tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post1364203035215893922..comments2024-03-27T07:25:55.115-04:00Comments on Bike Snob NYC: Well my goodness would you look at the time.BikeSnobNYChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11256142855437740163noreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-69575124172710215282017-02-09T09:18:07.116-05:002017-02-09T09:18:07.116-05:00Citibike doesn't think I can make rational cho...<a href="https://vimeo.com/203290070" rel="nofollow"> Citibike doesn't think I can make rational choices and locked me out today.</a>dancesonpedalshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00164303442656489828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-30826848471388975492017-02-09T01:24:10.447-05:002017-02-09T01:24:10.447-05:00These go to eleven.These go to eleven.Clarkeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11719786343616381340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-89589703693556371032017-02-09T00:21:33.457-05:002017-02-09T00:21:33.457-05:00"Somebody stop this thing!," you can alm...<br /><i> "Somebody stop this thing!," you can almost hear him shouting:</i><br /><br />wrong. <br /><br />it should be <a href="https://youtu.be/5DxDEoDojJ4?t=30" rel="nofollow">"Help Jane stop this crazy thing!," you can almost hear him shouting:</a>Spokeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01634249104084545065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-63330256549593500182017-02-09T00:16:12.271-05:002017-02-09T00:16:12.271-05:00
PODIUM
for the first comment the day after the ...<br /><br />PODIUM<br /><br />for the first comment the day after the bloggy postSpokeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01634249104084545065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-42764574977488019962017-02-08T23:32:48.876-05:002017-02-08T23:32:48.876-05:00My goal is to ride 10,000
SmilesMy goal is to ride 10,000<br />SmilesJLRBnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-36173580397611761972017-02-08T23:27:02.912-05:002017-02-08T23:27:02.912-05:00I work with people THAT STILL GET UP AT 5 ON THEIR...I work with people THAT STILL GET UP AT 5 ON THEIR DAY OFF......and are proud of it, it's most perplexing.McFlynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-85796145469440468122017-02-08T23:17:07.612-05:002017-02-08T23:17:07.612-05:00You should move up to Canada, then you only have t...You should move up to Canada, then you only have to ride 10,000 km in a year. So much more doable.Seal Clubbernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-53124406818314708082017-02-08T23:04:58.788-05:002017-02-08T23:04:58.788-05:00Snow again, YES!
One awesome day of riding this...Snow again, YES! <br /><br />One awesome day of riding this week already! Snow is awesome, or gives Americans perhaps the only viable excuse not to drive and the roads will be mostly free of fking arseholes piloting their petro jugggerknots.<br /><br />Even better is the ones still on the road (having not crashed while trying to maintain highway speeds in snow) tend to be so white knuckled that once on a secondary road they are totally tolerant of other, slower, road users... Here's to wishing everyday was free of arseholes in cars.<br /><br />Die free...noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-33491274044106956042017-02-08T22:02:19.962-05:002017-02-08T22:02:19.962-05:00I've had several 10k years. The last couple ha...I've had several 10k years. The last couple have been 7k. I must be slipping. Most of those were commuting miles, as it's 36 mi, round trip, for me. It's a great ride, with lots of dirt, lots of pavement, 17% climbs, and the jaw dropping beauty of northern Vermont. I don't race, and I don't consider the non-commuting miles to be training. I'm not keen on riding with groups, as I've become weary of the concentration required, and there always seems to be at least one person who has not yet mastered riding in a bunch. Although the commute takes a good size bite out of my day, it uses up an hour that I would otherwise be sitting on my butt in my car, so the time/benefit ratio is pretty good. Also, I'm a reluctant auto mechanic, as I've always done my own repairs, but long ago lost any enjoyment in it, so the more I ride, the less I need to work on the car. I typically ride about a century a month, and at least one double each year (100-200.org), all just for fun, and because the more you ride, the easier any ride becomes. I write all this to make the point that you don't need to be a fixated Fred to rack up big miles, just ride whenever you can do so instead of driving, and expand your horizons. Going to a conference 100 miles away? If the weather is okay, why not ride? Find a way to make the time work. You and your time are far less important than you think.Steve Barnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05141738452735566462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-41890616365299323512017-02-08T19:30:07.822-05:002017-02-08T19:30:07.822-05:00So, what's the prize for joining the 10,000 Mi...So, what's the prize for joining the 10,000 Mile Club? A sore Scranus! To paraphrase John Winger, "you ever see a fred get wildly fucked by teenage girls."Doothnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-33234062368377257332017-02-08T19:28:08.092-05:002017-02-08T19:28:08.092-05:00I rode 2 years when I managed to get 10,000 miles....I rode 2 years when I managed to get 10,000 miles. I was recently divorced, no kids and I worked a 4-day schedule. Even with that I woke up one day and thought "I am wasting my life". No relationship, no time for anything but biking, I regularly turned down social invitations because it would interfer with my ability to log 80 or 90 miles the next day. I love to ride but one does need to have a life and enjoy other activites as well as friends and family. Oh, and nobody gives a shit how much you ride and most people just think you're lying anyway.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-90059311565848915322017-02-08T19:10:41.188-05:002017-02-08T19:10:41.188-05:00Greenbelt 5:43 PM
You're right. It is all in t...Greenbelt 5:43 PM<br />You're right. It is all in the commuting. 10k is easy with 65% of it my daily commute.ClevelandYeahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08454267251596001497noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-83452003171451469762017-02-08T19:02:47.056-05:002017-02-08T19:02:47.056-05:00A polymorph of Freds.
A little electric assist ne...A polymorph of Freds.<br /><br />A little electric assist never goes amiss.<br /><br />R2-D2Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-69278499591932417272017-02-08T17:54:26.779-05:002017-02-08T17:54:26.779-05:00A Fuck-o of FredsA Fuck-o of FredsPathetic Old Cyclisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17679288563142001686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-36684078139210537862017-02-08T17:45:56.412-05:002017-02-08T17:45:56.412-05:00"I'd throw my human child onto the erstwh...<i>"I'd throw my human child onto the erstwhile Big Dummy (now lovingly re-homed)..."</i><br /><br />Let's hope the bike was re-homed, and what ever the human child is currently being thrown on provides a soft landing.dan·gling par·ti·ci·plenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-40530054419645182832017-02-08T17:43:41.808-05:002017-02-08T17:43:41.808-05:0010k miles/year is easy. how do i know? because I&#...10k miles/year is easy. how do i know? because I've never achieved it. but I've hit 9k and 8k a few times and 7 dot something last year. and i'm old and fat and well on the downhill side of 50 years of age. it's all in the commuting.Greenbeltnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-12929690242615360562017-02-08T16:59:52.565-05:002017-02-08T16:59:52.565-05:00Freddy,
Nice article huh? I read till I reached &...Freddy,<br /><br />Nice article huh? I read till I reached "It would break my heart to quit racing..." He could have kept racing, he just wouldn't be competitive anymore. Yeah, no sympathy from me.1904 Cadardinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-26699361666270628812017-02-08T16:25:09.458-05:002017-02-08T16:25:09.458-05:00Time to bring out the fat tires.Time to bring out the fat tires.bad boy of the northnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-55329004035876727862017-02-08T16:15:53.097-05:002017-02-08T16:15:53.097-05:00Huh? What?Huh? What?Old timernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-4434117692174268652017-02-08T16:14:28.827-05:002017-02-08T16:14:28.827-05:00hello team. long time no see.
I think Commie is ...hello team. long time no see. <br /><br />I think Commie is correct - the laws of physics get a little out of sorts once you start mixing a frame with terrain that it wasn't designed for. <br /><br />I once took my beach cruiser out to an area with no sand at all and wound up in the 16th century via a wormhole. <br /><br />PBatemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05690341622506849250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-66757960898445032432017-02-08T15:45:54.861-05:002017-02-08T15:45:54.861-05:00myeah...no motor, that's the way bikes handle ...myeah...no motor, that's the way bikes handle on mud without a mud-specific frame, the moron was racing a gravel bike in mud.When will they learn.<br /><br />The press put the kaibosh on motobikes when they started using thermal cameras, as opposed to the UCI that used an EM field app on iPads (seriously). Zee UCI didn't realize zee app technologie could be thwarted with aluminum foil. The same foil used to store dope up soigneur rectums,(rectum? I hardly knew him! -Lance A).<br /><br />I hear Ducati wants to make a new UCI Pro Tour team, ...nothing to see here folks. CommieCanuckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00359032516895341235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-70814345636368243392017-02-08T15:30:39.581-05:002017-02-08T15:30:39.581-05:00vsk said ...
Got bread and milq ?
Snowpocalyp...vsk said ...<br /><br /><br />Got bread and milq ? <br /><br />Snowpocalypto's comin! <br /><br /><br />vkAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15624930226207861836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-86086172096619560652017-02-08T14:57:21.276-05:002017-02-08T14:57:21.276-05:00In other news, did you see that the VeloSnooze is ...In other news, did you see that the <a href="http://www.velonews.com/2017/02/from-the-mag/need-t-amateur-cycling-testosterone-tues_430124" rel="nofollow">VeloSnooze</a> is now defending the right of old guys to take testosterone so that they can keep participating in fred races? Apparently Jeff Hammond's T is so low that he would up and die if he can't take enough testosterone so that he can keep being competitive in races. I might be inclined to have an eensy bit of sympathy for him if I didn't know that (a) testosterone levels naturally drop in all men as they age and (b) I could walk into any number of clinics today and walk out with a lowT diagnosis and a prescription for testosterone supplements. Apparently USAC and USADA are okay with this. Awesome, eh?Freddy Murcksnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-15443707222965443652017-02-08T14:50:45.074-05:002017-02-08T14:50:45.074-05:00PS, I didn't set my 2016 mileage goal until Ch...PS, I didn't set my 2016 mileage goal until Christmas Eve 2016.Lieutenant Obliviousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4213956784784062266.post-72701400956861880352017-02-08T14:49:42.716-05:002017-02-08T14:49:42.716-05:00So fitting that the first image in that Dunkin'...So fitting that the first image in that Dunkin' Donuts link is of a police SUV that crashed into a Dunkin Donuts!<br /><br />My mileage goal for 2016 was 3,000. I came up about 18 miles short on account of a bad cold I got a few days before New Year's Eve. And a couple hundred of those miles were done on a basement trainer.Lieutenant Obliviousnoreply@blogger.com