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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 06-29-21, 06:08 PM
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Originally Posted by ls01
Frikkin storming again today. I 94 started flooding in spots, again, it isn't even open completely yet... what a city!
So no Tuesday night TT. 3rd week in a row. I did alpe du zwift instead...well 2100ft of it anyways. My legs are cooked!
Got a short ride in before the rain. It was 90+F, but still.

Then it rained so hard you couldn't see down the road even with the windshield wipers on max-speed.
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Just a reminder folks . . . SPOILERS are strictly forbidden. Give your colleagues ample opportunity to watch the race for themselves.
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Originally Posted by rjones28
Spoiler Alert
It's the third day in a row of heat advisories.
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Pilots can stay up all night drinking free, but don't let a crying baby wake them.
Freedom isn’t free or something.
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Originally Posted by big john
58 miles today with fast guy and e-bike couple. Pace was fine and I even led part of it until the 7 miles up the canyon and the steep climb after that. Really, it was fine and they kept their speed in check until the last part when they gradually started speeding up. The curse of the e-bikes. They change the dynamics of the ride. I can't wear them down on the flats or expect them to tire after the climbs.
That really robs the old man of his last effective strategy.
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Originally Posted by rjones28
Got a short ride in before the rain. It was 90+F, but still.

Then it rained so hard you couldn't see down the road even with the windshield wipers on max-speed.

that happened to my on saturday, but my bike nor my glasses are equipped with wipers.
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Old 06-29-21, 06:50 PM
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Originally Posted by bampilot06
that happened to my on saturday, but my bike nor my glasses are equipped with wipers.
All cycling activities were complete and equipment stowed, before the first drop of rain. I got soaked anyway, because I had to retrieve Benson from the groomer.
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Originally Posted by MoAlpha
That really robs the old man of his last effective strategy.
True. I still like them and like being with them but it's hard to describe the way I feel about the e-bikes. Saturday they did a climbing ride and I was invited but didn't go.
It's disappointing in a way.
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Originally Posted by big john
True. I still like them and like being with them but it's hard to describe the way I feel about the e-bikes. Saturday they did a climbing ride and I was invited but didn't go.
It's disappointing in a way.
Good people are good to ride with. The last hill or two on a long ride is usually the only time I can deliver a little punishment to the guys who’ve been rotisserieing my skinny old ass all day.
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Originally Posted by ls01
Frikkin storming again today. I 94 started flooding in spots, again, it isn't even open completely yet... what a city!
Aren't highways supposed to be designed so the water drains away from them?
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Old 06-29-21, 07:38 PM
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Originally Posted by rjones28
It's the third day in a row of heat advisories.
It was only two degrees above normal.
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Originally Posted by rjones28
All cycling activities were complete and equipment stowed, before the first drop of rain. I got soaked anyway, because I had to retrieve Benson from the groomer.

classis Benson.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
It is kind of steep for a popular trail. But if you can't walk a mile without needing a snack, you've got problems.
Would you walk a mile for a camel?
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Aren't highways supposed to be designed so the water drains away from them?
I'm not sure but July 2nd is rapidly approaching.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
It was only two degrees above normal.
Incorrect.

16F over normal.
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Old 06-29-21, 08:03 PM
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Originally Posted by rjones28
Incorrect.

16F over normal.
High today: 90F
Normal: 88F

No big deal.

We had an evening rain shower so it was nice and humid on the way home. I felt alive again wiping sweat out of my eye.
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Old 06-29-21, 09:01 PM
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Just a reminder folks . . . SPOILERS are strictly forbidden. Give your colleagues ample opportunity to watch the race for themselves.

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My bad. To excited. My apologies folks.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Aren't highways supposed to be designed so the water drains away from them?

You would think so. But apparently one of the pump stations is broken.. and the interstate is below ground level..
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Originally Posted by ls01
You would think so. But apparently one of the pump stations is broken.. and the interstate is below ground level..
I'll go one better. The amount of debris on the shoulders of Mi. Interstates is staggering. Car parts, garbage, construction debris. I think a large part of the problem is all of the trash plugging up the drainage grates and the mains. Then how much of this trash gets in to the pumps?
From what I can see we no longer believe in maintenance.
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Gonna go for a hot and humid ride. By the end it will be 90F with “real feel” about 100.

Sorry Velo Vol but several bottles will be needed today. Plus a halo headband.
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Sorry Velo Vol but several bottles will be needed today. Plus a halo headband.
Maybe.
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True. I still like them and like being with them but it's hard to describe the way I feel about the e-bikes. Saturday they did a climbing ride and I was invited but didn't go.
It's disappointing in a way.
E-bikes have taken over some of my riding groups. I’ve quit going to a couple because of them.
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BillyD My brother sent me this pic yesterday of his crew:


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BillyD My brother sent me this pic yesterday of his crew:


That's a Christmas Card. I do my own every year, and if I were on a crew like that, it would be the central focus.
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