Originally Posted by szewczykm (Post 14497015)

I'd be interested in what other people might have to contribute to this.

Listens to Celtic / Irish music while riding? Something about the solitary road time with the sound of bagpipes, uelliann pipes, and/or violin playing puts me in a warrior mindset..

Originally Posted by szewczykm (Post 14497015)

I weigh in at work, so I don't do it naked... but that's not entirely off the table.

Originally Posted by TrojanHorse (Post 14497250)

No, you need to look into camelbak podium bottles... no such effort required.[/COLOR]

Originally Posted by szewczykm (Post 14497015)

Kind of wants to throw my empty water bottle onto the road shoulder like they do in races like the TDF? Just because it looks cool.

Originally Posted by szewczykm (Post 14497015)

Am I the only one who:

Kind of wants to throw my empty water bottle onto the road shoulder like they do in races like the TDF? Just because it looks cool.

Originally Posted by skilsaw (Post 14500707)

A few times a day poke, pinch, or squeeze what used to be pudding but are now amazingly hard quads and/or glutes and/or other leg muscle and think, "Wow, I didn't know I had these.... awesome."

When I see a good looking stranger, I want to offer to let them squeeze my glutes.

Originally Posted by CraigB (Post 14497673)

That Camelbak Podium valve is the best thing to happen to water bottles since the wide mouth. (Remember not being able to put ice cubes in a water bottle? I do.)

Originally Posted by szewczykm (Post 14497015)

I'd be interested in what other people might have to contribute to this.

Am I the only one who:

Kind of wants to throw my empty water bottle onto the road shoulder like they do in races like the TDF? Just because it looks cool.

I've thought about it, but the water bottles I use are expensive. Although, I do get a lot of free cheapo bottles in SWAG bags at races, so I could always use those to try it... :thumb:

Listens to Celtic / Irish music while riding? Something about the solitary road time with the sound of bagpipes, uelliann pipes, and/or violin playing puts me in a warrior mindset.

I don't use music while riding because it can be dangerous, though I do listen to an eclectic collection while running. And yes, Celtic/Irish music is definitely in that mix. I always have a soundtrack in my head though, and the same stuff I listen to while running is often playing in my head while I'm riding.

A few times a day poke, pinch, or squeeze what used to be pudding but are now amazingly hard quads and/or glutes and/or other leg muscle and think, "Wow, I didn't know I had these.... awesome.

Always. The best time is when I'm soaping up in the shower and realize how sexy my quads and calf muscles have become. That always distracts me for a moment.

Take things out of my pockets, make sure I haven't eaten yet, do it in the morning, and whatever else to make my weigh-in at my absolute lightest for the day. I weigh in at work, so I don't do it naked... but that's not entirely off the table.

I always weigh in shortly after waking up, buck naked, after using the head, and before breakfast. I figure it's about as close as I can get to a true number. That said, I only weigh in every few weeks anymore, though I used to be pretty stringent about numbers. Most of the time it was because I was trying different things and wanted to see what was working. Now that my routine is pretty solid, I don't much see the need for the tedium.

Pulled the squirter open on my water bottle with my teeth a little too hard and popped the "pop-top" style cap off, emptying my red gatorade all over my white sport shirt. (Happened last night with a bottle that I had just bought.)

OK, this one you're on your own, lol.

That's about all I can think of right now. I'm curious about other people's odd thoughts and behaviors to know that I'm not alone in my weirdness.

Originally Posted by szewczykm (Post 14497015)

I'd be interested in what other people might have to contribute to this.

Am I the only one who:


Listens to Celtic / Irish music while riding? Something about the solitary road time with the sound of bagpipes, uelliann pipes, and/or violin playing puts me in a warrior mindset.

Originally Posted by tony_merlino (Post 14502140)

Originally Posted by tony_merlino (Post 14502140)

I don't listen to music while riding, but I sometimes sing, and sometimes what I sing is Celtic/Irish inspired music. A favorite, (courtesy of Isaac Asimov), is to sing, to the tune of "The Irish Washerwoman",

"Paradimethylaminobenzaldehyde". It fits just about every line.

I was searching for the spelling of this just now, and found this song, which I may just have to go and memorize:

Words by : John A. Carroll (inspired by Isaac Asimov)
Tune of : The Irish Washerwoman

Paradimethylaminobenzaldehyde,
Sodium citrate, ammonium cyanide,
Mix 'em together and add some benzene,
And top off the punch with trichloroethylene.

Got gassed up last night with some furfuryl alcohol,
Followed it up with a gallon of propanol,
Tanked up on hydrazine 'til after noon,
Then spit on the floor and blew up the saloon.

Paradimethylaminobenzaldehyde,
Powdered aluminum, nitrogen iodide,
Chlorates, permanganates, nitrates galore,
Just swallow one drink and you'll never need more.

Whiskey, tequila, and rum are too tame.
No, the stuff that I drink must explode into flame,
When I breathe and dissolve all the paint in the room,
And rattle the walls in a ground-shaking boom.

Paradimethylaminobenzaldehyde,
Go soak your head in a good strong insecticide,
Slosh it around and impregnate your brain,
With dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane.

Originally Posted by szewczykm (Post 14497015)

Kind of wants to throw my empty water bottle onto the road shoulder like they do in races like the TDF? Just because it looks cool.

Originally Posted by Peter_C (Post 14503278)

Nice thread, Sometimes I think of my trike as a war machine - least until I swallow a bug being a mouth-breather...

Originally Posted by contango (Post 14504206)

Can't say I've ever felt the urge to write a poem, or even borrow someone else's, to fit the word paradimethylaminobenzaldehyde into it.

Originally Posted by CraigB (Post 14497673)

That Camelbak Podium valve is the best thing to happen to water bottles since the wide mouth. (Remember not being able to put ice cubes in a water bottle? I do.)