Detonation.

Let me know if that link even works.

Ouch.

Don and I were on that ride a few years ago and this detonated:

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y11...armsnap908.jpg

It's ELS (Expensive Lightweight ****). If you ride it, it will break.

In both instances, we were just riding along...

Fortunately, today nobody was hurt. I banged my arm and shoulder up a bit a few years back when that crank arm exploded.

SA broke one of his weight weenie cranks and was apparently not going all that hard when it happened. He could come here and tell us about it, but I do not think he will just yet.

When that DA 7800 crank arm failed I was only putting out about 300 watts going slow up a steep upgrade. Today Don hit a relatively minor pothole and that Zipp high flange track hub (he was on the track bike) just detonated. Track wheels aren't meant to absorb pothole impact. What is Shimano's excuse for that crank arm failure?

Like I said, it all breaks. These are two of the most reputable makers of high end bike crap in the world, and these two components failed under relatively benign stress. Just wear your helmet and have your major credit cards ready at all times. Shimano did nothing for me on the 2 year old crank arm, I am highly confident Zipp will step up under warranty on this (approximately) one year old wheel. Don is pals with the big Zipp rep here in the NE, that should help.

I had the same experience....so I chatted up the yoga teacher. We have been living together for two years now and I get my yoga for free :)

Great song. Yeah I have heard that. Funny thing at rehab, a place specializing in addicted doctors, by the end of rehab 30 % were smoking and they had not been smokers before! A pharmacology professor of mine told us nicotine was more difficult, pharmacologically speaking, than heroin to quit. I think part of it the risks are not so immediate and so one perceives they have time later to quit whereas the immediate risks and consequences of continued drug/alcohol use forced compliance if one wished to continue working.

What , we can't say pee? Place is getting more and more boring. Where is the spice, the thrill?

Is it really troll dumb or are you just making fun of me. Be careful that might make me angry and you don't want to see me angry.

Neither do I but that wind was whipping through everything. Plus the snow was so light it wasn't much work.

the overall success rate is poor- 15 - 20 %, However without it it is closer to zero and , like many things, success depends on the populations studied. Physicians are about 80 % successful.

i cut out dairy from my diet. :(

did have pizza last week, but i'm resisting the urge to go out and buy a brick of old cheddar right now.

Okay for a true cheddar lover what do you think is the best?

i'm not an aficionado, i don't have a favorite brand.
however my preference is the older and sharper, the better.

and besides goat cheese, i mix it up a lot. pears with honey, prosciutto, and gorgonzola... omg. brie or camembert with fresh, warm french rolls *homer simpson drool*.

dammit. i'd punch someone for a chunk of manchego right about now.

this vegan thing is going to be short lived.

Do you think you can beat coasting's record??

The Worlds turned into a hooligan ride. No call for the crap that was going on.

Talking about cx worlds? What happened? Everything I saw looked great.

no, i've already lost.

i haven't been very strict about it, just careful. i've cheated with veggie pizza, a few unlucky shrimps, and an unfortunate salmon. oh, and some grocery store sushi. i've refrained from gorging on fried chicken though. five more weeks. i'm not asking for much, i just need to be able to breathe in my new riding leathers.

You ate a whole salmon by youself? !!!!

I think I could use a fried chix break. Maybe even an embargo against all deep fried foods

Does not compute.

Sorry LowCel. The Chatfield Worlds here. Competitive group ride. Must have been 100 riders for the 10 am lap. The 9 am lap was civil, with maybe 50 of us.

Gotcha. I couldn't figure out what the problem was with t he CX worlds. From what I understand Louisville did a great job of hosting the first US cx world championships.

Hasn't she already done that?

Apparently not.