Motorpacing
10-05-07, 03:05 PM
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Cat3.*....Cat2
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Scions Xbs are great for motorpacing. you can run out of gears without really even breathing hard.
10-05-07, 03:58 PM
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Making a kilometer blurry
Like zees?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-U9FsTooV4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-U9FsTooV4
Yeppers. It's much friendlier on a cargo van's white painted bumper though. We had a lot more panache' with our patterns 
You can really nail that bumper hard though, without penalty.
10-05-07, 04:50 PM
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It was certainly not my finest hour. After a handful of 36 to 37 mph sprints to get back in contact with a "shaky" paceline after being gapped repeatedly because "the dog was wagging me" I decided that it would be better to slink off the back because I was 17 miles from home even if I took the short way. (I ended up taking the long way.) The last one really hurt because when I finally made contact the line accelerated from 30 mph to the mid-30's. It was during that unexpected acceleration that I threw in the towel. I might have held on at 30 mph and even recovered a bit, but that last acceleration caused me to chose between surviving and having an "OK" ride home or being totally cracked a long way from home. I decided that I had had enough.I saw most of the "carnage" by dropping off before I was totally cracked. A lot of strong riders crawled home that day.
Our local "hammer" ride is a bit different from yours as described in the wonderful "Yelling" thread - Best Thread Ever!, imho. Ours is a bit more free-form. You never know what is going to happen.
10-05-07, 05:42 PM
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by the way, that is one small ***** car
10-05-07, 06:52 PM
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Woah Botto, that thing must have been designed for drafting!
10-05-07, 08:07 PM
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Bike ≠ Car ≠ Ped.
Honda replaced the Passport with their own Pilot.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Passport
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Pilot
The Passport was based on the Isuzu Rodeo, and the Pilot was derived from the Accord chassis. The CR-V, btw, was just a mini-SUV based on the Civic platform.
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10-05-07, 08:41 PM
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That's a rebadged Isuzu you've got there, dude. I know my Hondas, and I know that that ain't no Honda. Honda replaced the Passport with their own Pilot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Passport
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Pilot
The Passport was based on the Isuzu Rodeo, and the Pilot was derived from the Accord chassis. The CR-V, btw, was just a mini-SUV based on the Civic platform.
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Honda replaced the Passport with their own Pilot.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Passport
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Pilot
The Passport was based on the Isuzu Rodeo, and the Pilot was derived from the Accord chassis. The CR-V, btw, was just a mini-SUV based on the Civic platform.
/end tangent
I just don't like Chevy's and Chevy products, so don't call it an Isuzu.
10-06-07, 05:24 PM
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10-06-07, 11:03 PM
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nice. You should get faster over time.
Anyone have someone motorpace them? Just got my dad to pace me today for 7 miles @ ~28-30mph.
When we were done, I decided to ride another 10 miles and do a few climbs, I felt really good, nice and warmed up, better than I've ever felt in a training ride.
Discuss.
When we were done, I decided to ride another 10 miles and do a few climbs, I felt really good, nice and warmed up, better than I've ever felt in a training ride.
Discuss.
10-06-07, 11:10 PM
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