Legs were a bit sore yesterday so I rested them up today in preparation for the upcoming weekend. Nice moderate speed 35 mile ride in cool but very windy weather.

I took yesterday off because angry lower body, but did my bi-weekly ride to work for my weigh-in (198 now). Will be riding home after putting my car in the show today.

12.3 miles @ 19.5 ave this morning before work

31 miles at 20.1 MPH. Getting too old for this (almost).

31 miles with 2050' of climbing at 16.5 mph.

25.5 miles this afternoon, still pleasant weather for fall's beginning. Actually felt cool most of the ride, sun was behind the incoming clouds most of the time. Off to Atlanta to see our daughter this weekend, drive up tomorrow.

Bill

Nice 20 miles total rides to and from Work today.

Beautiful day here. Had time to squeeze in a 30 km ride on the fixie. Awesome ride.

Up Hwy 39 after work to the gate @ 2000 ft, then home.

42 mi

Looks like Crystal Lake by 5:00 may be an achievable goal.

2 miles, elevation gain of 12 feet, on my old Hammer.

Another gorgeous day and another great 45 mile ride. Need to slow the pace down for more time in the saddle or ride longer rides when the wife isn't with me.

21 miles today - summer heat is finally fading. 1100' of climbing.

20 miles on a windy day.

82.5 miles today with my wife. 16.3 average. My 63 year old wife at a re-fueling stop.

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2.5 miles on my Park Pre Hammer, 12.3 average. Tomorrow is a recovery day.

Me and five other mature individuals,3-70's,2-60's,1-50,somethings did 46 miles, from Oak Ridge to Briceville, and Rocky Top, Sort of flat for East tenn, 2600 ft. of climbing at a 15.5 av. Nice fall day and trees starting to change color, very good day. have 160 miles for the week and will get another 20-30 miles today.

20 miles with the Saturday morning speed demons.

26 miles with a friend this morning. Nice cool weather by our standards. I had to cut out, but he went on to ride 50 miles.

Is 82 miles long enough ride to have one of those donuts? Looks almost as good as pie. :)

26.9 miles today with 1500 ft. A part spirited and part leisurely ride on a cool overcast day.

Almost didn't look as if I was going to get a ride in today, judging from last night's thunderstorms. Turned out to be another beautiful day for a bike ride. Rode with my buddies, Frank and Lou, for a nice 68 mile, dress rehearsal ride for the Coast to Coast ride coming up next month. Now the question is, since my birthday is in October and I turn 68, does today's ride count as my birthday ride?

Did 82 miles @ 14.1 mph.

The last 5 miles was murderous.

90.8 @ 15.5 ave today, the club ride + an extra loop to satisfy the Ultramarathon Cycling Sept ride.

15.6 miles [MENTION=146338]14mph[/MENTION] today at the jersey shore

Drove two hours to Kentucky with the tandem (and Favorite Stoker) for a club ride to Rabbit Hash (on the Ohio) but a few miles from the start, on the first of a couple of long downhills, developed a front wheel shimmy just after deciding to slow down a lot (max speed was 36.5mph). Was able to come to a stop upright - that was not a sure thing! With the help of the rest of the group - 3 singles and 4 tandems were on the ride - checked out the bike and could find no obvious problems. But, as this had never happened to us before and as we were "shaken up" by Shaking All Over, we rode the Screamer back to the start to drive back to Indy. No problems on the ride back to the start and could find nothing obviously wrong once back home. Will continue to be checking out mechanical aspects.

Found an interesting piece on Bicycle Shimmy by Jobst Brandt on the Sheldon Brown site which talks about harmonic dissonance of a bike frame which can happen under certain circumstances. Fast downhill on smooth pavement while coasting can contribute, as can a 'death grip' on the handlebars. That describes our downhill run today. Interesting read. I'll continue to check out the bike and make mechanical and riding style adjustments.

At any rate, we got out later today and did a 25 mile local loop with no screaming downhills and did just fine.

53.0 miles, 3100' of climbing. My first half century in a quarter century :thumb:.