FCF (Fatties Coast Faster) woes
06-10-12, 01:01 PM
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FCF (Fatties Coast Faster) woes
Group rides. Spend the downhill portions on the brakes, the uphill portions trying to stay close enough to the group to catch them in the flats. DagNab it! Sorry - just had to vent.
06-10-12, 01:20 PM
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The downhill portion is when clydes need to drop the hammer. They're not waiting for you on the uphill, why wait for them on the downhill?
06-10-12, 01:25 PM
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I love that gravity loves a fat man. I come down the hills in the big ring spinning and grinning. 
If I have to carry an extra 100lbs up the hill they have to watch me coming down the hill.
If I have to carry an extra 100lbs up the hill they have to watch me coming down the hill.
06-10-12, 01:34 PM
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The one and only time I was ever faster than traffic and 5 km over the speed limit was going downhill on Avenue Road in Toronto. I still wish I was ticketed for speeding by the police because I would have happily framed the ticket. But it was at some silly early hour on a Sunday morning and the traffic consisted of a couple of cars.
06-10-12, 04:22 PM
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I love the title of this thread. I wish I had it as a jersey.
Use that downhill to catch up and reward yourself for the work on the uphill!
Use that downhill to catch up and reward yourself for the work on the uphill!
06-11-12, 09:09 AM
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Flex that downhill muscle and drop 'em on the downhills.
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I regularly describe myself to people as a "Pure Descender", I suffered carrying it up, I will take all the help it can give me on the way down.
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Now you need to post on here how they reacted when you blew by them on the downhill. And remember unless you need to slow down or stop, NO brakes on the downhill.
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In a previous life I was a long-haul trucker. We had a term for underpowered trucks--Dragonflies. You drag up one side of a hill and fly down the other.
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I say train harder on the uphills. Then drop them on the uphill and downhill!
06-12-12, 06:35 AM
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My motto is, and always has been, practice what you suck at.
It took me a long way in archery - to the point of cashing checks
. Is that target 48 yards or 51 yards? While you are guessing I know and shoot for it - ah, another podium.
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Update - rode today with a group I had ridding with a few times before. I made sure I was in a position to pass on the downhills, and accelerated into the bottom of the climbs. Gosh that made it easier to get to the top of the smaller hills. I will continue to work on the longer, steeper hills. Thanks for the advice and encouragement!
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