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Road Cycling “It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.” -- Ernest Hemingway

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Old 01-20-21, 10:31 AM
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Originally Posted by genejockey View Post
I bought a set of Castelli bibs and jersey when Performance Bike was closing its retail stores. I bought XXL, which was ridiculously tight, when I was wearing XL in everything else comfortably - in fact Performance's XL jerseys fit really loosely. It wasn't till I'd lost about 30# that I could even get into them.
That sounds like European sizing to me. When i was in northern Italy at the Italian Cycle Center in 2013 one day our group stopped at a high-end LBS. I was wearing L and XL at the time, depending on the maker. There was a nice kit I wanted to buy. Tried on the XXL, which was the largest size, and could not get the bibs on. Didn't even bother trying the jersey. A guy in our group, who was a solid M in the states, tried on a L jersey he liked. It didn't come close to fitting him, and there were no larger sizes.

Back in '95, when I was at the Giro, we went to the Bianchi store attached to the factory. (The day's stage finished there.) Tried on a pair of XL shorts when I was easily wearing L from the states. Darn near cut off my circulation.
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Old 01-20-21, 10:32 AM
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What’s wrong with Castelli sizing? My beef is with their price but fit has been good for me.

I bought a large thermal jersey yesterday and it was made for a small child. Try and keep up.
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Old 01-20-21, 10:39 AM
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What’s wrong with Castelli sizing? My beef is with their price but fit has been good for me.
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The label said it was made in Hungary, which I thought was ironic, I would have to be seriously hungry to fit in it.
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Castelli is trying to tell us we're too fat for this sport.
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As usual, there is no one else here. (Probably 4 out of 5 days i have the place to myself.) And the controls are on the top of the door. You need to open the door to start it. Perhaps someone did come start it to clean it, but who?
Who normally washes the dishes?
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Why so dirty?
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Old 01-20-21, 11:14 AM
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Originally Posted by indyfabz View Post
As usual, there is no one else here. (Probably 4 out of 5 days i have the place to myself.) And the controls are on the top of the door. You need to open the door to start it. Perhaps someone did come start it to clean it, but who?
When that happens to me, I find that I started it and forgot.
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Old 01-20-21, 11:19 AM
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol View Post
Who normally washes the dishes?
There really are no washable dishes in the office except for personal coffee mugs that one can rinse out on one's own.
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Old 01-20-21, 11:26 AM
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National CX Championships in Milwaukee in 1989. I was severely "humbled" according to my training diary.

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National CX Championships in Milwaukee in 1989. I was severely "humbled" according to my training diary.

That picture is the definition of 1989.
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Castelli is trying to tell us we're too fat for this sport.
They're not wrong.
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Why so dirty?
Notice the lack of pavement.
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Old 01-20-21, 12:09 PM
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National CX Championships in Milwaukee in 1989. I was severely "humbled" according to my training diary.


This may be the best pic I’ve seen on BF
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Originally Posted by bampilot06 View Post
That picture is the definition of 1989.
Leading up to Nationals, I broke an ALAN and a Cinellii CX bike. Both had buckled at the head tube. My shop grabbed this old 49cm Trek 420 and braised on cantilever studs for the mud. I only raced it a couple times prior to Nationals but it really was a sweet little CX machine. We installed an original Shimano 600 indexed 6 speed rear derailleur and a single 46T chainring up front. It had Vittoria tubular CX tires.
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Is this road bicycle-friendly? Discuss.


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National CX Championships in Milwaukee in 1989. I was severely "humbled" according to my training diary.


Nothing like looking through old photos and realizing that Uncle Trsnrtr was cool.
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Nothing like looking through old photos and realizing that Uncle Trsnrtr was cool.
I had this pic at my finger tips because my wife had posted it on FB a couple days ago. I have no idea why.
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Notice the lack of pavement.
I don't get it.
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Is this road bicycle-friendly? Discuss.


the people in the middle of the road ruin it for me.
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I had this pic at my finger tips because my wife had posted it on FB a couple days ago. I have no idea why.
Why not? is the correct question.
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Is this road bicycle-friendly? Discuss.


It's not today.
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Is this road bicycle-friendly? Discuss.


I prefer to ask, "Is this bicycle road-friendly?"
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Originally Posted by Mojo31 View Post
It's not today.
I mean normally. There's a lot going on here.

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Originally Posted by Velo Vol View Post
I mean normally. There's a lot going on here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctL9jRfPGFs

I had heard DC life was fast paced, but man those people walk fast.
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