jsigone

If you want to join the slippery slope Pinarello club, here's a nice option with all the modern bits in disk option
100x12mm thru front
142x12mm thru rear

aero tubes, rides well, and Pinarello is never ever ever a light bike, but that extra carbon soaks up the bumps nice


Pinarello Gan K Disk Ultegra Bike from BikeBling.com

But I'd still take the Bianchi over the disk version of the Gan....

Orange comes in 105s
https://www.nytro.com/pinarello-gan-...road-bike.html

TrojanHorse

59.5 probably isn't big enough for our stretchy friend.

jsigone

slam that with 130mm stem and comes with 18mm setback seat post. Should be enough reach that way even...big question is how flexible is his after the wreck??? after my wreck it took me a WHILE to run anything longer then a 90mm stem as high as I could, but riding is riding right?

expatbrit

Not especially flexible (but I wasn’t before and just have long long arms for a 7’ wingspan and long back) — and that one isn’t orange! I think I’ll keep the Bianchi — if it ever arrives. Much as I love the idea of a Pinarello

Have to see what I can squeeze onto. The pelvis is moving ok, and there was no other major damage bar the throat and face.

expatbrit

Looking at that geo? I could make that 59 work. It’s similar to the 56cm x-fire.

And as for ‘not the lightest bike’ — I’m not the lightest rider.

expatbrit

That’s my ingratitude for your occasion reminders that it’s still not here showing, eh??

I ought to be better. More polite. So very polite. It’s the English way — now google up the ‘how to tell if an Englishman likes you’ flow chart

DrIsotope

I was initially skeptical about Strava's decision to rebrand Suffer Score as Relative Effort. Suffer score has more panache. But then again...



Relative Effort: Massive.

jimincalif

Using the same adjectives that described heart attacks? Not good!

Congrats on your massive effort!

TrojanHorse

What the heck... my ride on saturday was 72% Threshold, almost nothing in Z5 and I got HISTORIC! 651 relative effort. I mean it was hard and all but certainly not historic.

Something's wrong with their new math.

DrIsotope

651? Now they're just making up numbers. I have a single ride with a score above 400, and just six above 300. The 400 score took 154 miles @ 17mph. If I recreated Saturday's Z5 effort for 100 miles, I'd barely even break 500. I mean, if it were possible. I don't think Z5 for 5 hours is a thing.

I dug around to find something close to your 47 miles w/ 5200ft-- I had a 46 with 5100ft and got a 200. :|

ericy

I got a "Historic" with only 304. It was only 17 miles, but it included the Watopia radio tower climb.

But their new superlatives seem a little silly.

DrIsotope

Dug some more.

250+ Historic
150-250 Massive
100-150 Tough
below 100 no nifty adjective. <sad trombone>

Seems like there should be... more.

jsigone

You scored harder then my BWR ride from last week. I only got 646 for climbing 9k ft

Beachgrad05

So I did the Day on the Ride as part of my training for AIDS Lifecycle. It was a brutally hot ride in PV climbing what seemed like never ending hills. The climbing was really bunched in the middle of the ride. Throw in I got misdirected and climbed a bit that I didn't need to. That kind of deflated me. Put me behind by more than a half hour from others on ride and when I reached the hard hill I was a bit spent and had to walk. I walked another hill before pit stop 2. I have never been at a pit stop on an ALC ride where I was there when pit was about to close. But here I was doing just that. Then in one of the beach cities where we had pit 4 (it was also pit 1) the turn arrows were not visible or not present at a complicated 5 way intersection. Well we went the wrong way. Got route sheet out and determined we needed to course correct but by time we found a street to turn right onto we would have to backtrack to pit. Then we got message it was closing in 2 min. Well...we weren't going to make it. Just as we got that message tho, riders were riding by so we had found the post pit route...so just kept going from there on route. Later we found a spot to take a break and wait for our friend who was at Pit waiting for us and because of our navigational issues we were now ahead of her. We finished ride together. It was 78 miles for me and 4400 feet. But overall way harder than other rides with that amount of climbing. Heat played role no doubt.


Power and Cadence were dropped due to battery save mode on Garmin. It finally died at 70 mile mark but I had Strava running on my phone earlier to capture the ride from moment it died. I edited that strava to reflect the correct start point.

I had my rear camera on....here is the bit I did in error and the frustrating part was there were several opportunities for me to be prevented from riding off onto a climb that I wasn't suppose to be on.

ill.clyde

First ride in short sleeves and shorts without arm or leg warmers ... good god that is glorious.

jsigone

the wind today was awesome but in the wrong direction nearly the entire ride

expatbrit

Eat more beans. Both Carbo-loading and can generate wind in the right direction?

indyfabz

Wind here. I was in the right direction. You were riding in the wrong direction.

Beachgrad05

F wind. Climbing with no breeze and temps at 100 on the road is F'd and that is what I was doing

TrojanHorse

Is it too soon to complain that it's 90 degrees outside?

jsigone

When riding in the middle of Anza Borrego desert seemed like a perfectly good idea to do and yes it was hot..... I got hella sunburnt

expatbrit

They make this thing called sunscreen, @jsigone. I'm told it's useful when in the desert. Me, I end up getting burnt because I'm too dumb to use it!

And my poor brother just didn't figure out the NM sun when he visited...

expatbrit

Something like...
60-99 Almost good enough to be Tough
40-59 Try harder
20-39 Yeah, right


(And, yes -- this is a total joke in case anyone is wondering, and before I upset people in the interwebz0rs again!!!)

jsigone

I used the spray on style of block but I'm assuming that using the camelbak rubbed it off and/or I sweat the stuff off before it evaporated into the suns heat wahoo bolt said it averaged 104* on the ride, peak of 111

I was pretty happy to drive to work this morning with the windows down and air temps 65*

TrojanHorse

That spray on stuff probably says "reapply hourly" somewhere in tiny print on the bottle.

Well, did you?