Mumonkan

41.097792, 63.230006

TejanoTrackie 

hahaha

jlafitte 

This was my solution, very satisfied. Bars are Nitto RB-002 with cloth tape. Ride quality and visual aesthetics are tops.

jlafitte 

dude you're a beast

D1andonlyDman

I admit, I don't communicate well with someone who's "casual" communication is complete nonsense. Claiming that plenty of people in Colorado start at 10K feet, and climb 7000 ft from that starting position is such complete bs that it needed to be called out. This wasn't a slight exaggeration or minor inaccuracy. He basically was describing a ride that is so demanding that pro cyclists would need to specially train to complete it, if the roads to do it even existed (they don't) as something that all sorts of folks in Colorado were doing all the time. Which was simply ridiculous, and I called him out for it.

And the fact that I once did a similar but still less demanding (because starting at 5K is FAR different from starting at 10K - the higher altitude would be worse than carrying 35 pounds of gear) ride 35 years ago is certainly NOT claiming that I could come anywhere close to doing it now, when I'm in my mid fifties, not my early twenties, and the added weight is on my body, not in my panniers. I simply offered that experience to point out that, unlike Mumonkan, I actually had some knowledge about what I was talking about.

BTW, it looks like the ride that Mumonkan has mapped out ends up with him drowning in Lake Granby.

Jared.

No one took his initial figures literally except you. Chill. You like climbing, we get it.

Nagrom_

I don't even think he's a cartographer so take his map with a pound of salt.

TejanoTrackie 

It's the drugs speaking, man.

AristoNYC

this made my day.

AristoNYC

Actually, thats where he started his route. He is a merman.... merman!!!

D1andonlyDman

Actually, I don't, anymore. My knees are not what they were 35 years ago.

SquidPuppet

I like that. I wonder how a group of Oh-Too-Serious-Road-Cyclists would respond if you walked up and said, "I like your Shifties".

fbarullibr

its actually worse than "hilly", but its more of a workout to go about without gears..

fbarullibr

an example os a build I was looking at is the stateco undefeated

opinions?

GromCake

I wasn't aware that idea of hyperbole had apparently only come around in the past two decades or so. But here - Hyperbole: noun; exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

You've entirely missed the point of his original statement. It has nothing to do with scientifically or numerically accurate road rides people from colorado can do, and everything to do with the fact that OPs hometown probably isn't really hilly enough to be hugely concerned with orienting his planned build around the hills. IF, and only if, he was actually basing his point around the capabilities of cyclists in Colorado, your input might have been useful.

D1andonlyDman

I know what hyperbole is. His comment was so far beyond legitimate hyperbole that it needed to be called out for its ridiculousness.

And other posters, perhaps more perceptive ones, did find my comment to be useful and entertaining. Perhaps you were not in my target audience.

BilbroSwaggins

Probably the same way an actual track cyclist would respond to their bike being referred to as a fixie. @SquidPuppet

GromCake

I don't think you do cause you seem to be having trouble grasping the fact that it wasn't intended to be taken as scientifically accurate information, and that the innacuracies had absolutely zero impact on the focal point of the conversation anyway, and were therefore not worth wetting your britches over.

Most of the posters in this thread agree that your post was useless. One briefly mentioned the same inaccuracy you pointed out but nothing regarding your post, and one simply replied with "lol". Most everyone else is pretty clearly in agreement that your reply was unnecessary. Seems you're the one who's not perceptive.

D1andonlyDman

I guess we'll just have to disagree about who lacks perceptiveness then, because it's quite apparent you don't grasp where I'm coming from on several points.

It is amusing that you somehow have divined the opinions of the many dozens of folks who have not actually expressed them

TejanoTrackie 

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prooftheory

Mermen are dugongs or manatees that sailors have mistaken for a fish with a human upper body. Since dugongs have no legs it is impossible that he did that ride.

TejanoTrackie 

What if he rode a handcycle ? Hah !

hairnet

prooftheory

Dugongs also have no hands.

TejanoTrackie 

Well, dang, I learn something new every day.