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Road Cycling “It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.” -- Ernest Hemingway

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Old 01-22-21, 05:03 PM
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Originally Posted by bampilot06
I used to have to drive 6 to 7 hours one way to work. So 14 hours a week. I could have flown but the flights were always full and after getting stuck several times I started driving.
yeh. That would be grounds for relocating.
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Old 01-22-21, 05:04 PM
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Originally Posted by WhyFi
As Uncle Pcad would tell you, when people start asking if you're sick, you know you're on your way to your target weight.

RIP
Dear Uncle PCad...

RIP indeed.
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Old 01-22-21, 05:05 PM
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Originally Posted by bampilot06
I think I would look sick if I got that low, we’re almost the same height to. I just have super wide shoulders, I am always bumping into things.
I am not skinny, I am small-boned.
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Old 01-22-21, 05:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
How far away can one be while remaining the safe sting zone?
Unknown. He may want to carry an epi-pen especially if riding far away from civilization. I still carry one on rides, just in case.
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Originally Posted by WhyFi
Oh, my reactions are getting more severe, not less.
Oh, that's very different.
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Old 01-22-21, 05:15 PM
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Originally Posted by WhyFi
Oh, my reactions are getting more severe, not less.
That’s what happened to me. Not sure you can predict if/when it might change from a local reaction to a systemic one. As above, you may want to ask for an epi-pen or equivalent.
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Old 01-22-21, 05:32 PM
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Originally Posted by datlas
That’s what happened to me. Not sure you can predict if/when it might change from a local reaction to a systemic one. As above, you may want to ask for an epi-pen or equivalent.
The doctor specifically said, "I don't think you need an EpiPen at this point... "

I dunno. I mean, I'm not in fear, but the last couple times that I got stung, the welt was as big as my hand and the redness extended beyond that.

... But that's still "localized."
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Old 01-22-21, 05:36 PM
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Originally Posted by bampilot06
Then I shouldn’t eat this second ice cream sundae.
Eat up. I wouldn't want you to drop me when I finally get back to Billyburg.

But, with my weigh-in today, I picked up some celebratory cheesecake.
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Old 01-22-21, 05:49 PM
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Originally Posted by WhyFi
The doctor specifically said, "I don't think you need an EpiPen at this point... "

I dunno. I mean, I'm not in fear, but the last couple times that I got stung, the welt was as big as my hand and the redness extended beyond that.

... But that's still "localized."
In about 1991 I was on a 5 day tour and I was stung on the forearm while descending a canyon road with a truck on my left and a rock wall on the right. Too scared to brush the bee away until there was enough shoulder to pull off and stop.
My arm inflated from the inside of the elbow to the thumb, about an inch and a half extra extra hanging flesh which shook and quivered every time I hit a bump. It hurt, too.
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Old 01-22-21, 05:53 PM
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Originally Posted by bampilot06
Do intervals in the hospitals parking lot. Problem solved.
You can't tell when a car will start backing up.

Much better at the office park, obviously.
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Old 01-22-21, 05:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
You can't tell when a car will start backing up.

Much better at the office park, obviously.

but if the car hits you or if you hit car you are still in the hospital parking lot.
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Old 01-22-21, 05:59 PM
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Originally Posted by WhyFi
Eat up. I wouldn't want you to drop me when I finally get back to Billyburg.

But, with my weigh-in today, I picked up some celebratory cheesecake.

You probably will still drop me. I have easter off, maybe we will find out then.
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Got a pic of the front of our house. Some dude was sitting there.
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Originally Posted by big john
Got a pic of the front of our house. Some dude was sitting there.

That’s a tiny car. Bernie looks warm.
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Old 01-22-21, 06:19 PM
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Originally Posted by bampilot06
That’s a tiny car. Bernie looks warm.
Tiny trash can, too. That big tree was trimmed recently and has been raining sap all over the yard and my car. I like to walk barefoot and now if I do I get the sap all over my feet. Even the cat gets sap on his feet.
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Originally Posted by big john
Tiny trash can, too. That big tree was trimmed recently and has been raining sap all over the yard and my car. I like to walk barefoot and now if I do I get the sap all over my feet. Even the cat gets sap on his feet.

Bernie looks like he could use the fire wood.
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Originally Posted by WhyFi
Eat up. I wouldn't want you to drop me when I finally get back to Billyburg.

But, with my weigh-in today, I picked up some celebratory cheesecake.
What’s your target?
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Old 01-22-21, 07:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
I don't know what that option is, nor did I know we have a date this summer.
this depends on several things:
1. Status of Covid
B. Your RA status
2. fitting into your busy schedule
4. my desire to drive into the armpit of the south and get droped on a bike ride
5. various and sundry other reasons
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Originally Posted by ls01
Has anyone any experience with panaracer tyres? I just ordered a set to test out on the road bike. But if anyone has any experience I'd like to hear about it
Panaracer Pasela is the most popular tire in C&V. By a long shot. Personally, I don't much like them.
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Originally Posted by phrantic09
What’s your target?
170 would be nice, but I haven't sat down and really set a goal for myself. Getting to 4w/kg would be pretty cool, too. That... might be possible if I got down to 165.
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Originally Posted by bampilot06
you got this for 400?
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Originally Posted by genejockey
Huh. When I rode with PenVelo, on their Saturday and Sunday rides, they always did a no-drop, double paceline rollout for the first 8 miles, then the racer group would take off while the recreational/century riders would proceed at a more dignified pace. For me, that was on top of the 8 miles of riding I had to do to get to the meetup spot. They actually had a pre-meetup spot, 3 miles from the formal meetup, that included 2 climbs of about half a mile at 6 or so percent, so if you did that, you'd be pretty warm already - especially if you got to the pre-meetup spot a bit late and had to chase! Ask me how I know.
How do you know?
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Originally Posted by seedsbelize
Panaracer Pasela is the most popular tire in C&V. By a long shot. Personally, I don't much like them.
Yeah, we got 'em on the tandem. They're just OK as 26" semislicks go. Not nearly as nice as ye olde Specialized Fatboy 26x1.25" slicks from back in the '90s. Maybe I'll splurge on a pair of Rene Herse 26" slicks sometime this year.
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Originally Posted by WhyFi
The doctor specifically said, "I don't think you need an EpiPen at this point... "

I dunno. I mean, I'm not in fear, but the last couple times that I got stung, the welt was as big as my hand and the redness extended beyond that.

... But that's still "localized."
I kept bees, briefly, in a former life. That was my experience and why I gave it up. Most of my stings were on my hands.
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Originally Posted by bampilot06
That’s a tiny car. Bernie looks warm.
Not a tiny car. Bernie is YUGE!

ATTN: NSFW at the end there.

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