Has cycling reached the point of no return
05-12-12, 01:23 AM
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Awesome Carl's awesomeness once again pushes the boundaries of awesomeness to awesome new heights!
How awesome is that?
How awesome is that?
05-12-12, 02:59 AM
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I've seen a modern version of that around lately. If I wanted to ride something with an engine it would be a motorcycle not a bike. But I do agree on one point, sometimes a bike can have too much potential for a certain setting. Take for example crowded bike paths leading to and from a large park. There is no way I can ride my bike to its potential on such paths without putting people in danger. It stands that if you did have an all steel heavy boat anchor of a bike you may indeed get more exercise at the speeds possible in that setting. Not that riding such a thing would be any fun.
05-12-12, 04:55 AM
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When your chain breaks, you don't go faster, it just gets easier! 
05-12-12, 06:02 AM
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05-12-12, 06:04 AM
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05-12-12, 06:24 AM
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05-12-12, 03:58 PM
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[QUOTE=AlphaDogg;14212167]I'm surprised you haven't been banned yet. What do you have, like 80 posts per day?[/QUOTE
I am sure there is a ban pcad thread before. But lets start a new one and get rid of this troll.
I am sure there is a ban pcad thread before. But lets start a new one and get rid of this troll.
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Cycling has reached the point of yes return. Vast majority of cyclists come back home after a ride. Some get picked up by cycling teams and some go touring, but they always return, sooner or later
05-12-12, 04:08 PM
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Riding like its 1990
05-12-12, 04:56 PM
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back to the ban hamer
Or Jan Hammer for you '80's nostalgics
Or Jan Hammer for you '80's nostalgics
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05-12-12, 05:05 PM
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OP: No it's not too easy. I'm for anything that makes it easier - if it became effortless, so much the better.
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05-12-12, 05:10 PM
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No.
This might be though..
This might be though..
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05-12-12, 05:18 PM
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you don't get it, if the bike has the best of everything and the lightest of everything...you'll push yourself just as hard as you would on a heavier less advanced bike...the difference is you'll go faster on the light bike
example...today I went on a ride, I've been feeling strong, in the flats and even in the wind I'm faster than I've ever been, but I still hurt just as much as I did when I was going 16mph and pushing hard...it hurts no matter what...this sport is about suffering, not sightseeing..
example...today I went on a ride, I've been feeling strong, in the flats and even in the wind I'm faster than I've ever been, but I still hurt just as much as I did when I was going 16mph and pushing hard...it hurts no matter what...this sport is about suffering, not sightseeing..
how many people don't get that. I had the same conversation with a fellow engineering buddy a while back who is also a cyclist..albeit a slow one. He even didn't get it, so there is no hope for the average guy who got a C in physics in high school. He said, yeah if I had a lighter bike, I wouldn't be as tired. I said, no...you would be. You would just be faster...but just as tired...exertion wouldn't change much. He said...huh?...I beg your pardon? I said..yeah, I wasn't kidding. You would be riding the heavier bike in a lower gear and put out about the same watts as each of us generally ride with an average amount of power. I still don't think he got it.
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05-12-12, 05:19 PM
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05-12-12, 08:27 PM
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