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Addiction LXXIX

Old 08-19-20, 04:39 PM
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Originally Posted by genejockey
I honestly thought it would be less. I guess I ride more than I think I do, but also a lot less than I would like to.
I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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Old 08-19-20, 04:40 PM
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Originally Posted by big john
For you that have actual winter, do you stop riding outside for months?

Im too new to the sport, young and dumb to stop riding in the winter. Also can’t afford a indoor trainer yet or a second bike. Though, even if I had an indoor trainer I would prolly ride outside.

I used to surf in the winter, and I grew out of that. Nothing like taking off a soaking wet suit in 30 degrees to really cause some shrinkage.

Last winter really wasn’t that bad. Only one time did my feet get the condition where they hurt really bad. I don’t like to ride in the rain, and statistically it doesn’t rain more in the winter, but it sure does seem like it.

We usually get one big snow storm, last year it didn’t.

Ill need to get booties for sure this year, I need a good excuse for that Rapha Gilet, and another pair of leg warmers.


Hardest part is going to be chainring my riding time. If I try and go out at 5 am it will be 20 degrees, Thats a bit rough.
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Old 08-19-20, 04:43 PM
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Originally Posted by big john
For you that have actual winter, do you stop riding outside for months?
Yep, even in Texas. It gets cold and dark enough. This last winter was the first time I did any outside at all from November through March.
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Originally Posted by kissTheApex
I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
Nerd.
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Originally Posted by WhyFi
For me, there's temp and road condition, uh, conditions. I start to lose interest in riding outside when it dips below 20° or so, 15° if I'm desperate. Then there's the roads - I don't have studs and don't do ice. Snow can also really encroach on the sides of the roads, making them very narrow in the winter - I don't like battling over that with cars. Between the two of these factors, yeah, I usually have two-four months of indoor riding per year.
15 would be a bit much for me, I think. I'm ok in the 30s but I'm scared of ice. I like the mtb if I'm someplace with winter, speeds are lower, wet and muck is ok, and best of all, no cars.
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Originally Posted by kissTheApex
I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy"
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Old 08-19-20, 04:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Bah Humbug
I wish I had like any confidence.

For those who don't know how bad my brain is, we got a bug report from prod at 3. I promptly wanted to puke on my keyboard, because it was code I had touched and goes very deep, but had been tested and worked on my dev machine and tested by QA. y supervisor asked me to look at it. My head was spinning and I had visions of getting fired because of not being able to figure it out and angry customers. Almost exactly two hours later, I discovered it was a conditional someone else had missed because it was a rare client type. Two lines to fix. Two hours of roller coaster. FML I hate my brain. So much.
sounds like mine
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Old 08-19-20, 04:48 PM
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Originally Posted by bampilot06
hardest part is going to be chainring my riding time. if i try and go out at 5 am it will be 20 degrees, thats a bit rough.
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Originally Posted by big john
For you that have actual winter, do you stop riding outside for months?
If it’s under 30 because my feet get too cold
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Originally Posted by bampilot06
We used to fly the dash into there. Probably our best over night we ever had. Unfortunately the runway isn’t long enough for my Micro jet, but the larger jets can land there just fine.

Some good riding there, htfu, get wet and ride.
dunno, driving the bike on the back of the car for 9 hours for only three days of family vacation does not seem inviting right now. I checked bike rentals, but looks like most, if not all shops only rent out beach cruisers.

How BIG is your “micro” jet!?
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Old 08-19-20, 04:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Bah Humbug
I wish I had like any confidence.

For those who don't know how bad my brain is, we got a bug report from prod at 3. I promptly wanted to puke on my keyboard, because it was code I had touched and goes very deep, but had been tested and worked on my dev machine and tested by QA. y supervisor asked me to look at it. My head was spinning and I had visions of getting fired because of not being able to figure it out and angry customers. Almost exactly two hours later, I discovered it was a conditional someone else had missed because it was a rare client type. Two lines to fix. Two hours of roller coaster. FML I hate my brain. So much.

I had similar occurrenceS at my job too. Like forensicing for half a million $ worth of rework requiring potential mistakes. I was racking up “intensity minutes” right where I was sitting.

I feel you.
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Originally Posted by phrantic09
sounds like mine
Hence the username?
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Originally Posted by big john
For you that have actual winter, do you stop riding outside for months?
Keeping the feet warm and limited daylight is my issue, so most weekdays I’m in the garage, on the trainer. On the weekends I try to wait till noon-early afternoon so I can go out just to break the monotony of “riding” in the garage.*

this summer I intended to get a pair of road boots from uk shops to prepare for next winter’s rides, but even those are in low supply nowadays.

*knock on wood, we didn’t have a regular winter here in the mid Atlantic last year. #climateHoax
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Originally Posted by Bah Humbug
Nerd.
tru dat.
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Originally Posted by Bah Humbug
Hence the username?
Yup!
I also have well managed bi-polar 1, so that adds to it
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Originally Posted by bampilot06
We used to fly the dash into there. Probably our best over night we ever had. Unfortunately the runway isn’t long enough for my Micro jet, but the larger jets can land there just fine.

Some good riding there, htfu, get wet and ride.
I wouldn’t get on a dash-q if you paid me
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Originally Posted by big john
For you that have actual winter, do you stop riding outside for months?
I ride year round. The cold has never stopped me, although it becomes less fun below say 20F. The only thing that stops my rides in the winter is unsafe road conditions like ice. Sadly, we often have a situation here after a snowfall where there is frozen runoff and that’s no bueno. I would estimate my monthly winter mileage (Nov-March) is about half the typical summer efforts.
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Originally Posted by datlas
Agree. Way nicer than my modest Habanero, which is the Saturn of Ti bikes.
So that makes my Lynskey a Buick?

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For you that have actual winter, do you stop riding outside for months?
Not once the snow and ice come. The brine they use around here would eat every metal part before the ride was done.
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I know it well. I rode some of the Perk today until my rear fender got too crudded up.
Out and back tomorrow through the Conestoga Valley to the Shady Maple Market. Should be beautiful.
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Originally Posted by Pirkaus
So that makes my Lynskey a Buick?
No, Lynskey is better. Cadillac. But Moots is like a Bentley!
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Greeting from Route 66.

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Originally Posted by Pirkaus


Not once the snow and ice come. The brine they use around here would eat every metal part before the ride was done.
Is it different than the salt they use in other states? California is a no-salt state. They use potash or just sand in the mountains.
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Originally Posted by datlas
I can outpiss that. Just shy of 50k miles:

And, I can out-piss that. 56,467 on Strava. Also, don’t make me post my spreadsheet, again, or a pic of my hard bound log books.

Logged & recorded miles since April 1982: 236,651 miles.
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Originally Posted by big john
For you that have actual winter, do you stop riding outside for months?
No.
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And, I can out-piss that. 56,467 on Strava. Also, don’t make me post my spreadsheet, again, or a pic of my hard bound log books.

Logged & recorded miles since April 1982: 236,651 miles.
OCD much?

Kudos either way.
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