You think I like climbing? Hell no I don't. I just do it.

I love climbing.

I'm fat, so I hate it.

Omg ur so cool.

Why you so butthurt about it?

Guess what, if you do it more, you get better at it. It starts to get slightly less miserable as you do it. It's not like we'd leave you behind if you came.

You would.

I would.

I like climbing, but my bike is also geared low

heh, yeah. I also take off my glasses and get in the zone.

Yup

me 2, but i love it.
best feeling, nothing to do except ride that bike up that hill, no choice... i do wonder what it would feel like to be a 130-140lb guy with my legs... probably look terrible lol

headwinds. lots of them. now that i'm home the wind is totally gone, of course.

Oh, and there's seriously insane amounts of pollen on everything... guess who had to ride past a street sweeper uphill? i held my breath.

Today I rebuilt the sqrl's dad's front 88 cause loose spokes. No idea how it was still in one piece. Average spoke tension was like.... 30kgf, with some spokes that wouldn't even register on the tension meter. Only 20 spokes too.

Came out well.


Also rebuilt my Formation Faces yesterday now that I have a tension meter. Pretty damned under tensioned. Also came out well.

When you say rebuilt, do you mean re-laced, or just retensioned and retrued? I never thought about checking spoke tension periodically...

I attempted to just correct tension, but it was too far gone, so just starting from scratch was actually easier. I probably spent 10 minutes trying to tension before I said **** it and just redid the damned thing. Probably took about 30 minutes. Fastest wheel yet.

If your spoke tension was good to begin with, then it will stay that way unless something goes wrong (i.e. accident). He's crashed at least once, and just doesn't want to tell me. It's pretty obvious.

Today I made pies with the sqrl and I've never peeled so many apples before in my life.

So? Use the weight and muscle to your advantage!
Gravity is on your side this time.

Is that slang for something?

I think you have gravity backwards.

Nope. Apple pies.
I was being figuratively optimistic with gravity part but then again there's more weight on the pedals when in a climbing position.

I'm convinced it's slang.

Today, I bonked out so hard on the hills of SF on my Bianchi. It was only a 4 mile ride, but it was all STEEP hills and I was on my way to have my first meal of the day. at 6pm. Never ever going that underprepared calorie-wise again. A couple of people stopped to complement my bike, though, so I felt less ****ty.

excluding you not eating all day, sometimes you just need to warm up more before hitting the hills. During my Fleche we did Skyline Drive in Daly City, which normally would have been brutal but I had like 22 hours behind me.

That makes total sense. As soon as I got off the Civic Center BART station, I was gunning it and gave myself no time to warm up.

havent been on bike forums in a while. ridin a 725 now. got this ridiculous sticker on it now. just doin it for the lulz.

You know it homeboy.

qft lololololololo :/

headwind is worse tho

central illinois has headwinds to no end, and seattle has the same in hills.

one time i bonked so hard i started to temporarily lose my hearing #goodstorybro