seppomadness

People may have just eaten and it wouldn't be polite to ask them to reconstitute their food on their keyboards.

Stevo I am loving those winter gloves. Classy. I want some. Are those your 'Farken Fast' Spinergy wheels too? GOLD!

shayel

Cool gloves. Who makes them?

^*^BATMAN^*^

Man, I wish it was warm here, and clear roads. Since saturday we have gotten 127cm of snow(about 50 inches). So its all indoor riding here. Though I found out that there is a velodrome about 3 hours away, so these are from last weekend when i was there for a couple hours learning to ride track.

caloso

VERY cool, Batman! Do you have a track bike or were you able to rent one at the velodrome?

mx_599

sorry to deceive

prendrefeu

Incorrect. Mt. Whitney Portal Road reaches an elevation of just over 8,400 ft.
Either the signage is specific to that road, or the US Dept of the Interior hasn't got their sh*t together.

(https://www.toporoute.com/cgi-bin/get...PQMOWKOTWGFQHE)

catherine96821

not my bike, a rental

^*^BATMAN^*^

Rented one. It was $10 to rent the bike, and $20 to take their begginer course. You cant ride there without it. We were all experienced roadies, but it was really really weird on the track the first 20 or so laps. We stayed after the class for the rec ride they had for 2 hours. Just rode around and around, really started to get the hang of it.

I will have to get a picture of me on my trainer, cus thats about the only riding I am going to be doing outside of any track riding I can get in on.

Catherine, nice ducati!

Pasqually

I didn't spot those gloves, I bought some of them in tokyo from one of the custom motorbike shops. I think they are rotting away down in my garage somewhere.

caloso

Seems like $30 well spent. I love my fixed gear road bike and I'd really like the opportunity to try the velodrome some day. There's one in the Bay Area, but that's just too long of a drive for me right now.

MIN 

Bah Alpenrose velodrome in PDX is free and the bank is steeper!

^*^BATMAN^*^

Suposedly this is the smallest track(so steepest banked turns), in the world. 138m long in the sprint lane(inside lane), with 50 degree turns.

cnickgo

It's just refering the highest point on the Blue Ridge Parkway.

blonduathlongrl

awesome pics batman!
looks like so much fun, we have one of those here too about 2 hours away, I was thinking of giving it a try too.
nice pics!

3MTA3

read what the sign says. "highest elevation on the blue ridge parkway motor road." the sign is correct. your reading comprehension, however, needs help.

Coyote2

As someone else noted, that is the high point of the Blue Ridge Parkway.

If you are implying that the Mt Whitney road is the highest in the country, that would be incorrect: just in Colorado there are a bunch of roads higher than 8400 feet -- road to the top of Mt Evans for example goes over 14,200 feet.

giantcfr1

I'm embarressed to reveal that those gloves were purchased at the "Thankyou shop" (san kuy). They cost me 390 yen (around $4Aus)
Those are the "Faken Fast" ones but unfortunately on that particular day my legs failed to reflect the stickers, as they do on many occations.

Davey

I don't know idea why it looks like that. I assure you, my calf usually looks normal and I suffered no injury during that race.

I bought a Led Zeppelin DVD with the prize money.

agilis

Climbing a 19% grade at "Hurt, Pain and Agony" metric century.

ronbridal

Alright, I'll play. Not a road race or road bike, but thought I'd share either way.



Crit pic here.




RB

Pasqually

bad luck about the legs, when I went to japan last time it was 2003or 2004? all the kids were riding 200cc trailbikes or those reclining lounge chair white and black scooters with not much more than a plastic skateboard helemt, and they had the skeloton gloves on sometimes with the jacket too.

all about the look over there.

prendrefeu

Not necessarily. Signage can be notoriously bad, regardless. Perhaps you're thinking that I was directing that comment as an insult to you? Because that was not the case.

prendrefeu

No, I wasn't implying that Mt. Whitney Portal Road is the highest - I didn't write that it was. I simply called out at least one example, the first one that came to mind - that is at a higher elevation than the elevation mentioned in the sign.

Coyote2

I didn't interpret it that way. I interpreted Prendefeu as claiming that the highest road in the US is at 8400 feet -- which is incorrect by almost 6000 feet:

https://www.munyon.net/mtevans/intro.html

enjoi

They sign says highest point on the blue ridge parkway.