Let's talk Aguachile Alley
by wolfie » Thu Jun 11, 2020 10:32 am
brittle wrote:parallax
i was thinking the same thing. photography dorks unite :fist:
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by shizaam » Thu Jun 11, 2020 12:14 pm
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by fraew » Thu Jun 11, 2020 4:21 pm
meh, that's like 5% average gradient... 47/19 gearing would be pretty much ideal
The descents would suck though
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by Big Oil » Thu Jun 11, 2020 10:02 pm
Ribble gives you the option of a custom headset cap for like 25 bucks and you bet your ass I made one
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by brittle » Thu Jun 11, 2020 10:11 pm
wolfie wrote:brittle wrote:parallax
i was thinking the same thing. photography dorks unite :fist:
hell yeah.
even though i've only ever said it out loud to talk about photographs, i first learned the word from a HUM song:
You swore the earth was round
And you said that there was no upside down
I hit the starship left and let the parallax flip
Like you showed me in the lighthouse
I did the math and it came up ones and 0's
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by wolfie » Fri Jun 12, 2020 9:53 am
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by shizaam » Fri Jun 12, 2020 10:26 am
meanwhile, ny is blowing it...
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by southpaw » Fri Jun 12, 2020 10:37 am
One of my biking buds just met the end of their riding days. My friend was diagnosed with arterial stenosis six months ago and was told to cease any serious exercise. Of course he didn’t listen, putting in like 250 miles a week.
Yesterday, a mile into a ride, he passed out after a cardiac event and shattered his pelvis, arm, and collarbone. Fuuuuuuck. Imagine having that happen and then also knowing you’ll never really ride again. And be in the hospital during these times.
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by wolfie » Fri Jun 12, 2020 11:00 am
Jesus
How old is he?
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by southpaw » Fri Jun 12, 2020 11:38 am
He's like 65
When I met him I assumed he was like 40, dude is fit as hell and looks young and spry
Ride while you can I guess
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by wolfie » Fri Jun 12, 2020 2:26 pm
that sucks. you'd hope all that riding would prevent the heart stuff.
hopefully he can recover enough to like cruise the neighborhood on an e-bike or something
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by fraew » Fri Jun 12, 2020 3:43 pm
you gotta be careful not to push yourself too hard for too long. But aww mine I just wanna ride (and be fit) forever
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by brittle » Fri Jun 12, 2020 4:27 pm
I never posted about it, but about a year ago I was on a group ride with somebody died of a heart attack mid ride.
We all came to stop at the bottom of the hill and he was just kind of slumped over his handlebars and when he hit a slight dip, his front wheel went sideways and he just smashed straight down to the ground.
We called paramedics and did CPR. No pulse or breathing without compressions. For a few minutes we thought the crash is what made him go lights out, but when we realized he wasn't going that fast, everyone finally put together that he must have been dead before even hit the ground. A couple people took a week or so off the bike because it felt too weird, but after we talked about it for a bit, we realized that if there's any way to die, doing it in the middle of a descent is probably one of the best ways. I mean, he never even had to gain back all the elevation...
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by sympathy » Fri Jun 12, 2020 5:16 pm
that is an insane story
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by sympathy » Fri Jun 12, 2020 5:22 pm
the ultimate drop ride
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by brittle » Fri Jun 12, 2020 7:42 pm
sympathy wrote:the ultimate drop ride
He was really hammering on the hills too, he consistently beat all the other older guys (~65 or so) up every hill that day. People were asking what got into him all morning.
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by wolfie » Fri Jun 12, 2020 8:01 pm
You guys forget to tell me this sport was a death wish
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by board ghost » Fri Jun 12, 2020 8:10 pm
how much time you got
i got stories
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by wolfie » Fri Jun 12, 2020 9:14 pm
Don't tell me I'm gonna get anxious
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by shizaam » Sat Jun 13, 2020 3:23 pm
Definitely overdid it today, easily my biggest ride since the coronavirus hit, but was feeling great and weather’s perfect in the mid-60s and low 70s. Ready to slam a pizza in an hour or so
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by wolfie » Sat Jun 13, 2020 3:38 pm
I got out with the spd setup for the first time today
Not bad! Getting out is easy enough, I found getting in harder but I'm starting to get it.
After a half hour ride my knee hurt some and I read about adjusting the cleats and just finished that. So we'll see how it goes
I ended up with pearl izumi tour road shoes and they're comfortable and no feeling of focused pressure in any one spot which is good.
I greased up the pedal spindles but I am having this little tick sound on every revolution. This isn't new to these pedals, so I figure it's the bottom bracket needing grease but I don't have a tool.
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by board ghost » Sat Jun 13, 2020 3:43 pm
badhat wrote:if its just on one side look at cleat angle
i harp on this cuz it helped me a lot.
we tend to assume our gait is summetrical but it rarely is.
sit on a table with your legs dangling off the edge and note where you toes point. that should be your cleat angle
in my case, my right points quite a bit further out than my left. when i fixed that, and really fine tuned it, i got rid of my knee pain completely
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by wolfie » Sat Jun 13, 2020 4:09 pm
Cool. I moved them inboard to move my feet out some, because this was definitely narrower than before, and I adjusted the angle a little. My right foot does turn out a little more so I'll see about adjusting that one further. I did like tiny tiny angle changes bc I'm not sure how much is enough, figure I can continue to tweak them
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by wolfie » Sat Jun 13, 2020 4:12 pm
I also raised my saddle about 2-3 mm because it did feel like my legs weren't extending quite as much as usual and I figured that's because the cleat is like raised up off the spindle more than my old pedals.
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by board ghost » Sat Jun 13, 2020 4:15 pm
ha i think i mentioned it once but i switched cleat types on a race day once and didnt think to compensate for change in stack height with saddle type and it WRECKED my back.
when i raced i was so fussy about fit.
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by wolfie » Sat Jun 13, 2020 4:17 pm
I hate feeling like my legs aren't extending enough
It's such a fine line
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by wolfie » Sat Jun 13, 2020 4:19 pm
These bottom bracket tools are gonna wreck my bank account
Mostly how are you supposed to properly torque this shit? Do I need like a $100 torque wrench? My existing one was already $40 but it's not heavy duty enough for these torque specs
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by Mynx Butticus » Sat Jun 13, 2020 4:31 pm
Any recs for cheap road bike wheel sets? I mean CHEAP. I’m trying to fix up an old bike for my girlfriend and the wheels are completely fucked. Would usually just hit up the bike scrapyard for this, but I guess that’s not really an option these days
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by board ghost » Sat Jun 13, 2020 5:02 pm
wolfie wrote:I hate feeling like my legs aren't extending enough
It's such a fine line
i am a big fan of riding with a minitool and tweaking kn rhe go.
my rules are only tweak one thing at a time and unless its glaringly wrong/painful, give it at least 15 minutes to see if it works
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