Jose Perez

The only thing that would make that pic better is a set of Hincapie style vericose veins

"Fred"

I am soooooo Jealous! It sounds like it was a great ride and that their was plenty of fun/suffering for all. I would have liked to bring the entire BFNWMC crew to the ride but we decided that the 8-9 hour drive (each way) would have made for a very long day. Although we will be in full force at the HHH in two weeks.

I also had a good local ride planned the Harbor Springs Classic. A fun Metric with a great BBQ and pool party afterwords. As my luck would have it Customs cleared my summer shipment and I spent all day unloading a 40ft Container and organizing a warehouse instead.

So keep the post coming so I can ride vicariously through you

Hipcycler

I just saw those socks for the first time....
I also just threw up in my mouth a little....

Rowdy

I want to thank CyLowe for organizing this ride. This course is awesome. I plan on riding it several times in the future to prepare challenge rides. I am always conservative when climbing hills because I am always afraid that I may have to walk up a hill and I refuse to walk up a hill. So when I got to Barlow I took it as hard as I could and I felt great afterwards. Once again, thank you CyLowe for this ride.

aham23

saturday was 62 miles and near 6000 feet of climbing.
sunday was a 100 miles with a personal best ride time of 5 hrs 5 minutes.

sunday night is all about recovery. the story can wait.

later.

aham23

what a great weekend. for me this was the best weekend of cycling i have experienced. great weather. well organized rides. good people. all mixed with a little pain & suffering.

despite a 4:15am wake up call and 6 hours of windshield time this ride rocked it. CyLowe did a fantastic job of organizing it. i think we hit every major climb that the HHH tackles and then some.

my random thoughts:
- it was cool to see everyone there & geared up as we rolled the BFNIC mini van into the back parking lot of Uphill Grind.
- Pinnacle Rd brought back some quality suffering memories for me.
- Observatory then Barlow....who thinks up this sick sh*t.
- much thanks to Chances for reminding me i needed to tackle Barlow.
- i really like bicycles and coffee.
- cyclpsycho is the man.
- this ride was totally Taser Worthy

Edge Stats

later.

Chances

If you hadn't taken it with me, I don't know if I would have been able to muster up the gumption to climb it.

CyLowe97

I had to threaten to demean and chastise recursive at every future chance if he didn't climb Barlow.

He looked at his pink bracele and figured out that would not do to be so demeaned and chastised by a j.v. level rider like me, so thus he climbed Barlow.

recursive

The switchback technique I learned earlier from Cylowe made it a walk in the park.

CyLowe97

"Correct" - the botto.

cyclpsycho

CyLowe97

Okay there, Pantani.

Barlow was only at mile 58 or so. I didn't walk. That's all I care about.

recursive

Yeah, I know, I know. To be honest, I was only half-heartedly climbing, just waiting for Cy to come back so I could turn around. But I have no excuses. I did it. I weaved up the hill.

cyclpsycho

Aw shucks, I was only havin' some fun

Kimbercop

Hey wait a minute. What the heck does me getting tazed have to do with this ride?? Geez, I'll never live that 5 seconds down..

Psimet2001 

It was a long weekend. Your tazering was a topic of conversation...as well as our committment to "keep the tazer clip alive."

Psimet2001 

Finally got MotionBased to take the upload. What's surprising is the max - the curves confirm that I crossed 50 a couple of times. The stated max on the upload is 56.3 right on Sutclife.

https://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/5847369

ColorChange

56???

I think my top end is around 48 right now. That's fast!@!!!

CyLowe97

Schweeeet!!!!

You really need to descend Barlow. You might get near 60.

What else did folks have for max speeds? Post them!

Mine were: 51.5 down Sutcliffe, 49.0 on a section of Mineral Point (just glancing while in motion), and then 53.0 on Barlow (the headwind was holding me back there... ). I'm pretty sure I freaked out Chances when I came flying by on his right at the bottom of the big Barlow hill just before it dips back up for the first time.

The downhill on County F from Brigham Park down to County J was the most fun, though, since it is several miles long.

aham23

the pure data from mr garmin had me topping out at 49.4 mph. the uploaded and adjusted data from MB had me at 57 mph or something like that. with my descending skills i tend to lean towards the 49.4 being the correct number. anyway you look at, 50 mph on a bike is faaaaaassssst!

later.

Kimbercop

Thanks for bringing that taser video back to life. My kids love that one. They love to see dad scream like a little girl. Had to spend some time on youtube looking for people yelling louder than me. Wife made the mistake of walking by to see what we were watching. She was not happy. She had never seen that video before and was not happy I took the hit in the first place and is even more upset because I still have the video.

Oh well

Psimet2001 

All I can say is...

jbmadtown

I managed 47.3 mph down Sutcliff-that's pretty good for me. I had to cut my ride on Sunday short so I didn't get to do Barlow. I don't anticipate hitting that speed during the HHH- too many people (on tri bikes) riding their brakes!

recursive

Motionbased says I hit 55. Somewhere other than Barlow.

Psimet2001 

Amen....It's like a giant game of frogger.