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#7826
VFL For Life
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#7827
Silver Comet Fred
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#7828
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2017
Location: Greenville SC
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Fun ride today. Went south of town to the flatlands instead of beating myself up in the mountains. I know average speed is a fool's metric but it was fun to average 2-3mph faster than my usual rides.
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#7829
Mostly Harmless
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Chittenango, NY
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#7830
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Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: Land of Pleasant Living
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I bought a gravel bike two years ago and took it on a couple gravel rides that are local race courses. Most of our gravel is like riding on marbles and some of it is pretty big. All I could think of when I was riding was that if I fall, it's going to hurt, like really hurt.
I sold the bike.
I sold the bike.
#7831
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#7832
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#7833
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2016
Location: Yucatán. México
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Strava was talking to me today. Telling me my ride was paused, then resumed, etc. Is this something new or did I accidentally change a setting?
Annoying
Annoying
#7834
Senior Member
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It's gonna take some time to get used to the pronoun thing.
#7835
VFL For Life
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#7836
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#7837
Senior Member
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#7838
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#7839
Klaatu..Verata..Necktie?
Join Date: May 2007
Location: SF Bay Area
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It would be easier if English had never had gendered 3rd person singular pronouns. Lots of other languages don't, like Tagalog, for example.
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#7840
Mostly Harmless
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#7841
Klaatu..Verata..Necktie?
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I've been doing little diversions from my 55 mile Sunday route recently. Today I went right instead of left, heading up Page Mill. Page Mill is a nasty climb I used to do once a year just to prove I could. It's long, and there are a couple places that are both steep and completely exposed to the sun. For 3 years running, I'd get to this one steep pitch and think, "If there's shade around this corner, I'm gonna stop and rest a bit", but there is no shade.
First year, that's what I thought.
Second year, I thought that again, but realized I'd had the same thought at the same place before, and there was no shade.
Third year, I thought, "If there's some shade around this.....WAIT A MINUTE! I've done this before, and there IS NO SHADE!!!!"
Anyway, this time I only went up as far as Altamont Rd, and took that to descend back to Foothill. Last time I road this was probably 12 years ago. But I remembered there's a really bad corner, where 12 years ago, one of the riders on a Bike Forums NorCal group ride had gone down - nobody saw it, they just came around the corner and there he was, unconscious, with his Litespeed stuffed under the guardrail. So I was hyper cautious! I found the corner, which is actually TWO lefts in quick succession - there's a steep drop off, then the first turn, which is simultaneously 1) descending, 2) severely off camber, and 3) decreasing radius. You get through it, straighten up, and there's ANOTHER one just like it. The rest of the descent isn't too bad, but after those turns I took the rest pretty gently. I was glad to be riding the Canyon with the disc brakes, but I have ridden it before with just dual pivots and managed not to kill myself.
First year, that's what I thought.
Second year, I thought that again, but realized I'd had the same thought at the same place before, and there was no shade.
Third year, I thought, "If there's some shade around this.....WAIT A MINUTE! I've done this before, and there IS NO SHADE!!!!"
Anyway, this time I only went up as far as Altamont Rd, and took that to descend back to Foothill. Last time I road this was probably 12 years ago. But I remembered there's a really bad corner, where 12 years ago, one of the riders on a Bike Forums NorCal group ride had gone down - nobody saw it, they just came around the corner and there he was, unconscious, with his Litespeed stuffed under the guardrail. So I was hyper cautious! I found the corner, which is actually TWO lefts in quick succession - there's a steep drop off, then the first turn, which is simultaneously 1) descending, 2) severely off camber, and 3) decreasing radius. You get through it, straighten up, and there's ANOTHER one just like it. The rest of the descent isn't too bad, but after those turns I took the rest pretty gently. I was glad to be riding the Canyon with the disc brakes, but I have ridden it before with just dual pivots and managed not to kill myself.
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#7842
Super Modest
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#7843
Super Modest
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But, thanks for the email... I guess.
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#7844
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#7845
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I read an article somewhere recently that said that people tend to overrate their abilities. In a survey of drivers, most claim to be above average.
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#7846
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Family forum.
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#7847
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#7848
Klaatu..Verata..Necktie?
Join Date: May 2007
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"Don't take life so serious-it ain't nohow permanent."
"Everybody's gotta be somewhere." - Eccles
"Don't take life so serious-it ain't nohow permanent."
"Everybody's gotta be somewhere." - Eccles
#7849
Should Be More Popular
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