d3fold

I saw Mash is coming to Portland.

andre nickatina

great. one day before i'm throwing my match sprints. you can bet i won't be there

zelah

so its a race from salmon to satyricon?

andre nickatina

so who hasn't seen mash yet?

hudsong

The thing I'm most interested in with Mash is how that first really tall guy makes 90 degree turns while going really fast.

MIN 

I feel like it's a youtube thing and not a "go to see it" thing.

MIN 

I rode it this weekend too (on my geared bike). I made it up Brynwood St - which is 27% grade - on my lowest gear without bailing (35 gear inches) I am inclined to ride the De Ronde ride on my fixed gear which is gear currently at 65 gear inches. (39x16T).

Death, here I come.

andre nickatina

Meh. It's good filming and films that you see at a premiere have a different effect on you than watching at on your laptop at home. I'm sure I'd be way more excited about it if I saw it at a theatre first. Although some of the parts have grown on me...

akaio

Kinda lame Mash is coming here so far after its release. But it may be fun to venture out to see what happens.

Need to get in a couple more hill climbs before the De Ronde, but im not too worried. I went up to Council Crest last Friday, and did Mt Scott the weekend prior.

delicious

there's a community forum up at www.pdxfixed.com now!

::velolove::

We're having a race this thursday (yes, two days from today)
a nice fun checkpointer

LIBRARIES!!!!
meet at colonel sumner's park at 12:00 (20th and belmont)
bring bike bag lock pen
entry fee of $2...
prizes in the form of beer for 1st 2nd and 3d and 1st out-of-town
finish/afterparty at the halfway house (35th ave and hawthorne)

flyer here:

andre nickatina

So I keep hearing about that race from Spenser... you guys been trying to throw it since like Saturday right?

p.s. really cool flyer.

::velolove::

ha

we didn't really tell anyone and then the day we were gonna do it popped up and we realized that no one really knew it was happening (it's not really a huge thing) so we're doing it thursday, for fun, for whoever wants to come.

andre nickatina

there is a good chance i'll show up as long as the weather isn't absolute ****.

::velolove::

it's supposed to be the nicest until monday

30% percip...

not soo shabby but we'll see

if you come bring people

MIN 

I would come but I am doing a epic solo 155 mile from Portland to Eugene (taking rural routes) on Friday and I will be a zombie on Saturday.

::velolove::

but it's thursday?

but maybe you knew that cos a long ass ride on friday would be about enough for the next few days

delicious

why don't you move it to the weekend? thursday during work/school time seems like an odd time for a race, if you are wanting people to come.

andre nickatina

fck! i've been wanting to do that ride for so long!! it's been a goal of mine. i got the map for all the back roads from canby to eugene... from portland to canby i guess i'd just take mccloughlin. are you doing it fixed?

the hills coming out of brownsville are a ***** on fixed if you pass through there... that's the farthest i got from eugene, 60 mile there and back ride... https://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path...t-Valley-Route is my route. still don't know if i'd want to do it portland to eugene or eugene to portland.

MIN 

It's gonna be a ballbuster. Check this site out for a stage by stage map of the "Willamette Valley Scenic Bikeway." They probably figure that only a nut would do the entire thing so it's broken out into 5 sections.

https://www.oregon.gov/OPRD/PARKS/BIK...re_route.shtml

I am going to do it on a geared bike (my Lemond.)

andre nickatina

a bit different from my route.

well, once you get to brownsville it's a cool little historic town, some old school taverns and nice buildings/wild west slant.

coburg is a tiny town but once you're there you're pretty much in eugene, decent place to refeul if you're dying.

and eugene, well it's my 2nd home for better or worse. don't get hit by the fratties riding mtn. bikes the wrong way through the bike lane!

ssspenser

ill be at justins race tomorow if its not raining or anything. it looks like fun. and iv been trying to get the word around that if portland massacre gets rained out we are going to just hold it under the bridge where its dry and switch up some of the events and it will still be a total blast so dont be discouraged to come because of the rain

andre nickatina

suhweeet.

forecast on weather.com predicts rain/snow mix tonight, same with tmrw morning though, what the ****? then again they've been pretty off as far as getting accurate forecasts out lately, it was "supposed" to be raining all day and instead we got some sunshine in the afternoon. i don't know if anyone rode today, but the wind was horrid sometime around 3pm. i almost got blown off the burnside bridge.

ssspenser

yeah i rode today it was pretty windy but i actually had a good time. especially when the sun would peak out for a bit. anyone see the rainbow yesterday? pretty awesome.

::velolove::

ha, yeah. i was out a lot today and around the afternoon the winds got insane.
i was heading downtown around 4 or 5 and couldn't believe it. almost got taken out.