Today's Ride Report, with pics!
12-13-08, 04:13 PM
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Today's Ride Report, with pics!
Ok, I'm going to make you go look at a different thread as I just don't want to type it all out again. https://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...87#post8015787
Loosing weight has made a tremendous difference in my ability to climb. Even though I'm not a Clyde any more, I still identify with Clyde's. I'm having a hard time coming to grips with the loss. Now I'm wondering how much I'm going to lose if I just keep to my plan.
Ok, enough of that. Thanks to all of you for helping me stay motivated. I so very much appreciate it.
Loosing weight has made a tremendous difference in my ability to climb. Even though I'm not a Clyde any more, I still identify with Clyde's. I'm having a hard time coming to grips with the loss. Now I'm wondering how much I'm going to lose if I just keep to my plan.
Ok, enough of that. Thanks to all of you for helping me stay motivated. I so very much appreciate it.
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Ok, I'm going to make you go look at a different thread as I just don't want to type it all out again. https://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...87#post8015787
Loosing weight has made a tremendous difference in my ability to climb. Even though I'm not a Clyde any more, I still identify with Clyde's. I'm having a hard time coming to grips with the loss. Now I'm wondering how much I'm going to lose if I just keep to my plan.
Ok, enough of that. Thanks to all of you for helping me stay motivated. I so very much appreciate it.
Loosing weight has made a tremendous difference in my ability to climb. Even though I'm not a Clyde any more, I still identify with Clyde's. I'm having a hard time coming to grips with the loss. Now I'm wondering how much I'm going to lose if I just keep to my plan.
Ok, enough of that. Thanks to all of you for helping me stay motivated. I so very much appreciate it.
About the bike, does too great a "Q" factor mean the pedals are too far apart? Perhaps shorter crankarms would fix it.
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Switching this bike from a triple to a double, with a correspondingly shorter BB spindle would fix it. But I don't ride it often. At some point I'm going to buy a new bike. Then this one will be converted to a SS/FG and the BB/crank will be changed to get to the right width. At least, that's the current plan.
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Nice ride report Joel!!!
I too fit into the "Once a Clyde always a Clyde" mentality. At 5' 7" my weight in August "08" was 201 (I've been as heavy as 205 previously). I can remember dreading knowing there was a climb around the next bend at times. I knid of gave up riding earlier this year because of it. Gas was too expensive to justify driving to a rail trail, and the roads around the house have more ups & downs than the stock market.
Finally in August, I made a decision to get lifes journey back in gear. If I could ride 70 miles during the Tour de Cure last June at 200 lbs with no training, imagine what I could do to the hills around here if I dropped a couple lbs.. Long story, short: These hills don't seem as long as they used to, now that I've lost a bike and a halfs worth of weight.
Keep up the great work,
Denny
I too fit into the "Once a Clyde always a Clyde" mentality. At 5' 7" my weight in August "08" was 201 (I've been as heavy as 205 previously). I can remember dreading knowing there was a climb around the next bend at times. I knid of gave up riding earlier this year because of it. Gas was too expensive to justify driving to a rail trail, and the roads around the house have more ups & downs than the stock market.
Finally in August, I made a decision to get lifes journey back in gear. If I could ride 70 miles during the Tour de Cure last June at 200 lbs with no training, imagine what I could do to the hills around here if I dropped a couple lbs.. Long story, short: These hills don't seem as long as they used to, now that I've lost a bike and a halfs worth of weight.
Keep up the great work,
Denny
