furiousferret

Sorry! How come I never see any of your reports? Now is the perfect time to finish up Cat 5, since we're going in to the off season.

I had to submit. My last race went over 10 (counting the clinic), so hopefully USAC doesn't strike my results from the record books. Then I'll have to cry on Oprah and host a Gran Fondo somewhere in NorCal. Besides, now I can be a domestique when @ovoleg races again.

My first crit I got gapped every corner and got dropped on the final lap, this last one I was passing 5-10 people on the corners and actually made an impact in the race. Now I just need to learn how to sit in for 90% of the race instead of getting antsy and making moves that waste energy.

hack

Noooooooo!!! That's what 95% of all the other 4's are going to do and you're going to have a boring guarded race. Get out and keep mixing it up. Attack, chase, RACE! There is a time and place to sit in, but that doesn't mean you can't try other things as well. You're races will be a bit longer, but not much, so a bit more time for more racing to develop. You'll get more primes (or primes in general) and those can be fun and good for countering into a break or just mixing up the field.

rideaz

Felicitaciones!!

waterrockets 

I haven't see the one in Seattle. In DC, they have the Wright Flyer, SR-71, Emelia Earhart's plane, Discovery, Lindburgh's plane, SR-71, Appolo, Gemini, Mercury capsules, Discovery, Von Braun's rockets he made when he was 15, SR-71, chunks of Saturn V and pretty much any rocket or missile ever made, Discovery, a Concorde, SR-71, the Enola Gay, and Discovery.

They also have the SR-71 and Space Shuttle Discovery. When the SR-71 arrived, it set several records on its flight from LA to Dulles (1 hr, 4 minutes, but I couldn't find it on Strava), and was handed over to the Smithsonian on the runway. They call the Dulles Smithsonian A&S "America's Hangar," and that feels accurate. It's amazing, freaking amazing the hardware they have in there. The DC A&S museum is brilliant too, and I could spend a week each at both locations. DC is a bit more interactive, and Dulles is a bit more OMFG, that's an SR-71 and the freaking Space Shuttle.

Reported.

jsutkeepspining

FTFY yale boy

echappist

Typing on my phone

rideaz

¿Por qué?

tetonrider

hey....just checking back in here since yesterday.

so happens that i placed the order about 2 hours ago. i did go with the green one. got a pretty screaming deal and also had sold half a pile of gear on ebay. i couldn't see either in person but i could visualize the green build a bit easier...plus s-works and 200g lighter.....i imagined scrawny ol' me shouldering it in lap 7 or 8...

sounds like i made the right call! i bet orange would have looked good.

apparently that green one was the last one left in my size in the country.

tetonrider

ti with clip-ons as you'll likely be narrower.

that said, if it is rolling that means lots of shifting and you can't shift from the clips (good reason for di2!!!).........so you're constantly breaking aero.

i'm going to bet in this case it is advantage: venge.

tetonrider

saw those kids when i was having a post-race meal with family and friends after cascade. they were like 15 years old, but appeared to be even younger!

(if anyone's in bend, this is a good restaurant to check out: Jackson's Corner.)

save10

+1

tetonrider

i thought the orange frame would probably look neat in person (looked a bit better to me in a zoomed-in photo than the small one). the black frame didn't do anything for me. went with green. happens to be my team's color. i think the orange and green frames are both riding that bright-color tide.



sharp memory--you might know my bikes better than i do! that was 2 septembers ago. i didn't get to race last year due to getting hit by a car. hope to race more this year.

i'm going to sell that frame, and with my deals and the parts i have on hand there's basically no cost.

if anyone wants a raleigh RXC pro disc frame set, holler at me.

(my shop's specialized so i get a bit of heat when i'm not on one. also, the crux has pretty similar geo to the tarmac and the tarmac *really* suits me.)

tetonrider

couldn't really find any pics of the orange crux built up. this is a sample of the green one.

Ygduf

such a nice bike for the brake levers to be pointing at 4 o'clock

revchuck 

I post them over in the old folk's home since I'm friggin' ancient (62). My next race is the age-graded association championship road race, racing M60+ Open.

Gramercy

Congrats! Welcome to the 4's

waterrockets 

If I squint and read too fast, the word looks enough like an Italian (?) word for an enjoyable time that I figured it was worth a poke.

echappist

ugh, seems like a cricket has invaded my apartment...

furiousferret

A few years back I spent about 2 hours late at night trying to find one in my house. It was like that episode of Breaking Bad with the fly.

big john

He's riding again but a long way from race ready. He said he might not race on the road again but after a while he might change his mind.

echappist

oh man... that episode was not a pretty sight

any tips and tricks?

and speaking of Break Bad, i'm watching The Wire, and there he is, Gale Boetticher

topflightpro

When my wife ordered her Crux last year, it was on back order until November. Then it was December. Then it was February. We finally got it in April of this year, and it didn't come from Specialized. Rather, another LBS had one and wanted to get rid of it and posted it on Specialized's internal dealer network. Our LBS saw it and got it from that shop for my wife.

Apparently, our options for her size - 52 - was to wait for the backorder or to buy her the S-Works bike - not just frame - and we could not justify spending that much money on a cross bike.

rankin116

That's a very common cross position for levers.

shovelhd

That's the proper lever position for cross. Fudgy knows this. He's pulling your chain.

carpediemracing 

Until this year I only had one credit card for about 17 years (got a related account card to keep business vs personal separate, but same bank/website/etc). My original card got compromised (I got emails and texts alerting me to some unusual purchases) so now I have a new card. Painless process but my "seared into my memory" card number is no longer valid.