seppomadness

There is a degree of technical brilliance in this capture. Had they been able to control light further it may have been an outstanding piece IMO.

Yoshi

Yeah Grant's photos were amazing. The full set is here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/thelive...7602149945677/

I just chose the picture that most conveyed my suffering.

jrennie

Suffering from last weekend in Chico. There is another photo of suffering in Vegas this week at interbike but it isn't on the bike but after the bar

audiojan

See that white line? It's called the finish line... so I highly doubt that I slowed down by getting out of the aerobars and pushing the last 100 meters... wasn't standing up the entire race!

jfmckenna

Carolina Cup a few weeks ago.

Jockeying for position on the last lap:



Sprint Finish:



I was racing my '83 Guerciotti.

Stray Cat

suf·fer
v. intr.

1. To feel pain or distress; sustain loss, injury, harm, or punishment.
2. To tolerate or endure evil, injury, pain, or death. See Synonyms at bear1.
3. To appear at a disadvantage: "He suffers by comparison with his greater contemporary" (Albert C. Baugh).

suf·fer·ing - noun

1.the state of a person or thing that suffers.
2.Often, sufferings. something suffered by a person or a group of people; pain: the sufferings of the slaves.


3.




Thanks KevinMcdade for the "taking a dump" capture

MDcatV

another MDcatV solo breakaway effort that failed - at least I won a sock prime.

Lithuania

i was seriously suffering here. worst terrain ive ever ridden on and god do i hope i never ride on stuff like this again



doing the old throat slit im done gesture

Frunkin

Beard+Tattoo+SS cross bike= Bad ass

Lithuania

haha, more like lazy, dumb, and poor

plus the cow jersey and matching socks do not equal bad ass

Frunkin

Location: Wisconsin
matching cow jersey and socks are the bees knees around here

caloso

Summiting Mt. Diablo on Sunday. Good God, did that hurt.

NomadVW 

They let me slide off the pack here. Was off the front for 20 minutes when 8-10 riders came up to me.


After rejoining:


The rain sucked:

DrWJODonnell

Nomad, you scare the hell out of me. Soloing off of the front in a Japanese race is not an easy feat if what my friends tell me is correct. You are going to darken the skies with your ability to impose your will on the east coast peleton.

botto 

must have been your lack of socks.

tfro

I read the report for that race on your site, and after looking at the pictures it looks like utter chaos. Whats the over/under on the number of minutes it'll take you to lap the field in your first Cat 4 crit?

NomadVW 

Enduro races here in Japan are definitely chaos. On wet roads they were worse.

We averaged just over 40 kph for the 2 hrs on this course, but while you're screaming along the course at speed in the 2 hour solo, there are 7 other races going on. You also never know what talent will show up. The one I did in July there was a guy who rides professionally and road the Japan national champs the week before. The one in August, professional MTB racer for Team Giant. This one was a little thinner because of the downpour that kept folks at bay. But even with the rain we averaged just under the avg speed for the previous 2 years - and last year was a gorgeous day.

There are family teams (with kids as young as 12), Mixed teams (all types of bikes), and solo races lasting 2, 3, or 6 hours. There is so much "road furniture" - read: people not doing 40kph that you have to avoid. It can be insane. Bikes with baskets, straight bars, mountain bikes, cross bikes, 2 tandems this year, and 2 recumbents this year.

NomadVW 

If you're still sandbagging come spring time racing, I'll have to come up there so you can see how quick you can drop me. Otherwise you'll have to wait till summer if I can get upgraded to 3 by then and race 1/2/3's i your neck of the woods. My wife has a brother on the Jersey side of Philly, so I got extra reasons to go race. My schedule for March/April after the Tradezone/Quicksilver training stuff should be at least:

STRASBURG RR 3/4
UMD CRITERIUM
JEFFERSON CUP
WALKERSVILLE RR - 3/4
TYSON'S CORNER CRIT
BATTENKILL ROUBAIX
WINTERGREEN HILL CLIMB

My goal... race everything I can race and still walk to the fridge.

Edonis13

is that a half swedish flag - half american flag on your disk???

how?

i want!

NomadVW 

Just got these scanned photos from someone else. Starting lap 3 of a 4 lap TT:


Starting Lap 4... god this sucked:

jrennie

do they whack you with the marker to signify the laps done?

NomadVW 

Yep... which you have to come to almost a complete stop to have done depending on how many folks are waiting to get marked. Does wonders for your lap times.

waterrockets 

Wow, that's a pretty crazy system. Must be a lot of riders

bring44

ばかですよ！

elgalad

20 km out from the finish of a pan-flat 75km RR last month. 8th place wasn't a bad finish for a skinny climber.