>tfw none of my friends will ride with me anymore because

>>918219
>tfw none of my friends will ride with me anymore because I'm 'too fast' and won't draft because 'you fart too much anon'

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>>918219
>tfw no friends at all let alone to ride with

>>918229

I'll ride with you, if you're in the socal area

>>918231
I'm near the Atlantic. Thanks anyway.

>>918219
a) you're genuinely faster than your friends but you want to ride with them - so weigh yourself down a little - ride a heavier bike - or wear a backpack with some bricks - or get a set of wheels with very heavy tires

b) you are super competitive and like to constantly push yourself and fail to realize your friends like to stop and rest and appreciate the scenery - do your training rides alone - ride with friends after you've done your miles and turn off your strava

how can bikes be real if streets aren't real

>>918233
Nj here. Where u at bro

>>918219
Serves you right, you tryhard shit.

>Every showing realfags your power level

>>918219
>iktfb
>go bike riding with friends
>happy to finally have someone to ride with
>constantly have to slow down or stop for them
>They want to be done a quarter of the way through what I usually ride
>feel like a wasted ride

What the hell kind of college aged, non obese male can't ride a bike more than 5-10 miles?? I'm not even /that/ fit and I don't even break a sweat when I go out with these casuals, fuggin ayy

>>918235
This. Not that hard to cap your final form. I installed a rack on my hardtail and placed a wooden box carrying my backpack and my friend's backpack.

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>>918219
invite them to join you on your hour long cooldown at the end of your 6 hour sufferfest

Sometimes giving yourself a handicap by riding a slower bike helps.
But nothing you can do if :
> they won't ride more than an hour
> insist on stopping all the time
> subscribe to the pedal pedal coast riding technique

Practice spinning

>>918306
That's a good trick.

>>918229
>>>/r9k/

I have a friend who doesn't get it. He used to race before he got kids. Now he doesn't have as much time to ride, so "every ride has to count." In other words, if he gets the chance to go riding then it's going be a hammerfest.

He'll promise to go slow, and he will at first. You can see he's getting bored. He'll start reminding you he's got to pick up the kids later, or make dinner early, or whatever, essentially dropping the hint that this ride is going slower than he thought and he'd like you to ride faster.

When you're midway up a summit climb he'll tell you he's going to go ahead and wait for you. He reaches the top I presume, turns around and meets you while you're still climbing and says he'll ride down with you. Then he takes off like a bat out of hell, riding downhill much faster than my ability. If he waits for me at his truck in the parking lot, which he doesn't have to do because I didn't drive to the trail head, then he asks if I had a flat or something, because obviously there's something wrong if I can't keep up with someone who raced at the National level.

This stupid behavior just repeats itself. He wants to go riding with me for some reason, but he really needs to ride with some twenty-ish beast rider, not a retirement age ex-runner bike enthusiast.

>>918326
You need to only ride with him in a larger group or git gud

>>918326
git gud

>>918326
Get a motorbike

>>918403
>that feelio when a mamil on an ebike passes you at 25mph

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>>918405
>mfw a car overtakes me on the top of a hill and I speed up to 25mph and he has to put his foot down even more

He wasn't prepared.

>>918326

>much faster than my ability

G I T
U
D

>>918407
>doing 45mph down a hill with a 50 mph speed limit
>old dude in a rebuilt 57 chevy bel air pulls up next to me
>he gives me the thumbs up then hammers down but giving me more than enough space

>>918268
Not that anon, but I am in NJ, Bergen county area

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>>918219
>You'll never ride alone

>>918441
You should do ride nyc

>>918452
>Riding in the city
I'm too much of a scared pussy faggot to ride in the city

>>918469
You'd rather ride in Bergen than the city? I've gone over the GW bridge a few times, people are fucking crazy in Jersey.

>>918443

Stop fucking wheelsucking me Jesus and pull for once

I sort of know this feel. The only other cyclist I know is my grandpa. I got him into it after he retired, and it's great that he's doing it but I hate having to slow down so much for him.

>>918429
>45 mph

damn

Fastest I've ever gone was 33, and it was on an old ass mountain bike that was rattling from everywhere so I was too scared to go any faster

>>918471
Aren't the drivers in the city worse? The bridge is fine, but I wouldn't really know anywhere else to ride aside from the city streets,

>>918219
Get faster friends.

You'll only improve if you ride with people faster than you. People who will actually push you and force you out of your comfort zone.

>>918429
>45mph

Fucking hell what does it feel like going that fast on a bike?

>>918305
pedal pedal coast?

>>918614

Twitchy.

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>>918614
also no_room_for_errors.lbm

>>918625
I assume that means people who pedal for a little bit then stop for a bit and repeat. Usually very casual or new cyclists. Riding with people like that is difficult.

>>918614
The air becomes thick, curves become really fun, and pothole phobia becomes realer than real.

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>>918443

>>918614
>wobblewobblewobblewobblewobble

>>918656
Good bikes shouldn't become destabilized at those speeds. They should become more stable due to gyroscopic forces.

Of course if you hit a pothole you're fucked.

>>918664
I just get some speed wobble in my front wheel, it's keeping me from that 70 km/h benchmark

>>918614
as >>918628 said, twitchy, desu I have gone just a little faster on that hill. I one time was trying to scrub speed (just weaving back and forth) at about 45, hit a small rock or something with just my back tire. It kicked me up on my front tire and I grabbed the brakes just a little, endoed just a bit and puckered my asshole. Somehow I didnt crash but now I keep the weight back when in a tuck like that.

I hate riding with people who aren't my wife for this reason. Trying to keep pace with another person is boring - they are always faster or slower than you.

My fun rides are solo. Time to be alone and think. some are short and I sprint for fun, others are 8 hours at 10mph average stopping all the time, and doing drugs while riding (weed and benzos = good bike touring enhancers).

Biking is for introverts. At least fun biking is. The competitive people who bike hard and wear kits, or the racing bike clubs, both creep me out

But god bless them for all the trickle-down tech that they fund with their weird egos

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>>918770
>The competitive people who bike hard and wear kits, or the racing bike clubs, both creep me out


fuck off cunt jesus christ 'creep you out' what a faggot

>>918714
One thing you can try is bending your elbows a bit and putting more weight forward onto the handlebars, to dampen the vibrations that can cause shimmy. You could also put your legs at 6 and 12 instead of 3 and 9.

Other things that can cause shimmy are too much trail or the frame being out of alignment. I don't expect a modern bike would have high trail, and it's really rare to see frames out of alignment.
Could also dink around with stem length.

My biggest problem when I ride with my friends is mental. for whatever reason I just stop fucking caring after 70-80 miles, and slow way down.

>>918774
lol, stay mad

>>918774

The competitiveness is creepy to me. Cyclebros seem insane. I didn't call you faggots tho, you did that. You wear spandex. I pop a few valium and do 100 miles. Get on my level roadpleb

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>>918830
>I didn't call you faggots tho, you did that. You wear spandex.

>>918441
I live in wyckoff wbu

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>>918614
it feels like pure sex, unless you hit a rock, then you get speed wobble.

You're generally pretty stable at that type of speed though, centrifugal force wants you to stay upright.

>>919152
centripetal.

>>919152
you sure seem to be riding lookout a lot, do you live in golden or something?

>>919151
Cherry hill

>>919161
denver, it's one of the easiest rides for me to get to via light rail. I have a jeep, but I prefer to not drive if I can help it. I also like deer creek canyon and waterton. Deer creek gets a little more elevation gain, I like it.

>>919157
>centripetal
well played.

I think we're both right though.

>>918235
>using strava
>>918236
>being retarded

>>918614
I've done 53. 45 feels fine, fun and not scary at all. 53 is scary as fuck. 53 on a bike is way scarier than 91 on skis.

>>919187
>implying you've gone 91 mph on skis

>>919187
>dat 2-3cm of tire contact keeping you alive
it's the only time i feel alive

>>919187
I hit 50 mph yesterday on the group ride I was on with about 4 people all within arm's length of me, as we were all trying to go faster than one another. It's a lot of fun and it all comes down to experience/confidence.

Nothing better than being in the drops, out of the saddle pedaling about 350w downhill at 40-50 mph.

>>918219
Tried and tested today:
- Ride a hardtail
- Knobby Tyres
- do not lock suspension
This will knock off around 2-5 mph depending on your road bike at the same effort.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLKBy5ioPbg

Ride slower.

>>919382
kimo

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Trike with separate right hand / left hand drive trains so each rider can go at their own effort / cadence.

>>919376
Oh my god, maybe someone should tell her how to change gears instead..

Also having a tow rope pulling and turning you handlebars on trails seems like... a challenge.

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>>919376
I watched this part about 5 times in a row.

Would love to see this used on a technical mountain side route and see the woman fall dragging the guy off a cliff.

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>>919376

>>919500
>>919433
>>919441

Nairo Quintana used to pull his sister's bike with a rope.

>>918830
>calls others gay
>takes twice the amount of time to ride 160km that a normal person would just so his wife has time to see *all* her boyfriends whilst hes out

>>919508
there are a lot of legends about nairo pally. He also followed his dad on drug runs, etc

>>919376
>adds equivalent of 100kg+
>made out of carbon fiber
>makes a $20 item over $200

>>918326
Pinch his fucking tyres on a ride and go all "you had a puncture gramps? can't keep up? dinner's gonna be late!". The problem will solve itself, one way or another.

>>918219
They don't want to ride with you because you ruined /n/ with your shitty bicycle generals.

>>919376

> Buy Panniers
> Put Weights in them

Now your slow ass wife is keeping up and you are training hard

>b-but muh carbon roadlite shitbox
>bu-but muh aero gains now panniers
>b-but muh shaved leg hairs and lycra

ROADIE HOLOCAUST WHEN

>>919821
Nothing wrong commuting on steel with panniers and then throwing on Lycra and riding carbon on the weekends friend

>>919349
What does 'w' symbolise?

Personally, I much prefer to travel at the highest speed possible when travelling downhill. Testing your low speed control is best done on a gentle incline in my opinion.

>>920662
'w' is the symbol for imperial wuts. If you post on an American website, you should learn American units.

What's your top speed /n/?
I hit 84km/h / 52.2mph this week

>>920665
If this site was intended for an exclusively, or even primarily, American audience, moot would have taken it out with a .us TLD. This is a site for an international audience and therefore a unit system which is understood by the greatest amount of people in the world population - namely, the SI - should be used.

>>920669
>Abusing SI prefixes and unit symbols
>Expressing a quantity of speed with a unit of 1
Please re-read the SI Brochure.

>>920675
I've never read it tho

>>920675
>thinking 4chan.org was the original domain and moot didnt change it to .org because godaddy sold it to someone else even when it was still supposed to be moots
How new are you?

>>920676
Just read it once, and then you'll be able to re-read it.

>>920682
no

>>918326
just tell him to ride by himself m8. not a problem.

>>920676
Please cease and desist from using SI prefixes, units and unit symbols until you have read the SI Brochure.

>>920677
>Implying the original tld has any bearing on the content of my post
moot never took out 4chan.us

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>>918219
Ok sonic Le hedgehog

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>>918219
I feels you . Same here..
Let's go fast together m8...