patentcad

I rode 68 miles this AM. That's a Fred Century ('Metric' Century) + 6.

Hey, the minute you call a 100 mile ride a 'Century' you're Fredding me out, but nothing's Fredlier than a "Metric Century", which says 'I'm too fat and Fredly to actually ride my bicycle 100 miles, so I'll ride 100 km and call it a Metric Century and it will sound just as good on BF'.

I ran into a bunch of uniformed cyclists near West Point. At first I thought they might be the West Point bike racing boys, but it was a bunch of Westchester Freds. It was perfect.

I dumped them hard, but not after a little friendly Fred banter. Nice guys, and I've never seen so many helmet and handlebar mirrors in one peloton before.

paste_me

Ewwww.... Nasty!

sonik90

patentcad

I like that cat picture. He looks deranged.

DScott

What about a double metric century? I figure it counts as a real century, but only after you do the math to convert to real miles, first.




The club had a heck of a time finding Fred-Approved (tm) route arrows that big, but somehow they managed. Takes up the whole road in some places.

sonik90

I also did a fred century this morning.. mine was probably truer to the word considering it took 4 hours.

hendrick81

Always entertaining...

kayakdiver

Did a fred this morning plus 15.... fred did not like it

elader

I think 100km is 67 miles, not 60 - you rode a metric plus 1.

patentcad

I think my average speed by the end of that ride was only 16.5 mph. I was averaging 19 mph up until 25 miles or so, that's when the climbing starts. Nothing major, but there's 4 long gradual climbs with easy average gradients (maybe 3-6%) but kind of long (2-3 miles each) that slow you down in the second half of that ride. The Orange Tpke stretch features a bunch of grinding 10% grades over 3 miles and then there's always Mt. Doom.

I love that ride. Chester to Cornwall on Hudson (Rt. 218, killer scenic route above the Hudson north of West Point), past the Point, down 9W to the Bear Mtn. Bridge, up over the Bear Mtn. road (I don't ride up to the top, I ride past the base of Perkins Drive), into Harriman Park, up Seven Lakes Drive to Rt. 106 West, then down to Rt. 17 north for a mile or so to Orange Tpke and up into Monroe, back to the bike path and to Chester. Beautiful on a summer morning. Nice roads, scenery.

patentcad

Incorrect. 100 km is 62.1 miles.

patentcad

So on Seven Lakes Drive this tri guy catches me and comments on my Cervelo Test Team kit. He says 'I thought it was Carlos Sastre'. I retort 'I'm too fat to be Carlos Sastre. And so are you.'

fordmanvt

Easy conversion from km to miles is 5/8 as that is 62.5 vs. 62.13, or 0.6% error. I think anyone can do 5/8 in their head.

BikeWNC

How's the traffic on that route? It's been a while since I've been in that area.

Ex Pres 

I'll bet you try to claim the same extension with body parts, too.

Hunt-man

Bob We should go metric.
Doug Why?!
Bob Then we could drink a beer every kilometre, not every mile.
Doug So?
Bob So... kilometres are shorter than miles!
Doug AH! So we drink more beers.
Bob Exactly. What's the conversion factor to go from miles to kilos?
Doug Uh. Double it, and add thirty.
Bob No, get out! That's temperature.
Doug So, it's still metric.

BengeBoy 

Real Freds have bar-mounted HP calculators so they don't have to do the math in their head (though they could).

patentcad

On a weekend morning there's close to zero traffic on much of it, there's some high speed cars passing you on 9W South, but mostly it has a gigantic shoulder. I wouldn't do that route during the week, the commuter traffic would make it dicier, but on weekends early in the day it's really a nice ride.

You wind up on the Palisades Pkwy for about 100 yds (illegal) but cyclists do that around Bear Mtn all the time because there is no alternative route. You really just hop on the Pkwy side lane for a few hundred meters to get off again onto the Route 6 circle to access the bottom of Seven Lakes Drive. I'm sure the cops are mostly cool with that, but if not, whatEVER.

fordmanvt

fixed

mollusk

I do my rides in base 2. Imperial centuries are 4 miles long. Metric centuries are 4 km long.

patentcad

What I'm saying is I totally poached the Palisades Interstate Parkway this morning. Poached the PIP as it were.

Barese Rider

I think tommorow Ill shoot for half a Fred Century +- a couple of miles. Will that make me a double Fred ?

DScott

Sigh.

See my post above, re: double metric.

patentcad

At the end of the day, we're all Freds.

Besides, it's a Fred, Fred, Fred, Fred World.

dsotm

I did a fred century plus 40, does that count?