personally im most stoked about points races. I can't wait to try those.

oh and RE: Keirins, f200s...

I consider myself to be one of the stronger sprinters on the road out here in socal 3s races, but being a sprinter on the track is a whole different story.
I can beat people in sprints after an hour or so of fast racing, esp. if there is a headwind or an uphill sprint.

Those linebacker lookin' mofos on the track blow me out of the water in a f200 though...
How does someone be faster than me over 200m by like >2seconds???? I was confused at first until I realized that alot of these guys are producing 2000+W...

There is a guy that comes out to the beginner sessions for fun named Andre. Probably 6ft and at least 250-280. Pure muscle - I know what you mean. All about that power to weight ratio, I guess.

I don't think I'll ever be super competitive (without extremely focused training) on the track (5'8 145lb) but it's fun as hell.

today my legs are shot from trying to pace my roadie friend on sunday

i tried some slightly warped, too small drops on my 722 and although they made me feel like i was crawling into a drainpipe, it made me really want some good drops

i also completely disassembled the fuji i found and cleaned all the schmutz off the frame, tomorrow i buy degreaser and attack the bits and bobs

Think again-

Guys like you and I will likely never be competitive at shorter events on the track, esp. individual timed ones like the f200.

However endurance races (points, scratch, madison etc...) will favor guys who are more efficient like you and I.
Remember that Mark Cavendish used to be a world champ on the track as an endurance guy, not a sprinter.
IIRC him and Wiggins won the worlds madison together.

You're not going to see Chris Hoy win a world-champ level points race, or probably even finish with the field.
On the flip side of the coin, guys like you and me will never, ever be able to compete with the likes of Hoy and our own Carleton in like, a kilo, for example.

Different strokes.

and for the record im 5'9 and 145-155 depending on the time of year and amount of beer im drinking.
right now im probably like ~153 or so as I'm a little burnt from racing too much in the spring and from getting drunk with my coworkers more than usual

Angie is grilling up fresh chorizo right now for tacos along with some corn on the cob and I've got a big batch of homemade horchata chilling in the fridge. Epic dinners at the Scrod household FTW.

i had a chorizo quesadilla on friday and it made me think of scrod/bf

is that weird?












i love food.

Looking for experienced opinions on products and techniques... seems pretty reasonable to me.
I'll try to work on that for you though. Maybe give me some topics I should be discussing instead - what would you like to hear about? After all, that's why we're here - to make sure you're having a good time.

And I don't ride a Kilo TT or anything. I ride one of the least popular frames in this forum. And the number of components I've bought because of this forum is fewer than the number I've bought because of my own interests or research.

Not real sure what's got you guys so riled up.
Less threads = more interesting, eh? hmmm...

Mashed around Queens and Brooklyn today, lifted weights, then got destroyed in a spin class. Oh and bought some new road shoes.

Just busting you balls lesson learned... We all come to the site because we're bike nerds who like talking about the minute differences in products but at the end of the day it's just a bike. My bike isn't amazingly flashy either but it does exactly what it was designed to.

I moved all day. My body is spent. Now to go buy beers for the guy that helped me move.

LL, the SE Lager may not be popular, but I'll be damned if it isn't a good bike.

Good points all around. Like you, from the sounds of it, I am an endurance rider. I typically find myself, after 50+ miles, being able to just ride people off my wheel. I can get into a rhythm and just keep going. I'm really working on interval training atm so I can set myself up to have something toward the end. I'm not a sprinter but I like to save some gas for end and pretend I am; especially if it's an uphill effort. Gotta attack on the hills, right?

One more beginner session and I can start doing races. At my velodrome 4 races + petition = upgrade to cat 4. Then I can get a feel for all the different events and chose the ones that suit me.

Thanks for the encouragement and sage words!

I was so damn tired from driving up there. Sunday I sat around like a fatty and slept all day. I'm going to make a point to go up again but have more than a few days up there.

Who? Does he come out often? His name doesn't ring a bell.
You were supposed to be the "roadie"

Pfft.

Massive black dude with a really small voice. Think: Mike Tyson. Instructor seemed to know him pretty well.

I am, as pointed out earlier in this thread.

Today I didn't ride my bike, drank a few beers, and now I'm eating chili.

I just found out that my boss, after covering one of the cooks and thereby working a double because she didn't want to call me in since I was moving, got fired as she went to put in her two weeks notice. I knew she was potentially leaving because she had a great offer on the table, but man, I didn't expect it to be this quick. Apparently, the owners (***holes, the both of them) decided to "clean the kitchen up." I have a feeling that this means I am either the new Executive Chef (awesome pay raise, tons more stress) or I'm unemployed. Since the other tab I have open is Craigslist, I guess one would say that I have a feeling it's the latter.

that sounds like such high stress all the time man, i know you'll land on your feet no matter what but in the mean time take care of yourself.


after mountain bike, i indian fooded, then i cat napped, then i cereal'd, then i hills on night rode, then i mac n pork n cheesed.

successful day off for sure.

i know its unrelated but i picked up that book you recommended "on food and cooking" by harold mcgee. im actually going to head into work early tomorrow even though im drunk so i can cook something up on the line and sit down and start reading it. Im excited too really!.

Only thing I kinda don't like is the color of mine, because it's doodoo brown, but it helps prevent theft (I think). And if I think about it like a brown ale color... then I kinda don't mind it so much. Heh.
And I'm converting all the silver components to black anyway, which I'll dig much more.
One day I'll eventually get a different frame, once I learn/ride enough to know exactly what I want. Then I'll transfer all my upgraded components over, etc.

But yes agreed, the older Lager like we have - solid bike.
SE seems to have gone off the deep end lately, making BigShotBikes basically. Not sure what that's all about.

called in to work for the first time in years. had a microburst centered about a block away. trees and lines down all over and my porch furniture was about 100 yards away. power was only out for 7 hours (the repair crew guys were awesome), but people were standing around in the street in the middle of the night wondering "what shall we do?". be eaten by zombies, obviously...

getting dark again, but supposed to dry out later. will go for a ride and check out the extent of the damage. now...zzzzzzz.......

Zombies are a problem in your area. They turned Griffiss AFB into the big zombie lab didn't they? I guess they are letting some out to see what will happen.

heh. Griffiss is now the Republic of Woodchuckistan. place is overrun. i cut through the base to get into Rome and you can count around 50 every time.

if there was a zombie lab, there would at least be outside funds coming into the area..... :( :)

This is the bike my buddy won on Saturday at the Tour de Fat. Just a big clunky cruiser but I dig the colors and vibe.
http://www.newbelgium.com/files/ejtr...rms_header.png

They might not be the most efficient way to get around but if you don't smile when you get out of the saddle and sprint on a cruiser there's gotta be something wrong, I was working on my sqrlz old Schwinn cruiser and when I was done and putting its through it's paces I really liked the supple ride and the way it felt bunny hopping it over a some tree roots. I am in search of an older hard tail mountain bike to ss and make into my ride with sqrl bike

Too lazy to look.

TL;DR I called out LessonLearned and some others for their use of this thread as a giant IRC chat window and someone attempted to call me out for my non-original content citing that most of my posts were: Rapha, Instagram pics and being a roadie. Not too off the mark, really but at least the photos are pretty (IMO) and relevant to the forum/thread, whereas the stuff I was talking about had to do with LL calling people fatties, others getting angry at him, and other such things.

Person who called me out made a typo, which, as we all know, makes your point, however reasoned and thoughtful, completely invalid. So, I think by internet rules, I win.

Internet forumz r srs bznz.

Seems legit.

Also very true.

For 'jandro

http://www.mediashow.ro/show/252753-...e-internet.jpg

Applyin for jorbs.

Oh so all fat people do is sit around and sleep all day? Jandro will have your ASS for that! :rolleyes:
:p