Velominatus: PeakInTwoYears
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Back on the bike after 25 years of gradschoolkidsworkmarriagedivorcelotsofboozerunningrockclimbingflyfishing and, now, a partner who loves to ride. Even in my youth I was never more than a Cat 4 who was Too Fat To Climb, but now at 50 I've rediscovered the transcendence of time spent in the saddle.
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@G’rilla +1 It’s amazing how absolutely frictionless the surface of a tree root can be when it’s soaking wet and has been worn smooth by thousands of mtb tires. I have found this to be the case. »
@G’rilla Chapeau. I struggle with this part on the mtb. I’ll try to keep your example in mind. »
@RedRanger Yeah the AZT race is totally self-supported, as well. On the website, they don’t refer to it as an organized event, just a “something people do on their own steam, and if they happen to do it at the same time it’s none of our business” kind of … »
@RedRanger A friend just got back from there having completed the 300-mile version of the Arizona Trail Race. It sounded pretty hellish. He wants to do it again, but he’s a nutter. »
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@scaler911 Who the hell came up with BMI, anyway? Some tall skinny bastard, that’s who. When I was at my overall most fit, single-digit body fat and bench pressing waaaaay over my body weight and running 8-minute miles for 20+ miles, my BMI was stupid h… »
@erik Yep. I’ve dabbled in a bit of web-related work and am teaching myself to code. I can only guess how much time goes into the site. And for somebody like myself who lives in the Howling Wilderness, the site is a bulging package of motivation, if you… »
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@G’rilla Honest to Christ. That WSJ piece was stewpid because the writer understood neither the culture of road cycling nor the exigencies of commuting nor the pleasures of riding a city bike to the pub nor the differences and overlaps between the three… »
@VeloSix My pov: if you can do your share of the work and still grind on wheelsucking meat-heads, why not enjoy it? I think it’s a fine thing to make them suffer if you’re not being an asshole about it. In fact, if I were you, I’d start looking for circu… »
Mille grazie! »
@ped Got a link for the summary of the Nottingham study? I want to read more. »
@Sauterelle It’s always about Lance. Commuters don’t want to wear lycra? Must be about Lance. Obama considering military aid to Syrian rebels? Lance. Astronomers find a new Earth-sized planet? Yep. »
@mcsqueak Soy, man. That shit is poison. It was probably laced with gluten, fructose, and sarin. »
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@Harminator If I weren’t already full of red wine and good cheer, I’d dispute the first sentence. Instead, I’ll heartily endorse the third. And I’ll give you all this trailer. I’ve watched this film countless times over the last six years, and it never … »
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@snoov Eat your baby carrots and stop pulling faces. »
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@roger I agree with most of that but not all. I was in the habit of both weighting the inside peg and using the outside thigh on the tank. Nick Ienatch, in Sport Riding Techniques, describes the rationale for doing both: basically, that both assist with … »
@DerHoggz So we ARE talking about counter-steering a bicycle…! I have tried it, lately, and “a little goes a long way” is an understatement to someone used to counter-steering a motorcycle. »
@DerHoggz Boy, I’ll say. A 400-pound motorcycle underneath me feels a lot different from a 17-pound Cannondale. I have never, not once, been tempted to skooch my ass off the inside of a bicycle in a turn! There’s also a rather ginormous difference in t… »
@Nate Now I’m back to hands again… Given that downward forces on the front tire have to come through the steerer, does weighting the inside bar really load the tire differently from weighting both sides equally? (I’m not saying it doesn’t, just trying… »
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Fundamentalists of whatever flavor who use pseudo-scientific rhetoric are irresistible. I love a good “ream” of “peer-reviewed evidence” with no academic citations. Can’t resist is, apparently. But it’s a…wait for it…fruitless business. Now I’m going… »
I don’t know about cooked meat in particular, but I’ve been reading that cooking in general is why we have the brains that we do. If we didn’t cook, we’d be spending six hours a day chewing, like other primates our size. All that energy spent chewing does… »
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@scaler911 That makes total sense to me. I’m going to stop worrying about my hands and just focus on weighting the outside pedal and finding the fore-and-aft sweet spot for my center of gravity. I remember enjoying descending very much, but I haven’t ye… »
@frank Sure, that’s why you see the MotoGP guys weighting the inside peg and dragging the knee; it lets them keep it more upright with larger contact patches on the road. So when you say “push as hard as you can on your inside hand,” you must mean w… »
I was meditating on this issue during last week’s mtb ride. It was an up-and-down out-and-back, and I was, again, confirmed in my feelings, a) that climbing–anything–on a mountain bike is revoltingly tedious drudgery, b) that descending on a mountain bi… »
@mcsqueak The Sottile? I’ve got that shell in grey. I like the packability of it, but they cut the sleeves way too baggy. Anecdotally, subjectively, I believe drivers (on average) give me more space when passing when I’m flashing a light during the day… »