/drt/ - Daily Ride Thread

>>1047562
except for Perth where it's fucking freezing and raining more than it does in winter

>>1047562
>carry two spares
more like stay the fuck away from goatheads

Nice weather above -10 °C since Friday so I got out to ride the fat bike instead of running. Which is good because my 6th day in a row of running left me a mildly sprained ankle. Fortunately the ankle doesn't bother me riding. Been dealing with a sick cat since Wednesday. She's reluctant to eat, and would rather just follow me around, so I have to watch her while she eats. She had a bad tooth that got infected, and was good after coming back from the vet until yesterday, the day after her pain medication ran out when she stopped eating again. Took far too much effort to make her eat this afternoon.

4 hrs and 20 mins, 130km fasted in -2.5°c
Feet were completely numb.

I ghost-rode a bike over to a bike gear swap event and sold it.

It was easier than expected, but a bit freaky taking a left at a light from a downhill street.

I rode a MUP most of the way, lots of looks from joggers.

>>1048254
That's pretty dangerous

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63f

>>1047914
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>>1048266
nice

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>>1048325
Springlory!,, one layer less.
,, and WATER, sofar sogood.
PIC> federal waterway.

Got too warm today and the roads were sloppy and wet. So I went for a little under 2 hours at 7 pm once things started solidifying. Windy but not bad. Did a lot of alley riding where the snow was still snow. My 4.8" studded tires love chewing into frozen slush, it makes the most amazing crunching sound.

Its surprising how hard it is to see pedestrians in the dark no matter what color they are wearing. Reflective accents really should be incorporated into all jackets. My headlight reflects off garbage bins 2 blocks away, but barely illuminate peds 20 feet in front of me.

>>1048821
Rip in peace little buddy

>>1048564
DEFEND THE SINGLETRACK, BACONRIDER

ONLY YOU CAN PREVENT HORSEFAGS

Nice evening fat bike ride, about 38 km. Temp dropped quickly from about +2 °C to -4 when the sun went down but leveled off. Did a group ride, so I pumped my tires up for the ride over, let air out for the trail ride, then put some back in for the ride home. Put a light on my helmet in addition to my handle bars. A huge help when cornering on unlit paths. Since I've had two lights for years I should have started using both years ago.

I few above freezing days ahead, so I'll try to get some gravel riding in on a faster bike.

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Very nice weather here today, 13 degrees and sunny. First ride in shorts since october and it was great to have the wind through the hairy legs again. Unfortunately the bike paths in the forest were still very icy in places, which was very unpleasant with my slicks.

My first longer ride of the year, nice weather but still very damp and salty roads

I'm gonna fred out soon and buy a powermeter because I obviously need one

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>>1049019
I'm an idiot

>>1049019
Well you have money for an aeroad so a powermeter should be 1 days wage for you.

Did a 53 km ride of mostly gravel at a balmy +5 °C. I'll take my studded tires off since there won't be any ice where I plan on riding and they are heavy with a harsh ride. Need to clean the dirt / oil sludge off my chain too.

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Got out in the desert a couple days ago. Going back there tomorrow to go ride the mountain in the background, Mt. Casa Grande.

>>1049090
i like tractors

Need some new dirt / gravel tires for my touring bike. I got Conti Cyclo X Kings last year, and they were clearly meant for just riding around in the grass as they quickly melted away on the relatively little pavement riding I did.

I was looking at Schwalbe G-One, but I'm hesitant to go with a tire designed for tubeless use since the beads are so tight it makes fixing flats a huge hassle. So I'm going to give Conti Cyclocross Speed tires a try. Pretty cheap and the reviews seem to indicate better durability than my last contis.

It's going to be 11 C on Saturday here in Ontario

That's 20 above seasonal.

>>1049092
>in the desert
>one water bottle
what did he mean by this?

>>1049248
it means there is not enough water to fill a second bottle.

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Who /oreos/ here?

>>1049271
/allcookieseceptformaybegingerspeanspareshit/

>>1049390
this. I used to love cookies but I can barely swallow them any more.

Nice warm 52 km ride yesterday. Encountered mud in a few spots, fortunately not deep or sticky enough to jam my fenders. Fat bike "race" on Monday, but it is supposed to be 7 C or higher. More of a ride than a race, since the winner will be decided by luck, not who finishes first. I guess the sponsor wants more people to have a chance at the top prizes than the usual half dozen top local riders.

9th day in a row riding. Decided to ride past this one area that is usually pretty muddy when wet, and sure enough it was pretty muddy. Lots of puddles with a thin layer of ice that I got to break. The worst of the semi packed snow is gone from the MUP, so little need to be careful. Even most streets have ruts melted all the way to bare pavement. The weather has been great this week, still plenty of local pussies only using Zwift.

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Went out 50 miles today around 35 F. Main roads were mostly clear of snow/ice/slush, but I detoured around a couple of them so I used my studded tires to the fullest for a few chunks.

It was raining gently the whole time and my rainproof boots, leggings, jacket and gloves worked well enough, but my gear was pretty wet with sweat by the end.

Snow and ice are pretty and all, but I'm about ready for some wildflowers instead.

>>1049944
You taco'd your brooks! With my B17 I had to lace it after less than a year to keep it from sagging.

I've got the same bike but I needed to add a steerer tube extender to get the bars level with saddle. Made a night and day change to my comfort level. I went from considering selling it to riding 12,000 km on it last year.

>>1049958
>You taco'd your brooks!

I've put over 60,000 km on it and I think it's fucking comfortable. I tighten it every now and then.

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Had a ride with two from my club, I only got 4 hours of sleep and it was very wet.
Otherwise pretty good fast ride, the two I was riding were faster than me, so I feel like I made good gains.

101 km today, 5 °C which is pretty good for this time of year. Below freezing rest of the week, but won't be bad if it isn't windy.

>>1047914
Looks like a wonderful time, bacon friend

Took a nasty fall going 15 mph in the rain yesterday. The pavement was raised and I went to cross it at too shallow of an angle which caused my tire to shimmy/stall and I bit the concrete.

Got pretty lucky all things considered. I was wearing a rain jacket and winter leather gloves. Only cuts were on my knee where my jeans tore. Still pretty sore and stiff.

First time out in 4 months. Main bike is on a trainer and I did not feel like swapping tires. Took out my old hybrid turned neglected Franken-bike project. 8 miles in and my Afro engineered single ring crank starts throwing the chain off. Get it back on and snap the chain 10 seconds later.

After 3 years of riding nothing but road bikes that hybrid was a shitload of fun. I need to get a real 1x9 setup on it.

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Remora mode,,,try to stick, on the belly.
,,warm, and wind free,, also keeps cagesat bay.
,,,ignore the Mud.

Cooling off but still above freezing today. On the last leg of my ride going down a gravel road I came across a lazy person "walking" their dogs, by having them run outside their moving car. One of dogs was doing a kind of sideways run 4" in front of the bumper staring at the driver. Given the speed they were driving I'm surprised they didn't run the damn thing over.

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Today is the day lads. I dropped cycling for over 2 months now because "life" but today I will finally do the 90km run with over 1200m elevation gain no matter the cost.

See you up there, I will post here if my fat ass I failed or succeeded.

>>1051040
What's the word, anon?

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>>1051250

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>>1051260

The cumulative elevation gain is 2056m and the distance is about 92km for the entire trip.

I had to walk last 3km when reaching the top because I had no more food left and didn't expect 14º climb. Had to return home totally bonked.

The wind up there almost made me slip and fall which is another bonus to the experience.

>>1051264
Well done

>>1051264
>>1051260
Congrats anon

But you did it in the middle of the night? In what I assume is a northern hemisphere winter? Are you crazy??? Were you able to hit the descent hard or could you just not see far enough ahead?

>>1051266

I'm from Spain. The weather was OK but by the time I reached the peak it was 8 pm and pretty dark. I started the trip at 1 pm and returned home at 1 am. Stayed up there for about hour and a half checking out the views aswell.

The descent was dark but I had 1000 lumen light and 6 hour battery with me. Also having a normal rain coat (not the roadie thin piece of crap) with you is a life saver and protects from wind really well.

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>>1051267

Next stop: Turó de l'Home which is situated about 20km away from the peak I visited and has elevation of 1700m. This Spring with more preparation and training I will do it.

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Took advantage of a break in the shit weather. 75km from my city up into the snowy hills and back, test my new cheapo second bike. Gorgeous when I got above the snowline, but the country roads leading out the city were covered in mud, slush and meltwater. Got soaked and muddy. And on top of that, I pulled the brakes before a corner on a small descent, and what I thought was a skim of surface water was actually a remnant bit of ice. Crashed.

>>1048821
noise rock album art right here

Two days in a row where the wind was calm until I went out for a ride. Was just under 20 kph but enough to make -1 °C feel not so pleasant. Cloudy too, with near freezing temps whether its sunny or not makes a huge difference in comfort.

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>decide to ride a trail I hadn't before
>misjudge the incline and take a curve too fast
>leave the trail
>in my stupidity try to get back on it instead of stopping fully and then getting on it
>trail has concrete lip
>crash
>bend my crank arm enough that it smacks into the frame
>had to walk the bike several miles home
>don't know when I'll be able to get a new arm and cotter pin

RIP my retarded ass.

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I'm an absolute novice and I'm pretty out of shape.
I'm proud of myself

>>1051388
What app is that?

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>>1047562
Just riding around the the driest non-polar place in the world.

>>1051389
mapmyride maybe?

>>1051389
>>1051392
yeah, mapmyride

>>1051395
>>1051392
Thanks, anons. I'll have to get it for when I'm finally able to fix my crank arm.

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>>1047562
heat also here, 30 something celsius.south america.
did a 78km ride, starting point: 620mts, highest part 1800mts, andes mountains

Went up to the hills for the first time in a few weeks. Times up were ok considering being out of practice, but got stuck behind a car coming back down. I wouldn't have minded so much if the L-plater hadn't pulled in front of me RIGHT at the start of the descent and proceed to drive it agonisingly slowly.

Coming back was good though, wind just about perfect.

>>1051428
Farellones?

>>1051428
What a pleb.

Did my first century of the year. It was 20 F when I started, but above freezing by the time I finished. Gained (and lost) ~3300 feet and enjoyed a 15-20 mph tailwind for most of the return trip.

I did it with my slicks and kind of regret it. Sure, the riding was easier, but I had to change my route a couple times after finding that quiet roads above 2500 feet are still covered with ice. The lower roads were pretty nice though, just a lot of sand on the edges.

I got tanlines from the ski goggles I wore. They're pretty silly - dark arcs around my cheekbones. It's not warm enough to lose my balaclava yet, but exposing some of my face feels nice, especially on ascents.

>>1051467
pasadito yerba loca no mas, farellones esta a 2400mts
>>1051507
3edgy5me aka why the hate?

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Carrols Corner.

Kind of meh out so I went for my first run in about 3 weeks since my ankle was finally good. One week of running left me with a sore ankle for a bit over two weeks. Ankle was good but my bum hip didn't like it. The frequency and length of commercials on Spike TV while they were playing X-Men was just killing me.

Went for a 35 km ride -9 °C, 20 kph wind and flurries, but it didn't happen because Strava is down due to AWS outage. At least I finally had a tailwind for the return trip. Had an idiot pull 20 feet in front of me and slam on the brakes heading into a Tim Hortons.

Went for an eye exam after a ride today. My prescription strength didn't change since last one over 4 years ago (but astigmatism correction did). Might be time to think about getting corrective surgery as I can't walk with out glasses, let alone ride. Medical stuff like that gives me anxiety / nausea, but I guess I could just keep my eyes closed and tough it out until its over.

>>1051806
I LIVE IN THIS RV PARK! BACON LETS RIDE!

Went for a 76 km ride this morning. Cloudy and +5 °C by the time I finished. After I changed the sun came out, wind died down and temperature rose to 10.

>>1052628
But doesn't the operation force your eyes to be open or am I thinking of something else?

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sup /n/ Ive decided to get back into cycling recently to try to stop being such a lazy fuck, bought myself a pretty cheap mountainbike just to go wondering around the woods and fields here, it will be mostly about exploring than exercise really but im looking foward to getting fitter and staying out for longer

Swapped my paper compass tyres the other week over to voyager hypers because of thorns and got another fucking thorn puncture today.

Lay me to rest, senpai. Do I need to the marathon ultra super rock ride to be done with this meme

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>>1052628
>get eye exam hoping to get the operation
>optometrist notices I have keratoconus which for some reason none of the other optometrists I have visited told me about
>mfw it means eye surgeries are a no-go for me

>>1053904
>Do I need to the marathon ultra super rock ride to be done with this meme
whether or not you get punctures is always an exercise in probabilities - protection inside the tire doesn't actually prevent flats, it just reduces the probability of having a puncture on a given ride

I really should have gone for a ride yesterday despite it being wet. The wind is supposed to be upwards of 80 kph until Wednesday now. Supposed to snow today too which in conjunction with the wind could make some nice firm drifts for fat biking.

I used to think I was addicted to cycling, but I think its just a general exercise addiction. I'd be in a bad mood if I didn't ride for a few days. But I've found running on a treadmill on the days that are too awful to ride keep that from happening.

Every year I seem to reach a point where I say, "Fuck it winter, you win". Weather has been crap all week around -15 to -20 °C, and the lack of snow just seems to make it worse. No riding, just running on the treadmill watching the first half of movies. Managed a 10 mile, 2 hour run to watch an entire movie today. Next week sunny and above freezing Tuesday onward, so I'll put on my new cross tires and hit the gravel. At this time of year the gravel is like a nutty chocolate bar with the rocks embedded in a creamy layer of packed mud.

>>1048821
Pour a 40

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driplines,, 30000 miles, of driplines.

Finally nice enough for a ride today after 8 days and 57 miles on the treadmill. Did 12 miles at 5.5 mph yesterday while watching Terminator 2. Clearly I wasn't working hard enough because I noticed for the first time that Dean Norris was playing the swat team leader, despite the fact he was wearing a gas mask, just from his voice. Above freezing rest of the week.

With warmer weather on the way time to replace my shitty Specialized bibs. The leg cuffs stretched out long ago making them look frilly and won't hold up leg warmers or sunsleeves. Ended up ordering a pair of dhb Aeron bibs from Wiggle as people seem to like them.

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Wanted go for a calm ride in the nice sunny weather, but I ended up feeling good and just going fast. Like I always end up doing desu, I dont know what I was expecting.

I also seem to have '''fixed''' my cramp problem by drinking a fuckton during the ride. During this ride I had 1l of isotonic and 1l of water. I used to last twice as long on that amount of drink, so im kind of worried about riding more than 100km now. I should probably get a 3rd bottle cage and stick another 1l bottle in there.

>>1056603
Nowhere you can refill bottles around where you ride?

>>1056605
not that I know of

>point podium big chill at cat
>cat sniffs nozzle
>squeeze bottle to shoot a puff of air at cat
Stupid cat will never learn.

4°C with wind 40 gusting to 50 kph. Wasn't too bad to ride in inside the city but I only saw two other bikes. About the same tomorrow but I'll brave riding out in the open in the morning. Higher than ideal winds forecast all the way to next Thursday, but potentially some nice days late next week. I just know the graders will be out all next week churning up the perfectly packed gravel roads into a loose mess.

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socalm.

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.... then,, the, Roadie!,
,,piles of glass,, bolts, fender bits from the many crashs.,
, blind corners,, andips.

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VICTORY!

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18hos?

I finally got some time to ride today
Its been almost 5 months since I was last on a bike
rode against the wind for 11 miles, got a flat at mile 4
turned around and was able to ride with the wind and broke 30 mph a few times.
god i missed that feeling.

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Really nice ride, I'm so happy the paths are finally dry. Even though that just makes me more aware of how poorly paved they are. Ran into some furry friends also enjoying the weather (in the background of pic). Also found a relatively hidden lake around where I live, I wanna try and throw a little kegger there since it's only accessible by bike at night.

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>>1057213
>Weed Heights

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Got up to 9 °C today so I went for a 100 km ride. I planned on it being almost all gravel, but ended up being 3/4 due to mud detours. There was a road closed sign ahead of the pic, but I decided to disregard it should there be a chance of getting across. Ended up being quite wide and fast moving.

I skimped on water only taking 3 bottles, but could have used a 4th. 3 would have been sufficient if my HR hadn't been up due to jumping into a long ride after a break. I got this odd tingly stiffness in my quads for the last 25 km. But it went away when I stopped and my legs aren't stiff at all now, so I should be good for another long ride tomorrow.

>>1057236
What bars are those exactly?

>>1058181
I don't know, the PO put them on. After a little googling I found someone selling them as "HED TT carbon base". Most pictures I see of them are with tri bars but they didn't come with any.

My left calf has started hurting when I ride, wat do

>>1058230
Calf compression sleeves. I like the Zensah ones. You can wear them while riding or after a ride to make your calves feel better.

>>1058231
Aren't compression sleeves pretty much placebo?

>>1058233
For riding I find them most helpful on bumpy roads, washboard / winter riding. If I'm getting hard jolts and my calf muscle bounces downward just before contracting it seems to increase the chances of a muscle pull. The compression sleeves help support the muscle and have greatly reduced the number of muscle pulls I've experienced. Even with a muscle pull I find I can still ride if I put the sleeves on and feel almost no pain while riding.

Can't say if they speed recovery time, but they sure make my legs feel much better than when I'm not wearing them, soreness all but disappears.

>>1058230
calf stretches
eccentric heel drops 3x15 twice a day

Help me understand this because next week I am going to start riding 25 miles to work, three times a week.

I right have very little fat, and I am not interested in body building but would love to having calves and thighs that are ripped.

This is what I don't understand:

I am a very small eater. I know at the end of such a ride I will be starving, let's say I have a big lunch each time then, wouldn't all that bike ride have been just for nothing when those calories you burned get right back in if we assume it's a big lunch?

A little red from today's 4.5 ride. Looks like its sunscreen time again already for this pasty irishman.

>>1047562
n00b here. Finally got my first training ride in today for my upcoming tour this summer. I'm in a lot worse shape than I originally thought. I was planning on training for a month and a half before I left, but now I'm thinking I need at least 2 months. I want to ride the transam, and I was thinking about leaving mid may. Now June looks better. I don't want to leave later than that. Only rode for half an hour, and it kicked my ass. I don't know how many miles because I haven't hooked up my bike computer yet. There was a fair amount of hills. This was completely unloaded too. I've never even ridden a loaded touring bike before. My hands were starting to numb a little by the end even with gloves on. I think I just need to adjust the seat a little bit.

Brutal wind gusting to 60 km/h on the return trip. At least I was in the city, looking at Strava a bunch of people did a 110 km ride out of the city where there would be no wind breaks. Thinking today would be an easy 50 km city ride I only took 1 bottle and no snacks. Better weather tomorrow onward, just in time for brevet season to kick off next weekend.

Put on about 8 lbs over the winter that I'm trying to lose. I think I'm still down about 8 from where I was this time last year. Would like to get down to under 150 this year which would be my lowest this millennium.

First ride of the season, 50km on mostly flat.

I expected it to be worse, but I didn't get too tired and managed to keep a 28km/h average despite some wind.

The cagers are getting exceedingly friendly each year, only about 5 close passes and 1 that was rather dangerous and I don't think I've seen a single one that was drunk on the road, although admittedly it was before lunch.

Cager just wrote off my cage while it was parked in front of the house. At least it wasn't a hit and run. Moved the car about 20 feet from where it was parked. Maybe I'll live the car free lifestyle for a little while since I have no need for one at the moment.

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Ice season in the local Rockies :) Really having a blast with my home-made screw tires.

>>1058856
That seems sketchy as fuck

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>>1058857
It's fucking awesome! Sketchy? .... maybe a little bit, but that's part of why it's so great. 1000 machine screws make for great ice traction!

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>out on my BMX
>old asian guy stops and says I should get a bigger bike

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went to my local lake with some friends on Saturday, around 30 miles there and back with a lot of elevation both ways.

took us a long time on our hard tail mountain bikes but we had fun.

the first stretch coming back from the lake is 2.5miles with a 700ft incline, riding up there and seeing all the road bikes just flying past me kinda makes me want to try one.

longest ride ive done, 10/10

going to make it a thing to ride somewhere new every week, need to get a new crankset tho as my crankarm is threaded and i have to tighten it often.

I started feeling sick last night, and definitely had a head cold this morning. Didn't let it stop me from doing an easy 50 km. Started feeling worse after I got back and more congested. Pretty mild as colds go, hope I can sleep it off tonight, though tomorrow is the worst looking day of the week so would be a good time to slip in a rest day.

>see FB where guy thanks bike shop for bikes they built for him
>4 di2 road bikes with quaq power meters and 1 di2 FS mtb
>fit nicely in his Merc G Wagon
Forget dentistry, real estate is where the big money is at.

>tfw finding someone local to ride with
>tfw turns out to be living embodiment of alt-right redditor
>tfw talks non-stop about his white male oppression
Also does erratic shit that makes drivers slam on their brakes. Now I remember why I stopped riding with him last year.

>>1057213
weed... heights...

>>1058265
Exercise doesn't actually burn that much, if you want to lose weight then diet is more important.

Protein for muscle building and fat (but use healthy sources, like nuts and yogurt) for energy. Try to stay away from sugar. Research foods that are nutritionally dense but also low-calorie. Stuff like oatmeal and smoothies are good for making you feel stuffed without actually taking up too much of your caloric budget, also you can mix protein powder into them

Your exact needs depend on the amount of activity you will be doing plus how you want your body to change. Ask around fitness forums and do research into different kinds of diets

Probably shouldn't have rode 80 km yesterday with a head cold as I felt like crap all night.

Also potential RIP for Mike Hall, ultra marathon cyclist who was featured in documentary Inspired to Ride.
https://cyclingtips.com/2017/03/grave-concerns-indian-pacific-wheel-race-rider-mike-hall-unidentified-cyclist-dies-crash/

Went on a group ride today, but the pre-arranged route was not a good match for the weather. Quick 28 km ride out, but coming back was tough. A small group left ahead of me and some others were getting ready to go so I figured I'd either catch up to the first group or some people would catch up with me, but neither really happened. On the way back I managed 14.5 km/h in the drops pushing fairly hard the whole way. One guy with aerobars caught up with me, but I didn't manage to reach the group ahead of me.

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I finally went for a ride, two fucking weeks without being able to ride because schedule. Two weeks and it felt like years. The ride was pleasant but I almost threw beause there was a big dead dog near the road and I could smell it from 1km. Many fellow cyclists and one of them had a flat.

>>1058610
Still haven't heard if my car is a write off. If it is I'll probably use the settlement to get laser eye surgery done. I think PRK might be the better way to go, but the recovery / stabilization time is so much longer than LASIK.

Rode 76 miles. Up and over the mountains and then back through a canyon, uphill (barely) and upwind.

A 25 mph headwind isn't that bad, but dealing with the canyon concentrating it and the fatigue I had from the gravel roads in the mountains was rough. I spent a decent amount of time going up the ~0.3% grade using my 22 tooth granny gear. Ran out of water towards the end and made it to a gas station feeling quite dehydrated. I'll need to get used to not carrying a 10 L bladder like I do while touring.

On the bright side, the roads were very quiet. The canyon road was nearly deserted thanks to the end of some running event. I don't think the gravel roads around the pass are ever very busy and enough snow was melting near the top to have the creek running across the road a few times.

Went out for a late 75k ride with some gruelling hills. Everything was going fucking perfect, until the very end of the ride when I got distracted for a second because I was saying goodbye to my mates, which caused me to slip on one of those shitty parts of the road where the lanes join, I slipped and crashed. I got some road rash, especially on my left knee (the hardest part of the knee, thank god) and on my right buttock. There's not one significant scratch on the bike. Any tips for not slipping like an asshole on shitty roads? I mean, besides paying attention to the fucking road.

Went for 90 km today. Dirt roads are still too wet to ride on so I didn't do all of my planned route. Made a note of touring bike odo to keep track of how long a new pair of tires last. Also noticed that its been 6,600 km since the last chain replacement on my touring bike which is about 2000 more than I usually let the chains go. Maybe I changed it in the fall but forgot to write it down, the chain checker will tell.

>>1061320
Wind gusting to near 70 kph today I didn't ride. Tomorrow +20 °C and light wind WOOOO. And pretty nice for Saturday's organized 100 km ride which will be about 135 including ride from home. Been having to wear sunscreen the last two weeks already for anything over 2 hours with the UV index hitting 4.

Chain wear was past .75 but hadn't reached 1 yet. Added a calculation to my ride log spreadsheet to show current distance on current chain for all my bikes. Used my last chain so ordered a bunch of KMC X9.93 chains from Wiggle and some more shift cable inners.

>ride to downtown
>stop by vegan bakery and get some delicious vegan baked goods
>go to grocery store, get some awesome vegan food
>put it in pannier
>ride to a park
>hang out at park and eat one of my vegan baked goods
>ride to another grocery store to get some tortillas
>ride home
It was a nice day for riding. It was a short ride, probably only like 40 km, but it was fun.

Did two rides in three parts today.
In the morning was getting up at ungodly hour to do the local shop ride, mostly taking it fairly easy with a nice ramp up before the turn around point. Then a puncture. 50 km all up.

In the afternoon, rode across town and into the hills for a friend's birthday party. Coming back was in the total dark which is new to me, kind of fun. The headwind returning was a bit vicious though, made it a slog. 35 km each way, give or take.

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Went on a ride in Kansas. Nice day, only did 20 miles, not very good at cycling yet.

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>Haven't rode in almost 6 months becasue I'm a lazy, mentally ill, faggot
>Haven't been sleeping the past few weeks and legs have been constantly restless
>Figure I should start riding again becasue I miss it
>Get home after working 12 hour night shift
>Hop on my bike and go out for maybe 15 miles
>Really pushed myself past what I should have
>Got home
>Entire body hurts
>Spent the last 5 minutes puking
>Feel like I'm about to puke again
>Despite all that still feel good

I quit riding due to laziness and due to my mind tormenting myself "You're so slow, This wind sucks, Of course it's raining, Why are you so tired etc" but I've been working on turning off my mind becasue it affects my sleep and I worked on that this ride and did pretty well. I really want to start fucking riding again and if I can successfully turn off my mind every time I ride I should be able to get back into doing 30+ miles in a daily basis.

I felt bad becasue on my way to and from work I would always see people out riding and think how cool they were and how that used to be me but I would just come home, sit in my chair and refresh image boards all day and be bored out of my mind. It feels good to be back, hopefully.

>>1062072
I know that feeling well anon. Stepping outside the door can be the most monumental task.

Is there any possibility of you commuting by bike? I've found that if I've committed to that, then gearing up in the cold or the rain or feeling like shit is a lot easier.

>>1062072
Are u overweight or obese?

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Knocked this out yesterday. I've done longer rides, with more gear and more hills, but this was the longest of the year. Also, my good friend, the wind, made the first ~20 miles much harder and the last ~20 miles much easier.

Fatigue is such a good feeling. Cruising downhill/downwind at 20-30 mph while feeling fatigued is pretty great too.

first ride of the season coming off a late-fall injury did 50k on my f/s trail bike over asphalt in full riding kit because shits not going to be dry til memorial day. feeling great (but i let myself go full danny-hart-attack over the winter), should be in proper form by september again. maybe go up north for some enduro events around then.

>>1062072
keep riding brah, you're gonna make it!

>>1062072
KEEP RIDING!

A couple PRs on the MUP this afternoon thanks to the ever present spring wind. On the first one I slowed down around a pedestrian and didn't realize how far the end point of the segment was, so definitely could have knocked off a few more seconds. Second one I was already half way through it before I decided put in a decent effort.

Legs were pretty stiff while they adjust to the switch to my summer shoes.

>Forecast no rain
>Looks like no rain
>leave watch at home just to be safe
>reach apex of journey
>hail
>rain and hail
>thunder, rain and hail
Probably the most soaked I've ever been

>soon as I get home it stops.

>>1058938
Sounds great, have you had a go off road? There's some good stuff in the peaks not far from you and Wharncliffe near Sheffield if you get into downhill.

>>1062927
i enjoy dirt trails, just starting to use jumps, still getting over the fear of going otb.

just checked out wharncliffe woods and it looks pretty good, im guessing there are different routes for different skill levels.

i did sherwood pines red route not that long ago but it felt hard so i might have to work on my skills more before trying it out.

>>1062937
Wharncliffe is more full on downhill, it's Steve Peat's local haunt if you've heard of him.

Think you need some local knowledge to go riding there really though.

>>1062046
You have a nice bike, you should be doing over 20 miles, you fucking fred

Got a top 10 in a segment today. Every once in a while I come across a segment with surprisingly few attempts given the location of the road. Only 99 total attempts on a rode that directly connects 2 highways that get a lot of riders. I guess people chicken out due to the lack of shoulder even though there is little traffic. Later this year that road will be cutoff on both ends by a new motorway and will be a nice straight road that doesn't go anywhere. But at that point it will be impossible to ride the old segment. So many defunct local segments from the last few years of construction.

Had a great ride, finally got up a really techy climb without putting my foot down and got a KOM out of 760 people on the downhill section.

Managed to miss the rain too.

>150 km ride out east and back tomorrow
>30+ km/h west wind forecast
I suggested switching the route to go west instead. If they are sticking with the east route I'll just go for a ride by myself. Forecast was for 40 gusting to 60 km/h, and could very well end up being that. The prospect of doing 75 km at 15 km/h or less is not appealing.

>>1064173
We went west and it was windy. Pretty slow going, and got really slow near our mid-point lunch stop when one of the riders started to bonk. I gave them a bottle of Ensure to slam before lunch to get a head start digesting something otherwise they would have been just as beat for 30 minutes after lunch. They were still far from 100% for the entire return leg, but the wind kept our average speed over 32 km/h, even though my HR was in the idle zone as I soft pedaled most of the way.

>>1063569
bacon got his legs back?

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>>1062275
Added another 20 miles today. Weirdly, I felt less tired at the end of 140 miles than at the end of 120. At some point, I just sort of forgot about the fatigue. An early start, a lovely day and a gentle wind all helped.

My tent is getting repaired so I'm stuck doing absurdly long day rides instead of camping for the next few weeks. Next weekend I think I'll bike to a hike instead so I don't ride so far that I can't make it back.

>>1047562
>two days ago
>ride my OTS 75km
>yesterday
>ride my OTS 15.5km to the mountains, lock up bike, hike for a few hours, ride home
>today
>ride my OTS 63km then go mountain biking for an hour which was almost entirely uphill
Plus I hardly slept the last two nights
I'm so tired.

Got a little wet the last two rides, still better than the wicked winds of last week.

I've been looking for a method to see an updated map of which roads I've ridden now that I don't have Strava premium. I have something that works but its a bit clunky and not as responsive as I'd like. I installed Python and a plugin called Spatialite (stores gps data in a sqlite database) so I could use an import script called gpx2spatialite (had errors and had to tweak it a little) to import all my gpx files that I bulk downloaded from strava. Then I can use QGIS to show all the tracks at once. QGIS can display a background map using a plugin but it blanks the screen while it downloads tiles any time you pan or zoom instead of managing the map on the fly. A plugin called QuickMapServices does some caching and is much faster than OpenLayers, but still a bit annoying.

Not having Strava premium I have to download my individual gpx files for new rides from Garmin Connect instead.

>>1065738
Light wind from every direction at some point during today's ride.

Looking at my cycling map in QGIS I noticed a 20 foot section I hadn't covered when biking the whole city a few years ago. So I had to go ride that spot while I was out. With the Strava heatmap it can be difficult to spot very small gaps since it just displays gps points on the map, and with Garmin's smart recording the distance between points can vary a lot.

>>1066124
Nearly every traffic light in the city uses radar to determine if there is a vehicle present. And some minor roadways never get a green light unless a vehicle is detected. I was at one of these intersections that has been giving me trouble lately and it skipped my cycle again today. So after traffic cleared I rode though the red light and the car behind me followed. Though the presence of that car probably would have triggered the light on the next cycle, but fuck it I waited long enough.

Feeling really stupid and a little bit shaken, especially since Mr. Scarponi just died when he did have right of way.

Must have spaced out going through an intersection, because it didn't register at all that it was my give way. Fortunately the Hyundai who had right of way had the wherewithal to notice I was being retarded, and stepped short.

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>Out for a ride today on a slight climb on a street with median that's faily busy
>Take right down a street I've never been down
>Street is a hill that slopes right
>Hill comes to an end, can either go left or right
>Take a left and make no other turns
>Get going down a nice hill
>Realize I ended up on the other side of the street I was just riding up
>Still can't comprehend what the fuck happened and how I ended up on the other side without crossing it or encountering any of the traffic I was just riding in

Anyone ever had something like this happen?

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>out for ride
>see 3 cars ahead lined up waiting to cross wide busy street
>turn left down alley before that street, cut through sub shop parking lot, then turn right onto busy street getting into left turn lane
>get to cross before any of the vehicles that were waiting
I generally cross busy roads at traffic lights. Next road over has lights but its a bit of a death trap between a blind curve, apartments and mall traffic.

I hate wide roads with multiple lanes of traffic in each direction. Can be difficult getting a gap in traffic from both directions in order to cross whole road. Half the time someone slows to a crawl or stops, compressing traffic eliminating the gap I was aiming for. Drivers are too unpredictable to go half way across without ending up in a dangerous situation. ie: stop in one lane, blocking my view of other lane while traffic in other lane doesn't stop.

So my sneak technique gives me a safe place to wait while waiting for chance to cross first half, then a median protected left turn lane to wait for gap in traffic on second half of road.

Drivers illegally trying to yield their right of way to me drives me fucking nuts. Its completely retarded, and delays cyclists more than if they hadn't stopped. 95% of the time I wave them past which seems to piss them off for some reason.

>>1066570

Spacetime is pretty mutable like that.

>>1066570
can you show this on a map

bonked after just 19km, on a 27km late-night commute that I haven't done in 6 months

what do /n/egros

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>>1066591
>Drivers illegally trying to yield their right of way to me drives me fucking nuts.
Likewise.

Yesterday pic related happened - car (1) came to the stop first, bike (2) comes to the stop a few seconds later, we both stay stopped because we can see car (3) approaching and they have ROW. Car (3) stops illegally, tries to wave bike (2) through and completely freezes the whole intersection.

>>1066612
Eat more food at work before you ride home.

It went from 17 °C on Friday to 10 cm of snow last night. Its melting very fast, almost completely gone from roads and paths. Slower melting on the wood bridges.

not my video, but nice work by the cop. wasn't sure where to put it and didn't want to start a new thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap9_jxEr_JA

I just commute to class and work so pretty average day.
Did bike downtown for some soup at lunch which was a nice 1.5 mile ride with a lot of stop signs.

Racing yesterday,
Chaingang today,
Rest day tomorrow,
VO2 max intervals Wednesday,
Racing Thursday,
Recovery spin Friday,
Time trialling Saturday,
Race intervals Sunday.

>>1067016
Niceeeee

Well fuck me, my bibs from Wiggle arrived nearly 6 weeks after ordering them, complete with a customs bill for $46. 18% duty + pst + gst + $10 Canada Post fee. Had it arrived by courier instead the fees would have been almost as much as the shorts.

The duty was new, usually the stuff I order just has tax applied when it does slip by. Another person I know got a huge bill for a clothing item recently too.

>>1067046
>he has duty for small imports
I want to laugh, but they're trying to introduce it here and there is a massive shitstorm because the gubmint thinks for some reason international retailers should be collecting gst to send to australia.

That said we do have gst on purchases over $1000, it's still usually cheaper to import though.

>>1067080
I'm jelly of US $800 limit for tax free imports for individuals. In Canada its $20. Ordering from US I get nailed for tax damn near every time. From the UK I think I'm at twice ever but maybe that's changing or maybe they look for certain codes on the customs form.

Some US websites will charge the Canadian tax at the time of purchase which ends up saving money by eliminating the $10 fee which used to only be $5 a few years back (or $30 through a courier).

>>1067409
>>1067412
bacon made a lady friend?

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Some new bridges / future Strava segments starting to take shape. They are doing the steel work at night, will probably take at least 2 weeks to do both bridges. One of the bolts didn't fit so they just put a c-clamp on it, that ought to hold.

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>>1067412
I really like that bicycle. It reminds me of mine. When did you stop being a criple and grow long hair?

2nd time out on the mtn bike. Still muddy. Only been yelled at by one person so far.

>>1068317
Wear a cow bell

OpenStreetMap editing season has returned. Not warm / calm enough for long country rides so a lot of 2.5 hour city rides where I ride around and notice new stuff to add to the map. That and the satellite imagery was recently updated to only be a year old instead of 4 years old.

While out today I found a narrow sidewalk path in an old neighborhood that cut between houses from one road to another. I thought I had all those little shortcuts that are invisible on the satellite images mapped out. Those types of paths have all but disappear in the designs for newer neighborhoods, making it harder to get around on foot / bike.

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>Last night
>Get back from ride (I ride at night since I work nights)
>Clean entire drive train
>Push fresh, new lube on chain
>Adjust handle bar position
>Adjust saddle bar position
>Sleep during the day wake up around 1600
>GPS bundle arrived in the mail(Wahoo element bolt)
>Get every thing set up
>It's beautiful outside, I assume it was all day
>Decide I'll go ride at 0200
>Beautiful night
>Cue 0200
>It's still what appears to be nice out
>Not even a mile into ride it starts to drizzle
>Press on
>It starts to fucking pour
>End up riding 10 miles in the pouring rain before I got pissed and called it
>Couldn't test out everything I changed on my bike
>GPS at least worked flawlessly
>Have to clean entire drive train again
>mfw

>>1068317
Stop ruining the trails

>>1068500
How am I supposed to know before I get there?

Slow 200 km ride today. First 80 km was fast with a good tailwind. Once we got into a headwind the two guys I rode with weren't doing so well. Since I was feeling pretty good I just pulled the last 120 km to keep my HR up, but even then it was in the 120s much of the time.

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Yes yes I know
>Walmart Bike

But I love how smooth it rides, I got a rack for it too and a rackbag.
Had to heighten my seat a bit but holy beans it feels way better riding with the seatpost up.

Was thinking about getting some fenders for it, Y/N?

Had a dream that I got a cannondale slate, what the fuck, /n/.

>>1068736
If you ride in the rain and it bothers you, either with spray or making the bike filthy then absolutely, why not.

>>1068736
cool, enjoy that - price point means it's got a limited lifespan but you can easily extend that by doing routine maintenance and treating it well. fenders are a good investment for sure.

>>1068708
I thought the other guys were really slacking yesterday but I think part of it was something that also happened last year. Early in yesterday's ride my HR for a given effort dropped about 20-25 bpm. For the last few weeks my HR hovered around 150-155 bpm under a decent but not strenuous effort, which is higher than my typical 145, but that's normal for me coming out of winter. Then yesterday after warming up it dropped to 130 or less.

I went out for a 2 hour ride today and my HR was between 125 and 130 most of the time. Weird.

Did some maintenance today. While cleaning chain on most used bike I noticed some unusual movement in the lower jockey wheel. When I gave it a wiggle I could move it side to side about half an inch. So I replaced both wheels with better quality sealed ones off a mangled derailleur.

Also going to have to re-lace my Brooks saddle. Last time used leather lace which appears to have stretched out. Regular fabric laces break after a year, so I got some some kevlar laces like I have on my other saddles.

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P. good ride.

>>1069380
That's beautiful, did you take that picture?

>>1069439
Thanks man, yes, I took that picture yesterday, it was a really long ride back home, about 120 miles. .

>>1069380
damn.

nice one

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>>1068490
>Finally get a chance to go out for a ride and actually test my Bolt
>Leave about 1030
>It's fucking 85 outside
>Take nearly the same route as this time
>Saw everywhere that 90+ RPM is the magical RPM and you should try and maintain this
>Do just this
>It's way fucking harder than I imagined even if I'm on a larger chain ring
>The first half of my route is all uphill
>Keep between 70-90 95% of the way
>3/4th my bottle gone by the time I reach my turn around point
>Feel like I'm going to fucking die
>Make turn around
>Maintain 80-90 the rest of my route
>Had to call my ride early at 11 miles
>Get home and puke like I've never puked before
>Was out for 46 minutes with 2min at stoplights
>73RPM AVG, 15MPH AVG, 486 (FT?) Climb, HR3/4 most of ride

I've only started riding again about a month ago, before that I rode maybe 4 months, took around 6 months off.

I've done much longer rides but never had a computer to target my cadence which is a weak point of mine.

This has got to be the hardest ride I've ever done, had I waited until later in the evening it may have been better but I guess I am satisfied with the results but I really need to work on keeping 80+ on the climbs.

>>1069380
Where near the Andes is this?

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>>1069627
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laguna_del_Inca

>>1069631
Cool, are you touring down Chile, or just visiting Valparaiso?

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>>1069632
I'm Chilean actually, I've been touring as much as possible lately, I plan to get to know every cool place around here before going further away. As of now I've toured Chilean/Argentinian Patagonia and northern Chile/Bolivia.

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>>1069380
Nice. There are no snowy peaks around here

>>1069649
Let me guess, England? Really nice.

>>1069634
Props for appreciating local sites. Too many people assume that places are better just because they're on the other side of the globe.

Holy crap, forecast every day for the next week is sunny and low 20s (Celsius).

I did my first fairly long ride this weekend, over 60 miles, where the longest I've gone before that was 25. I think I pushed myself a bit too hard because I have some pain in my right kneecap when I move it in certain ways. Is this the common runners knee? What should I do?

>>1069815
Pushing too big a gear can cause knee issues, spin an easier gear faster. Might also be saddle position, too high, too low, too far forward or back. If you knee sort of jogs outward during the pedal stroke that could be an indication of a fit issue.

>>1069525
Very nice

Uh oh, I accidentally stumbled across Veloviewer's Explorer feature. Now I'm going to be compelled to ride far and wide to expand my max square coverage. I currently have a few 10x10s but should be able to get to between 13 and 16 in a few rides by filling some small gaps.

>>1049225
The G one is good but wears fast. Not ideal for touring. The cyclo speed won't wear as fast but it will still wear fairly fast due to having limited tread thickness. There's a reason it's only 350g for 35mm. It's cheap though.

>>1070021
I've got 1,300 km on the Cyclocross Speed's already, mostly pavement. Center row of knobs (roughly 3 mm wide) on the rear have worn just about smooth. Not quite as good on loose gravel as I had hoped, which isn't surprising, but it gets the job done. I'll keep an eye on it and see how far I can let it wear before it starts giving me trouble. Front tire is doing fine, when I ordered them I got 3 of them expecting the front to last much longer.

>>1069985
Today's ride got me to a 13 x 13 box. Finished riding some dirt roads west of town that were too wet to ride last fall. Came to a rail crossing where a train was coming to a stop. After waiting for a while I decided to just go down to the next road at which point I saw the engine had fucked off leaving its cars behind blocking the road.

In other train related news, CP is going to start using 60 ft intermodal containers in Canada.

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Did my very first century over the weekend lads, I'm pretty pleased with myself. Mostly paved, but with ~15 miles of fire roads.

Forgot my lights today and rode ninja back home. Talk about a ride of shame, I didn't even feel I could scoof at all the ninjas riding wrong way on the route.


>>1070215
goood going lad

>>1070215
You were riding a mtb right?

>>1070215
Post Strava

>>1070215
gz
now do 200

>>1070462
Thanks

>>1070480
Steel monstercross with canti brakes, 3x9 gearing, and fat 700c slicks. Let's be honest, other than the dropbars and 700C wheels, it's basically a 90s rigid MTB.

>>1070515
The longest ride I'd done before this was 75 miles or so. I'm definitely not ready for a double century.

Wind was 30 gusting to 40 km/h when I woke up for a 200 km ride, so I emailed the organizer to say I wouldn't be going then went back to sleep. The wind died down before I woke up so the right might have been borderline doable if we got the first 50 km done before it picked up to the forecast 40 gusting to 60. By then it was too late to get ready in time, so I hopped on a ride another club was running. On the way home I got 3 wind assisted top 10 MUP segment places. One of them is tricky due to tight flat corners and s-curves.

Tomorrow the wind is still supposed to be 40 gusting to 60 km/h. I'm helping do some work on my parents cottage which happens to be downwind 54 km. So I'm going to ride out there and throw my bike in a truck for the return trip. But since I need to drive my brother's car back, I can bike from his place to mine which is also downwind.

>>1070793
Why are you such a faggot?

>>1070802
Cagers are always like that

Just about home this evening when a car ran a stop sign at an intersection with shitty sight lines. Managed to brake hard enough to bleed enough speed to slip behind them rather than plow into the side. Closest call in quite some time.

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Did a metric century today, up into the mountains on forest roads. I was initially planning on doing a metric double, going down the other side and around, but dragging my bike through snow is surprisingly time consuming.

Got some lovely views along the way though. Will definitely return.

>ride canyon on my OTS
>gearing range is really narrow
>in lowest gear going up, wish I had lower
>in highest gear descending, spinning out around 66 km/h
>still manage to hit 78km/h
>new record on that bike (I've gone faster, just not on that bike)

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Finally weather for short sleeves.

I was on a relatively easy ride until I got passed by an absolute madman, tried to hang on to him for 20km and totally burned myself out. Then I still had 40km to go to get home. Now my legs hurt, but at least the average speed was noice.

>>1071106
kudo 4 no stop

>>1071130
I'm impressed because how does one not need to refill water on a ride that long?

>>1071133
By carrying more? Seatback cages, platypus system etc.

>>1071133
You can manage just fine with two bottles for a 100km ride, provided it's not retardedly hot

>>1071143
Maybe you can, if I did that I'd have a massive dehydration headache.

>>1071133
>>1071143
I had 1L of isotonic and 1L of water, was a bit too little, I agree. Its not very warm yet so no excessive sweating, its doable for now.

>>1071144
>>1071160
What a bunch of faggots, I've done 100 miles without drinking a drop of water.

>>1071178
Enjoy your kidney stones.

>>1071187
>implying I don't piss crystal clear urine after riding
You guys are inefficient af.

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Short ride on the town bike, spotted some qtpi geese along the way.

>wind was forecast to be 20 km/h
>ended up being 40 gusting to 50 km/h on way home
Riding on soft gravel with a strong cross wind the front wheel kept trying to slip out sideways on me.

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90km today, almost entirely on dykes in the beaming sunshine. Tripled my tanline intensity in one afternoon.

>>1071352
It's nice that geese are nice where you are.

>>1071604
They attack you if you get within a few metres of their babies but they stop when you move away. They are pretty nice overall I think.

>>1047562
Not sure if this is 100% related but it's a direct result of being spoiled by Zwift and a smart trainer:
What's a good power meter to get? I don't need pro level or anything obviously, just something to make sure I'm keeping the right output.

>>1071629
Ive got BePro pedals. They were the cheapest two-sided measurement on the market when I bought them, not sure if they still are. No complaints so far.

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>>1047562
Overexposed af, sharing anyways.

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Did some exploring in some spots that were too wet to ride last year. They were less wet but still a few permanent bogs right in the middle of the road. The gravel roads are mostly loose and will need a decent rain to get packed back down. I saw a grader going down one road with a rotary bar in the front breaking up the road surface which would explain the really loose stuff. Got my first wedge tan from the gap between my sun sleeves and gloves.

Recently moved my pump to my seat tube. Just far enough out of the way that my legs don't hit it. When I first got the pump years ago I put it on the bosses under the downtube where it caught all the crap thrown off my front tire giving it a sandblasted look.

Can you message people on strava?

>>1071905
Closest you can do is post a message on their rides, I think.

Holy crap its been windy this month. 40 gusting to 60 kph 3 days in a row. Small window of relative calm tomorrow morning.

>yesterday
>go out to ride to a place I have to be in 40 minutes, expect it to take 30-something minutes like last time
>expect it to be calm
>BRUTAL AS FUCK headwind, to the point that pedaling hard down a steep descent I'm only going as fast as I'd normally be going on a flat or even uphill with that much effort
>ride hard
>still make it in 35 minutes, putting me there 5 minutes early

Should I go for a mtn bike ride or road?

>decide to ride my bike across America
>get hit by the side/back tires of a big truck day 2
>tfw

Hopefully my arm isn't broken and I can continue. Waiting to get my xrays now.

>>1073211
Take your road bike on the trails, that's what I did today

Everything went better than expected, nobody died and the bike is still in one piece.

>>1073238
I knew someone was going to say that...

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>squeeze tire before leaving house
>bit soft, should be fine
>run over rock, pinch flat
The dirt roads are in great shape, ie: dry. Even better if a vehicle that isn't a tractor creates a packed down spot. Dark clouds south of me for half the ride, but never seemed to get closer until I was almost home. Nice little break at the mid-point while I fixed a flat, first of the season, totally my fault.

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Solid ride today tbqh

Took my new frame for a spin, still need a new clamp for the FD but couldn't wait to try it so I just put the chain on the small ring and went for a ride anyway. Frame feels solid, carbon fork smoothens the ride, geo is more relaxed than my previous frame, stem is already slammed yet the saddle-bar drop is very little (headtube is HUGE). Guess I'll get a stem with a more aggressive angle eventually.
My right calf hurts a bit, I was fiddling around with the saddle height throughout the ride and I think it was too high during most of it.
I'll post the complete bike on the next PYBT when it's ready.

>>1073230
Arm is broken. So much for my trip.

>>1073230
>>1073315
That sucks man, hope it doesn't shy you away from cycling forever. Did you at least get ahold of the guy who hit you?

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>Go out for a ride today
>Did 28 miles (only been cycling around 11 months with a 7 month break in between and only been back at it about 2.5)
>Felt like I was slow pretty much everywhere I went
>Get home and check Strava
>PR on one of the longest climbs on my ride
>Got max speed to 42, previous fastest was 41
>Set a bunch of other PR for various segments
>2nd and 3rd fastest times for most of the hard climbs I've done
>Overall 12 "trophies" for the ride where I usually only get 8-10
>Felt like I could have rode a lot more

I know these numbers are pretty shit compared to any actual cyclists but I'm actually pretty satisfied them. My main goal is to get my average cadence to 90 but considering where I ride is basically all hills of various degrees my legs to get burning really fast. My HRM was on the fritz most of the ride so those numbers are skewed, not sure what was going on with it.

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>>1073352
>Passed another cyclists today
>They found and messaged me on strava
>Told me about a group they have that meets up
>mfw I started cycling becasue it's the excersize that requires the least human interaction
>mfw I'm a total shut in with zero social skills otherwise


oh god what do I do.

>>1073388
just ignore it completely?
or say "no thanks I ride alone (nothing personell)"

>>1073388
If you are not happy that you feel like a shut-in you could try joining one their rides. Since you will be riding, social interactions will be minimal anyway.

Or just say you actually prefer riding on your own.

Or just ignaure message completely

>>1073388
If you go on a ride with a group and during the ride you want to ditch them you can always just say you don't feel great and are goin home and start a new route

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Was only supposed to be a 15-20 kph wind yesterday but it ended up being between 30 and 40. I was collecting some veloviewer explorer squares yesterday and missed two that I'll have to go back for. One of them because when I plot a route with an out and back my Garmin will often tell me to turn around well before the point I had plotted so I missed entering the square by about 100 feet. A bunch of impossible to reach squares, so this latest obsession should only keep me busy a few more weeks.

Windy again today but also cold and cloudy so I'll sit this one out.

Tomorrow I'm going to check if a new paved service road is open yet which will make a nice route for going east.

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>>1073388
stalkthem.,

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>Plan 40 mile ride in RWGPS last night
>Check forecast this morning
>30% chance of rain, down from 70% last night
>Check weather radar and it looks clear
>Check outside around noon when I plan to go
>Half dark clouds, half sun
>Can't tell which way clouds are moving
>Decide to start ride anyway
>5 miles into ride it starts pouring
>Dark clouds everywhere
>Decide to bail on route and head home
>Rain lets up and see blue skies
>Figure I'll start route again
>Yet another 5 miles into it starts pouring again
>Decide to bail again becasue i don't want to do 40 miles with wet shoes/kit
>See more blue skies
>Keep riding around trying to determine if the rain is going to stop
>It starts sprinkling
>Get pissed and just head home
>Spent an hour and a total of 15 fucking miles trying to decide what the raid was going to do

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>been lazy
>finally drag myself out of the house for a ride
>only second ride of the week
>see light turn red at intersection next to bar up ahead
>slow down and get into left turn lane
>suddenly hear "HEY SEXY!" from girl at bar patio
>W-what
>turn head
>realize im quickly approaching white line at red light
>unclip both feet and slam them on ground to prevent falling over
>light instantly turns green
>dear god no
>full panic mode trying to get any foot to clip in
>it wont work at all
>try to act like im just really exhausted with my head looking down and breathing heavy... at a green light
>dont even know if a car is behind me
>finally get a foot clipped in
>slowly pedal forward with one foot as the other leg desperately flails around slipping off the pedal
>all of bar and people in cars staring at me
>ride the hardest I possibly can trying to forget what just happened
>it doesnt work
>hit pothole at 26mph causing my full water bottle to spring out
>at this point I turn around and take the back way home

I made it 10 miles.

>>1074176
why can't you
>check for weather and see rain on the forecast
>grab some overshoes and prep the cleaning kit for when I come back
>if the rain lets up just take off the overshoes

#5 and #9 fgt

>>1074219
hahahahahaha roadies

Also: SPD master race

>>1074228
What are you referring to #9 and #5?

>>1074252
the rules

>notice slow flat near end of ride
>replace with patched tube from closet
>next morning tire is flat
>replace with different patched tube from closet
>this morning flat
>replace with tube from my repair kit
>hour into ride reach for my water bottle
>while distracted fixing flat, forgot to put bottles on the bike
And it was windy again. I had some water since I was planning a long ride and had a bag for refilling my bottles. Cut the ride a little short since I was going to be heading back into the wind and it was twice as strong as forecast.

I rode shirtless and helmetless today. I feel so bad but the wind felt so good.

>>1074366
Reckon your tyre might still have something in it? Had a problem similar to that, took a super thorough going over and I'm still not sure it's fixed.

>>1074465
At least one of them was a poorly adhered patch that I managed to peel off. I think the other was used in my studded tire as it was on its last leg pushing the studs through the casing damaging the tube in multiple spots.

I really should do a better job of verifying a tube is free of leaks before putting it back into rotation. I should also buy some new ones. Only have one 700x32 spare so I've started using extra 23-25's I had laying around.

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>>1074176
>Try to do route again today but modified
>It starts pouring again not even 10 miles into my ride despite it being previously sunny and 10% chance of rain
>Fuckit not backing out
>My route takes me along a road with no shoulder and only a rumble strip with two lanes and traffic going in both directions
>I rode up the road once and vowed to never do that again since it's a steep climb and there's only the rumble strip
>I figured going down would be better
>It wasn't since there was a lot of traffic and people were unable to pass due to windyness of road and traffic in the other direction
>Nearly wiped out on rumble strip when a car did pass super close
>Made down road in a decent time
>Rode through heavy tourist area, soaking wet, but felt bad ass becasue it was still raining pretty heavily
>Hit my turn around point and start heading back home
>Still fucking raining my entire climb home
>Don't regret the ride one single bit even though my kit ended up with a few stains

It's starting to get to the point where I don't know what to do unless I'm on my bike. I don't give a fuck about TV shows, couldn't care less about any video games all I can think about is my next ride.

>>1073388
how did they 'find' you on strava? IS it like in real time with avatars?

>>1074616
If you click on the Flyby link in your activities it will show every other Strava user you passed. You can hide yourself from that feature in the privacy settings.

Out for a 100 km mostly gravel ride today. My legs felt pretty good until I'd encounter a hill, then jello. I should take a few consecutive days off to give my legs a break. I've been riding a lot to take advantage of the unusually dry May to visit a bunch of dirt roads that are unusable when wet.

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>start smoking again
>avg. speed drops by more than 20% in 2 weeks

kill me

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I really fucking hate Hawaii sometimes.

>Set out for ride
>First half of ride is all down hill
>Manage to have really strong head wind the entire way
>Figure "At least I'll have the tail wind coming back up"
>Wind decided to change direction and face same strong head win going back home all the way up the climb
>Wind decides to shift to the side too so I'm fighting for control

>No matter where I ride I'm either going up or down a hill

>Weather forecast could say 10% chance of rain and it be perfectly sunny out
>Manages to pour even though there's blue sky

I mean the weather is nice for year round fitness but the shit gets old FAST. I figure at least when I get stationed somewhere else and if there's flats I should be able to do really well on them since I'm basically always climbing or descending, a majority of the time into some degree of headwind.

[spoiler] Despite all this I still fucking love riding and even though there may be times that I go really slow on a route I know I can do fast and even though I know I could push myself harder even though i don't know how I still always look forward to my daily ride [/spoiler]

Nasty wind today, riding is definitely out of the question. Currently gusting to 90 km/h. The sky is a tan colour from all the dust getting kicked up.

>>1075456
I'm sure I've asked this before but where do you live, windanon? Midwest, Saskatchewan or somewhere like that?

>>1075653
Saskatchewan.

>>1075798
bakkon haz gf? pix plix.

>>1075798
>BaconStalker

>>1075802
Antonio Banderez.,
,thats ZORRO ,, toyou.
,,, image limitreachd

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>>1047562
It rained yesterday, the local trails were really muddy today, got lots of clay stuck under my fenders, I had fun nonetheless.

>>1075830
Stop ruining the trails

>>1075878
Stop being a faggot.

>>1075977
Yes, ruining trails does make you a faggot.

>>1075996
>I can't ride anything that's not as smooth as my asshole
Kek, git gud.

>>1076026
you are like a cager on a bike

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1000m sweet climb and descent today, messed up my front rim - not the one pictured, ma40 is durable as hell.
I had Mavic Module 3 SPB in front and after the bad part of the road on descent, had a wobble Ill have to tru, but the rim is so soft, barely made it down...

What 36h, box profile rim do you recommend?

>>1047562
>goatheads
i learned the hard way to slime up my tubes too, now all i hear is a faint little hiss then nothing.

Having one of the longest non-riding stretches in quite a while. Nothing in the past 4 days and probably nothing tomorrow either. Partly shitty weather, partly things and stuff. Need to order a few cubic yards of poop for the garden tomorrow.

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uni's finally over so I had time for my first ride this year

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Got back from a ~230 mile (long) weekend tour this morning. I would have gone further, but I ran into some terrain I didn't think I could ride through (pic related). I got some solitude past the 'road closed' signs and it rekindled my thirst for adventure.

Hopefully I get plenty of opportunities to get out this summer, in spite of the 40 hour weeks I'm expected to work.

>10:00 am
>25 °C
Forecast is for a hot dry summer. Me no like.