Velominatus: Collin
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@Cyclops You live just north of somewhere that you can string these monster rides together: Salt Lake City. A personal favorite is canyon hopping along Wasatch Dr. Little Cottonwood, Big Cottonwood, and finally Millcreek. 144kms, 3350m climbing. »
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Well played Frank, well played. Hill climb races are beautiful. Is there any event that requires pure, unadulterated suffering for the entire duration? »
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The tunnel is a beautiful place. »
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I spent the first 8 hours of Festum Prophetae doing the last 8 hours of a 24-hour bike race. After knocking out the first 320km in about 9 hours, the only other rider with me started cramping and suffering from heat exhaustion (afternoon temps hit 96). In… »
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For me, I believe it is less the bike itself and the symbiosis of mind and body. The bike is the means through which you achieve it. The longing gaze at the bike in the corner isn’t so much for the machine itself, as for the sensation and motion. When yo… »
@Smithers You speak my language! I would contend few have gone as deep as Trane. I don’t think Miles did. Trane was playing in some state of pained exaltation. Albert Ayler perhaps. Some of Kalaparusha’s early work. I’ll stop digressing though. »
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@frank I don’t think there is any other choice now that you have thought of it. Best get your preparations going. »
I’ll be celebrating the first 8 hours of June 17 as the final 8 hours of my first 24-hour race. As I watch the sun come up, I’ll think of everyone riding ’round the world for the simple sake of loving the bike. With good fortune and decent weather, I am h… »
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@Jarvis Stopping at a cafe destroys the aesthetics of a ride. You are out to ride your bike after all aren’t you? Not sit around and eat a pastry. A two-hour ride = one Clifbar. Each subsequent hour I consume about 200 calories, usually via a drink mix. … »
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@Dr C Using the HRM is handy, but it can be easy to become a slave to it. I think it’s a generally useful tool to make sure you are going hard enough, rather than too hard for a given ride. The legs are damn good about saying, “Hey, lay off a bit” But the… »
I had the duality of fatigue and La Volupte recently. Saturday started with a dose of 230kms @ 32.5kph. I worked Monday 9am-Tuesday 5am, slept on a table for a couple hours and then resumed working until 3:30pm. After that binge, I thought, “Damn, it’s 80… »
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@Chris How the hell do you put on 501s? I think you need to reconsider your guns. I once accidentally tried on a pair of skinny jeans, not seeing the label. They made it just past my knees, got stuck, and then I almost couldn’t get them off. It was terrif… »
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@all Thanks for the bike love. The first ride today was great…except I haven’t ridden a bike with this much toe overlap before and knocked myself over *twice* when going into a trackstand at a stop sign (frame unscratched). Fortunately, I was just ridin… »
Almost complete on the new Look! The picture is admittedly terrible, but it’s just a taste. Look bottle cages and an appropriate stem remain to be purchased. First ride will be 100km tomorrow. I’m trying to decide if I should stick with one white, one bla… »
@Blah Hah yeah. Oops. »
@RedRanger I’m cannibalizing my old Roubaix frame. Full SRAM Force Gruppo. Handbuilt wheels with Alchemy hubs and Kinlin rims. Run-of-the mill Easton bars. Sadly, snow begins next week, so by the time everything is assembled, the inaugural ride might be o… »
Christmas arrived early this year… »
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@frank I don’t believe quantum particles just “disappear”. Entanglement and lots of those other strange phenomena are about information transfer, not mass. I do think the likelihood of other dimensions could help to explain a good deal of the mysteries of… »
@frank As someone who attempted to double major in physics and computer science, be glad you stayed at the high-level. When you actually try to learn quantum physics and you’re integrating these horrid line integrals for fucking infinite potentials wells … »
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@Jeff in PetroMetro Yeah. I have been staring at the Look 586 RSP frame. A shop sponsoring the cycling club here at Michigan is a Look dealer. I should be able to get some sort of discount. Scraping up $3k is going to be tricky nonetheless. »
This method of crafting a long route is foreign to me. I know many people simply do long rides by linking their shorter routes, but don’t you ride those routes enough? Part of my love of the long ride is the exploration. If I’m going out for 200k, that m… »
I ride alone. I can dig into my inner self far deeper when I’m 100 or 200k from home and there’s only one way to get back. We live accosted by a barrage of media, sound, people, etc. When I ride, the phone is off, merely there for an emergency, and I engu… »