r, Sunday, 28 October 2007 18:21 (sixteen years ago) link
hi five!
― cutty, Sunday, 28 October 2007 18:32 (sixteen years ago) link
easy jaunt to west town bikes for first day of build a bike class. awesome!
― gbx, Sunday, 28 October 2007 23:23 (sixteen years ago) link
man i don't know what to eat on days where i burn 2,500 calories
― cutty, Monday, 29 October 2007 00:17 (sixteen years ago) link
A COUPLE SLICES OF EGG PIZZA SHD DO THE TRICK.
― ddb, Monday, 29 October 2007 00:34 (sixteen years ago) link
^^^ my french roommate buys a slice of pizza then throws a motherfuckin egg on it
― cutty, Monday, 29 October 2007 00:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Eggs with vegetables and goat cheese and a side green salad and corned beef hash and cafe au lait.
― Laurel, Monday, 29 October 2007 04:25 (sixteen years ago) link
One and two halves of a 5 mile cross-country loop at Aston Hill. Wasn't much fun - it's an extremely rooty trail and in the rain it's just waayyyy too slippy. And the most exciting downhill section was chalk, which was also fatally slidy.
Hey Ledge, I've ridden there in the wet (my sister lives in Wendover) and that one steep slippery chalky switchback is NASTY DEATH. Good on ya for surviving.
― NickB, Monday, 29 October 2007 09:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Well we survived by walking down it... hey ya gotta pick your battles, discretion better part of valour, etc.
― ledge, Monday, 29 October 2007 09:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Ah, well don't worry, I won't tell anyone...
― NickB, Monday, 29 October 2007 10:08 (sixteen years ago) link
I set out to find a shortcut through the back of my neighborhood to a bro's place which is only really about a mile away, if I could somehow take a straight shot. I got lost and ended up 3 miles north of his house somehow on the other side of a gigantic 6-lane road that I didn't cross. I did find some railroad tracks though, so if I can retrofit my shit with some kind of theoretical rail-riding gear I am set.
― nickalicious, Monday, 29 October 2007 15:50 (sixteen years ago) link
I have seen such a thing, I have I have. For rail-riding on deserted tracks.
― Laurel, Monday, 29 October 2007 16:07 (sixteen years ago) link
^^^ i have, too!
bike frame with an outrigger
― gbx, Monday, 29 October 2007 16:16 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.freeridepgh.org/images/seanrailbike.jpg http://www.hellskitchenmuseum.com/images/sean.jpg
http://www.railbike.com/images/michael1.jpg
― Mark C, Monday, 29 October 2007 16:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Good grief - wow!
― NickB, Monday, 29 October 2007 16:22 (sixteen years ago) link
HAHA HOLY SHIT.
― nickalicious, Monday, 29 October 2007 16:28 (sixteen years ago) link
OMG there are actually a lot of old abandoned railways around here, a guy could really have a good time on a thing like that.
90 mins-almost threw up after 1st interval, yay!
― cutty, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 14:14 (sixteen years ago) link
prospect park is best in the fall
― cutty, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 14:15 (sixteen years ago) link
apparently i start work as a courier on friday, so my log is about to get a lot busier
― gbx, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 14:54 (sixteen years ago) link
we'll see about this
I dunno, but I'm going to enjoy the stories.
― Laurel, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 15:14 (sixteen years ago) link