Five years old is a bit young to be riding on the streets, though. Or even going to school, for that matter.

yes for riding. no for school. i went to school at that age. i was always smart for my age. i knew how to finger paint a picasso by then.

83 miles, 7500 vertical feet. When I got back to Mt. Doom by 1PM it was 95 degrees. That last 20 miles and those last few climbs really sucked today.

I just got my first leg-shaving cut. It sucks. Bled for about 15 minutes. It was like a scrape.. and ow...

Your membership @ BikeForums argues otherwise.

Just another tragic story of a promising youth come to a bad end.

been falling behind since i graduated from kindergarten

They have a high ozone air pollution alert in the NY Metro area today from 10AM to 10PM. I had no problems with breathing until about 10:30AM, then I could feel the crappy air hurting my lungs on the climbs for the last two hours of the ride.

what is low level ozone supposed to do that's harmful?

High ozone. Are you dyslexic Charlie?

i wonder if i am, pete. everything you write looks totally nonsensical. hmmmm

less said about gomer Brian's posts the better.

The hour is coming when i will know for sure just how fredly i am. i have never ridden with anyone remotely resembling a fred. In fact, i don't really ride with anyone except for the 2 road nazis and Tri geek all of whom are way too fit and into the whole training for competitions nonsense. What's all that shenanigans? Well this coming weekend i'm signed up for my first ever mass event a 106 mile sportive that should draw a myriad of freds through serious types. I will finally know where i stand in the pecking order.

Any bets on whether i'm right down the bottom? Hint...the road nazis assure me i am way faster than some they have seen at other sportives.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0c94a83HiE

Pro tip: When you forget your good razor at home, do not go to the drug store and buy the 6 pack for $2. Ow. Sweat burns.

By the way I am using that as my excuse for only riding 5m today.

What a terrible idea. What do you think I am, a fred?

Welcome to my world.

What is a "sportive"?

Hey Gomer our central A/C is actually keeping up with the 95º temps. But we have to crank it down between 7 and 9AM and leave it cranked all day. But it does work. Slightly undersized for the house, but we knew that. Long, complicated story, well beyond your limited Gomer comprehension skills. Intricate and highly technical HVAC issues.

Casa CAD sits atop the sunniest ridge in Orange County. Great in the winter, warm in the summer.

Mix in a shade tree or two--it helps.

I like it warm inside.

In the [finished] attic where I stay when in jersey, the AC doesn't exactly "work", and according to the thermometer, it is 86 in here.

This isn't the ****ing shaving thread.

How unfortunate for you. In my kitchen, it is 73ºF and comfortable. Outside my kitchen, it is currently 98ºF. So the A/C is working. But it runs all day on days like this, no spare capacity. If you fail to crank it up by 10AM on a day like today, it won't keep up. But the worst I've seen here is high 70's inside on a 90º+ day where we didn't start it until noon or 1PM.

It's a new unit, much more efficient than the one it replaced. And on more moderate days (80's, humid) it has less trouble keeping up with it. We only really get 5-10 days this hot each season.

Why anyone would actually care what label any idiot, particularly one stupid enough to post on BF, pins on them, is baffling to me.

This is particularly true of the 33 Brain Trust by the way.

This is particularly true of the 33 Brain Trust by the way.

Do the boys in the 33 know more about cycling, training, and gear than the 41 morons?

Clearly.

Does this excuse their preposterous superiority complex?

Hardly.

They are a bunch of silly, silly Road Nazis.