Cycling isn’t a game, it’s a sport.
sighcling,,,isadrug.
saw some rocks today
>>2075418>it's a sportit's a commuting method. no pics from my ride today. because it was the same ride ive done 5 days a week for the past year and is incredibly boring
>>2075430DamnFor me its a sport. Dont let being a wagie ruin cycling for you that sounds sad.
>>2075426What bike is that?
>>2075434boardman slr 9.2
>>2075435very kewl bike and trip anon!
>>2075432i still enjoy it and part of it is on a path where i see Cool-Ass Bird Asses and Sexy Marmot-Adjacent Creatures, it just isnt worth photographing for internet dickwaving and without aforementioned Creatures i'm simply over it because I have seen all there is to see from that route
Blindcorner,,,hilltop,,had waited for clear at bottom,,cage musthave been RACE mood catchs me atop,,no off zone for me,,BLIND cross double yellow lines to passpeeding, if crash would be trap for all traffic.,,,,flash look at plates>copcar.
>>2075596sweet. did they pull you over?
After a few hot weeks we have about a week of cool windy weather. Taking a few days off riding after getting a tooth pulled at the dentist. Took nearly 25 minutes of repeated drilling and yanking to get it out. I'm surprised my jaw doesn't hurt more. Damn near impossible to keep food from getting in the hole while eating. At least I can flush it out with my water flosser on its lowest setting while holding the wand back a ways.
I didn't ride today, but yesterday I saw a bunch of roadies stopped on the bridge and two of them were squaring off and the more roided up one sort of made a lunge/move at the less roided up one (they were both looking pretty stronk) and the other roadies were trying to pull them apart and be like calm down mang. I left because well, what's the point of standing around rubbernecking like an asshole, it's none of my business but here I am blogposting about it anyway. I imagine one of them almost caused a crash though why else. Maybe one of them said mean things about hookless or TPU.Also last weekend I stopped at a public park/pool thing for some gatorade because I was running out of water and a bunch of middle aged dads had surrounded a middle aged fat guy who had what looked like high end photography gear and he looked fearful/defensive and it looks like they thought he was taking creep shots of the kids and things were looking pretty tense with everyone filming on their phones like it was going on youtube and the fat guy was trying to explain how he had the pictures to prove something (?). I didn't get there early enough to see how it started and I didn't want to end up being a bystander in a viral youtube video so I left. Maybe he got his ass kicked it went viral or maybe the cops showed up and he showed the pics and was exonerated who knows. I don't really want to know.This blog post brought to you by some shitty product you don't care about, use code #schizophrenicfred for 35% off your first month.
>>2075906group rides are a bad signreally badlike really really really bad
>>2075915https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBMGSwwGUx0
yooo why is strava bullying me
>>2075426saddle too low
Rail yard. Well, more like a siding, not a full yard...
>>2076260>>2075437thankstoday went on a 55k trip to test luggage for an upcoming long trip i want to do in a few weeksloaded the bike with 6 days clothing, sleeping, shower, a laptop w. charger stuff, 2 action cameras and a drone, spares, a bit of food and some other things and the only thing that sucked was going up a 25% hill
>>2076350>55kthats expensive
hot
>>2076350it's nice there
Did my second metric century this year. Lowered speed a bit, so HR stayed in zone 2 for longer. Bretty slow, barely over 20 kmh average in urban/semi urban setting, buuuut I didn't feel dead after the ride. Actually felt pretty good. Historically I've ridden my long rides too kinda hard, and been completely broken when I get home.So next time I will do longer slow ride. 120 prolly, then le imperial centry next i guess. Maybe 200km in two months or so. >>2075426Cool purple bike.
>>2076350You need to keep right buddy
>>2076519buddy, can you seriously not tell he's from the UK considering the rocks he visited >>2075426are you from the united states of america perchance?
>>2076524That looks like the American north east in that video. Do you have to screech "on your right" when passing in bongistan?
>>2076713neat
had another chain tension related rear wheel lockup today. i think i have to drill my frame to attach this stupid tensioner better, it keeps fucking sliding around no matter how much i reef on it
>>2076712when you have a stroke on your ride
>>2076712>>2076713Very cool, how come my country doesn't have something like this? Is it because of culture? I refuse to believe that i won't be alive until such infrastructure gets build here
>>2075418It is impossible to suffer wherever you are
I put on a fair bit of weight a week ago. I thought it was weird because I only dialed back my riding a bit due to weather and a tooth extraction. Yesterday I pissed out about 4 lbs of clear water. Turns out the antibiotics had caused water retention.Looks like an extended rainy period is nearly over. The mosquitoes are going to get very bad right away.
First ride on new bike. I live on a dirt road connected to a rail trail.
>>2077250>that handlebar stack>dork disc>spoke reflectorsdiabeetusanon?
did another 100km ride, it rained about 35km and stopped at 80km i was absolutely DRENCHED
>>2077256When are you going to post the video I want to see the rain pov
>>2077259https://filebin.net/y4e7oy2qp4gg34e1/0701%281%29.mp4 - warning, im very bri'ish if you couldn’t tell by being on the wrong side of the road
>>2077250>I live on a dirt road connected to a rail trailawesome!
Bait bike manRecovered from brain damage, Beat cancer for now.Exploring canal paths!
>>2077264>Bait bike manlegendary.ebikes still suck, but those bait bike threads ruled
>>2077267Thanks man, they were good times!
>>2077254>Yeah you wish you could work as fuck as hard as I can30 miles from my house and back all dirt roads and rail trails, with a loop around a large lake.
>>2077283>30 mileslol hi diabeetusanon
20km ride today, cool weather
cool bit of uphill in my city, goes for 2k 4% avg, has a stretch of 10% for about 500 meters, fun bit of road
>>2077260Gotta say anon, that was one hell of a splash. But the fact that you two were going pretty fast on wet roads is even more intense. At least hope it was a nice ride!
Did a ciclismo today.
>>2077419yeah it was a good day out, some incredible scenery
do you "people" not have jobs
>>2077477Imma take my bike to work today I my car and then ride after work today and tomorrow. Might even toast in this bread
i bike commute and despite it having a very pretty trail as part of it and another leg of it being through fairly picturesque "old style" suburbs i have done it so many times it is not interesting anymore and i have begun to loathe the nature for being overgrown onto the trail and blocking my sight lines around corners i wanna take at 50kmhstill makes my day better to see animals though. yesterday saw a deer hanging out with a raccoon
My four year old switched from his balance bike to pedals just a couple weeks ago and he's already yelling to me "papa look I only need one hand!" My two and a half year old could probably go to pedals later this summer if I could find a short enough bike, but even the smallest specialty bikes are too big, he's a very short two year old. I can't wait for them to be fast enough to keep up with me at a leisurely pace on my favorite paths. I'm very proud of both of them and I don't have many friends so I just wanted to share. /blog
Replaced my cartridge bottom bracket which had started sounding like an empty spray paint can on recent rides. Creaks and rattles on every pedal stroke drives me nuts.
>>2077565nice
>>2077477Most cyclists are programmers who "work from home"
I didn't have much time so I just rode for an hour. The headwind in the first half was rough. Tailwind on the way back but I was already warmed up so I went for like 5 minutes at 100% and made a bunch of PRs.Later I met up with a qt 3.14 and we had lunch and I tried again to get her to go riding with me. That was probably a bad idea. I think my extreme autismo and infodumping scared her off. God I sure fucked that one up.
Bridge
Platte river
Moar river
Bice
>>2077616lol why are your aero bars so high?
>>2077617Because I am massively heavy and use meme bars as an alternative forward resting point when riding. When hands start to go numb I switch to the """"areo barz"""" position to put my formidable heft forward weight onto the meme bars and into the fore arm pads to lighten up my hands that are pins and needles by mile 10. I ride like this until my hands work again or until I get weird fore arm pains from the meme bars and then just switch between pain positions grinding out miles. (I do this nearly daily)
>>2077617OK to better answer, I boughted big tard bar risers and made them fit to my shit bars (by drilling them out) so I could ride on the hoods then transition to a forearm weighted position to take weight off my hands without having to move my body and center of mass on the bike much or at all. For giga tards: The point was to go from a weighting the hoods posture to a weighting the aero bar pads posture with with minimal body positioning changes between postures so I can ride longer
>>2077640>my hands that are pins and needles by mile 10fat fucks are unwittingly funny
went to some grebble today, the sun was really nice but god was the wind chillyhttps://filebin.net/416w76r1gwyyoyivi need to learn how to sync gps data with gopro
visiting friends and going to a LAN party, did 140km in hot uk weather with all my bikepacking gear, got 80k to do tomorrow and then 100k on thursday
>>2077757>got 80k to do tomorrow and then 100k on thursdayok richboy
It remained bucolic, the high-altitude cloud cover notwithstanding.
>>2077771glorious
rode to the woods and watched this little guy pick minnows out of the creek. and then witnessed a few ibis fighting over a lizard in the street. I love big birds. good day
Oh boy I can't wait to go for my daily ride today>90 degrees FEasy work, not a problem for me at all>HumidActually I think I'll stay inside today
Low light stuff on iphones blows now. I just want to be able to see what’s in the frame, not make the whole thing look like daylight.
Found a handlebar grip while riding tonight, not a complete set so I didn't keep it.
>>2077889joke's on you, the rest of the season will be hellish smoke/smog whenever it's nice and fucked heat/humidity the rest of the time until there's snow
>>2077895i'd laugh that you probably bought that yourself but i found a used dildo in its retail packaging in a bathroom stall once
>>2077895That's a saddle.
>>2077897There was a white trash music festival with camping up the highway last weekend. I would not surprised if it was deliberately tossed by someone heading home.
>>2077895I found an empty dildo blister pack but it had the veins and everything on it while walking through the "good" mall parking lot in my town. I put it in some car's windshield under the wiper blade like a parking ticket lol
>>2077889>90 degrees F>degrees Fdeserved.
>>2077901>>2077906who tf is buying all these dildos, using them once, then throwing it away? just put it in your pocket or something or transport it still in your ass if you must. what a waste of like 20-30$
>>2077915>transport it still in your ass if you must. what a waste of like 20-30$
>>2077757the 80km went awful, was riding with a friend and kept accidently dropping him and he didnt eat/drink enough in the heat so it was a real struggle, but thursday went really well, <5hrs for 120km apart from my bottom bracket sounded really creaky the entire time, put some grease on it and it shut up today, got 150-160km tomorrow as i head off to london and that will be my longest ride ever, nearly finished my tour
>>2078011>1062m, 120km, 5hfug
>>2078016it gets better(?), after my lan event, i did my first centuary to london, and jesus fuck cycling across london was so fucking stressful, after that i did 62km to visit another friends and today i took some trains home to save my poor legs, still need to figure out where my creaking is coming from but ive had enough of cycling for a few days
>>2078011
Air quality is really bad. AQI of 170 today. It dropped down to only 70 by 8pm which is when I usually go for my rides anyways.
My fren went on /cyc/opath holiday>fell>lost consciousness despite helmet>broken collar bone>broken rib>bruising, cuts, scrapes>concussion>can't remember the incident>in hospital for a week nowStay safe anons
went to the beach this weekend. Not as hardcore as the lanparty anon.
>>2078199anão manero
notdaily ride with smol camp
>>2078496ENHANCE
>>2078497N,,,ice!having Bears wake me up while sleeping on the ground,,,Tent made my nightso much better!,,,hear deeeep grumbly as Large shadow passs by,,,peek,,Bison herd.,,,very chill,,no gooring!,,,,,saddle sore mostly HEALED!,PRAISE GOD!!,,,,aside from Churchits been aweek.,,,wooOOO check themoon.
>>2078157me again, tortured myself today by going up a relativly steep hill 3 times, when i used to do this route in december, it took me over 13 mins, now its takes me nearly half that
Guess the cunt(ry)
>>2078631iunno, but somewhere wild rosebushes grow, which is pretty cool
>>2078631france
>>2078514Recently in this spot. Wild boar sow and her piglets, you can always hear the fuckers from a mile away 'oook ooook oook'. I then realised what they eere upto: Going up the stream, probably best way to get through. Can hear them fucking close and thry haven't noticed me. Better announce my presence early. From experience the sow will dip with her brood provided they have plenty of space to withdraw. If not you're in trouble.>shine a torch their way and turn it off againReflections from their eyes tell me they are even closer than expected.Sow makes a huge racket.Ooooking intensifies>concernedShe leads the fuckers up the river bank in the far side and away.Oook oook grows increasingly distant.Didn't sleep for half an hour afterwards, who knows what the fucks are upto.
I LOVE DAILY DAWN RIDES
>>2078637>>2078638Denmark!Its bretty gud for cycking
>>2078740it's nice there
HOTIME!,,,stop by industrial sprinkler,,spray is good,,waitill it comes around again,,wheeline has moved ahead,,next passits like Huricane BLAST!,,,shiver as i go fast coooooold.
newjob,,,pulling weeds.
i am the night rider
i will get a bike purely to participate here
>>2078913that's way too fast!
>>2075418>Cycling isn’t a game, it’s a drug..saddlesore,,,healingslow.,,,must ride Anyways!,tiny short fast.,,,,Godoes hiswill.
I did it :0
>>2079157Good job anon
>>2079162Thanks m8Everything from my waist down and one of my triceps is focked today
>>2079164>2 radarswhy
>>2079157congrats that's plenty of elevation too. Well earned, midwest chuds could never
>>2079170A radar and a cameraThe radar broke I think when I hit a huge pothole yesterday, it immediately stopped working right- didn't pick up a bunch of cars at all and when it did it was very short range. Prior to that I have had 0 issues with the radar for ~5 months. Hopefully I can send it back
>>2079157far out.I don't know anything about elevation. is that number easy, normal, or a lot?
>>2079164>east fork pigeon riverwestern NC, fuck yeah. I used to live in east TN, it's beautiful on both sides of the mountains, but I think NC is just a cut above.
>>2079192I would say it's a lot. This was the ride profile, I spent a lot of time on the first ~35 miles and didn't make up much bombing down off the parkway lol I packed a lot of heavy shit on the bike too. Just a lot of very low gear action for hours>>2079193Based. I would like to do the Cherokee>clingmans dome>Gatlinburg ride one day
>>2075418
>rampas inhumanassaw 19% for 10 seconds on the garmin
>>2079226there's this local trail I have been working on..it goes switchback 20% switchback 25% switchback 43% in the space of about 10km
>>2079231what's your gear setup?
>>2079233as in drivetrain
>>2079233>>20792341x 30t chainring x 46t cog
>>2079235gotcha. this came stock or did you customize it for that trail?
>>2079239just a stock MTB drivetrain
>>2079231gearing is everythingthe profile is a road climb i did on a gravel ride wih 46+30 x 11x36T for comparaison my enduro is 30 x 11-50T
>>2079243nice. I haven't had MTB since the 3x7 days but looking at the ratio calculator that's way lower than what I considered low. sounds like you need it though lol, that's cool that stock rigs allow for that now
it started, I hope you're safe in your bunkers. I still have 2km left, I'll be fi
>>2079413ANON?
>>2079413FUUUUUUUUUUCCCKKK!!!been nice knowing all you nice anons.
