TJClay

Those that arent going to the ATOC, what are your plans?

Lesper4

Are there any other plans!? Sadly yes. HB in lebec.

ZippyThePinhead

Rode today, SART to HB from my home.

TrojanHorse

Nothing on Saturday - wife's out of town and the kids and I have all kinds of goofing off planned.

Sunday, probably some kind of SGRT-LART-Rio Hondo loop.

JusRelax

I'll be out on a quick ride up Lytle Creek to the fire station. Gonna try to grab some PR's haha.

Mr. Beanz

Change of plans. Was thinking of riding up GMR to watch the pros but Gina isn't in climbing form after all her family issues so I bought a tire for the tandem, a knock Fly saddle to try, some new socks, and some tights for Gina. We'll be on SART instead enjoying our own ride. Sort of a I bought some goodies weekend on the tandem.

Performance had some good deals tonight. Glad we're only 6 or 7 miles away from the new Ontario Mills location.



goodies by mrbeanz1, on Flickr

megalowmatt

My wife and I are riding the San Diego Century 66-mile route.

GP 

Today: Coast, Elfin Forest, Del Dios, RSF.

JetWave

doing the Pasadena Marathon Bike tour.

jmX

Instead of getting in real riding today I ended up setting up the telescope and camera and taking time-lapse shots of the eclipse that nobody seemed to notice today:


I did putz around on the SART on my MTB for about 30 minutes waiting for the eclipse to start. First time I've ever ridden my bike with BEER in the bottle. Yeah I'm a nerd, and I gotta get hyped up for the big show in the sky.


(Cleverly framed to make the SART look a lot nicer than it is )

Oh, I did do a SART time trial friday afternoon. 21 miles (out and back) at 22.7mph! Woohoo...my fastest ever twenty miles. The SART was dead, I had the whole thing basically to myself. Bike was setup with a very aggressive position - one I probably couldn't keep for a century.

https://connect.garmin.com/activity/179564294

rallison

Awesome time-lapse! What equipment did you use to capture those? Am I correct in assuming some sort of filter was needed to prevent damage to the camera?

jmX

I used a cheap white light solar filter (as opposed to the very pricey hydrogen alpha glass filters), which looks like a sheet of mylar balloon material that you put over the end of the telescope or lens you're using. I used a Canon DSLR attached to a newtonian telescope (equal to 750mm camera lens), but really any digital camera and any lens 400mm or greater would have gotten the same results. I sat outside with beer and bbq, and simply walked over every 15 minutes and clicked off the shutter (set to manual, 1/4000th @ ISO 200).

Almost nobody walking around knew there was even an eclipse going on...it was that bright outside. Unless you were looking for it you would have really had no idea something was going on, even tho a majority of the sun's disk was blocked. Really goes to show how bright the sun is, and how well our eyes adjust to changing light conditions.