Surely Patrick ! These shirts are just wonderful in both the cold and the
heat. This is the actual garment measurements supplied to me from the
manufacturer, in cm's. Sizes S-XL, left to right. It's accurate. They
shrink a little in the chest(inch or so) from drying, but stretch back
out. I
I like your philosophy (except for not riding in winter). Riding must above
all else be fun, otherwise, to hell with it.
Can you post link or links to those bamboo/cotton and Modal shirts? I know
that in high summer, I say "aero be damned" and wear rayon (= wood fiber)
Hawaiian shirts, which are c
These days I ride up to 15 miles or so in spring and fall, 20-35 miles in
the heat and humidity of summer, which I feel the best in. Sometimes just
a few miles, and sometimes I've just turned around a block from home when
it didn't feel right. . Give me the heat though ! In the cold I wilt ,
and about kit. Flexible is everything. With my two bikes, I can keep
permanent kit on both. On my go-fast I keep roadside gear in Acorn tubular
bag and carry personal stuff in an Randi-Jo bartender, or a 3rd water
bottle in a pinch. On my fender bike and load-hauler, my tools and tubes
are i
I got rained out this morning - not that I'm complaining. Right when I
reached the creek road, the rain was coming down hard enough to dig for my
rain shell, and that's the point to turn around. Not because my bike can't
handle it, but because I don't trust drivers on the twisty road - the
wo
Hard to say, since I worked up to distances, mmm, 9-10 years ago. I rode
my first century, then STP (Seattle to Portland, 200miles) in two days,
then another century, then Cycle Oregon (7 days of not-easy riding). It
kind of got a little out of hand since then. Some years I ride 24 rides
ove
Isn't the kit hassle a real hassle? Especially when you are half a mile
from home before you realize you forgot your gloves, helmet, glasses, water
bottle, what have you. I do wear shades for my contacts (NM Medicaid still
fg up my application, so no cataract surgery yet), and I do wear
cycling
It's interesting to hear others' habits. I have no desire at all to spend
more than a few hours on the bike at a time, but I must, or ought, or,
let's say it might be nice to, get out of the habit or rut of riding hard
just for a few miles. I might rediscover the long rambles of my
adolescence, whe
I'm like you Chris. When I use to do a century I felt so beat up after that I
stopped doing them. When I use to do go fast rides with others on their go fast
bikes I was always the slowest. I tried to train and get faster until I
embraced my slowness and realized I enjoy slow rides and using a b
Patrick,
My riding is similar to yours but at shorter distances (I think you made
the same observation in a thread I started) and I finally decided that I am
incapable of long and steady riding. As you said, "pushing it" is a very
relative term but it's how I ride and how I've always ridden.
I ride for calories, and to keep the at-rest pulse down, and typically ride
50+ miles on a weekend, trying to burn 3000 calories or so. My standard
early morning ride from my house is 20 miles following a rural creek
bottom, Starts with a steep 400' drop, pace along the creek road, a 2-mile
40
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