EnsitMike

First training ride of the season felt great. I need new off season riding buddies.... I got cocky because I'm always dropping them. Today I got dropped on lap 4 though. Time to grind because these dudes are nuts.


This is the local tuesday/thursday meet up here in socal. I'm lucky this is about 6 miles from my house. Wicked fast, averaging 30mph up front today. (not my video)

f4rrest

Looks like fun. I'll have to join you guys one of these days...

Tunnelrat81

So what was the average speed at the back?

mkadam68

I'll be coming out, ASAP. Broken toe has made riding extremely difficult & uncomfortable. Maybe in a couple weeks.

Nice, quick little video. But, knowing it's not Mike's video, FWIW and for the sake of correctness, lest anyone gets the wrong idea, it's the Rose Bowl Ride, not club.

SirHustlerEsq

Link to 30mph average on Strava?

MikeyBoyAz

I was about to say... that's one heck of a club ride... mine are usually at 5am and there are 20 riders by the end...

EnsitMike

It's funny how fast the peleton stretches out. I was hangin for a while, but once I hit the back I was struggling around 25.


my bad



I don't use apps, but this is the best I could find. https://www.strava.com/segments/rose-bowl-633705


Now that you say it, that is my favorite part. These rides start at 5-5:30PM. I was talking to a guy who comes from san diego every wednesday for these rides. Pretty nuts.

mkadam68

?? Rose Bowl Ride is Tues/Thurs. Does he come up Wed's & stay over? "Official" ride starts 1st Tuesday after time change. They traditionally start with 5-laps that Tue/Thu, then increase +1 lap a week as daylight grows longer. Possible they'll even start at 5:30 to get more laps in, but this year I thought I heard a rumor they'd start normal time of 5:55 (Lot K--south end of Rose Bowl).

Ride usually averages 26-27 for the hour. 30-miles in 1:10. Do between 23-26mph going up West Drive, and 35-40mph southbound side down past the clubhouse. Here's a link to one I did last year. (For some reason, only showing 9 laps after the 3 warm-ups I did.)

merlinextraligh

I did the Peleton ride once. Was on a rented bike, with tennis shoes which made it lots of fun.

My bet is the average speed for the ride was more like 25-26mph, but there were extended times at 28-30mph, and some in the low 30's.

It's a huge group and it flies. Like the Tuesday Night Worlds most places, but a lot of fast people, and some particularly fast people make it faster than some places with fewer fast riders.

merlinextraligh

So my recollection was pretty close.

mkadam68

Yep. I usually do the ride once a week throughout the year. Last year, I tried twice a week, but my body couldn't handle it and was gradually slowing down. I stopped going 2x/week and went to once, cut back in other areas and was able to rebound.

Can't imagine doing w/tennis shoes

We seem to be getting more traffic, too. It's kind of a hot spot for exercise and other. Car traffic slows us down/gets in the way. We've had a bunch of the Big Names stop coming out, probably due to this and the fact that we attract new-to-fast-paced-group riders who don't have the best handling abilities and sometimes treat it as a race, doing not-so-smart moves (crossing yellow line, moving up inside where pedestrians are walking/jogging, squeezing into where there's not enough room, overlapping wheels, etc...). Not so many soccer balls in the middle of the pack anymore. Hmm. Oh well. C'est la vie.

KantoBoy

:30s a guy in a hybrid is keeping up with you lycra'd up, $3000 dollar bike ridin mofos.

shame shame.

Dunbar

5:30pm would be perfect for me not being a morning person. It seems like all of the group rides on the west side start at 8am or earlier.

hairnet

What season, where?

djb

man those solid divider poles would really frack you up if people got stupid in a turn and forced you into one.

f4rrest

So, I caught the Rose bowl ride yesterday on my commute home. Did 4 laps... one at 27.9mph. It was a blast.

Got some funny looks though with hi viz messenger bag and mirror.

rumrunn6

wow on city streets? you ever consider hiring a motorcycle cop to lead the pack?

f4rrest

It's a 3 mile loop around the stadium with a pedestrian track on the inside. The only auto traffic is from other Rose bowl users.

Oddly, there was a cop car stopped at one of the intersections, but he was as much in the way as anything.

ovoleg

meh just another hammerfest with traffic, joggers and pedestrians.

sleepy

Yup.

Interesting to watch rolling up on them with the dog walkers, joggers, and families trapped inside the inner circle, with a rotating wave of sweaty flesh and spandex outside.

ovoleg

its because that area is very popular for joggers/walkers/etc

sleepy

Yeah, I kind of assumed as such. There's a pretty cool kid's museum there too.