Affliction
03-27-26 | 06:36 AM
#601
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From: Central Illinois
Bikes: Trek Domane+x2, Trek Emonda
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“Train hard until your legs are tanned, then keep going until the shape arrives.” -Jolanda Neff
03-27-26 | 06:52 AM
#602
Schuylkill Trail Bum
Joined: Sep 2007
Posts: 934
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From: Conshohocken, PA
Bikes: 1997 LeMond Alpe d'Huez ... 1986 Shogun Prairie Breaker PRO
PNW made a video for you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD9bsKN6zx0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD9bsKN6zx0
03-27-26 | 07:16 AM
#604
Not actually Tmonk
Joined: Jun 2007
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From: San Diego, CA
Bikes: road, track, mtb
more Eric Gale for FF. Been discovering him a bit lately. This album is good all around.
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"Your beauty is an aeroplane;
so high, my heart cannot bear the strain." -A.C. Jobim, Triste
"Your beauty is an aeroplane;
so high, my heart cannot bear the strain." -A.C. Jobim, Triste
03-27-26 | 07:47 AM
#605
VFL For Life
Joined: Feb 2005
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From: Knoxville, TN
Bikes: Velo Volmobile
I spend enough time trying to remember stuff, that I should probably have developed some form of this habit. In real time stuff happens and I think I won't forget it, but then I do. Sad.
03-27-26 | 08:11 AM
#606
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From: Hudson Valley, NY
Bikes: Merlin Cyrene '04; Bridgestone RB-1 '92
Not good. And you’re not even a senior citizen yet.
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03-27-26 | 08:29 AM
#607
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From: Central Illinois
Bikes: Trek Domane+x2, Trek Emonda
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“Train hard until your legs are tanned, then keep going until the shape arrives.” -Jolanda Neff
03-27-26 | 08:56 AM
#608
VFL For Life
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From: Knoxville, TN
Bikes: Velo Volmobile
03-27-26 | 10:52 AM
#611
Not actually Tmonk
Joined: Jun 2007
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From: San Diego, CA
Bikes: road, track, mtb
its been unseasonably hot in SoCal and kinda pissing me off. but, it looks like things are going in the right dxn next week. its Spring for crying out loud
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"Your beauty is an aeroplane;
so high, my heart cannot bear the strain." -A.C. Jobim, Triste
"Your beauty is an aeroplane;
so high, my heart cannot bear the strain." -A.C. Jobim, Triste
03-27-26 | 10:54 AM
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Not actually Tmonk
Joined: Jun 2007
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From: San Diego, CA
Bikes: road, track, mtb
club TT on Sunday. Gonna do the 35+ 20 km. Hoping to go sub 27 min which is also coincidentally 27 MPH. Weather looks like it may permit that, we'll see. Took it out this morning and just did a chill 1x30' at a light sweet spot, 'bout 40w below race pace. Felt fine. I'm mostly resting up this week so didn't want to overdo it.
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"Your beauty is an aeroplane;
so high, my heart cannot bear the strain." -A.C. Jobim, Triste
"Your beauty is an aeroplane;
so high, my heart cannot bear the strain." -A.C. Jobim, Triste
03-27-26 | 10:57 AM
#613
Silver Comet Fred
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From: NW Metro Atl.
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more Eric Gale for FF. Been discovering him a bit lately. This album is good all around.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUzB...CfHcOzNxHu9pYs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUzB...CfHcOzNxHu9pYs
03-27-26 | 11:08 AM
#614
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From: Central Illinois
Bikes: Trek Domane+x2, Trek Emonda
03-27-26 | 12:37 PM
#617
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Posts: 207
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From: Cental Illinois
Bikes: 1990 Schwinn Curcit is my main bike
You didn't make me prove it, but...Thanksgiving 1995: Rode27.2 miles in the AM with my friend Lambkin55 followed with dinner with my wife's family at our house.
I can verify that Trsntr is a habitual journal writer, and has been for decades.
On the day in question, we met half way between our houses and rode around corn country.
(Ask him about his secret code words in his journal,)
Last edited by Lambkin55; 03-27-26 at 12:45 PM.
03-27-26 | 01:15 PM
#618
The space coyote lied.
Joined: Sep 2008
Posts: 48,692
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From: dusk 'til dawn.
Bikes: everywhere
This would be a good hobby for the former poster known as rjones28 .
https://x.com/thequeenofrust/status/2037546147695174008
https://x.com/thequeenofrust/status/2037546147695174008
I remember at Lone Pine Cemetery there was a small crypt where some people (or maybe one strongman) had desecrated it by pushing the lid slab off of the walls a bit and you could see the skull and bones in there.
I'd often go to the Riverview Cemetery to visit Henry Weinhards' massive gravestone and enjoy some nice wooded nearly carefree roads, I was always worried about getting a ticket there, super hilly so big speeds were attainable but speed limit was 10mph.
Now I'm into more rustic graveyards of the West.
03-27-26 | 01:49 PM
#620
VFL For Life
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From: Knoxville, TN
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I don't remember seeing any, but there is a lot of area cemetery space I have not examined.
03-27-26 | 02:41 PM
#622
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From: Central Illinois
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He may not remember TG 1995 but he does remember doing it every TG for years, especially in the 90s..
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03-27-26 | 03:14 PM
#623
Klaatu..Verata..Necktie?
Joined: May 2007
Posts: 23,575
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From: SF Bay Area
Bikes: Litespeed Ultimate, Ultegra; Canyon Endurace, 105; Battaglin MAX, Chorus; Bianchi 928 Veloce; Ritchey Road Logic, Dura Ace; Cannondale R500 RX100; Schwinn Circuit, Sante; Lotus Supreme, Dura Ace
After setting PRs on my "Pandemic 'N' Retirement" route on Tuesday and Thursday, I chose to rest on my laurels and not try for yet another one today. Instead, I had a relatively relaxed ride. Same route, but 4 minutes slower over 26 miles. Still lovin' the Ritchey, though!! It still disappears under me like only one or two other bikes in the stable do.
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"Don't take life so serious-it ain't nohow permanent."
"Everybody's gotta be somewhere." - Eccles
03-27-26 | 04:05 PM
#625
I climb a lot
Joined: Mar 2023
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From: NorCal
Bikes: Santa Cruz Blur 4 TR, Santa Cruz Hightower, Canyon Ultimate cf slx(x2), Canyon Endurace cf sl(rain bike,) Obed GVR, Ritchey Swiss Cross v3, Lauf Seigla rigid
Thought I was keeping myself in pretty good shape with all the riding and gym work I do. Got a referral from my PCP for a wonderful PT I saw maybe 15 years ago for two long lived pain areas. One is while standing for greater than 5 minutes in my left hip and the other is my right glute after overdoing it while using the leg curl machine. So with one I can’t stand in place and the other makes it uncomfortable to sit - can’t win either way - luckily the bike does not hurt. Hi diagnosis, is that I have excellent leg and abdominal strength but my back is beyond weak. My other muscles compensate for it, but can only do it so long and the pain begins. So back specific exercises (which I loathe) will now start twice a day and hopefully I can move from beyond weak to weak in a couple of weeks.