You know your legs are getting stronger...
04-23-14, 08:19 PM
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You know your legs are getting stronger...
... when you go, "damn, I'm in the big ring HERE!?".
A happy day
A happy day
04-23-14, 08:39 PM
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In my case it was when my jeans became too tight to wear comfortably. Congrats!
04-23-14, 09:52 PM
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For me is when I rode 3 minutes slower than the fastest time home. Fastest was with a 35mph tailwind. Second fastest was with a light breeze, and I felt slow the whole way home.
04-23-14, 11:28 PM
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Soon you'll be like this guy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnX4uaDYyIU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnX4uaDYyIU
04-24-14, 06:24 PM
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contiuniously variable
04-24-14, 07:11 PM
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when you look behind and there's never anybody there anymore.
04-24-14, 09:23 PM
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Heh. It was like that in the winter. Some guys are passing me occasionally, now that the weather is warmer.
I knew I was getting better when my waist got smaller and I had gained 5 pounds, the good kind.
I knew I was getting better when my waist got smaller and I had gained 5 pounds, the good kind.
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04-24-14, 10:29 PM
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Lucky you guys.
I grew up with a bike. Seems like a good childhood, but the problem now is that my butt and hips are not proportional to the waist. That is, a 32 waist relaxed levi's look like lycra pants on me. A 36 waist fit hips perfect, but the jeans fall off my waist and butt
I grew up with a bike. Seems like a good childhood, but the problem now is that my butt and hips are not proportional to the waist. That is, a 32 waist relaxed levi's look like lycra pants on me. A 36 waist fit hips perfect, but the jeans fall off my waist and butt
04-24-14, 11:36 PM
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When you pass the younger dudes struggling a slight uphill and then you let them catch up or pass you when you slow down coasting going downhill ; so you could do it again on the next uphil climb :-) and meanwhile checking them behind you on your rearview mirrors, priceless
04-24-14, 11:38 PM
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I rode home from the shop with my friend who was on his geared touring bike and I was riding my fixed gear that is running a 53:18 until I swap in a 20 tooth cog... he said he could not believe how fast the bike was and I told him I was idling.
04-24-14, 11:38 PM
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When you breeze past a dude on a carbon roadie on this... (bike with the kid seat)
With your 25kg kid in the back eating an icecream and the dude can't keep pace. That was a fun day.
With your 25kg kid in the back eating an icecream and the dude can't keep pace.
That was a fun day.
04-24-14, 11:38 PM
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You gonna eat that?
I've been in the big ring for as long as I can remember. I only shift out of it for serious hill climbs.
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04-25-14, 11:20 AM
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04-25-14, 01:15 PM
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I don't know...Jeremy Clarkson has been in Top Gear for 20 years and he don't look too fit! But seriously, congrats!
04-25-14, 01:29 PM
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When you have to ride a bike with fat tires so you can still get a decent workout on the crowded MUPs.
04-25-14, 05:48 PM
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04-25-14, 09:53 PM
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Yikes. Takes years to build the muscle and only two months to lose it?
04-25-14, 11:01 PM
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I'm not in lowest gear on that climb anymore.
04-26-14, 11:16 PM
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05-08-14, 08:20 AM
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You gonna eat that?
...and serious winds (like the 40 mph headwind gusts last night)
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I stop for people / whose right of way I honor / but not for no one.
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I stop for people / whose right of way I honor / but not for no one.
Originally Posted by bragi "However, it's never a good idea to overgeneralize."