Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - HNYE -east, west, north, south

Fixers, SSers-

Happy New Year Everyone. Good times, safe rides.
Thanks for the fun.

You too man...have a good one all

Right back atcha dere, bro!

Hey, everyone, be careful out there (yeah, yeah, thanks MOM!). Crazy world.

Jess

Don't worry about me, it's my mom's b-day tonight at 11:45pm. It's required that I come and visit every year, so no going out to party for me. The good thing is they drink as much or more than I do!

Happy New Years Everyone!!!

Same to you and everyone. Odd 5 should be very interesting.

Happy New Year to you all!!

Time does fly.

Time does fly.
but i still rot slowly.

Well it is finally new year on the west coast. Is Hawaii the last?

We were the last, but we finally made it. Happy New Year everyone!!!!

Cheers.

7:00 AM local time and I'm working on New Year Day. I'm looking for sympathy here folks. I'm 31, single, missed out on last night's levity and ladies. I considered PBR for my own celebratory breakfast but responsibility won the day with some pop-tarts and grape juice. Weep with me.

7:00 AM local time and I'm working on New Year Day. I'm looking for sympathy here folks. I'm 31, single, missed out on last night's levity and ladies. I considered PBR for my own celebratory breakfast but responsibility won the day with some pop-tarts and grape juice. Weep with me.

Hey, better than waking up next to someone you don't want to, right? No better time to be employed than winter when it's cold and sad, anyway.

Cheer up, MKRG-poo! :)

As always,
Your Friend
Jess

It would be probably be good for me to wake up next to someone as long as that someone was female and was at least 98% genetically similar to a human.

I forget, does that rule out orangutans?

I hope not.

Well, geez, that ups your chances, no? I've heard good things about the Cincinnatti zoo...

2005.....this is going to be interesting.

2005.....this is going to be interesting.

Hope you're right!

2004 was interesting, to be sure.

Here's to no open car doors, keeping your fingers out of chain/sprocket combo's, and all the good stuff.

I hope not.

Couldn't find any info on orangutans, but how do you feel about chimps (http://www.betterhumans.com/Errors/index.aspx?aspxerrorpath=/Chimpanzees_Are_More_Human_than_Ape.Article.2003-05-21-1.aspx)?

Oh, and happy new year or something. The Irish coffee is slowly taking the edge off of the hangover...

Happy new year, all.

I went out for my 2005 inaugural ride today.

Mile 0: Because of visiting the fam out of state and the snow, it's been almost two weeks since I've ridden the fix. A couple of days this week I rode the SS to work, it coasts, my fav bike does not. I was reminded of this at almost 30 mph. I figured that was probably a little too fast to make a 90 degree left onto the sidewalk to get to the bike path by my house, so I hit the brake. Well, I also apparently decided to try to coast. POW! My rear must've lifted 2 or 3 feet off the ground and I'm rolling it out at 30 mph on my front. I repeated this feat not once, not twice, but three times before I got back into the fixed mode. Fortunately the others were at significantly lower speeds.

Mile 15: Oh, the calf cramps. Damn, I guess I should have stretched more. Who would have thought a 2 week hiatus could be so bad for you?

Mile 17: The first battle of the cramps successfully concluded.

Mile 18-19: Rolling fight between ******** driver and ******** cyclist. He didn't like the fact that I was in front of him when the light turned green so he rode up on me *close*. Maybe he was drafting. Looking more or less straight ahead, I could see the front of his car at the very edge of my peripheral and even saw it nose down when he drove up on me and had to hit the brakes when I didn't give way. Totally insane. He stomps on it and moves into the left lane (that's right, all he had to do was pass) and goes around. I'm pissed off so I catch up with him at another light and spit a loogie on his driver-side window. He passes. I catch him at another light and knock on the passenger-side window. He passes. I catch him in motion and go to knock on the window again when dude intentionally sideswipes me at like 25 mph. I manage to keep it under control but get shoved a lane and a half to the right. I think I scraped up his door with my pedal though. I now know what it takes to knock my Open Pro out of true. I'm gonna get the LBS to true it under warranty when I go in to buy some other stuff next week.

Mile 24: Oh damn, the cramps have regrouped and mounted another attack.

Mile 25: The battle is mine.

Mile 27: Freaking cramps! This time I'm climbing the hill to my apartment and the calves have successfully captured some territory in the thighs. Fighting the pain I make it home without further incident

It was simultaneously a great ride--it was good to just get out on the road and spin for a while--and scary, for obvious reasons. What's really weird is I wasn't actually frightened at the time, though it certainly took a lot of focus to not biff. Since I didn't die, I guess I don't regret it but I don't expect I'll pull a stunt like that again. Dude got my goat and that was my mistake.

Anyhow, happy new years! How was your first ride of '05?

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It's really not that bad once you get past the body hair..oh and yeah the toes are a little funky too.

I went out on a 20 yesterday and it kicked my ass. New Years res #1: Get out and ride regardless of light, weather, temperature and ony other pathetic excuses. I couldn't believe how much my performance has dropped over a few weeks.

7:00 AM local time and I'm working on New Year Day. I'm looking for sympathy here folks. I'm 31, single, missed out on last night's levity and ladies. I considered PBR for my own celebratory breakfast but responsibility won the day with some pop-tarts and grape juice. Weep with me.


Lake Michigan is now frozen with the tears we in Chicago have wept for you today.

Wow Skit, that was really nice.

Heartfelt, even.

Today, I am exactly 13 years older than Fugazi Dave.

Today, I am exactly 13 years older than Fugazi Dave.

Chances are you'll be so tomorrow as well.

Chances are you'll be so tomorrow as well.

to keep things even, if either one of you guys begins to travel near the speed of light, the other had better tag along.

to keep things even, if either one of you guys begins to travel near the speed of light, the other had better tag along.

damn, that'd have to be a steep gear ratio.

Happy New Year's everyone. Hope all is well. Hangovers should be over, that person you woke up next to should be gone (sorry, skit) and we should all be engulfed in the frigid winter air, burning our lungs and sweating like Richard Simmons under all those layers. Cheers!

to keep things even, if either one of you guys begins to travel near the speed of light, the other had better tag along.

Best to stay in the draft from the start 'cuz bridgeing that gap would be a *****!


engulfed in the frigid winter air, burning our lungs and sweating like Richard Simmons

For some odd, weird, global warming, petro based greenhouse gas reason it's 60 degrees here. Yesterday I beat 32 hard miles into the winter bike. Coming home at 2AM with a crap gray bike, muck stained legs and arms, a heavy Morelein and Jameson buzz and a loudly hissing rear tire. Yesterday was a...good...day. Additionally it looks like I'll be employed for the next 3 months too. Still getting paid crap but at least I'm getting paid.

Still getting paid crap but at least I'm getting paid.

here's to all of us getting paid this year...cheers :beer:

damn, that'd have to be a steep gear ratio.

like 195 gazillion billion jillion to 4.
Skip tooth.

like 195 gazillion billion jillion to 4.
Skip tooth.

almost a billion teeth in the chainring with a 12 tooth cog at 100RPM.
never realized sheldons gear calculator goes that high :)

That's a lotta teeth between your legs...EEK!!!

Best to stay in the draft from the start 'cuz bridgeing that gap would be a *****!



For some odd, weird, global warming, petro based greenhouse gas reason it's 60 degrees here. Yesterday I beat 32 hard miles into the winter bike. Coming home at 2AM with a crap gray bike, muck stained legs and arms, a heavy Morelein and Jameson buzz and a loudly hissing rear tire. Yesterday was a...good...day. Additionally it looks like I'll be employed for the next 3 months too. Still getting paid crap but at least I'm getting paid.

Looks like it'll be in the mid to high 40s here in the NJ/NY area and up to th elow 60s for the weekend. May bring my bike in with me for some lunch hour rides... Back in the Poconos, PA it's gonna be in the mid 30s to low 40s all week with mid to high 50s for the weekend. Crazy weather. Last year we had snow already by mid December! Friends from back home in Ottawa, are already complaining about the white stuff! Weird. Ma Nature must've been drinking this holiday season.

well heck last friday i was headed up north with my boys for some skiing and it was 61 goddammit degrees and sunny in mid-michigan. it was fortunately cooler where we ended up, in the 20s on saturday, but the skiing was wicked fast on all that ice. yowzer!

i'm too tired to look it up but i'm quite certain these temperatures of which we speak are not all that unusual. we could debate global climate change elsewhere.

Well it's just weird because last week we had a foot, actually more, of snow.

would rather not drive in '05

Wow, I remember this thread! I can't believe this is coming up again- is everyone prepared for the new year?

Personally, I feel pretty similar to how MKRG felt last year...and, as well, not enough accomplished over the last 11 months. Sad.

it's a new year for me today. happy birthday valome. i want cake.

HAHA! i'm back in that boat this year again. This time I won't be working, but my girlfriend dumped me sooo...at least a bunch of good friends will be back from California.

it's a new year for me today. happy birthday valome. i want cake.

congratulations on being born.

http://www.gothamist.com/attachments/food_allison/2005_08_verygoodchoccake.jpg

congratulations on being born.

http://www.gothamist.com/attachments/food_allison/2005_08_verygoodchoccake.jpg

wow, only 12 years old?

wow, only 12 years old?

yeah i went through puberty at a young age.

i could only afford 12 candles.

and i ate all the cake, sorry.