/DRT/ - Daily Ride Thread

>>1025462

There's more than one Saskatchewan anon on /n/? Neat.

>>1025462
got hit by a car and my specialized allez sprint expert is kill

was riding in the bike lane, suv just took a right turn right infront of me and i slammed into the side of it, bounced off it onto the pavement. they didnt speed off and i got the insurance info, its on tape, hopefully everything will work out but that never seems to happen

always the worst because it means i cant ride anymore

>>1025462
Someone threw out their fluid trainer 1, just got a new skewer for my bike, trainer works great!

>>1025476
Are you ok?

Similiar thing just happened to me. Shit sucks. Their insurance company is talking about paying 'market value' on my bike not replacement cost so i might get jewd. It wasn't as nice as yours though. RIP

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>>1025462
>Also - Saskatchewan anon, answer me
Thought you were just making a statement, not a question. One week of unusually warm November weather here, then back to more typical temperature. Goal for today's ride is to check out construction progress on the rail line through the valley going from Belle Plaine to the K+S mine.

>>1025476
>was riding in the bike lane, suv just took a right turn right infront of me and i slammed into the side of it
This has to be like 90% of all bike crashes

>>1025486
Why was that in there?

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>>1025462
30 min walk
40 min weights
20 min rowing machine
1 h on the stationary
30 min walk home

>>1025555
Nobody cares about your workout routine, /fit/. Go for an actual ride or go away.

>>1025557
Fuck that. You can't ride in Ontario in the winter on any kind of nice bike.

>>1025531
Thanks! I enjoy your pictures. I could tell right away. I'm in Alberta.
>>1025558
It was warm and sunny in Calgary yesterday. Back home in Minnesota it's been the same. I can't imagine Ontario is "unridable" yet?

>>1025560
No it's completely rideable I'm warming up for a long one right now.

Winter though, no way. At least for me anyway.

>>1025558
wer u at in ontario? i really want to do long weekend group rides

>>1025561
HTFU faggot

>>1025564
Guelph

>>1025558
thats why I bought a cheap fat meme bike. join the club

>>1025567
ehh...I kind of like the stationary...

Builds muscles better than actual cycling. (Plus it's got a power meter)

>>1025568
>not having SRM in your 90s rigid MTB with slicks
baka

>>1025568
""""""""""""""""""Powermeter""""""""""""""""""

Passed a horse rider on my commute to work today and it reminded me of this incident I had with a horse about two weeks ago

>be riding home from gym after a nice workout
>it's dark and well below freezing
>no worries as I've got lights and studded tires
>no snow yet so the studs make that nice they have on asphalt and ice
>pass a stable
>come up from behind to a girl/young woman in her late teens or early twenties riding a horse
>it's going along nicely on the left side of the MUP
>prepare to pass the horse and get as far right as possible to give it plenty of room
>riding to pretty massive headwind as I live on a coast
>just as I'm almost side by side with the horse it presumably hears my studs against the asphalt
>horse panics
>now I'm side by side next to a panicking horse on a narrow MUP
>nowheretoescape.png
>can't floor the brakes because slippery as fuck
>only option is to keep riding and get past the horse hoping it won't kill both me and it's rider before that
>manage to get past
>horse rider manages to stay on and calm the beast
>get a massive rush of adrenaline and ride home with my heart racing long after I've gotten home

Horses are amazing animals but oh boy are they scary when they panic next to you. Especially when they're on asphalt and you can hear every single frantic hoof stomp loudly next to you. Especially when you're clipped into your bike and it's pitch black save for the lights you and the other rider have.

>>1025731
I drive past horse cucks sometimes on rural roads and i always do a key banger (where you kill your engine, press the accelerator a few times to flood the exhaust with fuel, and then start the engine again which makes a loud bang).

I think some lady got thrown the other night lel stupid horses.

>>1025734
what the fuck is wrong with you desu

>>1025735
horses can go suck a dick

>>1025734
kill you'reself

>>1025736
I don't like horses as much as the next guy but I don't want anybody to get fucking killed or permanently injured, you dig?

An early 57 km this morning before wind was forecast to be 40 gusting to 60. -3 °C with a 30 kph wind when I left the house, so I immediately went back in and put on my winter tights. Today's ride makes 14,000 km for the year. Tail end of the forecast for the next week shows the first significant snow of the fall.

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>>1025462
neat. got me an elite trainer fluid for 40 bucks on ebay.couldnt ride yet because of neighbors...
its not that loud but produces a lot of vibration. gotta talk to the guy living under me soon.
pic related

I just crashed at 50kph, and somehow me and the bike are fine. Just a sore hip from the landing.

it happened on a descent on a very nice cleared cycling path, suddenly exactly where the path makes a turn around a bus stop its suddenly a sea of leaves, couldnt see at all where the path went. Saw myself heading for a signpost and braked in panic, but of course braking with slicks does not work on wet leaves. I smashed down on my right side and my helmet took quite a hit too, slid a nice amount before coming to a standstill. Somehow none of my clothing is damaged and I couldnt find anything on my bike that seemed wonky. I think I was saved the slippery leaves, allowing me to slide on them instead of the road. And probably the helmet of course. A nice woman who saw it came running out of her car and didnt believe me when I said I was okay kek.

Id like to think im going to be more careful next time, but I dont anything can be done about rogue leaves like these. Maybe not riding in autumn and especially not in the dark.

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This my trainer. I got it a couple days ago for 60 USD. Do these wear out rear tyres very quickly like some people say?

>>1025533
>Why was that in there?
It is a new (first day then) traffic calming boom barrier. The city admin, in their infinite wisdom, decided to skimp on the white and red paint.
could not see it until 2m before crash, going 25km/h, despite new kool stop dual compound v-brakes I planted my nose on that steel boom and ripped my pants and knees. i am not pleased :-)

>>1025903
you can get a special home trainer tire for it. it lasts longer and is more quet. but will cost you around 20 bucks. I am using my trainer with my usual tires. they are no slicks but it works fine. only time can tell now how bad they will wear out

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Work hours keep getting longer and it's dark by 5. It's all trainer until the weekend.

>>1025462
Can I use these trainers with through axles? 142x12. Thanks.

So nice to ride on a low wind day for a change. Did 130 km half paved / half gravel. Slow leak on my rear tire, but it held good pressure most of the ride. I've had so many punctures this past month. Though I think a few of them were my fault for not checking if there was more than one hole in a tube I was patching.

Turns out my toaster cant run Zwift, what can i do to make indoor cycling fun?

>>1026134
go outside.

>>1026150
canada

>>1026152
fatbike

>>1026152
Podcasts, tv, music, idk. The normal. Hard ass intervals usually distract me but you obviously can't always do that. Also dont be a pussy and go outside once in a while

>>1026134
smoke weed and watch bike races.

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My camera works again

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and I'm eager to break it again.

>>1025801
well scratch that ive got a concussion thats only getting worse. Fuck this shit.

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>>1026598
thats some narrow ass bars senpai.

>>1026598
Jeez, are you riding with slick tires or something?

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>>1026598

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>>1026598
you could have saved it if youve used the rear break slightly

me doing a local best time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CuXl7Csu7c

>>1026597
>>1026598
also, XC geometry is horrible on descents-Ive been there, but its good for learning reflexes and stuff, saving rear slideouts, adjusting front tiere slideouts etc. heal soon bro!

>>1026605

Yes I am. Well they are just worn as shit actually.

>>1026626

desu I didn't even expected that crash I just slipped from behind. Time to get some new tyres.

>>1026627

Not that horrible it's just my fork sucks ass pair that with XC tyres and you have a bumpy ride. I lose traction quite a bit as I push more speed. Saving up for RS Reba now.

>>1026637
>>1026630
the problem might be pressure in tires, short travel forks rarelly causes crashes if the rebound is not super fast. what tires and what pressure?

Also, they way you save rear slipouts is to move the front - e.g. your rear slipped to the left, you should have steered to the right with front tire to get the body mass back to the center of the bike, that way you move the G force on the tires and allow them to do the job of regaining traction...youll get it with practice.

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>>1025903
Hey that's the same trainer I got. Do you find yourself struggling for speed? Do you know if this trainer simulates a slope of some degree?

I haven't been able to find the brand's website that makes this model.

>>1025532
The other 10%:
my 350$ mtb on a front metro bus rack, bus front ends a car.
got 100% of what I paid new, bike shop hadta dig up receipt tho.
Wheels thrashed, no visible damage 2 frame
[still wouldn't have rode it]

>>1025787
>carpet
thick sheet of:
>sorbothane
>urethane
-or-
>neoprene rubber

yeah, that's hardwood floor, how do you keep it from moving all over hell, let alone vibrating...

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>>1025462
preferred all-weather headlamps:
-You cam make mounts for the handlebars [use a 7/8" hole saw], or TreeFortBikes.com has ready made usable ones.
-Add 1 bungee cord
-Get hudge flashlight [WalMart, Home Depot,
<10 bux], brighter than any goddamn bike headlight.
-fug a trainer!

>>1026796
Is your trainer very old? It looks a lot better than mine. And, well, I can't really tell since I've never had one before, so I figured it is supposed to be harder to pedal on the trainer than it would be on the road. I do know that you're supposed to use the gears to regulate your effort. I'm guessing it guess easier as you use it.

>rear brake has been frozen for 2 weeks
>now front derailleur is frozen
Nothing of value lost so far desu. Need to do something g about the issue though before it spreads to front brake and rear derailleur.

>>1026824
cant you just put it inside for the time being? theres always some corner of the house you can shove it in

>>1026824
Frozen from cold or seized?

I've had my v-brakes get sticky due to water getting into the pivot bushings (they pivot on bushing not the brake posts). I took them off and worked in some triflow through a teeny gap to get them moving smooth again.

>>1026826
And then have it freeze within 5 minutes of taking it back outside. It's inside but in a garage that's not heated. Besides freezing and melting a bike over and over again isn't the best option.

>>1026862
I'm pretty sure it's frozen water in the cables/levers somewhere along the way. The brake caliper and derailleur work just fine when activating them with hands but the levers are stuck. I'll have to open them at some point and figure out what is the problem.

Its starting to look like November will end up being my highest distance month of the year. I've got 1260 km so far this month, and only need another 450 km to match my best month of the year. The temperature will start hovering around freezing but the wind will be low enough that I can go out for 3 - 4 hour rides.

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All I've got is a selfie.

Did 45 miles of what seemed like mostly inclines.

>tfw your the only one in the group with a schrader valve
>tfw you have a Schwinn
>tfw you want to remove your kick stand to look cool but it just comes in so much handy

While commuting home from uni, a cager and I stopped at an intersection at the same time, I was to his rigth, so by the clockwise rule, i had the right of way. While I'm about 1/3 of the wai into the intersection, the car starts rolling at me. I frantically dinged my bell to no affect. I realized I had to think like a cager to avert a crash, so I flipped the guy off. The cager promptly stopped and honked at me, while I smiled at my smug superiority, and rode off.

>>1026950
is your castelli jersey worth more than your bike? because it probably is.....

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>>1026966
About 1/6 the value.
I've just gotten into the sport and didn't want to drop 10 benjis from the get go without loving it.

Now I love it, and can only derive pleasure from outlasting geezers and tryhards on carbon frames

>>1026809
It's hard for me to say, I bought it used and as you can tell from the picture is missing one of the legs. The previous owner was a girl who used it with a mountain bike. I didn't ask anything else regarding the trainer. I imagine she got it from a store nearby at some point. Not even that many pictures come up online when looking for this trainer.

>>1026970
why did you even get a castelli jersey if you have a bso bike? could have got some amazon jersey and get a good bike faster. arent those castelli jerseys $100+ ?

>>1026984

Because when I upgrade bikes, I'll always have my Castelli. Gotta be extra comfy when you ride.

Plus it was like 80 schemekls

>>1026971
Hmm, my case is pretty much the same. It's supposed to be made by some Italian manufacturer called Supergo or some shit. I'd suggest you keep using it and see if it gets any better. Mine seems to be getting a little softer to pedal a week after I got it, but I've been using it everyday for at least 30 minutes.

>>1025558
Then ride a shit bike.

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>>1026638

>the problem might be pressure in tires

the problem

>>1027074
front one? damn son

>>1027141

rear is a bit worse. It's time to buy some ikons

I've had so many flat tires in the past month. Yet another one today, a piece of steel belting wire stuck in the tire. Really easy to find as the area around it was blasted with talc. Its getting too cold to be fixing flats.

Wind was gusting to beyond 50 kph, which meant a really slow ride out and a really fast ride back. It rained last night so I picked up a lot of mud going past a construction area.

I've been picking up McDonalds Monopoly pieces while I'm out riding. I have an entire board filled just from the pieces I found on the side of the road, probably have enough extras for a 2nd board. That is all the pieces EXCEPT the rare ones needed to win anything. Also found a few free burgers, fries and a drink along with a 3 month trial for a magazine app.

>>1027199
spooky

>>1027199
good to see you are still alive.
i have not seen you post in a while.
still in the US?

Chilly 3 hour ride today, my Garmin temp ranged between -4 °C and +1. Temperature went up and down throughout the ride with the warmest being somewhere in the middle. Aside from my hands being cold on and off it didn't feel too bad. Highest temp I see in the forecast is 5 °C, no snow yet.

>>1027176
Ikons rock. ran front and rear 2.2s. Raced XC with them, love them. Rear one has finally worn out though.

-3 °C with a 20 kph wind and I was much colder than yesterday's cold ride despite being out for less than half the time. That's what I get for starting the ride off by going down wind.

-14 for tonight, so tomorrow morning I'll go for my coldest ride of the season.

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>>1026626
lookin pretty fast there broham

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>>1027296
>in the US
shame onme,, when theres GLORY, FAME, THRILLS and massive mercy,,, in Allepo.
,,whathe Fk?!!, fud, isit so hard?,, Samis and iphones,, bomb the Doge outhose badguys!
,, mmmm ,fresh Samis!, made with Love/
,,
,ride isameol, sameol.

>>1027718
50 km with the temperature starting at -8 °C warming up to -5 by the time I got home with the wind between 20 and 30 kph. Come February that would practically be t-shirt weather, but it felt pretty cold today. About 12 km into the ride I encountered a long train and had to do some loops to keep from getting too cold.

For me it always feels coldest before the snow arrives. I think that is because the extra rolling resistance from snow both slows you down and makes you work harder, reducing windchill and increasing heat generated.

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trainer users should be put to death

>>1025462
I just took a ride to work on my day off to see if I could endure it. Coming back I fell after finding out I had a flat and stopping too soon before I could get my foot off the clipless pedal.

Shit. I was having so much fun, I didn't know when the flat happened.

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It's 40f today, yesterday is was 70f. I rode 10 miles on the MUP from my house, to a lake. On the way home the air began to cool. and on the horizon, I watched a thunderstorm roll in, the only lights cutting through the darkness were my two headlights, and the bursts of lightning.

>>1026626
I wish I could find a place like that to ride. I like in suburbia so its almost impossible to find a place like that. and the places that are there, are already being rode by people who got bored of easy features so they have super steep jumps instead of beginner features. That and its more XC terrain than anything

No Garmin? Why? Is your mind so weak that a little bike pc controls you? Not me, mate. I ride how I want to ride, period. All that little bike pc does is record what I do, not tell me what to do. Grow a pair, mate. Quit fucking around with pizza stickers and cool bar tape and get some miles. Maybe you don't like the garmin because it proves how few miles you ride. Riding .3 miles to the star bucks on the corner doesn't add up to big miles, mate. If you think this is silly now, wait a few years, and when you finally actually square up, you'll read my words and thing I'm a fucking sage. But in reality, I just have common sense. So remember, dump the stickers, the pizza, the selfies, and log some fucking miles. And post them online for others to gauge, that is unless you don't have what it takes. And if that's the case, might as well keep the pizza stickers and keep playing grab ass with your friends at star bucks.

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toavoid skilift cost, I would just slogup the hill,, all day, for one run down., totally worthit!
,
,,,40minutes to 4 miles climbing verticaly into the wind,, things flying by like Wizard of OZ,, HI granny!!,, oooh look, a Cat!,, Me lowin sandblast zone,, fullface helmet is gud.
,,snuggle bush, whileating apple,,,feeling the wind surges,, waiting for MAX GUSTING!,
,now?,, Now!!, BLAST OUT, like a Rabit for my hole!, match windspeed for total bliss,,,,

100ish miles.
Mostly fasted.
Feels bad.

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am I semipro yet

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>>1028041

>>1028043
Stop shitposting this everywhere. You could be faking your weight for all we know, and you've never even raced. So race, pussy. Go on grouprides and crush souls. Prove it all.

Also
>these rides in November
Lol

>>1028039
You can ride a normal bike?!?!

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>>1028039
>baconrider on an upright bike cycle crushing hills

>>1028059
>>1028086
Given that the photo seems to be taken from pretty low to the ground, I assume baconrider took this photo from his trike, and that he's not the person on the bicycle.

I encountered a singletrack course yesterday in the forest and had a go. Holy fuck that was insanely fun and very intense, did 3 laps of the 7km track and only stopped because it was getting dark. One of the laps I was following a speeddemon around which showed me just how fast I could throw the bike in the corners, which was cool and improved my speed dramatically. But like typical mountainbikers, these shits were very slow once they actually had to put in power.

Next time I should take off my kickstand and mudguards.

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Did a 40km, 700m incline bike yesterday.
Road was a bit slippy so not amazing. I started 8 month ago (doing once per weekend) and appart from lower back problem, I have a blast.

Pic from last month

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>>1028175

and the lace to get up there

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>>1028176
>>1028175
I am jelly, tfw no hills bigger than 50m around my area.

>>1028179

The region is amazing, it's the reason why I started biking.
I'll be going somewhere else in january for my PhD. I'm afraid I'll miss the climbs and the nice weather

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>>1028180
My area is nice too I guess, probably the nicest in the country because of the combination of forest/fields/heath all within reach, and godtier infrastructure. Just a severe lack of big climbs, but for those I will have go abroad anyway.

>>1028176
Where is it? Looks like spain or california maybe...

>>1028191

The city you see in the first picture is Nice

>>1026801
I didnt take this picture
just googled my model of the trainer
Got a karpet and underneath my trainer is an elastic matress
works for the vibrations, so far no complaints
plus I only ride it when I think they are not at home

Did 100 km today with the temperature getting all the way up to 3 °C. Only drank 1 bottle of water and 1 bottle of Ensure the entire ride. Similar weather all week with the overnight lows only going down to -5.

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>>1025462
>Also - Saskatchewan anon, answer me
Just another day in Saskatchewan.

Tonight - stationary trainer, technical intervals.
Tomorrow - ride to work and then evening ride with buddies.

Some rather shitty weather for today's ride, -1 °C, 97% humidity, freezing mist and wind gusting to 30 kph. 2 hours was enough of that for me. Forecast through Saturday looks ok before the daytime highs switch to below freezing.

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Did my first ride on Zwift today. Id never used a trainer or rollers before and always rode outdoors in the winter. I probably will not be commuting in the winter any more.

>>1027197
That's fucking rad.

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>>1028980
tuffy tubeliner.,, lowerd theair, got 12 miles home!,
all the way, thumpingetting worse!! let out moreair!,, greenslimess!
,, lasted 4 years,,ok.

>>1025462
I have this and they sound like a freight train. Is that normal or should I get a replacement?

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25000 Miles of driplines., pull them, ship to reprocesor., reinstall next year.

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Light dusting of snow this morning. It was gone by the time I finished my ride. The snow concealed the fact the graders were about again messing up the nice smooth gravel roads. Once the snow melted wet sand / clay started clinging to my tires slow things down a bit.

Broke my best monthly distance for the year today. I'm within a reasonable distance of my all time single month PR. But the weather has been unpredictable and generally worse than forecast lately.

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>>1025743
No. I hope those trail ruining faggots fall off of a cliff. I do trail maintenance and those inconsiderate fucking niggers will bring there fat-ass horses on trails no matter the weather and rut the everliving Fuck out of them. If you bring your horse on very public multi-use trails, you deserve to get kneecapped by a 12ga.

Half an hour of Isolated leg intervals followed by half an hour of high cadence work.
Stationary trainer sucks balls.

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Late start today and ran into lunch traffic while working my way through town. Didn't drink enough so my legs started to stiffen towards the end. Only need 132 km to reach the annual goal of 15,000 km I set at the beginning of the year, so I'll try to go that far tomorrow. At the time I set the goal I didn't think I'd actually reach it. An abnormally warm Feb, Mar and Nov was a big help.

>>1029796

How can you reach 15 000km ? It means 300km per week, how can you find the time.

I started in march, but I can only do it in the week end, so once a week. It's hard to make progress.

>>1029893
Plenty of long solo rides to cancel out the days I don't ride. I have 45 rides longer than 100 km this year. I try to get out for a few hours most days regardless of weather. I live on the edge of town so it makes going out quite easy. I might be deterred more often if I lived in a dense high traffic area.

Unless you are riding a road bike on the highway, riding time is probably a better goal to set than distance.

One thing I've noticed is that whenever you feel "too tired to go for a ride" or "aren't in the mood", just go away as you'll rarely regret it.

>>1029915

I usually go home from work at 8h30, so it's hard to go biking. I guess I should do longer ride in the weekend.

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Been really enjoying sunrise riding in the mountains lately :)

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>>1029796
nice.

Last outdoor ride last week sunday
did Beeline Highway starting in Tempe
out and back 3 times=112mi, in just under 7 hours

>>1028803
Hahahahahahah Stoon?
>>1029517
>>1029796
Loving the sask pics!

>>1029028
This specific one? That sounds about right. Unless it's a $600+ fluid trainer they're gonna be loud as fuck

>>1030564
Wut bike is dat? The suspension design is uglier than a fat man's asshole

>>1030596
its probably vegan suspension made from twigs

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>>1030564
no bottle cage mount cause goofy ass suspension.

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>>1030622
Pure autism

Went for an hour fat bike ride in the first decent snow. Would have gone longer but the wind was gusting to nearly 50 km/h which makes temperature regulation tricky since its damn near impossible to ride a fat bike without sweating.

When I get home from work it's dark. I'm too afraid to ride in the dark because I don't want a car to hit me and die (even though I have lights on my bike and I have a high-vis jacket).

Am I being a huge pussy?

>>1030700
Kind of. Depends where you live.

If you're actually training, just ride inside. If you aren't and just want to ride, go outside and ride with hi-vis

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Winter's just struck here so my morning ride has hit a whole new level of comfy (pic related). But fuck me if it isn't cold, even with thick gloves my fingers got frozen stiff. How do you guys keep your extremities warm?

>>1030769

>comfy
>unfortably cold extremities

This comfy meme you frozen fags keeps talking about needs to stop.

How can it be comfy when you are complaining about frost bite?

>>1025927
you should probably sue the city

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>>1029519
my local trails are 900% manure and ruts from rampant horsefagging despite all the signs that say 'no horses on the singletrack'

>>1030795
If you'd experienced it you'd understand. Certainly for me frost, cold air and short days hold a certain nostalgic beauty. The same reason I like hiking in the snow - it can be painful, but the emotional response is usually more immediate than what my body's feeling.

I live in southern California. 365 day riding season.

But o ride inside on a trainer because women drivers

>>1030564
Is that a hard tail mountain bike with a random spring in the main triangle just for show?

Your rear triangle is welded to the seat tube and the shock bracket comes off the seat post...it's not suspending shit

Set out yesterday to do December's Strava Gran Fondo, but I was slow and my legs were stiff so I only did about 50 km. Today I went out to do it and I was still slow, but finished it anyway. I think the slowness may have be partly due to running my marathon winter tires at too low a pressure. The sidewalls are very stiff, so I imagine if the pressure is low enough to induce flexing it just eats your watts. I should have just run them at the max rated pressure like I normally do. Slowness might also be related to rotating through 3 of my bikes this week making my legs have to keep readjusting.

Temperature for the entire 5 hour ride was between -3 and -4 °C, with freezing drizzle constantly getting on my glasses for the first 2 hours. But with the temperature forecast to drop to -20 °C early next week I wanted to get my 12th Gran Fondo of the year out of the way.

>>1030816
I can clearly see the pivots... Why can't you?

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Now Strava is just insulting me.

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Went out today, 34 km, 700m d+.
The weather is still nice there, but I'm too slow.

I really need to put a second ride per week.

tis the season for squealing Camelbak bottles after finishing a ride.

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>>1031924
>wake up in the middle of the night
*squuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuueeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee*
>too terrified to fall asleep the rest of the night

It's only like ~55F here and I'm still too bitchmade to go outside

>>1031957
As someone who rode to and from work in 10-20 degree weather all last week, and is still doing fun rides on my days off, I'm willing to confirm that, yes, you are a wimp. 55 isn't even cold enough to need a base layer under your short-sleeve jersey, harden the fuck up.

>>1031974
damn anon ur so tuff

I'm going to wuss out of riding outside the next two days. Temperature between -12 and 16 °C isn't too bad, but the 50 gusting to 70 kph winds and associated windchill would suck.

First roller rides on the season instead.

>>1030799
and then the horsefags whine about mountain bikers ruining the trails/nature

while they're literally shitting all over it

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>go out to local spot
>first snowfall of the year previous night
>didn't stick
>kinda wet and slushy
>high-ground singletrack is fine
>hit the creek ravine switchbacks
>seems fine
>final switchback down to the creek bed
>soupy mud
>no grip
>wash out
>slide all the way down to the creek
>can't even stand up
>eventually climb out of the ravine looking like swamp thing
>finish riding around the high-ground
i still blame the horsefags, somehow

>>1032363
WISCONSIN?

>>1032364
michigan!

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>go for night ride with no real agenda
>riding road through mountain forest
>stop to piss by a gate
>"no trespassing, blah blah is a rail corridor, not part of the national park"
>lift bike over gate onto an unknown gravel track
>follow gravel track to an out of service tram depot
>decide to explore it a bit like the rail autists on /n/ would do
>2-foot gauge rail line originally built to haul building material through the forest for an early 20th century dam (find this out later)
>the line runs through the forest and a series of low, narrow, tunnels
>rusting relics from the early 20th century scatter the place
>halfway through the first long tunnel my cellphone dies (which is my only light aside from my bike's dynamo)
>ride along the rail line for a while under dynamo light
>path gets hard to ride, so i hide my bike by a large cluster of glow worms and continue walking the line in darkness

Preddy cool. I woke up a fantail which is an omen of death but whatever.

pic off google related, one of the miyazaki-esque tunnels

OK

>hop on the rollers
>notice saddle feels extra hard
>30 minutes later realize I'd been sitting on the rear frame of my Brooks Pro
I have a really bad sense of body position on a bike. Makes fit adjustments a challenge. Not wanting to risk standing on rollers since I don't have enough area to fall safely doesn't help.

Vancouver anon here. Anyone else feeling the suffer?

>ice on all the roads
>velodrome is closed because the parking lot is iced over
>no choice but to suffer alone indoors on the trainer
>at least I can watch ST:TNG while I train
>tfw almost out of episodes

>>1032573
>being a roadie within driving distance to fromme and the rest of the north shore
u havin a goof there bud?

>snow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c49uSlsyvoU
fuckin' a, snow

>>1032641
Bruh. I don't even use derailleurs and brakes most of the time, why on earth would I drive for 40 minutes to use some jank full-suspension rig?

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I was hoping it would get nicer once the strong wind of the past 3 days blew through. No such luck.

Finally a chance to try out the UA Base 4.0 stuff I bought last year but was never cold enough to wear.

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>>1032732
Opted for the respirator today due to a 25 kph wind in addition to -20 °C temp. Keeps face warm, and glasses mostly free of fogging. One notable downside is the inability to drink, really need to get a straw. Added suspenders to my non-bib winter tights a few years back when I got tired of them catching on the saddle nose.

The UA Base 4.0 baselayer is super toasty. Legs were nice and warm. But upper body was too hot even with just 2 layers and my jacket left unzipped halfway most of the ride, should have wore my UA Base 2.0. Overheating was certainly due to the one factor I have the most difficulty planning for, exertion level. I always generate tons of heat riding the fat bike.

The huge volume of fat bike tires makes them dramatically affect by temperature swings. The 20 °C drop in temperature since the last time I used it made the tires far more squishy than I would have liked. But once I got going I didn't want to stop and screw around with a mini-pump.

>>1032763
HAHAHA PUSSY

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>>1032415
Hyperloop!, itsreal!
,
,,chillwind, has me tucking the cages drafting.,, was brushing the windskirt on bigrig,,,, notsmart, notatall!

>>1032763
Im stealing that respirator look

Stalker af

>>1032763
Where are you? Edmonton, Saskatoon?

>>1032885
Regina. Tomorrow is going to be even colder.

What I would love is a bicycle equivalent of Ski Doo's Modular series or BV2S helmets with built in respirator and sun shield.

>>1032843
From the thumbnail I thought it was a photo of your balls

>>1032687
because you can go F A S T

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>>1032573
I'm stuck inside on the Rollers on some days, but it's due to really high UV and temps during the day. On the upside, there's a decent breeze coming through and riding around dawn and dusk can be pretty comfy.

Longest ride I managed this week was under 17 km. Tough keeping all the parts warm to do much more than 80 minutes in this weather. Also noticed that under high exertion circulation is reduced to my hands and they get ice cold very fast.

>>1032363
It's fucking Raveen

>>1032891
Lmao it was -30 in Calgary

Surprised Regina is "warmer"

>work hard for a bit while going downwind
>forehead sweats saturating front of balaclava
>moisture turns to ice on forehead when heading upwind
Not a pleasant feeling. Sometimes you can stop and break the ice so it falls off which helps. Starting next Monday it is supposed to be around -9 °C for at least a week which will be fantastic. I sign up for the Festive 500 every year, but have never come remotely close to finishing it. This year should be no different.

>>1033661
>my apple sense is tingling

>>1033667
>>1033666
>>1033664
>>1033663
>>1033661
https://youtu.be/DCdCToZTBvs?t=131

>>1026950
>kickstand
>handy
Only for those who prop their bikes in the middle of the fuckin road.

Froze my forehead again, its like poorman's botox. The ride started off so nice at -16 °C, then the wind kicked up to 50 kph. I need to hurry up and finish the contents of the clear 2L bottle I bought yesterday so I can make a visor.

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>>1033815
Pop bottle visor worked pretty damn well. The plastic thickness isn't complete uniform so it distorts vision a little, so I'd recommend spending a few bucks and going to hardware store for a replacement visor they sell for full face shields. I just stuck it on using 3M Mounding Tape which is double sided with a bit of foam in the middle.

Kept upper part of my face and forehead much warmer. Which had the side effect of making my nose much less runny. Another thing I didn't expect is that when going down wind it catches some wind from behind directing it across my face which helps keep my glasses from fogging. Side of my face got cold in a cross wind, more of a wrap around would probably fix that. Great hitting the wind head on.

I just need to tape off the lower half of the front vents on my helmet and I should be good.

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>>1033983
!nice.

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>>1033692
itcan gothe otherway too,,,, way, WAY, the otherway.
,, while eating Old style(bacon) MsDs frys,, watching over a herd of 24 Island donkeys, so cute!,,try a Fry?, choomp,chomp,!? odd shean in the eyes,, MUST, eat, FRYS!! GIVEME!!, Donkeybrawl!!,
,,you think id LEARN!?,, no.
,,, frys all gone,, lets just try a few ChickenMCnugs?,, what could go, wrong,,?
,WRONG!!! LARGESIZE!!,, all those fake movie evil guy transforms ,,, THAT!!, DONKEYWOLFS!!, TEETH! lots of TEETH!!
,,had to outpace them,, for an HOUR!

>4 hour ride
>have like 20 seconds of this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlF4rhAbwyc) stuck in my head the whole time

get out of my fucking head James

On the upside the weather was really nice, although a little cool in the hills.

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>>1034102
forgot pic
>4chin doesn't like my yooge phone images
There was some pretty bad flooding earlier this year and a bunch of the bridges were still out.

>>1033983
Nice improvisation anon, not sure about those razor sharp corners tho.

>>1034284
I swapped out the bottle plastic for a trimmed polycarbonate woodshop face shield, much smoother edges. But there is a bit of refraction caused by the plastic. Its only noticeable right at the bottom where part of my vision is through the plastic and the lower part isn't.

>>1034102
>>1034104
I swear to god if this is Dave from velo and brt

>>1034359
Don't know what either of those things are and I'm not dave so

(is brt the racing and training thread?)

>>1034405
Ok good. Yes BRT is that

>>1034898
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Doa7n4YDNJw
bold move, on a side note did you get to stroke its horse cock?

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>>1034900
noballs.,,, I like how they rinse off the bite,, like its rabies.
,, I get nippys all thetime., today had hand in mouth bite,, he droped apple slice and I just JAMMED it in his mouth, SLOB!, lite bite, hay? getyour hand outa my mouth!!

Gym sesh.
Everything hurts.

-3 °C and a bit windy, but I was finally able to go out for 1.5 hours without being super bundled up. Less wind tomorrow so I should be able to do a ride over 2 hours for the first time in nearly 3 weeks.

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They finally opened Willy Wonka's Super Fun Bike Path

>>1035365
What the fuck? Did the river run dry because of climate change?

>>1035365
It fluctuates throughout the year. Some winters it overflows even.

>>1035365
During a heavy rain do you risk being washed out to sea?

Looks like it is sloped on both sides but they just added a wall on one side and built up the path to remove the slope.

>>1035365
>fun

Two way lane
Terrible pave job
Lanes wayyyy to narrow. Even if the entirety of it was one-way.
Terrible scenery

>>1035462
It's a temporary experiment. They're testing out whether people will actually use it enough, and then they'll build the real thing... allegedly. Right now they just laid down some asphalt on a portion of it. You should see the rest, it's even worse.

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Quit my messenger job last month and getting less km in my legs now, but I think thats actually better for performance as I get to ride fast now.
Also changed my tyres from the Mavic ones I had to GP4000s, they feel a lot better than the mavics.
Getting a new hrm very soon, and most likely a stages power meter once I get the money...


I also moved a bed 5 km with my bike a few days ago

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>>1035581
blurry pic related

>>1035583
>absolute madman

>>1035585
it was pretty easy once you got going t b h

>>1035581
what are you doing now carlo, i thought you said you were wage slaving it away and spending your shekels on bike gear.

>>1035619
I needed to stop because the job made me too aggressive, but I've been doing some days at another company as a replacement.
My plan is to start racing spring next year, so I'm going to spend my time trying to get faster for that.

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Longest ride I've ever done. Was only planning on doing a 2 hour ride, but it turned out to be such a beautiful day that we went alot further.

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(((,,,,)))

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Enjoyed the wind today, it hit me just right on a 10km flat stretch, with only 1 crossing in the middle to interrupt me. It was a nice twisty road, I felt like a motorcycle with that tailwind. The headwind bits were not as much fun, working my ass of to not dip below 30kph. I was completely fucked when I got home.

>>1036029
comfy

I hang up the bike and hike

First ride today looking at the Rapha 500. Landed 60km with ~1km elevation. I like climbing as much as the next guy, but when I'm looking for sheer distance, around here there's not really many places to go. Either way, I figured I'll ride 60km every day, and 80km the last day.

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>>1036119
>not biking and hiking

Best way to go hiking desu, speed of the bike to get you as far as possible and then hike further. You need to be in an area where you can dump your bike without it getting stolen though.

>>1036121
Dump the bike??? Bike summiting is where it's at tho.

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Snow riding is a blast! 2 wheel drifting turns never gets old.

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lethe Gud times ROLLLLL!!,
, High POWER!, Olympis levels.
,,some rides have to end.,, asa vetran of drug war., look athe carnage,, lost life,,, stolensouls.
,,,,,,,,,
,,, YAAAAAAA!!!!! BBBBABY!!! WEWON!!!!!

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what mean?? , when get gun,, with one bullet,,, Just ,,One?

>>1036346
>>1036345
I'm seriously having doubt whether midwest america is a real place, rather than a fairy tale right about now...

>>1036391
>tfw you'll never get a big bag of weed, a big can of cookies, and a kickass gun for christmas
JDIMSA

>>1035581
Good speed and cadence desu

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Todays ride, 85 km relaxed on fixed gear.
Hard headwind on the way out and tailwind home, it also started raining and hailing.
Good ride tbqh

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only 3 hours at around 32F and my toes are touch-numb and painfully burning. Any recs for gear or exercises to keep my piggies toasty?

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Year end stats: 15,555 km and 754 hours of riding time.

That's 31 days of riding, one entire month of the year on my bike. Next year much less, since we are starting off 2017 with a normal winter, so I can do other stuff for a few months like snow shoeing and skiing. If May isn't complete shit, maybe I'll finally finish a full brevet series.

>>1037082
Wear loose pants. You want as much bloodflow as you can. Wear winter shoes - there are good ones and bad ones. Properly isolate the steel SPD mounting plate and fill the slots in with something isolating. Wear thicker socks in bigger shoes.
If all else fail, go cliplessless in softer shoes that allow you to move you feet.

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>>1037456
impress!!,
, Blessusall,,, next year.
,
,,rideing into a North wind was Pain!,,FFfff, then, return trip,, OUCH!,
,,nestle into sunny weeds like a BushWACKING injun,, waiting,, watching for slower, large, wind splitter,,>THERE! the Hay truck!,,
, feelike raider, dashing outo steal a draft!
,, thenit pullsaway (shame),, WINDLASHING! PAAAAIN!
,,, nomore bikini.

>>1037462
i was wearing bibs, baggy shorts, knee pads, merino socks and 5.10 freeriders (which i wear loose enough to slip on and off without futzing with the laces). i'll poke around for winter-specific flats and try to HTFU in the meantime, though i do own some mallets and a pair of hellcats that are hot as fuck in the summer that i could try as well. thanks for the input!

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BEST YEAR EVER!!,, Dead Ahead!
,did you see those stars last night?,, Shineist polish EVER!! had to put on glasss.
, Godzilla Vs Skynet!,,space factorys in overdrive.
,,, I'm Giddy!,, maybe, its LEGAL CANIBUS!!!
, WINNNER!! decades, of war,,, carnage, shattered life.,
, GLORY!, fresh,,, fadeing.
,,newglory,, AHEAD!

First two rides of the year were on my rollers. Spent a bit of time doing some 80 rpm riding in my highest gear. I could use a bit more resistance for low cadence riding. But in that gear once I hit 100 rpm my HR gets up to almost 180. On the rollers only the 4-5 highest gears on the bike are of any use.

A little less cold today so I took my fatbike out for a bit. Managed 9.7 km in a little over an hour. Carefully threaded my way along a snowshoe trail I laid down a few days ago. Quite the effort penalty for going outside the lines, but in most spots the snow is still shallow enough it won't stop me in my tracks.

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First ride after being sick for a week. Also changed my saddle position slightly, which feels like was the right choice

>>1030799
>>1032123
I'm glad I'm not the only one that hates this so much

>-30 °C, -45 windchill
Another day on the rollers instead of outside. Some warm weather coming in a few days. Above freezing a few days next week which just makes a mess of roads.

>>1040792
>>1040793
did you go on tour, bro? or did it actually snow where you live?

>>1040817
he is in nevada so I would say it snowed where he lived

>>1032763
You need ski goggles

I had some frozen pizza yesterday and the massive dose of sodium caused me to retain a couple extra pounds of water. Peed it all out around noon today. My homemade pizza with dry cured salami is even worse, I usually have to drink 1.5 L or more of water a few hours after eating it.

I've wondered if one could use that their advantage to be extra hydrated before a long ride. A cursory search didn't yield any relevant results.

>>1032763
Holy fuck that looks horrible

As much as I like sledding in fresh snow and comfy, cold nights by the fire I'm glad I live in Florida.

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>tfw you're a sweaty motherfucker when you ride no matter if it's 40 or 90 degrees outside
>my work doesn't have a locker room so I can't shower and change when I get there

I don't mind being sweaty if I'm on my own time and can shower as soon as I get home from riding, but I can't have the back of my shirt soaked at the office.

How do those of you who bike commute in hotter climates deal with the sweat issue?

inb4 "fuck u fatty i can ride up mt kilamenjaro without breaking a sweat"

>>1041400
Go slow on your ride to work.
Don´t ride in your work clothes.
Have a washcloth and a towel at work. Use those to wipe your sweaty areas before changing into work clothes.

That works for me, though i gotta say i don´t sweat that much.
If there´s truly no space for you to change clothes you can do that on the toilet. Well, thats what comes to mind. Never had a workplace totally without any kind of room i could use for changing. But showers at work are kinda uncommon in my corner of the universe.

>>1041400
Wear synthetic clothing so your skin breathes and sweat doesn't build up
Arrive early at work and don't change clothes right away, wait some 10 minutes to cool off
Go to a bathroom, get undressed, pat the sweat away with a towel and reapply deodorant
Get on your work clothes
I'd tell you to take it easy on your ride to work but I'm like you and I'll sweat profusely regardless of effort and temperature

>>1041400
I've realized I can ride without sweating, but I have to ride with very little effort keeping my HR no higher than about 120 bpm. It is surprisingly hard to do because I always want to go fast. The funny thing is even riding with little effort it isn't as slow as you'd think. Its amazing how much extra effort you need to go just a little bit faster.

>>1041400
Get a gym membership, even if you don't lift planet fitness or bally has showers and they're cheap as fuck.

Did a quick up-and-back on the coast, just trying to get my body back used to things after a couple months of less-frequent riding due to work and weather. Felt good.

Cycleops Fluid 2 a decent trainer? I'm just getting back into cycling after a few years off and the online reviews seem decent.

Zwift looks fun as well so I was thinking of trying that. Opinions?

Went snowshoeing a few hours this morning to pack down a path to fat bike on. I should have waited until tomorrow to ride on it though. The snow was too soft and needs to firm up overnight. The snowshoe trails I made earlier in the week were nice and firm. I have to avoid getting too carried away riding on those trails, if I veer outside the path and have to put a foot down I'm in snow up to my knee.

It was almost too warm today getting up to -4 °C. Some above freezing days this week so I might squeeze in a long ride on a less fat bike.

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>>1041518

I can't comment on the trainer, but Zwift has been great for getting my FTP up without the distractions of traffic and frost dick. The group rides and segment records really do good at breaking up the monotony of pedaling away in my living room.

If you haven't used a trainer yet, it does take a while to get over the "torture machine" feeling of the bike staying stationary all the time.

>>1041652
I hope you're draping that thing with a towel while you're sweating all over it like a middle aged man fucking an underaged prostitute in a shady basement in China Town.

Quick question: so I lost 80 pounds in 2016 and I decided this year to get into mountain biking to help with the fitness aspect. I currently weigh 250 pounds and I went riding on a bike for the first time in a decade the other day. After like 30 minutes I was too sore to continue. It's a mountain bike and outside of buying some biking shorts what can I do to help relieve the pressure? Is it something you just get a tolerance for in time?

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>>1041727
1. you will need padded shorts- you can get some for <$10 on amazon or ebay but the sizing may not be right. Sometimes academy or dicks have them for $20ish. 2. Seats are a very personal preference- unfortunately you have to try many to find one that fits your body. 3. MTB saddle is never really gonna feel good but you should be able to find something that doesn't cause pain. I weigh about half of you and this feels good to me. Its a tri seat but i use it for mtb.

Went out for a 2 hours fat bike ride. Legs started feeling heavy around 1.5 hour mark. Weighed 3 lbs less when I got home. So hard to not sweat a ton riding fat bike in snow. As it is I'm not wearing much and don't think I could go to just one layer. Maybe washing my jacket will help. It gets stiff after a while and I think salt buildup limits it breathability.

>>1041652
Nice fake Pina

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Between schedule issues and road conditions I finally got in my first decent road ride of the year, just 25 miles but I picked a route that took me over pretty much all the big hills near me, so plenty of effort expending and the distance was just right given today's cold and wind . Felt really good, found I'm in better mid-winter condition than I expected I would be given that I've barely been doing 30 miles/week commuting lately, haven't been out on a decent ride in almost 4 weeks. I'll chalk it up to all the CX riding I did in November and early December, and the little bits of running and hiking I've done since then.

This was also the first time I tried using the Bar Mitts I got (myself) for Christmas on a proper road ride, if anything actually they're too warm to use when it's 33 and windy out, I had to take my gloves off entirely for the second half of the ride, and deliberately rode down the last big descent with bare hands to get rid of excess heat and moisture.

No on-ride pic but here's the bike I was on, with the BMs installed.

>>1041817

Real Pina, the bottom bracket failed on my beater bike and British threaded ones are harder to find in Italy.

Another fat bike ride today. I snowshoed some more trails yesterday, but put a little more thought into the intersections. I made a pair of arcs joining perpendicular paths so it is easy to switch paths regardless of which direction I'm going. Some of the paths I made Sunday it is only possible to branch off if you are approaching from a certain direction, short of stopping and lifting the bike. Put my camera on and ended up with 13 GB of video.

+7 °C out now and the snow is melting ... melting, oh what world! Side roads aren't bad, but the busier roads are all a brown soup. But those side roads will be rutted and icy once it gets cold again.

>>1025486
>grey
its gray

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Comfy ride around freezing point, snow and ice everywhere but thankfully the cycling paths were cleared beautifully. The twisty hilly bit I usually go was not cleared, so I had to go back. Then 5 minutes from home both my legs tried to cramp up, first my lowerlegs and then upper legs. Scary as fuck desu, and I have no idea why. The entire ride I was just feeling comfy and taking it easy.

Oh well, have a comfy building.

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>>1026598
my nigga

fucking sand

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Ive never ridden in sand- are you sea niggers the reason they keep making wider tires?

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>>1042435
both of you spelled gay wrong

>>1030797
sue them for what? His own stupidity? His bad eye sight? The city will laugh at you. There is no case.

Longest ride of the year today, 53 km. Not as warm as yesterday but I could still dress lightly. Quite a bit of splatter riding in the city. Back alleys were good for riding with firm packed snow and no slush.

I've spent the last few years feeling really self-conscious, because I see people post their average speeds all the time, and mine is so much slower.

But it dawned on me recently that I ride a hybrid bike, and when I looked into what the average mph for most people was, I was at the higher end.

>>1025960
You own a Pinarello and an Elite Drivo smart turbo trainer? Colour me jelly.

>>1031898
Man that looks awesome

Where was that pic taken?

Too much riding and snowshoeing the past 11 days. I was feeling slow yesterday, but today it was very apparent that I was in need of a rest day. All the fat biking I've been doing the past week has been like going out and doing hills.

>>1042683

Fort de la revere, it's near Nice in France

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thatfeel, your cold slow,,, then figureout , low tire! SSSLAP!

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>>1040793
soon,,,,

>>1042857
cute desu

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Winter is so nice, gorgeous sunday with seemingly everyone out going for walks and shit. Tons of people iceskating as well, which is always nice to see. Today made me all happy and fuzzy inside.

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Just went for my first bike ride in over ten years. It was only a 3.25 mile round trip, and it was on an old English 3-speed that only has high gear so the inclines were kinda shitty, but it was a start. I can't wait for the replacement indicator spindle to get here so I can get more out of this bike and get more in shape.

Just got to start riding like this every single day.

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>>1043829
>indicator spindle
thathe Spirit!

I was planning to cancel my Strava premium this year when I got the renewal billing notice. But I saw it in the list of my credit card transactions, so I guess they don't tell you ahead of time they are going to bill you anymore. So I emailed them to downgrade and unbill me. Even after going from premium to the free account you can still view your personal heat maps if you have the url, just can't update them.

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drizzly night,, makes for mudsplochy road,, Getuff!,
,, ya,, lots of ,,, HOLDIT,,Waithisnt MUD?!?!
,NOOOOOOOO!! itSHEEPSHIT!,, road coverd in POO!!,
,,guess I geto offroad.

Went on a short ride and came back an clipless fell in my FUCKING driveway onto the wrist I sprained not one month ago. Been using these for nearly two years and that's literally the first time it ever happened.

Might as well unclip under a bus I'm so fucking retarded.

Didn't ride last two days because I was removing stucco from ceiling of an entire floor. Using a pole mounted drywall screen with vacuum hose on a ceiling is very tiring.

Today I rode my fat bike around with 11F/12R psi in the tires which was faster but much less cushy. Still debating whether I should drive 250 km for a 50 km fat bike ride on Sunday.

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sheeeeet.

>>1025734
Kill yourself

Holy fuck /drt/, had such a great ride today. Finally caught a break with the weather and went out with 4 of my teammates. Racked up 110km and hit some strava sections pretty hard. All the winter training paid off, we were flying in the 40-50 kph zone in a few parts, dusting freds in our path.

Only sucky part is that the city still hasn't cleared the bike lanes of debris from >2 weeks ago. There's about 10mm of sand in some pretty fast corners. Mother fuckers.

Went 1 km around noon, said fuck it and turned around. Too much wind to be at all enjoyable.

But then around 4 pm it was much better so I went for a ride on the MUP. It got too warm and the packed snow on the side streets was getting soft so tires would sink into it making control very difficult to maintain. Back to colder temps in a few days which will mean lots of icy ruts.

Was cold and really windy so I decided to run a few miles on a treadmill for the first time in about 10 years. Riding a lot definitely doesn't make running any easier. Quads are much more sore than after even a hard ride.

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/DRT/
RIP ,,in Pisces.

>>1045848
>recumbent trike

BR, you absolute madman.

>>1045794
Decided to keep on running this week since despite making my legs incredibly sore I didn't feel it while out riding in the cold. Ran 1 mile first day with a 2nd after a brief walk. Then 2 miles straight second day, 3 the 3rd and 4 the 4th. Should be good for a marathon by the end of the month. In the past whenever I built up to 1.5 hours running the tedium of it all just becomes unbearable even with a tv. After doing 5 tomorrow I'll probably bump the speed up from 5 mph rather than going longer.

The roads are in rather shitty condition at the moment for winter cycling. Lumpy icy ruts everywhere. If I wasn't using my studded fat bike it would induce much sphincter clenching. The back alleys are in pretty good, still packed with snow and didn't melt much. Just enough snow forecast tomorrow to hide the uneven ice on the roads, but not enough to smooth it out.

About 12 cm of snow yesterday. I went for a fat bike ride early this morning before the MUP gets plowed. Lots of light reflecting off the snow so I didn't even need a light. It was slow going, about 8.5 - 9 kph, and around 11 kph riding back along my track. Did the entire 73 min ride without unclipping once.

>>1045794
>>1046328
Just started running myself as it's less hassle than biking off-road in the dark, mud and rain. My legs are fucking killing me for days after and I'm only running a few miles 3 times a week.
Do you guys do some sort of weight lifting as well as cardio? I'm thinking of some dumbbell workouts. I'm a total noob to training as usually just ride for fun but would like to get fitter for biking

>>1046834
I've never tried weights.

I've run every day since Wednesday, the soreness went away by the 4th day.

Tried running at 5.5 mph on the treadmill today, considerably more sweating for me. Only ran for around 1.5 miles at a time before taking a few minute walking break. 5 miles total while watching a bit of Enter the Dragon on AMC (far too many commercials). A few days adjusting to that speed I should be able to run an hour continuous, maybe.

The last few times I took jogging before I started cycling I found the more I run the longer it takes for the endorphins to kick in. Early on I'd get into the groove after about 15 minutes then it would gradually push out to 30, 45 minutes. I notice the same thing riding but its more subtle due to the low impact.

>>1046834
I squat, use the leg press machine, lateral band walks, and calf exercises (standard calf raises and eccentric heel drops)

It's difficult to climb after lifting on the same day, so I don't. The day after hurts if you're not used to it but you get used to it and it's fine.

>>1046837
Yeah I thought I was going to die tonight running the first mile round the park in the dark in the pissing rain, then boom got into a bit of a pace and ran some more with extra energy. I haven't ran for about 20 years I'd imagine so it's a bit odd using non biking muscles. Gonna stick at it and obviously get more than a couple of miles in on my running days.

>>1046840
My plan is to do some light cardio (jogging) during the week as I'm out walking the dog normally anyway so spending that time running instead of walking should improve my fitness a bit.
Weights I plan to do 3 times a week but try and keep away from doing them on the run up to the weekend as that's when I get time to ride and I don't want tired legs ruining my weekend riding. Started squatting, but mostly upper body but I really have no idea what's good to compliment cycling fitness. I'm guessing just being stronger from weight lifting and fitter from running will be helpful. I'm thinking the upper body strength will help me out with the longer downhill (mtbiking) sections as my arms and legs just go numb after a while.

>>1046842
>I really have no idea what's good to compliment cycling fitness
Whatever you're weakest at. Or if in doubt, squats and deadlifts.

>-28 °C last night
>rising to +2 by tomorrow morning
>falling to -10 by the afternoon
I hate these temperature swings as they are typically associated with huge winds. Supposed to be a relatively calm period late tonight that I could go ride in when the wind drops to around 30 kph.

>>1047562
>>1047562

New thread folks this one is marked for deletion (old)