That's not the only thing though. I ride a 56cm with a 120mm stem. I could ride a 58 with a 100mm stem, but then I couldn't get my bars low enough. Look at the linked picture of my bike and you'll see what I'm talking about.

HTFU. Here are the DC stats. They are almost exactly the same and it's the nicest day we've had in a week.

Partly Sunny 90° RealFeel® 98°

• Humidity: 51%
• Pressure: 30.02 in
• Cloud Cover: 40 %
• UV Index: 5
• Dew Point: 70 °F
• Amount of Precipitation(1 Hr): 0.00 in
• Visibility: 10 Miles

Pcad - you used to weigh two bills?

When I first started riding, I used to make fun of the chubbier cyclists. After the onset of a little maturity, I realized that out of everyone, those are the folks to admire the most. Out there, busting their ass when it would be just as easy to sit on the couch at eat Oreos. They're trying, which is more than most people these days.

Anyway, good for you.

you sure do short rides. Is Kansas City mountainous?

Just because I didn't do any exercise for five years while I went through all these back issues, and wound up taking massive doses of oxycontin under a doctor's 'care', such as it was. In the end I should have figured that the medical route wasn't working two years earlier, but I was pretty afraid of trying to cope with my back pain holistically (i.e. without pain meds). The hard part was kicking oxycontin without knowing if I wouldn't wind up back on pain pills because I couldn't handle the pain. Happily I have been able to do that, and I've essentially accepted the fact that i'll be in some pain for life from my back. But that's OK. The cycling helps my body and mind so much that it has worked out. That's really why I ride so much.

Since I've been back on my bike my weight has ranged between 165 and 183 or so. 170 this AM. Hopefully after 12 days of climbing Greek mountains in 90ş dry Mediterranean heat I'll be down to 165. I can't be too skinny. Like I keep saying, I drive by a Domino's Pizza in January and I gain 3 lbs.

There was this horribly fat dude who sat in front of me in spin class all winter. Had a closet full of white kits, but no bibs.

That was some gross shlit. He was trying, but I didn't care. I wished he was on the couch eating Oreos.

Ouch! This hurts

hey pcad

how did you hurt your back? i had sciatica for a few years and the docs were utterly useless. i got it treated by an chiropactor and only 2 treatments and it was fixed permanently.

This sentence epitomizes the prescription drug epidemic, especially for oxycontin.

Pain, Prescription, Pain, Refills, Addiction. Repeat.

Again, good for you. I can't tell you how many people I know, socially and professionally, that have been victims of the cycle. The currency at the local high school is prescription meds.

I learned it third hand from someone I didn't know, hence "unreliable."

Nothing to take personally. It had nothing to do with you. I find you very reliable, as far as internet strangers purchasing S2s go.

I don't trust doctors.

Haha! No worries. I read it and thought, hey, that's me! I tried squeezing a little more info out of that guy, but I got nothing.

you don't trust them until you have no choice.

Werd

Actually, it wasn't you. It was the dude that told you.

Did he at least say why the color scheme sucked? Red, white, and black?

why do doctors give so many prescriptions?

$$$

No. Just that is wasn't appealing and the past models had been better. But for all I know his favorite color combination is yellow and pink. It makes me wonder if they're moving away from the more simplistic style though. (And I like the white S2, which I guess a lot of folks don't?)

I like the other fatness praising thread better.

I have learned from a very unreliable source that the 2011 Cervelo colors suck.

Seriously, thanks for the info. It'll get "leaked" soon enough.

I love the "smart ads". somebody mentioned oxycontin and an add for drug addiction treatment appears at the top of the page.

I'm easily entertained.

Patients are bombarded with billions of dollars of advertisements telling them to ask their doctor about drug X.

Perhaps many of them do.

And they probably get a cut from the drug companies. Hell, if I were a drug company, I'd give doctors a cut to prescribe my stuff. Makes good business sense.

Is that legal? I know pharmaceutical companies give doctors freebies and pay for stuff but my assumption is that giving doctors "a cut" would be an ethical no-no.