damocles1

135km
3000 feet of climbing
4:30 ride time

Nice slow ride

nosferaustin

47.51 miles out to the Great Salt Lake marina and back. Most important part of the ride, my wife went along with me :-). She and her friend did about 44 miles, making this her longest ride ever by about 18 miles or so!

Pablo.

66 miles.

Pablo.

False.

badfishgood

I rode.

It rained.

I climbed*.

I watched the Giro.



*4,200 ft / 40 miles.

dgasmd

Well, planned a solo 110 miler for today. Went out on the planned route and at about mile 30 had a flat. When I went to look at the tire, turns out the tire had a cut in it and was fairly worn, so I decided to get rid of it altogether. Given my "Team Car" was not going to be available past 11 AM as she was taking the crew (kids) to a birthday party 2 hours south, I decided to call them in for a new tire replacement I already had glued at home. 10 min. later, they were there and replaced the tire. That way it would leave me the spare in case I got another flat later on when they were not around. The next 30-35 miles were going south with a slight tail wind. At mile 58, I stopped to reload liquids and decided to just keep riding the rest of the router south and have my wife pick me up down in Jupiter where she was going to be anyway. I have done this route before and it is right at 100 miles in distance. Very scenic and nice. So, that is what I did. Total was 97 miles. I was getting tired by the end of it, and the fact that the sun is out for summer down here was no help either.

I am going to have to start these long rides on sunday at 5 AM if I don't want to be out this freaking late baking under the heat and sun!!

badfishgood

One of my favorite teams of all time...

The bike to match:

dgasmd

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My Team car leaving after the tire swap.

badfishgood

Nice pics!

kevin0cr1

From Ocean City, Maryland to Rehobeth Beach, Delaware and back on the coastal highway. Twenty miles each way. Also a steady head wind each way, which I couldn't believe. 70 degrees. This was my longest ride since getting into biking about six months ago, so I feel pretty good about it.

obie

42 with the GF in overcast, 60's OC.

Slo-mo crash sends me into the ditch. A big Fred decides to stop at a gate atop a short climb - the GF brakes and I look up too late and stop and get clowned - can't unclip fast enough.

chrism32205

Sounds like a interesting ride.. ahh Jacksonville..

NattyTerp

34 mile group ride...it was hard for me to keep up, but I made it back with the group.

DnvrFox

3 rides today

Early AM (6:30) - just a little over an hour on the trail - Lemond BA

8:30 AM - Rode to church wearing my "Church clothes" using - my Windsor Leeds roadie, which I call my "utility road bike." I have it fixed up with a rack, double rear panniers, and I carried a change of clothes, shoes, etc., along with a frozen casserole for a friend who is sick. 30 minutes.

After church changed out of my "church clothes" and did a longer ride (1.5 hours) on the Windsor. Well,at least the Windsor helps me appreciate the Lemond, and I get some good training - like hauling bricks around.

Weather was beautiful, many, many folks out enjoying themselves.

yak

52 miles along the 3 coast. Nice day.

duff1301

hurt neck on thursday not sure what i did, after several trips to the chiro i feel better but did'nt want to chance riding the roads. hope to ride tomorrow on trails and just take it easy. Worst May ever for me lots of rain and pain. Hopefully June will be better.

Dumpsterlife

people say i live in this jersey...i guess i do. that bike is amazing glad to see another fan!

JasonJ

I managed 72 km in 2.5 hours, average speed 28 km/h (or 45 miles at 17.5 mph). I live in the middle of nowhere, and the only things I saw all day were pickup trucks towing fishing boats. No mechanicals and a nice wind to push me home up and down the hills at a good clip.

JJ

Phantasie

Another 60km ride today. Great weather, though wind picked up on the hour home, which wasnt as nice as it could have been Otherwise a great day riding along the niagara river!

ActionJeans

Road up and around Kennesaw mountain on a nice loop. Had a guy yell at me that I wasn't allowed to go up the mountain. I guess they close it during the weekends now? I didn't tell him I had already been up twice. Whatever. Headwind on the way back once done with the loop (did 3 @ 15 miles), but not to bad.

Total was 67 miles, @ about 3.5 hours.

Off tomorrow, so I'll probably do it again. It's a fun loop.

Machka 

I could not end a ride at 97 miles!! I would be compelled to finish the last 3 miles.

Machka 

Thank you VERY, VERY, VERY much for posting your photos like that!!! Every time there are large photos in the thread, my computer hangs up. Can you create a thread on how to post photos like that ... for those who don't want to use the thumbnail option?

Machka 

Well, after waiting and waiting while wave after wave of rain came over, the weather finally gave me a brief window of opportunately to dash out and get a 14.6 km ride in.

DnvrFox

It would help greatly if folks would use a program like Irfanview.com (free download, excellent program) to reduce the size of the pics to 100K or less prior to linking, especially to a whole bunch of pictures.

Irfanview allows one to do this by changing the percentage of jpg compression, and changing the size. 850 pixels is the best width. A change in compression percentage from 100% to 75% reduces the size of the file significantly, while the picture still looks good.

When people link to pics that are almost 1mb, it takes my computer some time to download them. I have DSL, but it still takes a couple of minutes.

Machka 

I have high speed, and one or two posts of large photos hangs my computer for several minutes. If a thread is full of them, I can't open it at all.

I reduce mine to less than 100K using Microsoft Photo Editor but you can do it with Paint as well, which comes free on everyone's computers.