A feast and threesome? I'm doing good to have something in my back pocket to gnaw on along the way.

My French is lacking.

I did? I suggested that a girl, or two for that matter, would get him up the hills in a style that might make him appreciate his surroundings more.

Velo Vol is a girl?

Non, a bottle of spicy red wine appearing out of somewhere on your bike for no other reason than to pass the day in a civilized manner is closer to Italian.

LowCell, why do you need to get knee injections and what are you getting injected with?

Not the last time I checked.

Just checking.

Between the comment about a picnic for one and your French language skills I am noting a tide of existentialism washing over your responses. I'm no psychologist but it seems plain as day to me that whatever emotional barrier has been erected is insurmountable. You need to realize when the time has come to let go. Buy a new bike and distance yourself from the old one with haste. It's just like pulling off a band-aid quickly. The pain will pass all the sooner for the sudden intense pain the initial separation will cause.

Let go of what? The bicycle?

Just click on the sentence below and let the healing start.

Most cyclists don't race, yet they ride uncomfortable racing bikes and try to go too fast and so miss much of the world around them.

I don't want to ride on a dirt road.

I had surgery for a torn meniscus and while the surgeon was in there he performed a lateral release. After the first surgery he told me that a lateral release on the left knee would help get rid of a lot of pain so I told him to go for it. Unfortunately both of those surgeries turned out really bad. I could barely step down from a curb without screaming, no chance in hell of getting back on a bike. The surgeon even told me to go ahead and sell my bikes, so I did. I ended up going from a pretty decent cyclist (cat 3 roadie) to a 260 pound fat ass.

About a year later I found another surgeon and he has been a life saver. He operated on both of my legs and told me that they would both be better but I probably still wouldn't be able to ride a bike again, at least nothing other than flat ground. A couple of months later I said the hell with it and I got on a bike. That was July 4th last year and I have been riding ever since.

I thought I was going to need to have surgeries pretty much every year until I turn 40 when they were planning to replace them. However, now that I have been riding regularly my knees seem to be doing quite a bit better. I still have pain but I can deal with it. The injections (orthovisc) should help eliminate the majority of the pain that I still have, at least for approximately six months.

Don't take me too seriously, VV. I am trying to spend some quality time with my new bike while trying to ignore a soap opera. Full transparency.

I think I may get one of their cranksets for my old Schwinn.

purty. shiney.

You did indeed call VV a girl.

That seems a bit of a splurge for someone who was resoiling pennies over a low end derailleur. I mean congratulations, it looks like a very nice crank.

Bad link, gnomic you might say.

Incoming

better?

Flipped it! The crazy rise stem made the bars to high for me even under all the spacers so I had to flip it. This bike is tons of fun for something I dug outta the trash. Still need to get a real saddle on it. And better pedals then it will be good to go!

Still keeping an eye out for a 5 or 10 degree stem...

What the heck are you two going on about?








(vBear & rando, duh!)

The current interpretation is someone of either sex who bikes over 100 miles a day with minimal baggage and expects to stay out overnight. It blurs with ultra endurance athletes on one end and bourgeois locomotion on the other. LAJ would be a good example of someone in the middle ground. He will do a 200K brevet at 22mph through the mountains with a couple bottles and a half dozen gels. Basically you equip a stage racing bike with a modest sized seat and/or handlebar bag and go peak bagging with the expectation of this to temper a spirited ride.

Awesome dude... are you still looking at knee replacements? What caused the problems in the first place?