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04-24-26 | 11:05 AM
#1
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04-27-26 | 07:28 AM
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04-27-26 | 09:34 AM
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From: Missoula, Montana
Bikes: Trek Domane SL5, Trek Checkpoint SL5, Cannndale Trail SE 4, Specialized Langster
Try riding without any current data on the ride you are on. On my mountain bike I do not have a cycle computer, just a seat bag with the necessaries in it. I find it quite refreshing not knowing anything about my rides that can be expressed in numbers. On my road bikes I generally look at distance only. Also quite refreshing. It's fun just to ride.
04-27-26 | 09:49 AM
#5
Facts just confuse people
Joined: Jul 2017
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From: Mississippi
Bikes: Tarmac Disc Comp Di2 - 2020
Isn't distance a number? Or is your device reporting that in terms word terms "short" "moderate" "long" "really long" ? Or some other such. <GRIN>
Don't worry, all in fun. Just picking. Perhaps you intended the irony.
04-27-26 | 08:31 PM
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From: North Florida
Bikes: 2019 Specialized Diverge, 2021 Cervelo Caledonia
Me too. I want to get in my miles, but if I try to track other stuff, I end up competing with myself, and I lose! I want to beat my fastest time, or go faster than my fastest speed, but that's tough to do consistently. My solution: don't keep track of those things. Just do the miles.
04-30-26 | 10:58 AM
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From: Denver, CO
Bikes: Some silver ones, a red one, a black and orange one, and a few titanium ones
I keep seeing this thread title and thinking about this goof ball.
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Dreamin' of Bemidji Down the Mississippi (in part)
Plan Epsilon Around Lake Michigan in the era of Covid
Gold Fever Three days of dirt in Colorado
Pokin' around the Poconos A cold ride around Lake Erie
Dinosaurs in Colorado A mountain bike guide to the Purgatory Canyon dinosaur trackway
Solo Without Pie. The search for pie in the Midwest.
Picking the Scablands. Washington and Oregon, 2005. Pie and spiders on the Columbia River!
Stuart Black
Dreamin' of Bemidji Down the Mississippi (in part)
Plan Epsilon Around Lake Michigan in the era of Covid
Gold Fever Three days of dirt in Colorado
Pokin' around the Poconos A cold ride around Lake Erie
Dinosaurs in Colorado A mountain bike guide to the Purgatory Canyon dinosaur trackway
Solo Without Pie. The search for pie in the Midwest.
Picking the Scablands. Washington and Oregon, 2005. Pie and spiders on the Columbia River!
05-02-26 | 02:43 PM
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From: Vermont
Bikes: Bruce Gordon Rock and Road
Vive JackB! Those marvelous little cycling computers, wired, wireless, GPS connected or not have a tendency to become nasty little nags, urging us to go faster, farther. At my time of life, I am exploring a concept I call Riding for Fun.
I have a nice little Cateye, but I don't turn on the average speed display until the end of the ride.
I have a nice little Cateye, but I don't turn on the average speed display until the end of the ride.
