the early ’90s Motorola MX Leaders were burly bikes, and they were between 20-21lbs.

i don’t believe Bugno’s Moser was 24lbs.

sounds like he needed at tune up effort for the TDF, and it went better than expected!

@Teocalli

if you ever decide to give hot yoga a try, a bit of advice: don’t try to power through it. yoga sort of works your own body against itself, until you have practiced for awhile. trying to force yourself through a 1-1/2 hr hot yoga work out is like trying to do a 40k tt at kilo pace. SERIOUS suffering!! lol it is really great…

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i do Bikram yoga 2x-3x a week, and i have for years. i believe it actually DEtrains me somewhat to practice hot yoga so often, but the benefits, for me, outweigh this only possible negative. i also do 50 pushups every morning, because i am still often called upon to do conventional male stuff from time to time, like open jars, lift kegs of…

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..and the rest of the peloton, too. even after all these scandals, i understand the tendency to assume there are still “clean” riders. (whatever that means) but c’mon man, how many times are you going to be let down before you realize that the pharmacy is, and has been, a decade-plus ahead of the testing labs. and even that is taking on the…

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@Rick

that’s obvious. Wiggo only won one tour.

i like Wiggins. his looks, his ink, his track-honed pedal strone. ain’t a fan of the socks, but who cares? i’m old and slow. and i couldn’t care less about his TUE scandal.

@Tomás Leal Elgueda

dildo more likely than dodo

sorry. i hate autocorrect and my eyesight isn’t as good as it used to be.

unless you’re Iron Maiden or something, most road-trip style tours aren’t that long for working guys, you may go on 5-10 gig trips, with 10 being a rare maximum how grueling these are is mostly up to the performer and how they approach tgeir job.

@RobSandy

i’ve toured nationally with the Metal Sludge tour, as well as with my own band, but most of my money i made playing live music on Bourbon St here in New Orleans. i’ve played electric blues (Freddie King, Howlin Wolf, Little Walter, etc), classic rock (Clapton, SRV, Santana, Bob Marley, Zeppelin, Hendrix, Stones, etc), funk (ohio…

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@wiscot

Achtung is my favorite. after i heard “The Fly” i used a gated delay on just about everything i played for about a year. lol what an outrageous album!

@RobSandy

i made my living with my guitar for 15 years. it’s why i quit riding years ago. you really can’t take a Merckx Corsa on the bus with you.. lol it was a lot of fun, and i was very privileged to be able to put my daughter through school with music, but when it’s not fun anymore, it’s REALLY not fun. i would surmise the life of a pro…

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@RobSandy

it’s not easy to maintain a balance between music and health. music is decidedly unhealthy, in 2017, too. as far as your board, i just got into using a sub-octave pedal, which i’ve never used. i have a good bit of experience with an Octavia, but as far as an octave down, none. either type of pedal is fun, and has loads of uses.

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@frank

are you quite sure you have enough dirtboxes? where’s the Rat, Frank?

my interval training music tends toward Electric Wizard, Windhand, Sleep, etc. the deeper and slower i can get my mind working, the deeper i can suffer. this is a great thread, and one i missed when it was new.

@frank

unlike (seemingly) most U2 fans, i LOVE that record, and the movie, too.