BarryJo

Probably not a big deal to many, but today I set a personal best riding my TT route of 42 miles, averaging 20.1 mph in the wind beating my personal best of 18.4 mph during my peak of last year.

Usually when riding I get some stupid song stuck in my head and it repeats itself the entire ride (thanks to Event Services blog it's recently been TMBG Istanbul). But today the focus was on a lot of the treads and people in this forum.

Some of the people and their post I was thinking about when I did today's ride in no particular order - and don't get a big head over this because I still suck:

Water Rockets - the name alone is what it implies, explosive power. The photos of you suffering in races also helped (as did the photos of you launching water rockets with WR jr)
The guy who's profile reads: attack/ reload (especially helpful on tuesday's group ride which 4 of us left the chit chat party behind and suffered taking turns pulling for the last 10 miles.
Killer Penguin: the post from last years Longso (my hometown race) were awesome, you have to be a suffering idiot to live through those 4 days (especially the mountian stage)
For that matter anyone who's posted a photo of themselves suffering in a race
Botto - as vague and illusive as your post are, if you dig deep enough there is a lot of racing wisdom buried deep within (you do need some heavy equipment though to dig though - is the "Shaved Legs" blog your's? (again illusive, but great stuff!)
Event Services - the yelling thread is the most common sense thread ever posted (and again, I don't know if the blog on your profile is your's, but excellent stuff!)
All around - the old guy who coined the phrase HTFU and gives inspiration to all of us old people, even though he's been called out on numerous threads as a complete elitist a-hole, he knows his stuff, I think his name might be Patentcad or Pcaddy or Pdiddy if memory serves
Ah, and how can we forget our dear brother Cypress, if the mods are reading this, please send him a personal invitation to come back and provide further inspiration to all wannabes like myself!

There's probably a hundred others I'm forgetting, but if you want to learn how to ride hard, fast and safe, sprint, hill climbs, whatever - these people and many others in here know their stuff. And don't ever dismiss their wisdom as being offensive - it's all good!!!

Anyone else think of any of this stuff when training? Probably not, but I felt a need to pour my heart out tonight. Think I'll have another Hop Devil and call it a night *weep*

urbanknight

Hopefully, you thought of their threads as well as their treads

Don't take it too hard, I'm just offended you didn't think of anything I said.

But to answer your question, thread topics do pop into my head while riding from time to time. It's usually the funny ones, though, which makes me laugh and lose my tempo.

bad_mojo

You forgot someone. If it weren't for RyanF you would never drope the hamer and your guads would still be small. Rest in peace RyanF

patentcad

You misspelled Patentcad.

BarryJo

I always mispell that one - but fixed it before I even read your reply

BarryJo

Oh, and I forgot to mention - RoadWarrior for finally helping me realize an aluminum Cadd9 is still a better bike than most of the CF bikes on the market

chipcom 

I guess you don't have my pin-up on your handlebars.

patentcad

You know I do big boy.

BarryJo

Don't feel bad, as someone already pointed out I forgot RyanF, but that disgusting avitar in your profile will live with me until I die.

chipcom 

Then I have done my part for...

LanceFanBoy

hahaha I totally get some random stupid song stuck in my head when i'm concentrating, whatever matches the beat. hard to shake, like a bad dream

kill.cactus

Whenever I am pushing at the end of a track event I tell myself to HTFU. Thanks, bikeforums

ridethecliche

Old new york, was once new amsterdam.
Why they changed it, I can't say.
I guess they just liked it better that way!

botto 

if you're willing to read them i'm too lazy to look at an LCD screen that long), then you should spend some time with carpe diem racings blog/posts.

plenty of good, and overly verbose/informative info to be read.

also bob doppalina's posts/blog - even if he is a smug, know it all canadian (a redundant description if there ever was one) - has plenty of good info.

botto 

this should help.

Enthalpic

Canadians are just plain smarter, and we know it. If you don't agree with me, you're wrong.

ridethecliche

You know those are the lyrics to 'Istanbul' by TMBG that the op mentioned was on event service's blog, right?

Just checking...

That book looks pretty interesting though. If I read it this year, it'd be the first book I'd read about New York that wasn't dealing with either Cholera or HIV.

Doggus

Very...incorrect.

Reynolds 

When I'm about to be dropped, I say to myself: 'HTFU, you weenie!'

FrankBattle 

I think I may have been jaded by internet forums (goes back to WBS days in the early 90s) because I don't get any inspiration from anything on any web site.

I learn things, sure. But, inspiration, no. They do say I'm an introvert.

Glad the OP is evolved enough to accept divine inspiration in ether.

BarryJo

Maybe inspiration is too strong a word, motivation might be a better word. Whatever, this forum is a constant source of motivation for me. I want to become a better rider, I want to become a faster rider, and I want to HTFU so I will never again get dropped on my group rides.

The Road/ Racing forum isn't my only source, but it did help me break through a barrier (20+ mph average) on yesterday's ride.

Watching videos of people suffering in some of the recent European races (Paris - Nice, Flanders, Paris - Roubaix) is another great source of motivation.
And love him or hate him, seeing Lance push the pace on the climbs of the Alps and Pyrenees for seven years helped motivate me to become a better climber

Just curious, what motivates you to ride?

BarryJo

I started readnig through them. Good stuff, those blogs. Almost as good as Shaved Legs.

thanks!

Doggus

1) racing

2) commuting

wanders

"The guy who's profile reads: attack/ reload "

That would be substructure - the man in preparation for a spanking in the sandhills. Just not sure if he will be administering or receiving.

daytonian

SShhhh...don't tell everyone