I'm not sure what details you might be interested in, so maybe you could be more precise.

Blew another rear tire/tube. Had about 300 miles on the tire (cheap Kenda). Is that about normal? Seems like the tread gets close to worn, then it'll develop a blister, which then the tire/tube blows about a second after you notice the bump-bump coming from the rear tire as you're riding. Has happened twice this year which is a PITA since I obviously don't carry a spare tire.

Today I angled the nose down a few degrees on my Specialzed Romin saddle. WTF how have I been riding it until now!?

Were there many folks in your races? Were they close races? Anything weird happen? Did you do well for your personal standards? Was it fun? Any of these that you are interested in answering.

Also, what kind of burrito did you have?

It was an individual time trial where lowest time wins. I was the only entrant in my age group, so all I had to do was ride to win. Had I been in the next lower age group, I would have been faster than two of the competitors, slower than two of them, and finished third. I have not riden a 500m TT in six years or competed in anything in three years, so I did this simply to support the promoter who offered older age brackets. I used a very low gear (47x15) and had a correspondingly slow time, because I didn't want to blow out my aging knees at the start. And, yes, most importantly it was a lot of fun.

Today I am 70. I'm alive, healthy and happy. No complaints.

Awesome!! Hope I'm still getting around as well as you when I'm that age.


You know how you try to build an image of what someone might look like in your head? ...not even close.

Pedaled to work for the first time in ages.

https://c5.staticflickr.com/8/7367/2...f3559fb1_b.jpg

Gonna meet a friend for some dirt road riding after work. Yay!

I hope you have 70 more.


-Tim-

Happy Birthday TT!

This is awesome!

HB!

Since I'm always late for Today I...

Yesterday I did 30 miles round trip to a new brewery that turns out hasn't started selling their own beer yet.

Around mile 25 I took a big ass bee to the face at speed and got stung in the lip.

Today I did 24 miles before work. Road bieks are fun. Strava PR's all over the place.

Today I evaded a gnarly golf ball hail storm by less than 5 minutes. Never seen anything like this before!

I purchased some Simplex Retrofriction shifters. I have held off on buying these from eBay because people seem to fetishize these shifters, so you can't get them without paying a ridiculous price. Luckily I know collectors of vintage bike parts and was able to get mine on the cheap :)

http://i.imgur.com/tt6Jk4h.jpg?1

Midcompact Praxis rings on the evo, and I really like them. Everything feels faster, and shifts better than the sram rings I had before, so I'm chillin

Today I will be taking a look at QBP for some bike shiet. :)

Mavic SSC Downtube Shifters, Friction (Simplex SLJ) - Bike Recyclery

Vintage Mavic (Simplex Super LJ SLJ) Downtube Shifters: Silver, Retro-Friction - Bike Recyclery

Today I...

...am kinda angry. I ordered a new bike this last weekend, and it shipped on Tuesday with a delivery date of Friday. Which was AWESOME, because that gave me the weekend to put it together, tweak it, and ride it a bit.

Last night, I got a notification from UPS that it's delayed due to "operating conditions". I looked that up, it means that it didn't get onto a truck for some reason, and it's usually only a one business-day delay. But that means Monday. Which means no new bike this weekend.

Grr. Argh.

Get drunk or stoned first, that seems to work really well for some folks...

There's a new DA groupset today :)

Gonna go check out an EC90 TKO tubular wheelset off the CL soon, unusually great price... maybe will have an actual race wheelset for the track bike soon! I'm not scared of having to clean em up a bit and glue on my own tires.

Yep... DA R9100/9150

SHIMANO DURA-ACE

Shimano Dura-Ace 9100 and 9150 ? Everything to know | CyclingTips

When do the obsolte 9000 series drop in price?

for some reason my legs have been just **** for weeks

i havent felt the desire to go out and hammer since they feel so ****ty, which is taking the drive away from bikes and really bumming me out

on the other hand i have more motivation to run which is just weird