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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 09-12-21, 09:43 AM
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that picture is very convincing. #Scenic


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Originally Posted by datlas
Had a short but sweet ride. I am prepared to get kicked off the podium but might still stay on, barely.

Strava tells me I hit 5k miles for the year.
I do believe I'mma have to wait for the snow to fly to be on the leaderboard again.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol


Even though it is in a urban setting, KSU is scenic. Not a great picture but gives an idea of the setting.
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How do you tell a next-door neighbor that their festering kiddie pool is breeding mosquitos? They're even attacking in the daytime, just now in full sunlight where I'm usually safe.

We have a respectful relationship, wave and smile and say hello and all, but they've only been there a year so we're not 'tight" yet. I'm dying to just give them a couple mosquito dunks but they have 2 young-uns and I don't want to be responsible if they misuse it.
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Originally Posted by datlas
Had a short but sweet ride. I am prepared to get kicked off the podium but might still stay on, barely.

Strava tells me I hit 5k miles for the year.
Kudos for you! I hit 5k outdoor miles on Thursday.
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Originally Posted by DougRNS
Not a great picture but gives an idea of the setting.
It looks like you scanned and enlarged a photo from 1977.
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How do you tell a next-door neighbor that their festering kiddie pool is breeding mosquitos? They're even attacking in the daytime, just now in full sunlight where I'm usually safe.
Sneak over at night and pour some DDT in it.
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Originally Posted by datlas
Aware. I hope you are right. But as Han Solo told young Skywalker, “don’t get cocky!”
He just wrapped up a ~50-miler, so unless we egg him on to get back out there...
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Originally Posted by BillyD
How do you tell a next-door neighbor that their festering kiddie pool is breeding mosquitos? They're even attacking in the daytime, just now in full sunlight where I'm usually safe.

We have a respectful relationship, wave and smile and say hello and all, but they've only been there a year so we're not 'tight" yet. I'm dying to just give them a couple mosquito dunks but they have 2 young-uns and I don't want to be responsible if they misuse it.
Ick.

How's the ol' softball arm? Think you could plunk some chlorine tabs in to the pool?
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
It looks like you scanned and enlarged a photo from 1977.

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Originally Posted by WhyFi
He just wrapped up a ~50-miler, so unless we egg him on to get back out there...
I see that. Confidence growing.
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Originally Posted by DougRNS
Is that our beloved I-75 just east of campus?
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Sneak over at night and pour some DDT in it.
Not bad, but I doubt they still make that, although I wouldn’t put it past Monsanto.
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Originally Posted by WhyFi
Ick.

How's the ol' softball arm? Think you could plunk some chlorine tabs in to the pool?
As luck would have it, it’s on the other end of their yard.
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Lovely weather day for cycling. Or to be a cat.


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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Is that our beloved I-75 just east of campus?
how is it beloved if it is the gateway to dumb dumb land?
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Just checked, Looks like I passed 5000 miles my last ride as well.

I just might be able to hit my goal of 7500………
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These amuse me.

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Just checked, Looks like I passed 5000 miles my last ride as well.

I just might be able to hit my goal of 7500………
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Maybe I should stop getting my new routes from a climber.

Not quite an official datlas ride of 100'/mile but ~50mi and 4300' still hurt quite a bit.

Ended up hitting PRs on a decent amount of segments and got a 7w increase on my eFTP from Intervals
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Must be why I've been glued to the couch all afternoon
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
the video or Chin mask?
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Maybe I should stop getting my new routes from a climber.

Not quite an official datlas ride of 100'/mile but ~50mi and 4300' still hurt quite a bit.

Ended up hitting PRs on a decent amount of segments and got a 7w increase on my eFTP from Intervals
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Must be why I've been glued to the couch all afternoon
Do you have a lot of short steep climbs there? Got a low gear?
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Originally Posted by big john
Do you have a lot of short steep climbs there? Got a low gear?
There's not much longer than 6-8 miles and 2000' close by.

Lots of ~2 miles and 800'-1000' though with 10-15% kicks.

I've got a 34x32 and I use it regularly.
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