tetonrider

the funny thing is....you can!

Enthalpic

Good to see you're alive.

caloso

We are also paying a bit more than expected this year due our investments bouncing back and my wife's business doing so well. #onepercenterproblems

furiousferret

I was out of work for two months tax free on Aflac, and we bought and sold a house. Had no clue where we would land but luckily it wasn't too far off the year before.

While it may not be the best thing financially to do, we always claim enough that we're guaranteed a return.

aaronmcd

Actually... none of us are lucky technically, because we all had our money taken.

tetonrider

but we do choose our country (/state) of residence., assuming most of us are of age.

choosing not to leave is still a choice.

you guys actually pay taxes??? i thought all cyclists are wealthy. paying taxes in the US is for the poor.

echappist

no doubt, i want an i-phone 6 before it becomes available to the rest of society; woe be onto me that i have to wait like a member of the unwashed proletariat
please take this to P&R

topflightpro

Thanks.

merlinextraligh

Wheels were fine. Blown around a bit, but not bad. I sucked.

carpediemracing 

F1 thoughts? I'm looking forward to reading about Sunday's Australia race.

merlinextraligh

I hardly follow F1, but the move to smaller displacement engines that apparently are slower, in the name of energy effiency seems bad to me.

merlinextraligh

People apparently take this Strava stuff seriously. I got an email this morning that a ride I did in September 2011 had been flagged.

It was flagged because I left the garmin on when I got back in the car. That portion of the file was obviously wrong. However, that portion also wasn't over any desiginated segments.

Tried to crop it in Strava, without success, so I just deleted the file.

I obviously was in error, but it seems a bit silly to care about a meaningless 3 year old file.

Dolamite02

Looks like Fernando Alonso is starting up his own cycling team. This pleases Merckx.

Spoonrobot 

To those who race on clinchers; how many hours do you prefer to have on a new tire before you consider it ready for race use? What about racing in rain?

I've got some Continental Grand Prix tires that I can only ride about 3-4 hours of dry pavement time before my first race and I'm wondering if this is enough time to wear them in towards their maximum grip. I've noticed the cheaper tires I have happened to ride in the rain when brand new (Zaffiro, Schwalbe Lugano) are really quite slick during cornering. The race has a 90-100% chance of rain.

Or is this not an issue with better quality tires?

gsteinb

huh. guys fret the damnedest things. there are very few pieces of equipment I wouldn't race out of the box. heck I've gotten on a brand new bike (read: including new tires) and won.

botto 

this surprises you?

merlinextraligh

I was surprised that a file I put up to show friends a route becomes an issue 3 years later.

Flatballer

I might actually stay up to watch the F1 race from Australia live. It's 2 AM Sunday morning though, quite early. Not sure if they'll replay it later in the day. The cars are slower, but the engines really aren't, and the electric turbo system is extremely awesome, and will eventually help make this tech available in road cars. Turbos are the future, and if we can do it with zero lag, that's brilliant. The response and feel of an N/A, with the power per displacement of a large turbo. You could put a GIANT turbo on, because the electric motor spins it up instantly anyway. And you gain energy that's wasted from exhaust gas by spinning the motor as a generator instead of wasting that energy through a wastegate.

The reason the cars are slower is mostly to do with aero changes, many of which were for safety. Cars with giant amounts of downforce get dangerous because they go from in control to flying off the track in a split second, there's nothing gradual about their loss of grip. A normal road car breaks away relatively progressively as the tires can't keep up with the traction demands. With huge amounts of aerodynamic downforce you go from just fine to flying off the track the instant something upsets that downforce, or a wing breaks, or whatever.

They're making an estimated 600-650 HP from a turbocharged, direct injected, 1.6 liter V6. Think about that, 650 HP from 1.6 liters, that's insane. Add another 160 HP from the KERS system for 30 seconds a lap, and you've got about 750-800 HP, right about the same as the old V8 which was 750 + 80 from KERS. Oh, and you only get 100kg of fuel and a fuel rate of 100kg/hour. They're still ridiculously fast machines, and they're pushing engine tech to new frontiers, which is a good thing. Many of the hot new engines are direct injected and turbo charged, it's the future, so it makes sense for F1 to go there. To prevent them from making 2000 HP they have to make the displacement limit tiny, not that they could do much with 2000 HP without traction control, except shunt it.

furiousferret

I do that about once a season; its a pita to get it cropped and fixed in connect, strava, and cyclinganalytics.

Homebrew01

I followed it about 10 years ago, then when I started riding we had a small group that went out Sunday morning, so I stopped watching. Never got back into it.

Homebrew01

Should be fine

Ygduf

It just means someone made or looked a segment where you were going 65 and flagged it. It's bad data, not a personal thing.

Why do you use connect? I use the other two, but can't think of a reason I'd upload to connect. Maybe I'm missing something!

furiousferret

Habit mostly. I've been using it since it was motionbased.com. The only superior analysis that connect provides is better L/R readings. I typically don't sync it daily like I do with Strava and cyclingananalytics.

misterwaterfall

Maybe. No one knows if the cars will be slower or not as the teams have been trying to sort reliability issues in all the of the pre season tests. The teams at the front IE mercedes have been smacking the field up anyway, and have no incentive to turn the power up in testing any more than they have to.

I wish they left more of this in the drivers hands. I'm fine with drivers aids, but things like fuel consumption. It makes it an engineering chess game instead of a drivers game when they can electronically regulate the fuel usage. Give them the same fuel limit but let the drivers right foot dictate how much that they are using and see what happens. That would be much more entertaining.

Ygduf

Ahh yeah. I only ever used GC when I wanted to see temp before, but now CA and Strava have that. CA does chart your L/R balance, it's just not selected on the charts by default.