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Discuss. Picked up my new crankset yesterday.

no pics? specs? :deadhorse2:

What's this thread for again?

drink more summer beer

Shout out to tunavic for turning what was supposed to be about 40 miles of Z2 into 77 miles of mixed-effort stuff, all through none of his own doing.

It seems like my Edge 520 picks Live Segments purely at random location-wise, but bear one common factor-- about 75% of them say "Victor B" at the top. And more often than not, I say to myself... Yeah, I'll give that a shot. Next thing I know, the 10.3 miles from Bonaminio Park to the end of the SART at Waterman Ave. has whizzed by in less than half an hour at an average of 21.2mph. :thumb:

On Strava: June 1; 77.1 miles, 2,828ft, 17.5mph

Happened just a few days ago on Greenspot as well.

More awesome Strava doodads-- I'm sure other people know of this already and I'm late to the party, but I just discovered Strava Tools Race Shape EREA (Entire Ride Enclosed Area,) and while I cant imagine a single thing it would be useful for, it sure is neat.

You just plug in your ride URL and it tells you how big a shape you made with your ride. That's some trivia right there.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...psyrktgxdl.jpg

Another cool but nearly useless tool.

Kinda cool. Sort of reminds me of Calfire's area maps for brush fires!

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One of my ALC ride donors lives in Glasgow, Scotland! Seriously cool.

LHT is on its way to Missoula. Left Haggerstown, MD this morning. Long range forecast for the first thee days of the trip is for days ranging between the high 60s and low 70s, with nights ranging between 39 and 47. 20% chance of scattered showers each day. Purrrrrrfect!

@jsigone Pics posted above..........

First two are of the broken/cracked crank. Third is the replacement. Decided to go to a shorter crank My fitter seems to think that there really is no reason not to other than a slightly harder lowest gear. I did two hill repeats last night and even though I've my wheelset on that has a 12-26 cassette i was able to climb without joint pain.

Just a quick snap from the MUP trail between Airway Heights, WA and Cheney, WA from the 50 mile route of the Spokane, WA Tour de Cure.

http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/b...pskbmnqz14.jpg

if I do not give it kudos will it start to cry ?? hehe

Lowered my saddle about 1/4 inch as I think I had it too high because I have been having some knots and muscle spasms in my hamstrings, calves, and the bottoms of my feet to my toes. Rode 14.5 miles on the trainer (smart trainer/simulator) and only notice some tingling in my toes and hamstrings, and not my normal knots.

I imagine it would be easy to do that to a crankarm without a hammer. :O

I need to invest in whoever makes the cork tape for all the major manufacturers. The tape on my Madone made it almost 1000 miles. I have to stop crashing.

coupe from the HRE open house this morning, Canon w/ manual focus 28mm/F2.8

https://c7.staticflickr.com/8/7270/2...2e112c85_b.jpg

https://c5.staticflickr.com/8/7255/2...d744ee18_b.jpg

https://c1.staticflickr.com/8/7368/2...a78964c3_b.jpg

Darned nice photos.

thanks!

I seem not to like my bikes anymore
8 mile trail run around the top of Palomar Mt forest
https://c3.staticflickr.com/8/7052/2...5b464f1d_b.jpg

Uh oh, that's not good. Too many Belgian waffles burn you out?

not sure if its a burn out or desire to see new thing that I normally just pass by. But earlier this yr I told myself to start hiking and goal is to hike Baldy by the end of the year. We'll see if that happens HAHA

I'm supposed to have a 12hr MTB race in 3 weeks, I might just wing it w/o miles of riding on these legs :thumb:

Jogging with a bike brand hat on should be illegal.

I had all kinds of high goals to ride my bike last week on vacation but... didn't. :D

did you do either of the routes I suggested? Did you even pack the darn bike?

Hill ride int eh heat yesterday. My Garmin recorder 107°F in a few different spots while climbing the hill. 3372 feet over 62 miles but about half the climb was in two big chunks, the rest was a gradual false flat. Almost no breeze to cool us off. https://www.strava.com/activities/599907872