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If you want to join the slippery slope Pinarello club, here's a nice option with all the modern bits in disk option
100x12mm thru front
142x12mm thru rear
aero tubes, rides well, and Pinarello is never ever ever a light bike, but that extra carbon soaks up the bumps nice
Pinarello Gan K Disk Ultegra Bike from BikeBling.com
But I'd still take the Bianchi over the disk version of the Gan....
Orange comes in 105s
https://www.nytro.com/pinarello-gan-...road-bike.html
100x12mm thru front
142x12mm thru rear
aero tubes, rides well, and Pinarello is never ever ever a light bike, but that extra carbon soaks up the bumps nice
Pinarello Gan K Disk Ultegra Bike from BikeBling.com
But I'd still take the Bianchi over the disk version of the Gan....
Orange comes in 105s
https://www.nytro.com/pinarello-gan-...road-bike.html
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slam that with 130mm stem and comes with 18mm setback seat post. Should be enough reach that way even...big question is how flexible is his after the wreck??? after my wreck it took me a WHILE to run anything longer then a 90mm stem as high as I could, but riding is riding right?
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slam that with 130mm stem and comes with 18mm setback seat post. Should be enough reach that way even...big question is how flexible is his after the wreck??? after my wreck it took me a WHILE to run anything longer then a 90mm stem as high as I could, but riding is riding right?
Have to see what I can squeeze onto. The pelvis is moving ok, and there was no other major damage bar the throat and face.
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I ought to be better. More polite. So very polite. It’s the English way — now google up the ‘how to tell if an Englishman likes you’ flow chart
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Non omnino gravis
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Using the same adjectives that described heart attacks? Not good!
Congrats on your massive effort!
Congrats on your massive effort!
#109
SuperGimp
What the heck... my ride on saturday was 72% Threshold, almost nothing in Z5 and I got HISTORIC! 651 relative effort. I mean it was hard and all but certainly not historic.
Something's wrong with their new math.
Something's wrong with their new math.
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Non omnino gravis
651? Now they're just making up numbers. I have a single ride with a score above 400, and just six above 300. The 400 score took 154 miles @ 17mph. If I recreated Saturday's Z5 effort for 100 miles, I'd barely even break 500. I mean, if it were possible. I don't think Z5 for 5 hours is a thing.
I dug around to find something close to your 47 miles w/ 5200ft-- I had a 46 with 5100ft and got a 200. :|
I dug around to find something close to your 47 miles w/ 5200ft-- I had a 46 with 5100ft and got a 200. :|
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651? Now they're just making up numbers. I have a single ride with a score above 400, and just six above 300. The 400 score took 154 miles @ 17mph. If I recreated Saturday's Z5 effort for 100 miles, I'd barely even break 500. I mean, if it were possible. I don't think Z5 for 5 hours is a thing.
I dug around to find something close to your 47 miles w/ 5200ft-- I had a 46 with 5100ft and got a 200. :|
I dug around to find something close to your 47 miles w/ 5200ft-- I had a 46 with 5100ft and got a 200. :|
But their new superlatives seem a little silly.
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Non omnino gravis
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You scored harder then my BWR ride from last week. I only got 646 for climbing 9k ft
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So I did the Day on the Ride as part of my training for AIDS Lifecycle. It was a brutally hot ride in PV climbing what seemed like never ending hills. The climbing was really bunched in the middle of the ride. Throw in I got misdirected and climbed a bit that I didn't need to. That kind of deflated me. Put me behind by more than a half hour from others on ride and when I reached the hard hill I was a bit spent and had to walk. I walked another hill before pit stop 2. I have never been at a pit stop on an ALC ride where I was there when pit was about to close. But here I was doing just that. Then in one of the beach cities where we had pit 4 (it was also pit 1) the turn arrows were not visible or not present at a complicated 5 way intersection. Well we went the wrong way. Got route sheet out and determined we needed to course correct but by time we found a street to turn right onto we would have to backtrack to pit. Then we got message it was closing in 2 min. Well...we weren't going to make it. Just as we got that message tho, riders were riding by so we had found the post pit route...so just kept going from there on route. Later we found a spot to take a break and wait for our friend who was at Pit waiting for us and because of our navigational issues we were now ahead of her. We finished ride together. It was 78 miles for me and 4400 feet. But overall way harder than other rides with that amount of climbing. Heat played role no doubt.
Power and Cadence were dropped due to battery save mode on Garmin. It finally died at 70 mile mark but I had Strava running on my phone earlier to capture the ride from moment it died. I edited that strava to reflect the correct start point.
I had my rear camera on....here is the bit I did in error and the frustrating part was there were several opportunities for me to be prevented from riding off onto a climb that I wasn't suppose to be on.
Power and Cadence were dropped due to battery save mode on Garmin. It finally died at 70 mile mark but I had Strava running on my phone earlier to capture the ride from moment it died. I edited that strava to reflect the correct start point.
I had my rear camera on....here is the bit I did in error and the frustrating part was there were several opportunities for me to be prevented from riding off onto a climb that I wasn't suppose to be on.
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First ride in short sleeves and shorts without arm or leg warmers ... good god that is glorious.
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the wind today was awesome but in the wrong direction nearly the entire ride
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F wind. Climbing with no breeze and temps at 100 on the road is F'd and that is what I was doing
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When riding in the middle of Anza Borrego desert seemed like a perfectly good idea to do and yes it was hot..... I got hella sunburnt
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They make this thing called sunscreen, @jsigone. I'm told it's useful when in the desert. Me, I end up getting burnt because I'm too dumb to use it!
And my poor brother just didn't figure out the NM sun when he visited...
And my poor brother just didn't figure out the NM sun when he visited...
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60-99 Almost good enough to be Tough
40-59 Try harder
20-39 Yeah, right
(And, yes -- this is a total joke in case anyone is wondering, and before I upset people in the interwebz0rs again!!!)
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They make this thing called sunscreen, @jsigone. I'm told it's useful when in the desert. Me, I end up getting burnt because I'm too dumb to use it!
And my poor brother just didn't figure out the NM sun when he visited...
And my poor brother just didn't figure out the NM sun when he visited...
I was pretty happy to drive to work this morning with the windows down and air temps 65*
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SuperGimp
That spray on stuff probably says "reapply hourly" somewhere in tiny print on the bottle.
Well, did you?
Well, did you?