Cary

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

@Cary

I really should stretch more. I’ve never been particularly flexible and it certainly is not going to improve without some help as the years creep by. I also have spurts when I use a rowing machine.

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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 b…[Read more]

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 b…[Read more]

..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 no…[Read more]

@Rick

@Cary

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.

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I like Wiggo too but if he is a doper, which I now believe is probable, I like him considerably less. What would make him different than whats his name…

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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

Praised be Merckx! So good to see a new post from you Frank that I decided to finally register after years of silent sidelines-watching the site.

Thought that Velominati has gone the way of the dodo!

Regarding Sagan: He’s a rockstar, can do whatever the fuck he want, but he’s wearing the rainbow bands, FFS! Black shoe…

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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

@Cary

@RobSandy

@Cary

It’s true, musicians rarely look well.

I’ve always reckoned that music is something I can get back into when I’m older, but the best time to be cycling is now.

And yeah, I spent a whole summer trying to get a band together and couldn’t manage it. That killed off a lot of my enthusiasm. Bear in mind I’…

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@wiscot

@Deakus

@Cary

Need to go back to WAR, BOY, Under a Blood Red Sky and the Unforgettable Fire….that’s where it was at.

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Achtung Baby was a great album. U2’s new one is ok. Better than the one before though. I have a sweet spot for The Unforgettable Fire too – after War, they could have done quite nicely just recycling that so…

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@RobSandy

@Cary

It’s true, musicians rarely look well.

I’ve always reckoned that music is something I can get back into when I’m older, but the best time to be cycling is now.

And yeah, I spent a whole summer trying to get a band together and couldn’t manage it. That killed off a lot of my enthusiasm. Bear in mind I’m a songwrite…

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@RobSandy

@Cary

@RobSandy

Loudness

 

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that JVM is the very tits. i toured the southern US with a couple JCM2000 DSL50s i modified myself, about 15 years ago. i am not a big fan of most JMPs, 800s, or 900s. the dsl2000s and jvm series, OTOH.. SUPER.

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Wow, I posted that picture ages ago. Super ages, like, when Frank…

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@frank

@wilburrox

more than one way to skin a cat.

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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

@Daccordi Rider

@Ron

I think U2 has now sucked for more years than they were good for. Man, they’ve been putting out shitty music for too damn long.

U2 did good stuff?

Listen to Rattle and Hum and tell me that isn’t the biznitch.

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