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#1051
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I checked the official results for that one. Apparently, they counted Len (guy on the right) ahead of me in the "sprint". They placed Dan after us in the standings, but he stopped racing sooner (29 minutes instead of 39 for me and Len). He won the Citizen's race!
#1052
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You're making me hungry.
#1056
Casually Deliberate
#1057
Stand and Deliver
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"Put the bone in she asked him once more." I am soooo trying to behave.
I'm happy to say, I've never heard that one before.
I'm happy to say, I've never heard that one before.
#1058
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#1060
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#1061
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#1062
Peloton Shelter Dog
Rocket Ride is very cool, no bull**** like the "Gimbel's Ride." I just never get up and on the road early enough to ride from the Bronx up to Nyack for the (Rocket Ride) start... yeah, I could join it on it's way but, I'm a whole package kinda guy.
The Gimbel's Ride is the epitome of wannabee Fred-dom, a bunch of poseurs who think they're fast (2/3rds of the route is downhill), and they're dangerous. Blasting lights, etc..
It's a cool visit to go see Jim at Nyack Bikes...He started the whole thing (Rocket Ride), it's great to sit down with a cup of joe and chew the cud over all things cycling with him.
No thanks.
The Gimbel's Ride is the epitome of wannabee Fred-dom, a bunch of poseurs who think they're fast (2/3rds of the route is downhill), and they're dangerous. Blasting lights, etc..
It's a cool visit to go see Jim at Nyack Bikes...He started the whole thing (Rocket Ride), it's great to sit down with a cup of joe and chew the cud over all things cycling with him.
No thanks.
As for the comment about about 'that's how weekend rides are supposed to be', I don't know about that. I'd say maybe 5-10% of bike weenies have enough snot to hang on a ride that fast, if you're not an amateur racer you'd have to be awful strong. I survive through a little fitness and 25+ years of wheel sucking savvy. Nobody sucks wheel better than Pcad. I know where the surges are on that route, when you absolutely have to be near the front.
Pcad's #1 Rule of Group Riding/Racing: It's NEVER too late to get dropped from a ride or race. #2 Rule: The weaker you are relative to the group, the more essential it is for you to ride near the front as much as possible.
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#1063
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Cigarettes are obviously cheap in Florida. The young lady in front of me on line at the supermarket the other day paid $11.76 for a pack of cigarettes.
I knew they were around $9 and change recently, but $11 and change?
That's what you call seriously hooked. Can you imagine, a carton costs over $100.
I knew they were around $9 and change recently, but $11 and change?
That's what you call seriously hooked. Can you imagine, a carton costs over $100.
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#1064
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Cigarettes are obviously cheap in Florida. The young lady in front of me on line at the supermarket the other day paid $11.76 for a pack of cigarettes.
I knew they were around $9 and change recently, but $11 and change?
That's what you call seriously hooked. Can you imagine, a carton costs over $100.
I knew they were around $9 and change recently, but $11 and change?
That's what you call seriously hooked. Can you imagine, a carton costs over $100.
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#1065
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Cigarettes are obviously cheap in Florida. The young lady in front of me on line at the supermarket the other day paid $11.76 for a pack of cigarettes.
I knew they were around $9 and change recently, but $11 and change?
That's what you call seriously hooked. Can you imagine, a carton costs over $100.
I knew they were around $9 and change recently, but $11 and change?
That's what you call seriously hooked. Can you imagine, a carton costs over $100.
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#1066
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I started at 30¢ a pack in the '60s and quit at 66¢ a pack in 1982. I had a 3 pack a day habit, actually about 3-1/3 pack a day.
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I smoked for about 43 years. Just thinking about that number helped scare me into quitting.
Been free of that monkey for 10 years, now. One of my proudest accomplishments.
Been free of that monkey for 10 years, now. One of my proudest accomplishments.
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#1068
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I agree about the free part. I also consider it one of my biggest life achievements.
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I've heard the opposite about Gimbels. Longer, harder, hillier at the end. Separates the men from the boys. Maybe there's a shorter wussier route you're referring to, but it sounds pretty gnarly to me. Never got over there to do it. Nyack's hard enough for me.
As for the comment about about 'that's how weekend rides are supposed to be', I don't know about that. I'd say maybe 5-10% of bike weenies have enough snot to hang on a ride that fast, if you're not an amateur racer you'd have to be awful strong. I survive through a little fitness and 25+ years of wheel sucking savvy. Nobody sucks wheel better than Pcad. I know where the surges are on that route, when you absolutely have to be near the front.
Pcad's #1 Rule of Group Riding/Racing: It's NEVER too late to get dropped from a ride or race. #2 Rule: The weaker you are relative to the group, the more essential it is for you to ride near the front as much as possible.
As for the comment about about 'that's how weekend rides are supposed to be', I don't know about that. I'd say maybe 5-10% of bike weenies have enough snot to hang on a ride that fast, if you're not an amateur racer you'd have to be awful strong. I survive through a little fitness and 25+ years of wheel sucking savvy. Nobody sucks wheel better than Pcad. I know where the surges are on that route, when you absolutely have to be near the front.
Pcad's #1 Rule of Group Riding/Racing: It's NEVER too late to get dropped from a ride or race. #2 Rule: The weaker you are relative to the group, the more essential it is for you to ride near the front as much as possible.
I've jumped into the Rocket Ride on a few occasions typically on Knickerbocker on my way further North to High Tor for the free draft...Kinda like 20 miles of cycling mass transit on that leg. I find the Rocket crowd to be a far more competent lot in terms of riding safety and awareness.
#1070
Senior Member
I don't know if you've had a chest x-ray but I had one for a surgery 10 years ago and the anesthesiologist said I had the lungs of a pack a day smoker despite having quit 23 years earlier.
I agree about the free part. I also consider it one of my biggest life achievements.
I agree about the free part. I also consider it one of my biggest life achievements.
Amazing that the young still fall into the trap.
#1071
Peloton Shelter Dog
The Rocket peloton is mostly seasoned amateur racers (an awful lot of fast 40+ guys) but in the summer it's full of ay carrammba boys from NYC who bomb red lights, which leads everybody else to chase them, which makes the ride far more hazardous than is necessary. You'll need an interpreter on that ride between May and October. It's like the Washington Heights friggin Vuelta.
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. The reduction in cancer and heart disease though is real.
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#1073
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I quit by attending a 5-day stop smoking class at a local hospital and they explained that to us. Lungs heal but do not regenerate. Still, it was disappointing years later to be told that I had the lungs of a pack a day smoker. Of course, that was 10 years ago so maybe I've averaged out to a 2/3 a pack a day smoker by now.
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Oh boy.
The Rocket peloton is mostly seasoned amateur racers (an awful lot of fast 40+ guys) but in the summer it's full of ay carrammba boys from NYC who bomb red lights, which leads everybody else to chase them, which makes the ride far more hazardous than is necessary. You'll need an interpreter on that ride between May and October. It's like the Washington Heights friggin Vuelta.
The Rocket peloton is mostly seasoned amateur racers (an awful lot of fast 40+ guys) but in the summer it's full of ay carrammba boys from NYC who bomb red lights, which leads everybody else to chase them, which makes the ride far more hazardous than is necessary. You'll need an interpreter on that ride between May and October. It's like the Washington Heights friggin Vuelta.
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#1075
Vain, But Lacking Talent
There is a local ride in Dallas that is called the south ride, but it usually refereed to by the people that ride it at the south race. It's a Sunday morning beatdown. I would be destroyed if I attempted it. It's full of current crit racers and sometime earlier this year they actually broke the strava record for the route at 25.5 mph for about an hour and 48 minutes.
https://www.strava.com/activities/406230150#9745026098
https://www.strava.com/activities/406230150#9745026098